The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

IT was discovered on the 10Th that
George T. jackson, President of the enter
prise Cotton Factory at Augusta, Ca, was
defaulter to the extent of 100000. He
had confessed and assumed all the re-
sponsibility.
PAYMENT of the annual bounties to the
various Ind an bands throughout the
Northwest Territories has been completed,
and the Indians have gone to their hunting
grounds. Everything was quiet.
A PARTY of whites stole upon a band of
Indians near Long Greek, Ore, on the 10Th
and shot and killed two braves. The feel
ing against the aborigines was intense
among the whites, and an Indian outbreak
was threatened.
An engine on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road exploded at Locust Point, Nd, few
days ago, killing the engineer and fireman.
AT Detroit on the 10Th Frederick w. Du-
vernois, banker and insurance agent, who
was missing, was said to be defaulter for
between $40, 600 and $4,000.
THE six STORY building on the corner of
Michigan street and La Sale avenue, Chi
cago, owned by Charles E. Culver and oc-
cupied by several manufacturing firms, was
destroyed by fire few days ago, the loss
being $4,000. James Carr, foreman of a
cigar~box factory, conducted thirty of his
employees to the fire-escape, and lost his life
by falling from window sill.
A GIRL named Lena Haberland, aged ten
years, died at st. Louis few days ago, of
trichiniasis, the muscles and tissues of her
body being found infested with pork para
sites. Her little brother was i'll from the
same malady, and her mother, who passed
away month ago, was believed to have
died of the same disease.
AT Winnipeg John Mccormick, who ran
away from the Jail yard, bat was recapt-
ured, was few days ago ordered by the
Attorney General of Manitoba to be
logged. He was stripped to the waist in
snow storm, before his fellow prisoners,
and given twelve lashes.
ONE of the oldest postal employees in the
service, w. N. Mott, was sentenced at San
Antonio, Tex, on the 30th ult. to five years.
imprisonment in the penitentiary for lamp
ering with the mails. He confessed to hay
ing stolen $1,000.
THE other day the Oceanic, which sailed
1000 Chinese and 100000 in coin.
THE Ohio State Dental Association,
which had been in existence since 1866,
disbanded at Columbus recently, after a
two-days' session, owing to internal dis
sensions.
EARLY the other morning an incendiary
fire destroyed the Mounds lille (W. Va.)
Reporter Office and job-room, with presses,
type, etc. An adjoining dwelling was also
burned.
A FIRE few mornings ago destroyed
the public school building at Central City,
Neb Loss heavy; no insurance
NEAR Lima, o., Benjamin Heffner, a
wealthy farmer, during quarrel with his
wife shot and killed her few nights ago.
He also attempted to kill his son and
daughter, but failed, and was soon placed
in Jail.
In Georgia new and dangerous coun-
terfeit silver dollar is in circulation.
A FEW days ago the Episcopal Diocesan
! Convention at Baltimore elected as Bishop
of Maryland Rev. DR.. Paret, now rector of
Epiphany Church, Washington.
| A BAND of masked men near Escondida,
N. NJ, the other evening fred into train,
woman being shot. The Sheriff and
posse were in pursuit of the men.
AT the recent session of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society of the NJ. E,
Church at Columbus, o., Mrs. Rutherford
B. Hayes was reelected President.
| 1T was announced on the 30th ult that
some distance west of Georgetown, Col,
seventeen horse-thieves had been captured
and lynched by vigilantes.
A MAN named Elijah Henderson snapped
wha he thought to be an empty revolver
| in his wife's face in Indian Territory few
evenings ago and shot her dead. He sur
rendered to the United States Marshal, and
wanted to be hanged.
THE following negroes were hanged for
murder on the 31st ult: Isaac Fain, at
Kingston, Tenn; George Hill, near At
lanta, Ca; William Bass, at Paris, Tex;
and Albert and Charles Goodman, at Terre
| Ouboef, La.
On the 31st ult the Criminal Court of Al
len County, Ind, went out of existence un-
der Legislative enactment. 1t had been
in operation for seventeen years.
THE Jonathan Knight, a schooner, was
driven upon reef at Palmetto Point, on
the Gulf of Mexico, a few days ago, and
the Captain, his son and four of the crew
were drowned. The schooner San Bias
was also wrecked, and her entire crew per-
| ished.
AT Duluth, Mimi, the other day two
men were killed by falling from scaffold
on the side of an elevator one hundred feet
high.
The Ohio Presbyterian Synod, in session
at Cincinnati a few days ago, deplored the
dissertation of the Sabbath, and favored
prohibition of the manufacture and sale OF
intoxicating liquors.
In the office of the Cleveland Herald q
clerk was on the 31st ult. called out by &
man in a car iage, while his confederate
took $500 in currency from the cash.
drawer.
DURING race at Sherman, Tex, val.
liable horse fell and broke his neck the 9th.
er day, and the rider was also killed by the
fall.
ALEXANDER PosEY, ex-Auditor of Rusf
County, Ind, committed suicide by hang.
ing at Rushville a few afternoons ago
Financial trouble and bad health were the
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SUIT was brought on the 1st by Ratricl
KeMcown. a saloon-keeper of Cincinnati
to recover moneys paid under the provision:
cS .ne Scott law. Justice Anthony decided
That, one year and one day having elapsed
since the payment of the tax, recovery wa:
barred by the statute of limitations.
SAMUEL WoHLFoRD, wealthy farmer
while racing his team near Elkhart, Ind.
few days ago with another farmer, was
thrown from his wagon and killed.
A DISTURBANCE occurred during a DO,
litical meeting at Fansse Point, La, on the
evening of the 1st, resulting in the killins
of eight persons and the wounding of sew,
eral others.
THE other day L. j. Terrill, a farmer al
Bloomington, No., was attempting tx
4 chastise his son, aged seventeen, when tn,
boy drew revolver and shot his father
dead.
PETER JOHNSON, a clerk in a store neal
Brackett, Tex, was assassinated the othel
night and the store robbed.
1T was announced on the 1st that Presi'