The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-27
West and South.

over Clay County, D. T., on the 18th,
destroying all the crops in it's path. The
damage was estimated at 100000.
ADvICEs were received by the Mexican
Consul at Tucson on the 18th. that near the
point where General Crook left the hos
tiles they had attacked a settlement and
killed five Mexicans. A detachment of
infantry which followed the savages was
repulsed with loss of seven.
AT Carter's Creek, Va, Ida Bushnell, q
young lady Of high social standing in Vir-
ginia, committed suicide few evenings
ago after having slight quarrel with her
lover.
On the night of the 10Th Morgan Nc
Leod, colored man who made an assault
upon four-year-old girl at Batesville,
Miss, was taken from jail by party of
armed men and riddled with bullets.
ONE of the Zion Savings Bank burglars
at Salt Lake City was arrested on the 19th
and proved to be the son of a Mormon
apostle named Rich.
A GENERAL appearance of the cotton
caterpillar in the vicinity of Selma, Ala,
was reported on the 10th, and an examina-
ton of the crop showed the top leaves
badly riddled.
WHILE asleep few nights ago N. w.
Wilkinson, q wealthy farmer of Lincoln
County, Mo-, was murdered by some I'M
known person. A reward of $1,000 was
offered on the 10Th for the arrest of the
assassin.
In the Northwest crop reports on the
10Th indicated that the harvest would be
abundant and farmers were jubilant.
THE cattle drive in the Indian Territory,
Texas and Kansas was estimated on the
10th at about one million head.
"A FIRE recently destroyed twenty-five
buildings at Virginia, New.
A TORNADO totally wrecked the village
of Corrington, D. T., few nights ago.
Fourteen of it's principal buildings were
entirely destroyed, and not building es-
capped serious damage. Several persons
were seriously injured, one probably ia
tally.
THE death of Mary Brown, an insane
woman, occurred at the poor-house in La
fayette, Ind, on the Goth, she having for
forty-four days taken no nourishment ex-
cept few sips of milk.
THE execution of two murderers took
place on the 20th-the wife-slayer, George
McNTillen, at Canton, o., and Robert Will
son, at Memphis, Tenn. At Lexington,
KY, David TimberlaEe (colored) was also
hanged for felonious assault on Marga-
rette Lawson.
DURING a church picnic near Newport,
o., few days ago Otto Hager murdered
George Neir, boy of eighteen, and es-
capped.
A PATIENT in the Insane Asylum at
Rochester, Mimi, named Charles Fisher
man, ended his life few days ago by
leapipg into furnace in the boiler room.
ONE THOUSAND employees in the North
Chicago Rolling-Mill quit work on the Goth,
their demand for an advance in wages hav-
ing been refused.
LIGHTNING killed three persons in a
farmhouse in Prince George County,
Va, on the Goth, viz: William Washing
ton, Lizzie Washington and William Will
lett.
AT the Birmingham (Ala.) Rolling Mills
four hundred and fifty employees struck OH
the Dist against atreduction of their wages.
THE Republicans of the Ninth Iowa Dis
triet have nominated Jesse Kennedy IAN in
fluential farmer, for Congressman.
ADRIAN UNDERWOOD shot dead DR.. E. G..
Scruggs, of Glasscock County, Ca, few
days ago, in perpetuation of family
feud.
Two LADS named Parker and Stoppler,
sons of well-known citizens of Springfield,
ILL.,, were drowned on the 22d while bath
ing in the Sangamon River.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE NJ. j. CRAWFORD, of
the Supreme Court of Georgia, died at Co
lumbus few days ago.
In the lake at Chicago few days ago
three men were drowned by the capsizing
of their sail-boat.
A CYCLONE swept over the middle belt of
Minnesota from Mankato east to the Mis-
sissippi River on the Dist. Six persons
were killed in Minnesota and nearly one
hundred injured, and the damage to crops
was estimated at 100000. The villages of
Elgin and Globe were entirely DESTROYED.
In Dakota great destruction of property
was reported. Nine persons were killed
near Huron and over fifty others were
wounded.
THE Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill making it a crime for insurance COM
panies to appeal from State to Federal
courts.
CHICAGO packers from March l to the 21st
inst slaughtered and sailed 1000, 900 hogs,
being $4,000 less than during the CORE
spending period last year.
THE State Board of Health of Louisiana
ON the 23d recommended that the Governor
by proclamation close the waters of the
State against all points infected with con-
tagious diseases.
FARMERS in the vicinity of Hoyle's Sta,
ton, NO., captured and lynched a horse
thief named Floyd few days ago.
WILLIAM CARSON was driving NOW.
ing-machine with a young child in his
arms, near Webster, w. Va, recently,
when the horse got frightened, and the
child fell in front of the cutter, The
father sprang to the rescue, and both
were killed,