The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15

vention, and ''if the Convention does what
is expected, indorses our Chicago platform
of 1880, we as a party viii heartily indorse
it,"
AT an iron-mill in Chattanooga, Tenn,
two employees had difficulty the other
day, when the larger one, becoming frantic,
seized the other and laid him on his back
on red-hot slab of iron, holding him there
until his head and back were literally
roasted.
The Greenback State Central Committee
Of Indiana held meeting in Indianapolis
on the 7th. H. c. Leonard was elected
Chairman, 0ice C. c. Post, resigned. 1t
was decided not to join with the Anti-Mo-
nopolistic movement, but to at once begin
the work of strengthening the party in the
State.
CHARLES G. FULTON, proprietor and ed
itor of the Baltimore american for many
years, died on the It'll, aged seventy-two
years.
ADvICEs of the 7th from Utah state that
in an interview Brigham Young, Jr., said
the reports from the laborers in the vine
yards in Europe aud this country warrant
ed the expectation that there would be
fully twenty thousand converts to Nor
monism this year.
ATTEMPTS having been made recently to
burn the city of .Silverton, Col, for the
evident purpose of creating stampede of
the citizens and then robbing the First Ma
tional Bank, seventy three indictments
were on the 7th found by the Grand Jury
against those connected with the plot, and
Vigilance Committee was formed, who
gave notice that the first person who at
tempted incendiarism would be hanged.
A RESOLUTION was adopted at the recent
session in Madison of the Wisconsin State
Total Prohibition Convention, " that, in
view of the developments of the past two
or three years, we declare it to be our con-
viction that no real friend of prohibition
can consistently support any man for pub
lie office or any political party that is not
fully committed to the prohibition of the
liquor traffic."
The Senneckson, a schooner reported lost
at sea, with nine souls aboard, arrived in
safety on the 7th at Charleston, S. G.
THOMAS PARIS. a boy living near Skip
worth, Miss, q few days ago killed his
step-father, Isaac Adams, who had threats
ened his life, and in family row at ST..
Louis George Marshal shot and killed his
step-father, Thomas Edwards.
In the coal-mining districts of st. Clair
and Madison Counties, ILL.,, the excitement
was said to have subsidized on the Sth, and
no further trouble was anticipated.
On the Sth the Barber brothers, the Iowa
desperadoes, in Jail at Waverly, Bremen
County, for murder, were taken from the
prison by a mob from Fayette County,
where the crime was committed, and were
hanged short distance from town. They
neither flinched nor pleaded for mercy.
THREE students Of Calvin Institute, at
Cleveland, O., named Charles Clyne, aged
seventeen; Henry Funbey, aged twenty
two, and William Bonholt, aged twenty,
were drowned on the evening OF the 9Th
while bathing in the River Cayahoga.
MARK l.. CRAWFORD, of Chicago, an en-
ploye of the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper
Company, was on the 8th elected President
of the international Typographical Union,
in session at Cincinnati.
Donckley and T. w. Waller was recently
fought near Patrick Courthouse, Va.
Waller was fatally wounded. He was the
opponent Of Donckley in the last election.
THE citizens of Mineral Wells, Tex, were
excited on the Sth over the discovery of an
underground cave, said to exceed in size
the famous mammoth cave of Kentucky.
THROUGHOUT Colorado snow-storm pre-
vailed on the Sth.
G. HOPKINS and ]. N. Hayes, proprietors
of the Central Paint & Roofing Company
at Cincinnati, were fatally burned by an
explosion of oil on the 9Th.
AT Lawrenceville, Ga, Ebert M. Ste
phenson was hanged on the 9Th for muir
dering his aunt. He asked that a band be
engaged to play "The Golden Slippers" at
the gallows, but his request was refused.
TEE western part of Springfield, ILL.,,
was visited by small cyclone ON the Sth,
which demolished fences, houses and trees,
but injured no person.
On the Sth farmer of nearly forty years
experience, after passing over eight coun.
ties in Iowa, reported more corn growing
and in better condition, than ever was seen
there at the same date.
The Harper High-License bill passed the
lower House of the Illinois Legislature on
the Sth by a vote of 70 ayes to 55 noes. -Four
Republican members voted in the negative
and ten Democrats recorded themselves as
in favor of the measure. 1t imposes upon
saloon-keepers selling whisky an annual
license fee of $500, while those combining
themselves to the sale of beer and wine
will be required to pay $3.50 per annum.
VINCENNEs, Ind, was the scene of a ter.
rible tragedy on the night of the 9th
Charles Pollock, wealthy young miller,
shooting and instantly killing his wife Of
eighteen and then ending his own life. Pol
lock had been drinking heavily, and while
in disordered nervous condition com
mitted the awful crime. There had been
no previous trouble between the young
people, Pollock and his young wife having
been an exceedingly affectionate couple.
MCKINNEY, Tex, was visited by cy.
clone on the 9th, which completely demol
ished everything in its path for one hun
dred and fifty yards.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires, attributed to
uOSelAS AnuldAiSy were sweeping across
Southern Arizona on the 10th.
A FIRE few days ago destroyed the
grain elevators of Douglass, Stuart & For
est, in Chicago, the loss being 100000.
JOHN WILLIAMS, a Huntsville (Ky.) mer
chant, was shot dead by an unknown per
son the other night, and John w. Green, 8
farmer, living near Williamstown, KY.
was shot dead from his horse by person
in ambush
NEAR Benjamin, Utah, a few DAYS age
tour young ladies named Yates, Eddy,
Hawkins and Rease, aged respectively
twelve, fourteen, thirteen and twenty
three, and young man named Yates, aged
eighteen, were drowned in Provo Lake, by
the accidental capsizing of their boat while
out with a pleasure party.
THE large saw-mill of John Du Boise, al
Hayre de Grace, Nd, together with all his
stock and 4,000,0 900 feet of lumber, were de.
stroyed by fire few days ago. Loss
S225, 900.
News was received on the 11th at Tomb
stone, A. t., by courier, that General Crook
had returned from his expedition and was
at Silver Creek, near Chiricahuai, with two
hundred and thirty Apaohes as prisoners.