The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-09
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.

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East.
Wheeling, w. Va, and Putnam, CT,
had each 100000 fire, and Lancaster, Pa,
one Of $4,000.
West.
At the annual meeting of stockhold
ers of the Illinois Central road, held in Chi
cago 1872 079 shares were represented. The
lease of the New Orleans line, which takes ef-
feet July l, was ratified by unanimous vote.
Near the Court House of Sans Bots,
IN the Cherokee Nation, Reuben Lucas was
shot by the authorities for the murder Of
Thomas Mckinney in December last. He con-
fessed his guilt, but exhibited no remorse.
Buffalo Bill was robbed at Denver Of
money and iewelry valued at So, 9oe.
Gov. Crittenden, Of Missouri, denies
having offered to pardon Frank James or hay
ing received an application from him for Glenn
ency. Littleton Younger, an uncle of the ban
dts now in the Minnesota penitentiary, has
held a Consultation with the wife of Frank
james, at Independence, NO.
At the annual meeting of stockholders
of the Chicago and Northwestern road, held OF
Chicago the Directors and officers were re-
elected, and dividends Of per cent. on the
preferred stock and 80 on the common were
declared. The gross earnings for the year were
1923, 800 600, 81 per cent Of which paid the
operating expenses.
Commander Terry, of the United
States navy, brother of Gen. Terry, died Of
consumption in Colorado
Fully $4,000 emigrants, mostly Scan
dinayians arrived in Chicago during May,
one-ffth of them to stop there
At Red Eye, MINI, were found the
bodies Of surveyor named Washington and
his companion Fred Fetherbach, who are be-
heyed to have been murdered by John Trbbet
u Years of age
A vein OF petroleum has been discov-
cred at Baxter Springs, Kan, forty-one feet be-
low the surface, and $4,000 has been offered
for tract of fifteen acres on which the oil de-
veloped.
The negro refugees in Kansas and the
West memogialze Congress to appropriate
portion OF the public domain for home for the
freedmen of the United States.
South.
Sandy Mathews, colored, was hanged
at Memphis, Tenn, on the I'll inst, in the
presence Of large concourse Of people. He
murdered the man who enticed his wife away
from him. James A. Harvey was hanged at
OarrolIfnp IA for tbe ,,,i1rdar of Artb,,r M
Mullan. William i. Moore was to have teen
executed at the Same time, but he nearly de-
stroyed himself with poison, causing post
ponoment for one day of the hangman's work.
George Ellis, one OF the trio who MUIR
dered tho Gibbons children at Ashland, KY,
was convicted or mapslaughter aud sentenced
TO the peniteut!ary for life.
A party of masked men took George
Ellis from the Jail at Catlettsburg, Ky, and
hanged him to tree. Ellis Lad Just been sem
fenced to life term in The p ritoniiary for par
ticipation in tho murder of the Gibbons girls al
Ashland, KY, in December last.
There is widespread indignation in Viz
ginia over the proposal to remove the ashes of
Thomas Jefferson to a cemetery in Washington.
and legal steps have been taken in opposition
to the project,
A furious hail-storm in Virginia and
North Carolina wrecked houses, leveed trees
and fences and ruined crops. Two children
were killed by falling debris, and railway travel
was retarded by the fallen timber.
The reports from the Southwest show
that tho crop prospects are unusually fine. The
Mississippi overflow is not so injurious as was
supposed. The shipments Of stock from
the Southwest to New York are unusually
large.
A daring attempt was made to rob
train on the Missouri Pacific railroad near Den
ton, Texas A north-bound passenger train
was tagged and stopped in deep cut, when
four masked men sprang into the mail car, and
were greeted with lively volley. They then
started for the timber, and were holly pursued,
one of therobbors being shot. At Denton posse
was put on The trail, who soon discovered dead
raider. huge pile of logs was found at point
few hundred yards from the place where
the train was stopped. The dead robber was iden-
titled as s. ?. Spelton, the son of farmer liv-
ing fifty miles away. Another member of the
gang surrendered. His name is Joseph Carter,
and he has recently served two years in the
Texas pcuitentiary for theft. He says the raid
was Planned by the mon still at large who are
strangers to him.
A distressing accident is reported from
Florida. In Orange county man and his wife
and twin children were drowned ina small lake.
The accident was caused by horse becoming
frightened and running away.
AT Butlerville, Lonoke county, Ark,
little girl named Annie Bridges, aged 10 years,
was outraged repeatedly by three negroes,
who left her and fled. The fends were pur-
sued. oyertaken and placed in jail. A mob
broke open the prison doors and hanged all
three of the negroes to tree.