The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-20

structures being wrecked and some stock
killed. The residence of family named
Berry was blown to pieces, and all the in
mates were wounded.
NEGROES, in dread of yellow fever, have
commenced an exodus from Northern Loui-
siana, Arkansas and Eastern Texas.
Two TWIN children of George Boozer,
at Laurens. S. c., six weeks old, died sud
denly few days ago from the effect OF
morphine, administered by mistake by a
careless nurse.
AT the recent session of the Louisiana
Colored Baptist State Convention, at Baton
Rouge, membership of fifty thousand
was represented. The convention decided
to Immediately send missionary to Afri-
ca through the Baptist Foreign Mission
Society of the United States, and to push
forward the missionary work in the State.
On the evening of the 18th a cyclone
struck Indianapolis, tearing up shade
trees by the hundred, and unroofng build
ings. The new steel mill was partially
wrecked.
THE Apollo Commandery, of Chicago,
and a large party from surrounding States,
left on the evening of the 18th for Euro
pean tour.
AT Falls City, Neb., Alice Gum, aged
fourteen, was burned to death the other
day by the explosion of coal oil can she
had been using to light a fire.
REPORT was made on the 10Th by the I'LL
nois Department of Agriculture that corn
promised better crop than last year, al
though the season had been unfavorable.
N. S. TEMPLE, colored politician OF
note, was found guilty at Jackson, Miss,
recently of numbering his wife, and was
awarded life imprisonment.
CAREFUL estimates place the total Texas
cattle drive this season at 100000 head.
The stock is in good order and free from
disease.
A HAIL and wind-storm which swept
southeasterly across Iowa and Illinois on
the 18th assumed the proportions of a tor
nado, and inflicted damage which could
not be computed. A tract of forty square
miles was devastated in Scott County, Ia,
and thousand acres of grain were ruined.
In Western Illinois buildings were wrecked
and crops destroyed. Much damage was
done at Kansas City, ST. Joseph and Mo
berly, Mo- Heavy rain in st. Louis flooded
cellars, while the wind unroofed structures.
Near Lincoln, Neb., the crops and some
buildings were demolished. Many struc-
lures were wrecked at Maiden, Mo-, and at
Harrisonburg, Va, a deluge of rain created
havoc. At Maryville, Mo-, the best bust
ness houses, the county Jail, courthouse,
city hall and Presbyterian Church were
partially demolished, and several persons
were wounded. Near Browning, Mo-,
train was blown from the track,
and eight persons were seriously injured,
two fatally.
MRS. MINNIE BROWN, white woman,
and Mrs. Crawford, colored, were fishing
in Calhoun County, Fla, recently; when
Mrs. Crawford's daughter, aged fourteen,
severely beat Mrs. Browns child and then
held it's head under the water until the
child was drowned
DE SoTo, the President of Honduras, and
perrty, arrived in Chicago on the 18th.
The New, York and Cuba Mail Line
steamer Niagara was burned off the Flor.
ida coast few days ago. The passengers
were saved and taken to Havana. The
steamer was valued at $3.50, 900.
THE failure is reported of j. P. Macheca
& Co., fruit-dealers, of New Orleans, for
100000.
On the 18th bank ledger which was ex-
pected to furnish evidence for the convic-
ton of Marsh I. Polk was stolen from the
Office of the State Treasurer at Nashville,
Tenn, and a reward of $3.50 was offered for
its return.
AN explosion in the powder works near
Wilmington, Del, few evenings ago blew
two men to fragments.
On the 18th official estimates showed a
marked decrease in the acreage and aver
age yield per acre of the Michigan wheat
fields, the estimated deficiency in the wheat
crop of the State being over 5000, 900 bush
els as compared with last years returns.
CAIRO. ILL.,, was slightly shocked by an
earthquake early on the morning of the
18th.
A NEGRO herb doctor murdered his wife
and mother-in-law with a butcher-knife
in the woods near Paducah, KY, ON the
18th.
NEARLY the entire town of Cokato
Mimi, was destroyed by fire few days
ago, the loss being estimated at 100000
Three railroad laborers were burned tc
death in the hotel where the flames orig
mated.
THE two assassins of r. L. Clingan
postmaster at Polk City, Iowa, were
captured on the 18th in Elkhorn Grove
Shelby County. One of the men, giving
bie y,o,,,a a g Pa,,;o,,,tn Gatac 1ryac fatally
wounded before being taken, and his com
panion, who said his name was Smith, was
taken to the Shelby County Jail. Before
dying Gates confessed that he shot
Clingan and also Mayor Stubs about one
year ago, the motive being robbery.
In the Southern States ''filledo twenty
dollar gold pieces were reported in circu
ton on the 14th.
Two YOUNG men named Elijah Hayes
and Ruff Mcconnell, living near Paris
Tenn, quarreled recently while in swim
ming. In the scuffle which afterward en-
sued Mcconnell drew pistol and fatally
shot Hayes. Mcconnell started home, bu
fell dead on the way from excitement anc
remorse.
AT st. Mary's Industrial School, neal
Baltimore, ten deaths from black measles
have occurred, and ON the 10th fifteen in
mates were prostrate.
In Tracy City, Tenn, colored barbe
while shaving a customer the other da,
was shot dead by some unknown persol
outside the shop.
HALF the business part of Belleville, New,
was recently destroyed by fire.
THE chemical buildings, saw-mill and re
torts of the Vulcan Furnace Company, a
Newberry, Mich, We're destroyed by fire
few days ago. Loss, 100000.
In portions of the Northwest another cy
clone on the 10Th destroyed nearly every
thing in its path. Bloomington, Pekir
| Decatur and other places in Illinois wer
visited and buildings were devastated an
crops flattened to the ground, entailin
much damage. At Des Moines, Ia, builG
! ings were unroofed and trees blown down
! Oconomowoc, Wis, suffered great damage
and at Fort Atkinson over fifty house
were demolished. No loss of life was RI
ported.
NEAR Helena, Ark, two negroes tough
a duel the other night, one having a mu;
ket and the other rifle. They fired wit
fatal effect, and both died during tn
night.
AT Omaha, Neb., cattle thieves wer
| committing depredations on the 1871