The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-09
Vest and South

JERRY DUNN, a well-known sport, killed
James Elliott, the prize-ighter, in Chicago
saloon on the evening of the LIST. Dunn fired
first, and Elliott attempted to defend himself
with chair, when a prolonged fight took
place, resulting in Elliott's death. Dunn was
also dangerously wounded. The quarrel was
the result of an old feud.
On the 2Sth ult. the Detroit Post and
Tribune denied the report previously pub
lished in the Chicago and other Western
papers that the coinage of the new five-cent.
pieces had been stopped. The Post and
Tribune says the story of the suppression by
the Government of the new. nickle twas
set on foot by swindlers who hope. to dis
pose of their stock as mementoes, at large
advance. The mint is rolling out 100000 a
day, so that the scarcity and rarity of the coin
is not great"
| AT San Francisco on the I'd Sing Lum, q
Chinese murderer, cheated the galIows by
hanging himself in his cell while his guard
was temporarily absent.
MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, ordered the
wires of the Mutual Union, Board of Trade,
and Chicago & Milwaukee telegraph lines
cut on the ID at points just inside the
city limits A city ordinance requiring the
wires to be placed underground on the list
had not been complied with, hence the action
taken.
| On the night of the LIST the city of San
Francisco was in darkness, the gas company
/ having shut off the gas because the city failed
to pay up W
BILL was passed by the Nebraska Legis-
lature just before adjournment, recurring
| ~ a.
MES to deliver news dispatches to any paper
applying for them, on payment of the estab-
l;shed price.
GOVERNOR CAMERON, of Virginia, returned
TO Fortress Monroe on the I'd with five oyster
vessels as prizes and forty men as prisoners
THE other day w. H. Pratt, President of
the Bank of Mobile, was killed at Birming-
ham, Ala, while attempting to pass between
the cars of freight train.
THE State Prohibition Convention of Michi-
gan met at Lansing on the list, and nomi-
mated James H. Paten for Justice of the SUI
preme Court for the long term; Daniel p
Sagendorph for Justice to fill the vacancy,
and J. W. Ewing AMI Rev George M. Hickey
for Regents of the University.
| AT Nashville, Tenn, the fourteen-year. old
son of Ed. I. Holman, an attorney, returned
from hunting the other afternoon, and while
| playing with his gun shot his four-year-old
sister through the brain. The child died soon
after.
| The Waterman in the iewelry store OF G.
Kobolt, at Springfield, ILL.,, was bound. and
gagged by three burglars on the night of the
Sd, who drilled the safe and secured $50, 600
in diamonds and jewelry. A reward of 81, 600
was offered for the capture of the robbers
A FIRE few nights ago at Red Wing,
Mimi, destroyed two Touring mills and three
other buildings owned by the Red Wing Mill
Company. Loss, $500, 0O0
THE steamer Yazoo struck an obstruction
near Bonnet Care, La, early on the morning
of the 4th, and sunk. The steamer st. John
picked up sixteen persons, but sixteen others
were drowned The boat and cargo were
total loss. a@ N8
THE famous Confederate cavalry officer,
Colonel Harry Gilmore, died In Baltimore
few days ago.
In the lower Mississippi Valley the floods,
while not so high as year ago. have done
! great damage. The 'sslhlk lands'' on the st,