The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-03
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.


Over-production and high wages have
caused the window-glass manufacturers OF
Pittsburgh to resolve to close their works for
The summer
Commodore Mutt, the dwarf, whose
real name was George w. Morrison, died of
Bright's disease at New York. He was 81 years
of age and forty three inches in height. Of
late he has kept restaurant.
E. L. Godl1in, of the Nation, and
Carl Schurz have purchased the New York
EUeajng Post
Edward Desendorf, Brooklyn print
er, killed his wife and then committed suicide
In the OLeary international pedestri-
an contest at New York, Edward vint, Brook
iyn shoemaker, captured the belt. He made
57S niies i'll six days, which exceeds all previous
recofds.
A tram on the Pennsylvania railroad
was wrecked by an open switch near Trenton
N. ]. Two passengers were killed, and ten
others seriously injured.
West.
The wheat crop of Indiana has been
seriously damaged by the drought, the chinch-
bug and the Hessian fly
The report of the business of the
Northwestern railway shows earnings of nearly
s2O,O00OOO, gain of about 10 per cent. on
last year.
A collision on the Denver and Rio
Grande road, near Granite, COL, caused the
death Of one man, mortal injuries to four
others, while four were seriously hurt.
-Four children of Andrew Lewis. hy-
Ing near Plain City, Ohio, set fire to barn
aud persisted in the flames
Capt Paul Boyton left st. Paul on
the 9Oth ult for Cairo, in a suit of inflated
rubber, hoping to paddle the distance in six
teen days. He then proposes to float down the
Missouri from Fort Benton TO st. Louis.
John b. Clapp, catcher and Captain
OF the Cleveland Baseball Club, was an
preached byJ. S. Woodruff, dry-goods clerk
OF Chicago who attempted to corrupt him into
giving away games Tho catcher was incor
ruptible, and "gave away" Woodruff instead.
aud tho Young man was exposed in the Chicago
papers. MNt
MIR. John Griscom, the New York
faster, who went to Chicago to fast forty-fve,
and perhaps fifty, days, began his task on Sat-
urday May2S, at noon after partallng of a
hearty meal with number of professional
men and others, among whom was DIR. Tan
ner
A feud of long standing impelled Prof.
Charles Sticllney, Of Denver, to kill M. T.
Champeau. Mrs. H, o. Devroe sprang between
the men and was unintenhonally slain.
Three masked robbers entered store
at Nortonville, Kan, drew revolvers, and
forced those present to keep still while 81, 200
was extracted from the safe.
South.
At the annual sale of yearlings at
Preakness farm, near Lexington, Ky, eighteen
colts averaged $947 per head, and twenty i'll
lies $400 each. Most of the purchases we're
made for James r. Keene.
In quarrel between Mrs. Garrett and
her daughter, of Cochran, Ca, the latter
seized shotgun and shot off the top of her
mothers head. The father then whipped the
girlnearly to DEATH
Jim Baker shot and killed Alexander
Osborne and the two Ryner brothers, and NOR
tally wounded another man, name unknown, at
Osbornes ford, Scott county, Va.
A duel took place near Charleston.
W. Va, between John P. and George Nunley.
uncle and nephew. George was shot in the
mouth before he got ready to fire.
The most careful estimates put the
cotton crop Of last year at 6, 400 900 bales. or
nearly million and half bales more than the
splendid crop of 1879. The greatest crop ever
raised under slavery was that of 1860 which
ieh about 100000 bales short of the yield of
last year.
John L. Eaurich, an indianapolis
policeman, shot his wife in the right eve and
right lung, put bullet in the arm of her
ia'ner' and wound up by killing himself.
Fred Douglass, as part OF the decora-
ton ceremonies, delivered an historical Grafton
ON John Brown at Harper's Ferry, Va. Quite
@n"mber Of Confederates and old vrginians
gathered to hear him. Among the latter was
r. NJ. I. Hunter, who was the States ATTORNEY
who prosecuted John Brown. When Douglass
had finished his oration Mr. Hunter was one
of the first to congratulate him.