The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-23
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West and South.
IT was. announced on the 10Th that the
report that George Shaw had killed his
wife and six children near Canal Dover,
o., was without foundation.
AT Sour Lake, Tex, twelve tramps con-
gregated the other night, and when a train
came along rushed for the express car, but
halted at the sight of twenty Winchester
rifles held by determined men, warning
having been wired that the tramps in
tended robbery.
BISHOP CLARKsoN on the 18th dedicated
Trinity Cattle lral at Omaha, Neb., which
cost over 100000.
The sugar-king of the Pacific coast, Claus
Spreckels, has ordered two steamers built
for the China trade, in opposition to the
Pacific Mail Company
The death of the wife of, John w. Gar
rett, President of the Baltimore & Ohio
Road, occurred on the 10Th at Montebello,
Md, from injuries received by being
thrown from her carriage ten days before.
THE receipts at Cleveland, o., of iron ore
this season were 663,S07 tons, against $685.
04S tons last year; and the shipments ag-
gregated 644,331 tons, while in 1882 they
were 67S, 735 tons.
GERMAN laborer ON the docks at Cleve-
land, named John Waffen, with wife and
five children to support, won one dollar re-
Gently by drinking fifteen glasses of
whisky in fifteen minutes. He survived
the feat only two days.
The American Public Health Association
at re mol IN
o., elected as President DIR. A. L. Gibson,
Medical Director Of the United States navy.
THE Washington Territory Legislature
on the 10Th passed bill striking the word
male" from the Election laws, and Gov
ernor Newell promised to attach his sigma
ture.
NEGRO named Harrison Crews, when
arrested a few days ago at Lynchburg,
Va, on a charge of incendiarism, con-
fessed that in the past three months he had
set fire to twelve structures.
A FIRE the other day DESTROYED T. Fl.
Turner & Sons warehouse at Columbus,
Miss, with two thousand bales of cotton
Loss, 100000.
The municipal and commercial authori-
ties of Cincinnati announced on the 10th
that they would not conform to the new
standard of time, and the newspapers
would give only local time on the railroad
tables.
A FEW days ago Texas convicts en-
ployed as laborers on the Hou ,ton Road,
near Choctaw, misplaced the track in
such manner as to wreck a train and in
jure all the employees.
THREE cars of a rapidly-moving passen-
ger-train on the Alabama Great Southern
Road were thrown down a steep embank-
ment near Collinsville a few nights ago
and twenty-five passengers were hurt, one
fatally.
FROST and ice, the first of the season,
made their appearance at Dallas, Tex, on
the 10th, and cotton and all other vegeta-
tion was reported as killed.
JOHN SMITH (coloredD was executed at
Oakland, Md, on the 10th for the murder
of Josiah Harden, and Perry Jeter, one of
gang of seven negroes who fired the
plantation house of their former master in
South Carolina, was hanged at Union.
In the recent storm on the lakes scow
owned by Marion Brothers, of Detroit,
Mich, with a crew of four men, was lost.
The other day two farm hands while
walking on the railroad track near Fargo,
DIT, were struck by locomotive and in
stantly killed. They were both intoxi-
Gated.
A ST. LOUIS reporter named Rowland
Richard, who had been tried three times
for the murder of his landlady, Miss Selma
Wilson, was on the 10th acquitted on the
ground that his pistol was accidentally
discharged.
AN excursion train from Minneapolis to
Southern California was wrecked on the
10th near Jamesport, Mo-, and seven per-
sons were seriously injured.
On the Itch Frederick NJ. Ker, the en-
bezzling book-keeper of Preston, Kean &
Co., of Chicago, was sentenced to impris-
onment for ten years.
In the region of Wolfville, N. S., the
dykes have been badly broken by fierce
storms and unusually high tides, and hun
dreis of acres of land were under water on
the 18th.
On the 18th a Mormon elder passed
through Kansas City with seventy eight
proselYtes from the Southern States.
JACOB MELTING, who recently confessed
that he murdered Ada Atkinson, the young
daughter of a farmer for whom he had long
worked, was taken from Jail at Fowler,
Ind, on the evening of the 18th by three
hundred citizens of Oxford, aud lynched.
A FIRE at South Chicago a few days ago
destroyed row of seven tenement-houses,
and Peter Mointz lost his life in one of the
buildings.
THIRTY citizens few nights ago visited
the drug store of G. E. Sutton, at Romney,
mo, who was charged with retailing
whisky, aud demolished the building and
destroyed goods valued at $1,000.
NEAR NatcheZ, Tenn, the steamer s. n.
Parisot, with cargo of cotton and oil
cake, was burned on the 18th, causing a loss
of over 100000. One deck-hand was
drowned and it was thought three passen-
gers persisted in the flames.
PASSENGER trains on the Illinois Cen
trial collided a few days ago near Bradford
Station, Tenn, and three men were killed,
several passengers were wounded and five
cars were burned.
In quarrel a few days ago at Gallipolis,
o., over the price of drinks, William Stey-
ems shot James Block dead.
TEMPERANCE agitation it was announced
on the 18th had been revived in Kansas to
a degree which bid fair to close the saloons
in Atchison, Leavenworth and Topeka.
The cause was the assumption of political
influence by the hquor-dealers in the re-
cent campaign.
A BOAT containing four persons was up
set few days ago while attempting to
cross the Mississippi, u the parish of st.
John, La, aud q the occupants were
drowned