The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-04-06

possibly twenty-five per cent. The total
packing for twelve months in the West was
9,342, 500 hogs, against 1851, 449 the proceed
ing year.
THE proposition to restore the death pen
atty for murder, has been rejected by the
Legislature of Wisconsin.
GENERAL N. B. BUFoRD, a distinguished
officer of the late war, recently died in Chi
cago. He was seventy-seven years old.
A FEW nights ago an unknown person
sent poisoned confectionery to the family
of Mrs. Deschler, of Indianapolis, and the
six persons who partook of it became seri-
ously i'll. 1t was feared on the 18th that
they might not recover.
A BILL has passed the Tennessee Legis-
lature making it felony to keep gambling
house or to rent rooms to be used for gam
bling purposes. The penalty for violating
the law is from one to three years in the
penitentiary.
The Supreme Court Of Illinois has af-
firmed the decision of the lower Court in
what are known as the July wheat-corner
cases. Certain members of the Board of
Trade who were short of the market claimed
that the settling price fixed by the Arbitra-
ton Committee of the Board of Trade was
too high, and secured an injunction to re-
strain the directors from signing down the
margin checks or suspending the DIRECTORS
for refusing to abide by the finding of the
arbitrators. The injunction was dissolved
by the Court below, and in this he is
sustained by the higher tribunal. The de-
cision does not deal with the legality of
corners. About $2,OOO,OOO is released by
this decision of the Court.
AT point eighteen miles north of Lords
burg, New Mexico, on the Goth, Judge H.
G. McComas, his wife and child, formerly
of st. Louis, were overtaken by Apaches
and all but the child killed. The child was
supposed to have been carried into captivity.
The Indians were said to be much more
numerous than earlier reports indicate, and
their ravages cover large section of coun-
try, extending from Magdalena to within
few miles of Tombstone, Arizona. The
troops had taken the field, but so far had
not come up with any of the savages.
On the Both ult. train on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad,while moving at the rate
of forty miles an hour, was precipitated
down fffty-foot embankment near Mason,
Ky. Fifty-three passengers were injured,
several of them quite seriously.
On the Both ult. seven more bodies were
discovered in the Diamond coal mine at
Braidwood, ILL.,, but they were so badly de-
composed that it was impossible to take
them through the narrow passage that had
been made in the debris numbering the pit
to the shaft. A proposition to organize
volunteer search of miners had been aban-
doned, no one being found willing to en-
gage in the enterprise.
A DECISION has been rendered by the ILL
nois Supreme Court which holds the Pull
man Palace-Car Company to be common
carriers and subject to all laws governing
such. The case came up on appeal from
the Appellate Court.
On the 1st six corpses were removed from
the Diamond mine at Braidwood, making
twenty eight so far recovered.
THE quarter-centennial anniversary of
the establishment of the Young Mems
Christian Association in Chicago was cele-
DRAFTED on the 1st at Farwell Hall. All the
ex-Presidents of the Association, with the
exception of Mr.. Dwight L. Moody, were
present and took part in the exercises.
A FEW days ago three thousand dollars
worth of silks, stolen from a dry-goods
house at Lawrence, Kansas, were recov-
cred by the Chicago police, through in
formation given by a wholesale house, to
which the person having the silks in charge
had offered them for sale, stating that ne
had taken them in exchange for mining
stocks. 8@#
AT Chicago a few evenings ago Lillian
Young was taken suddenly ill, and went
to cupboard in an adjoining room to get
drink of brandy to relieve her. By mis-
take she drank from a bottle of carbolic
acid, and Immediately fell to the floor in
cxcruciating agony, dying in less than
half an hour.
FEW days since the boilers of the tow
boat Polar Star, plying between Cairo and
st. Louis, exploded off Belmont, Mo-, re-
sulting in the death of six of her crew.
THE Missouri River was open for naviga-
ton to Pierre, Dakota, on the I'd.
The Pope has appointed Rev. Joseph
Rademacher, of the diocese of Fort Wayne,
to the See of Nashville, made vacant by the
promotion of Archbishop Feehan to the
Archbishopric of Chicago.
G. w. Coy & Co., bankers, at Toledo,
Ohio, have suspended. The liabilities are
stated at 100000.
THE bricklayers of Chicago struck on the
I'd for larger pay. They demanded $4 day,
instead of $3.50.
On the I'd, the managers of the Diamond
coal mine at Braidwood gave notice that
they could no longer afford to pay the
wages of the men to search the pit for the
bodies of those who persisted there in Feb
ruary. The company would, if desired,
furnish steam power for operating the
pumps and cages; but if explorations were
continued, the work must be prosecuted by
volunteers.
ROBERT ELIOT has been elected President
of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce.
Ex-PosTMAsTER WAFFLE, of Cincinnati,
recently sued the Gazette of that city for
$4,000 damages for libel, and covered
verdict of s..