The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-17
WEST AND SOUTH.

was declared unconstitutional.
On the Sth tickets from Chicago to New
York were selling at $14. to st. Louis for
50, and to Kansas City for $3.50.
AT Jamestown, o., great excitement
prevailed on the 9Th over the discovery
that eleven graves in the cemetery there
had been opened and the corpses stolen. A
reward of 81 200 was offered for the ghouls.
At Birdsville, five miles east, and at
South Baltimore violated graves were also
found.
The Ohio Powder Company's mill No. 2,
near Youngstown, was demolished few
days ago by an explosion, but no lives
were lost. People for miles around
thought an earthquake had occurred.
A FIRE destroyed one-half the town of
Alma, Neb., the other night.
The Prohibition candidate for Vice Pres.
ident, William Daniel, issued his formal
letter of acceptance of the nomination on
the 9th.
In sections of Kansas frost, with hail,
snow and sleet, fell on the 9th, and cattle
men believing that the Texas fever germ
had been destroyed were preparing to ship
beef cattle.
1T was reported on the 9th that w. w.
Coteral, the missing ex-Auditor of Henry
County, Ind, was en- route to Dakota to
procure funds to settle his shortage Of
$, 900.
In the vicinity of Bookings, D. T.,
smallpox, supposed to have been brought
by emigrants, was spreading rapidly on
the 9th. Four deaths had already oc-
! Cured.
| AT a furnace in Hickman County,
Tenn, an accident occurred few days
ago by which three men were burned to
death by melted iron and another was
fatally injured.
AT Mount Jackson, Va, an incendiary
fire few mornings ago destroyed nine
business houses and the Lutheran Church,
Tar safe in the Carondelet (Mo.) Post
office was wrecked by robbers the other
night, who secured $3.50 and lot of post
age stamps and registered letters.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of DR..
Graham, the Kentucky pioneer, was cele-
brated on the 10th at Louisville.
]. H. AcKLAN has been nominated for
Congressman by the Republicans of the
First Louisiana District
The nude and headless body of Mrs.
Stilwell Hendershot was found in cistern
near Troy, Ind, few evenings ago, and
suspicion resting on the family, the hus-
band and his two sons, F. HI. ana William
Hendershot, were arrested. At the in
vestigation on the 10th T. H. Hendershot
acknowledged killing his mother, and the
old man also eliminated himself, and both
were held, while William was released.
The murdered woman held a deed to the
farm, and was killed because she would
not relinquish it.
WILSON 81 McGILL's tobacco factory at
Petersburg, Va, employing three hundred
operatives, has shut down, owing to the
scarcity Of tobacco.
ON the 10th tickets were selling from
Chicago to Kansas City for $1.10, and to
Omaha for $l,60.
A FIRE few days ago destroyed the
Third Presbyterian Church, at the corner
of Ashland and Ogden avenues, Chicago.
Loss, $100,OOO; Insurance, $4,000.
THE execution of Charles w. Butler &C
CURED on the l0th at Columbia City, Ind,
for WIFE murder.
The Kansas Prohibition State Central
Committee have put L. H. Phillips at the
head of thoir State ticket, in place OF A.
B. Jettmore, who declined the nomination
for Governor.
AT Libertyville, Va, an incendiary fire
on the 10Th destroyed twenty-one business
houses, and the estimated loss was $780,
900.
DURING a recent fire Mrs. Henry Ring
and her. daughter were burned to death at
Pataha, w. t.
j. G. ROACH s. Co.'s bonded warehouse
at Uniontown, KY, containing over two
thousand barrels of whisky, was burned
few days ago, causing loss of $4,000.
In a saloon in Chicago after quarrel on
the evening Of the 18th sheep butcher
named Joseph Whitney was murdered
with knife by notorious criminal
named Bob Haley, and on the evening OF
the 18th Edward Roberts (colored) shot
nd killed his wife while in a fit of jeal.
ousy. Fev f4a#sa
UNKNOWN parties set fire to the coal
mines at Jacksonville and StraitsYille, O.,
on the 18th.
THE safe Of John Allen, at Livingston
Wis, was broken into on the night of the
11th and robbed of money and securities
amounting to $23, 000 49,
THE other day George Rowsey was as
sassinated in Parksville, KY, by his
brother-in-law, James Shruren, whose sor
Rowsey slew last February. The families
had been engaged in a vendetta for years
one having been lynched, another shot by
officers, two killed in fights, and still
others engaged in bloody ARRAYS.
\ For attending circus Rev. A.W Light
bourne, Of Easton, Md, was forced to re
sign Methodist passionate.
A FIRE the other night at Petersburg
Va, caused loss of $4,000.
THE Republicans Of the Eighth Wiscon
sin District have nominated William M
Eckles for Congressman, and the Prohibi
tionists of the Fourth Wisconsin Distric
have placed in nomination 9. E. Reed.
On their farm near Marshall, Mo-, tn,
dead bodies of John Lowry and wife were
found on the 18th, having evidently beer
murdered with blunt Instruments. The
assassins are unknown.
A FEW days ago w. F. Thomas. an at
tendant in the Cincinnati Hospital. nm
derook to wheel patient to the elevator
but backed into an open hatchway anc
both lost their lives.
THE Kitty Grant, q schooner, wa,
wrecked on Lake Michigan, near Mus
kegon, few days ago, and Captain Dav
and the crew, consisting of John Cook
Warren Cook and Fred Haightby, wer,
lost.
IN HARRISON County, Ca, boiler ex
plosion few days ago killed three mel
and wounded several others.
In sections of East Tennessee, Nortl
) Georgia and North Alabama the drough
continued on the 18Th with disastrou
results, The Tennessee River at Chatta