The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-06

SuItlng IN two locomotives being smashed
and serious injuries to a dozen persons,
halflof whom were women 8 A
HAfk West and South.
IA SHERIFF's posse on the 26th broke up
the band of desperadoes who had been ter
rorizing the citizens at Little Missouri, D.
7. One man was hlled.an the leader Of
\ the outlaws was captured.
EXTENSIVE floods caused by heavy rains
were reported in the western part of Mich
igan ON the 9th. All the railroads were
suffering from washouts of bridges and
culverts. EF@E 8$
In an ARRAY recently at Collinsville.
Ala, caused by dispute over boundary
line, four persons were shot dead.
The Iowa Republicans held their State
Convention at Des Moines on the 9th and
renominated Buren, r. Sherman for Gov
ernor, o. I'll. Manning for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and Prof Akers for School Super
intendent. Judge Reed was nominated for
Supreme Judge. The platform adopted
refers with pride to the extinguishment of
the State debt; demands a more prompt
punishnaentof criminals; calls for revenue
laws that will encourage and protect
American industries; approves the admin
istration of President Arthur, and calls for
the enactment of such laws by the next
General Assembly as shall establish and
enforce the Prohibitory Amendment car
ried at the election June u. 1882.
GOVERNOR HUBBARD was renominated
at the Minnesota Republican State Conven-
ton, held in ST.. Paul on the 9th. c. r.
Gilman was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor, Fred Won Baumbach for Secre-
tary of State, Charles Kittleson for Treas
urer, w. H. Hahn for Attorney General and
J. H. Baker for Railroad Commissioner.
The platform approves the River and Har-
Dor bill, and Arrears of Pensions act; de-
clares in favor of maintaining internal rev.
enue taxation; upholds the protective sys-
tenn; indorses President Arthur's admin
istration, and favors the submission of a
Prohibitory Constitutional Amendment to
the people.
THE Prohibitionists of Missouri met in
State Convention at Warrensbnrgh on the
9th and adopted platform pledging indi-
vidual and organized efforts to defeat all
candidates for the Legislature who oppose
Prohibition or the submission of such an
amendment to the people, No ticket was
nominated.
NEAR Jefferson, Tex, two negroes were
lynched a few days ago for outrage. One
was hanged and the other burned to death.
GEORGE Fox and Thomas Ryan were
shot dead at Pullman, ILL.,, few days ago,
bysWeburt Ray who claimed the shooting
was done in self-defense.
MRS. G. H. Ross, morphine-eater, shot
herself dead in bed the other night at Lam
pasas, Tex. Her husband heard the report
of the revolver and instantly followed her
example, dying beside her corpse.
The Mississippi River floods were SUBJ
siding on the 9th, and in the overflowed
sections of Southern Illinois the waters
were receding.
In sustaining the Scott Liquor law, the
Supreme Court of Ohio holds that legisla-
tive power is ample to make laws absolute
ly prohibiting all traffic in Intoxicating
liquor.
Two MEN were fatally injured few days
ago by the explosion of a digester in fer
tilizing works at Wilmington, Del.
AT Lexington, KY, recumbent figure
Of General Robert E. Lee was unveiled on
the 2Sth.
MRS, PORE. of Milan, Tenn, died few
days ago a few minutes after being stung
on the nose by a bee.
5 GOVERNOR BERRY, owing to the defiant
spirit shown by organized desperadoes in
Garland, Yell and other counties of Arkan-
sas, was forced on the 2Sth to issue special
proclamation to Sheriffs to maintain order.
ONE man was killed and another fatally
hurt by a recent accident on the Summer
vile g. CD Road, near Charleston.
A FIRErecently destroyed nearly all the
business houses in Cottonwood Falls, Kan.
WHILE resisting arrest at Blonde City a
few days ago Lane Britton, Missouri
outlaw, shot and killed A. N. Davis and G.
G. Davis, and then made his escape.
SEvENTEEN persons were drowned during
the recent foods in Nebraska-M Grubb
and three children, family named Baker,
consisting of six persons, and seven others.
THE June report of the Illinois State
Agricultural Bureau of the crops shows a
considerable falling off in nearly all the
grains.
NEAR Danville, Va, George T. Grant
killed J. w. Naming on the 10Th ult., in a
quarrel about chickens; John Sleigler
killed his step-son, John Kelly, in Butler
County, Ca, for abusing his (Kelly's)
wife, and at Rochester, Mo-, Winn Courier,
the son of a prominent and wealthy farm
er, killed himself by poison because his
father would not consent to his marriage
with Miss Fanny Jaynes.
PROF. GEORGE A. YATES, a veteran teach.
er in the public schools at Covington, KY,
was desperately assaulted few DAYS ago
by Edward Wittick, for whipping him
when boy
WILLIAM H. FINCH, Martin Joseph and
Tualista, an Indian, were hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark, on the Goth ult., for murder:
George Lake, negro, was executed for fe-
lonious assault at Cambridge, Nd, and
Toney James (coloredl was hanged at Da-
rien, Ca, for killing man in drunken
brawl.
WASHINGTON advices of the 10Th ult. I'M
Dictated a general outbreak of smallpox
among the Arizona Indians.
A FEW days ago family of FIVE, father,
mother and three children, were drowned
in the Ohio River twenty miles below Mad
ison, Ind, the waves from passing steam
er upsetting the skiff.
NICKEL and dime counterfeits, of excel
lent workmanship, were very plentiful in
New Orleans on the 10Th nit.
a CoLoRED man named William Mellow
ell was lynched at Bowling Green, Mo-, the
other day, for criminal assault upon a
young girl.
WHILE temporarily insane, the wife OF
Rev VIM Yeller,of Oberltn, O. committed
suicide at Toledo on the ist BY crawling
under the dock and holding her face LII