The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-13
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.
East.

A fire at Bridgeport, Ct, destroyed
Watson's iron works and the factory of the
Craighead & Elweil Company, the loss aggre-
eating s55,OO0
The Pennsylvania Steel Association
held its annual session at Philadelphia The
Secretary's report showed that the produc-
ton had been increased ], 61S, S04 tons in ten
years
The funded. debt Of the city of New
York is s97, 1881, 941, adecrease of over $4,000
having been made in September
A fve-story building on Broadway,
near Canal street. New York, occupied by
several dry-goods firms, wiped out $4,000
in burning.
George Huntington; his wife and four
children were drowned at Amesbury, Mass;
by the capsizing of a small boat
Anthony Comstock raided the pool
rooms in Long Island city, captured prop
erty valued at $4,000 and made three
arrests At each place visited he was com
PEELED to force an entrance
A granite monument, fifteen feet high,
is being made at Muscatine, Iowa, for Jesse
James grave.
A brilliant aerial phenomenon was
witnessed at Dubuque the other evening"
consisting of a luminous band spanning the
whole heavens from northwest to southeast
1t lasted half an hour, and then gradually
faded away.
A granite monument, in three sec
tions, to be placed by the Government on
the field in Montana where Gen Gibbon
fought the Nez Perces in 1877, was shipped
from St. Paul
A misplaced switch near Muscogee,
Indian Territory, sent freight train into a
ditch. Engineer Spiar was crushed to a Jelly
and Fireman Walker had both legs severed
from his body
Charles p. Johnson, formerly Lieu
tenant Governor of Missouri, will defend
Frank James in any prosecution brought by
the State
The registration of voters in Utah
covers "a ,0O) names, four out of nine being
women and three out of four Mormons,
South.
Judge Woods, late proprietor OF the
Denison (Texas) Democrat, but lately citi-
zen of the Indian Territory, where he has
been engaged in getting out back walnut
timber, had an alteration with one of his
mill-hands named Slaughter, in which
Slaughter was killed and Woods shot twice
through the body from the effects OF which
he died three days afterward
At Carencro, La, Adolph Marceaux
became offended about some imagined
wrong got up party Of friends in military
fashion and marched to hall where a festi-
val was being held Arriving there, they
opened fire on the ossemblage, killing girl
named Dominique Instantly and mortally
woundng her brother
Isaac Carton and wife, at Goodwater,
Ga, locked 5hree children up in the house,
which burn d to the ground The children
were crem1ted
At Jacksonville, Ala, John Brooks,
negro, who had confessed to outraging a
little girl, wa taken from the Sheriff by
crowd and hanged in the outskirts of the
city
The bodies of sixteen victims of the
steamer Lee horror have been recovered.
All save two were buried at Yucatan land
ing.
The greatest portion of the business
section of Warrington, Escambia county,
Fla, was destroyed by an incendiary fire.
The Rev. j. L. Denton, State Super
intendent of instruction of Arkansas, sui
cided at Fayetteville, while mentally de-
ranged, by throwing himselffrom the balcony
of a residence.
Ten years ago Andrew Walker MUIR
dered Green Butler in Galveston county,
Tex. Walker had been sentenced to hang
eight times, but each time the sentence has
been revised Last week he was convicted
for the ninth time, and again sentenced to
death,