The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-26
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.

DOMESTIC ITEMS.
East.
The steamship Rio Grande, with
valuable Cargo OF cotton, arrived at Delaware
breakwater on fire. Loss, S37O,eO0.
The Assembly of New York has
passed bill permitting call loans to be made
at any rate on which borrower and lender can
agree.
A. D. Leighton, negro, at New York,
was hanged for the murder Of Mary Dean. The
moose canght under the chin, and he slowly
strangled TO death.
In colliery three miles from Shamo-
kin, Pa, some sulphur exploded from contact
with a safety-lamp, killing four minera.
The week ending May 20 was the
busiest ever known at Castle Garden, New York.
23.545 immigrants having landed. Previous to
this the largest number of arrivals in one
week was 2O,17S, during the second week Of
May, 1881.
West.
Isaac Gardner and his three daughters
were drowned while attempting to ford the
Tusoarawas river at N.wcomerstown, Ohio.
Gardner drove his wagon into the water
against the protests OF number of his neigh
bors.
The cattle round-ups in Wyoming are
progressing rapidly, and an immense number
of beeves will soon be thrown upon the market.
A report has reached Little Rock,
MI n,
Payne and his company of Oklahoma invaders
had been captured by the United States author
tiles.
Dave Sharp, gambler, was arrested
at Caldwell Kar., for opening the grave of
George Woods and taking from the corpse
diamond pin valued at $3.50
When twelve miles out of Sandusky,
Ohio, and engaged in a race with the Jay
Cooke, the American Eagle exploded her boiler,
killing the fireman, +, Bittle, and two deck
hands, and fatally njuring Engineer Johnson.
Six passengers were badly scalded.
"Polk Wells, one of the Missouri
gang Of desperadoes, a convict in the Iowa
State penitentiary at Fort Madison, who re-
Gently murdered a prison-guard while making
his escape from that institution, has been tried
and convicted Of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to life imprisonment One of his
fellow-conyicts, implicated in tho murder, met
with like fate and another was convicted Of
murder in the second degree.
Twenty-eight counties in the golden
belt of Kansas report winter wheat in excellent
condition, and farmers are confident of the
greatest harvest for years. Corn has been IN
jured somewhat by the cold weather.
In the Chicago live stock market there
has been Of late steady and marked advance
prices. Live hogs last week were sold at
$S,40 to $9 As per hundred pounds. NJ. ss pork
for August delivery reached $40 per barrel on
Change. Best grades of cattle are worth 8
cents per pound.
A train on the Denver and Rio Grande
road was thrown from tho track in Marshall
pass and rested on TIE edge of canyon 1000
feet deep.
Gov. Crittenden boasts that since the
death of Jesse James travel in Missouri has
perceptibly increased, even commercial travel
ers taking to themselves confidence.
South.
The State Auditor OF Arkansas, who
is now serving hi, third term, is found to be
defaulter in the amount of about $35 900.
The Court House, at Franklin, KY,
WAS destroyed by an incendiary fire. with nearly
ell the records of Simpson county.
At Leadville, COL, fire burned the
Academy, of Music, the Windsor Hotel and
several adjoining buildings. Loss, $2O0, 900.
It is believed that three or four persons were
burned to death.
The will of ex-Gov. Washhurn was
filed at La Crosse the other day, and covers
property valued at $2,5 1000. Full details will
not be given to the public for several weeks, but
it is known that $780, 900 is set aside for public
library at La Crosse and 1876, 900 for an orphan
and half-orphan asylum at Minneapolis, in
memory of the mother Of the testator.
During tight-rope performance at
Edwardsvile, Ill, chimney gave way injuring
six boys, two of them receiving fractures OF
the skull.
At Waxahatchie, Tex is, flames swept
away 100000 worth Of property in the usi-
ness heart OF the town.
w. w. Rea was executed at Pulaski,
Tenn, for the murder OF J. T. Goodrum.
Five thousand people witnessed the
execution of Stephen G. Efftor, wife mar-
derer, at Marion, n. G.
1t is stated upon unquestionahle au-
thority that Frank James and several Of his
most devoted confederates are now in Texas,
with headquarters at Dallas. and lont OF
rendezvous not many miles from that city.
Eight members of Pinkertons detective force
are said to be located in North Texas for the
special purpose of capturing Frank and his
friends.
The monuments and headstones in the
jewish Cemetery at Columbia, s. c., were
thrown down or demolished by unknown
persons.
Encouraging crop reports come from