The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
WEST AND soIIru.

EARLY the ether morning a fire in the
Hall Spring Railway stables at Baltimore
destroyed ten cars and caused the burning
to death of fifty -one horses.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS wagon, containing
three children, left it's fastenings On hiits
side near Knoxville, o., 4 few DAYS ago
and dashed down the incline, coming in
collision with great rock. Two of the
children were killed, but the third escaped
with slight injuries.
THE death of Solomet fversull, of Gin
cinnati, O., octurred the other night at his
residence in that city at the age of one
hundred and one years. He went to Ohio
from Virginia in 1901.
A VETERAN named William Rogers, who
lost his sight during the war, and for
years had beet grinding an organ for
living at Carthage, Mo-, was the recipient
on the 4th of $9,912.17 pension money, and
will besides receive $72 per month for life.
On the 4th Charles Neiveille, the alleged
Baronet, who ran away with and married
Miss Whitney, of Detroit, and was recent
ly tried and convicted of bigamy, was SEN
fenced to imprisonment for seven years in
the penitentiary.
AT Cincinnati Miss Kate Inn had Leo
Heller, her former lover, in Justice Court
few days ago for threatening her. Heller
attempted to kill the girl btt the jdstiae
prevented him, upon which Heller shot
himself dead.
MRS. Fl. G. PICKETT, of Cooperstown, D.
T., wife of banker, accidentally killed
herself few days ago while carelessly
handling a revolver,
THE other day an ineendlary fire in Mey-
ersdale, Md, destroyed fifteen buildings
comprising the business portion of the viii
lage. A number of business men had re-
ceived warnings that they would be burned
out.
A SHOOTING ARRAY occurred AZ Gates
vile. Tex, few days ago caused by an
old feud, during which Henry Basham, DR..
I. H, Sa0ls and Abraham Sauls were fatal
" wounded. All the parties were well-to-
do farmers.
RAYMER, SEAGRAvE &c Co., bankers, eff
Toledo, were on the 9th compelled TO sis-
pend business, with liabilities of 800, 0OO
In Chicago On the 9th Joe Williams, the
negfo who murdered Minnie Brooks and
Giles Hunt, was found guilty and SEN
tened to imprisonment fer life.
A NOTICE of contest has been served bv
Attorney-General Mccartney, Republican
candidate fer Congress in the Sixteenth
Illinois District, upon S. 2. Landers, his
Democratic opponent, on the double ground
of the bribery of voters and false ard
fraudulent returns.
EXECUTIONS took place on the 9th as fol-
lows; Solomon Forces and Jose Manuel
Soto st Salinas, Cal, for numbering Chi
naman: Joe Foster (colored), at Natchi-
toches, La, for criminal assault upon a
white woman, and John Nesmith (colored),
at Mount Pleasant, S. c., for the murder of,
j. w. Shipman.
THE Alabama Senate on the 9th adopted
resolution favoring large appropriations
for the schools of the State.
STORES at Charleston, w. Va, having
been robbed frequently, an inv estigation
led to the discovery a few days ago that
band of boys, fully organized, and having
grips, passwords, ETC., were the robbers.
Their headquarters were in an unfrequent-
ed section, and their meetings were always
held at night.
The other day Judge Howard, of Ari-
IONA, fined three convicted polygamists
$500 each and sentenced them to thvee and
one-haf years each in the House of Cor
rection at Detroit. Two Bishops were fined
the same amount, and ordered to Yuma
Penitentiary for six months.
The firm of Hill, Fontaine Il Co.. of
Memphis, Teun., on the 9th estimated the
cotton crop of this year at 5,6S3,O0 bales.
The frost Of October "a resulted in loss of
fully 100000 bales.
AT Breckenridge, Col, twenty business
buildings were destroyed by fire few
evenings ago, causing loss of about $780,
000
AT Bakersfield, CAL, three inches of snow
fell on the 7th which was unprecedented in
the history of that section of the State.
The residence of j. S. Mills, a few miles
from Ashton, D. T., was burned the other
day, and Mrs. Mills and her three-yeaf-
child persisted in the flames.
In Lafayette, Ind, sensation was
caused on the evening of the 9th, in the
course OF lecture by Colonel Ingersoll.
non. John A. Stein protested against the
oIasphemy of the lecturer, and he SO IN
formed him, and with several friends arose
and left the hall
MISS REBEccA STEWART, an aged maiden
lady, left her home on the morning of the
It'll at Wheeling, W. Va, while temporarily
insane, and drowned herself in the Ohio
River. While dragging for the body John
McMasters fell out of a skiff and was
drowned.
A RAILROAD train near Little Rock, Ark.
was boarded by masked robbers on the
night of the 9Th who secured $4,000 in cash
and valuables. Bloodhounds were put on
their track on the 7th, and six men were
captured in Little Rock.
ESTHER ELLIS and Mary Johnson (ool-
ored) were arrested on the 9th at Fort
Springs, Va, charged with the wholesale
poisoning of the families of Matthew Mann
and James w. Goodman. Four persons