The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-12-30
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
East.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.


Highwaymen, near Pottsville. Pa.
made daring but unsuccessful attempt to rob
the mail coach.
The Grand Jury Of New York indicted
Col ]. Howard Welles for writing and send
ing annoying and threatening letters to Jay
Gould.
A brace of specializing fellows at Read
ing, Pa, want to insure the life of Guiteau for
their own benefit in the sum of 100000.
The messenger of a Wall street house
lost on the pavement package of bonds valued
at $4,000.
The tanning and currying establish
ment Of T. L. White, at Woburn, Mass, was
destroyed by fire at loss of $15O,00O.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon died at
New Haven CT, Of heart disease, aged 70 wears.
He was born in Detroit, Mich, Feb. 10, 1902
Daniel Webster, colored exhorter,
known to everybody in Philadelphia, died re-
Gently at the age of los years. He received his
freedom in 1872 for bringing the corpse of his
master from battlefield. He leaves 1913 direct
scendants. most of whom reside in Maryland.
The bonded warehouse of Covert,
Acker & Co., at No. II to IA South street, New
York. stored with silks, tobacco and spirits,
was burned. The loss is said to be in the
neighborhood of 81, 600, OO0 Several explosions
occurred in the building, caused by ignition Of
spirits. Three fremen were burned.
West.
Horses in the Wisconsin lumber re-
gion are suffering from pink-eye.
Mayor Carlton, of Port Huron, re-
ports that in the burned district of Michigan
winter wheat looks very finely, but for lack of
fences is being badly trampled by CATTLE The
shanties are of green lumber, sixteen by twenty
feet. Families have reasonable quantity of
bedding and full supply of clothing. The
provisions on hand will last until the middle Of
January. Sickness is on tho increase. Many
clergymen have been efficient in attending to
the temporal wants of the sufferers Food for
stock will last through January. There is no
seed for spring sowing. At least 100000 is
deemed necessary for winter maintenance.
DR.. Patterson, well-known physician
of st. Paul, Mimi, shot and killed himself te-
tween the graves OF his children.
Knowles, Cloyes & Co., wholesale gro
GERS of Chicago, have failed for $3250OO or
more, in consequence of a clog in country col
lcciions. Their assets are placed at $3.50, 900.
they claim to have done business of $4,000
600 during the year.
South.
Edmund 9. HeHeld, foreman of pillow
factory at Louisville, killed his wife az she lay
asleep by cutting open the large veins in her
arms.
Peter Herring and two sons, in cross
ing tho river at lock No. 8, Charlestown, w.
Va, were swept over and drowned
Heionwood, a Tennessee mining town,
was the scene of a family row, in which six men
were shot, three of whom are dead.
Details of fearful atrocity are re-
ceivod from Ashland, Ky. Two daughters,
aged IA and II respectively, and a son of J. w.
Gibbons were left at home at night while their
father and mother went out to pay visit,
when tho house was entered by unknown fends,
who first outraged the girls, killed their brother
as he attempted to give the alarm, Glove the
skulls of all three with a Ratchet, saturated
their clothing with oil, and then set the house
on fire, burning it to the ground There is no
Clew to the perpetrators of the awful crime, but
it is to be hoped that the offer of reward of
$1,000 will lead to their detection.