The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.



John A. Appleton, Of the famous New
YoOk publishing house, is dead. GeA
Judge Clifford, of the United States
Supreme Court, underwent amputation of the
foot for gangrene. yw gff-N
Ralph E. Richards and Edward F.
Gross, two young sufAans, the one IA years Of
age and the ether ii, drowned q companion,
Willie Carr, a boy Of 10 years, near Portland,
Me-, be4ause he refused to give them % cents
which be had,
p IRE at Bradford, Pa, destroyed
SlOo,glOYorth Of business property. u.s. g
Pittsburgh reports great boom in
tbeiron trade Mills are sold from three to
six months ahead
Gen. Pemberton, who commanded the
rebel forces at Ficksburg, diedreeently at Penn
Van. Pa, age9 "a. SS@ - " 4a
/ A bFpwers clerk and an Office boy in
New York drove down from Ninety-second
sire y 70 deposit $4,000 in currency and bag
Of silver dollars. At Forty-seventh street
tleir wagon was run into by a peddIer's cart,
containing three men. Tine latter soon seized
the package Of bills and drove off down Lex
ington avenue, letting the bag Of silver fall
into the street w ID FL III
At the conclusion Of the second heat
of a race at Pittsburgh, the well-known trotting
stallion Bouesetter, owned by Il. " Bernis, of
Chicago, dropped dead. He was valued at
a15 900
The total number of immigrants land
'edat New York from the LIST Of January to the
17tb of July was 261, 143. For the correspond
ing period last year the arrivals were 1S741s.
A gold life-saving medal has been
awarded to Mira. Ida Lewis Nelson by Secretary
Window in recognition of her heroic deeds off
Lime Rock light. Is
The assessed valuation of the State of
Vermont is $163, 1891, 1893. Last year the valu-
alton was 800, $4,000.
West.
The chjnch-bug has seriously dam
aged the wheat crop of Northern Iowa. ALI
other hinds of crops except wheat are good.
A recent dispatch from Leavenworth
says the Prohibition law continues to be a dead
letter In Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and
Other large Kansas towns.
There We're 363 deaths from the ex-
'cessive heat in Cincinnati in one week
The Iowa farmers expect to have an
excellent corn crop this, year, except in those
portions visited by hail-storms recently, where
the yield will be scarcely half an average The
wheat crop is now being harvested, and will
yield affair average Oats, barley and other
crops will be fully up tothe average. & 2A
The wheat crop of Kansas is estimated
at fully 100000 900 bushels. That Of Michigan
at a., 100000 ItrgUq4qJt 2a TiSaI..
Oregon promises a wheat yield of
uearly 100000 tons from the territory east of
the Cascade mountains gain over last, year of
at least 30 per cent. ''V"''
A native of Japan, while travelling
through New Mexico with team, was robbed
Of bis horses ana money and tied to tree
near Engle's,statlon, on the Santa eFe railway.
A Sheriff's posse went out from Socorro, shot
both the robbers dead and restored the stolen
property to its owner.
A train robbery occurred on the Rock
Island road at Winslow station, near Cameron
Junction, Mo-, on the night of July15 When
the train which left Kansas City in charge Of
Conductor Westwall reached that point, at $50
p. M, gang of desperadoes appeared, and
side-tracked the.train. Every car was boarded.
The conductor was killed aud the passengers
robbed.
In Pemiseot county, Mo-, James At
NipoOv GstIod h;a .;ra .,,.1f q a y
their bodies into the Mississippi river
During the heated term at Cincinnati,
that is fromJllIy 10 to July Is, inclusive, Ala
persons died from sunstroke and heat
WGOne of the most horrible crimes ever
committed in the Northwest is reported from
Arcadia, Trempeaeau county, Wis, the scene
OF the crime being about ten miles from that
place. Paul Helde German farmer in COM
Portable circumstances murdered his wife and
seven children, the ages Of the children rang
ing from 2 to 10 years, and, after he had
done this cold-bloodedA Decd shot himself
through the head, with probably fatal results.
The instruments used in this bloody deed were
IA Colts revolver aud Ratchet. Seven of the
family he shot with the revolver and killed two
children With the Ratchet. The cause for this
rash act is supposed to be insanity, caused by
the extreme heat. The family are reported
as living peaceably together, and no cause
except that of insanity can be given for the
deed,-S ~ - An 9.-&& ~ o.
Outlaws visited the camp of the Mills
Lac Indians, near Aiken, Mimi, and murdered
the Chief and four Indians. The murderers
were arrested and taken to st. Paul.
Greenleaf, near Fort Gibson, in the
Cherokee nation, was lately the scene of
horrible tragedy, The Greek and Cherokee In
dams we're having barbecue preparatory to
nominating candidates for office. Whisky
flowed freely. Two full-hlood Indians became
Sighting drunk and made an onslaught on
Somo of the party. Seven men were killed or
MORALLY wounded. jim Satterwait and his
father were first shot and had their heads COM
petely severed from their bodies by the crazed
demons
g Billy the Kid" the notorious MUIR
aerer and outlaw who for several years has
been thcteirer OF New Mexico cattle men, was
recently killed by Pat Garrett, Sheriff of lin
.Nf't NoNhs''Ss M ~. NOTaTrett nau been on his
trail some time He overloaded him in cabin
at Fort Sumner, and shot him dead. The
"Ald' was native Of New York city. His rea
name was Mccarthy.
South.
Frank Brown and Jesse Myers, two
of the gang of desperadoes who terrified the
people of New Madrid county Missouri, last
spring, were hanged at Sikeston About g. 900
persons gathered to witness the execution.
Willis Reeves, a negro, was hanged at
Van Buren,, Ark, for the murder of Joseph
Drake, also colored. Reeves made three de-
ternincd efforts to escape from the platform
of the gallows, the Sheriff falling through the
trap with him. 'a
AT Mariana, Ark, Isaac Green and
John Hardin, two negro murderers, paid the
penalty of their crimes on the gallows, in pres
ence Of S,o0p spectators e l1e
AT Leesburg, Fla, J. J. Dickinson,
Jr, shot saloon-keeper named Beach. infiict-
ing dangerous wounds A band Of disguised