The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22
West and South.


from the Frankfort (Ky.) Penitentiary.
and during the riot two guards and pris-
oner were seriously wounded and three
murderers made their escape.
CHARLES DICKINsoN's family, living
near Point Pleasant, w. Va, were pois-
oned recently by drinking milk in which
arsenic had been placed. Two of the vic
Tins had died, and others were not ex-
pectad to recover. A colored servant girl
had been arrested for the crime.
GOVERNOR MURRAY, of Utah, again
asked for troops on the 10Th to be used to
drive back from San Juan County Utes
from Colorado who had killed two men,
burned and destroyed property and
threatened other outrages. All the whites
in the valley had been expelled by the
marauding Indians.
BLISS 6 ELLIOTT, of st: Paul, Mimi,
lumber~dealers, failed recently for $780,
900.
On the 18th the following Congressional
nominations were made: Republican
Michigan, Fourth District, Julius g. Bur-
rows. Democratic-North Carolina, First
District, Thomas G.. Skinner (renom-
mated; Arkansas, Second District, r.
Breckenridge (renominated). After TAX
ing 1,40S ballots in the Second Maryland
District without choice, the Democrats
left the selection to the State Central Com
mittee.
On May 2S German family of five per-
sons, the youngest five years, left New
York for GAINESVILLE, Wis, carrying their
stores in cart, and arrived at the latter
place on the 18th, having walked the en-
tire distance.
M. P. WATERS, a prominent citizen of
Manhattan, Kan, few days ago ord cred
his son Sherman to shoot a neighbours
dog. The hoy refused and quarrel en-
sued, whernupon the parent entered the
house, returned with pistol, and fired at
his son, who returned the fire with fatal
effect. "
TEXAS Republicans will hold State
Convention at Houston September 2 for
the purpose of nominating State officers.
The statement is made by Oliver Dial.
rymple, the noted Dakota farmer, that he
will harvest $4,000 acres of wheat this
year, and that the average yield will be
about nineteen bushels per acre.
The death is announced of Major Ernst
Hoffman, of Rock Island. ILL.,, who served
under Garibaldi, and in the Union army
during the rebellion, with distinction.
A PARTY pursued and killed three ne
groes who fired at a freight train the 9TH
er day at Cass Station, Tenn.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the bust
ness part of Lampasas, Tex, the other
day.
In the eastern part of Cincinnati a fire a
few days ago destroyed the saw-mill of
Hinton g. Cole, the cattle-sheds of the
Miami Road, and ten frame dwellings,, the
losses aggregating 100000.
On the 10th the first bale of new cotton
arrived at Selma, Ala, and brought
twelve cents per pound at auction.
A wELL-KNowN merchant of Baltimore,
Jesse Cover, fell dead few evenings ago
while singing at a serenade in private
garden on Lafayette avenue.
The water in the Mississippi River,
owing to the diminished rainfall of this
season was on the 16th exceptionally low,
and the -four mills and saw-mills run by
water had been compelled to stop.
FROM various points of Arkansas re-
ports on the 10Th indicated that the cot
ton crop of the State would yield about
100000 bales this year, which was 3OO,OOO
bales more than it. had produced any pre-
vious year.
THE two convicts who led the recent re-
volt in the Frankfort Penitentiary, George
Alsop and Theophilus Graves, were killed
in cornfeld near Lexington, KY, on the
18th. One Of the Sheriff's posse, George
Cassell, was killed by the convicts at the
first fire.
On the 18th the schooner Charles Smith
rescued six citizens of Evanston, a Chi
cago suburb, who were found clinging to
the bottom of capsizei row-boat nearly
exhausted.
FLAMES swept away the entire business
portion of Anol1a, Mimi, early on the
morning of the 10th. Seventy buildings
were burned, and the total loss was placed
at 81, 100000.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th about
forty business houses, comprising over
| one-half the business portion of Greenville
Tex, were destroyed by fire, causing a loss
of $36O,000.
A DECISION has been rendered by Justice
Stanley Matthews, of the United States
Supreme Court, that the city of Coving
ton, KY, has no right to tax the furniture
the surplus or the undivided profits of thu
| National banks of that place.
In the Virginia Senate on the 10Th Mr.
Lybrool1 introduced a resolution to repu
date the State debt, on the ground tina
the bondholders resisted all efforts fol
making settlement.
A FIRE on the night of the 10Th at Gren
ada, Miss, destroyed two-thirds of tn,
business portion of the town. The loss wa
estimated at 100000.
On the 10Th the Cheyennes were reported
to be burning the grass in the Powde
River Valley in Montana, aud the stock
men were greatly alarmed.
AT Chicago on the 10th the Executiv
Committee of the Anti Monopoly party
assembled and nomipated General A. M
West, Of Mississippi, for Vice-P president
1t was resolved to issue an address nrgin!
vigorous efforts in close Congressiona
districts, and a union of all the Butle
forces, under the title of the Peoples party
was advocated.
The continued dry weather had on tn,
18Th greatly injured the corn, tobacco an
hay crops in Ohio, Southern Indiana an
Southern nlin ois.
MAX MoRGENTHAU, a soap manufacture
of San Francisco, has failed, with liabili
ties of $250,000.
On the 18th eight prisoners escaped froT
the jail at st. Joseph, Mo-, by way of tn
sewer-pipe.
In jealous rage few nights ago Vile
Ferris. blacksmith at Tobias, Neb
killed his wife and then himself.
In a lecture in Chicago on the evenin
of the 18th before the Inventors Associa
ton Mr.. ]. w. Powers said that an instru
ment was on exhibition in Washingto
which enabled two persons conamunicat
ing by telephone seven miles apart to Sc
each others faces.
Rev. H. M. COLLISION, the Presbyteria
minister of Chicago, who shot and kille
his wife recently, and then shot himsel
died from his wounds on the 18th.
: In Tennessee another Mormon elder we
} shot and seriously wounded few day
ago, and others had been warned to leay