The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
noMESTIC ITEMS.
East.

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The Grand Jury at New York has in.
dicted Gen. N. M. Curtis Special Agent Of the
Treasury, for soliciting campaign funds from
Government officials.
DR.. Pancoast, the eminent PhiIadel-
phia physician, is dead.
At Pittsburgh dog show 500 CANNES
were on exhibition, some of which were valued
as high as $4,000.
A steamship agent at New York esti-
mates the arrivals at Castle Garden from the
present time to January at 100000.
Five men were drowned by the sink
ing Of dredge boat at Rice point, Mass.
Gen. "Bill" Wright, chief topograph-
ical engineer on Sherman's staff during the war
was picked up in Philadelphia in drunken
pstupor. He died in police-station cell.
Two hotels at Biddeford, Me-, were
swept away by flames.
at q sale Of coins in New York Con-
federate half dollar of 1861, of which only four
were struck, brought 1870.
West.
Two Of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers
passed away last week-Nicholas Kenny at
Kirkyille, Iowa, and Christian Schaefer, at
Mineral Point. Wis Kenny was also soldier
of the United States in the war of 1872 and in
the war Of The Rebellion.
At Las Lunas, New Mexico, Charles
Shelton, John Redmond and Harry French
were taken from the Jail and hanged to the
nearest tree by masked men. All three had
been guilty Of one or more cold-blooded muir
ders. The mob also took two negroes from
Jail, beat them numerically, and turned them
loose.
The Michigan Legislature has passed
bill appropriating S26aOOO for the further
relief of the sufferers by last falls fires.
Thurman Thomson, aged IA years, of
New Lisbcn, Wis, was choked to death by
stomach worms which crawled up into his
throat. The post-mortem disclosed the fact
that To boy had been literally filed with mag
gots.
Chicago Tribune: From every part of
the Northwest the reports are to the effect that
winter wheat is in excellent condition. Indi-
cations are that the acreage of spring wheat
VIII be largely Increased. From Minnesota the
reports IN regard to wheat are especially
encouraging. There are now ON hand 100000
600 bushels Of wheat and it is expected that the
crop fo. next year will be one-fourth larger than
last year.
Mrs. Winnifred Lally died in Chicago,
the other day, at the ripe age of 1913 years.
She was born in County Galway, Ireland, III
1773 and settled in Chicago in 1889.
x fire at Winnipeg consumed eleven
frame stores, by which 100000 was swept
away
The residence of William Stewart,
near Greensbug, Ind, was burned to the
ground, and Mrs. Mary McElroy, LOG years of
age, persisted in the flames.
Samples of flour made from Hun
garian wheat, shipped from Buda Pesth, Hun
gary, were exhibited on the Chicago Board
of Trade, and the quality was pronounced SUI
perh
South.
The bar of Louisville mourns the
death of Henry G. Pndel, veteran member
Mary Sigman, a disreputable woman,
and her mother, Rhoda, were assassnated at
Mount Vernon, Ky.
Richard S. Fay, of Boston, an officer
I'm hslf dozen great corporations, committed
suicide at Fortress Monroe.
Journalistic circles in Knoxville. Tenn,
were enlivened the other day by street fight
between the editors of rival papers, in the
course OF which two shots were fired but no.
body killed.
j. M. Davis, Deputy United States
Collector, who had made himself peculiarly OBJ
noxious to manufacturers Of crooked whisky,
was ambushed and shot to death by moonshin-
ers near McNinnville Tenn.
Mrs. Sarah t. Howe, of Boston, has
been sentenced to three years imprisonment in
the House of Correction for her swinding
operations in connection with tho Ladies' De-
post BapG.