The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13

The indications Of an outbreak among
the Utes were sufficiently serious to cause the
dispatch of six cavalry companies from the
contiguous forts to White river.
Eighty-four thousand immigrants ar
rived in Chicago last month, and were distrib-
uted in different directions.
Hon. Ansel Briggs, the first Governor
of Iowa, died the other day at Omaha.
Gilbert Hubbard, senior member of
the Chicago iirm of Gilbert Hubbard & Co., is
dead. Charles Hitchcock, an old and prom
inent member of the Chicago bar, has also
passed away.
Lieut.. Bulles followed band of In
dian murderers across the Rio Grande and
killed four braves and a squaw, capturing
twenty horses.
A coaI-shaft in Usage county, Kan.
caught fire from furnace in the air shaft.
twenty-five men were at work at the time,
but fifteen of them were rescued. The remain
ng seven, with three others who had gone to
their assistance, were taken out dead.
Troops have been sent to the Ute Res
ervation to protect the Indians from invasion
by whites.
George G. Harding, editor of the In
dianapolis SATURDAY. Reuie,D. ia dead.
A correspondent which the Chicago
Tribune dispatched to the flooded regions of
the Upper Missouri river sends to that journal
o graphic description Of the ruin wrought by
the high water in Dakota. The bulk Of the
suffering from the food, he reports, is confined
to the territory between Yankton and Elk
Point. In the river bottom, between
these points, hundreds of once fertile
feet of sand. In addition to their present
mournful condition the unhappy dwellers in
the inundated districts have to face the distress
ing prospect Of Wholesale malaria, resulting
from the decomposition Of thousands of dead
animals, and of future want, because it has
beea necessary to eat up all the grain and
vegetable seed saved for this years
crops in order to save life. The sit
uation of these people is one that crit,
aloud for immediate relief in the way of dona-
tons of money and articles of food. The
Quartermaster at Yankton has issued nearly
$4,000 rations to the sufferers by the flood.
Capt. Clagne, who was sent by Gen. Terry Oh,
tour of investigation, reports that the officers
at Fort Randall saved 700 persons from I os l.
BILE starvation.
Trees by hundreds of thousands III
Southern Wisconsin were destroyed by ground
mi se during the snow blockade.
Reports from eighteen counties il
Kansas indicate that the wheat crop this yesr
will be the biggest ever known.
Rev. John McMullen, of Chicago, has
been appointed by the Pope Bishop of the
Catholic Diocese OF Davenport, and Rev. Kill
ian G. Flash, of Milwaukee, has been made.
Bishop Of the Diocese of Lacrosse,
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany has leased the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad. SS
South.
A freit hit train on the Texas Pacific
railway went through a bridge near Dallas.
The engineer was killed, and the fireman, con-
ductor and brakeman were injured. Another
wreck on the same road caused tie death OF
two men and the wounding of third.
While some school children were play
ing under a small tree in the yard of n F.
Harner, eight miles east of Winona, Mass,
lightning struck the tree and Immediately
killed Mamie and Willie Harner, aged and
years. and Mary Hightman.
Fifty naorrooc TOOK FROM sos1 ~ n
La. colored lad who admitted having COM
mitted an outrage on a child, and killed him
with shot-guns.
-Four negro laborers on the Alabama
landslide and killed.
In Dooley county, Ga, Joe Stovall
was indulgirg in the pastime of beating his
wife, when his brother JEFF interfered, where
upon Joe shot JEFF, inficting mortal wounds.
The ceremony Of dedicating the tomb
of the Association of the Army OF Northern
Virginia, and the unwilling of the statue of
Stonewall Jackson. took place at Metairie Gem
etery, in New Orleans.
Two men named Hart and Register
fought duel with knives in Sumter county,
Ga, resulting in the death of both par
Elephants. Hart was disemboweled and died
instantly and Register died four hours after
the affray.
Lieut.. Bulls, Of the Twenty-fourth
infantry, commanding body of Seminole
scouts, came upon the band Of Indians who
murdered the McLawrin family, in Texas. He
attacked their camp near the Pecos river,
killed four bucks and one squaw, and cap
tured one boy, one squaw, and twenty-one ami