The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
West and South.

The twenty-inch brick wall of the vault
in the City Clerks Office at East st. Louis
was penetrated by burglars the other night,
who carried off about $4,000 in money and
nearly $4,000 in city scrip.
"A FARMER named Henry Hays, of Davies
County, KY, was found dead near his res
idence a few days ago with three pistol
shots in his body. Hays was desperate
man, and had engaged in several shooting
ARRAYS.
ADvIcEs of the 22d state that there were
fully twenty thousand people between
Natohez and Vicksburg who were desti-
tute, and had no prospects that they could
raise decent crop until next year.
NEBRASKA Democrats met in State Con.
vention at Lincoln on the 22d and elected
delegates to the National Convention, fa-
vering Tilden for President. The plat
form declares that the administrative re-
forms needed by the country are impossi-
,ble so long as the Government is in the
hands of the Republicans; advocates such
a revision of the tariff as will prevent as
far as possible unequal burdens, and the
heaviest taxes to be placed on luxuries.
On the 22d a mortgage on General Grants
farm, south of st. Louis, to secure the Van
derbilt loan of $4,000 was recorded at st.
Louis.
SAMUEL AcKERMAN's house, near Ports
mouth, o., was destroyed by fire few
nights ago, and Mr.. Alderman, his wife
and daughter aged sixteen years per.
ished in the flames. The other six chill
dren were saved.
THE Greenbackers of West Virginia as
sembled in State Convention at Bockhan-
non on the 22d and nominated Judge Ed
win G. Maxwell for Governor.
WILLIAM s. HOLMAN has been renom-
mated for Congressman by the Fourth In.
diana District Democrats, and Congress-
man Thomas A. Ryan has been renon-
mated by the Republicans of the Fourth
Kansas District.
ELLIOT, DEWEY & Co., of Richmond,
Va, wholesale dry-goods dealers, have
made an assignment, with liabilities of
$1,000
IT was estimated by cattle-raiser of
Texas, who returned on the 22d from a
tour of the stock-region, that the drive for
the season will be half million head.
THE death is announced of Isaac M.
Veitch, an old citizen of st. Louis and one
of the most prominent Odd-Fellows in the
United States.
EXECUTIONS for murder took place on
the 23d as follows: Loban Stevens, at
Waverly, o.; Lloyd L. Majors, at Oak
land, Call; Leonidas johnson. at Melon
ough, Ga, and John McKietben, at Way
Cross, Ga.
:
THE house of Nicholas Pauley, at Clyde,
Mich, was destroyed by fire few days
ago, and two children, aged eleven and
eight years, persisted in the flames.
THE reports on the 2Sd of the condition
of the grain crops in Illinois, Iowa, Min
nesota and Dakota continued to be very
favorable. ~&e
On the Burlington Road freight-train,
brakes, passed through Nebraska few
days ago at the rate of twenty-seven miles
an hour, and the officials pronounced the
experiment successful one.
The failure is reported of H. c. Blanch-
ard, coffee merchant at Richmond. Va,
Tor $22S,0O
1T has been decided by the Dakota SUI
preme Court that the Capital Commission
was validity organized, reversing Judge
Edgerton's decision in the Supreme Court
An appeal had been taken to the United
States Supreme Court, and until the lat
ter's decree is entered the Capital will re-
main at Yankton.
REV. DR.. GEORGE WoRTHINsroN, of De-
troit, Mich, has been elected Episcopal
Bishop of Nebraska by the council of that
diocese.
HEAVY rains in the river districts of
Louisiana had on the 18th badly damaged
the crops, and planters and business men
were greatly discouraged.
THE damage by the floods in Texas to
the railroads was estimated on the 9th at
$2,000,00O.
AFTER a protracted tour the State Veter-
mary Surgeon of Kansas reported on the
oath that CHAMBERS prevailed among horses
in fifteen counties.
On the oath the first cyclone ever known
in Washington Territory passed over a
portion of Azotin County, doing great
damage to property, No lives were lest.