The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-25
West and South.

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THROUGHOUT Northern Ohio heavy
frost prevailed on the morning of the 18th.
THE extensive iron mills of Brown, Bon
nell & Co., of Youngstown, o., which have
been idle since February, started up on
the 18th, and would be kept in continuous
operation unless the threatened June
strike takes place.
]. PROCTOR KNOTT was nominated for
Governor by the Kentucky Democratic
Convention on the 18th. The platform,
after indorsing the principles enunciated
by the national convention of 1880, pledges
liberality toward the public schools, end
recommends the calling of a convention to
amend the State Constitution so that it
shall be more in accord with the spirit of
the times.
By the sinking of the tug Wilson, from
Baltimore for the Rappahannock River, on
the 18th, its crew of seven men were
drowned.
IT was claimed on the 18th by the Repub-
licans in the Charleston wv. Va.) Con-
gressional District that Brown had been
elected over Snyder for Congress by fifty
majority.
DENIsoN, Tex, was visited by a
cyclone on the 18th, which de-
molished the Baptist Church and
several other buildings. The wife of
Lee McMurty was killed by falling timbers.
At Mineral Wells a number of houses were
also wrecked. Five houses at Valparaiso,
Neb., were also destroyed by a cyclone,
and number of persons were injured, two
fatally.
JERE DUNN was acquitted by jury in
Chicago on the 18th of the murder of James
Elliott, the pugilist, of New York.
ON the evening of the 18th a cyclone
swept over Northern Illinois and Southern
Wisconsin, causing great devastation and
loss of life. The storm struck the north
western portion of Racine about seven
o'clock, destroying about one hundred and
fifty houses and fifty barns, killing twenty
people or more, and causing serious injury
to about one hundred persons, many of
whom would not recover.
A GALE on the 18th blew down thirteen
sheds connected with the Interstate Ex-
position Building, on the lake front, Chi
cago, and five men were seriously injured.
THE other night twenty-four persons
were poisoned at a church festival in ChGt-
tanooga, Tenn, none fatally.
In Georgia two executions occurred on
the 18th. Henry Knight (colored) was
hanged at Waycross for the murder of Ed
ward Hunter, and Joseph Jones, at Lex
ington, for the murder of his wife.
In the harbor of Brownsville, Tex, a
sailor on a ship from Mexican port died
of yellow fever ON the 18th.
THE loss of life and destruction of prop
erty by the recent cyclones in Wisconsin
and Illinois were much greater than was
previously indicated. AdYices of the goth
state that the cyclone swept through nearly
the entire length of Northwestern Illinois,
wrecking houses wherever they were en-
countered and infiicting loss of life at many
points, the total in the State being placed
at fifty-ive. The loss of life at all points
visited by the storm was estimated at
seventy -one, while the number of wounded
was supposed to be over two hundred.
The storm also reached various points in
Michigan, where damage to property was
caused without injury to persons.
THE marriage of Ann Eliza Young, nine
Moses r. Cunning, banker, took place on
the 10Th at Lodi, 0.
HIGH water in the stream that flows
through the city of Deadwood, Oak, swept
away several bridges and number of
houses few days ago, and four men were
drowned.
AT Atlanta, Ca, Mrs. DR.. Ridley, daugh-
ter of the late Senator Ben Hill, received
fatal injuries on the 18th while jumping
from buggy the horse attached to which
had run away.
BY an investigation at the United States
Land Office at Denver, Col, extensive
fraudulent entries We're disclosed on the
10Th, principally of lands valuable for water
privileges and grazing purposes. The Sec
rotary of the Interior has recommended to
the Department of Justice that criminal
proceedings be brought against the persons
implicated.
The wheat crop of California this year
isplaced by prominent authorities at 56,95O,-
600 bushels.
IT has been decided by Judge Green, of
the Memphis, (Tenn.) Criminal Court, that
the new law making gambling "a felony is
constitutional.
MILwAUKEE's female lawyer, Miss Kate
Kane, who flung glass of water in the
face Of Judge Mallory, on the Goth COM
pleted the term of thirty days imprison-
ment to Which she was condemned for her
eccentricity, and was released from jail.
THE arrest of ten men at Taylor's Falls,
Mimi, for making fraudulent entries of
Government land, was announced on the
2lst. The men were alleged to have been
acting for Minnesota lumber firm, and
had taken up large tracts of valuable pine
lands.
1T is announced that the virulent ssbuffa-
10 gnat" follows the Mississippi River flood
this year as it did last season, and stock is
being Stung to death in many places. In
one neighborhood in Mississippi recently
forty-seven mules were killed in two days.
On Lake Michigan storm on the 21st
wrought great destruction among the light
er and less seaworthy vessels, and from all
points disasters and loss of life were re-
ported. Two vessels went ashore at the
Twenty-ninth street pier, in Chicago, and
three lives We're sacrificed. AT Milwaukee
three seamen were drowned by the wreck
ing of schooner. The storm extended
into Lake Huron; and did great damage to
shipping there.
DURING a recent storm three negro plow-
men at Yamadry, N. c., while seeking
shelter under a tree, were struck by light.
ming, and all were instantly killed. Two
little boys were also killed by lightning
near Newbern.
AT Lake City, Mimi, John Matter and
wife, married. only three months ago, were
out in sail-boat few days ago, when,
during squat, the boat was capsized, and
both were drowned, sinking in each others
arms.
ALABAMA, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten
nessee, Texas and Georgia reported I'm
seasonably cold weather on the 21st, and
serious damage to the cotton crop was
feared.
Two MEN were killed by boiler explo-
sion in the new Wolverine paper mill at
Detroit few days ago, and the building
was wrecked. The loss to the owners was
about $50, 900.
Snow to the depth of over three inches
fell i'll Toledo, o., on the 21st, and near
Lima the snow was eight inches deep.
Snow also fell in various portions of Michi-
gan, Indiana and Illinois,