The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29

the strong current that 1t gave way beneath ar
express train, and the engine, tender
and the two forward cars went dowr
into the river The locomotive and
tender, with the engineer and fireman
went to the bottom The express messenger
baggage man, conductor and brakeman hap
pened to be in the passenger car, and escaped
by climbing to the roof, as it was sinking, and
leaping thence to the sleeper, which remained
on the bridge. The passenger Car, with its
eleven passengers, 6oated off until grounded
near an island. Five of the passengers es-
capped. The three passengers in the sleeper got
out without injury.
Frederick Smith was shot and dan
gerously wounded by John Finnick, near Dale
vile, Ind, in quarrel over the possession of
a field. Smiths wife then knocked Finnick
down with hoe and chopped his head into
sliYers
An Omaha telegram of April % states
that the flood on the Missouri had severed
railway connections between that city and
every point. Several dwelling houses doated
past the city that day, and half mile of rail-
road track was washed away ALI Important
industries were drowned out At Sioux City
both rail and telegraph communication with
the North and West was cut off. -Four hun
bred houses were either submerged or sur
rounded by water, and communication with
their occupants was had only by RATS. At
Rockford the Wilson ice-house, containing
about 1000 tons of ice, sunk into the Rock
river.
The printers on the Cleveland Leader
have been granted an advance in their pay.
Manager Hayerly, of Chicago, will
build in that city the finest theater in the
United States. The sigte selecte for this new
drama i, temEl5 is Monroe street, opposite
Haverly'6 present theater.
A special train on the Denver and Rio
Grande road jumped the track III ar Ozirr, New
Mexico, and rol el Gowl an I'm }. nknent #
$50 feet Seven men and one womln were
tiled, aad Al the other passengers injured
The wounded were take to Denver.
While the population of Chicago has
increased 70 per cent. in the past ten years, the
growth of the churches in membership has
been only u per cent
A fire at Salinas, CAL, burned the
residence of Mayor Ball, and lis wife and two
daughters persisted in the flames.
A joint agreement has been signed by
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul and sew
eral other railroad companies for the erection
Of union depot at Minneapolis. The struc-
ture will cost about 100000.
E. W. Bond & Sons saw-mill, to-
gether with 100000 feet of lumber, were de-
stroyed by fire at Fife Lake, Mich.
A physician of Cincinnati claims to
have found genuine trichine imbedded in the
backbone of some fish.
The Commissioner of Health of Chi
cago advises the people of that city to abstain
from the use of water as q beverage. The
river has got mixed up with the lake.
The Directors of the Chicago Board of
Trade have passed resolution declaring the
action of the joint executive committee of the
railroads in advancing rates to the East with
out giving the customary notice positive
breach OF good faith toward the shipping trade.
They also characterize its action as SO treacher-
GUS and tyrannical as to invite united effort by
the people toward commercial, political and
legal relief.
A colt with seven perfectly formed
feet is one Of the curiosities of Normal Ill
One fore leg sports three feet, and the Other
two.
South.
Sheriff W. F. Beattie, of Crittenden
county, Ark, was killed and Deputy Sheriff
Maddox was dangerously wounded while at
tempting the arrest of negro burglar.
A sachel of jewelry valued at $4,000
was stolen from the room of travelling sales
man, in a hotel at Baltimore.
Fifteen men rode to the house OF Mr.
McLauren, of Edwards county, Texas, and took
the lives Of McLauren, his wife, and young
man named Lease, living with them. Nothing
in the house was disturbed. The whole affair
is shrouded in mystery SO far
Lucinda Fowlkes, Virginia negress
who killed her husband, enjoys the honor of
beiog the only woman hanged in the Southern
States in twenty years. On the platform she
trembled violently.
The discovery of deliberate scheme
of general escape in the South Carolina peni-
Tertiary at Columbia was the means of pre-
venting an extensive uprising among the con-
victs, who had provided themselves with axes,
knives clubs and pieces of chain, and with
thesesweapons attended to overpower and, if
necessary, kill all the prison officials Two
negroes under sentence of forty years for muir
der were the ringleaders.
Louis Whitaker, negro murderer,
was taken from jail at Gadsden, Fla, by thirty
masked men, and hanged to tree.'
The Missouri Pacific and the Texas
and st. Louis railways have been having
hot fight over the right of way through Waco
Tex. The militia had to be called out.
A Ian named Dement,, emigrating
from West Virginia to Louisiana, encamped on
the mountains in Stone county, Ark, for
week or two of recreation. While he and two
of his boys were at the foot of the mountains
fishing, a fire which had been burning in the
woods south of the camp suddenly spread to
the adjacent forests, encircling the camp, and
before he could render assistance swept the
ground of the encampment, Mrs. Dement, and
two children perishing in the flames.
Mrs. Louisa G. Allan, the foster-moth-
er of Edgar Allan Poe, died, few days ago, in
Richmond, at the age of So. She was cousin
of Gen. Winfield Scott
Congressman O'Connor, of South
Carolina, is dead.
WASHINGTON NOTES.