The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-05
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.

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we're mailed at branch postofice in New
York. One OF them took fire in a mail pouch;
the other was opened after being soaked in
water for half day. They consisted of two
pasteboard boxes, each inclosing tin canister
containing half pound Of powder and glass
bulb which would be broken upon the opening
Of tho boxes, precipitating into the
powder an explosive compound. The
senders were evidently Communists. A
similar machine was taken to
police headquarters by Mr.. J. A. Davenport. re-
siding in East Nineteenth street. Supernten-
dent Walling lives but few doors distant, and,
as the box was marked ''W." and left on
dcor-mat, it is thought that the attempt was
directed against the police chieftain. Prof.
Doremus made thorough examination OF the
boxes and found that each canister contained
one pound of gun cotton, and that the liquid
in the bulb was sulphuric acid.
A committee Of the Garfield Club Of
New York sent to Washington a petition for
the pardon of Sergeant Mason, containing
175, 1000 signatures.
The will of the late Sarah Burr, of
New York, bequeathing SO, 100000 to charities,
is to be contested.
Near the grave Of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne in the cemetery at Concord now rest the
ashes of the third and last of America greatest
literary lights-the mortal remains of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, which were inferred with
simple solemnity and lack of ostentation
peculiarly beftting the OCCASION At the house
the services were conducted by the Rev. W. Fl.
Furness; at the Unitarian Church Judge e.
lockwood Hoar and the Rev. James Freeman
Clarke delivered addresses and at the grave
the burial service was read by the Rev. DR..
Haskins, an Episcopalian clergyman. There
were present Oliver Wendell Holmes, George
William Curtis, Gen. N. p Banks, President
Eliot and many others of eminence in the
higher walks of life
West.
The marital troubles of Congressman
Clarke, of the Eleventh Missouri district, and
his wife have been ended by decree of di-
vorce in favor of Gen. Clarke on the ground of
incompatibility Of temper"
One hundred masked men at Lake
City, Col, took from jail George Belts and Jim
Browning, the murderers of Sheriff Campbell,
and hanged them to bridge. AS the rope
was being placed around his neck, b it's asked
for a chew of tobacco.
DIR. John 7. Hodgen, an eminent sur
geon of ST. Louis, is dead.
Resolutions indorsing the action of
Gov. Crittenden in regard to Jesse James were
introduced in the Missouri House, and ruled
out of order by the Speaker.
The annual roundup of cattle is in
progress in Indian Territory, and grass-fe
stock will be placed in market a month earlier
than usual.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Frank Nc
Manus, tramp shockingly mutilated little
girl of years. for which he was arrested
and imprisoned About midnight a party of
seventy leading citizens assembled in the CEN
trail part of the city and made arrangements
for swift vengeance. They proceeded in small
squads to the Jail, where Sheriff Eustis was
promptly made a prisoner. All the cells
up to the third tier we're examined, and
the door of the fiend's cell was
smashed in with hammers. He was
handcuffed and taken to the scene of his crime.
where three women positively identified nm.
After he had made full confession he was
hanged to large tree on the corner of Fourth
avenue and Grant street.
An anti-C Chinese convention in San
Francisco decided on measures looking to the
speedy election of the Chinese from the Pacific
coast, peaceably or otherwise.
A negro named Frank Fisher brutally
outraged young girl, for which he was
arrested and Jailed at Gallon, Ohio The loco
motives whistled and the fire-bells rang, when
over two thousand people rushed to the Jail
and broke it open. The negroes joined in the
mob, and one of them broke open the cell.
Fisher was dragged out and taken to the bed
side OF his victim, Barbara Rethg, who recog-
nized him. crowd of four thousand then
took him to the scene of the crime, gave him
time to pray, and hanged him. He declared
his innocence TO tho last.
One hundred sacks of new wheat from
Arkansas, the first received this year, sold on
the call board at ST. Louis at $3.50 per bushel.
Three cattle thieves were killed on tho
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nison county, Colorado, and Deputy Sheriff
Brink, Of Utah, and their posse. In fight
with another gang few hours afterward both
Sheriffs lost their lives
Workmen near Leavenworea exca-
waited an iron cssket containing a corpse, which
must have been buried forty years.
Polk Wells. the in.robber, aided by
convicts named Cork and Fitzgerald escaped
from the Iowa penitentiary early onthe morning
of the LIST inst. All three were in the hospital.
They overpowered and chlororormed John
Elder, the guard, and broke through the iron
root, whence they went over the prison wall.
Elder soon died from the effects of the chloro-
form.
Jack, a noted chief of the Utes, was
killed at Fort Washable while attempting to
evade arrest. He had borrowed gun Mt a
ranch and shot sergeant dead. Capt Norton
trained mountain howitzer on the cabin
where Jack was concealed, and blew it to pieces
with shells.
South.
DIR. John p. Lipscomb and his father
in-law, Sterling E. Edmunds, quarreled at the
breakfast-table, concerning the formers treat
ment OF his wife. Both drew revolversd an
fired almost simultaneously. Lipscomb fel
dead, but Edmunds escaped uninjured. The
affair occurred at Danvlle, Va. where both
parties to the tragedy occupied high socis
position.
AT a log-rolling near Fairview, KY,
William and Bradford Courts Cbrothers) quar-
relied with DANES and John Smith about the
shooting OF Mrs Smiths COW. fight re-
suited in which James Smith was killed The
Courts brothers were jailed, but a mob took
them out and hanged them to a tree
At Uvalde, Texas, John Mitchell was
tied to tree and numerically foggod, and his
two sons shot dead. The crime was perpe-
trated by two neighbors.
Investigations by the customs author
tiles at New Orleans and the Atlantic ports re-
vealed the fact that the unprecedentedly large
importations OF oranges and lemons from Italy
have beer Systematically entered at half their