The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02
West and South.

Father st. Cyr, who celebrated the first mass
ever said in Chicago, died in st. Louis few
days ago.
THE former Sheriff of Yolo County, Cali
fornia, Frank Rahm, and his cousin George
have been arrested for the murder of John
E. Maltby last March. A witness of the
tragedy has been found.
THE United States Court at Cleveland on
the Goth appointed Fayette Brown Receiver
of the iron-works of Brown, Bunnell & Co.,
and he gave bond in 100000. He closed the
mills in order to take an inventory.
FRANK JAMES was arraigned at Gallatin,
Mo-, on the Goth on the charge of numbering
Cashier Sheets, of the Gallatin B INK, in 1869,
and also Conductor Westfall, in 1881. He
pleaded not guilty and his trial was set for
the third Monday in June.
W. T. ALLEN 81 Co., of Chicago whole
sale grocers, have failed for 100000
A FIRE destroyed the steamer Moro Castle
at Charleston S. c., few days ago, the Off
GERS and crew escaping. Loss, $270,000.
IT is announced that C. P. Huntington, of
the Southern Pacific Road, has purchased for
$15,0O0010 Morgan's Railroad in Louisiana
and Texas and the Morgan steamship lines.
THE death of Colonel r. A. Packer, we'll
known railway manager of Pennsylvania, oc-
Cured at Jacksonville, Fla, recently He
left an estate valued at $10,0)0,000 or more.
A FEW days ago the family of William
Bush, living near Corsicana, Tex, was pois-
oned by having morphine administered in
stead of quinine The mother and three
children died from the effects.
In the western and central portions of
Iowa heavy snow-storm prevailed on the
2lst.
The Indiana Legislature has passed bill
appropriating 100000 for the sufferers by
overflow in that State.
A DISPATCH on the 22d from Cairo, ILL.,, re-
ports the drowning of j. s. Rhodes, his wife,
two children and two men, while crossing
from the Kentucky shore to Wolf Island.
THE Ohio River floods at Cincinnati and
Louisville had virtually come to an end on
the 22d. The Mississippi River at Cairo, ILL.,,
was still rising, and many houses were
flooded.
IN San Antonio, Tex, story is In circula-
ton that three locomotives we're lost in a
game of poker at New York between railroad
kings, and that they were transferred to the
Texas Road, controlled by the winner.
1T is announced that great silver ore dis
covery has been made twenty miles south of
Tucson A. T. A large expanse was included,
and at least half millions worth o. the
precious metal was in sight.
On Mclean avenue, Cincinnati, strip of
seveuty-fve feet slid into the water on the
22d with the track of the Southern Road,
cutting off the depots.
AvERDICT Of 1900 has been recovered by
Chicago insurance firm against gambler
of that city, for money lost in gambling
house by their clerk.
ONE of the fiends, Elias Craft, who partici-
pated in the murder of the Gibbons family at
Ashland, KY, in December, 1881, was found
guilty of murder on the 23d, and sentenced to
death.
In PORTIONS of Minnesota and Iowa the
worst snow-storm of the season prevailed on
the 23d
DR.. CARVER, in the shooting-match at
Louisville, Ky, on the 22d, defeated Bogar-
dus by one bird, winning 81, 500 in stakes and
gate-money.
SEVERAL convlcts at work in the harness.
shop of the State Prison at jefferson, Mo-,
mutinied o the 23d, and set fire to a heap of
straw, which caused $500, 900 fire. No lives
were lost.
FEW days ago boiler explosion in Ban
holzer's brewery at st. Paul, Mimi, wounded
six men and five women, and caused loss Of
$15,OOO
THE high water in the Mississippi River at
Cairo, Shawneetown and other points in Illi-
nois continued on the 23d, and the people
were looking forward to further rise with
feelings of dread Terrible restitution still
prevailed in the flooded sections of Indiana,
but relief was being furnished as rapidly as
POSSIBLE.
NEAR Spring Mills, o., two freight trains
on the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Road col
lided few days ago, both being completely
wrecked, and Engineer L. Graham and Fire
man Quinlan lost their lives Seventy-fve
head of cattle were also killed.
In the Western Lunatic Asylum at Staun-
ton, Va, patient tempered with the medi-
cines used few days ago, and five inmates
had died and two others were fatally poisoned.
TIE public schools at Leadville, Col, were
closed on the Gath on account of smallpox.
and new pest-house had been established.
SEvENTY-FIvE Arkansas convicts, working
on the levee below Helena, mutinied a few
q. IL.
and seventeen of the party made their es-
cape.
THE levee at three points in Louisiana
broke on the 25th and several fine planta-
tions were overfowed. There was a foot of
water on the track from Vicksburg to Mon
roe
A HEAVY snow-storm in Wisconsin on the
oath blocked railroads to a greater extent
than heretofore this winter In some of the
cuts the snow was packed thirty feet deep.
The champion equestrienne, Belle Cook
(Mrs. J. M. PauD, died at San Jose, CAL, a
few days ago.
WITH the exception of one hotel and the
depot the entire village of Vaughan, Miss,
was destroyed by fire few nights ago.
In the mining region of the. North Park,
Col three men lost their lives by recent
snow-slide.
THE st. Joseph Lead Company's mills at
Bonnie Terre, Mo-, were destroyed by fire the
other day, involving loss of about $250,00O.
On the 10th George scheller, who kept the