The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.


IOls OOLCLuuoS VI ANOH AOAAs AAA4AAD
that the gun-cotton sent to W. H. Vanderbilt
and Cyrus w. Field was the toughest kind and
of foreign manufacture.
A negro at a Pittsburgh boarding
house put poison in the bread. Nine persons
were poisoned, Of whom one or two may not
survive.
Gen. Grant and w. Fl. Vanderbilt
oficiated as time-keepers for Frank Work, at
the Gentlemens Driving Park in New York,
where Edward and Dick swiveller. hitched to
road-wagon, made a half-mile in 1:0914 and
nile in 2:231l
The Senate of Massachusetts passed a
bill TO double-traek the Hoosac tunnel and inn
prove the Troy and Greenfield railroad
staging on the new railroad bridge
at Greenfield, Mass, fell forty-six feet to the
ground 0. eight men at work one was fatally
and two others badly hurt
1t is understood that the estate of
Ralph Waldo Emerson viii inventory S2O0, 900.
Three inches of snow fell at Pottsville,
Pa, on the 9Th inst.
The Court House at Pittsburgh, which
cost nearly $3.50. 900, was partially destroyed by
fire
Mrs. George Scoyille appeared before
New York audience in company with child,
and remarked that family troubles compelled
her to retire. after giving them an opportunity
to see a sister Of Charles J. Guiteau. The
money was then refunded to forty auditors. 1t
is understood that Mrs. Scoyle is to file bill
for divorce at once.
Hon. Theodore Fl. Sweetzer, an emf
nent lawyer of Boston, once nominated by the
Democrats for Governor of Massachusetts,, is
dead.
West.
The Secretary OF the Ohio Board of
Agriculture reports damage Of 10 per cent.
to the wheat of southern Ohio by frost
The report Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and ST. Paul road for 1881 shows gross earn
ings of $17,O25, 4G1 and expenses Of $1O,3l7,-
931. 1t owns 4,2l7 miles of track, and has
bonds and stock outstanding in excess of
l140OO,OOO
A farmers wagon drove up to the gates
of the Iowa pententiary, the other day, with
Polk Wells and Charles Cook, under strong
guard They were found in a barn five miles
away by John Stenger and son, and were soon
forced TO surrender at the muzzle of shot.u
Areward of $3.50 was paid to the Stengers.
The prison birds have been indicted for the
murder of John Elder, the guard
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Central Railroad Company was held at Detroit
The net earnings for the year we're 50, Cos, 800.
ST. es against $3, 212, 623 95 for $780,
Dynamite was exploded in the saloon
of Con Sweeney, al Cedarville Ohio, throwing
the entire family out of bed and blowing out
one end of the building, An attempt was made
to blow up Coldwels drug store, but the
charge failed to explode.
The reports of trouble in Wyoming
Territory by the Snake and Bannock Indians
are considered by the Washington authorities
as much more serious than the Arizona troub-
les. The Snakes and Bannocks are about 1000
strong, and very shrewd, hard fighters.
Chicago Inter Ocean :. All reports
about the fruit crop being seriously damaged
by the late frosts in Central Illinois are gam
mon. The prospects for a large crop we're
never better. Two-thirds of the peach crop
and other small fruits were destroyed by the
recent frosts in the Michigan fruit belt.
Chicago has lost by death two of her
old and honored citizens-Col. W. B. Snow
hook and hon. r. P. Dorickson.
There have been 21S entries for the
July trotting meeting at the Chicago Driving
Park for which purses of $4,000 have been
hung up.
There is supposed to be in existence
$780, 900 in surveyors scrip, falsely represented
to have been issued at Santa Fe by an Assist
ant Treasurer of the United States. John d.
Cameron, of Sioux Falls, Dakota, has been ar
rested for connection with the fraud and taken
TO Yankton.
Newspapers in Arizona denounce Pres
ident Arthur for his proclamation against the
cowboys, and insist that he has been misled by
Federal Marshals.
A complete survey of the crop out
look in Indiana is given by the Chicago Tii6-
ui,e, reports being received from every county
vorable as regards winter wheat, which suffered
severely from heavy frosts and wintry weather
early in April, but it will very likely be proved
later on that the damage was overestimated
and that fair crop will be realized
South.
Hon. Horace Maynard dropped dead
of heart disease at Knoxville, Tenn. lie was
born in Massachusetts, but went to Tennessee
after graduating at Amherst He was eight
times elected to Congress, and served as Min
lister to Turkey and Postmaster General. Dur
ing tho war he was exiled from his home, and
suffered great loss of property.
At Greenville, Miss, DR.. Preston E.
mlckner was mistaken for a burglar by w. J.
Wentworth, and shot dead.
For the first time since Ben Buffers
day, the Legislature of Louisiana met last week
in Baton Rouge, the burned Capitol having
been rebuilt A bill was introduced to remit
tcxas in the oyer1owed parishes, and resolu-
ton was presented that the Government be
asked to take control of the rebuilding of the
leveos
Three colored men in Jail at Brook