The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-29


the public schools of that city.
THE Democrats of Ohio held their State
Convention al Columbus on the 2lst. Judge
George HoadIey, Of Cincinnati, was nomi-
mated for Governor, and John G. Warwick,
of Stark County, was selected for Lieu
tenant Governor. The platform adopted
demands reform in the public service; the
gradual extinction of the public debt; a
tariff for revenue only; opposes sumptuary
legislation and unequal taxation, and fav-
ors regulating the liquor traffic by graded
license system.
The Episcopalian Bishopric of Indiana
has been accepted by Dr. Knickerbocker,
OF Minneapolis, and he will take up his
residence at indianapolis in October.
AT the recent session in Cleveland of the
American Homeopathic Institute, DR.. ]. G.
Sanders, of that city, was elected Presi-
dent.
NEAR Wheeling, w. Va, the fourth nat
ural gas well was struck on the 21st at a
depth of $40 feet
w. d. THORN, ex-Treasurer of Adams
County, Neb., an invalid over seventy
years Of age, was on the DIST sentenced to
one years Imprisonment at hard labor for
the embezzlement of $4,000.
A FIRE few days ago destroyed three
buildings at Salt Lake City, valued at
100000. During the fire powder explo-
sion occurred, causing loss of $4,000.
RoAD-AGENTs stopped the Butte IN. IT,
stage, carrying eight-passengers, few
afternoons ago, and carried off the treas
ure box and all the money and valuables
belonging to the travellers.
NEAR Chillicothe, Mo-, cyclone on tho
night Of the Goth blew down twenty five
farm-houses, killed two men and badly in
jured fifteen other persons, and greatly
damaged crops.
On Robert Williams plantation, near
Greenville, S. c., a boiler of threshing-
machine exploded few days ago, killing
Ned McBrayer, the engineer, and negro,
and fatally injuring two others.
FEW days ago four men we're fatally
injured in Minneapolis, Mimi, by the fall
of a scaffold from the third story of a
building.
DISPATCHES of the odd say that the tor
nado which recently passed over the Sec
ton some thirty miles west of Kansas City,
Mo-, proved very destructive. Two per-
sons were killed outright, five others were
fatally injured, and large number were
more or less injured. The obliteration of
farm-houses, barns and orchards was very
complete.
THE execution of four train robbers, Cove
and James johnson, Monroe Mcdonald and
James Herndon, took place at Clarksville,
Ark, on the 22d, for the murder of Con
ductor Cain, and Lewis Carter (colored)
was hanged at Jerusalem, Va, for murder.
ing his wife.
The flood in the Mississippi River at st.
Louis was undated on the ed. The Fish
Lake levee below East Carondolet, ILL.,,
had broken, and about ten thousand acres
of fine farms were under water. The dam
age to crops and other property was esti-
mated at 100000. Above Friar's Point
Miss, many fine farms were flooded.
A WIND STORM passed over Jefferson
City, Mo-, ON the 22d, unroofing the peni-
tertiary and seriously wounding several
persons Other buildings were also dam
aged, and three men were reported to have
been drowned while attempting to cross
the river in a skitf.
On the I'D, the first day Of the profess
sional regatta given by the Pullman en-
Athletic Association, Edward Hanlan, of
Toronto, Can, was victorious, winning the
three-mile race over six strong competitors.
Time, 22:30.
SIXTEEN persons were drowned by the
recent floods in Nemaha County, Neb
In Pawnee County the wife and four chill
dren of John Grubb, and seven members
of Bohemian family, were drowned
Many houses were washed away, and the
crops were badly damaged.
By a series of explosions few days age
at the South Chicago Rolling-Mill, eight
men were badly injured, three of them
fatally.
AT Veto, Ala, Kyle Walker and Harry
Reid, both .colored who were arrested fo1
implication in the murder of young Trice
were lynched a few days ago. They con
fessed before being hanged.
A WOMAN named Fanny Conley, of Mans
field, o., who had been exhibited as the
Zulu giantess with "a circus, was found
dead in bed the other morning, at Sala
manca, N. Y. She weighed 597 pounds.
In Giants wooden mills, at Boonville, Mo-.
the boiler exploded the other day, wreck
ing the building. Several men were in
! jured, but only one, the engineer, fatally,
The mills were valued at $4,000.
A FEW days ago the body of Charles t
Goodman, che missing cashier of the Lake
Shore freight house at Cleveland, o., wa.
found in the lake, he having committed
suicide. 1t was shown that he was de
| faulter in the sum of $1,000.
In the vicinity of Omaha, Neb., and a
Atchison, Kan, a recent tornado die
| considerable damage to property.
| HANLAN and Lee were the victors in TIL,
double-scull race at Pullman, ILL.,, on tn,
3d. making three miles in 10 minutes anc
81 seconds. Teemer, only eighteen years O
age, won the three-mile race in 20 minutes
and IA seconds, beating all previous rec
ords.
A STRIP of sixty square miles of til,
richest land in Southern Illinois was flood
ed on the 23d by the breaking of the Madi
son dixie, between Alton and East st. Lou
is. The farmers were making their way tt
the bluffs with such effects as they coult
!
was considered total loss. The actua
loss i'll crops and personal property was
stated to be fully $1,000,000.
REPUBLICAN conventions in fifty-nine O
the ninety-nine counties of Iowa had up tt
the Esd declared for prohibition to the full
extent.
The Mississippi River overflow had OF
| the 18th rendered homeless about two thou
sand persons in the vicinity of Alton, Ill.
and the loss was estimated at 100000
The bottom lands were submerged for fit,
miles, and great suffering was reported
among some of the poorer farmers. Tn
people of the vicinity had Joined in an ap
peal for aid. At Atchison, Kansas Cit,
and st. Joseph the Missouri River wa
rising slowly, and the situation was con
sidered critical.
A FEW evenings ago the Planters Cotton
Seed Oil Works, in Algiers, La, the larges
cotton-seed oil mill in existence, was &c
stroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000,000.
ELBERToN, Ca, was visited by tornad
few evenings ago, demolishing thirteel
buildings and three churches, and killing
colofed man.
The Big Nemaha River, in Nebraska, ha
been overlooked to such degree that thou
sands of hogs and cattle have been drowned
inficting a loss of 100000. The town 0
Tecumseh, with population of two thou
sand, was on the 25th without grocerie
and flour.