The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-12-21

IT was reported on the 18th that an inn
mense bonanza of copper and gold had
been found one mile north of Padmore, in
the Rocky Mountains, on the British side
of the line.
AT Cincinnati on the 18Th the Pallium
was conferred upon Archbishop Elder, of
the Catholic Cathedral, by Bishop McClos-
key. Six brothers of Archbishop Elder,
who had not been together before in fifty
years, were in the great gathering in the
Cathedral.
JEROME B. Cox shot and killed Charles
Mclaughlin at San Francisco on the 18th.
The crime was the result of litigation in a
railroad contract suit of seventeen years.
standing.
In a saw-mill in Chambers County, Ala,
boiler exploded few days ago, killing
three negroes named Ross, Brooks and
Holloway. Nobody lived to explain the
cause of the accident.
On the Georgia Central Road, freight
and passenger train collided the other
morning, one person being killed and four
badly wounded.
AT the recent session in Madison Of the
Wisconsin State Grange officers were
elected as follows: Master, S. G. Carr,
Milton Junction; Overseer, M. Anderson,
Cross Plains; Lecturer, Aaron Broughton,
Evansville; Steward, R. A. Williams,
Hillsboro; Assistant Steward, w. A.
Sprague, Reedsburg; Chaplain, S. N. Jones,
Fennimore; Treasurer, Miss Hattie NJ.
Huxley, Neenah; Secretary, H. E. Huxley,
Neenah.
SEvENTY-FIvE distillers in Kentucky
have formed an association to reduce the
production of whisky. The agreement was
signed by men representing half the regis
tered capacity of the State.
A YOUNG lad named George Orr, en-
ployed on the farm of M. M. Trimble, near
Paola, Kan, recently killed the aged couple
and escaped with what money they had
secreted.
FIVE horse and cattle thieves were re-
Gently lynched by vigilantes in the Mo.
brara Valley, D. T. Four others, in jail
on the 18th, if not punished by the law
would share the same fate.
AT the recent session in indianapolis of
the Indiana State Grange, Columbus was
chosen as the place for holding the next
convention, on the second Tuesday in De-
cember, 1884.
AT Baltimore, Nd, on the 18th Emma j.
Harrington brought suit for divorce from
Robert Fearing, whom she married in
Maine four years ago. She thought he
was white man, but discovered recently
that he was of African descent when he
took her to visit his family in North Caro-
lima, and found them of decided negro
tint. One child was the fruit of the union
A BANKER of Indianapolis estimated on
the 18th the amount of money shipped from
that city to Chicago, within the past few
months, to meet losses on options, at ST.
100000, and stated that smaller towns were
suffering in like proportion.
Two NEGROES were hanged on the 14th
for murder-Pleasant Hall, at Rolling
Fork, Miss, and Burt Ellis, at Shelby,
N. C.
LEVI JAMES, Choctaw murderer, was
shot dead by deputy sheriff at Scully-
vile Courthouse on the 14th, in accordance
with Indian law.
ENoCH BROWN (colored) was hanged on
the 14th at Halifax, N. c., for the murder of
his wife.
DURING a riot on the 18th at one of the
polls Of the Democratic primary elections
in New Orleans forty shots were fred, and
Captain M. ]. Fortier, Gus Renaud and
Edward Mason were killed, and Sheriff
Brewster and ten others were wounded
The Sheriff and three Of his deputies were
locked up.
TWELVE saloon-keepers on trial in the
Common Pleas Court at Cambridge, O.,
were on the 18th sentenced by Judge Fra
zier to terms of imprisonment aggregating
four hundred days, and fined to the amount
of $4 400, for violations of the Scott Liz.
uor law.
In the Bond trial at Hillsboro, ILL.,, on the
14th the only witness was Lawrence Helm.
lein, an uncle of John Montgomery, one of
the defendants, and his evidence was to
the effect that the latter several times
asked advice as to the propriety of full
confession.
In the Pecan Grove (La.) plantation
sugar-house the boilers burst few days
ago, killing two men and wounding four
others, two fatally.
A FIRE the other day caused by falling
lamp burned the sugar-house of Charles H.
Walker, located two miles from Franklin,
La, valued at $250,000. The refinery was
one of the best equipped in the world.
THREE of the young boys, Moffett, Finch
and Miller, who set ten incendiary fires in
Milwaukee recently, pleaded guilty, and
were sentenced on the 10Th to the Reform
School until they are of age. Benny West
pleaded not guilty, and would be tried in
January.
SEVERAL of the leading politicians of
New Orleans were placed in the parish
prison on the 10th on the charge of murder
in connection with the recent riot Nc
Caleb, formerly City Attorney, was re-
leased on 1000 bail.
EARLY few mornings ago boarding
house at Moorhead, Mimi, caught fire and
the inmates of the house, eight in number,
had narrow escape. They were all more
or less injured, having TO jump from the
windows to save themselves.
THE ship Sea King arrived recently at
Portland, Ore, and the Captain reported
that he was compelled to shoot the Chinese
cook, who became insane and fired at the
mate.
AN attorney named A. Digby Howard, Of
Brandon, Manitoba, recently fled with
$4,000 intrusted to him TO purchase lands
Detectives traced him to Denver, where
nearly all the stolen money was found in
the hustle of his wife.
A sTEvEDoRE named William D. Fox,
living in Mobile, Ala, beat his wife while
she was in bed recently, and then poured
kerosene over the bed and set fire to the
clothes. His wife was fatally burned. Fox
was in Jail.
AT Baltimore a few nights ago Rev.
George Morris, an aged Presbyterian cler-
gyman, was suffocated by gas, which he
blew out.
1T was announced on the 18th that the
Navajo Indians in New Mexico were leav.
ing their reservation, and running Off the
stock of settlers. The latter were highly
incensed, and threatened to shoot the In
dams.
SEVEN business houses at Corsicana,
Tex, were destroyed by an incendiary fire
few days ago, the losses aggregating
$75,000
The death is announced of General w. J.
Reese, of Lancaster, o., who instituted the
first Masonic Lodge west of the Alleghe-
mics. He was brother-in-law of General
and Senator Sherman.