The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.



throughout Now England and the Middle States
on the 24th 1t was found impossible to heat
the school-houses at Newport, and the students
were sent home.
Gov. Hoyt, Of Pennsylvania, has is
sued death-warrants for the execution OF six
murderers on the Gath Of March next
The Hartford (Ct.) public high school
burned last week. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
Thomas H. Sringham, who wus to-
tally disabled by the fall Of an elevator in the
storehouse Of Mrs. A. I. Stewart, at Garden
City, was awarded $4,000 damages, and the
court gave him $500 extra.
Dr. Samuel L. Griswold, one Of the
Oldest practitioners OF New York city, died, aged
rs years
Hon. Edmund Burke, who died at
Newport, R. l., was three times member Of
Congress, and was Commissioner of Patents
under President Polk.
Mrs. Judith Twombly died at Lowell,
Mass, aged 1O3. Nearly fifty years ago she
took razor and removed from her side can
Ger which extended to the bone and weighed
twenty pounds.
A ladle Of molten metal overturning
in Wallace H. Brink q Co.'s foundry at Bur-
lngton; VT, the building was Quilted, and Pat
rick Donnelly, Benjamin Wright, Thomas
Crowley and James Hayden were fatally in
jured.
A loss Of $3.50, 900 was incurred by the
80 ogSa IT he Do y
Inquirer and two adjoining buildings.
Violent gales caused great destruction
of property throughout New England on the
9th and 2Sth ult. Three persons were injured
at Pittsfeld, Mass, and church steeple was
blown down. Extensive brick buildings were
toppled over at North Adams four-story
shoe factory at Nashua, N. H., was moved two
feet out of line, stampeding 200 workmen. A
building filed with carriages was overturned at
Rochester, N. H. The roof of the gas house at
Rockland, Me-, was destroyed. Three buildings
at Burlington, vt, were robbed of coverings,
and the ice was swept out of the bay in almost
an instant.
Died in Cambridge, Mass, Theophi-
LUIS Parsons, the celebrated law writer in the
bbth year or his age.
Eastern furniture dealers in conven-
tion have decided to advance prices 10 per
cent.
A bitter war between the Times and
the Mail-E1press is exciting journalistic circles
in New York city.
Three men were killed and several
injured by boiler explosion at Fairfield, Mass
Mrs. Garfield, eldest daughter of Gen.
Lewis Cass, died recently in New York Only
one child of the General survives, Mrs. Henry
Ledyard.
Some mlscreant adjusted a double
barTeled shotgun at the residence " DR.. A.
j. Erwin, Mansfield Ohio, in such manner as
to discharge when the gate was swung. The
doctor received nearly two hundred shot in his
clothing, but was not fatally wounded.
The forthcoming trial of the murder
ers of Jennie Cramer, the New Haven beauty
is destined to become national sensation
Blanche Douglass has definitely concluded to
give the full details of the tutchery.
Rev. DIR. H. w. Bellows, whose work
in the Sanitary Commission during the war
gave him high honors died in New York,
aged 60.
West.
In an interview in the Indianapolis
Times w. II. English acknowledges that $780,
900 slipped out of his barrel in the campaign of
1880
Iowa has 17.714 special taxpayers, of
which number 1909 are liquor dealers, 12,779
tobacco dealers, and 566 brewers and distillers.
A controlling interest in the st. Louis
and San Francisco railway has been purchased
from Mossrs seligman by Jay Gould and @, p
Huntington.
A bill has been introduced into the
Wisconsin Legislature, imposing tax of Is
cents on every 1000 feet of logs run out of the
State to foreign markets.
The house of Henry Cleer, of Des
Moines, took fire in the absence of his wife,
and two small boys were burned beyond recog-
milton.
Mrs Catherine Brearton, native of
Ireland, who wildly remembered the scenes Of
the revolution OF 1893, died in Cincinnati at
tho age of 1902 years.
The open winter is causing much in
jury to the logging interests OF Michigan, Wis
oonsin and Minnesota
Five hundred citizens of Dakota, rep
resenting twentythreo counties, gathered at
Sioux Falls to urge the admis ion of the south
ern half of tho Territory as State. A COM
mittee of 1874 was selected to visit Washington.
1t is feared that the Utes, Piutes and
Navaios are getting ready to go on the war
path in the spring.
The Oklahoma warfare between Gen.
Pope and Capt Payne and his party of i'm
vaders is to be renewed in the courts Payne
has brought suit against Pope for $4,000
damages sustained by reason OF having been
arrested, imprisoned and finally elected from
the Indian Territory.
The aged wife of Gen. George P.
Doris was murdered near St. Louis, Mo-, by
her grandson, Russell Brown, and companion,
Patrick McGlew. Brown made full confess
sion that they choked the old lady to death and
stripped the rings from her fingers. Young
Brown is the son of prominent lawyer and
Prosecuting Attorney of St. Louis county. The
MlHl1 NIcUtoS great uSAl OF CouHent, Oh nc
count OF the position of the parties concerned
Four men were drowned at New
Westminster, British Columbia, while trying to
,ross a river in a canoe,
About 750 creditors of Archbishop
Purcell met in Cincinnati the other day. The
claims against the estate amount to $4,000, 600,
and the assets are 1925. 600.
Near New Carlisle, Ind, burglar
hailing from Chicago, claimed to be converted
at "a protracted meeting, gave up a KIT of burg
lars tools to the preacher and coniesseda case
Of safe robbing, for which he was arrested by
The Sheriff of Whitley county.
South.
H. @. Caldwell, District Judge at Lit
tie Rock, Ark, threw into the CRATE a small
package of white powder which he found on
the mantel. A terrific explosion followed, in
which the Judge was blown across the room,
the flesh torn from his arms, and his hair and
whiskers scorched OF.
Two negroes were executed in Louis