The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-16
West and South.

sHOCO anu OO1Gus
THE workmen in the paiut-shop of the Pull
man Palace Car Company's repair-shops al
St. Louis have struck on account of the EN-
ployment Of a Chinese boy as an apprentice.
THE Union Pacific RAILROADS. total earnings
during the last fiscal year were So, 1923, 8S4
The net income W s $12,096.S36. The tota
indie btedness is $s1, S45, 507 @
WoRKMEN to the number of nearly six hun
dre1 employed in the Springfield (IlL) Roll.
ing Mills, who took their situations with the
understanding that they should have no con.
neetion with the Amalgamated Union, have
struck because their employers refused to re-
lease them from that obligation.
A. L. JOHNSON was shot dead by Sheriff
Dixon a few days ago in the courthouse at
Texarkana, Ark, before Judge, jury and aq7
dtors. The men had quarreled on the sup.
preston of gambling.
Property valued at $25O,0O0 was de-
stroyed by recent fire at Nashville, Tenn.
A BILL has passed the Territorial Legisla.
ture Of Dakota providing for the removal Of
the Capital from Yankton aud appointing &
commission to select site.
On the evening of the 9TH the east-bound
passenger train on the Little Rock & Fort
Smith Railroad was boarded by forty men
two miles west Of Mulberry Station, Ark,
who ordered the passengers to throw up theil
hands, and began firing pistols. Conductor
John Cain was. in the rear, and was fatally
shot. The robbers rushed for the engine, but
before reaching it Engineer Rogers pulled out
and prevented a robbery. The robbers jumped
off after the train was in motion.
MANY new breaks in the levees along the
Mississippi River were reported on the Sth.
Arkansas City, Ark, was almost entirely
under water, and much distress prevailed.
At other points there was great damage and
suffering, and many fine plantations were en-.
tirely under water.
THE late Alexander H. Stephens was buried
at Atlanta, Ca, on the Sth. Robert Toombs
and Senator Joseph E. Brown were among
the speakers. In all the cities of Georgia
and In many other places in the South me
moria services were held simultaneously
with the burial at the State capital.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, on the Sth, Daniel
Woods, aged 106 years, died from general de
bility. He fought with the Duke of Yelling.
ton, and was one of the guards over Napoleon
Bonaparte at St. Helena.
AT Staunton, Va, On the evening of the
Sth ExGoveEnor Sprague, of Rhode Island
was married to Mrs. D. l. Calvert, of Green
briar County, West Virginia.
DURING the recent fire at Nashville, Tenn.
a falling wall killed Thomas Womack, Will
lam Miller and John Firth.
THE other n ght the wife and one child OF
Samuel Cronise lost their lives by the burn.
ing of their house near Frederick, Md.
ON the Sth the Michigan Greenback State
Convention met at lansing and voted to
unite with the Democrats and filled the p DC
in the latter's State ticket with the names Of
Thomas r. Sherwood for Judge of the Su.
IRENE Court, short term, and G. j. Willet "a
Regent of the University.
THAT part of the Sioux Reservation which
lies east Of the Missouri River has recently
been invaded by several hundred squatters,
and the Interior Department has been re-
quested to cause their expulsion.
On the Sth the Kansas Legislature adj
journed sine die The proposition to submit tc
popular vote the question of the repeal Of the
Prohibition law was voted down by both
houses of the Legislature.
CLARENCE HILL, member of the James
gang, who was recently sentenced to twenty
five years Imprisonment on plea of guilty OF
train-robbing, has been pardoned by the Gov.
ernor of Missouri. m
THE State Republican Convention OF Ken
lucky, for the nomination of State officers,
has been called to meet at Lexington on the
23d of May.
ADvIoEs from Memphis on the 9th were to
the effect hat the water in st. Francis River
was still flowing down from the sunk lands,
and slowly ris ng at all points. The suffer
ing was intense, and many / eople were be-
lieved to be dying for want of food. At Aus
tin the levee broke, and the town was food
ed. A number of human beings, lost on the
upper st. Francis and the sunk lands. had
not been heard from, and it was believed that
they died of starvation There was nothing
in sight Of their homes, for hundreds Of
miles, but water. *w hW W
Bishop JoHN QUINLAN, of the Catholic di-
Geese of Mobile, died at New Orleans few
days ago. -. ms4 M
DURING quarrel at Hunnewell, Kan, a
few days ago Robert Y. Dodd, an extensive
cattle dealer, was fatally shot.
A PoRTSNGoUTH (Va.) woman a few days age
took chloroform to have some teeth extract
ed and died shortly after the operation.
The distribution Of mail matter, the run
ming of cars and the buying or reading OF
secular newspapers on Sunday have been
condemned by the Methodist Episcopal Con.
ference of Virginia. S
Moses I. RAY, assistant cashier of the
Montgomery (Ala.l Merchants and Planters
Bank, who committed suicide the other day,
is found to have been an embezzler to the
amount of $4,000.
A FEW evenings ago Mrs. Lucinda Forman,
aged ninety. and her maiden daughter, aged
tifty-one, who lived together. near Royalton,
Ind, were found murdered on their premises.
No clew has been obtained to the perpetra-
tors of the deed, whose motive was supposed
to have been robbery.
The failure of French s. Blossom, whole
sale dealers in boots and shoes atSt. Louis,
for S135, 0O,, is announced
THE flood in the Oldtown~ Lake country,
near Helena, Ark, was doing great. damage
on the 11th In one instance a settlers house
was carried away by the flood, aud his four
children were drowned. Stock were up to
their throats in water 10 the st. Francis
sw1mps, aud many carcasses of dead animals
were floating about.
A CoRoNER's JURY in Chicago has held
JeSe Dunn without bail for the murder of
Jim Elliott, the pugilist. ! - ps-
In Hall County, Ga, a drunken father
named Herring poured shovel Of hot Goals
on an infant child few DAYS ago. and the
child was burned to death.
A FEW nights ago eleven men were burned
to death in a one-story -and-!oft boarding.
house at Brownsville, DAkota, and four Others
were badly injured. ag
THE Legislature Of Dakota adjourned sias
die on the 10th.
MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, and the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company came to
an agreement on the 10Th, BY which the wires
of that Company, which were summarily cut
few days before, were REUNITED
THE food in the Mississippi River at
Helena, Ark, was slowly subsiding on the
18th Heavy losses BY the floods were re-
ported from all directions, and the people
were completely disheartened. The loss Of
life In the sunk lands was thought to be
large. and those vino escaped drowning were
suffering for food. Island No IS, in the
middle Of the river, sixty miles below Helena
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