The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-02
O West and South.

knew the hotel was doomed; he could have
run through every hall OF the hotel and
alarmed every guest in the house in that
length Of time, but he had to attend to office
duties-saying the papers and valuables,
knowing the hotel safe to be useless in case
of fire.
GREAT suffering was reported on the 24th
among the poor classes-esp specially the negroes
at Lynchburgh, Va, caused by the cold
weather and the suspension of work in the
tobacco factories
Two MEN named Evan Griffith and o. F.
Farrell, confined in the Russell County (Va)
Jail for defrauding cattle-raisers were a few
nights a9o taken from the prison and lynched
by band of masked men.
In the Delaware Legislature on the Oath a
bill to abolish the whipping of persons con-
victed Of murder in the second degree was de-
feated by. vote of 10 to 5.
| AN Upper Sandusky (O.) widow named
Gruber deserted her three small children a
few days ago to elope with fellow named
Lancegloz, and the little ones almost persisted
with cold before being discovered by neigh.
bOrs.
CHARLES CoBB, desperate, shot and killed
Sheriff Stone near Udell Station, Kan, a few
days ago, and an armed party fro Winfield
went to the scene of the tragedy and hung
Cobb to the nearest tree. ~
In Newport, KY, on the morningof the oath
w. Weise was fatally shot by j. N. Hook at
the latters residence. Wese came to Hook S
house before daylight to deliver bread, but,
coming in at an unusual place, Hook mistook
him for a burglar, and called to him, but
Weise, being closely muffled, did not hear.
Hook fired, INJECTING fatal wound. The
Grand Jury examined the case and exonerated
| Hook.
AFTER a voluntary fast of seventeen days
]. w. Wilson, St. Louis crank, was arrested
by the police on the 24th, forced to resume his
meals, and seut to the City Hospital.
A BAND of 800 Piutes in the vicinity of
| Winnemucca, New, were reported on the Oath
to be in starving condition. The intense
cold prevented them from hunting, and citi-
zens were contributing toward their support,
JAMES PATRICK, SR., the oldest journalist
in Ohio, died at his home in New Philadelphia
a few day ago, at the advanced age of ninety
one years.
MoNsRIGNEUR NoRTHRUP has been appoint
ed by the Pope to the vacant See of Charles
ton, and Monseigneur Richter to the Diocese
of Grand Rapids G
THE remains of the forty-three sunrecog-
nized victims taken from the ruins of the
Newhall House fire We're inferred in Milwau-
kee on the 25th. Nearly all the business
places in the city were closed during the day.
ON the 25th the Princess Louise sailed fol
the Bermudas.
THE other day John c. Downing, soldier
of the Thirteenth Infantry was killed in
cold blood at Fort Stanton by cowboys, who
narrowly escaped lynching
A FIRE in the basement OF colored school
at Kansas City few days ago caused rush,
in which teacher was tramplel nearly to
death.
THE rapid growth of the West is shown in
practical manner by the organization on the
25th OF a Board of Trade at Mandan, Dakota,
which was but recently water-tank on the
1 Northern Pacific Road.
FRANK JAMES, accompanied by Deputy Mar
shall Holland, occupied box in the theatel
at Independence, Mo-, the other night, for
which adventure the latter was dismissed
from his position as jailer.
THE Caldwell Block in Omaha was destroyed
by fire few mornings ago, causing loss Of
100000.
A FIRE partially destroyed the Milwaukee
Female College on the night of the Goth, the
flames starting i'll the basement and making
rapid headway. The sixty lady inmates es-
capped unhurt. A mattress factory was burned
the same night, and four fremen were in.
jured, one fatally, by falling with the floor
from the thirdto the second story.
CITIZENS of Rock Hill, s. G., recently
warned two Mormon missionaries to take
their departure from that town, or they would
be treated to tar and feathers.
In the lumber camps of the Rainy Lake
River district, in Minnesota, smallpox has
broken out and ten deaths from the disease
were reported up to the 26th. Sixty deaths
from smallpox were reported from Cabin
Creek, Indian Territory, but the physicians
claimed that the scourge was mostly stamped
out.
ADvICEs from Southern and Western Ne
braska and Northwestern Kansas state that
the ranchmen were meeting with great loss
to their herds by the recent cold weather.
At Eagle Grove six carloads of hogs froze
todeath en- route to market, and in otheS
sections. large numbers of cattle were lying
dead in the fields.
AN error of a train-dispatcher caused a col
lisiou between an express and freight train
near Canton, o., the other day, resulting il
the death Of Fireman John Russell, and the
fatal wounding of Engineer John Stoneman.
IN a recent drunken affray in Madison
4 County, N. c., two men were killed Will
knives and third man was shot dead.
/ COLONEL E. ID. BAKER, U. s. A, died al
3 ! Ro oil 20, do,
and Major w. L. Saunders, Inspector Genera
of the Department of Dakota, died at For
Smelling.
On the Goth George w Traughber wa.
hanged at Taylorvlle, Ill, for the murder Of
Joseph Mckinney, and Ed. Garrett (colored,
was executed at Texarkana, Ark, for wife
I murder.
PRAIRIE fires were reported on the 2Sth il
Western and Northwestern Texas, and much
damage was being done among the stock anC
slaughter ranges, and large quantities O.
stacked hay had Seen consumed. 4
SOME negroes on a plantation in Laurens
County, South Carolina, killed and ate
goose which had been bitten by mad dog
Five of the family had died, and four other.
were on the 18th considered in a hopeles:
4 condition.
THOMAS NJ Bowen has been elected by the
Legislature of Colorado as United States
Senator for the full term, and H. A. w. Tabor
i to fill the Teller vacancy.
MoHR 81 MoHR, distillers, of . Cincinnati
failed on the 9th, with liabilities amounting
to $1500O0
! AN American robber recently stopped two
Mexicans, near Fowling Station, Tex, killed
one and seriously injured the other, and tool
their horses and arms.
A CoLoRED wife heater, named Edward
Forte, was recently given seven lashes BY the
jailer ia Baltimore, under the recent act OF
the Maryland Legislature.
AN incendiary fire few nights ago de.
stroyed the college at Evening Shade, Ark.
and while the fire was in progress the post
Office was robbed of several registered letters
On the 29th ult. the Indiana Senate voted