The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-17

and then Killed hlmself.
Aunt Judy Powell, colored. died in
Pittsburgh at the alleged age of 113 years
She remembered leading events of the Revolu-
tionary war, and saw Gen. Washington just
after the Yorktown surrender.
The citizens Of Greenwood, Steuben
county, New York, resisted the sale of property
to pay interest on railroad bonds, and Gov.
Cornell declared the township in state of in
surrection, and warned the people to desist
from unlawful acts.
West.
Mrs. Vogelesang, of Canton, Ohio,
who was afflicted with cancer of the stomach,
died after fast of ffty-one days.
A vaccine farm has been established
at Chicago by physician from San Francisco
who commenced business with 200 heifers..
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
pronounced unconstitutional so much of the
Prohibitory law as prescribes punishment for
drunkenness, ON the ground that the provision
was notexpressed in the title of the bill.
The deficiency in the winter hog crop
is likely to exceed 1000, 900 head.
William Miller, the oldest Mason in
the United States, died at Caldwell, Ohio,
aged 08.
car containing seven smallpox pa
tients has been side-tracked ct Rawlins, on the
Union Pacific.
Charley Hing, Chinaman who killed
one of his countrymen, was executed at VIM
nemucca. New.
d. w. Vanderhoff, first bookkeeper
of the First National Bank of St Paul, MINI.
has been arrested for embezzlement of an
amount yariously estimated at from 800, 900 to
$4,000.
At the residence of James Sweetman.
on Michigan avenue, Chicago, George Robin
son, employed as the driver of an ice-wagon,
shot and mortally wounded Mary Began, who
refused his attentions, and then blew out his
own brains The girl was serving as nurse for
Mrs. Sweetman, upon whose enfeebled system
the tragedy inflicted terrible shock.
Henry II. Hall was executed for MUIR
der at Tucson, Arizona.
Three outlaws in New Mexico have
for some time been robblng and wound ng
travellers at a point 1856 miles west of Aibu-
querque, known rs Cranes. A Deputy Sheriff
led q party of citizens to the cabin of the rob-
bers, and bloody encounter followed The
villains were shot dead, but one of the attack
ing party was killed and two others go seriously
wounded that they were sent to Fort Wingate
by special train for surgical treatment
Spring blowing has begun in many
parts of the Northwest
Mr.. Emil Dreier. of Chicago, has been
appointed Consul for the Danish Government
in the Middle and Western States.
South.
Maj. d. w. Washburn, prominent
railroad man, together with a Mr.. Stall, his
wife and little boy and two negroes were
riding upon n hand-car, near Waco. Texas,
when thoy were run down by freight tran
and all of the party, with the exception of the
negroes, crushed to death. Mai. Washburn
was Chief Engineer of the Pacific Improve
ment Company, the International Construction
Company and the Mexican Construction Com
pany. He was, in short, at the head of the
construction department of the Gould system
in the South west He was about 81 year
old, and held tho highest position in his line
of service in the worlI. He was from Elmira
NY.
The Virginia Senate passed q bill
aboshing the whipping-post.
Guy Powell, colored member of the
Virginia House of Delegates, has introduced
bill in that body which provides that the issue
of unlawful alliances shall be considt red the
legal heir of the malo offender, and shall take
his name The aim of the bill is to break up
the system of white men keeping colored mis-
tresses.
Lewis Powell, n white citizen of
Lynchlurg, Va, has tecn sentenced to 1856
lashes on the bare back for housebreaking and
robbery.
Sergeant Bush, of the Tenth cavalry,
stationed in Texas, killed himself because no
was Feprimanded and sent to the guard house.
Jesse Barber, negro, was executed
at Winnsboro, s. c., and Quirino Gaitau Mex
lean, at Brownsville, Texas,
William McRae, who ranked high
among Southern railway managers, died at
Augusta, Ga.
An opinion of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee declares invalid and unconstitu-
tional the act OF April, 1881, TO compromise the
bonded indebtedness of that State at par and
8-per-cent. interest, the coupons receivable for
taxes.
A number of cotton brokers' of New
Orleans, who had been operating in futures,
have gone to the WALL
Robert Ayres, retired merchant of
Louisville, who died the other day, was one Of
the four men in Jefferson county who voted
for Abraham Lincoln for President in 1860.
The Legislature Of Virginia has passed
law by which commonwealth attorneys may
require seconds in duel to testify. which SER
vice shall exempt them from prosecution.
A gang of workmen were sent into
the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel at Baltimore
to repair the track They had proceeded but a
few yards when they heard the distant rum
bling of an approaching train. Hardly had
they caught the sound of the one train APP
preaching when the glare of locomotive head
light was seen in the opposite direction. The
next instant the two trains came laundering
along. Terror-stricken and confused the I'M
fortunate men jumped from one track to the
other only to step into the yawning jaws
of death. Several of them had the presence
of mind to crouch up against the walls of the
tunnel, couple of feet outside the track, and
thus made their escape, but five of their COM
panions were struck by the locomotives, hurled
forward on the tracks and their bodies then
torn and mutilated by the wheels of the cars.
Two of the poor fellows had their heads sew
cred from their bodies, and legs and arms we're
scattered for fifty yards along the tracks.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Judge Charles Fox, the Oldest member
of the bar of Cincinnati, is dead.