The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-08-05
I news Of TRE WEEK.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

be declared himself to be Secretary of State.
1t was thought he had designs upon Gov. Cor
melt but the weapon proved to Be unloaded
William R. Dickinson and Joel Van
arsdalen, two Philadelphia lawyers, have been
convicted Of forging the viii Of Robert Whit
alar teet 100000 worth Of an estate might
Sal into their own hands.
collision of freight trains on the
49, New Haven road at Rye, N. Y, killed Eli Lain,
IL "a conductor, and mutlated Henry Hallock, a
brakeman. Both engineers were injured.
- Eight cars were wrecked, the total damage ID
roliug-stock being 100000.
Maud S. failed to beat her record at
pittsburgh. She trotted the first heat in 2a2,
che second heat Gin which she broke in 2:1S51<,
and the third heat il. 2l21< These three CON
secutive heats are the best trotted by any horse
! inthe world. Vanderbilt watched the wonder
fnl feat OF his mare
lkE The failure is announced of the Nor
wich CO.. Pistol Company, with liabilities Of
$780, 1000 and assets of 100000.
gaf Fg One hundred men were thrown out Of
a, employment and loss Of $4,000 inflicted, by
the burning of the piano factory of Pratt,
Read g Co, atDeep River. ct
Hon. g. J, Chadbourne, Deputy Sec
Rotary or State in Maine, was drowned at Kent,
RI GE v-,qYxr
Hon. Grove Salisbury, formerly Gov
ernorof Delaware is dead.
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A Chicago paper reports that party
r Of detectives and Deputy sheriffs will leave
- that city at an early date to capture the Mis-
ofYfy5, nko
bytiis authorities and railroads.
Jay Goald has purchased the st.
Louis, Jerseyyille and Springfield railroad, and
will merge it in the Wabash combination.
Hon. John j. Bagley, Ex-Governor of
Michigan, died at San Francisco, whittier he
had gone for the benefit of his failing health.
A hotel, drug store and telegraph of
flee at Hamburg, Iowa, valued at $45, OOO we're
destroyed by fire. fy l.t AMMAN
Sitting Bull and his immediate follow
ers have been loaded upon steamer and sent
OF to Standing Rock Agency. The fallen chief
tain keeps aloof from all persons
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has absorbed the Northwestern Tele-
graph Company of Wisconsin. The trans
fer, it appears, was made on the Sta of Nav
last. 58& 0WN tN1st4J4#
The gauge Of the Illinois Central ex-
tention to the gulf was changed to the stand
ard width from Cairo to New Orleans The
track is $50 miles long, and 5000 men COM
peted the task in eleven hours at a cost of
$3OnD0 btUeltA gH8AE @E
A terrible explosion took place at the
distillery of the Woolner Bros, Peoria, ILL.,, by
which oiObtCpD rersona wara bod1,v ;,,i,~o5
nine Of whom nave since died and several moro
are. not expected to live. The distilery was
burned on June 6, and the proprietors were
engaged in trying to save tub of beer that
was saved from the fire. and, through the de.
fects of the machinery and the pipes, the still
tub exploded with fearful results. IA
For the year ending june 30, 1881,
12,675 vessels entered the port Of Chicago.
The total receipts during the same period for
imports was 80, 7OO 7O7, and, with the addition
from various sources, So, 739, O8O, making Chi
cagQ the sixth port in the United States. gs'g
asa Two Mexicans and two miners have
been murdered by the Indians near Fort Nc
Crea, New Mexico, and a company Of the Ninth
cavalry ism pursuit Of the butchers. = p
The result OF flax-seed threshings in
Illinois, Iowa. Missouri and Kansas has been
e rather disappointing to the flax-growers In
very few cases has there been an average yield.
~ -Four and seven bushels to the acre have beer
realized where ten and fourteen bushels were
expected. Notwithstanding the hrgely-n-
creased acreage the yield Of this year through
out the country will not equal that of last year.
gEM "a A south. e.
At a short-horn sale at Winchester.
KY, seyenty-six animals brought S3S, $780, an
average Of $500 each.
Montpelier, at Orange Court House,
Va, the birthplace and home OF President
Madison, was sold at auction the other day for
$4,000 ..Ea a..u.ksaS Ebw
The overturning OF lamp In a livery
stable at Lebanon, Tenn, started blaze
which swept away eighteen buildings on the
public square, valued at ,$15O,OOO. a -.s
Perry county, Ark, has been placed
under martial law by the Governor of the
State. Aperfect reign of terror exists.
fN The Mississippi steamers Idlewild and
osceola Belle burned at Memphis, Tenn The
Idlewid was worth $3.50, 900, and insured for
J9. SIC 600. fiaNtN'l0ht Ui.
Superintendent Davis, of the New Or
ment that he will, during the movement of the
cotton and sugar-cane crops, put out from
New Orleans 100000 or $1O,OOO,OOO of
standard silver dollars. ....,fae
An extensive bed OF bituminous coal
has been discovered at a point twelve miles
southwest Of Marshall Texas. The deposit
lies but eight feet below the surface,
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
appointed a commission, consisting of Prof
Hlyard eolored), ex-Gov Famaso Of Nevada
and I. G. Jones of Ohio, to visit the arid re-
gions. of the West and investigate whether
they can ever be made to have any marketable
value. ~ e@# %& 80
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs. y
Among the candidates for Justice Cliff
ford's vacant seat on the Supreme bench are
ex-Attorney General Devens and Chief Justice
Gray, of Massachusetts. 1t is thought that the
appointee will be from New England, and each
State in that section will have one or more
applicants.
Bishop Philip Klingen Smith, par
tcipant in the Mountain Meadow massacre
whose exposure of that atrocity caused the ex-
ecution of John d. Lee, was found dead in a
prospect hole in Sonora, Mexico. He expected