The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-05
WEST AND SOUTH.


WEST AND SOUTH.
JUDGE MCBRIDE in the Steuben County
Court at Angola, Ind, on the Goth instruct
ed the Grand Jury to indict every person
shown to have wagered money on the re-
suit of the election.
A FEW days ago NJ S. Elkins, Demo-
cratic Presidential Elector for the Sixth
Tennessee District, became violently in
sane.
RENDERED miserable by poverty, DR..
John Maxwell, of Springfield, O., poisoned
his four children and himself. The effect
was fatal on the little ones, but he recov-
cred sufficiently to permit of his Icing
lodged in jail on the Goth.
THE death of General Miguel Guadra,
Commissioner for Costa RIGA to the Worlds
Exposition, occurred suddenly on the 9th
on board a steamer just after leaving New
Orleans.
THE three Mccarthy brothers, prominent
settlers of Union County, Ore, recently left
their homes on short prospecting trip and
could not be found. Tt was supposed on
the 9th that they were murdered by Indi-
ans and their bodies secreted.
The bill recently passed by the Council
excluding white men from the Cherokee
Nation has been vetoed by Chief Bushy-
head.
OREGoN's official vote is as follows:
Blaine, 26,5S2; Cleveland, 1853; Butler,
1913; st. John, 4SS Blaine's majority, 1,O4S.
THE official vote of Indiana at the recent
election is: Cleveland, 1894; Blaine, 1885,
AT; Butler, S,794; st. John, 3,007. Cleve-
lands plurality, 6,447. For Governor
Gray (Dem.), 245, 14O; Callzins (Rep.), 237,-
74S; Leonard (Greenbacker), S,33S; Dwig-
gins (Prohibition), 1866. Gray's plurality,
1882.
AT the principal Western points, the
number Of hogs packed from March to
November 2S was 4,O5o,OOO against 1871, goo
for the corresponding time of last year.
DAVID L. PAYNE, the well-known in
vader of Oklahoma, died suddenly while
breakfasting on the morning of the 2Sth
ult. at Wellington, Kan.
fl is said that the reported killing of a
saloon-keeper at Bladensburg, O., by Pro-
hibitionists was false. The man met his
death while expelling drunken ruf1ians
from his place, the crowd, who were cele-
brating over the election, afterward gut
ting the saloon.
On the 2Sth ult. tickets from Chicago to
ST. Louis were on sale at So, and the return
trip cost but $3.50.
TIE belief was expressed on the 18th ult.
that the ''long strike" in the Hooking VAL
ley in Ohio would soon end. Some twenty
of the persons indicted for outrages had
been arrested and would be tried for con-
spiracy. The railway bridges burned had
been replaced.
A WARRANT for the arrest of J. G. Pu-
sey, chief clerk of the Kansas penitentiary,
was issued the other day. He was charged
with the embezzlement of $1,000.
On the Louisville & Nashville Road a
train was consumed by fire at Predido,
Ala, the other day, and among the valua-
bles lost were two pouches of registered
letters, one for New York and the other for
Boston.
In Washington Territory the official
vote at the recent election shows that the
women cast between 10000 and 1000
ballots.
A BUGGY containing six persons was
struck by locomotive at a crossing at
San Rafael, Cal, few nights ago, two be-
ing killed, one fatally injured and the
fourth having an arm broken. The others
escaped.
MASKED men took George Briscoe (col-
ored), accused of robbery, from officers a
few nights ago at New Bridge, Nd, and
hanged him.
FIFTEEN persons were recently indicted
by the Federal Grand Jury at Omaha for
fraud in connection with the sale of Otoe
Indian reservation lands, by which the red
men were defrauded to the amount of 500.
600.
BY the collision of two freight trains
early the other morning near Henning's
Station, Tenn, an engineer and brakeman
were killed. two fremen were mortally
hurt, and the locomotives and eight cars
were destroyed.
STARVATION in the near future threat
ened the striking Hooking Valley coal-min-
ers and their families on the Goth ult. unless
the strike was brought TO an end and the
miners returned to.work.
THE colored people have called meeting
at Petersburg, Va, to consider the advisa-
bility of an exodus to California and other
parts of-the West.
The boiler of a saw-mill exploded near
Ellzabethtown, KY, few days ago, kill
ing seven men and wounding two others
seriously. The structure was torn to
pieces.
The other day Samuel Wannamaker, a
dying man who forged notes for S25. 900.
was taken from a hospital into court at
Youngstown, o., and sentenced to fiftv
years in the penitentiary.
IT is announced by Director. General
Burke, of the Worlds Fair at New Or
leans, that everything will be in readiness
for opening the exposition December 16.
In the Office of the Virginia Auditor of
Public Accounts a defalcation was discov-
cred recently which would probably
amount to $4,000 or $4,000.
A FEW days ago seven men in Jail at
Helena, Ark, concealed themselves behind
door and made their escape by knocking
the iailer senseless.
JUDGE TULEY, in the Circuit Court at
Chicago on the 10Th ult., in the matter of
the estate of Wilbur F. Storey, appointed
Horace A. Hurlbut receiver of the Times,
with an order that there be no change at