The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-11
West and So,1th.


IT is reported that the Gould system Of
railways will soon open school of teleg-
raphy at st. Louis, in which young men
will be trained in all branches of that art,
and then be given situations on the diff
ferent lines as their services may be
needed.
A FIRE few days ago destroyed four
story building in st. Louis, causing loss
of 100000.
In Chicago at four o'clock on the morn.
ing of the 9th the mercury indicated
twenty-six degrees below zero, thirty five
below at Bismarck, twenty-seven below at
Omaha, forty-two below at Fargo, seven
above at Denver and two above at Buffalo,
N. Y. In Iowa and Wisconsin the mer-
curry ranged from ten to thirty degrees be-
low.
A NEGRO named Valmar Rector was
hanged at Baton Rouge, La, on the 4th
for the murder of Duncan Williams, and
James Crummidy (colored) was executed
at Eastman, Ga, for the murder of James
Mitchell.
The marriage of a fourteen.year-old
white girl to a negro of the darkest hue oc-
CURED at Denver, COL, few evenings ago,
white minister officiating. There were
rumors that the girl was forced into the
alliance, and much excitement prevailed in
the neighborhood.
A FEW days ago Albert Kent, of San
Francisco, added $4,000 to his previous
gift of $4,000 for the erection of chemical
laboratory at Yale College.
The banking firm of Henner & Moore, of
Morris, Mimi, has failed for 100000. The
assets were considerably less.
UNKNOWN persons entered the office Of
the Kansas Pr0hibitioniSt, at Leavenworth,
the other night and pied one of the forms
and half of the type was thrown into the
stove and melted.
On the morning of the 9th the thermom-
eter registered thirteen degrees above
zero at Charleston, S. c., it being the cold
est weather recorded in that section in one
hundred and thirty-five years.
In sections of Virginia, Tennessee and
North Carolina heavy snow-storm pre-
vailed on the 9th, with the coolest weather
known for years.
AT Charlestown, Ind, on a spur of the
Ohio q Mississippi, train running from
Vernon to Louisville was wrecked few
days ago, and a score of people were bad
ly hurt, including members of the Yale
College Glee Club.
The failure of the Dietrich Canvas-Bag
Manufacturing Company of San Francisco
occurred recently for $3.50, 900.
THE burning of the furniture establish
ment Of Burrell, Comstock & Co., at st.
Louis, and the jewelry house Of Menick,
Walsh & Phelps on the 9th, caused total
loss of 100000.
A STATEMENT appeared in the Age of
Steel on the 9th, on the authority of one
largely interested in the iron trade, that
there was a scheme on foot to pool the en-
tire pig-iron industry of the country.
The destruction of the new Park Thea
ter at Cleveland, o., by fire a few days
since caused a loss of 100000, and the
First Presbyterian Church was damaged
to the extent of $4,000.
JUDGE PARDEE rendered decision on
the 9th in the case of the New Orleans Ma
tional Bank against the post-office author
tiles, who refused to deliver mail, claim
ing that it properly belonged to the lottery
company, that the bank was entitled to
free and full use of the mails.
NEAR Fort Scott, Kan, a carload of six
teen mules was frozen to death on the 9th,
on the way from Lamar to Kansas City,
and number of mules and cattle on the
Missouri Pacific Railway suffered the same
fate.
FIRE destroyed the courthouse and Jail
at Jerseyville, ILL.,, on the 9th, and four
prisoners We're suffocated, their names
being Wall Dunsdan, James Gregg, Emile
Kahler and August Schultz.
The death of Mary V. Young, the seven
teenth wife of the deceased Mormon proph-
ct, occurred at Salt Lake City few days
ago. Sixteen widows still live to mourn
Brigham'S loss.
A FIRE broke out on the evening of the
9TH in the Catholic Convent at Belleville,
ILL.,, and in an hour it was reduced to
ashes. Sixty pupils made desperate eff
forts to escape, some of them leaping from
the windows. Eleven bodies had been
taken from the ruins, and sixteen others
were known to have persisted in the flames.
The building was a fve-story brick struct-
ure, valued at about $4,000. The origin
of the fire was unknown.
AN early morning fire in Chicago on the
9th partially destroyed the fine building
on Michigan avenue known as the Beau
rivage flats, causing loss of over $1,000
There were 10 persons in the building,
all of whom safely made their way to the
street,
Cox, accused of the murder of McLaugh-
lin, the millionaire, has been acquitted by
a San Francisco Police Justice.
A DECLARATION was rsade in the taberna-
Gle at Salt Lake on the 9Th by Apostles
Cannon and Woodruff that Mormonism in
all its features and doctrines would be con-
tinued, whatever Congress or the country
might threaten, and that the progress of
the church could only be stayed by killing
all the Saints.
ADvICEs on the It'll state that young
orange and pineapple groves on the Gulf
coast of Florida had been seriously injured
by frosts.
A DAUGHTER of Joseph Fustian, of Now
Richmond, o., was fatally burned the
other day while hanging picture over the
mantlepiece in her fathers house, her dress
taking fire from the open CRATE. Her
mother was badly burned in trying to ex-
tinguish the flames.
A FIRE destroyed the County Jail at
Columbus, o., the other day. Forty-five
prisoners were safely transferred to the
city prison.
In Southern Illinois fruit experts report
heavy damage by the recent intense cold.
"A PASSENGER train was thrown down a
five-foot embankment by broken rail
near Valparaiso, Neb., on the It'll, twenty
persons being injured, six seriously.
FIRE destroyed Proctor & Candles soap
and candle works at Cincinnati the other
afternoon, causing loss of $25O,OO0.