The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
WEST AND SOuTH.

The other day Matt B. Parkinson rode
to the house of Derby p. Payne at Deer
Trail, forty miles from Denver, and be.
cause Payne could not pay $50 he owed
| him, Parkinson shot him dead and surren-
dered.
THE Republicans of the First South
Carolina District have nominated William
N. Taft for Congressman.
| AT La Crosse, Wis, while Republican
! procession was being formed on the even
| ing of the 10th F. A. Burton, President of
the Blaine and Logan Club, was shot dead
by man known as "Scotty," but no mo-
tive for the murder was known. The Grim
inal was taken to jail, but was soon after
secured by party of citizens and hanged
to a tree.
BY the explosion Of coal-oil lamp at
| Crisfeld, Nd, on the 10Th confagration
was started which destroyed forty build
| Jugs, mainly oyster packing houses, the
losses aggregating 100000.
The dispatches of the 18th from Ohio in
| Dictated that at the recent election General
Robinson (Rep.) received plurality of
about 10000 for Secretary of State. The
Prohibition vote was about 6,00O The
| Congressional delegation would stand
eleven Democrats and ten Republicans, as
follows: 1st District, B. Butterworth, R..
| (Rep. gain); ID, Charles E. Brown, r.
| (Rep. gain; Sd, ]. E. Campbell, D.; 4th,
c. M. Anderson, D.; 9TH, B. LIE Fevre, D. /;
9th, W. D. Hill, D.; 7th, G. E. Seney, D.. /;
9Th, John Little, R.; 9th, w. c. Cooper,
r.; 10th, Jacob Romeis, r. (Rep. gain) !;
18th, w. W. Ellsbery, D.; 18th, A. c..
Thompson, r.; 18th, j. H. Cultivate, D.;
14th, G. H. Grosvenor, R.; 18th, B. Wilk-
ms, D.; 10Th, G. W. Geddes, D.; 18th, A.
j. Warner, D.; 18th, Isaac H. Taylor, R. ;
10Th, Ezra B. Taylor, r.: goth, William
Mckinley, r.; 21st, M. A. Foran, D.
On the 18th J. R. Williams, lawyer at
David City, Neb., absconded, and his de-
falcations were placed at 900.
In Alabama and other parts of the South
the drought had continued for eleven
weeks on the 18th, and cattle had to be
driven long distances to procure water.
The cotton and other crops were burnt up,
while turnips, the main staple for stock.
feed, were complete failure.
| NEAR Batavia, O., a passenger train
went through a bridge on the 18th, falling
a distance of forty feet. Engineer Wilbur
and Fireman Jones were instantly killed,
two passengers were fatally injured, and
several others were badly bruised.
F. E. WARREN has been nominated for
Congressman by the Republicans of Wyo-
ming Territory.
FEW days ago the aged father of Mrs.
Henry Curtis, of Lafayette, Ind, who had
oIx fo,
tied by loud peal of thunder during
storm, and his hearing was completely re-
stored.
On the 18th the returns from the recent
election in West Virginia indicated the
success of the Democratic ticket by about
5000 majority.
The Coreletas ranch, near Laredo, Tex,
was visited by highwaymen the other
night, who stole $4,000 belonging to Man.
uel Vidauri, the proprietor. No arrests.
j. SwATFoRD, State Senator, was shot
and killed in a street fight with Monroe
Hudson, the jailer at Sparta, Tenn, few
days ago.
WATSON & McGLLs tobacco factory,
one of the largest in Peters burg, Va,
| which suspended operations some weeks
ago, has resumed work. 1t employs four
hundred operatives.
AT GAINESVILLE, Ca, recent fire de-
stroyed the business quarter of the town,
causing loss of $4O0, 900.
THE failure Of the Harrison Wire Com.
pany of st. Louis for 100000 is an
nounced.
HOLLIS INCLUSION (colored) was
lynched at Duck Hill, La, few days
ago, upon the charge of incendiarism.
| WILLIAM NJ. TLDEN has been nominate
for Congress by the Democrats of the First
| Illinois District.
NEAR Greencastle, Ind, a passenger
train was thrown from the track on the
| 18th by wreckers, and the cars rolled
down an embankment, caught fire and
were consumed, causing loss of $1,000.
Of the one hundred passengers on board
three were fatally injured and the others
were more or less wounded.
! On the 18th Willie Webster, fifteen
year old bootblack, confessed at st. Louis
that he was one of the six boys who caused
the great undergrad fire at Cleveland,
o., on September 6.
The other day Richard j. Waddy, a
ly shot his wife and a woman found in her
company, and then killed himself Mrs.
Waddy was thoroughly depraved. .
! The boiler in saw-mill at New Mar
tinsville, w. Va, exploded recently, and
| two men were killed and five others were
seriously injured.
TWELVE stores in Edgefeld, S. c., val-
ued at 100000, were burned a few DAYS
ago.
EARLY the other morning wreckers
ditched train near Tapelo, Miss, fifteen
persons being seriously hurt, five probably
fatally. The loss in rolling stock was
heavy.
ARBTTRAToRs have declared that Will
lam E. Mason is the regular Republican
! nominee for Congressman in the Third IL
linois District, in place of George r.
Davis.
SIXTY cases of diphtheria and scarlet fe-
yer were reported in the Girls Industrial
School at Milwaukee on the 18th.
A FIRE in a stable at Meridian, Miss,
recently burned fifty-one horses to DEATH
A NEGRO named Moses Williams, aged
l15 years, died at Barnwell, S. c., few
days ago. He was the father of fortyNthree
children, all of whom are living. 1t was
believed that Williams was the oldest per-
son in the State.
AT San Francisco partial eclipse of
the sun was visible at 1920 on the after
| noon of the 18th.
The libel suit of Mr.. Blaine against the
Indianapolis Sentinel has been set for trial
December %.
ROBERT CLARK, of Shelbyville, XIV,
having illuminated the daughter of
Elijah Kirk, the latter rode to Clark's resi-
dence few days ago bent upon revenge.
Clark quietly opened a door and fired two
barrels of gun at Kirk, almost blowing
off his head.
On the evening of the Goth Charles j.
Downie, the young man who killed his
brother, w. II. Downie, in Chicago, on the
night of September 5, and who had been
confined in the County Jail since the muir
der, committed suicide by hanging himself
in his cell.
WHILE cunning the other Mo hit a negro