The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
West.

inst. says: "The work of raising the blockade
on the west end of the Chicago and North
western railroad is proceeding slowly. There
still remains $40 miles in blockaded state.
or this all but fifty miles can be easily raised.
The fifty miles consist of ice and frozen snow
that will have to be picked step by step. There
are from 400 to 500 men at work, and it is
thought that two weeks will see the road open
to Pierre, Oak. No trains have been run to
Watertown, Oak, since the Goth of January.
ALI station\ Of the blockaded portion report
scarcity of flour, oil and groceries, but no suf-
fering from the lack of these or other living
necessities"
Moody and Sankey have finished four
months Of continuous labor in San Francisco.
A coal firm in Cleveland has sued two
railroads running into that city, claiming $27,-
900 for freight discrimination in favor of other
dealers
A company which proposes to build
railway from Pekin to Grafton, H.. has been
Incorporated at Springfield, with capital of
81, 100000.
Van Hise, Linn and Corwin, who
we're arrested at Cleveland for connection with
the Missouri land frauds, have been discharged
for lack of evidence, Detective Tyrrell failing to
appear to testify.
The municipal officers of Dodge City,
Kan, having refused to surrender to their sue
cessors, a body of seventy armed men proceeded
to break the locks of the Jail doors, and have
issued notice to all thugs to leave within
twonty-four hours.
Fifty fest OF the Government riprap at
Omaha has been washed out by the floods
Two men were swept out among the ice cakes
and drowned
The conductors and drivers on the
West Division Railway Company, of Chicago,
struck for an advance of 20 per cent in their
pay. Over half the city was deprived of street.
car facilities for thirty-six hours, and people
nad to foot it to and from their places
of business. The sympathies of the commune
ty were with the strikers, and the corporation
dnally yielded to the demands of the en-
ployes.
A strike Of the journeymen carpenters
Of Cincinnati resulted in the concession O.
1926 per day by 125 builders.
All Luck, Chinaman, was hanged at
Nevada City for the murder of a countryman.
Col. M. G. CARRIER, Postmaster at Mad
ison, Ind, and proprietor of the Courier, Gid
from raralytic stroke.
Great activity is apparent in the work
of grading the Northern Pacific up the vale,
of the Yellowstone where 5000 men will soon
be employed, preference being given those who
intend settling in the region.
Under the escort of Senators Conk-
ling, Jones, Logan and others, the remains of
the late Senator Matt II. Carpenter, of Wiscon-
sin, arrived at Milwaukee on the 9th inst, and
were formally delivered to the Governor and
Legislature of the State that had elected Mr..
Carpenter to the Senate by Senator Conklng
in behalf of the Senatorial committee. The
body lay in state at the Court House Oh Sun
day, the 10th, and was viewed by $4,000 sor-
rowing people, after which it was buried N
Forest Hill Cemetery with imposing ceremo-
MES.
The iron-works of G. & G. Cooper &
Co., at Mount Vernon, Ohio, we're destroyed by
fire, causing loss of $15O,OOO
Gen. Ben Spooner died at Lawrence
burg, Ind, last week. He was Colonel of the
Eighty-third Indiana in the war, and lost leg
at Kenesaw. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio;
aged So.
Mrs. Charles Ballou, of Saranac,
Mich, known as the mammoth Queen" is
dead. When travelling with exhibitions she
weighed $40 pounds, but wasted away to AGO.
Mark Beaubien, doubtless the most
noted of all the pioneers of Chicago, who kept
the first hotel and ran the earliest ferry across
the Chicago river, died at Kankakee, H.. few
days ago, aged 81 years. David Mckee, an
other of the early pioneers of Chicago, has
also passed away, at the age of 80.
South.
The Confederate graves in New Or
leans were decorated with flowers contributed
by the Grand Army of the Republic.
Reports from oil portions of South
Carolina are to the effect that the fruit crop
has been ruined by the extreme cold
South Carolina Judges are quite gen
orally enforcing the State law against CARVING
concealed weapons. for which offense many
persons have been sent to the penitentiary
Three horse thieves were summarily
disposed Of" by the vigilantes of Johnson
county, Tex.
Four inches of snow fell in Northern
Virginia on the night of April s.
NJ. W. Gary, a cavalry officer in the
Confederate army, and always prominent in
law and politics, died at Edgefeld, S. G.
Deputy United States Marshal Sea-
greaves was recently assassinated and robbed
in Macon county, Tenn.
A party of armed and masked men
rode into Toledo Ark, at daybreak, surround
cd the Court House, broke into the Treasurer's
Office, and stole about $4,000. They then re-
mounted and escaped.
A negro woman was lynched at Mar
tins Depot, s. c., for attempted arson