The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.


East
Ex-Gov. Moses, Of South Carolina
has again been arrested in New York on charr
of swindling.
A member Of the New Jersey Legs
lature was given $500 to vote for the rassag
Of railroad bill. The affair will be investi
gated.
Cyrus w. Field erected a monument
to the British spy, Maj. Andre, whom Wash
Ington hung opposite to Tarrytown, N. Y. Il
has been an eyesore to divers and sundry great
.grandsons of Revolutionary sires, and one Of
them, few weeks ago, defaced it, and hai
been sued for damages by Field. Somebody
the other day, concluded to settle the quarre
over the monument by laying chunk of DIV.
Mantle at its foot The dyna mite went Of, and
so did big slice Of the monument. Neither Of
them has been seen since.
A terrible accident is reported from
Ploenixyille, Pa. Five boys were digging a
funnel, wien the earth eaved in and buried
them. Three Of them we're taken out dead,
the other two nearly SO.
During furious storm ct Reading,
Pa, number Of persons sought refuge in q
shed adjoining the city reservoir tho wall Of
which was blown over on the she'd by the force
OF the wind, and three people we're killed, one
fatally wounded, and two seriously injured.
A Boston dispatch says that Mrs.
Julia johnson, a colored woman, left her home
at Gayhead to go to neighbor's, leaving three
children in the house, the eldest but years.
The house took fire in some unknown manner
and the children TsFe all burned to death.
Cornelius j. Vanderbilt, one of the
CONS OF the late Commodore, shot himself az
the Glenham Ilotel, in New York, and died
within four he mrs. 1t appears that he has suf-
fered for ye' I'd from epleptic fits, and been con-
stantly atR nded by companion. 1t will be
remembe led that he contested the will of his
father, and received 81, 100000 or so from his
brot6er William to compromise the matter
dc was Il years of oge.
In the suit of the Kelly Motor Com
pany against Keely, at Philadelphia, the court
ordered Keely to divulge to the stockholders his
secret, and, in answer to his plea that the court
could not compel him to open his mouth, said
he would lind a way to do it. Gs
A brother of Judge Stanley Matthews
was arrained in New York Police Court as a
habitual drunl1ard Ho was ragged and dirty,
and when arrested was begging for money ia
buy a drink OF whisky.
Henry Burroughs and Peter FaYer
were drowned in the canal feeder at Tren-
ton, N. j.
West.
Bowman, an ex-County Judge, assas-
sinated ALT Hayes at St. Jau,es, Mo.
On train near Me9 ora, Ind. an in
t0xicoted maniac killed A. c. Win;ate, OF Lex
Tngton, lj., without provocation. The muir
derer then leaped irom tho train and tiror. ned
himself
On ranch about eight miles from
Tombstone, Ar Zona, in battle with cattle
thieves, Deputy Sheriff Gillespie was killed.
and the desperad DOS sought were 10th fatally
wounded
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
road reports gross earnings for 1881 at $21,-
1924, $50, and net income OF $lO,2576sj The
funded debt is $50, 122, 1885, and the miles of
track 1924,
The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned
ON the 10Th ut., after being eighty days in
session. passing $40 bills and appropriating for
St'tepurposes $675, 253.
The Ohio Legislature has passed the
Pond liquor bill, by which saloon-keepers must
pay an annual tax of from 300 to $500, and
give bond in 1,00O
The Governor of Missouri has paid
over to Fl. II. Craig, OF the Kansas City police,
and j. r. Undertake, Sheriff OF Clay county,
the reward of $4,000 offered for the capture of
ClHrance Hite one of the Winston train
robbers.
At q point sixty miles west of San An
tonic the Ell Paso stages bound east and west
were robbed by two men,
The new liquor law that has just
passed the Legislature of Ohio imposes a
license of $500 fer saloons in all cities Of the
first class and requires heavy bonds.
Pueblo, Col, has been the scene of a
Wholesale lynching affair. A mob of sixteen
men quietly took from the county Jail two
notorious cattle-thieves w. T. Phoebus and
Jay w. McGreu, and hung them to tree
within 100 Yards of the Jail. The Wig
ilSntes did noI end their work hero but
struck out to dispose of the rest of the gang of
cattle.thieves and treat them in the Same man
ner. Proceeding 10 Chastines rancho, ten
miles dSant they surrounded the house. and,
after careful preparations, entered and captured
three men, s. P. Chastine, Berry Chastlne and
Frank Owsby. With hands securely bound, the
vigilantes on horseback drove the men to
thick patch of timber short distance away,
and without much further delay strung them
up, waiting long enough to be sure that they
were dead.
The Chicago smallpox hospital has
been handed over 10 the Sisters OF Mercy.
A fire at Stockton, CAL, burned $780,
600 worth OF property.
During the month of March the sales
of Chicago real estate numbered 1890, the ag-
gregate value being $5, 165,S61, exceeding any
month for the past six years.
The insane asylum at Yankton, Da-
kota, temporary wooden building, was burned.
1t contained ffty-four patients, four of whom
lost their lives by running back into the flames.
The people of Salt Lake county, Utah,
assembled and chose fifteen delegates to Con-
sdtutional Convention, Of whom two are Gen
tiles, two polygamsts, three women and eight
homogeneous Mormons.
At Okmulgee, Indian Territory, two
murderers named Lilly and Hany were shot
dead in presence of about forty other red men,
South.
COL John A. Pratt, veteran in the
politics of Kentucky, has become insane.
A distracted mother killed two of her
children aud then drowned herself and her in
FAINT child, in lincoln county, Ark.
The Governor of Maryland has signed
bill which fixes the punishment of wife-beaters
at forty ashes.
At Chatham Court House, Pittsylva-
mia county, Va, Dock Wright was hung for the
murder of Cole Arthur, in 1884, A. G. Weis-
enger and Bill Ledlaw were hanged at Selma,
Ala, for the murder Of Jesse B. Messenger in