The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-09
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.



would consider it unbecoming in him to partc
ipate in joyous festivals while the life Of tie
President Of the nation hangs by thread.
Farmers in New York State are dig |
ging their potatoes to save the crop which Is
being ruined blythe drought.
The Changers of Maryland, Pennsyl- |
vania and Virginia gave a picnic at Williams
Grove, Pa. Fully 20, 900 persons were present.
Forest fires in Western New York and
Northwestern Pennsylvania have caused great
havoc.
The rubber works of Eugene H. Clapp,
at South Hanover Mass, valued at SIS, 600,
have been burned,
Ex-Congressman Hendrick B. Wright.
of Pennsylvania, is dead
Gulteau was hanged in effigy in Mag
ara square, Buffalo, in presence of 5000 per
sons
The town Of Andover, N. Y, was Wis
tied by an electric storm which Frustrated sov-
eral persons and burned eight houses aud |
barns. The loss is estimated at 100000
In the criminal court at Philadelphia, |
who forged the Whitaker will, were each fined |
$1,000 and sentenced to ten years in the peni- |
Tertiary. Dickerson who is aged and infirm. |
remarked "You may as well send coffin with |
me-"
Delmonico, the famous New York
caterer, is dead.
The Cornell crew has reached New
York. leaving shinkel in London. IT is alleged |
that he received 5000 forms for causing The |
defeat at Vienna.
At Paterson, N. j., a man named |
shorroch was killed by being struck in the
stomach by base ball He fingered but few
minutes.
West.
The town Of Sierraville, CAL. has
been almost totally obliterated by fire. The
loss Is estimated at 100000.
While a party of farmers from Lock
port, village few miles south of Tero
Haute, Ind, were fishing in the Wabash river
about twenty miles south of that city, four Of
them-HeDry Berkard, Marshall Ferrill, Emery
Laspie and James Rudisell-were drowned.
The corner in August wheat obtained
by Cincinnati parties in the Chicago market
was successfully carried out The manipula-
tors Of the corner are said to have cleared
S9OOO,OOO
Thomas H. Lowerre, compositor,
was shot during fight with James B. Duncan,
photographer, with whom he boarded on
Wabash avenue Chicago. Duncan was ar
rested, but claims that he only acted in self
defense. There is scandal connected with |
the affair.
When the east-bound express on the |
Central Pacific road reached Colfax, CAL, two |
engines and one car were thrown from the |
track, the rails having been removed by high |
waymen. fireman and the express messen- |
ger, who sprang to the ground, were ordered |
to keep quiet, but just at that moment
the robbers became alarmed and rode off in a
wagon, leaving large invoice of masks, pow
der and tools.
The Convent of st. Francis, situated |
about five miles from Manitowoc, Wis. was |
struck by lightning and entirely destroyed by |
fire. There were over eighty persons in the |
building, several of whom were injured in their |
efforts to escape The loss on the building and |
furniture was S65,OOO, with insurance of only |
$4,000.
a lunatic named Neil ran a-muck in |
4ho streets of Chicago, at Che hour of mid
night, shooting five men whom he encountered
in his wild race two Of whoh, it sEaared, cam
not recover. He was himself shot by a police
man.
A dispatch from Deadwood announces
the discovery, thirty miles from that city, of |
vein which runs $150,OOO to the ton
Reports as to the yield of the Mime |
sofa wheat crop, teegraphed to the Chicago |
Journals, indicate that the average yield per |
acre this year is about lao bushels, and that
the aggregate yield of the whole State will be
about 33,771,5l bushels. This is 360O0OO |
bushels less than the yield for the last year.
The crop was best in the western counties
Of the State and poorest in the southern coun- |
ties.
A strip of land in Nicellet county,
Mimi, four miles long and two wide, was WIS.,
ited by hail-stom which beat the corn and |
grass into the ground.
Nana's band of Apaches are commit. |
ting murderous depredations in Southern New |
Mexico
James b. Duncan, who killed Lowerre,
the printer, in Chicago has died from the ef-
feet of the injuries received in the fight
The officers of the Ohio penitentiary
have discovered that within its walls the man.
ufactue of bogus nickels has been carried on
for some time
Reliable reports from Fort Apache
and Fort Thomas leave no doubt that the re-
ports OF the Indian massacre in the vicinity of |
the fomer place,were grossly exaggerated. Gen. |
Carr and the greater portion of his command |
were still alive at last sdvices, and were conf
dent of being able to hold their own until |
the arrival Of achievements. Gen. Carrs COM
mand lost seven men killed and two wounded
in the fight with the redskins. 1t appears that
on the morning of the Goth ult he, with force
of lO5 mon, including Indian scouts and six
officers, left Fort Apache with the intention of
arTesIing an Apache medicine-man who had
been endeayoring to stir up the tribe to revolt
The command reached Cbicu, forty-fve
miles west of Fort Apache, on the 3Oth ult.,
and found 600 Indians there. The medicine
man was arrested without resistance, and the
command began to retrace its steps, Some
Indian scouts who had left their own camp |
and come into Gen. Cars camp were ordered |
to leave, They refused to do so, but turned |
and fired, killing Capt Henhg. The fight then
became general. Our troops formed Skin
lnish line and defended themselves until dark,
after which they retreated to Fort Apache,
The casualties among our troops were as fol-
lows Killed; Capt o. G. Hentig, Sixth caval-
ryi Private Saurdagger, Private Sullivan, Pri.
vate Miller, Private Livingston Private Bird
Private Faran, all of Company D, Sixth caval-
ny. Wounded; Lieut.. g. g. Gordon, Sixth
cavalry, in the leg, but not serious Sergt. T.
Mcdonald, Company E, Sixth cavalry. right
leg, badly.
A dispatch from Shenandoah. Iowa
gives the following particulars of terrible ac
cident which occurred near that place. Passen-
ger train No. 81, north bound on the Wabash
road was ditched five miles west of that ,laoa