The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-21
West and South.


lect delegates to the National Convention.
On the Chicago & Atlantic express three
passengers were despoiled Of their money
and watches by two men who entered the
coach early on the morning of the 18th at
Ada, o., and who held. the conductor at
bay with revolvers.
THE inventors of the country will meet
in mass convention at Cincinnati March
% to take action " to prevent pernicious
legislation by Congress-"
On the 18th Prentiss Tiller, who robbed
the Pacific Express at st. Louis, was ar
rested at Milwaukee and $4,000 of the
money recovered. McFadden, his accom-
plice, was captured at Sherman, Tex, by
means of an intercepted telegram from
Tiller.
In the Flat-top mine at Pocahontas, Va,
an explosion early on the morning of the
18th killed one hundred and fifty men and
destroyed all the structures on the surface,
houses two hundred feet from the mines
being overturned, and the farmhouse and
fan entirely wrecked. Fire had broken out
at the entrance to the mine, and it was
feared the victims would be consumed.
A CYCLONE passed near Guntersyille,
Ala, on the 18th. Fl. S. Hess and Mrs,
John Tidmore were killed, John Tidmore
and Mrs. Frank Farmer were seriously in
1ured, and about thirty houses were blown
to atoms. The storm left the earth after
devastating six miles.
THE packers of Chicago reported on the
18th having slaughtered during the past
1
cattle.
The statement was made ON the 18th that
Western manufacturers of brass had
formed syndicate to control the market,
and that three large establishments had
already been absorbed.
AT New Orleans on the 18th the Missis-
sippi River was within one inch of the high
water of 1874, and a rise of one foot would
cause general inundation.
THE discovery was made onth 18th that
two men were burned to death in the re-
cent carpet-sweeper factory fire at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
The Chicago Tribune having made a
statement that ]. Appleton Wilson had
been indicted for completely in the murder
of his uncle and aunt at Winnetl1a, the in
jured party on the 14th commenced suit
for $500, 900 damages for libel.
THE death of John Taffe, receiver of the
land-ofice at North Platte, who represent
ed Nebraska in Congress for three terms,
occurred a few days ago. He was fifty
seven years of age.
BURGLARS on the 18th took eighty-one
thousand dollars in United States four per
cent bonds, dated July /, 1877, and num-
bered from 80, 425 to IS, 432, from safe in
Centerville, Ind.
W. I. WILLIAMS, young boy, while rid
ing recently on the step of locomotive,
at Minneapolis, was thrown to the rail,
when the drive-wheel severed his head
from his body.
ON.Aspen Mountain, Colorado, a snow
slide caused the death of three employees of
the Vallejo mine few days ago.
In the region tributary to the Black
Hills it was estimated on the 14th that
there were $4,000 cattle and $500 sheep.
Stock had wintered exceedingly well, the
losses no5 being over one and one-nalf per
cent
FIFTY-FTvE bridges in the Ohio Valley
were destroyed by the recent floods, which
would require $4,000 to replace.
On the 18th the grand levee in Pointe
Coupee parish, La, one of the largest EN-.
bankments in the State, gave way, owing
to the enormous pressure of water against
it, and flooded many of the most valuable
sugar plantations in the State. The loss
would be enormous. Scott levee, another
great embankment in the same parish, was
was in bad condition and fears were felt
that it would go.
THE capture was made on the 18th of
Frederick ]. Dietrich, the teller of the La
clede Bank of st. Louis, who was recently
shown to be a defaulter in the sum of $780,.
900.
MATT LEWIS (colored) was executed at
st. Louis on the 14th for killing his wife
seven years ago. He had one year of lib
erty by breaking jail, and had been tried
four times. Frank Slagel, who murdered
two brothers named Adair, for the purpose
of robbery, was hanged at Somerset, KY,
in presence of the mother of his victims.
The Republicans of West Virginia will
meet in State Convention at Martinsburg
on the 18th of April to elect delegates to
the National Convention.
In Woodward, Faxon 6 Co.'s wholesale
drug house at West Kansas City, No., a
fire the other morning caused loss of
$4,000. An employee jumped from four
story window, and was fatally injured.
IT is reported that the foot and-mouth
disease has broken out in Adair County,
Mo.
FROM Sharkey to Greenwood, Miss. a
distance of one hundred miles, all the land
was overfowed on the 18th. No loss of
life or stock was reported, and the planters
were in good spirits, as they believed the
worst was over.
The postal authorities at Chicago re-
ported on the 10Th that net single lottery
agent was doing business in that city,
mainly because the cour5s there sustained
the action of the Post-office Inspector.
DAN HARDING and George Harris, while
attempting recently to clean out the saloon
OF John Chesman, at Walnut Station, Ind,
were shot and killed by the proprietor.
A DISEASE resembling blind staggers has
appeared among the horses of Oregon.
and large number of valuable animals
bad succumbed to it. Over four hun.
bred had died in two counties up to the
10th.
The brother of Christine Kett, young
girl murdered at Dayton, o., seventeen
years ago, made a death bed confession on
the 10Th declaring that their mother had,
previous to her death, confessed to COM
hitting the crime.
QUARANTINE was strictly enforced in
the cattle-contagion district of Kansas on
the 10Th, and it was believed there was no
danger that the disease would spread
from any herds now known to be infected.
AFTER suffering for ten days Miss Eliza,
eldest daughter of Governor Thompson, of