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

'.-. Hast.
Two thousand tons of top coal and
rock fell in the Empire mines, near Wilkes
parre, Pa, burying two miners.
Five children of farmer named Bos-
comb, living near Malone, N. Y, were mysteri-
ously burned to death while their mother was
absent at neighbours.
James O. Vandervoort, late Superin-
tendent of tho Poor of Ulster county, N Y, is
charged with wholesale pundering of public
property
A clearinghouse keeper in Charlton
street, Now York, named Catherine Crane, was
fatally shot by printer whom she had elected,
named William Lindrum.
A savage bloodhound OF great size ran
about tho West Side of New York, biting NUM-
Der of people. 1t was finally cornered in lum-
Der yard and killed by a policeman. The ami
NAL was supposed to be mad. If this was really
the case the consequences are likely to prove
serious, for many of the persons attacked were
horribly mangled.
Ex-Gov. Sprague has filed in the Of
fee of tho Clerk Of the Supreme Court of
Washington county, Il. l., a petition for di-
vorce from his wife, Katherine Chase Sprague.
He charges her with desertiou, adultery. ex-
travagance and other wickedness.
The store Nos. $50 and 367 Broadway.
New York. occupied by several dry-goods i'm
porters was nearly destroyed by fire, the loss
being 100000.
The President has nominated George
ii. Foster, State Senator and foe to Conk-
ling, 70 succeed Stewart L. Woodford as Dis
trict Attorney at New York.
William T. Thornton is declared in
eligible to the Office of Judge of Sullivan coun-
ty, N. ", to which he was elected. Mr..
Thornton offered to serve for 81, 200-the sal
AIRY being $4,000. This pledge, made to the
voting taxpayers before election, is held by the
court to be a bride.
Hughes, the winner of the interna-
tional walking match, in New York, made a
fraction over 56S miles. This is the best
pedestrian work on record.
Eight men were killed near Bradford,
Pa, by the explosion of forty quarts of nitro
glycerine.
The building occupied by the Down
town CLUB, of New York, was damaged to the
extent Of $4,000 by fire.
The Sprague divorce case is set for
trial at Kingstown, r. l., on Feb. 81.
BY the burning of store and tene-
ment house at Union, Ct, Mrs. George Stone
and her two children lost their lives.
A mandatory of lamp-burners at
Forestyille, Ct, employing 800 men, has been
burnedto the ground the estimated loss being
$4,000.
Five large buildings in Philadelphia
were destroyed by fire, causing a total loss OF
about S2SO,OOO.
West.
Lieut.. Archibald Gibson, of the Sew
enth Cavalry, son of a prominent LAWYER of st.
Louis, died Of Inflammation of the brain, caused
by the bite of a spider.
Smallpox has broken out in the Iowa
penitentiary at Fort Madison, and the foremen
on contract work have fled. which will cause
delay in filling contracts.
Theodore Vatrim, Frenchman living
on farm near Assumption, H., deliberately
shot his wife dead and made what will prob
ably prove fatal attempt on his own life.
Mr.. l.. 2. Letter has Withdrawn from
the firm of Field, Letter & Co., of Chicago. to
engage in extensive mining and real-estate op.
erations. The business win be conducted
hereafter under the name of Marshall Field
& 90.
A German woman at Dundee, Ill.,,
gave birth to five children at one time.
Three persons lost their lives in q
snow-storm, near the Monte Cristo mine. in
Plumas county, Cal
New Mexico advices report that fear
full atrocities are being committed by band Of
Indians in the region of San Jose. Among
other excuses mentioned is the burning to
death of four women and children.