The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-18
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
East.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.

anu ABOUT OO years old.
Through the breaking of a steel
twisted rope the elevator of the Belvidere
Hotel, New York. fell from the fifth floor to
the basement, fatally injuring John Mercer,
porter, and seriously injuring four other per-
sons.
Col. J. Howard Welles, an elderly
gentleman of high social standing in New York.
has been arrested for writing threatening LET.
tiers to Jay Gould, the well-known capitalist. in
which he stated that God bad commissioned
him to assassinate Gould. It is believed that
the writer is insane.
The Massachusetts, Paper Company
has failed, with liabilities of 100000
A court-martial has been ordered at
Trenton, N. j., to investigate the charge that
Gen. Madison Drake, of the State militia, said
Guiteau did right in killing Garfield.
A skiff ferry-boat crossing the Hudson
from Troy to Fort Schuyler was swamped by
the swell from three propellers. OF nineteen
persons on board, seven were drowned and
three are missing.
Owing to the publication in the North
american Regie,o of an article by Robert G.
IngersolI, which the firm of D. Appleton & Co.
regarded as blasphemous, the North american
ReUieDs connection with that house has
ceased.
Mrs Edwin Booth, wife of the great
actor, died in New York, of consumption. after
long and painful illness. She was the step
daughter of Mr.. J. H. Mcvicker, the veteran
theatrical manager of Chicago
The sream-barge Brunswick and the
schooner Carlingford collided in a gale off
Dunkirk, n. Y, and both were sunk. The
Captain and six men of the schooner pulled
twenty miles to the shore, but one man was
dost before starting. The barge lost an en-
gineer and two cooks in the waves. She was
built by Capt Berwick, of Detroit, at cost of
$4,000, and was insured for $75, 600.
Charles I. White & Co., operative
chemists, of New York, have suspended Lila.
bilities amount to $25O,OOO.
West.
The damage done by the recent over
flow of the Mississippi in the Warsaw drainage
district is estimated at $500, 900 in the Indian
Grave district at $750,00O in the shy Island
district at 100000 in Quincy bay and city,
$4,000 in and about Alexandria, Mo-, $780,
O0O and at Keokuk and vicinity, 100000
The total damage is estimated at So, 005, 900.
Mrs. Sarah A. Mosely, aged Ill, died
at Madison, Ind.
Ed Williams, one of the notorious
Williams brothers, was arrested at Grand
Island, Neb., and taken back to Wisconsin.
Two cowboys We're arrested for deal
ing in stolen stock, and were imprisoned at
Shakespeare, Arizona. dozen masked men
entered the Jail, overpowered the guard and
hanged the two cowboys to joist.
John T. Smarr, prominent wholesale
grocer of Kansas City, was shot and killed by
II. J. Russell, liveryman, without provoca-
ton.
Sergeant John Hamm, who went to
old Fort Howard, Wisconsin, in 1920 and has
never since been out of town but once has
passed away from earth.
At Scandal, Kan, DR.. W. FL. Wood
ward was mortally shot byJ G. Humphrey, od-
tor of the Telescope The ARRAY grew out of
X Il
BY the explosion of battery of ten |
boilers in a sawmill at Milwaukee, Mich, four
men were killed. There were no others in the
mill at the time. Low water was the cause of
the explosion, and the damage to the property
amounts to about $4,000.
The genial Nat Goodwin and his
sprighty wife, Eliza Weathersby, are the at
fractions at Movicker's Theater Chicago, this
week. The Member from Slocum" an anus
ang comedy in three acts, adapted from tho
French, is the play in which they appear, and
it constitutes pleasing entertainment. They
are supported by a first-class company.
Smallpox prevails at South Bend,
Ind, to a considerable extent, and many peo-
pie are alarmed. The local pest-house is full,
and vaccination is being put in practice.
There are twenty cases at Fort Wayne Du-
buque has smallpox scare, and half the city
has been vaocinated within few days.
South.
The conductor and engineer of rail-
road train have been indicted for murder at
Danville, KY, for having by recklessness caused
collision in which five men were killed.
The State House at Austin, Tex, has
been destroyed by fire. The archives of the
republic of Texas, the battle flags, and the
Alamo monument were destroyed. The fire is
supposed to be the work of incendiaries. The
loss is estimated at 100000.
The cotton crop of Georgia this year
is about 80 per cent short of the crop of last
year.
A Georgia distiller, who had been
mulcted of package of illicit whisky, shot and
killed the man whom he suspected OF being the
informant Commissioner Raum mas issued
orders to use every possible means to secure
the arrest of the murderer
A horrible railroad slaughter occurred
near Corsoana Texas. A freight train on the
International and Great Northern road ran into
a gang of convicts, killing twenty-three and
woundng large number. The accident was
caused by an open switch.
Rains for two months in Southwestern
Texas have raised the waters of the Rio Grande
to the highest point known since the Mexican
war. Matamoras is badly flooded.
Joe Harris, colored, was hanged at
Greensboro, Ga, for the murder of Ezekiel
Langston. Henry jenkins was hanged at Fay
etteville W. Va, for the murder of Winfield
Saunders on the 10th Of May last. Felix Mum
shower was hanged at Frederick Nd, FOR the
murder Of J. L. Wetzell in August 1879
Atlanta is to be discontinued as mil
itary post The Fifth Artillery, which for two
years has been stationed at Mcpherson bar
racks, took its departure the other day for New
York, amid rounds of cheers
Through the carelessness of a second |
in loading shotgun, mock duel between
Virginia negroes resulted in the death of John
Jasper, of Norfolk county.
POLITICAL POINTS.
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