The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-17

braln, bne engineer anu y SnAeaA DOiHS
killed and others injured. Unknown per-
sons had opened the switch for the pur-
pose of derailing the train.
AT Dodge City, Kan, few days ago a
tornado, accompanied by continuous light
ming and heavy rain, did considerable
damage to many structures. The velocity
of the wind was ninety miles per hour.
ROUGH weather was experienced by the
bark Numa, which arrived at Baltimore a
few days ago, from Liverpool, three of the
seamen having been washed overheard and
drowned.
WHILE preparing a blast in a mine
near Dayiess County, Ind, Edward
Edlin and his boy were, a few days ago,
blown distance of thirty feet by pre-
mature explosion, and the eyes of both
father and son were torn out.
1T was reported on the 10th that crops in
Virginia were suffering from drought, and
in some sections corn was burned up. The
yield would fall far below that of last
year.
AT Tombstone, A. T., advices were re-
ceiyed on the 10th of an engagement be-
tween Mexican forces and San Carlos In
dians, near Opulet, in which Colonel Bor-
dola and several other Mexicans were
killed.
On the 10th it was reported that small
pox was making terrible work among the
Indians in Itasca County, Mimi. In two
small towns eighty-fve deaths had oc-
Cured.
AT Waco, Tex, three men were suffo-
Gated in well few days ago.
On the 10th the schooner Sarah Lavina
was run down off Point Lookout, Nd, by
the steamer William Lawrence and the
Captain of the schooner, his wife, two chill
dren and the cook were drowned.
INDIANAPOLIS was the scene of great ex-
element on the 10th over the financial
troubles of the First National Bank and the
Indiana Banking Company. The latter
bank remained closed all day, but the for
r1er opened at three O'Clock in the after
noon, syndicate having perfected ar
rangements to resume business, and to in
crease the capital stock to $900,000
AT Baltimore day or two ago, in a sa-
loon brawl, Bernard McNally drove an ice
pick through James Carr's heart. The MUIR
derer was arrested.
A FEW nights ago three negroes at Stays
railroad camp, in Amite County, Miss,
who supplied the contractors with hands
and then caused them to desert, were
caught and hanged to trees.
On the morning of the 10th the Presiden-
tial party was encamped ON a fork of the
Wind River, in Wyoming. After having
ridden on horseback twenty-one miles the
Il A,4l, L:
fishing tackle and caught trout enough for
supper. He was up at five o'clock each
morning, and enjoying camp. life to the
fullest degree.
ONE Of the finest hotels in the South, the
Kimball House. at Atlanta, Ca, and the
Gates City Bank were destroyed by fire
on the morning Of the 18th. Loss, 81 ,000, 900.
! AN armed mob of cowboys took L. G.
Watkins, charged with cattle-stealing,
from the Sheriff at Cannon City, Col, re-
Gently and shot him to death.
In Rule Valley, Utah, Shoshone In
dian recently murdered his squaw by
breaking her legs and arms and then burn
ing her alive. The tribo captured the MUIR
derer, tied his hands, fastened his feet to a
tree, and then slowly cholxed him to death
by drawing ON rope coiled around his
neck.
A FEW days ago four boys, named En-.
glehart, Stein, Hume and Halfpenny
were drowned in the Ohio River, near
Wheeling, w. Va, by the upsetting of
their boat.
JOSEPH FULFoRD, of Miller County,
| Ga, with the aid of a negro, beat his wife
to death and sunk the body in the creek.
| A mob forced confession from the col
ored accomplice and then hanged both to
a tree near the Jail at Colquitt few days
ago.
! ADvICEs of the 18th stated that the City
National Bank Of Lawrenceburg, Ind, had
suspended. The assets were supposed
to greatly exceed the liabilities, and a
speedy resumption was anticipated.
THREE boys engaged in herding cattle
near Lincoln, Neb., recently took refuge
from a storm beneath a tree, when stroke
of lightning killed them instantly.
NEAR Riverside, A. t., a stage was
stopped by robbers on the 18th, who killed
the express messenger and secured So, 200
in coin. Another stage was plundered near
| Prescott, but TIE amount taken was not
known.
In the Bozeman (Montana) Railroad tun
mel twelve men were killed few days ago
In a railroad camp near Cumberland
Falls, Tenn, the bodies of four men were
found few days ago. 1t was supposed
they fought and killed each other while
gambling.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th Johr
Younger. seventy-four years old, hanged
himself at Cleveland, o.
AN employee on the Government pile
driver at Mayerville, Miss, named Dallas
Williams fell in the river on the 18th ant
was drowned. Thirteen men had beer
drowned off those works within two weeks
MAYOR PINcKNEY, of Baltimore, Nd, ant
the Board of Fire Commissioners were in
dicted on the 18th for conniving at frauds il
the purchase of materials for the Fire De
partment, bills for large quantities of ex
orbitant prices having been audited.
On the 18th an incendiary fire destroyed
10000 tons of hay at Vincennes, Ind
Loss, 100000.
A PROMINENT st. Paul real-estate deal
er, G. nj. Dittman, was arrested on tn,
18th for forging notes to the amount OF
$100, 900.
AT st. Louis few nights ago, August
bunker fatally shot Frank Wahl, proprie
tor of notion store, and then ran to the
rear of his residence, and put bulle
through his own head. The tragedy wa
the result of a quarrel over a game o
cards.
IT was decided on the 18th by the Indiana
Banking Company, of Indianapolis, not tc
continue business, and, much to the disap
pointment of the depositors, whose funds
in the concern amounted to 100000, JOIN
Landers was appointed receiver.
On the 18th four men who stole foul
horses from the Asbury camp-meeting, il
Monroe County, Ca, were captured by |
party of men and hanged.
AT Galveston, Tex, the other nigh
Fred Tate was decoyed into the treet by
John Arto, merchant of Houston, VIII,
had married Tate's daughter, and sho
dead on the sidewalk.
i Foreign Intelligence.
AT Jeremie, Hayti, in recent battle
the Revolutionists defeated the Govern
ment forces, captured seven Generals, ant