The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-24
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DOMESTIC ITEMS.
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Nearly 2O0 citizens OF Soutn BETH
lehem, Pa, are PROSTATE with smallpox,
and the Board Of Health ordered the burning
of forty tar-barrels in the streets.
DR.. John P. Gray, Superintendent Of
the Lunatic Asylum at Utica, N. Y, while read
ing in his Office, was shot through the left
cheek by an assassin, who escaped in the dark
ness after firing twice at his pursuers. Henry
Remshaw, a full-fedged lunatic, armed with
four revolvers, knife and number OF other
formidable weapons, surrendered himself at the
jail as an ambassador from heaven sent to kill
the doctor. Dr. Gray will be remembered as
one Of the leading expert witnesses in the
Guiteau trial.
Hon. Zqchariah Allen, long one of the
leading men of Providence, R. l., died while
sitting in his chair, aged 81.
A heavy short interest in quinine has
developed in New York, the market being vir-
tually controlled by asyndicate having its head
quarters at London and Amsterdam.
Smallpox is spreading through Lee
high and Berks counties in Pennsylvania.
After having blown open the postofice
safe at Needham, Mass, robbers set three
buildings on fire, destroying property valued at
$4,000.
James Fox, blacksmith's helper In
Troy, after driving in the head Of barrel with
his fist, issued achallenge to John L. Sullivan
to fight for 81, 500 within six months.
The cattle plague has reappeared in
the vicinity of New York. A herd of thirty-one
infected COWS was recently exterminated in
Putnam county.
Henry G. Rodgers, United States Min
lister to Sardinia under President Van Buren,,
and one of the three surviving members of the
Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of
1887, died at the Lancaster county (Pa. aims
house.
The death is announced of Capt. Otis
Whitcomb, Of .swanzey, N. H., the old farmer
after whom Den Thompson modelled his char
acter of "Josh Whitcomb." Nineof his eighteen
children are living.
West.
A bill for the restoration of capital
punishment was defeated by close vote in the
Wisconsin Assembly.
The Union Pacific railroad began a
war Of determination among its conductors,
many of the oldest men on the line being sum-
marily discharged.
A convention of Illinois farmers to
protest against railway irregularities was held
at Springfield, March Is. About 100 delegates,
mostly farmers above so years old, were in
attendance. Resolutions were adopted in favor
of the enforcement Of the existing railroad
laws, condemning the giving of passes, declar-
ng that the Railroad and Warehouse Commits
sion would fail in it's duty unless it gave the
people passenger rate of cents per mile and
freight rates as low as the lowest, and up
braiding the commission for acting as servants
or the railroads rather than of the people.
At Omaha the Grand Jury have found
indictments against twenty of the leaders Of
the labor riots Walsh, the President of the
Labor Union, was arrested and held for trial.
Two deputy sheriffs of Milwaukee,
armed with an attachment, threw the cashier
at the Academy of Music over a steam heater
and grabbed the funds belonging to the Alice
Oates company. Judge Small happened to be
present. and secured the return of the money.
The Simms Automatic Car Company,
of Columbus, Ohio has madean assignment to
cover liabilities of $15O,OOO. The court direct
ed that the works be kept in operation.
The Legislature of Iowa, on the last
day Of its session, adopted joint resolution
asking for the unconditional pardon of Sergt
Mason.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, has adj
vertised to sell the Hannibal and ST. Joe road
in October, at the door of the Court House in
St. Louis, all efforts toward compromise having
failed.
At Genoa, New, great avalanche Of
SNOW buried three whites and fifteen Indians.
John Mott, telegraph operator and
station agent at Glendale, Mo-, has been ar
rested on charge of participating in the Chi
cago and Alton express robbery at Blue Cut,
Sept. T. 1881.
Two murderers were hanged by the
outraged citizens of Dallas, Oregon.
South.
IOur SCHOOL Cnlluf6n were Duru6u &c
death in the Indian Territory, near Fort Smith,
Ark, by the burning Of mission school.
The Secretary of War estimates that
about $4,000 persons have been rendered des-
titute by the overflow of the Mississippi and its
tributaries. or these $4,000 are accredited tc
the State of Mississippi, 10000 to Arkansas
and $4,000 to Louisiana. 1t is believed that the
necessity for relief will continue from thirty to
sixty days.
A clerk in the mint of New Orleans
gave to stranger negotiable receipt for
$4,000 for two brass bricks with thin cover
ing of gold.
An Englishman named @. D. Owens
nearly killed young lady of Tampa, Fla, with
knife. The citizens took him from Jail and
lynched him in full view of the United States
Court The Mayor and Sheriff had protested
and Lieut. Davis had ordered out the garrison,
but too late.
The oyster pirates captured not long
since by the Governor of Virginia have been
tried and sentenced each to one year in the
penitentiary. Their vessels were con6scated.
At a sale of the Montgomery White
Sulphur springs, in Virginia, the porch of the
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