The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-15

stole $4,000 in railroad and Richmond coun.
ty bonds, $500 in gold and silver coin, gold
watch and some plate. No clew.
West.
Two carloads of sick Chinese railway
laborers from Texas arrived at Bakersfield,
Cal Several being in a dying condition,
rumors of yellow fever were started, and it
was found to be impossible to obtain a Coro-
ner's jury for dead Celestial
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Judge New
comb, prominent citizen of St Louis, was
induced to visit bunko shop and play away
$1,000. The victim subsequently captured
one of the swindlers and held him until the
police arrived He proved to be the notori-
Gus Doc Baggs, and had considerable money
on his person
The wheat yield of Kansas for 1882
is 35, 100000 and the corn crop is estimated at
150,0O0,0O0 to 100, 900, 900 bushels
While the military authorities con-
tinue to assert that the Northern Cheyennes
are engaged in peaceful hunting excursion,
the cattle men of Western Kansas are being
armed by the Adjutant General to protect
their herds
The Mormon priesthood have been
instructing their followers to disobey the law
rulings of the Utah Commission Bishops
have also been appointed to oversee the reg
istration of voters.
The Northern Cheyennes are said to
be making their way to Pine Ridge agency,
Oak, ON the advice of Dr. McGillicuddy,
with supplies insufficient to keep them from
rading on settlers in Kansas and Colorado
Troops have been sent out to intercept
them
There is good authority for the state
ment that Frank James, the Missouri bandit
is being harbored by friends but few miles
from Leavenworth.
A ten-mile equestrian race at Mime
apolis between Belle Cook and "Iittle
20:02. At Cleveland, ten-mile race between
the Misses Burke and Williams was won by
Miss Burke in n ;lS1G
John Brown, Jr., found the skeleton of
bAObhNl hotpOn III LOOlltS VI UuG
Knights of Pythias at Martinsville, Ind,
identifying it by bullet hole in the back
bone, and win inter it in the family cemetery
at North Elba, N Y.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Jefferson City, Mo-, William P. Barnes and
Finis L. Johnston, County Judges of Cass
county, were committed to Jail by an order
of Judge Krekel for refusing to make levy
on the county to satisfy a Judgment obtained
against Cass county to pay the bonds and in
terest issued by Cass county in aid of the
Tebo and Neosho railroad.
George Nesbitt, ranchman, living in
Tulerosa canon, New Mexico, started for
Las Cruces in wagon, accompanied by his
wife, Miss Woods and a stranger. The dead
bodies of the last three were subsequently
found. 1t is thought Nesbit, who had been
drinking, murdered them and then drove
off, as he and the team have not been seen
since.
A dispatch from Albion, Neb., says
The bodies of William c. Griffith and his sons
Lester and Willie were found dead under the
ruins of their sod house in Wheeler county
where they had lain for several days They
We're probably killed instantly while asleep
The dispatch does not state how they were
killed, but the supposition is that the house
fell on them
During children's mass at St
Thomas Church in Cincinnati flames APP.
peared near the altar. The little ones be.
came panic-strioken, and trampled eacf
other under foot, but no lives were lost
An infected mattress thrown into the
Mississippi river lodged on an island ant
carried the smallpox to laborer named
Hunter He went to Prairie du Rocher, Ill
where he died, and there are now five case
under treatment at that point
South.
A negro named Wade was hanged b.
amob at Union City, Tenn, for assaulting
white woman.
Western Texas has again been flood
ed by rains At Eagle Pass the greater par
of the business quarter was submerged
The recent heavy rains in Texas have
caused widespread destruction, the Conchc
and Rio Grande rivers OVERLOOKING their bank
and submerging miles of country.
John Hurst, fisherman living at Sec.
Rotary Greek, Nd, came home drunk
whipped his s-year-old boy mercilessly, an,
then seized the lad by the feet, and strucl
his head against the floor, killing him in
stantly.
There were twenty-five deaths from
yellow fever and 426 new cases at Browns
vile for the week ending with Saturda
night, and for the same period eight death
and thirty mine new cases at Pensacola
Dispatches from Laredo, Texas, re
port the Rio Grande twenty-five feet hig
and still rising, submerging q great part Q
New Laredo on the opposite side of til
river. Many houses were being swept of
The debris floating with waters indicate,
great destruction of property further north
Fifty deaths have recently occurre,
from diphtheria in Pittsylyania county, Va
whole families having persisted, and NOR
than 100 persons are now i'll with the dis
ease.
A heavy storm prevailed on the Soutl
Atlantic seaboard The wind attained We
locity of fifty five miles an hour, and sewers
vessels were capsized and seamen drowned
The stage coach which runs betwee
seligman, on the St Louis and San Francisc
railroad, and Eureka Springs, Ark, wa
stopped by two masked men, heavily armed
and the ten passengers in the stage wer
pobbed Of about $500 and considerable Jew