The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-25
West and South

In the Fourth Minnesota District O. G.
Merriam has been nominated for Congress
man by the Democrats.
The National Teachers Association held
its closing exercises at Madison, Wis, on
the 18th. Fifty of the teachers had ar
ranged for trip to Alaska.
KANSAS Republicans met in State Con.
vention at Topeka on the 18th and nomi.
mated Colonel John A. Martin for Cover
nor; A. p. Riddle for Lieutenant Governor,
and Albert FL. Horton for Chief Justice of
the State Supreme Court. The platform
recalls the triumphs of the Republican
party, indorses the nomination of Blaine
and. Logan, and commends the platform
adopted by the National Republican Con
vention.
In w ilson's saw-mill, near Ellenboro,
W. Va, the boiler exploded the other
morning, killing boy and fatally wound
ing young man and woman. The engine
was thrown forty feet, and the mill struc-
ture destroyed by fire.
AT Baltimore recently Valentine Fritz
was Frustrated by heat. His idiot son
slipped into the room where he lay and
drove long nail into his head, a fact
which was only discovered by accident
two days afterward.
TEE suspension of the private banking
house Of A. & ]. G. S. Harrison, at Indian
apolis, was announced on the 18th, and by
order Of the local court was placed in the
hands OF the Sheriff. The liabilities were
estimated at 100000.
THE other day Thomas johnson was
about to whip his step.sen at Clifton
Forge, Va, and had tied the boys hands
behind his back preparatory to the casti-
cation. The boy loosed himself and
rushed to river close by, into which he
plunged. His step-father followed, and
both were drowned.
On the 18th the completion of the Can
ton, Aberdeen & Nashville Road from the
Illinois Central was celebrated at Aber-
deem, Miss, gold spike being driven, with
banquet, speech making,a and a military
parade.
THE Democrats of the Third District Of
West Virginia have renominated G. P.
Snyder for Congressman.
IT was agreed on the 18Th by credit
ors representing $250,0OO to reorganizs
Fletcher 81 Sharpe's Bank at indianapolis
on the basis that the principal creditors
take stock for their claims, the smaller
depositors to receive fifty per cent. cash
and the balance in six and twelve months.
EXECUTIONS for murder took place on
the 18th as follows: Robert Hunt and
Daniel Parker, both colored, at Green
vile, Miss; G. Nelson, at Mouma, La,
and Samuel Williams (colored) at
Waynesboro, Ga.
AT the recent session of the National
Educational Association as Madison, Wis,
Prof. Louis Soldau, of st. Louis, was
elected President.
EARLY on the morning of the Goth at
Chicago, Clement Sudkemp killed Ada
Harvey and then took his own life. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
A MAN named Nunes recently shot his
wife at Canon City, Ore, and her dead
body fell over her babe, who sat In her lap
at the time the fatal shot was fired, and
crushed it to death. Nunes then shot him.
self through the head.
A HAIL and rain-storm of great violence
swept through Eastern Nebraska the other
night. The rain did serious damage at
Omaha, and at North Platte hail stones as
large as hens eggs fell.
NEAR Canton, o., few evenings ago a
railway wreck caused serious injuries to
twenty persons, but none of the passengers
were killed.
AT Mount Vernon, o., two tramps were
killed the other day by the explosion of
boiler used in sinking gas well near
which they were sleeping.
THE death of Frank Calvert, the di-
vorced husband of the second wife of
Ex-Governor Sprague, occurred in a Gin.
cinnati hotel on the 21st under circum-
stances which indicated that he took his
own life His friends said he died of
broken heart.
A DECISION was rendered by Judge
Blodgett at Chicago on the 21st that for
eign corporations doing business in this
country are liable to an internal-revenue
tax on the amount of the capital which
they employ in the transaction of their
business.
AT Jackson, Miss, Green's Bank, one Of
the oldest institutions in that region,
where nearly every Sheriff in the State.
kept his funds, suspended on the 21st,
with liabilities of $250,000.
IN wheat field near Modesto. Cab, fire
started on the 21st and before it was got
under control six thousand acres and
many large dwellings were consumed,
causing loss of $4,000.
KANSAS Democrats will hold their State
Convention at Topeka, August 20, to NOM
mate candidates for State Offices.
LABoRERs, while sinking an artesian
well at West Point, Miss, the other day
struck large poplar tree at depth of $50
feet, the wood of which was in perfect
state of preservation.
The other night a hurricane swept over
Dakota in the vicinity of Spring Valley,
Sioux Falls and Dell Rapids, unroofng
many houses and injuring fruit and shade
trees.