The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

EARLY the other morning John Brehmer,
residing near Glasgow, o., prevented his
father, who was drunk, from numbering
his wife, when the old man shot his son,
inflicting mortal wound.
OWING to the terrible destruction of
property by storm and flood, Shawnee
town, ILL.,, was on the 21st almost entirely
abandoned by its inhabitants, and it was
said that several years of prosperity would
hardly put the town where it was before
the food. Uniontown, KY, and Metropo-
lis, H., were similarly afflicted. At other
points the waters were receding, and the
worst was considered over.
BEVERLY TAYLOR, an aged colored man,
and his wife and granddaughter, of Avon
dale, o., were murdered by negroes re-
Gently, and their bodies were found in the
dissecting-room of the Ohio Medical Col
lege, at Cincinnati.
THE Chicago Board of Trade issued its
annual report on the 21st, which showed
the shipment of farm products for 1880 to
have been 1866, 10000.
KILOGRAMS of the Dist state that the re-
cent wind-storm wrecked hundreds of
ouDluclS0u HOuSeS III UD0 OlSUrlCU around
Evansville, Ind, besides drowning num-
bers of hogs and cattle. An immense
amount of corn was also lost. Many
persons were taken from trees and bills
where they had taken refuge, by the
relief boats, some of whom were badly
frozen.
THREE men were recently killed by two
revenue officers in Mitchell County, North
Carolina.
The Greenbackers of Indiana met in
State Convention at indianapolis on the
22d and nominated the following ticket:
For Governor, H. z. Leonard, of Cass
County; Lieutenant Governor, John B.
Milroy, of Carroll County; Secretary of
State, F. 7. Waring, of Wells County;
Treasurer, Thompson Smith, of Wayne
County; Auditor, j. HI. Robinson, of Put
nam County; Attorney General, John o.
Greene, of Floyd County; Superintendent
of Public Instruction, s. s. Boyd, of Wayne
County. Aplatform was adopted denounc-
ing the present financial system and de-
handing that all money issued by the Gov
eminent be legal tender; calling for the
speedy payment of the National debt and
the abolition of the National bank privi-
leges; opposing the Importation of Chinese
or other servile labor, and favoring pen
sions for all soldiers.
A DENTIST named Rose in a dispute on
the 22d at Birmingham, Ala, over some
bills presented for collection, drew his
pocket-knife and cut the throat of Henry
Harralson from ear to ear. The victim
was a popular lawyer, and his friends were
organizing for vengeance.
HENRY WILSON and j. w. Watts became
engaged in fight few days ago on board
a steamer near Chattanooga, Tenn, and in
the struggle they both fell overheard and
were drowned.
THE loss of life by the recent Southern
cyclone was estimated as follows on the
22d: Alabama, 270; Georgia, 200; North
Carolina, 70; South Carolina, %; total,
$40. 1t was thought that these figures
would be largely increased as news was
received from sections with which COM
munication was difficult. The loss of prop
erty was also immense. Whole villages
were swept entirely away and plantations
and farms denuded Of everything valua-
BILE. Livestock in great numbers were al
so slaughtered.
A CALL has been issued by Jesse Harper,
Chairman of the National Greenback- Labor
Committee, for National Convention, to
be held at Indianapolis May 2S.
ABOUT nine hundred Cree Indians were
on the 22d said to be in revolt in the North
west Territory. They had captured the
Government supply of provisions.
A FEW days ago John Heith, sentenced
to life-imprisonment for the Bisbee muir
ders at Tombstone, A. T., was taken from
Jail by mob and hanged to telegraph
pole.
Both Houses of the Virginia Legislature
on the 22d passed over the Governors veto
the bill reapportioning the State for Repre-
sentatives in Congress.
By circular recently issued the high
tariff people of the country are invited to
meet in mass convention at Chicago the
2lst of May next.
The unwilling of monument to General
Robert E. Lee took place at New Orleans
on the 22d. The figure is sixteen feet high,
standing upon a white marble column
eighty feet in hight.
the track three coaches of train on the
Colorado Central Road near Georgetown,
and two ladies were badly burned and
many other travellers were injured.
AT Annapolis, Nd, Pedro Montaldo,
Professor of Spanish at the United States
Naval Academy, was found dead in the
grounds few days ago.
ONE of Colorado's best-known mining
men, George Fl. Fryer, died at Denver on
the oath from an overdose of morphine,
by his own hand.
CALL has been issued for National
Convention of wool growers to meet at
Chicago on the 7th of May.
JACOB LEHMAN, an old citizen of Fort
Wayne, Ind, while attending services on
the oath at the German Evangelical
Church, dropped dead in the aisle.
On the Hannibal & st. Joseph Road
passenger train broke through bridge
near New Cambria, No., few days ago,
and one child was killed and thirty-three
adults were injured, five mortally.
A LARGE agricultural implement ware
house was burned at StrLouis few days
ago, causing loss of SIPS, 700.
ALLEN INGALLS, and Ben johnson me
groes) confessed at Cincinnati on the 23d
to numbering the Taylor family (three in
number) at Avondale recently and imme-
diately delivering the corpses to the Ohio
Medical College. ingalls, also stated that
he was professional resurrectionist.
The Grand Jury on the 23d indicted Neil
McKaigue, a young butcher at Winnetka,
ILL.,, for the murder of James L. Wilson
and his wife, and he was placed in jail.
The fatal buttons found in thereon where
the murder was committed were fitted to
the butchers vest in the presence of the
grand jurors, and this, with other circum-
stantial evidence, caused the Indictment.
McKaigue is the son of wealthy and re-
spectacle citizen of Thorold, Ont.
On the I'D w. B. Cash, of Cheraw, S.
G., son of the famous duelist, killed
Marshal Richards and mortally wounded
James Coward, and was being pursued by
a posse of citizens.
ADvIcEs of the oath state that de-
tachment of mounted police of Manitoba
had been captured and killed by a band
OF Cree Indians on Crooked Lake Reserve.
SHIELDS newspaper office, the Central
Hotel and five of the principal business