The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05

who had been pronounced insane by a
jury.
| AT fire in a tenement house in Mime
apolis few days ago James Curran, one
Of the occupants, was fatally burned. He
had rushed back to rescue a child.
| In filing bill for divorce few DAYS
ago Maggie Jones, Of Baltimore, alleged
that she believed she was marrying a
bachelor of sixty years, but discovered at
his residence nine grown children, eight of
whom were older than herself.
On the 18th S. w. Tallmadge, the crop
statistician oe Milwaukee,, issued his final
estimate of the wheat crop of the United
States for 1884, as follows. Winter wheat,
3S0,000,0)0 bushels; spring wheat. $50, 0Oo,-
600, or 100000 bushels more than the
crop of 1888.
In Manitoba a few nights ago storm
injured fifty buildings in Winnipeg, de-
stroyed church, q paper-mill and the
Canadian Pacific freight-s sheds at Portage
la Prairie, and leveled the growing crops
in large territory. fal
The State Convention of the Kansas
Autobiography Observation-Disclosures party
met at Topeka on the 2Sth and nominated
H. L. Philips for Governor and full
| State ticket. t i}A
The tracks of the Canada Pacific Road
have been laid to a point seven miles west
of the summit OF the Rocky Mountains,
and hopes to reach the highest point of. the
| Selkrk range this season. The California
| Board of Equalization reports the value of
the Central Pacific Road at $24 100000 and
the Southern Pacific at SIT 600, 900.
| On the morning of the Goth hurricane
swept over Evansville, Ind, unroofing
hundreds of houses, mills, factories, ware
houses, stores, ETC., and in many instances
whole houses were blown down. Thezioss
was estimated at $3.50, 900. The transfer
steamer Belmont, bound for Henderson,
KY, and freighted with q train of cars,
was sunk by the gale, and fifteen lives were
lost.
A SPECIAL agent was sent recently by
Governor Crosby Of Montana to investi.
gate the reports of starvation among the
Piegan Indians. 1t was found that in a
band of two thousand the deaths for lack
of food averaged one per day. The Gov
ernor on the 10Th urged the Secretary of
the Interior to issue full rations to the suf.
ferers until Congress could take action.
| CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows on the Goth: Republican-Vir
| ginia, First District, Robert M. Mayo IRE.
nominated); Second, Harry Libby IRE
nominated); Third, r. T. Hubbard; Fifth,
j. H. Wartwell; Sixth, r. P. a. Morris
Eighth, Duff Green. North Carolina, First
District, r. Edwards. Democratic--Indi.
ana, Thirteenth District, George Ford.
Virginia. Tenth District, James Yost.
NEAR Greeley, Col, railroad-car at
tached to a circus-train caught fire on the
10Th, and of seventy-five men who were
sleeping in the car at the time ten per-
ished, and several others were badly
| scorched.
| WHILE city engineer at Sandusky, O.,
Wesley A. Lumm was indicted for ac-
cepting brides. He soon entered on a
career Of dissipation, which caused his
wife to commit suicide, and he finished the
sad chapter on the Goth by ending his own
days with morphine.
The following executions for murder
| took place on the 10Th: Berry johnson
| (colored), at Shreveport, La; Schip Holly
| (colored), at Tuscaloosa, Ala; Josh Ber-
ryman (colored), at Natchitoches, La.
| Willie Williams, at Franklin, La.
| AT Prescott, A. T., the United States
Grand Jury on the Goth found seven in
dictments fer polygamy, the first ever
found In Arizona. Mormons and gentiles
were greatly excited.
BY the wrecking of train near Still.
water, o., few mornings ago, three men
were killed.
4 THE following Congressional nomina-
items were made on the 30Sh u1t.: Repub-
! licau-Illinois, Third District, George R.
Davis (renominated), Virginia, Fourth
District Colonel Brady. Democratic
Indiana, Seventh District, w. d. Bynum.
Ohio, Twenty-frst District, Martin A.
Foran (renominated.)
A LAD named Henry Barton was shot
dead near Hamlin, w. Va, few days
ago while taking apples from the orchard
of j. Chapman. ss.sl
MEMPHIS received 450,077 bales of cotton
during the year ended on the 30th ult., the
total value of which is $4,000, 900.
THE wheat crop of Ohio this year will
yield 43,9S2,9G9 bushels of excellent quail
| ty. This is the largest crop of the State,
except that of 1880, when the yield was
4S,54o,000 bushels. The oat crop will pro.
duce 2S,S9S 1868 bushels, and the barley
crop about 100000 bushels.
THE other day Eddie Mason, the seven
teen-year-old boy who robbed the PEG.
ple's Bank of st. Paul of $4,000, was
captured, and s., 74S was recovered.
| THE Chicago Probate Court has placed
the estate of Wilbur f. Storey in the
hands Of Austin L. Patterson as Con.
servator, he having secured bondsmen
representing 100000.
| Four villains who last May wrecked an
Illinois Central train at Duck Hill, Miss,
were captured recently by Pinkerton
detectives. The motive was revenge on
the engineer. who was killed by the acct
dent.
NEAR Indianapolis tramp who was re-
fused lodging at farmhouse spent the
night recently in the orchard, and on
| leaving he set fire to a straw-stack and
caused the destruction of all the outbuild.
ings.
THE other evening James Howell, d
grape-grower near Indianapolis, fred a
shotgun towards some lads whom he saw
among his vines, and soon afterward
found one of the thieves dead on the road.
way.
A FEW days ago five men belonging to
the wrecked schooner w. W. Brigham
were picked up on Lake Michigan, after
having drifted about on pieces of the
wreck for four days and suffering great
agony from hunger.
IT is announced that Theodore Schu-
mann has declined the nomination for
State Treasurer of Wisconsin recently
made by the Greenbackers and Anti Mo-
nopolists. So A
A RIOT was commenced by striking min
ers at Snake Hollow, O., at two O'Clock on
the morning of the 31st ult. by firing sew
eral hundred Shots at the guards. Will.
lam Hare was killed and two others re-
ceived serious wounds. A hopper worth
$4,000 was burned, and the telegraph wires
had been cut. The Governor had ordered
out the militia to aid in suppressing the
riots.
A FIRE few evenings ago destroyed the
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