The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-12-09
THE NEWS CONDENSED.


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BY a railway collision at Thompson,
Ct, e conductor and an engineer we're killed
and several passengers badly hurt.
The stockholders of the Keely Motor
Company have brought suit to compel Keely to
take out patent on his invention, and to turn
over the patent and the secret of the invention
to them also, such machines as he may have
in his possession.
Grain, Rising & Co., prominent
Boston shoe house, have failed, the liabilities
being estimated at about 100000.
West.
The track of the Northern Pacific road
has been laid to Fort Keogh, and viii probably
be extended eight miles further this season.
Smallpox is spreading in Western
Montana, fourteen cases being reported at
Butte, Deer Lodge and Wunderlich.
By vote of Is to the Methodist
Judicial Conference at Terre Haute. Ind, re-
jected the appeal of the Rev. Or. H. W. Thomas,
Of Chicago, against the decree of excommuni-
cation pronounced against him by the Rock
River Qn.) Conference. The chief objection
against the heterodox divine was his continuing
to preach after being cast out.
The steamboat Peninah sold liquor
from its bar at an Indian reservation in Mon
tana and was condemned by the United States
court, and will be sold at auction by the Mar
shall at Bismarck.
The farmhouse of J. J. Furrow, near
Winterset, Iowa, caught fire. and his three
daughters were burned to death in an upper
room.
The Chicago Times has made CON-
piladon of statistics of the lumber product of
the Northwestern States from which it appears
that the amount manufactured was one-eighth
greater than last year, and that Chicago han
dies one-third of the total production.
Ham White, Colorado stage-robber,
who was being taken to the Detroit House of
Correction by Marshal Wilcox, of Denver,
made desperate attempt to escape while in
Michigan Central coach. He quietly unlocked
his handouts with toothpick, and struck the
Marshal on the head with the irons until he
brought him to his knees. Seventeen men
witnessed the struggle without daring to raise
hand. White next seized the Marshal's re-
volver, when Mrs. Smithson, of Denver,
sprung on the desperate and choked him into
submission.
A Cleveland bank has been the victim
of daring robbery. An adroit thief walked
into the Office of the President, and relieved
that official of d box containing $117, 1000 in
railway bonds, which lay upon his desk, almost
at his elbow The daring robber made his
escape.
Fire broke out in the milling district
of Minneapolis, Mimi, and consumed four
Touring mills and one cotton mill. An explo-
sion in the Minneapolis mill, probably caused
by -four dust, killed four men and severely
wounded several others. The loss ia estimated
at $558,000, the insurance upon which is about
$2O7,175.
South.
By the explosion of the boiler of the
Yazoo oil works, at Yazoo, Miss, seven colored
men were badly injured, four it is feared
fatally.
1t generally takes but one man to rob
the mail coach in Texas. In the latest instance
the solitary highwayman, who plundered the
Laverna stage, was well repaid by number of
valuable parcels in the mail bag.
Two negroes, Jordan and Craig, who
murdered Robert Catlin near Huntsfeld. Miss.
confessed the crime, and we're hanged by
mob. John Bodio and Shadrach hester,
both colored, charged with the murder of
I. M. Lynch, near Raleigh, N. G., were taken
from Jail by masked party of 100 men, and
hanged. The victims made full confession
Of their crime