The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19

Claire alone more than two hundred houses
were swept away. Forty buildings were
carried off from Chippewa Falls, and the
loss in that city. would approximate
81, 100000.
In the Petersburg (Va.) district streams
were on the 18th drying up because Of the
protracted drought, and mills were doing
less than half their usual work. The city
of Petersburg was threatened with q
water famine.
A FIRE recently destroyed the Eagle ftp
niture factory at South Baltimore, Nd,
the walls of the structure falling in. The
loss was - GOO lightly insured.
A FEW days ago the roof of the new roller
skating-rink at Detroit collapsed, burying
eight workmen, two of whom died of their
injuries.
NEBRASKA Prohibitionists met In State
Convention at Lincoln on the fith and
nominated J. G, Miller FOR Governor. H.
Fl. Shedd. the Republican candidate for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. was Endorsed.
In regard to the es etc of Wilbur F.
Storey, of Chicago, proprietor of the
Times, the litigation reached conclusion
on the 18th. The conservatof Received or
ders from the Probate Court to pay month
ly to Mrs Storey $1,000 for household ex.
penses. and to permit her counsel to ex-
anime into the management of the estate.
The Nebraska Democratic State Conven-
ton met at Omaha on the 18th and agreed
on fusion with the Anti -Monopolists. j.
Sterling Morton was nominated for Gov.
r.. T 1A,fA
ernor. The platform declares that rail.
roads must keep out of politics, and must
submit to control by the Legislature
THE execution of Benjamin johnson
(coloredl occurred at Cincinnati on the
18th for completely in the murder of Bev-
erly Taylor, his wife and their little girl
at Avondale, near that city. Frank Hutch
ings was hanged at San Francisco for
murder. $E
The corn crop of Iowa this year is esti-
mated at aO0,OO0,OOO bushels, the largest
ever known in the Hawkeye State.
BURGLARS entered the office of a street
railway ut Augusta, Ca, on the 18th, who
finished their work by numbering the night
Waterman, saturating his corpse with oil,
and burning it to o einder.
On the 18th Mormon missionaries named
Wiley and Humphrey, who were about to
commence operations in Lancaster Coun-
ty, s. G., promptly accepted notice from
the citizens. to leave. Sas 81
COLORADO Republicans met in State
Convention at Denver on the 10Th and
nominated Beniamin H. Eaton for Gov
ernor. G. g. Syms wus nominated for
Congressman. a
The First Wisconsin, District Republic,
ans on the 18th nominated L. B. Caswell-
Jr.l for Congressman, and the Prohibition
lists of the Fifth Michigan District nomi-
mated w. G. Edsell.
EIGHT horses owned by Smith 6 Merrill,
and valued at $4,000, were burned to death
on the fair grounds at Lexington, KY, the
other evening. n
The other morning. block of thirty five
buildings at Pierre, D. T., was destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000, with $4,000
insurance.
OFFICIAL returns on the 10Th of the vote
for Governor at the recent election in Ar
kansas gave Hughes (Democrat) 99,972
votes, and Boles (Republican) 55,836.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
| as follows on the 18Th: Republican.-Mis.
souri,, Tenth District, G. A. Newcomb.
Ohio, Twenty-first District, q. c. Burnett.
Democratic-M Michigan, Seventh District,
Ezra G. Carleton. Idaho, John HALEY.
THE Illinois State Fair managers re-
ported on the 18th loss of $40, 900 this sea
son, for which the hot weather would seem
to be mainly responsible.
AT Logansport, Ind, three fatal acct.
dents occurred on the 14th. Harry Chat.
| fin, brakeman, was crushed between the
cars and instantly killed. Ba ney Dean, g
fourteen-year-old boy, was kicked by a
horse and nstantly killed, and Tim Flynn
was struck by Panhandle engine and i'll.
jured so badly that he died soon after. {.
| AT Wellington, Kan, Frank Jones,
whose sanity was questioned, amused him
self on the 18th by riding through the
streets and firing into residences with a
Winchester rife. A child was slightly
and man dangerously wounded. He
was captured and imprisoned, and it was
thought would be lynched. 3at
On the 18th the International surveying
party located the boundary line six hun.
bred yards north of the old line. This de-
cision throws portion of the town OF
Negales, A. T., on Mexican soil, which oc-
ton among the Americans.
In the Chicago market wheat dropped
on the 18th to 1870 for September, the
lowest price reached since the war.
THE other daythe Mexican steamer Don
Hermanos, from Philadelphia to Mexico,
sank off Frying Pan Shoals, and five OF
the crew were drowned.
The army worm, it was reported on the
18th, had destroyed entire fields of rye in
Douglas and Leavenworth Counties, Kan,
and was threatening the young winter
| wheat
THE boiler of the tug Frank Somers ex
ploded the other morning near Bermuda
Hundred, on the James River. Captain
Cavanaugh and one of his men were
drowned. Three others, who leaped over
board, were saved.
| AT Oronago, Mo-, heavy loss was sus.
| tanned recently by the burning of the
GRAVITY mining and smelling works.
THE house of Miss Mary Gilfeller, neal
Mansfield, o., was entered by two masked
men few nights ago, who demanded hel
money. She gave them $3.50, claiming
that was all she had. The robbers Their
bound her and applied burning lamp tc
her feet, endeavoring to extort more
money, but the young woman persisting
she had given it all up, the villains left
the premises. ~
The dead bodies of a man and woman
were found near San Bruno, CAL, on the
18th, both of their heads having bullet
holes in them. On a card found on the
man was the name ~. L. Reynolds" with
the information that his mother lived al
| Brooklyn, N. Y.
N. G. THOMPSON, of Rockford, ILL.,, who
for twenty-five years had been one of the
leaders in business circles, suspended pay
ment at his banking house on the 10th
but claimed that the manufacturing com
pany bearing his name would pe in no way
involved. His liabilities were said to be
fully Se5O,O00.
AT Converse, Ca, the cemetery was in
vaded few nights ago, the graves desc
Grated and monuments wrecked. The
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