The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-12-14
West and South.

West and South.
The discovery of huge land fraud, by
which some two thousand persons in the
vicinity of Wheeling, w. Va, have been
swindled out Of amounts ranging from
fifty dollars to five hundred dollars, was
made on the 9Th.
A MAIL-RIDER was held up by armed rob-
bers a few days ago four miles from OAR
danelle, Ark, and his letter-pouch was
taken.
AT Denver, COL, on the 9th snow-storm
blocked railway communication for TWEEN
tyfour hours, and carried down three hun
dred telegraph poles laden with wires.
The firm of Plunkett & Wright, leading
merchants at Lavoca, Ark, sold all their
stock at whatever it would bring, and de-
parted recently for places unknown, ow-
ing $4,000. The creditors would get moth
ing.
ON the 9th an earthquake lasting forty
eight seconds was experienced at Rouen-
den Springs, Ark 1t broke stoves and
crockery, and loosened rocks in the rail-
way cuts.
tional Butter, Egg and Cheese Association
closed at Cincinnati ON the 9th. 1t was
said by the Secretary that the total value
of butter, cheese, eggs and poultry mar
keted in the United States during the year
ended November 80, 1888, amounted to over
600,000,000.
THE Farmers National Congress, at it's
session in Louisville, KY, on the 9th elect
ed Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia,
President
NUMEROUS Ohio clergymen assembled at
Columbus OF the 9th and formed Divorce
Reform League, with Rt.-Rev. G.. T. Bedell,
of Cleveland, as President.
A FIRE a few days ago destroyed the en-
tire business section of Williamson, N. c.,
including the post-ofice and telegraph of
fee. The steamer Commerce, with two
hundred bales of cotton and other freight,
was also consumed.
THE authorities at Fort Davis, Tex, re-
Gently took four Mexicans, charged with
numbering Domingo Plingo, and lynched
them.
ON the 18th John Fleming and Frank L.
Loring, the grain swindlers, were con
victed in the United States District Court
of Chicago of using the mails to defraud.
A motion for a new trial was made, and an
additional bond of $4,000 was required.
In Indian Territory Pemyman was on
the It'll inaugurated as Chief of the Creek
Indians, and Isporheche and Chicota were
elected Delegates to Washington.
A FEW evenings ago f. A. Deering, post
master at Morgantown, w. Va, undertook
to carry to his house a tin box containing
| $3.50, but thief grabbed it on a dark
street and disappeared.
THE execution of James M. Underwood,
for numbering Robert J. Pendergrast, a
wealthy planter, took place at Dardanelle,
! Ark, on the 18th.
REPORTS received on the 7th from Illi-
nois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska
stated that the corn crop was in very
discouraging condition, much Of it having
become heated and swelled in the cribs.
The range of prices averaged from thirty
| to forty cents per bushel Many farmers,
it was said, were, to a great extent feed
! ing the crop to their stock.
A BILL providing for granting divorces
was defeated in the State Senate of South
Carolina on the 7th by vote. of sixteen to
fifteen. South Carolina is the only State
in the Union in which there is no legal
method for dissolving the marriage tie
IT was reported on the Sth that D. w.
Blackburn, Treasurer of Lee County, Ia,
was short $4,000 in his accounts.
AT Covington on the Sth sixty-seven
''moonshiners" who were captured in the
mountains of Eastern kentucky were con-
victed and sentenced to sixty days. i'm
| prisonment and fine of one hundred dol
Jars each.
IT was announced on the Sth that the
expedition sent out by New Orleans
newspaper to explore the Florida ever
glades reached the Gulf of Florida in good
health, having been entirely successful in
their undertaking.
On the Sth Patrick Flaherty, an Indian
apolis butcher, was arrested for slaughter
ing and selling crippled and diseased hogs.
He admitted sending the pork to Cincin-
natl and Louisville.
On the evening of the Sth five despera-
does rode into Bsbee, A. T., killed three
men and robbed a store of 81 200.
NEAR Stanwood, Ia, two sleepers, three
coaches and two baggage cars of a Chicago
| & Northwestern train jumped the track
the other night, and several passengers
were injured, but none fatally.
In st. Louis few evenings ago James
Gein, the husband of the medium at a
spiritualistic performance, dropped dead
from heal t-disease.
L. G. Triton (white), farmer residing
near Nashville, Tenn, few days ago cut
fatally a negro boy named Tom, and was
himself shot through the head by the boy.
Both were dead.
THE Union rolling-mill at Cleveland, o.,
was burned a few days ago, the loss being
100000.
NEAR Clinton, Miss, Albert Thomas, a
negro, who criminally assaulted a little
child, attempted to escape from his captors
a few days ago, and was riddied with bull.
lets.
IT was reported on the 10Th that trouble
arose and pistols were used during a po-
litical discussion at Greenville, Miss, the
other night, and four persons were shot
one white man and three negroes. One OF
the latter had died since the ARRAY, and
another was dying.
Four boys in Milwaukee, each about
fourteen years Of age, and sons of well-te-
do residents, formed Buffalo Bill combi.
nation and established pirates den. One
of them confessed on the 10Th that they