The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-20
West and South.

MAYOR y. II. REEVES OF New Albany,
Miss, and Lloyd Ford, desperate, fred
five times at each other recently, Ford be-
ing fatally shot.
The doors of the State Bank Of West
Virginia, at Charleston, with liabilities of
$4,000, were closed on the 18th.
The Secretary Of the Cuban Revolutions
airy Committee, Maresso, was arrested on
the 18th at Key West, Fla. He was about
shipping explosive material. Letters adj
dressed to revolutionary leaders were
found in his possession.
F. E. ALBRIGHT has been nominated for
Congressman by the Democrats of the
Twentieth Illinois District.
On the night of the 18th some cars of
Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore
train were wrecked near Loveland, o., by
a rail having been removed. A negro
named William Scott had been arrested.
WELLINGTON LARKINs shot and killed
his brother Alfred, during a quarrel re-
Gently near Mimic, D. T., and then put a
ball through his own heart. Both men were
well-to-do farmers.
AT Minneapolis theater on the 18th
lightning struck one corner of the building
during matinee, which caused a slight
fire. The audience made for the doors.
and in the rush many we're seriously in
iured.
WoRKMEN were engaged upon gas
main at Wheeling, w. Va, recently when
the gas, which had been let on to test the
Joints, became ignited by a plumbers
lamp and blazed up severely burning six
men, two fatally.
MARIA AUCKLAND, an insane woman,
who had refused to eat anything for more
than three weeks, died at the county In.
Urinary at Urbana, o., on the 18th, from
starvation.
The publishing house of Cushing, Thorn
as & Co., of Chicago, publishers, was
closed by the Sheriff on the 10Th.
AT Lake Charles, La, in saloon row
few evenings ago John Powell stabbed
and killed Otto Berwald and Herman Sig
Ter, German sailors. He then fed.
The militia recently captured portion
of band of thieves that had been operat-
ing in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Terri
tory. Two of the robbers were killed in
the struggle.
TEXAS Democrats will hold their State
Convention to nominate officers at Austin
August 10.
OFFICIAL reports of the condition of the
crops in Michigan indicated on the 18th
That the harvest would be nearly up to the
average as far as wheat, corn, clover and
grass were concerned.
AT Salt Lake on the 18th three Deputy
ecuted Fred Hoyt, who had been three
times tried for murder. He sat upon his
coffin blindfolded, and the officers fired
from point ten PAGES distant.
EARLY on the morning OF the 18th Lewis
Stranger, of Baltimore, mistook Marion
Deems, a boarder, for a burglar and shot
him dead.
SOME lumbermen in Gilmore County, w.
Va. recently discovered the bodies of Will
lam and John Haddock, brothers, mashed
to pulp by an immense log, which had
rolled over them while saving it,
AN explosion the other day wrecked
Loomis' mill, near Little Rock, Ark. and
two men were killed and two others were
seriously wounded.
ADvIcEs of the 18th stated that the heav-
lest rains known for thirty years had pre-.
vailed for several days in portions of Cali
fornia, doing great damage to the growing
crops.
A MOTION was granted by Judge Edger.
ton, of Dakota, on the 18th to quash the in
dictment against Governor Ordway, of that
Territory, on the ground that the Grand
Jury had no jurisdiction over the official
acts of the Governor.
A FEW days ago Mrs. George Wilson,
whose husband killed an officer in Detroit
recently died of broken heart.
A QUANTITY of molten metal was spilled
at the Cincinnati & Newport Iron and
Pipe Works in Newport, KY, at noon the
other day, and an employee named Van
Ansdal was burned to death, and two
others were probably fatally injured.
AT Corsicana, Tex, on the 18th a cv-
clone and heavy rain prevailed, during
which two business buildings were I'M
rooted, some residences were damaged,
and number of trees were blown down.
THE execution of Lewellen Robinson
(colored) took place at Scale, Ala, on the
18th for the murder of Troy Adams (col-
ored).
A CUBAN named Recia was hanged on
the 18th in the jail-yard at Key West for
the murder of a companion.
"A NOTORIOUS crook, named Alex Fiddler
was found hanging to a tree a few days
ago near Sturges, D. T. The lynchers were
unknown.
JOHN FLEMING, of Chicago, vino was
convicted of using the mails to defraud,
came from Dakota on the 14th and sur
rendered himself to serve a year in jail.
A FEW nights ago James Gabert and his
six-year-old daughter were drowned in
the Missouri River at Marion, Mo. The
child fell into an eddy. Gaber5 jumped in
after her, and both were drawn in. Gabert
leaves wife and four children.
THOMAS G. CAMPBELL, the noted crimi.
nal lawyer whose case induced the recent
Cincinnati riots, was on the 14th dis
charged from the charge of jury bribing
by disagreement Of the jury.
THE failure is announced of Cider. Day
g. Co, cotton factors of New Orleans, with
liabilities of $2S0,000.
CITIZENS of Memphis, Tenn, sent a COM
mittee to Washington on the 18th to ask an
appropriation Of $350,O0O to prevent the
custom house as we'll as private buildings.
A HEAVY wind and rains storm visited
portions of Carroll County, Nd, a few
days ago, destroying numerous mill
dams, and crops, bridges and fences were