The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-16
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

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John S. Prince, of Boston, rode BIZ
cycle fifty miles in hours, 50 minutes and Is
seconds, beating the American record.
West.
Hugh Riddle was reelected President
Of the Rock Island road. The annual report
shews gross earnings of $13, 266, CAB, and oper-
ating expenses and taxes aggregating $780,
1862 About 1866 miles Of road were operated
last year.
Masked highwaymen robbed the
Brookheld QIo.) bank Of $4,000 in broad day
light. There we're four Of the desperadoes, all
masked. Three marched into the bank with
drawn reyolvers while one stood at a con-
vcnient corner and held their horses.
One of the three who entered the bank
remained 1T the door to guard it, while
the other two walked up to the
cashier, John Ford, and his assistant. Miss
Nettie Scott and coolly requested the cashier
to hand over what money he had in the bank.
This the cashier declined to do but was finally
compelled to comply, and the robbers were
soon in possession Of nearly $4,000 of the
banks funds They lost no time in getting out
OF the bank, remounting, and dashing out Of
town, firing their revolyers in the air as they
departed. The Marshal gathered posse and
started in pursuit in a very short time after the
gang had left the bank.
At Sedalia, Mo-, Mrs. Jesse James
and her children, with lecturer, attracted an
audience OF thirty PERSONS three of whom
were ladies.
Two miners. of San Bernardino, CAL,
quarreled in the streets about some unknown
matter, when one shot the other dead and then
wounded himself.
The Brookfeld bank-robbers were
surrounded In the woods northwest Of Kinks
vile, Mo-, and surrendered. Their names are
Frank and Burt Ward, Winfield Allen and Ben
Fox. They had recently rented the farm on
which they were arrested, and their house con-
tanned sixty revolyers. Gov Crittenden sent
complimentary telegram to Miss Carrie Scott,
the brave lady employed in the bank
The new union depot at Hannibal,
Mo, which cost $3.50, 600, was opened by ban
quOV nlAA bdus
Near Crawford, Ohio, was celebrated
the one hundredth anniversary of the burning at
the stake Of Col. Williams by the Delaware
Indians.
Fred w. Newburgh, who secured
$4,000 from the Ohio State treasury by
forgeries, pleaded guilty on two out of fifty
two indictments, and was taken to the peniten-
tiary for six years.
At Perham, Mimi, q crowd broke into
the jail and dragged out John Tribbetts the
boy murderer. They took him to the railroad
track, and, putting a rope around his neck,
hung him to one of the rungs of ladder
placed against telegraph-pole. Trbbetts was
about 16 years of age. His crime, of which he
made full confession, was the double murder
Of Edward Washington, surveyor, and
young German named Frederick Fehrback.
Wheat harvesting s in progress in
Southern Kansas, where the berry grew to such
an unusual SIG as to protrude from the hull.
The yield on tract of 1000 acres near Par
sons is estimated at thirty-two bushels per acre.
There was triple hanging in Law
renee, Kan, few nights ago. Shortly after
midnight masked mob of 100 appeared at the
Jail, demanded the keys, and, when refused,
burst in the door and took from the cell Peter
Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson.
They took them to the bridge and hung them.
All three were colored and their crime was tho
murder Of Daniel Bausman, farmer from
Ohio.
Denver, Col, was visited by one of
the heaviest transforms ever experienced in
that region. Thousands of dollars worth of
property was destroyed, and five or six persons
drowned
From nearly all points in the North
west the reports as TO wheat and other crops
are in the highest degree favorable.
The premature explosion of blast in
mine at Virginia City, New, killed two men
and fatally injured a third.
South.
Two New Orleans editors-E. A.
Burke, of the Times Democrat and @. H. Par
kerr of the Picdyune-fought duel in St Ber-
nard parish. At the fifth shot Burke was
wounded IN the thigh, and the affair termi-
mated.
Reports from Patrick county, Vir-
gina, are to the effect that there are 5000 per-
sons in that county starving. The drought Of
the last year greatly curtailed the corn and
other crops in that locality. In many portions
of the county hundreds of people are crowding
around the settlements imploring aid. Con-
Ali. 4.
Of the county, but they have not been suf-