The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

DOMESTIC ITEMS.

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The Coroner Of New York demanded
bail in the sum of $4,000 from Orlando B.
Potter, owner Of the old World building, pend
ing his indictment for maintaining man
trap, and refusing to make it safe after being
warned.
Enos Sylvester, of Providence, Il. l.,
had an "inspiration which told him to offer
up his 6-year-old boy as a burnt-oferng to the
Lord. Neighbors interfered in time to prevent
the consunmation Of the sacrifice, and Sylves-
ter will go to the asylum.
Joseph e. Sheffield, who died in New
Haven last week, went to Chicago in 1850 and
caused the building Of the railroad to Rock
Island. He has given for educational purposes
no less than 100000, one Of his good works
being the scientific school attached to Yale Col
lege. He leaves to widow and six children an
estate valued at $2,OOO0OO
DIR. J. Emilio Howard, whose impris-
onment in Cuba some years ago created much
feeling between the United States and Spain,
died at Philadelphia.
V. w. MacFarlane & Co., of New
York, lard refners, have suspended. Liabili-
ties about 100000.
Another sea serpent has appeared at
Long Branch, n J. 1t was fsh-like monster,
forty feet long and had horns on its head.
Seventeen railroads in Pennsylvania
have incurred penalty of $4,000 each because
of failure to make their annual reports, and
the Attorney General will bring them to judg-
ment.
The thriving manufacturing town of
Hayerhill, Mass, has been visited by most
destructive conhagration. Eighty-two shoe and
leather firms, representing 81 100000, were
swept out of existence, and 2, 600 people thrown
out of work. The blaze originated in frame
building used as leather store Adjoining
buildings were also Of wood, and brisk wind
from the north carried the burning wood for
blocks. The bursting of some hose in the early
stages Of the fire also served to hamper the
fremen. One national bank and two savings
banks we're destroyed, two persons are known
to have persisted, and eighteen families were
rendered homeless. The insurance is light in
proportion to the losses.
The Albion print works, in Philadel-
phia, and the stocks of several firms in the
same building, were swept away by fire. A
charred corpse was found on the second floor.
The loss foots up $15OOOO
West.
Jacob Gessert, lately Superintendent
of Police at Cincinnati, killed himself with a
revolver, leaving wife and nine children.
Iowa has 1,027 deaf mutes, few of
whom met at Des Moines and called State
Convention for September
Several failures on the Chicago Board
OF Trade are announced.
Smallpox is decreasing rapidly at all
points.
The authorities of Wyoming Terri
tory have signed contracts for keeping their
prisoners in the penitentiary at Joliet
Only one store was spared from a
con1agration at Robinson, Kan, the loss being
estimated at S75, 900.
-Four quarts of strawberries from
Florida arrived in Chicago, and found pur-
chasers at $2 per quart.
In Chicago q confidence operator
named Thomas Ward, who had heavy beard
and mustache when arrested, succeeded in
pulling out the latter, hair by hair, and would
have made way with every trace Of his
whiskers had his hands not been ironed be-
bind his back
Mrs. Garfield acknowledges the re-
ceipt of letter from Mrs. Scovile, and au-
thorizes the statement that she cherishes no
malice toward Guiteau, and feels profound
pity for his sister and other members of his
family, but asks to be left alone with her sor-
row.
The Mayor of Chicago, spurred by
attacks of the press and pulpit, has determined
upon war of determination against the gam
blers and criminals of Chicago
South.
Bishop w. M. Wightman, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at
Charleston
The oyster war has again broken out
on the Lower Rappahannock, in Virginia.
A fire in Louisville, KY, originating in
the candy factory of William Ehrman & Co.,
destroyed stock valued at $75, OOO and damaged
w, H. Meningitis carpet stock $751; 900.
Ella Shores, aged IA, and Howard
L. White, aged 16, were married the other
day at Westover, Ind. singular feat
ure Of the affair is the fact that the child
bride was the divorced wife of her stepfather
to whom she was married at the age of Il
years.
An expedition organized by the Gov
ernor of Virginia against the oyster-thieves on
the Rappahannock sailed from Norfolk on tho
18th inst 1t comprised the Norfolk light artil-
cry, with three-inch guns, and the Norfolk
light infantry, seventy men.
Gov. Cameron, at the head of the Vir-
ginia navy, captured in the Rappahannock
whole oyster fleet consisting of six scheoners
and one sloop, and made prisoners the crews
sixty-one men. Eighteen shots we're fired
through the rigging of one of the schooners,
and she was chased thirty-fve miles toward the
capes Of Virginia before brought to.
A terrible tragedy occurred near Gem
treville, Texas, in which two negroes named
Hall were killed and their wives mortally wound
ed. 1t appears the negroes, who were riding
along the road in wagon, had some trouble
with child Of white man named Lyle. The
child ran home, told its father about the affair,
and the latter taking shotgun, concealed
himself by the roadside Shortly after the ne
groes drove by and Lyle fired upon them from
his ambush almost blowing the heads or the
men and fatally wounding the women. The
murderer fled, but officers started in pursuit.
Certain landowners in Florida and
Texas have offered to donate land to Jewish
refugees.
Rev. G.. o. Barnes, the mountain
evangelist of Kentucky, claims 2,47S CONVEX
sions as the result of seven weeks work in
! Louisville, and the restoration to health Of
nearly as many more by the prayer cure.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
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