The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-23


THE Democrats of the Sixth Louisiana Dis
trict have elected E. F. Lewis as Congress
man, to take the place of Heron, deceased.
In the vicinity of Los Angeles, CAL, a
water-spout recently caused the partial de-
struction of a railroad train and the death of
the fireman.
THE Minnesota and Nebraska Legislatures
have voted down propositions for Prohibitory
Amendments.
THE pressure of high water caused the
shaft of the old Diamond mine, four miles
from Braidwood, ILL.,, to cave in on the 10th,
and seventy-four men were believed to have
been almost instantly drowned, as the water
reached depth of sixteen feet.
THE other day Mrs. Walter Hunt, of San
dusky, o., dropped dead in Herdic coach
while putting her fare in the box.
RIoT1NG progressed at Grand Forks, D. T.,
on the 10th among claim jumpers, and two
men had already been killed. Bitter feelings
prevailed.
The governor suddenly few off the engine
at the Mingo rolling-mill in Steubenville, o.,
recently, causing the ruin of ten stones used
to grind the knives of the nail-machines.
Captain James Prentiss was instantly killed.
and William Pert received serious injuries.
THE wife of one of the defendants in the
Star-route trial, Mrs. H. NJ. Vale, committed
suicide on the 10th, at her home in Independ-
ence, Mo.
AMAN named Isaac Knapp who was sent
to the Ohio Penitentiary from Fremont for
life, secured a pardon by false representations
as to his health. He was speedily rearrested,
and instituted habeas corpus proceedings.
The State Supreme Court has decided that it
could not inquire into the validity of the
pardon, and Knapp has been discharged
SIX cars of an express train were dtched
near Gallon, o., few days ago, killing three
persons and wounding many others.
| HIGHwAYMEN robbed s. d. Houstons, a
tax-collector of Lawrence County, Ala, OF
50, 800 on lonely road few US ago. The
robbers also took Houstons horse.
AN act has been passed by the Arkansas
Legislature prohibiting for two years the sale
of intoxicantS within three miles of church
or school.
A ST. LOUIS telegram of the 18th says the
Laclede rolling-mills in that city had shut
down, throwing six hundred men out of en-
ployment.
DIR. H j. GLENN, the largest wheat-grower
in California, who was once the Democratic
no ninee for Governor, was fatally shot the
other day by his book-keeper, H. Miller who
had been discharged.
The flood in the Ohio River s gradually
subsiding at Cincinnati on the 18th. The
houseless ones at New Albany, Ind, were
suffering great y by the cold snap, and the
condition of the city was deplorable. AT
Louis vile, KY, the falling river occasioned
general gladness. The gorge Nj the Miami
at Toledo, o., had broken, taking spans out
Of two bridges and entirely demolishing two
,others, but no loss save in bridges was likely
to occur
THE extensive iron firm of John v Ayers
Son, of Chicago. suspended on the 18th, witt
liabilities estimated at $2,000,O0o. Theil
mills we're located at Youngstown, o., and
gave employment to two thousand n'en.
The grain commission firm of Conner &
Brothers, of st. Louis, have suspended pay.
ment, after meeting losses to the amount OF
$4,000
FOUR children of Michael Mcdonald, OF
Bracket, Tex, were burned to death in bed
a few mornings ago by the explosion of q
| lamp.
THE losses inflicted upon the cattle ranches
in Colorado, Kansas. Nebraska, Wyoming,
Montana, Utah and Idaho by the recent
severe storms it is estimated will aggregate
over 100000.