The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-09
West and South.

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BY runaway few days ago near Cald-
well, o., Mrs. Polly Miller, Mrs. Cynthia
Turl and young man we're thrown from
wagon, and Mrs. Miller was fatally hurt
and the others were badly injured. Will
lam Miller was crippled for life while try
ing to stop the team.
On account of small shortage in his ac-
counts Thomas L. Clinton, manager of the
Canadian Pacific Telegraph Company,
committed suicide at Winnipeg recently by
taking poison.
A BOILER exploded on James Goldberry's
plantation, near Terre Haute Landing,
Miss, few days ago, and the engineer and
two negroes were killed, and several others
were wounded.
A SURVEY has been made for a narrow
gauge railway from Manitou to the summit
of Pixies Peak, thirty miles, and work is to
be commenced at once. James H. Kerr.
Of Colorado Springs, is President of the
company organized to build the road. The
maximum grade is to be three hundred
feet to the mile.
JUDGE MCCRARY decided in land case
at Denver ON the 1st in favor of the can
collation. of sixty-one patents fraudulently
obtained in Colorado through the Pre-emp-
ton law, although the title had passed into
the hands of innocent parties.
THREE brothers called ex- Sheriff McKen-
zie, of Morgan County, KY, to his door a
few days ago, on pretense of making up
an old feud, and he was fatally beaten with
clubs. The assassins escaped.
AFTER determined fight, United States
Marshal r. s. Foster and posse of de-
tectives captured nine counterfeiters at
Pikeville, Pike County, Ind, on the LIST
and took them to indianapolis. In the
conflict two Of the criminals we're danger
ously wounded.
JOHN ERNEsT's house at Middletown, O.,
was burned recently and two children were
| sufocated.
THE Coroner's Jury in the case of Fora
Burns, at Lincoln, ILL.,, on the LIST found
that she came to her death at the hands of
some person or persons unknown. Orrin
| A. Carpenter had not been released from
| Jail, as he was held on a warrant charging
him with the murder.
A TRAIN ran over and killed two intoxi-
Gated wood-choppers on the outskirts of
| Detroit, Mich, few days ago.
| EIGHTEEN cars were thrown into the San
ia Anna RiverS in California, the other
night by the falling ,of a bridge, and two
tramps were killed. Two train hands were
injured.
| The Rock River Paper Company of Chi
cago made an assignment on the I'd for
about 100000.
THE little town of Willoughby, o.,
twenty miles east of Cleveland, was al
most totally destroyed by FIRE on the I'd,
entailing q loss of not less than 100000.
A DISPUTE arose few nights ago at a
dance at Lamar, Mo-, between Anthony
Bummits and Alexander Brown, in which
the latter killed his rival with a pocket
knife.
The death of Colonel Frank B. Pond, Of
Malta, Morgan County, o., author Of the
Pond Liquor law, occurred Oh the I'd.
SENATOR SHARON has beer sued by Aggie
Hill, of San Francisco, in the Superior
Court for divorce, division of property and
alimony, alleging that he is worth $15, 000,-
600.
A WEALTHY Cincinnati Jewish lady,
Mrs. l.. Wolfstein, fell from a fourth story
window the other day, while calling her
coachman, and died soon after.
EDWARD RICHARDS, an inmate of the
Milwaukee Soldiers Home, while absent
on leave fell into a trance which on the I'd
had lasted twenty-eight days. A small
quantity of milk had been fed to the old
man, but he continued his sleep in spite of
| all aftalnpta RI axra lyay, hin, stES es
| THE st. Louis girl Mary Churchill, who
nlysteriously disappeared from her home
August IS last, was found on the 18th in the
insane asylum near Indianapolis, where
she hired out to de laundry work. She re-
turned home with her father.
AT Algiers, La, a fire recently destroyed
twenty houses and other property. The
total loss was placed at 100000.
A FEW days ago Mrs. Elizabeth B. Gibbs,
widow of United States Surgeon Gibbs,
| threw herself from railway car at the
tunnel entrance near Baltimore, Nd, and
was killed.
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD was unani-
mously reelected President Of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union at
its session in Detroit on the Sd.
NEAR Sonora, Cal, the Miltin stage was
stopped on the Sd by highwayman, who
took Wells & Fargo's express bag contain
ing 81, 700.
| On the Sd Ellery A. Andrews, self-con-
fessed embezzler of 50 800 from the North
western National Bank of Chicago, was
sentenced to three years. imprisonment,
and Peters, book-keeper for Lyon &
Healy, who embezzled $4,000, was dis
charged for lack of prosecution.
AN ARRAY occurred at a political meeting
in Danville, Va, on the Sd between white
and colored men, followed speedily by a
| general discharge of revolvers. -Four ne
groes were killed, one white man was NOR
tally injured, and twenty other persons
were wounded. A company of militia was
called out to patrol the town, and one of
| its members was wounded from window
| by a negro.
| A TERRIFIC cyclone swept through
| Springfield and Brookline, Mo-, on the
afternoon of the 9TH, md iii the former city
five persons were. killed, nearly sixty were
injured, and over two hundred buildings
were wrecked. The pecuniary loss was
placed at $150,O00.
AT Lincoln, Ill, tine preliminary exam
nation of 0. A. Carpenter for che murder
Of Cora Burns began on the 18th, but moth.