The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-04
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

| LAIEh NEWS ITEMS,
After casting 278 ballots the Demo
cratic Congressional Convention of the Twelfth
Illinois district, in session at Mount Sterling.
Aug. l. adjourned until next morning. The
final 70 c stood Singleton 26 +; Wike, Is
Withers 12 Goodrich, 7.
Col Hugh S. Thompson was nomi-
mated for Governor of South Carolina by the
Democratic State Convention.
There arc now stored in the Chicago
elevators 1868, Or4 bushels of grain.
Trouble is brewing in the Creek ma
ton between two factions struggling for su-
premacy, and there is a prospect of civil war.
A railroad collision at South Bend,
fnd.. between two freight trains resulted in the
demolition of the cars, which afterward caught
fire. Several tramps are believed to have
persisted in the flames. The loss is estimated
at $3.50, GOO.
The National Association of Amalga-
mated Iron and Steel Workers have begun a
ten days session in Chicago. Addresses were
made by Mayor Harrison, Mr.. A. NJ Carpenter
of Springfield, ILL.,, aud President Jarrett.
The National Mining Expo 5ition at
Denver, Col, was opened with a large crowd
in attendance. Hon. Vim. D. Kelley, of Penn
| sylvanil, made an address.
The funeral of Matthew Robinson.
| aged 103, took place at Lafayette, Ind. The
old gentleman was with Jackson at the battle
of New Orleans.
Col. Stephen r. Proctor, Assistant
Adjutant General of the State of Louisiana.
committed suicide. The death of his children.
financial reverses and Ill health impellcd him to
ii e deed He was 65 years Of age
Yellow fever has appeared in Browns
vile, Tex, and the death rate from the plague
ID on the increase at Matanoras.
Gen. Barstow, U. S. A., retired, of
Oakland, is dead
George Goodwin, the theatric i man
ager OF Philadelphia, died at Boston recently.
Forest fires of large proportions are
raging in the lower counties of New Jersey.
The revenues of Mexico for the last
fiscal year amounted to $27, 500, 600.
The coinage of the United States
minis for July was SO. 153, $50. OF this sum
more than two-thrds are standard dollars.
The Licking river at Cincinnati rose
over twenty-five feet in one day. Nearly two
score barees were sunk, and the property loss
is placed at So, 900.
John Raper, the Chicago embezzler,
arrived at Glasgow, Scotland, on the steamer
State of Nevada, and was at once arrested
A blaze on board the steamer Gallert
while at sea caused panic among the Storage
passengers, mostly Polish Jews, which was
with difficulty held in check. The flames were
subdued after doing $4,000 worth of damage.
The House Comaittee on Foreign AT.
fairs adopted report respecting the results of
tho recent Chili-Peru investigation, which dis
credits Shipherd and exonerates Minister Hurl-
but. The testimony recently taken was re-
viewed at great length and the attempt to use
the influence of the United States to further
| the interests OF guano company censured.
The Greek troops have occupied the
Turkish village of z rita, near the frontier. An
explanation has been demanded by the Porte
A fire in ST. Petersburg destroyed
fifty houses on an island in the Neva.
Cetewayo, the noted African chief,
has arrived in England.
Pollock Castle, the most ancient fam
lily seat in the West of Scotland has been de-
stroyed by FIRE.