The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-19
West and South.


A FIRE in Des Moines, Iowa, on the 18th
destroyed Clapp's Block, in which were To-
Gated the Citizens National Bank. the West
ern Urion telegraph office, and Masonic Hall.
causing loss of over 500, 1000.
ACCORDING to a census recently completed
by the police of Cleveland, o., the population
of that city was shown to be 100, 300.
A PASSENGER train on the Wabash Road
was ditched near Miami, Mo-, the other day,
and six persons were injured and the sleeping
car was burned.
EARLY few mornings ago severe shock
of earthqu Ike, lasting about thirty seconds,
was experienced in Missouri, Kentucky and
Southern Illinois, rousing people from their
sleep.
WILLIAM B. NAPToN, ex-Judge Of the Mis-
souri, Supreme Court, who declared the Va
grancy law Illegal, died recently.
A CALL has been issued for State Demo
cratic Convention for the nom nation of State
officers to be held at Louisville, KY, On the
10Th of May.
THE Democrats of the North Carolina
Legis! -ture on the 18th, re-nomlnated M. W.
Ransom for United States Senator
appointed General Agent of the New York
Associated Press.
THE ex-Treasurer of Tennessee made a
statement on the 10th, in which he placed the
amount of his dedication at $4,000.
A HURRICANE and an electric storm pre-
vailed at Denver Col, few days ago, un-
roofing many buildings, and wrecking struct-
ures in process of erection. The electric light
tower was blown down.
WIDOW HETTIE CUNNINGHAM the other
day threw herself and her three-year-old boy
from the suspension bridge at Paramount, w.
Va, into the Monongahela River, fifty-two
feet below, but both were rescued and resus-
citated.
The death of Dir. Samuel A. Mudd, who
served term at The Dry Tortugas charged
with harboring John Wilkes Booth, the as
sassin of President Lincoln, occurred near
Bryanstown, Md, few days ago.
ATHA THOMAS has been elected State
Treasurer by the Legislature of Tennessee.
He is lawyer at Franklin.
AT st. Louis recently Dan Taylor (colored)
shot his wife dead. She begged for time to
pray, but he said mot a m mute" jealousy
and domestic quarrels caused the tragedy
BYRON G. STOUT was on the 18th nomi-
mated for United States Senator by the Flu.
sion members of the Michigan Legislature
The Republicans of the Minnesota Legisla-
ture on the 18th renominated William Win
dom for United States Senator
FIRES in the city of Chicago during the
year 1882 entalel a loss of 1888, 610. 49, The
excess over insurance was $202, 201 so.
The passenger train on the Wabash Road
which left Cairo, ILL.,, early on the morning
Of the 18th was d;tched by broken rail near
Olmstead, fifteen miles north of Cairo. Two
coaches caught fire and burned. A number
of passengers were injured four of them
seriously.
The house of negro named Lindsay, near
Pinace Springs, Ark, was visited by party
of masked white men the other night, intent
on mischief but Lindsay and his friends were
prepared, and fred on the intruders, killing a
man named Hubbard and an unknown indi-
vidual, and mortally wounding another party.
The affair grew out of land dispute.
A CINCINNATI tailor, named John B. Hoff-
man, killed one son five years ago, and the
other day he killed another son, aged twenty
two years.
MARSH I. POLK, the defaulting Tennessee
IRE snrer, arrived at Nashville on the 18th
IT is said that three Americans were recent
ly robbed and murdered across the border
from Loredo, Tex.
HENRY PIERoE's farmhouse, near Elk
Point, Dakota, was set on fire by the over
turning of lamp by his wife few nights
ago He ran from the barn aud rescued Mrs.
Pierce, but failed in a desperate effort to save
his two children.
A FIRE broke out in the store.room of the
Planters Hotel at st. Louis early on the
morning of the 14th, and p mic ensued
among the guests, who rushed from the build
ing ina half-naked condition. The fl INES
were confined to the kitchen and were soon
extinguished. Three employees were suffo-
Gated by the smoke.
On the 18th smallpox was reported to be
decreasing in Baltimore, only nineteen cases
being developed on that day.
THE militia were on the 18th again called
out by Cherotee, the chief of the Creeks in
an attack by Spiochee.
On the evening of the 14th the First Presby-
terlan Church of Memphis, Tenn, was burned
just after the congregation passed out.
NEAR Leadville the other day body OF
snow nearly a quarter mile long, one hundred
yards wide, and fifteen feet deep, swept down
the side of Mosquito Mountain and carried
away two miners.
A RECENT fire destroyed the Jail at Oak
Harbor, o., and the only prisoner persisted in
the flames
SIXTEEN charred bodies had been removed
from the ruins of the Newhall House at Mil
waukee up to the 18th, making in all forty
one persons known to have persisted in the
flames. 1t was believed that forty-two bodies
were still buried in the debris. 1t had been
aseertained that Mr.. Brown, of Hlmilton,
Ont, his wife and four children met their
death in the fire.
AN attendant in the lu1atic asylum at
Anchorage, KY, recently ducked a refractory
inmate with fatal effect, for which he has
been sentenced to four months in Jail and to
pay a fine of 800.
w, B. BATE was inaugurated Governor of
Tennessee on the 10Th.
FROM the ruins Of the Newhall House at
Milwaukee eleven more bodies were taken on
the 18th. This made the total of the known
dead fifty-seven, but over forty persons were
still missing.
BETWEEN Atlanta, Ga, and Kingston, a
white man and woman and three children
were found frozen to death in the woods the
other day The unfortunate family were
clothed in rags, and their faces looked as if
they had persisted from hunger as well as
cold.
A BILL has been passed by the Texas Legis-
lature withdrawing the ffty-cent land from
market, intending to make the minimum
price two dollars
JOHN M. PALMER was nominated on the
10Th for United States Senator by the Demo-
Gratis of the Illinois Legislature.
Foreign Intelligence.
In speech at Birkenhead on the 11th
Michael Davitt declared that the people Of
Ireland had had enOurh Of futila au;tatior