The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-20
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.
East.

The Methodist University OF Boston
has come into possession of 100000 be-
queathed it by Isaac Rich, the fish merchant,
ten years ago.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is an inmate
of a Turkish and electric bath establishment in
New York DIR. Sayre finds that she suffers
from chronic inflammation of the spinal cora
and disease Of the kidneys. and that cataract
has appeared in both eyes.
For passing resolution over the veto
of the Mayor after an injunction had been
granted by the Circuit Court fifteen Aldermen
of Brooklyn were fined $3.50 each and sent to
Jail for terms of from ten to thirty days
Brakeman Melius, who is charged with
criminal earelessness in the New York Central
disaster, admits that he can neither read nor
write. He has been on the road for over
quarter century.
West. -~-~--
The house of Joseph Posey was
burned near Knife Falls, Mimi. and Posey and
two of his children persisted in the flames.
The lumbermen of the Upper Missis-
sippi report themselves able to secure three
fourths as many logs as in previous seasons.
One Of the party of seven Indians who
murdered L. d. Perkins and wife in Washing
ton Territory was hanged at Yakima. Three
have been executed and three others were shot
while resisting arrest.
A vein Of petroleum has been discov.
cred at Pomeroy, a Few miles north Of Lesven-
worth, Kan
Gen. Carr, the gallant officer who was
reported to have been Hassacred with his en-
tire command by Indians at Fort Apache last
summer, but whose bravery and ability POUNDS
way out of the perilous situation and averted
sickeuing horror like that Of the Custer BUTCH
cry is under arrest at Fort Grant, by order OF
Gen. Wilcox, commanding the Department Of
Arizona, for trial by court-martial.
The suspension and voluntary assign
ment of sibley, Dudley & Co.. well-known
Wholesale grocery house of Chicago, is an
bounced. Their liabilities amount to about
$220,G00 and their nominal assets to about
S24o.0OO
Senator Window, have made an agreement
with the Northern Pacific road to lay track
of standard gauge to the geysers, at a cost of
&1,6OO,O0O, The syndicate will deposit 5000
as forfeit money and has received assurat CPS
from the Government that 1t may construct
hotels in Yellowstone Park.
Advices are received by way Of Tomb
stone Arizona, of an Indian battle near Yanyni
river, in Mexico, A body of Mexican troops
we're pursuing a band of Apaches, by whom
they were ambushed. After desperate at
tempt to dslodge the enemy, the troops we're
compelled to retreat. They lost five men killed
and several wounded
The Illinois Supreme Court, in a case
against the Board of Education of Quincy.
decides that colored children have the right to
attend the public schools and receive the bene-
fit of the school fund the same as white chill
lren.
George Scoville, counsel for Guiteau,
the assassin, has begun suit for libel against
the Chicago Herald, edited by Postmaster
Palmer.
AT Wilmington, Ohio, child died of
what was supposed to be chicken-pox. After
the funeral, which was largely attended, fifty
cases OF virulent smallpox we're developed.
The six-story building of the Ameri-
vsD OlkLeather Company, at Cincinnati, was
swept away by flames. The structure, grounds
and appliances, which were among the best in
the Union, cost $500, 900, and business had but
recently commenced. The Damage is estimated
at $175,OOO
The breaking of a wheel on a passen-
ger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad cause.-the smoking and the ladies
cars to be thrown from the track and down an
embankment twenty feet high. The accident
occurred three miles from New Albin, AlamaNee
county, Iowa. Twenty-three persons in all
were injured, for the most part not seriously,
one child vNs killed, and three people so badly
hurt as to have little chance of recovery.
South.
The South Carolina State Legislature
have been appraised that within the past six
weeks an exodus of 5000 negroes occurred from
one county
A serious conAagration occurred i'll
the business portion OF Galveston, Texas, re-
sulting in loss estimated at 81, 100000
Caroline Richings-Bernard the WE'LL
known cantatrice, died at her home in Rich
mond, Va, of smallpox. after an illness of
thirteen days. Two days before she was
stricken down, lady friend told her of the
spread Of smallpox all over the country, and
begged her to be vaccinated, but she declined,
rs she had no fears of having the disease
The supershdous recall some singular CO.
medicines connected with her illness and
death. A few days before she was attacked
she celebrated the thirteenth anniversary Of
her wedding, and at the dinner table on that
occasion thirteen people were seated. The SUI
perstiton which makes the number thirteen an
omen Of disaster was commented upon at the
lime ond laughed al. 1t il remarkable that the
unfortunate lady died after a sickness of thr-
teen days, and on the 18th of the month. Mrs.
Richings- Bernard was born in England 40 years
ago, and came to this country when year old.