The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-21
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Charles Morris, after raisip@ about
$4,000 by forgeries, borrowing and raising
money for sufferers Of all kinds, has disan-
poared from Lynr Mass, leaving wife and
children behir :,
MRS. 4tichols Smith, eldest daughter oil
nsiate Horace Greeley, died Of diphtheria at her
fathers homestead, Chappaqua, N. Y. She
leaves three children the youngest weeks old.
She was III ouly one week,
BY a vote of 10 to 10 the Board of
Harvard College declared its unwillIngncss to
train female doctors in its medical school
The Connecticut House of Repre-.
sentatives has passed by vote Of I4I yeas to
"a nays a constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors, except for medical purposes.
John F. Slater, wealthy citizen Of
Norwich, Conn, proposes to give q, OOO, 900 to-
ward the education Of the negroes Of the
Southern States. R. B. Hayes Gov. Colquitt,
William E. Dodge and others are to act as trus-
tees Of the fund.
The Connecticut Legislature has
passed law limiting the traffic in intoxicating
liquors.
Flames destroyed the carriage factory
CT r. W. stiYers, in New York city. Loss,
$4,000.
It is announced that the well-known
firm of A. T. Stewart d Co. have determined
to discontinue their dry-goods and manufact-
nring business and that they offer for sale
their entire stock Of merchandise and all their
1nill properties The announcement will cause
general surprise in the mercantile world, al
though it has been known for some time that
the sales Of the firm were not as large as when
Mr. Stewart was at the head Of the house which
he founded.
A fire at Titusville, Pa, destroyed the
Hotel Brunswick, the Parshall Opera House
and hotel, and the Watson stables, on which
the loss ID estimated at $500 A fireman
was fatally burned, and a colored cook prob
ably lost her life.
In the suit for libel brought in the
New York courts by Rev. Samuel d. Human
against Bishop William H. Hare, the jury rem
dered verdict Of $4,000 for the plaintiff
Counsel for Bishop have moved for a new trial.
On the first ballot by the jury ten voted in favor
of $25, 900 for Plaintiff and two voted for yer
dict for defendant. Next morning they COM
promised ON $4,000 for the plaintiff.
Scoville lectured on the Guiteau trial
to three policemen, eight reporters and twenty
others in Jersey City, N. ].
The figures Of the nationality of New
Yorkso population, just completed, show
100000 of Irish birth and 10000 Germans
one-third of the total population.
William H. Vanderbilt purposes
building mausoleum on Staten island, which
will cover an acre and half the building
which will be seventy feet high, 10 be seen twenty
miles Mt sea on clear day.
West.
The Wisconsin millers have adopted
10 resolution condemning gambling in grain.
Charles McKinnon, a Kansas City
liquor merchant, has made an assignment.
The Kansas Prohibitory law, he says ruined his
business
John Nassett, of Cambridge, Ohio
murdered his son and then took his own life.
Closer examination into the amount of
harm done to the growing crops by the recent
severe weather shows that the damage was at
first oyerostimated. Fruits have suffered
some injury, but not to the extent that was
feared while it does not appear that the frost
has affected the growing winter wheat in any
appreciablo degree.
The Northern Pacific road has met
with complete success in its experiments with
0rtesian wells in Dakota Water nearly as
pure as that from Lake Superior flows thirty
feet above the ground at Tower City.
john Land, the Blue Out (Mo.) train
robbcr, has been sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary for perjury.
At Sedalia, Mo-, fellow-soldiers with
Jesse James in the Confederate service have
raised $3.50 for his widow and children.
Eighteen Nihilists have escaped from
Siberia. Among them is Mikaloff, one OF the
Assasslns of Gen. Mezenthoff.
The distillery of Oscar Furst, located
two miles south of Peoria, ILL.,, and the bonded
warehouse adjoining were destroyed by fire.
The loss is s350,0O0, and the insurance $780,
600. The institution will be speedily rebuilt.
A storm of unparalleled severity ragged
in the region of Deadwood for week, almost
destroying tho telegraph lines.
The Saints at Salt Lake were last Sun
day advised by their preachers in the Taberna-
Nln 10
Gentle merchants will retahate by discharging
all Mormon employees.
A notorious desperate, Elias, or Jack
1ngalls, known as " Three-Fingered Jack, and
his pal, Dan Griscomb, known as "Grizzly
Dam" were lynched in the woods four miles
from Durango, Col. 1t is alleged that the
Sheriff and other prominent men were members
Of the lynching party. The bodies were cut
down within fifteen minutes and secretly bur
led.
The widow of Jesse James went to st.
Joseph last week and secured from Marshal
Craig revolvers and guns valued at $500 or
more
Col. John M. Cornell, of Lancaster,
Onlo, RENOWNED as sOluler, lawyer ana poi
itican is dead. He was q relative of the Sher-
man and Ewing families.
South.
Southern farmers, as a general thing,
are planting larger food crops and less cotton
this year than ever before.
At Wrightsville, Ark, boiler explo-
sion in saw-mill killed three men.
Mary Booth, aged IA, and colored,
poisoned the family coffee Of her employer, R.
G. Gray in Surrey county, Va. Mrs Gray and
Travis L. Jones died Of the poison.
Dallas, Texas, was visited by a hail
storm that shattered every exposed window in
the city. The hail-stones ranged in size from
the dimensions Of walnut to baseball, and
their falling sounded like the discharge OF fire.
arms.
A jury at New Orleans awarded
$4,000 damages to Mcneil and wife for the
death of their son on the Louisville and Nash
vile road.
The Texas Legislature has passed
bill reducing railroad fare to 8 cents per mile