The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08
West and South.

REPORTS were received by the Indiana
State Board of Health on the 31st ult. from
health officers in over eighty counties of
the State which showed that the condition
of county prisons was wretched.
AT Baltimore on the 31st ult rain and
wind-storm flooded cellars in the lower
section, unroofed buildings and damaged
shipping. The loss was placed at 500, 1000.
A child was killed in falling house.
A LAMP explosion few mornings ago
resulted III a fire which destroyed nearly
the whole business portion of Hot Springs,
Ark.
THE Chicago school census recently COM
pleted, indicated population of 629,9S5,
an increase of 121 per cent. within year.
The Chinese number 297 and the colored
people 7,517.
CENSUS returns recently obtained from
sixty-fve out of the seventy nine counties
of Michigan showed that there had been a
net increase in the population of 187,083
since 1880. Twelve counties had lost
slightly.
The other day the steamer City of va
zoo, with a cargo of cotton and oil, was
sunk in the Mississippi by collision with a
stump near Baton Rogue
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 31st ult. as follows: Republican
West Virginia, Second District, F. NJ. Rey-
nolds; Indiana, Ninth District, G. I. Dox-
ey. Democratic-Mi Mississippi, Fourth Dis
trict, G.. G. Barry.
AN eleven-year-old boy named Charles
Suffrahn, of Chicago, who was bitten over
nine weeks ago by rabid dog, died of
hydrophobia on the 31st ult.
A TRAIN on the Northwestern Road was
attacked by a swarm of wild bees near
Chicago a few days ago, which few
through the open windows, and before
they could be driven off stung a large
number of passengers in painful
manner.
In a shooting ARRAY near Miles City, M.
T., few days ago, two cowboys were
fatally wounded.
The following Congressional nomina
tions were made by the Democrats on the
i3t: Missouri, Thirteenth District, r. L.
Thomas; North Carolina, Fourth District,
Thomas D. Johnson.
On the 1st George T. Williams, Secre-
tary of the Chicago Stock Y ards, report
ed that the Texas fever had been entirely
eradicated by the butchery of the infected
herd, and that no further trouble with cat
tie was expected.
NEAR Monroe, N. c., Mrs. Frances Ste
gall, a widow, aged seventy, who died a
few days ago, confessed to clergyman,
and afterwards made her confession pub
lie, that she had murdered her husband by
pouring molten lead into his ear thirty
years ago. She refused to say what was
the motive of the crime.
ELISHA ALEXANDER was killed, his
brother John MORALLY hurt, and Mrs.
Charlie Poor slightly wounded in shoot
ing affair recently near Burns, KY, the
result of -feud because of a runaway
match in the families.
A FIRE few mornings ago destroyed
the wholesale drug stock of Leighton &
Clark, at Omaha; loss, 100000.
AMONG the executions on the 1st were
three young white men at Scottsboro,
Ala. for arson; Frank Williams (col-
ored), at Pine Bluff, Ark, for the murder
of his wife; Wilson Stevens '(colored), at
Edgefeld, S. c., for killing a peddler, and
Frederick Cephas (colored), at Cam
bridge, Md, for numbering Mrs. Murphy.
FRED VoCH, a carriage manufacturer,
William Osech, laborer, and Bertha Muir.
ply, domestic, committed suicide at st.
Louis on the 1St.
A NEGRO murderer was taken from jail
at Glasgow, Mo-, by mob a few nights
ago and hanged.
THE National Anti Monopoly Labor
party Convention for Illinois is called to
meet at Bloomington August 10.
IT is announced that the present wheat
crop of Colorado, 100, 900 bushels-is five
per cent greater than any previous yield.
A SMALL party of mounted men early
the other morning took from the Jail at
Orange Courthouse, Va, negro named
John Fitzhugh, who had made a criminal
assault upon white lady, and hanged him
to tree in the woods near by.
AT Cleveland, O., ON the I'd Maud S.
trotted mile witho ut mate and without
urging in 2:09&. This beats Jay Eye.
Sees record (2:10) of the previous day.
and ali other records.
In the district of st. Vincent, Mimi, the
heaviest raiu-storm known occurred on the
I'd, four and one-half inches of water fall
ing. The damage to crops was heavy.
The Saluda Manufacturing Company's
cotton factory at Columbia, S. c., was de.
stroyed by fire few afternoons ago,
causing loss of $125,000.
NORTH of Snake River, in Utah Terri
tory, the lava fields were on fire on the 3d.
and thousands of acres had been burned
over. The fire threatened to destroy the
great river range of Idaho.
On the I'd Frank Frisb;e, recently en-
ployed as teller in the First National
Bank of Portland, Ore, absconded, TAX
ing with him $1,000 of his employers
money.
A GREASER who had assaulted young
girl was given a horse-whipping by the
American citizens at Ration, N. NJ, few
days ago, and then hanged to a cotton
wood tree by thirty men of his own race.
AT Denver, Col, a company was organ
lied on the I'd to build a furnace for Gre
nation purposes.
DURING the freshet a few days ago in
War Eagle Creek, near Little Rock, Ark,
an entire immigrant family, consisting OF
a man and his wife and four children,
were drowned.
IT was reported on the I'd by Govern.
ment Inspector, who had been making q
tour of the Indian villages on the Rosebud
and Tongue Rivers, that the Indians were
in starving condition, and that immedi.
ate assistance was necessary.
IT is reported that the flood at Cincin-
natl last spring so thoroughly cleansed the
bottoms that the death-rate is the lowest
in four years.
GOVERNOR O'NEILL (Dem.) and the
other State officers were reelected with
out opposition at the Alabama State elec-
tion on the 4th.
On the 4th the Governor of Kansas was
advised by the Sheriff of Ellis County that
the Texas fever had made its appearance
among cattle, in that region.
THE other day John B. Carter, for forty
years druggist at Augusta, Ca, was
burned to death by the explosion of a ker-
osene lamp i'll his bedroom.
The leading coal-producers of Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Alabama held a
meeting on the 4th at Chattanooga, Tenn,
at which forty companies were represent
ed, and it was resolved tn form Southern