The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-02
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East.
Little Brown jug astonished the crowd
on the Hartford track by pacing three consecu-
tive miles in 2;1l4, 2;l1A and 21211.
At the Portland (Me.) soldiers and
sailors reunion there was a sham fight between
Americans and their French allies and British,
which was witnessed by 10000 people.
Mueller's brewery, at Philadelphia,
was swept away by flames, the loss being
$4,000, Several firemen were injured by a
falling cornice.
The failure is announced of Jackman
d 0'Hara, manufacturers of cloaks and suits,
of New York city. The failure was due to the
losses of Jackman, the senior partner, on Wall
street.
The works of the Union Stove Com.
pany at Everett, Mass, have been swept away
by fire, causing loss of Sos, OOo
Water has become SO scarce in the
anthracite region of Pennsylvania that it has
been sold at % cents per barrel The output
OF coal has been greatly interfered with.
While planting mines in the harbor OF
Newport, Licuts, B. L. Edes and Lyman G.
APsulding were instantly killed by an accidental
explosion.
A fire at Beaver Falls, Pa, destroyed
WellcR y Sons -four mill and partially burned
the cutlery works and the trestle Of the Pitts
ibWrgh and Lake Erie road The loss win reach
$40, 900.
West.
The insurance men of st. Louis are at
war with the dre department, claiming that by
the ineG6oiency of the latter they are paying
out $50 per cent. ON premiums, while Chicago
disburses only 40 per cent.
Hon w. H. Reagan, President of the
Indiana Board of Agriculture, who has recently
traversed the State, estimates the corn crop at
less than half that of last year.
Jesse Meharry, a pioneer who recently
died near Shawnee Mound Ind, left funds to
be given to namesakes at the rate OF $25 each,
open to all corners for one year, the only condi-
tion being that the parents should be Of good
moral character.
The Union Stock Yards, near Chicago.
has been visited by very destructive confa-
grafton. 1t was confined to the packing house
of j. G. Hately, which was entirely consumed
The loss will exceed $3.50, 900, the insurance be-
ing about 80 per cent
The Chicago Times prints exhaustive
reports from the chief corn centers of the
Western States. The crop Of Illinois promises
TO be about three-ffths as large as last year.
The yield in Iowa, Missouri and Kansas will be
cut down from Is to 50 per cent by drought.
Sitting Bull and 1874 of his band are
still located near Fort Yates, and guard is
regularly detailed for duty at his camp
From San Francisco comes the bold
announcement of fearful Indian 4iorror-the
massacre of seventy people residing in Eureka,
N. NJ
The peaceful Menominee Indians have
been driven away from the agency, and Agent
Stephens aud his daughter are held as prison
ers Federal troops have been ordered to the
scene.
South.
A feud of long standing resulted in an
affray at Johnston, s. c., in which ]. W. Tim
norman was killed. and J. W. Buzzard and his
son seriously wounded, with double-barreled
Bhot-guns.
Some time since Ben Blanton, ex-
Sheriff of Cook county. Tex and desperate
man, met James Todd who had been witness
against him in lawsuit, and abused and in
suited him in a most outrageous manner. They
EepSratod, each vowing to meet the other for
q final settlement. Tho mon met few DAYS
ago in the road, and both drew weapons and
fired. Todd was shot through The heart and
in the breast The top of Blantons head was
blown of. Both mon were lying dead when
discovered.
Forest fires are raging in Arkansas,
where no rain has fallen for ten weeks, and in
many sections trees are shedding their foliage
as if struck by frost.
By the burning of John G. Alexan-
der's house at Carriers Creek, Tenn, five
Colorod children were oremated. Three colored
children We're cremated at Boonville, Miss, by
the burning of a cabin,
At Forest City, Ark, Tate Wallace in
vited S. d. Apperson City Marshal, 10 take
cigar. While standing at the counter of sa-
loon AppoEson drew a pistol and said, 81 be-
heve I'll shoot you" Tate, thinking no was
testing, replied, "Saoot away" Apperson
fired. killing HIM instantly.
A family of seven persons, living near
KaufTman, Texas has been poisoned by eating
cooked peaches containing arsenic, and there is
little hope for the recovery of any of the
party.
AT Plano, Texas, fire swept away ff-
ay-one buildings in two hours, causing loss
of 100000.
The hurricane at Charleston caused
loss of $4,000. A son of Chancellor Lese
sue was swept from the sea-wall, and three
colored persons were drowned at Sullvan's
island.
James Wolf, a wholesale merchant of
Little Rock, and his wife and child were
crushed to death in a steamboat accident at
Savannah.
Ella st. Claire, formerly variety
actress, in Mobile, marrieda negro, who was
indicted for miscegenation, whereupon she
sprang into the river and ended her career
One of the most destructive storms
which ever visited the South Atlantic coast pre-
vailed there The loss of life and property is
very great. The wind blew over Savannah, Ca,
at the rate of forty miles an hour, unroofng
houses, sweeping the sea into houses along the
wharves, and playing havoc with shade and
fruit trees. An infrmary was wrecked
and the patients barely escaped. Many
of them We're badly bruised. Sailing craft in
Savannah bay suffered badly, and many per-
sons on board persisted. The loss of life among
the colofed people ON the rice plantations and
along the river and bay is reported to have
been very great All the people on one of the
islands in the river persisted. At Port Royal,
Beaufort and other points along the South Car
CHINA coast hundreds of persons are believed to
have persisted, and millions of dollars worth of
property was washed away.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
A special attorney for the Government
has entered suit at Washington against Capt
II. W. Howgate TO recover $10l, 1857, and all