The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

bad character, killed S. Missel, miner. Sal
mon was arrested and hidden by an officer to
preserve him from lynching. Salmon's hiding
place was discovered, and he was taken out and
hanged to the framework of a windmill.
Five of the murderers of Col. Charles
Potter have already been lynched. Fausteno
Gatienis, another Of the party, has been capt
ured, and will be sent out from Albuquerque,
under strong guards, to point out the hiding
place of others involved.
Aunty jackson, a negress, aged 112
years, has just died at Normal Ill.
John Forester, 16-year-old boy, of
Kossuth, Wis, committed suicide by hanging.
A fire at Omro, Wis, destroyed one
half of the business part Of the town, includ-
ing ten stores a planing-mill, Thompson &
Hayden's carriage works and large business
block. The loss is not less than 100000.
J. G. Ferguson & Co.'S extensive
pork-house, at indianapolis, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss estimated ct $500, 0G0 {;
insurance, $385,OOO.
A collision on the Ohio and Missis-
sippi road, near Owaneco ILL.,, killed three la
borers and wounded several others.
Sitting Bull is again located at his
old camp at Woody Mountain, British Terri
tory.
The population of Indiana is classified
thus Total census, 1,978, 362 of whom 1,O1O,-
GIG are males and 967, 686 females, and 39,26S
colored, including 233 Indians and half-breeds,
thirty-three Chinese, and four Japanese.
South.
Col. Bayler, with a squad of 1exas
rangers, surprised a band of twenty Apaches
near Quitman, and killed six and captured
three of their number.
A party of citizens of Augusta, Ark,
lynched three men who attempted an outrage
on worthy young lady. The mob rallied at
the jail at n idnight, gagged the guards, and
took the prisoners across the river, hanged
pleted the CHASTITY work by cutting the bodies
down and casting them into the river.
Rush Bennett, colored man, was ex-
ecuted at Eldorado, Ark, for the murder of
Col. A. G. Jamison.
A blood-curdling horror is reported
from Owensville, Ky. George Preiat, bachelor,
aged 70 years, and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth
Goodpaster, years older, lived alone together.
The sister has for long time been paralyzed
and bedridden. Before retiring at night,
Preait started to throw on back log and build
up the fire. He lifted the log, and, in throw
ing it on the fire. fell with it, and, being unable
to rise, was burned to death. His sister was
laying on the bed but was unable in her con-
dition Of health to get to him or render him
any assistance AT last, by an almost superhu-
man effort, she got out of bed and dragged her
brothers body out of the fire, and man.
aged to get back in bed, and there was
compelled to lie, being completely exhausted
and unable to turn over, with her brothers
dead and burned body lying in full view on the
hearth. Nothing was known of the affair until
the following day, when Mrs. Goodpaster's son
went to his mothers to help his uncle feed
the stock AS he stepped into the door
the horrible and blood-curdling scene was
opened to his view. There in bed lay
his mother, with eyes widely extended
and she looking wildly with them, while on the
hearth lay the body of his uncle, stiff and
stark in death, badly burned, and with eyes,
cheeks, ears and portion of his neck eaten by
cats, the whole presenting q ghastly sight.
Mrs. Goodpaster had never closed her eyes
during the whole night, and was lying there
facing the body OF her dead brother, and una
BILE to move at all or make any noise whatever,
and was compelled to see the cats eating the
flesh from the face of her brother.
A woman with considerable money
stopped for lodging at the house of negro
named John Demps, in Charlotte county, Va.
She was put in room with Demps' wife, but
in different bed. Demps determined to muir
der the woman, and entered the room at mid
night with an AK, and, with two fearful blows
he killed his wife, supposing her to be the Wis
itor. The screams of the other woman informed
him of his mistake She fed and he, after
burying his wife, was arrested while burning
the bed-clothing to conceal his crime.