The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-04

The Military Headquarters at Pres
colt, Arizona, have been burned.
The annual report Of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company shows that the gross
earnings for the year 1880 were $8,304,S11,
against 81, 234,4 1854 for 1879.
4 row of frame stores on the Public
Square az Wooster. Ohio, has been reduced to
ashes, the insurance companies suffering to the
extent Of $4,000
A bill has been introduced in the Iii
nois Assembly providing that men convicted Of
beating their wives shall receive not less than
five nor more than twenty-five lashes on the
bare back with rawhide.
There have been sixty cases Of small
pox among the Canadian immigrants in Union
county, Dak., one-half of which have terminal
ed fatally. The Legislature has authorized a
rigid quarantine.
The death of Ezra Elliott, one of the
Oldest merchants of Cincinnati, is reported.
Miller Dewitt, a farmer of Angola, Ind,
died at the advanced age of los.
Gen. john Love, of Indianapolis, died
in that city of heart disease.
The four-mill of w. Trow & Co., at
Madison, Ind, was destroyed by fire, causing
loss of $125,OOO.
The Talbot boys, convicted OF the as
sassination of their father at MarysviIe, No.,
March rs.
A double tragedy is reported from
Piqua, Ohio, where dentist named Harbough
killed his wife and himself, blowing off the top
of his head with shotgun.
The Pacific coast, from British CO.
lumbia to the southeastern portion of Califor-
mia has been visited by the heaviest rain-storm
that has been experie need since 1861. The
Feather, Yuba and Upper Sacramento rivers,
and all their tributaries, overhowed their
banks. Immense damage was done, the ex-
tent of which cannot be estimated.
The propeller st. Adams, bound from
Milwaukee to Ludington, was so badly injured
by floating ice that she sprang leak and soon
went to the bottom. The passengers and crew
took to the boats and reached Milwaukee in
safety. The st. Adams was loaded with flour,
and valued at $4,000.
Eight Cinnamon were killed near
Santa Cruz, CAL, last week, by an ava
lanche. They were cutting timber on the
completely buried them.
Ex-Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, has
been indicted for the murder of Drury, of
Napoleon, Ohio, but will be admitted to bail.
Three of the Mexicans who murdered
Col Charles Potter, of the geological survey
were taken from jail at Albuquerque New
Mexico and hanged by citizens.
South.
The unwilling of the Cowpens monu-
ment at spartanburg, S. c., will take place on
the 18th of May. The statue of Gen. Daniel
Morgan will surmount the column.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Building at West Point, Ca, ana twelve
stores have been burned.
The car-shops of the Jacksonville
road, at Tallahassee, Fla, have been burned to
the ground, the loss footing up $95, 600.
Tom Buford, who killed Judge Elliott,
of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, about a
year ago, has been acquitted on the plea of in
sanity.
Tom Buford has been locked up in the
mad-house at Anchorage, Ky.
Wiley Embrey, respected farmer of
Butler county, KY, and six of his children
were burned to death, Mrs. Embrey and daugh-
ter escaping. The fire broke out in an upper
room after the family had retired.
The town of Plymouth, N. c., was
devastated by fire, originating in a kerosene
explosion. Only store and freight warehouse
were left standing.
Three children of the Rev. Manning
Hunter, colored preacher, Of Sumter county,
S, c., were burned to death by fire caused by
the explosion of a kerosene lamp.