The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
West and South.

THE Democrats of Texas will meet in
State Convention at Fort Worth June 10 to
select delegates to the National Convention,
and the State Convention will meet at
Houston August 10 to nominate State Of
ficers.
A MAN named Harold, in defiance of the
Prohibitory law of Kansas, opened ga.
loon at Canton few days ago, and upon
refusing to cease operations the women of
the place entered his saloon and poured
the liquors into the street.
EIGHT stores and the Barbour House at
Americas, Ga, were burned the other
night, causing loss of $4,000.
A PLATFORM was adopted in the illinois
State Trade and Labor Convention recent
ly held in Chicago, declaring in favor of
the total abolition of the contract convict
labor system; the establishment of Boards
of Arbitration to settle disputes between
employers and employees; the enact
ment of law making eight hours
legal days work; fixing the liability of
employers for damages to life and limb of
an employee; an efficient apprentice law;
the prohibition of the employment of
children under fifteen years of age in fac
tories; the adoption and enforcement of
compulsory educational system; the week
ly payments by all corporations for labor
performed during the previous week, and
the total abolition of the truck system; the
abolition of hand monopoly by non-resi-
dent holders, and making it an offense to
gamble in or create corners on the neces-
saries of life.
A MEETING was held in Cincinnati on the
evening Of the 28th to denounce the verdict
of twenty-three years. impris onment in
the case of William Berner, who confessed
to having murdered and robbed William
H. Kirk, after which mob of ten thou
sand persons organized and went to the
Jail, and effected an entrance, for the pur-
pose of lynching Berner, but found he had
been taken to the penitentiary. This so
enraged the mob that they determined to
lynch the twenty-three murderers confined
in the jail. The militia was called out,
when a riot ensued, during which it was
reported that sixteen persons were killed
and many others were wounded.
NEAR Salem, Va, the other day Leslie
Lavender, aged sixteen, attempted to rob
Alexander Owens, and then shot him.
Mrs. Owens ran out upon hearing the pis-
tol report, when Lavender also shot her,
and then tried to kill Ovens mother. Law
ender escaped, but Mr.. and Mrs. Owens
were fatally wounded.
THE other day forty Sioux Indian boys
arrived at ST. Paul, Mimi, being the first
installment of pupils for the Government
school located at that point, and conducted
by Bishop Marty.
THE following executions for murder oc-
Cured ON the 18th: Dan Dowd, James
Howard, 0. w. Semple, William Delane
and Daniel Kelly, bandits, at Tombstone.
A. T.; William R. Mcdonald and Francis
co Peres in California, and Joe Howard at
Columbia, S. G.
A RECENT fire destroyed the machine
shops and two locomotives of the Charles
ton Railroad at Memphis, involving a
loss of 100000.
THE Iowa House on the 18th passed bill
which virtually doubles all penalties for
violation of the Prohibitory law.
AT the closing session of the State Trade
and Labor Convention in Chicago on the
18th resolutions were adopted authorizing
the presentation of memorial to Congress
opposing the importation of foreign labor,
condemning convict labor, and demanding
equal pay for equal work, regardless of
sex.
GREAT numbers of sheep were ON the
2Sth said to be dying in the vicinity of New
Comerstown, O., from disease called
s'grub''--a worm which matches out in the
nose and burrows to the brain of the ami.
NAL.
THE Minnesota Republicans will meet in
State Convention at St. Paul May /.
A NEGRO named Jesse Williams, from
Texas, was executed on the goth ult at
Calgary, Northwest Territory, for killing
merchant named James H. Adams. This
was the first hanging in that Territory.
UNKNOWN men a few days ago assassin
ated Charles L. Kusg, editor Of a weekly
paper at Manzano, N. M.
CAPTAIN WHITEHEAD was on the Goth ult,
loading steamer at New Orleans with
supplies to be distributed above that city
for the relief of the sufferers by the over
flow of the Mississippi River, and General
Beckwith would send out a boat from St
Louis for points below Cairo.
/ ~ WIG ~O0A uAVs llOuAS I2AlOSs pay lId6uCA
OF the st. Louis g. Narrow Gauge Road
absconded with $4,000, which he procured
| by meanz of false checks.
AFTER James Clifford had returned few
evenings ago from his wife's funeral at
Trumbull, O., Newton Gilmore, his broth.
er-in-law, called and accused Clifford OF
causing the death of his wife, This was
denied, and an Alteration ensued, when
Gilmore shot Clifford, INJECTING fatal
wound. The murderer was imprisoned.
The Cincinnati riot which began on the
evening of the 18th ult. over the verdict
rendered in the case of Befner, self
confessed murderer, was renewed on the
evenings of the 10Th and Both ults. All tbs
militia of the State had been called out
and some three thousand troops were sta
toned in the vicinity of the jail The court
house was fred by the mob and destroyed