The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-16
West and South.

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Legislature would probably stand: Sen.
ate, Democrats, %; Coalitionists, 10
House, Democrats, 60; Coalitionists, 49,
In Mississippi the Democrats elected
eleven out of the twelve District Attorneys,
and the joint Legislature would comprise
$50 Democrats and % Republicans. Mary
land chose Robert McLane (Democrat)
Governor by majority of $4,000, with both
branches of the Legislature Democratic.
H. G. MCGEE, a farmer who resided ten
miles from Kansas City, Mo-, killed his
wife and daughter, aged twenty, with a
shotgun on the 8th, and then took fatal
dose of morphine. The three corpses were
discovered by McGee's younger children
when they returned from school. Family
troubles were supposed to have been the
cause of the crime.
A FIRE recently destroyed Beadle & Kel.
ly's agricultural implement factory at
Troy, 0. Loss, $4,000.
A DECISION has been rendered by Judge
Hoffman, Of the United States District
| Court at San Francisco, that Cinnamon
who went to China prior to the Restriction
act were entitled to return.
| A PROCLAMATION has been issued by Gov.
ernor Crittenden, of Missouri, recommend.
ing that corporations and citizens adoptthe
new standard of time to go into effect on
| the railroads ON the 18th.
| THE little girl of an Italian emigrant
family who recently landed at Vera Cruz
died of yellow fever in a hospital at Now
Orleans on the 9th.
DURING quarrel in Christian County,
Mo-, a few days ago a boy named Lee,
aged fifteen years, shot and killed Rudge
Swearnigen, aged seven years.
| UNDER the weight of negro gathering
the floor of hall at Laurinburg, N. c.,
collapsed the other night, and the walls al
so tumbled in. Eight persons were
wounded, two fatally.
AT Cove Creek, Utah, shock of earth
quake was felt a few days ago. No dam
age was done.
A PARTY of men captured negro few
days ago who assaulted Isley Hil's
daughter near Greenwood, KY, and hanged
| him to a tree.
The preliminary examination in the
murder case of Fora Burns, of Lincoln, ILL.,,
was concluded on the 9th, and arguments
were commenced. During the address OF
Mr.. Foster, States-Attorney, the father OF
the murdered girl was removed from the
room, it being feared that he intended ven
geance upon Mr.. Carpenter, who was
charged with the crime.
A JURY has awarded $4,000 damages to
Warren Wright, brakeman on the Louis
vile, New Albany & Chicago Road, who
was injured by bridge at Rensselaer,, Ind.
IT was feared on the 9th by the people of
Southampton County, Va, that the negroes
were bent on massacre, and there was
| great excitement. In some places the
women and children had been taken to the
woods and guarded. A negro was credited
with the remark that the colored people in
tended to kill all the whites in Southamp-
ton County. Negroes were reported miss
ing from their usual haunts.
THE arrival is announced at San Francis
co of a steamer from Hong Kong with 167
| Cinnamon, all of whom had traders certi-
ficates issued by their Government. Some
of the immigrants acknowledged that they
bought their papers of inspectors at
Canton.
AN accidental fire destroyed the resi-
dence of Asa L. Biggs, at Franklin, Va,
few nights ago, and Mr.. Biggs persisted
| in the flames.
| JUDGE LACEY on the 10th held Orrin A..
| Carpenter, charged with numbering Fora
Burns at Lincoln, ILL.,, in $4,000 bail and
the bonds were furnished. The father of
the girl made attempts in the courtroom
| ND IN A1,n ckr ~ a.
the accused.
AT Caldwell, Idaho, two residents who
lay asleep in their blankets on the 18th in
an unfinished hotel were killed with COUP
ling-pins by brace of desperadoes. The
murdeTers were captured. Robbery was
the cause of the crime.
| The rumored negro rising in Southamp-
ton County, Va, was on the 10th said to be
without foundation.
NEAR Toledo, O.. several boys were fool
ing with pistol a few evenings ago when
at his brother Willie, a lad of thirteen, and
fired, killing him instantly. Lewis and
his companions then ran, leaving the dead
| boy lying on the bare commons.
A REPORT was made on the 10th by F. T.
Bickford, Special Agent of the Government
Land Office in Dakota, that most of the
| public lands in that Territory were acquired
| by the original settlers, so called, through
the greatest frauds. The law was scarcely
ever complied with, either in letter or in
spirit The Tree-Culture act, he said, was
made an agency of injustice to the public
| by Adventures, and he thought radical
remedy was necessary.
A LETTER has been addressed by General
James R. Carnahan, Adjutant- General of
Indiana, to che Secretary of War propos-
ing that national encampment of State
troops be held in Washington next May.
LAWRENCE WHITE, a negro murderer,
was taken from the officers at Mount
Mourne, NJ c., few days ago by sixty-fiye
colored men and lynched.
JOHN WooD, wealthy merchant at
Ridge Prairie, Mo-, shot and killed farm
laborer named James Morgan a few DAYS
ago. The cause of the act was unknown.
7 The arrest was made on the 18th at Bis
marck, ID. 7. of John Fleming, of Fleming
81 Merriam, the notorious Chicago firm
of swindlers, and he would be taken to
| Chicago for trial.
AT Fort Leavenworth, Kan, Charles
Wilson, a pie-peddler, was killed few
days ago by two soldiers with jug, and
his house was fired to conceal the crime.
A FEW evenings ago the town of Cisco,
Tex, with a population of about 1000, was
nearly destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000.
FIFTY masked men battered down the
Jail door at Commando, Tex, few nights
ago, overpowered the guards after hard
struggle, and taking out the two Bailey
brothers hanged both to tree in the grave
| yard, mile from town. 1t was not said
what the Baileys were charged with.
WHILE crossing a trestle recently at
Sullivan, Ind, Oliver Brandwall and a
son aged ten were overtaken by train
and both were killed, their bodies being
! horribly mangled,