The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-28
West and South.

AFTER severe struggle three negro rob-
bers, who had created a reign of terror on
the Illinois Central and Cairo Short-Line
Roads, between East st. Louis and Belle
vile, ILL.,, were captured on the Doth.
The execution of Champ and Rudolph
Fitzpatrick, brothers, took place on the
2lst, at Columbia, KY, for the murder of
Miller Brewster.
RECENTLY the announcement was made
that McFadden, an accomplice of Prentiss
Tiller's in the st. Louis express robbery,
had attempted to commit suicide in the st.
Louis Prison by swallowing fragments of
broken glass. On the goth the report was
said to be unfounded, McFadden being de-
sirous of being placed in the hospital,
whence escape would be easy.
ON the 21st back water was flooding the
houses in Front street at Vicksb burg, and
the country between the Mississippi and
Atchafalaya Rivers was being inundated
through breaks in the levees.
The death of Mrs. A. H Foote, of Law
renee, Kan, occurred recently from blood
poisoning caused by wearing a green vail
which rubbed against a sore on her face.
TEN great crevasses in the Mississippi
levees near New Orleans were reported on
the 21st, all pouring greatvolumes of water
into the country and overlooking some of
the finest plantations in that section.
DODGE City (Kan.) advices of the 21st
were to the effect that the cattle drive to
the North this year would be from $4,000
to 5000 head.
THE death is announced of Judge Thatch-
err, of the Supreme Court of Colorado.
JOHN j. VERTREEs, Chairman of the
Tennessee State Democratic Committee,
caused an injunction to be served on the
21st on the President of the Nashville
American Newspaper Company. restrain
ing him from advocating in that paper a
protective tariff. Vertrees claimed to
have an interest in the majority of the
stock of the american.
SEVERAL masked citizens of Marysville,
KAN, the other day forced the jailer to de-
liver to them Samuel Prayer, who had been
convicted of the murder of John Penning-
ton and wife. The offender was taken to
the wagon bridge and hanged, after he had
made full confession of his crime.
THE fire in the Pocahontas coal mine in
West Virginia, where one hundred and
fifty-three men recently lost their lives by
an explosion, was still raging on the 22d.
Engineers had been sent there to locate fire
chambers, when corps Of oil-well drillers
would be set at work to penetrate the
mountain from the top, in order to flood the
mine through the borings.
AN examination by the veterinary sur
geons Investigating the cattle disease at
Neosho Falls, Kan, has resulted in the
finding in the hay fed to the sufferers of
wild rye which contained twenty times
more ergot than was ever before known in
feed. 1t was claimed that the feet of the
cattle froze because the ergot contracted
the blood-vessels and retarded the circula-
ton.
BY an explosion few days ago in the
fireworks establishment of Diehl & Co.,
at Cincinnati, three men were seriously
burned, and the roof fell upon them and
held them until help arrived.
AT meeting in Chicago on the I'D of
Senator Sabin, John c. New and others,
representing the National Republican Com
mittee, to arrange details for the National
Convention, positive orders were issued
that the attendance at each session should
not exceed six thousand persons. The di-
rector of the musical festival, to be held in
May, stated that the Exposition Building
would be arranged for the accommodation
of 400 persons on the main floor.
j. B. JOHNSON killed himself with re-
volver near Denver on the 23d, while on
his way to make restitution to drug firm
at st. Joseph, Mo-, whom he had robbed of
a large amount of goods.
A NUMBER of leading citizens of Chicago
have signed an address urging the forma-
ton of an Independent Republican Asso-
citation to promote the work of administra-
tive reform and the extinction of the
spoils system.
A VERDICT of not guilty was rendered on
the 22d in the case of o. A. Carpenter, on
trial at Petersburg, ILL.,, for the murder of
Fora Burns. Five jurors on the first bal
lot voted for conviction. The wife and
daughter of the accused waited all night
at the Sheriff's residence to hear the result.
The father of the murdered girl was so
wild from grief that he was constantly
watched. Carpenter would only say to in
reviewers, after the verdict, that he was
at home on the Sunday night when the
deed was done.
Two MEN engrossed the attention of
messenger in an Augusta (Ga.) banking
house on the ed and took 5000 from his
sachel without his knowledge.
For eighteen months fire in the New
castle coal mine, in Washington Territory,
has been raging, and the fact that it OBJ
tanned mastery over the management had
been concealed mn To fine ODD
THE State National Bank at Boulder,
Col. suspended few days ago, after
short run, owing depositors about 500, 600.
A FIRE at Baltimore few days ago de-
stroyed the Flamingo guano works and
the chcmical works OF P. s. Chappell B