The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-11

West and South.
On the Sd another Judgment was secured
by Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines against the
city of New Orleans for 81 ,925,667
AT Baltimore on the Sd there were over
eleven hundred arrivals of immigrants.
BY recent explosion of gas in the Ref
uge Oil Mill at Vicksburg, Miss, two young
ladies and man were fatally burned, and
three other men were badly injured. The
ladies and their male escort visited the
mills to see the machinery, and the lamp
he carried caused the accident.
THE Ohio Republican State Convention
will meet at Columbus on the 9th of June,
and the Iowa Republicans will hold their
State Convention at Des Moines, June 81.
DURING the two days ended at noon on
the 3D. Louisville, KY, shipped 1,069,257
pounds of manufactured tobacco. There
was great activity in the trade.
FROM different parts of Texas advices on
the 3D. reported great activity among the
stock men, and great number of cattle on
the trail for the North 1t was estimated
that the "drive" greatly exceeded that of
last year.
in an ancient mound near Lenoir, N. c.,
the other day, many being Of gigantic
size with remarkable heads.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was ex
perienced at Helena, M. T., shortly before
noon on the 18th.
AMOS BAILEY, colered, who murdered
Mr.. Cain, a white man, near Little Springs,
Miss, was taken out of jail by mob few
evenings ago and lynched.
FIRE on the 4th destroyed the principal
business portion of Union City, Ind, in
volving a loss of over S250,000.
THE following murderers were hung on
the 4th: John Lee (colored) at Gainesville,
Fla; Robert Butler at Columbia, La, and
d. t. Walker at Trenton, Ga. After the
hanging of Walker row occurred among
the spectators, during which George Bird,
a brother of the Sheriff, was killed, and
several other persons were injured.
OWING to domestic troubles Nicholas
Mills, Baltimore car-driver, committed
suicide the other day by Crushing in his
forehead with heavy spike hammer.
THE failure of Harris & Co., bankers at
Olathe, Kan, with liabilities estimated at
$4,000, is announced.
THE estimates of the profits of the recent
dramatic festival at Cincinnati were $780,
| 000
JOHN HEAvEY, while carelessly handling
a rifle in Chicago shooting-gallery the
other day, shot and instantly killed his
brother Martin.
THE Piegan Indians, who were said to be
starving, left their agency, northwest of
Fort Benton, M. t., on the 9TH, and were
making for the Sweet Grass Hills with
the intention of killing cattle wherever
| found.
On the 9TH three tramps were arrested
for being implicated in the robbery of
Major WATSON, army paymaster, on a
Texas Pacific train a few nights ago. Notes
of large denomination and 5000 in gold
were found on them.
A FEW mornings ago a colored woman of
Chicago left her two little children locked
up in a room while she was temporarily
absent from home, and the house was
burned, the little ones perishing in the fire.
BY the burning of his stable at Lexing-
ton, KY, a few days ago J. A. Grinstead
lost six thoroughbred yearling colts, val
ued at $4,000.
A FIRE in East st. Louis, ILL.,, on the 7th
destroyed twenty-five buildings and fifty
four families were rendered homeless and
penniless.
! IT is announced from San Francisco that
Theresa Fair, wife of the Nevada Senator
and millionaire, has recently filed petit.
ton for divorce on the ground of her hus.
bands infidelities. Rumors were current
on the It'll to the effect that Senator Fair
would allow the case to go by default, and
had already arranged that his wife should
receive $3,00O,0O0 in cash and ST. 100000 in
real estate.
In joint convention at Cincinnati on the
18th the Methodist ministers determined to
call State Convention of ministers, and
resolved upon vigorous temperance action.
BY direction of the Secretary of the In
terror the former site of the Blackfoot In
dian Agency, in Montana, will be offered
for sale at public auction after due adver-
tisement of notice for thirty days, at rate
not less than $1.25 per acre, and if no sale
is effected the land will be thrown open to
settlement under general laws.
A DESPERATE named Hal Holmes, on
trial few days ago at Orange, Tex, for
numbering his fourth man, ran from the
Deputy Sheriff, mounted horse and gal
Topped off with yells, while Holmes sister
covered the Deputy with six-shooter, and
made him hold up his hands.
DAVID HILLBURN, residing in Conway
County, Ark, was the principal witness
against one Nightingale for selling whisky
without license. The other night assassins
shot through Hillburn's window, wounding
him and killing his wife.