The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01

Nathan Mcgowan, who fired the last
gun from the frigate Cumberland as she wa
sinking off Fortress Monroe, ended his days Al
Newburyport, Mass.
West.
Illicit distillingis carried on to con-
siderable extent in Indian Territory and Com
missioner Raum is getting ready to sup.
press it.
The annual report of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad shows that
the gross earnings for thu year 1880 were
500, 492, GAG.
Big-nosed George, notorious Wy
oming road-agent, was taken out by party OF
masked men and hanged On the cross-arm of a
telegraph pole, at Rawlins.
An insane saloon keeper of Sioux City
Iowa, shot and killed 14-year-old girl named
Helen Eberhardt, and then committed suicide.
Col. Fred Hecker, one of the leaders
of the German revolution of 1s4S, for many
years well known in politics in the West, died
last week near Summer6eld, Ill.
After celebrating for twenty-four
hours the jury in the Kanoch case, at San Fran
cisco, acquitted the accused Of the murder of
Charles De Young. The horses were detached
from Kallochs carriage, and he was drawn
three miles by the crowd
A Dakota man who lately arrived at
Dubuque tells horrible story of his expert
ence during the winter. He homesteaded 100
acres at Big Lake, Dakota, two years ago, and
last year harvested sixty acres of wheat, yield
ing twenty-five bushels per acre, for which he
realized $1,000 with this he laid in supply
Of fuel and fixed up his house for winter !;
otherwise the family would have persisted. Two
neghboring families, not SO well fixed, came
to live with them, and the three families in
one house had hard work to keep
from freezing The fuel ran out and they
used all the railroad ties and telegraph
poles they could dig out of the snow; then the
houses of the other two families were, little by
ittle, torn down and burned, and nearly all
their furniture went the same way. A German
neighbor named Becker, with five-horse team,
attempted to reach the station for supply of
coal. He was caught in a snowdrift, and two
days afterward he was found frozen stiff in
the sleigh, his faithful dog lying on his breast,
also dead. The five horses were all frozen
stiff, standing upright in the drift. Becker's
body was taken home to his bereaved wife and
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placed in corn-crib until it could be buried in
the spring. Another family had lived some
time on soup nlade6f an OK hide
Col. J. J. s. Wilson, who has been
connected with telegraphy almost ever since it
came into practical use, has forwarded his
resignation as District Superintendent of the
Western Union.
The famous Wisconsin war eagle, Old
Abe, is dead.
BY the breaking of the ice in the Mis-
souri, river at Pierre, Oak, the town was
flooded TO the depth of five feet and the in
habitants encamped ON the bluffs. The steamer
Weston was sunk at the levee at Yankton, and
the Meade foated down stream with the ice.
The town of vermillion was inundated.
Eli B. Williams, one of the pioneer
settlers of Chicago, who was Receiver of the
Land Office thirty years ago. died in Paris. He
left largo estate
The explosion Of a boiler in mill at
Youngstown, Ohio, mangled and scalded four
men to q fatal degree, and infiic ed grave in
juries on ten others.
In the mining camp of Ivanpah, GAL,
stock-raiser was killed by renegade Indian.
A party of reds delivered him to the authori-
ties, and band of masked men seized and
hung him.
A gang of bogus-coin manufacturers
have been arrested near Cadillac, Mich, and
their molds and metals seized.
In quarrel about patent right, at
Gilman. Ind, Ira Miller shot Seth Mckinney
through the heart.
Mrs. Mary Bemer, an insane woman
of Milwaukee, after escaping from the asylum,
killed herself with dull table knife, cutting a
large piece of flesh out Of her throat.
South.
Maj. Kirby, of the internal-revenue
service, has maze bloody battle with the fo1
Middleton brothers. whose illicit still is on the
border of Virginia and Kentucky. Kirby had
posse Of twenty citizens. Joe, Bill and Tom
Middleton were killed, and five of their men
fatally injured. The revenue officer will re-
new the fight when sufficiently reinforced.
The Texas Legislature has rejected a
proposition to submit prohibitory amendment
to the people.
Two stockmen named Leonard and
Doyle met in Jack county, Texas, to settle a
difficulty bringing along third party to see
fair play. Leonard started to step off the dis
lance, when Doyle tried to shoot him. His gun
held fire, however, and Leonard turned and shot
him dead and then mortally wounded the wit
ness and made his escape.
So icitor General Phillips declines the
Judgeship of the Court Of Claims, to which he
was appointed by the President
Deming, the new town at the junction
of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific roads, is
said to have already 5000 inhabitants.
Mrs. Betsy Givens, the first girl baby
born in Louisville, has gone to the better land.
She was 1903 years of age, and had never en-
tered railroad coach.
The Chesapeake and Ohio road is to
commence work at once on line from Licking
ton to Louisville. G. P. Huntington has Sc
cured control of the Ehzabethtown and Padu-
cab road, and win take immediate steps to close
the gap southwark to Memphis.
The Denver and New Orleans road
has ordered fifty miles of steel rails from Liver
pool, and closed a contract for building the line
to connection with the roads in Northwestern
Texas.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Judge William II. Robertson, who led
the independent bolt in New York prior to the
Chicago Convention, who has long been the
personal and political oDnonent of Senator