The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-26
West, and South.


To PREVENT lynching George Scheller,
who was charged with being the one who set
fire to the Newhali House, in Milwaukee, has
been lodged in jail in an interior county.
AFTER confessing a defalcation of $500,
D. B. Chisholm, Secretary for several Califor-
mia mining companies, absconded from San
Francisco.
THREE persons were killed the other day by
the explosion of locomotive at Mansfield,
La, and two Others were mortally injured
The body of one Of the victims was blown
through plank fence.
A RECENT fire destroyed two-thirds of the
business portion of Cisco, Tex.
THE failure of Darlington & Barkeville,
commission merchants and tobacco dealers at
Richmond, Va, for $125, 900, was recently an
nounced.
THE Iowa Supreme Court on the 18th de-
lclared invalid the Prohibitory amendment to
the Constitution, on the ground that the
journal of the House does not show that the
amendment was passed, and also that it
varied in form and substance from the meas
ure adopted in the Senate.
A ST. LOUIS printer named Elihu Palmer,
nephew of Ex-Governor Palmer, of Illinois,
shot and slightly wounded his wife a few
evenings ago and then inflicted mortal
wound on himself. The affair was occasioned
by domestic difficulties of long standing.
On the 18th the mercury at Ogden, Utah,
was thirty-6ve degrees lower than was ever
before known there. Butte City reported a
temperature forty degrees below Zero The
worst snow-storm for years prevailed in Kan
sas and Nebraska, and the loss of sheep and
cattle would undoubtedly be very great.
A CALCIUM light machine exploded in a
theater at Milwaukee ON the evening of the
18th, injuring five persons on the stage, two
Of them fatally
1T is stated that prospecting expedition
which went to the upper waters of the Yukon
River in Alaska has discovered gravel deposits
averaging $1.50 in gold to the pan.
GERMANS in Milwaukee had, up to the 18th,
sent $25, 900 to the sufferers by the late floods
in Germany. $685.. .g gs
.JoHNa.W SHAcKLEFoRD, member of Con-
gress from the Third District of North Caro-.
lima, died at Washington on the 18th.
THREE grocers and two shoe-dealers have
failed at Omaha, Neb., within few days
A YOUNG colorel girl in revenge for having
been punished, poisoned DR.. and Mrs Dur
ham and Mrs. Sharks, Of Thompson, Ca, on
the 18th, and they were in critical condi-
tion. ma
On account of financial ruin William Ora
ham killed himself in the presence of his fam
lily at Larkinsyille, Ala, few days ago.
& INTENSELY cold weather prevailed in the
West and Northwest on the 10th, the mercury
in some sections ranging between twenty and
thirty below. At Omaha The therm ometer
marked twentyfour degrees below zero, and
some of the public schools were closed. Rail-
way traffic was much impeded by snow accumu-
lating in the cuts, in some instances trains
being abandoned.
THE principal business block at Moorhead,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire the other night.
1T was stated on the 10Th that it had been
ascertained that George Scheller, who, it is
alleged, fire the Newhall House at Milwaukee
had secreted some of his stock of liquors and
removed seven SETS of billiard balls before the
fire occurred. The prisoner had been returned
to the Milwaukee Jail.
IT was stated by the Chicago Times of the
10th that farmers in Nebraska were mortgage
ing their lands and paying two to four per
cent. interest per month for money to enable
them to hold their corn until they could get
thirty cents per bushel for the same. The
bins in many portions of the State were said
to be loaded with corn,
Two MEN were killed few days ago by a
nitro-glycerine explosion at San Francisco.
A CALL was issued on the 10th by the Off
GERS of the leading Temperance organizations
of Iowa, in view Of the decision by the Su-
preme Court holding that the Prohibitory
Constitutional amendment is not in force, for
a State Convention of the friends of Temper
ance, to be held at Des Moines on the 18th of
February, to consult upon the line of policy
to be pursued for the future.
On the morning of the 21st Rev. Arthur
Little, pastor of Chicago Congregational
church, was summoned from his pulpit on
account of the critical condition of his wife,
who was dead when he reached her bedside
Rev. c. j. DELP baptized three persons in
Mill Creek at Rochester, Ind, on the 21st, the
thermometer at the time marking fifteen de-
grees below zero.
TERRIBLE accident occurred on'the South
ern Pacific Road at Tehichipa on the 10Th.
A train from which the engine had
been detached, started back down a steep
grade, and had gone but four miles when the
rear sleeper jumped the track on an embank.
ment, and four cars were piled in heap and
set on fire. Twenty-one lives were lost, seven
bodies having been recovered.
The coolest weather experienced for years
in the Northwest prevailed generally
throughout that region on the 21st The
varying thermometers gave the temperature
at from ten to forty degrees below zero In
different sections. Railway travel was much
impeded, and the loss in live stock, it was
thought, would be severe.
THE st. Louis jewelry firm of M. Eisen
stadt & Co, have failed for $4,000.
LEADING business houses in Milwaukee
were visited on the Goth by Hebrew armed
with forged letter. who obtained for the
Newhall House sufferers about $500 in cash,
with which he escaped from the city.
FIFTY Cinnamon were killed the other day
by the blowing up of the great powder works
at West Berkeley Station, near Oakland, Cal
There were five distinct explosions,
A FIRE a few nights ago destroyed the
N orthern Pacific Hospital at Brainard, Mimi.
obtaining thirty-six patients, but the in
mates were all removed in safety.
A BOY named Patsy Early, seventeen years
DID, in Jail at st. Louis for numbering Billy
Landerman, committed suicide the other day
by finging himself from an upper corridor o.
the jail to the stone pavement below.
MOUNTED and masked men raided stores al
Gold Mountain and Silver Peak, New, few
days ago, who killed the proprietors and
clerks and carried away all Yaluables.
In the paper-mills at Elkton, Nd, boiler
exploded the other day with such force as to
nearly wreck the building, killing two mer
and iniuring eight others.
A BAND of mounted and masked men a.
Monticello Station, on the Central Pacific Road
1865 miles west of Ogden, Utah, on the 22t
seized the section man, waited for the east
bound express, and upon its arrival side
tracked the engine. Their attack on thu
express car was frustrated by the agent, and