The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-31
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.
East

The tug-boat Henry @. Spratt ex-
ploded its boiler at the Philadelphia wharf
killing four men. George Scully, the Captain,
was blown oser Tho housetops in Water street.
immediately following the explosion flames
broke out in all directions. Pier No. s, occu-
pied as q passenger and freight station by the
Philadelphia and Atlantic City railroad, took
fire and was destroyed The tug Ella. living az
the wharf below, also took fire, and sank after
being web burned. Windows were shattered
in all directions for squares. Three dead
bodies were found in the street. The front Of
the ferry-house buildiAS was blown out, and
the Waterman came near losing his life The
loss is $50001.
At a combination sale of trotting
horses in New York, 1O7 were sold at an aver
age price of $4,000 each.
The Proctor House, at Kearsage
mountain, New Hampshire, valued at SIS, 900,
was swept away by hsmes
Bear Admiral Gustayus Fl. Scott, on
tie navy retired list, died in New York.
Judge Nelson, of Brooklyn, decides
that suitable schools having been established
foroalored pupils, the latter cannot attend the
public schools provided for white chlldrep.
Four colored men were drowned by
the swapping of q boat near Laytons Station,
Pa.
Sullivan, mill operative at Dedham.
near Boston, Mass, while intoxicated, brutally
murdered his wife with razor.
Five men were killed by an explosion
in mine at Wilvabarre, Pa.
Arthur Chambers, the pugilist, has
been sued for $4,000 damages for assault
With one 5low he broke the nose and closed the
eye OIL William e. Harding, the sporting editor
OF IT, Police Gazette
A clearinghouse, kept by Mr.. Nichol,
'nt West Ansonia, Conn, was destroyed by fire,
and James and Eliot Bassett we're burned to
DEATH Several men and lady and child
leaped from balcony
West.
Barnes & McGill's elevator at Hawley.
MIMI, together with large amount of wheat,
were consumed by fire, involving loss of
$2O0,OOO.
The Leavitt Street Congregational
Church. of Chicago, bias expelled F. G. Rossiter,
by a vote of 1O3 to 1, for making faces at the
pastor during services.
Ripon, Wis, has been visited by a
disastrous fire, which destroyed all the build
ings on lie west side of the public square.
The loss is estimated at from S125OOO to
$15O,0OO.
In an ARRAY near Emmetsburg, Iowa,
Charles Cornean killed Fred Miller and COM
mitted suicide. A tragedy precisely similar
occurred at ST. Helena CAL, the parties being
VIM. Cans and j. @. Weinberg r.
The Wisconsin Legislature refused to
pass bill to restore capital punishment in the
State.
A loss Of $4,000 was incurred at
Leavenworth by hour-dust explosion in the
Novelty mills. Five men were seriously burned.
The Minnesota Senate, sitting as a
court of impeachment found Judge e. st.
Julian Cox guilty Of drunkenness and conduct
unbecoming Judge, after trial lasting sew
eral weeks. The sentence is removal from
office ard disqualification for judicial Office for
three years.
A great meeting, attended by 1900
representative citizens from every section and
county Of Ohio, was held at Columbus to urge
upon the Legislature the enactment of law
depressing the Sunday whisky traffic.
w. p. Southworth's extensive grocery
establishment, in Cleveland, and two adjoining
stores, were swept away by flames. Total loss
about $780, 900.
Grow Dog, the Indian chief who killed
Spotted Tail, has been convicted in the Federal
court at Doadwood, and sentenced to death.
The people of the Black Hills charge that the
result was reached by perjured testimony, and
they propose to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Tho st. Louis directory for 1882 con-
tains nearly 10000 more names than its pre-
decoesor.
Great excitement was caused at Col
umbus. Ohio, by tho discovery of the attempt
ITO brihe members of the Legislature to vote
away the canal at Cincinnati to railroad
company
John Laird, who was arrested near
Independence, Mo-, last fall, for completely in
the "Biue Cut train robbery, near Glendale,
on the Chicago and Alton railway, has made a
full and complete confession of the entire
affair, giving all the details and naming his
companions so far as he knew them. He con-
fesses to having participated in the affair."
which was managed and led by the James
boys, The greenhorns who aided them were
lett out entirely when it came to dividing the
swag.
The granddaughter of the Vulcan
Powder Company near San Francisco, was
blown to pieces, killing five whites and six
Cinnamon and injuring three Others The
pecuniary damage is $4,000.
Federal and city officers at San Fran
cisco are implicated in conspiracy to smuggle
opium into that port.
In the municipal councils in Utah po-
lygamists are resigning their seats, and monog-
ah-ists are being chosen to succeed them.
Agent Niles, of the Cheyenne and
Arappahoe agency, telegraphs to Washington
that an Indian outbreak is probable, on ac-
count of the scarcity of game and the reduc-
ton of Government rations to a starvation
point
South.
Texas reports forty-one completed
railroads. with capital stock of s247, 900, 600.
Elder Morgan, presiding elder of the
Mormon church for the cotton States, has left
Chattanooga for Salt Lake with nearly 200 con-
verts.
The distressing condition of affairs in
the Southwest has caused the abandonment of
the project to celebrate the anniversary of the
discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi by
La Sale.
At Richmond, Va, flames broke out
in the Petersburg railroad bridge, and tumbled
that structure into the river, extending to the
tobacco factories of T. NJ. Rutherford & Co.
R. A. Patterson & Co., I. G. Williams & Co,
the stemmeries of ]. A Hutchinson, G. R. &
F. d. Barksdale and Aborn & Edwards, the
Vulcan Iron Works, twenty tenement-houses,
ten freight cars, and L. P. Smiths grist mill,
ell Of which were DESTROYED AZ tho Man.