The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-05
West and South.


THE Surveyor General of Dakota was on
the Goth informed by % band of half breed
Chippewa Indians residing in the Turtle
Mountains that they would not permit a
Government survey of their reservation to
be made.
THE death was announced on the Goth Of
George Knapp, senior proprietor of the
Missouri Republican, of st. Louis. He
had gone to Europe with his eldest son and
was on his return voyage when death over
took him. He was born in 1914, and was
the oldest journalist in Missouri.
THE Republicans of Nebraska met in
and nominated Hon. M. B. Reese, Of Saun.
ders County, for Justice of the Supreme
Court The resolutions adopted were of a
Stalwart Republican character.
AT Menominee, Wis, while crossing the
ferry on the Goth, Maggie Cunningham and
Ida Olson were drowned by the upsetting
of the boat.
B. G. MoUNTz, q prominent citizen Of
West Grafton, w. Va, mistook his son for
burglar the other night and shot him
dead.
AT Carey, o., pile of straw which was
stacked four years ago, was loaded on wag-
ons few days ago. In the center of the
stack was found the skeleton OF a man and
a vial of aconite.
The Maryland Republicans met in State
Convention at Baltimore on the 9th and
nominated Hart B. Holton for Governor:
Washington A. Smith, for Comptroller,
and Stockett Matthews, for Attorney Gen
eral. The platform indorses President
Arthur's administration; declares that
laborers have an equal right with capital
lists to make combinations for their pro-
lection, and that grave abuses continue to
exist in the administration Of the State
Government, and that the rulers must be
dethroned.
A FIRE-ENGINE at Lexington, KY, went
to put out fire on the premises of Will.
ington Payne the other night. Mrs. Payne,
aged seventy, saw the engine and dropped
dead from fright.
A YOUNG lawyer named John Bowley, of
Chestertown, Nd, who led his class at
Princeton College, was found dead in bed
a few days ago. He left for the Coroner a
note asking him to solve the question
whether he died of laudanum, love or
whisky.
On the night of the 9th the second I'M
successful attempt within a week was
made to wreck a passenger train near Tul-
lahoma, Tenn, by placing timber across
the track.
Snow to the depth of nearly an inch fell
on the 18th ult. at Owatonna, Mimi.
An express car on the Wabash Road was
entered by three masked men near Peru.
Ind, early on the morning of the 2Sth ult.,
who bound and gagged the messenger,
robbed the safe of $4,000, and left the mes
senger locked in the car.
THREE negroes named Isaac Evans, Reu.
ben King and Sawney Younger were ex-
ecuted on the 2sth ult., at Chatham, Va,
for murder. For a similar crime, George
Wallace, also colored, was hanged at Sa-
vannah, Ga.
WHILE dispositions in contested will
case were being taken at Blue Lick, KY,
ON the 9th ult. Samuel G. Rogers, Presi-
dent of the Farmers Bank of Carlisle,
killed his brothers, William o. and Thomas
Rogers. William was st. Louis lawyer,
and Thomas was farmer. The fratricide
claimed that he though his brothers were
| about to fire at him.
FREIGHT trains collided near Shakopee.
Minn., a few days ago, killing Engineer
Snow, Fireman Mccain, Brakeman Ma
loney and drover named p. H. Nc
Auliffe. Nine cars and an engine were to-
tally wrecked, and seventeen head of cat
| tie were killed.
A STEAMER arrived at San Francisco on
the 10Th ult. from Guaymas, Mex, with five
cases of yellow fever ON board, causing
considerable excitement
A TRAIN on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Road was attacked by three men
at Coolidge, Kan, on the Doth ult, for the
purpose of robbing the express car. En-
gineer John Hilton, for refusing to start
the train, was shot dead and the fireman
was severely wounded. The express mes
senger, however, repulsed the bandits after
several shots had been fred, and they
made their escape without securing any
booty.
In the Indian Territory, near Child
er's Station, few days ago Deputy Unit
ed States Marshals Beck and Merrill were
shot dead while attempting to arrest John
Bark and Cherokee named John NJ.
Jacks, whisky peddlers.
NEAR Winston, N. c., at recent camp.
meeting the appearance Of large number