The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
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CONGRESSIONAL. nominations were made
as follows on the 4th: Republican,
Missouri, Sixth Distfict, w. s. Shirk.
Texas, Seventh District, r. B. Rentfrow.
Michigan, Tenth District, Charles +. Glib.
son. Democratic--Georgia Fifth District,
N. j. Hammond (renominated); Sixth,
James H. Blount renominated). Illinois,
Eighth District P. c. Haley. Texas,
Sixth District, DIN Wellborn (renori-
inated1. Minnesota, Second District, j..
j. Thornton. Virginia, First District,
Thomas Croxton. Wisconsin, Seventh
District, e. Nj. Woodward (renominated).
Observation-Disclosures, Seventh Dis
trict, Rev. Isaac Tominson. Wisconsin,
Second District, T. g.. Patchin; Third, j.
NJ. Olin; Fifth, D.. J, Miller; Sixth, J. j.
Sutton; Seventh. L. B. 1oomis..
WISCONSIN Prohibitionists met in State
Convention at Madison on the 4th and
nominated the following tickets For Gov
errior, S. ID. Hastings, of Dane County;
Lieutenant. Governor, A. A. Kelly, of ST.
Croix; Secretary of State, E. G.. Durant,
Of Racine; Treasurer, G. M. Blachman, of
Walworth; Attorney General, FM.
Angel, of Barron, Superintendent of Pub
lie IhSNuetfon, Robert Graham, of Whine
bagoi Railroad Commissioners; Henry San
ford, of Manitowoc; Insurance Commits
sioner, Nelson Ladue, of Lafayette A
full electoral ticket was appointed. A
platform was adopted Endorsing the action
of the Pittsburgh Convention; demanding
the submission, adoption and enforcement
of Prohbitory amendment, and favoring
woman suffrage.
WHILE the sham battle was in progress
on the s4th at the Soldiers Reunion at Free
mont, Neb., a stand collapsed, and forty
persons we're injured, Some seriously. =
The death of Fayette Lodawick Robin
son, better known as " Yankee" Robin
son, thesfarnous3 circus and theatrical
Snowman, occurred at New jefferson, Ia,
on the g4Fh.s He was. sixty-six. years Of
age, and had devoted nearly fifty years
to the show business.
AT Galveston, Tex, rain fell on the
4th. for the first time in twelve weeks. In
some sections of the city water had been
an article of commerce for two weeks.
The demurrer having been overruled of
the indianapolis Sentinel in the Blaine
libel suit gcase, the Sentinel, Company ON
the 4th filed its answer admitting pubhca-
tion and pleading justification. Mr..
Blaine's attorneys filed an answer deny
ing the truth of the defendants allegation.
s. w sTALLMADGE, of Milwaukee, re-
ceiyed q cable message on the 4yh which
stated that the English wheat crop this
harvest was. about 72,0OO,0 900 bushels-an
increase of 100000 bushels over last
year. The yield in France promised to be
large. 'J
4 A NOTED gang of highwaymen, headed
by the notorious Bill Ostrander, commits
ted three brutal highway robberies on the
4th on the road between st. Charles and
Ferguson, two suburbs of st. Louis. The
victims were three farmers named Riley,
Dunlap and Glossner. After robbing the
farmers the scoundrels beat them into in
sensibility& / w &
In st. Paul the other night two unknown
men tried to shoot Sitting Bull as he came
out of a theater. His companion knocked
the weapon down and his assailants fed.
The following Congressional nomina-
tions were made on the 9Th: Democratic
Illinois, Second District, Frank Lawler.
Missouri, Ninth District, John NJ. Glover.
Alabama, Fifth District, Thomas w. Sad
Ter. epublican-nlinois Sixth District,
Robert r. Hit (renominated). ...rf Is
ON the night of The 9th William Dow
MES, a member of the Chicago Board of
Trade, was shot and killed by his brother
Charles, with whom, some days previous,
he had quarreled over the division of some
property. The murderer was arrested and
confessed his crime.
TwENTY-FoUR stores and houses were
entered by burglars at Duluth, Mimi, in
one night recently, but not much property
was stolen.
The death of Mrs. Harlan, wife of ex-
Senator James Harlan, Of Iowa, and
mother-in-law of Secretary Lincoln, oc-
CURED at Fortress Monroe, Va, a few
nights ago.
THE arrest was made at louisville on
the 9th of Dr.. Z. Watson Lyle, charged
with pension frauds in Illinois and Iowa
to the extent Of $4,000. Officers, had been
searching for him for two years. ~ &, =
The other night an unknown man, who
had been arrested for burglary, hanged
himself in the Avondale CO., jail.
A SERIOUS drought has been prevailing
throughout Eastern Ohio and Western
West Virginia, and on the 9TH crops were
perishing, and stock was being sold at al
most any sacrifice, for lack of food for
them. a. 50 az @@ ~
THE following Congressional nomina-
lions were made by the Democrats on the
9th: Kentucky, Eighth District, James
b. McCreary; Iowa, Fourth District, L.
Il. Weller (renominated) Louisiana, First
District, Carleton Hunt (renominated).
NEAR Glasgow, Tenn, circus train
jumped the track few days ago, one man
being killed and eight others badly in
jured.
s IN various parts of Lewis County,
Tenn, notices were posted on the 7th
warning the Mormons now residing there
to leave within thirty days under pain of
death. The Mormons were frightened,
and some were leaving and others would
follow.
In the flats inSCleveland, O., a serious
confagration was started on the evening
of the 7th by sparks from tug lodging in
pile of shavings in the lumber-yard of
Woods, Perry & Co. Ten acres covered
with lumber or frame. buildings were in
flames simultaneously. Engines were
summoned from Erie, Toledo and the near
est Ohio towns. The loss would certainly
reach $2,OOO,OOO.
A FIRE destroyed the Moline lumber
mills, twenty-five miles from Pensacola,
Fla, few days ago. Loss, 100000.
The other day c. H. Trosdorff, the own.
er of several farms near New Philadel-
phia, O., went to Cleveland to be treated
for an affection of the brain. When he
was advised that recovery was impossible
he went to the lake park and ended his life
with revolver. &S
ON the 9th fire which had been raging
for three days in the forest in Talbot
County, Md, on the eastern shore, had
destroyed upwards of two hundred acres
of timber.
The failure is reported Of Payne, Wiley
& Co., cotton merchants at Louisville,
KY, for 100000.
The stable of Benjamin Brewer, at Dem
yer, Col. was burned recently, and seven
horses and seven mules lost their lives.
A FEW DAYS ago a ten-year.old son Of