The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-12-28

A CALL has been issued by the Executive
COMMITTEES appointed at the recent Col
ored Convention in Louisville, KY, for a
convention at Richmond, Va, on the Sec
ond Tuesday of July, 1884, to consider the
platforms of the different political parties
and to urge the colored people of the
United States to give countenance and
support to those only who favor giving
them their rights, civilly and politically,
and the recognition due them as citizens.
Organization throughout the nation was
urged, and the colored people were asked
to support no man not in favor of general
education.
THE last spike in the track of the Pitts
burgh, Cleveland & Toledo Railway was
driven on the goth by c. H. Andrews, the
Pres ident, at Youngstown, o.
ON the evening of the Goth contest at
the polls over the location of school
house in district six miles west of Win
chester, ILL.,, was reopened at dance CIV
en- by farmer, the result being the killing
of Adam Hill and George Snyder by the
Sutton brothers.
ON the goth Charles A. Williams, forty
two years old, railway postal clerk, was
arrested at Cleveland, o., for robbing the
mails, and was imprisoned in default of
&, 800.
A PROPOSITION was made few days ago
by Nathan Massengale, Of White River,
Stone County, Mo-, to Hiram Loomis, that
they exchange wives, Massengale offering
his eight-months baby to boot. The trade
was accomplished, and the new arrange
ment was said to please all parties con-
cerned.
SHERIFF HAYNES testified in the Bond
case at Hillsboro, ILL.,, on the goth that the
toe-nail pairing found in the school-house
loft was thicker than Montgomery's toe
nail; it fitted one corner, but the other side
did not fit at all; he examined tho clothing
of all the defendants, but found no blood
stains; witness. was positive that while in
Jail the defendants had no means of COM
munication with each other. Charles
Masters, nine years old, who was in the
school-house with Emma Bond, and left
just before she was assaulted, gave his evil
dence, in the course of which he made
many statements which differed from those
made at the preliminary trial Emanuel
Clement told his story on the witness
stand, giving an account of his assisting
in carrying Miss Bond home from Mr..
Pettis' house; witness had said to Mrs.
Pettis that he was afraid Mr.. Bond would
blame them (himself and Lee Pettis) if
they took her home; Emma gave her father
description of two men and Mr. Bond gave
witness the following description: Two
large men dressed in dark clothes, wore
white shirts; one had whiskers; witness
detailed the circumstances of his help in
searching for the perpetrators of the out
rage, and of his arrest for the affair; on
the cross-examination Clement in some
material points contradicted the jail off
Gals, who were placed on the stand to deny
the statements of the convicts brought by
the State.
OFFICIALS at Vincennes, Ind, captured
four persons on the 21st engaged in the
manufacture or circulation of counterfeit
money, one of them being saloon-keeper
owning considerable wealth.
THE failure is announced of Gordon, Ba-
ker & Co., millers at Sparta, ILL.,, for $780,
600, with $4,000 assets.
THE Ohio Prohibitionists have called a
State Con vention to be held in Columbus
January s, to ask of the Legislature re-
ubmission of the prohibition question to
the popular vote without any qualifications
or alternatives.
| AT Stewartsville, Mo-, eight business
houses, including the Independent news
paper office, were destroyed by fire a few
mornings ago.
THE negro bank-robber, "Big Ike,', who
killed the son of Ex-Governor Hunt at Du-
range, Col, was a few days ago capt
ured on the Ute Reservation. When found
he leaped over forty-foot precipice and
was seriously injured.
The verdict of $4,000 for libel obtained
| by Prof. Donald Mclean against the Detroit
! NelcS has been sustained by the Michigan
| Supreme Court.
| A RESOLUTION was adopted at the recent
Louisiana Democratic State Convention
| demanding q law to suppress lotteries,
which demoralize society and corrupt pol.
itics.
DEALERS in live stock scattered along
the line from New York to Cheyenne have
Incorporated the Ogalalla Cattle Company
with capital of $5,O00,00O, the main office
| being at Omaha.
Two colored men were hanged on the
21st, viz: Jerry Cox, at Georgetown, S. c..
for the murder of H. Ell. Rembert, and Silas
Lane, at Rolling Fork, Miss, for criminal
assault upon woman.
CARTER SMITH, a barber, in quarrel at
Grafton, w. Va, a few nights ago drove
scissors through George McDaniel's heart,
killing him Instantly.
The testimony of Lee Pettis, one of the
defendants in the Bond case at Hillsboro,
ILL.,, was given on the Dist, his evidence be-
ing mainly confederation of that given
by Clement on the day before, as to the
whereabouts of himself and CLEMENT on
the day of the outrage. On the cross.
examination Pettis said ne and
Clement came back to the house
after driving the cattle, and got in the
wagon at two o'clock. This would place
them in the wagon just at the time
Miss Bond passed along near the wagon
when she went over to Mrs. Pettis' during
the afternoon recess. Mrs. John C. Mont
gomery and her sister, Miss Iona Pettis
were also on the witness stand. Accord
ing to the formers story Lee Pettis anc
Emanuel Clement were about Mrs. Pet
tbs, house all the afternoon of the day oil
the outrage. The court adjourned to the
26th
On the evening of the I'D the Maryland
Historical Society celebrated at Baltimore
the centennial anniversary of Washing
toms surrender of his command to thu
Continental Congress-.
TWENTY inches of snow fell at Cincinna
during the eight days ended on the 22d
causing the collapse of several roofs. a
destructive flood was anticipated by river
men.
AN indianapolis marketman forgot tx
throw the combination on his safe the Other
night and thereby lost s., 200 in cash. TIL,
thief failed to find 81, 800 which lay in an
other compartment.
THE negro "Big Ike" who killed Bruc,
Hunt at the Durango (Col.) Bank, died il
prison on the 22d from wounds received
when jumping down forty-foot embark
ment to escare arrest.
THE safe OF the post-office at Berryville
Kan, was blown open by burglars few
nights ago, who carried off seven hundred
dollars in cash and two hundred dollars
worth of stamps.
In attempting to ford stream in Loga1