The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-14
West and South.

| ROBERT DUNN and John johnson quar-.
relied few days ago in Amite County,
Miss, over debt Of fifty cents, and dur
ing the fracas both men were killed.
MRS. HoYLAND, aged sixty-fve, and two
| grandchildren, three years and six months
old, respectively, were burned to death by
the burning of frame cottage at River
ton. ILL.,, the other day.
FRANK JAMES, on trial at Gallatin, Mo-.
for the murder of Frank Mcmillan and
| participa alton in the Winston train rob
berry, was acquitted on the 9th. Yells and
cheers greeted the verdict of the jury.
Ir was reported on the 9th that John G.
Dwiggins, formerly Treasurer of Mont
gomery County, Ind, was behind in the
settlement of his accounts to the amount
of $4,000. Grain speculations caused the
trouble.
THERE were six deaths from yellow fever
at Pensacola, Fla, on the 9th, and the dis
ease was said to be on the increase.
On the evening Of the 9th the Milwaukee
Industrial Exhibition was opened.
! A YOUNG man named Charles Simpson
fell from railway trestle near Baltimore,
Md, few days ago, a distance of seventy
feet, and was fatally injured. As the in
Jured man was about to be taken into the
house of Mrs. Mary Crudden, his sister.in.
law, she was told it was her husband and
that he was dead. She sank to the floor,
and when raised life was extinct.
Two INCHES Of snow fell in the vicinity
of Winnipeg, Manitoba, ON the eth.
On account of numerous incendiary fires
reign of terror prevailed at Lynchburg,
Va, ON the 7th, and Vigilance Committee
had been organized.
AT Greensboro, Ala, Frank Shelton,
wife murderer, was hanged on the It'll, and
at Iberville Parish, La, Henry Dickerson
was executed for DC murder Of Henry
Steele.
On Greenough Shoals, Lake Huron, the
schooner Explorer foundered few days
ago, and all on board, four in number,
persisted.
THE last rail of the Northern Pacific
Railroad was laid and the last spike--a
golden one-was driven home by Mr.. VII
lard with a silver sledge-hammer, a few
miles west of the Mullan Tunnel, ON the
western slope Of the main divide Of the
Rocky Mountains, at 5;15 p. IA. on the Sth,
making the iron highway complete and
ready for travel from Duluth to Tacoma, a
distance of little more than 1889 miles.
There are also GA miles Of branches, mostly
completed, giving grand total of more
than 1854 miles Of road.
IT was announced on the 9th that great
damage had been done to the corn, wheat
and other crops in Michigan, Iowa and
Minnesota, and to the tobacco and cram
berry crops in Wisconsin, by the heavy
frosts of the two previous NIGHTS.
THERE were five new cases of yellow.
fever and one death in the navy-yard at
Pensacola on the 9Th.
FLOODS in the Rio Grande valley swept
away eleven bridges on the Texas Pacific
Railroad few days ago, and caused great
loss to stock and other properly.
ON the Sch the complete official vote of
Kentucky at the August election was an
nounced giving Knott, Democrat, for Gov
ernor, 1868; Morrow, Republican, IS, 1871.
Knott's maj 5rity, 5.4S7.
THREE workmen were recently impris-
oned behind one hundred tons of ore by
the caving in of a mine at Deadwood, D.
7. One man worked his way out through
eighty feet Of ore by using giant-powder.
The corpses of his comrades were recov.
cred few hours after.
WHILE freight train was going down
Kenosha Mountain, in Colorado, the other
day 1t jumped the track, and seven en-
ployes were injured, three Of them fatally.
FIRE swept away one-half of the village
81 Deep Greek, Va, a few days since,