The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-18

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claims, $50, 900 W orth of diamonds.
In the Whitaker court-martial, at
New York, the expert, Southworth, testified
that the paper on which the note Of warning
was written had been written over with PEN
Gil and the writing afterward erased by rub
Der. The erased words were in the hand
writing Of Whitaker.
Over 81, 100000 in gold reached New
York from Europe within forty-eight hours
A great increase in mortality is re-
ported from New York, where the deaths last
week were 800.
A large boiler which was being tested
in the Phoenix boiler-works, in Buffalo, ex-
ploded with terrific force leyeling the establish
ment, killing six men and wounding seven.
Mr.. Patterson, one of the proprietors, was
among tbs killed. Fragments of the boiler
we're thrown distance of half mile.
Two more of the men injured in the
boiler explosion at Buffalo have died, making
eight victims.
The extensive rattan-works at Wake
field, Mass, have been destroyed by fire, throw
ng 1 900 men out of employment. The loss is
estimated at $780, and the insurance at
s334OOO.
On the Panhandle bridge at Pitts
burgh freight and yard train colided, throw
ing three cars down fifty feet. Charles Carney,
the conductor, was killed, and Patrick Cullen, a
brakeman, fatally injured. R. Harrison, brake
man, had both hands cut Off
Julius Schwab, New York Com
munist, says the assassination of the Gear of
Russia is warning to such men as Jay Gould
md William H. Vanderbilt, who have cause to
tremble. They are expressing the people, he
says and for just such oppression Alexander
II. was killed.
At large meeting of Communists in
,Sew York city, presided over by Justus H.
Schwab, one of the speakers said the imperial
families in Europe must go. In the resolutions
adopted the American people are asked to re-
joice at the overthrow of the Gar as they did
at that of Macmillan. An address will be for
Sarded to Russia asking that aristocracy be
annihilOted to the very germ.
Jealousy caused a double tragedy in
New York, where Ernest S. Memeroth, wood
carver, shot Emil Pauly, who boarded in his
family, and then blew out his own brains.
West.
Not less than 100000 damage was
caused by the flood in the Republican river in
Nebraska. Nine bridges, two mills, aud fac
tory were swept away.
A dispatch from Walnut Grove. Red
wood county, Mimi, says that there is much
suffering there on account Of scarcity of fuel,
as the Winona and St. Peter road has been
blocked tor two months. All out-buildings,
hog-pens, railroad fences. etc., have been used
up, and now many are trying to keep warm by
burning straw and hay, which is poor consola-
ton, az none have suitable stoves.
A loss of $3.50, 900 was incurred by an
incendiary fire at Rosita, Col, which destroyed
the business portion of the town.
A confagration in Kansas City de-
stroyed a portion of q new block on Union av-
enue, between Mulberry and Santa Fe streets.
The losers are Woodward, Faxon & Co., Ogle-
bay & Co., Kelly, Mills & Co., and Leach, Ohm
stead & Hall. The loss is estimated at $780,
90.
George W. Gridley, one of the pio-
ncers of Butte county, Cal, is dead. He will
be remembered as the man who, during the
war, gave to the Sanitary Commission o sack of
wiz oh III o,,l Ill
principal cities in California and Nevada, and
then sent East and again resold, realizing alto
gether over $4,000.
Thirty one ladies of Palestine, Ohio,
we're arrested on charge of melting riot and
sending threatening letters to one Long, sa-
loonkeeper. 1t is charged that they belonged
to secret band of crusaders. Long received
Il notice to leave or die at the hands of mob
Six of the ladies were discharged, and twenty
two gave bail. The crusaders claim to have
sixteen indictments against Long for selling
liquor to minors.
David Howell, station agent Of the
Burlington road at Colchester, ILL.,, has fed
with $4,000 left with him by the Quincy Coal
company tor SAFE Keeping.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road has secured the right of way through
Bear Butte canyon, which is said to be the key
to the Black Hills. The only possible ingress
to Deadwood is made through the canyon, and
there is room for only one line of railway.
A strike of miners at Lewis, New, end
ed in the murder Of one non-union man and
the wounding of two others.
A Fort Assiniboine dispatch says that
three soldiers of the Eighteenth infantry
Quinn, Kinney and McDonald--while attempt
ing to cross the Marine river, were drowned by
the upsetting Of their boat
1t now appears that the purchase of
the right of way through Bear Butte canon to
the Black hills had not been consummatod by
the Chicago and Northwestern railro ad, and
the publication Of the matter interfered with
the negotiations. The Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul people are now trying to secure the
road.
An attempt to fast for forty-two days
is to be made in Chicago next month by son
Of the late DR.. John Haskins Griscom, of New
York. 1t is intended to be a scientific test of
human endurance, and will be supervised by
several medical gentlemen.
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed
bill to make insanity for five years sufficient
ground for divorce.
Some mischieyous lads at New Bre-
men, Ohio, blew school-house into fragments
with two kegs Of powder.
Brevet Maj. Gen. Emory Upton, of
the regular army, shot himself dead in bed at
Preside, Cal A letter left by him for an Off
Ger expresses fears that his second volume OF
tactics will prove failure.
Made insane by liquor, James Tolan
entered hotel parlof at Marine, Mimi, and
shot his wife through the heart with Win
chester repeating rife. She sat on a sofa, with
an infant in her arms and two other children
by her side.
South.
A band of Indians has been commit
ting depredations in Nolan county, Texas
For the murder of Miss Matte Tsh