The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-13
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.

#Et s East.
J. WinsloW Jones & Co., corn and lob
ster packers in Maine and Canada, have sus
pended payment, with liabilities of s1S0. 900.
James II. Hildebrand, iewelry mer
chant at Mercer, Pa has absconaed, leaving
creditors in the lurch to the amount Of about
$4,000.
Edwin w. Stoughton, ex-Minister to
Russia, died in New York of Bright's disease.
John Pierpont, Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court Of Vermont, died at vergennes
aged 76 years.
The great sugar refinery of the Hon.
Theodore A. Havemeyer, located in Brooklyn
was destroyed by fire. The loss is stated Al
81, 800, OO0 and the insurance at about
1905, 900. + &J&k #&8# #&
The walls of Rannie & Sears build.
ing, at Syracuse, which was recently burned,
toppled over upon Tracys restaurant killing
three persons and injuring nine. e1 Z
West.
W. Il. Graham, who murdered and
cremated Philip Eglery at Venango Kan, was
hanged by a mob in front of the Court House
door at Ellsworth.
At Louisiana, Mo-, John NJ. Shaw,
one Of Bill Anderson's guerrillas, was shot dead
by his brother in a quarrel over the division Of
their fathers property.
The full bench of the Supreme Court
of Kansas, in passing upon an agreed case has
made decision which will invalidate nearly all
the Jaws passed by the Legislature of that
state in 1877 and 1879. The ground Of the de-
csion was that the act was passed with the aid
of the votes of four members who were not
legally elected. among the laws thus made
void is the prohibition constitutional amend
ment
Smallpox Of an violent type is pre-
vailing to an alarming extent in the city and
snbuTl,s of st. Louis
An unsuccessful attempt was made the
ether day to capture Jesse James, Ed Miller
and Jim Cummings, three notorious members
of the James gang. Word was received in
Kansas City that the desperadoes were in Ray
county, and q special train on the Wabash rail-
road carried large party Of officers well almed
hut the gang had in some manner received All
animation Of the raid, and when the officers
arrived at their supposed hiding-place they had
disappeared.
The business of fire insurance in Chi
cago during the year 1881 was NOT, ON the
whole; profitable one. The conpanles
fell about 100000 short Of maxi az 10th ends
meet.
The reported massacre of a party of
Chinese laborers by Apaches on the line of the
Southern Pacific railroad in Arizona proves TO
have been hoax. 1t is SAID the Cinnamon
employed in grading the ra1lroad are always in
sufficient Numbers to repel an attack either by
Indians or whites.
A dispatch from Tucson, Arizop>,
says that American CONSUL Willard, of Gua-ymas
Mexico, has receiv ed dispatch froya Hermo.
sllo giving an ace cunt of a raid Nv Apaches in
the district neT. Orava, between Bronzes and
Trinidad. a. M. Maynard. and some sixteen
others were among the Killed and wounded.
Grave abuses Pre- alleged in the pre-
emptio'A OF land in Northern Minnesota, where
N~ARe'N W 'CIes hive Deen located py specu-
a" .oNs, who, in most cases, make no improve
nognts, and an others are not even United States
citizens. The Commissioner of the General
Land Office is about to investigate the matter.
In the cheerful city of Tombstone,
Arizona, from whence come SO many reports of
desperate deeds, stage coach was attacked by
five robbers the otherday and robbed of Sc,
which WAS in the troasure-box of the Wells &
Fargo Express Company None of the passen-
gers were molested,