The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-22
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE,

East.
James O'Brien, better known as Bob
Lindsay, pleaded guilty in New York court to
perjury in the famous Morey trial, and was
sentenced to State prison for eight years.
In a billiard contest at New York
Schaefer scored 4, 600 points while Sosson was
making 2.790.
The typhus fever has made its appear
@nce in New York. 1t is the most dreaded of
all diseases by doctors, for it does not respect
she profession.
The Bankers and Merchants Tele-
graph Company, of New York, organized with
capital of 100000, has begun the construc-
ton of twelve-wire line between Boston and
Washington.
The butter-dealers of Washington
market, New York, have resolved not to deal in
aioomargarine.
The medical profession in the State of
New York is making an earnest effort to secure
the repeal of the law forbidding viyisection.
An affray at Troy, N. Y, growing out
of quarrel oyer last falls election, resulted in
the instant killing of one man, two others being
fatally shoe,
West.
Sioux City dispatches of the l4th
inst, represent that snow covers the prairies to
the depth of ono to three feet, and farmers in
that section cannot commence blowing for
several weeks. An aid society has been formed
to distribute relief in tho flooded districts,
where the destitute number over 5000 A
Hankton dispatch of the 18th states that twenty
Families residing at bend in the Missouri
river fifteen miles below Yankton we're impris-
oned by fields Of heavy ice. A colony of 1870
people, who had been surrounded by water at
Mayville for two weeks, had been rescued. Two
rehet parties were endeavoring to reach Neck
ding, where fifty persons were imprisoned by
fields of ice from five to twenty feet high.
Probably 5000 settlers have been rendered des-
titute on the Dakota bottoms
Charles Marmon, o Leadville stage
driver, entered the theater at Durango, Col,
and, without provocation, killed ono man and
wounded another both strangers to him. He
was hanged by yigilantes
The annual report OF the Atchison.
Topeka and Santa Fe road shows gross earnings
OF SS556,sV5 and a net income of $4,213,770.
The length of the road is 1859 miles, and its
funded debt SIS, $4,000.
At a short-horn sale in Waukegan,
ILL.,, one heifer brought $4, $50, and another
S2,250.
The Chicago Times says CA thor
ough canvass of the vinter-wheat region has
been made by representative of the Times.
1t is evident that the damage done in Illinois
and Indiana is much greater than in the other
States, and has led to antcipations altogether
too dismal. There is good reason to believe
that the yield of the country at large will be
nearly as great as for the last two yetrs as the
acreage has very greatly increased That the
crop Is very backward goes unqucstioned, but
the prolonged snow-storms have proven a bull
work of defense against nipping frosts."
Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, has
issued an order closing all the Sunday theaters.
Judge Mallory, of Milwaukee, has
declared the Wisconsin Anti-Treating law in
operative and void, ON the ground that the bill
as enacted presupposes the existence of a law
which, since the revision of the Wisconsin
statutes, has not been in existence.
Chicago papers chronicle the death of
Col. Il. W. Farrar, for many years business
manager of the Evening Jc,u7,al, of that city.
The Central Pacific road. with 2.644
miles OF rail, reports gross earnings for March
of S1,64S,OOO
The Federal Court at Indianapolis has
ordered the sale of the Fort WAYNE Muncie
and Cincinnati road within sixty days
The northern wing of the Illinois
Southern Hospital for the Insane, located at
Anna, I'LL, was destroyed by fire. One patient
persisted in the flames. The loss is estimated
at 5000, 900.
Reports from every section in Kansas
Indicate that the wheat crop promises exceed
ingly wen. Only a very small proportion has
been winter killed.
e. r. Blakeslee, postal clerk on the
New York and Chicago fast MAIL was arrested
at Toledo with several packages of opened let
tiers in his possession, and at once confessed
his guilt He was formerly Lieutenant
colonel IN the regular army, and owns large
farm near st. Johns, Mich.
South.
a parry Oh armed and masked men
roue Aito Aoieuo' Ark'' at daybreak, surround
ed the Court House, broke into the Treasurer,s
Office, and stole about $4,000. They then re-
mounted and escaped.
A tornado near fernando, Miss. de-
molished many houses, killed three persons and
wounded eight Others