The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-06

wrestled with the swift current in the mad
waste of waters. There they were, in plain
| view OF hundreds watc ing from the shore, on
both the east and west sides, right in the busi-
ness portion of the city and the cries
of victims end friends on the shore
we're heartrending. One after another the
struggles ended. Boats put out as soon
IS possible, and many were rescued Some
good swimmers reached the shore from a quar-
ter to half mile below. Six persons are
known to have found watery grave. Their
names are: Thomas Murphy, aged S5; John
Corbin, aged 80; Leo Taylor, aged 16; Elmer
Foster, aged Is; Guy Carlisle, aged Is; Fran
ces Creighton, aged H.
A formidable strike of the conductors,
drivers and stablemen Of the st. Louis
5reet-car companies for an increase of
wages or a reduction of the hours of
labor Was brought to an end only by
the calling out of the militia and the appear
ance of the Governor Of Missouri at the scene
of the trouble,
The latest strike in Chicago is that of
the nurses at the smallpox hospital.
The situation at Kansas City, on the
Both ult., was terrible. The Missouri river
continued TO rise at an alarming rate, and all
the elevators and the great packing houses
were surrounded by water. OF the ten rail-
roads running into the city but three we're able
to send out trains over their own track, the
Chicago and Alton alone running their Eastern
trains direct from the Union depot. Fully
1000 people we're hoEeless, and many
Of them had lost everything they
assessed in the world. Box-cars, railway de-
p ts tents and everything that could be used
to shelter were being pressed into service, yet
thousands were compelled to sleep in the open
air and depend upon charity for food. Many
of the houses had been moved to railway
tracks, but several had gone down stream, and
more were expected to follow. The Hannibal
railway bridge, which cost 81, SOC, 900, was in a
perilous situation.
A horrible tragedy is reported from
st. Paul, Howard county, Neb. Mrs. Koch
the wife of Christian Koch, a railroad night
atchman, while laboring under fit of tenn
porary insanity, killed her three children by
ont!ing their threats with razor and then cut
her own throat. One boy was years DID, the
econd boy was years and the third child
girl aged months.
Col. James q. Bowen, in former years
one of the leading spirits in the business cir
Giles of Chicago, was killed the other day by be-
ing thrown from buggy.
A convention of delegates from the
Land Leagues of Illinois was held in Chicago,
and State organization formed to perpetuate
the agitation in Ireland and England The as
ISOLATION pledged itself to raise this year $780,
600 or more to aid the cause.
Fire destroyed M. Frost & Co. 8 wood
enware works and Croule Bros tannery, in |
Detroit, causing = loss of about $4,000.
Sitting Bull is only forty miles from
Fort Buford, but declares that he will not sur
render. 1t is charged that his emissaries are
trying to induce the young bucks to leave the
agency and join him.
A train on the Western Pacific road.
when near Hayward's, Cal, killed FIVE children
of family named Nebas.
A number of mining capitalists of
San Francisco have left for the silver mount
ain reported to have been discovered in Alaska
by sailors. Some specimens have assayed from
$4,000 to $4,000 per ton.
South.
Fred Grant has assumed the Presi-
dency of the Texas Western Narrow Gauge
railway, projected from Houston to Preside del
Norte, $50 miles
-Four school-boys were struck by light
ming and instantly killed in Louisville, KY. |
Two of their companions were stunned by the
shock. Their clothing was literally torn from
their bodies The boys were playing baseball.
Their ages ranged from IL to H.
An agreement has been reached that
the Texas and Pacific road shall absorb the
Iron Mountain, paying for it by issuing new
stock, allowing difference which has not been
made public.
The States Attorney at Louisville has
brought suits for $3.50 against the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, for running trains and
employing men on Sunday.
John Gothard was hanged at Town
sentown Nd, Tor the murder of Joseph
Woods, in December last Marshall Baxter
6colored) was executed at Charlotte, N. ", 1or
the murder of Robert Hennegan, in January OF
this year.
Louis Redman, colored, was hanged
at Hazlehurst, Miss, for the murder of his
fathtr-in-law.
Gen. John S. Preston, prominent
citizen of South Carolina, and Chief of the
Rebel Consumption Bureau during the War Of
the Rebellion, is dead.
A shocking murder is reported from
the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. A man
named Arneta and neighbor killed John Dry,
half-breed, to get possession of two gallons
of whisky he had. They shot him three times
in the head, stabbed him ten times, and severed
the head from the body. They then concealed