The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-04-20

Crockett, murderer, was taken from jail
at Wytheville, Va, by mob, and hanged
to a beam in a mill on the outskirts of the
town, after which his body was riddled
with bullets.
A RECENT boiler explosion in chair fac
tory at Hudson, Wis, resulted fatally to
one of the workmen, the foreman also re
ceiving severe injuries.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made that the Prohibit
tionists of Kentucky, who were to have held
a convention this month, in conjunction
with the Greenbackers, for the nomination
of a State ticket, have abandoned the
project, owing to the opposition of the
clergy and others to third party move
ment.
The steamer WILLY struck a bridge and
sank at Fort Gaines, Ca, on the night of
the 18th. Six lives were lost.
AN earthquake shock of four seconds du-
ration was experienced at Cairo, H., on the
18th. A frame building was shaken down.
NEAR Springfield, ILL.,, ON the evening of
the 10Th, three non-union iron-workers
were fired upon, one being shot dead and
his companions dangerously wounded.
Amalgamated Association men were
charged with the crime.
A BOILER EXPLOSION in the factory of
Hitchcock & Bradley, at Ashtabula, o.,
on the 18th wrecked the building and killed
the night Waterman, James Grubhorn.
THE prevalence of smallpox in Nash
vile, Tenn, is said to have caused great
alarm among the people. Complaint has
been made that there was little or no effort
to isolate houses or localities in which the
disease prevailed, and that people went I'M
hindered from the bedside of a smallpox
patient into the street-cars or business
houses, spreading the disease at every step.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the failure of
Ellis & Krauss, of Evansville, Ind, millers
and dealers in grain, with liabilities
amounting to $4,000 and assets of $4,000.
A WELL-To-Do farmer of Earlville, Ia,
named Charles Smith, in an insane frenzy
on the 18th, killed his wife and two sons,
boys of nine and twelve years, and then
committed suicide. His mental derange-
ment was attributed to domestic troubles.
THE second ann"al banquet of the Iro-
quois Club was held in Chicago on the 18th.
Among the orators were Senator Bayard,
of Delaware; Colonel w. P. G. Breckin-
ridge, of Kentucky; E. P. Wheeler and w.
H. Hurlbert, of New York; w. F. Villas, of
Wisconsin; James o. Broadhead, of Mis-
souri,; William NJ. Springer, of Springfield,
ILL.,, and Mayor Harrison, of Chicago.
AN order has been issued by Fowler
Bros, Kansas City (Mo.) packers, that their
employees must abstain from intoxicants
while either on or off duty, and must not
visit gambling houses.
On the 18th the taking of testimony for
the prosecution in the trial of George Schel-
ler charged with the burning of the New
hall House, in Milwaukee, was closed, and
the defense introduced several witnesses
One of the witnesses for the prosecution had
stated that Scheller's attorney and a sa-
loon-keeper named Roth had requested him
to say that the fire was caused by gas-jet
at the bottom of the elevator-shaft coming
in contact with the woodwork; but Roth,
being put upon the stand, gave an emphatic
denial of this. The defense announced it's
intention and ability to prove an alibi.
On the 18th Robert Massey, who muir
dered Edwin P. Clark in the Chickasaw
Nation last year, was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark At Carrolton, Miss, on the
same day, James E. Robinson paid the ex-
treme penalty of the law for killing Will
lam Y. Adair in a drunken row.
AT Denver, Col, Albert G.. Packer was
recently convicted of the murder of five
fellow prospectors, whose flesh he is said to
have afterward eaten.
The 18th beingthe eighteenth anniversary
of the death of Abraham Lincoln, appro-
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Springfield, Ill. Colonel Thomas j. Hem
derson, of Princeton, was the orator of the
day.
CONSIDERABLE damage to farm buildings
in Otoe and Nemaha Counties, Neb., and
throughout portions of Iowa and Kansas
was caused by wind-storm a few days
ago. Several persons were injured by the
fall of houses they were occupying, and
two lost their lives.
AT Milwaukee ON the 14th George
Scheller, the alleged Newhall House in
cendiary, testified in his own behalf. The
cross-examination withdrew from him an
admission that he passed the hotel entrance
within few minutes of the breaking out of
the fire.
A NUMBER of houses were blown down
by wnd-storm at White Oak, Ark, few
days ago, and three persons were fatally
injured.
IT has been decided by Judge Highley,
of Cincinnati, that pigeon-shooting as COM
monty practiced in tests of skill in marks
manship comes within the purview of the
law against cruelty to animals.
THE supposed leaders of the attacks upon
non-Nnion workmen employed at the roll
ing-mill in Springfield, ILL.,, six in number,
were arrested on the 14th. The Sheriff of
the county protested to have information
that an attack upon the rolling-mill was
meditated, and at his request the Governors
Guard had been ordered to be in readiness
for service.
RECOGNIZING that regular troops are USE
less in warfare against the Apaches in the
mountainous country on the border of Mex
leo, General Crook was on the 14th arrang-
ing for the employment of Indian scouts
against the hostiles. The General had in
formation that the Mexicans were not SPAR
ing either men, women or children of the
Apaches.
The capture by Captain O'Brien, of the
Second Cavalry, of sixty-nine Cree In
dams from Canada, near Fort Assinaboine,
in Northern Montana, is announced. The
Indians were being held as prisoners, pend
ing orders from headquarters.
THE report that a meteor of gigantic pro-
portions had fallen near Fort Worth, Tex,
was denied on the 10th. The yarn is said
to have been invented by the gentleman
who sold the Mammoth Cave for shipment
to England.
1T is announced that E. A. Sager, ex.
City Clerk of Wyandotte, Kan, is de-
faulter in the sum of $4,000. Sager was
thought to be in Canada.
AT San Francisco on the 10th street ru-
mors were current that the life of Senator
Fair, of Nevada, had been attempted by his
son. The cause was alleged to be domestic
trouble.
LITTLE daughter of J. S. Howard, and
little son of Peter White, of Portsmouth,
Tex, were burned to death in a large box
few days ago, while playing.
THE Metropolitan Bank of New Orleans
was entered by burglars on the night of the
10Th, who bound and gagged the watch
man, and blew open the doors of the vault,
but failed to reach the interior of the safe,
securing only about $1,000 OF the banks
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