The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18
West and South.

OHAkLES DlETERLIS murderer, was
taken from jail at Weisser, Idaho, on the
10th by masked men and hanged.
ROSE CHERRINGToN, aged twenty three,
was burned to death at Porter, O., a few
days ago, her clothes catching fire from a
CRATE. Her father was seriously burned
while trying to rescue her.
FIFTY citizens Of Taylorville. ILL.,, as
sembled on the 10th in the school-house in
which Emma Bond was so terribly treated,
and passed resolutions of respect toward
the young lady, and declared that justice
was outraged by the acquittal of Mont
gomery, Pettis and Clement.
AT Dayton, O., the walls of an ice-house
fell the other day, crushing to death
Charles Ryder and team Of horses. At
Gore, o., Joseph Auker was killed by the
cage of an elevator falling upon him.
The failure of M. Waterman & Co.,
grain dealers of San Francisco, for 81 $780,
0O0,was announced on the 10th.
EXECUTIONS took place on the 18th as fol-
lows: Jerry Alexander, at Sparta, La.
Isaac Anderson (colored), at Barnwell, S.
c.; John Jarvis, at Norfolk, Va.
THE other night Edwards Opera-House
at Selma, Ala, was destroyed by fire.
THE doors of the Farmers Bank of Wap-
akoneta, o., were closed on the 18th in
consequence of the assignment by the pro-
prietor, M. Better.
A PARTY of eight hunters, in attempting
recently to slaughter a flock of prairie
chickens near Fort Sill, became so careless
that three of their number were fatally
wounded.
NEAR Pendleton, Ore, passenger-train
was taken possession of on the 18th by a
mob of two hundred men recently dis
charged by the railroad. General Miles
sent two companies of regulars from Fort
Walla Walla, but a crowd of roughs Joined
the rioters and overpowered the soldiers.
Serious trouble was feared.
STEPHEN RICHARDS was hanged on the
18th at Auburn, Cal, for the murder of
Thomas Nichols.
JEFF GILLILAND, a notorious criminal
and murderer, was killed by companion
in dispute about a woman few DAYS
ago near Fayetteville, Ark.
IN the Susquehanna River at Port De.
posit, Md, on the 18th an ice-gorge threat
ened widespread inundation. The Della
ware River was also gorged in the vicinity
of Trenton, and Pennsylvania farms were
submerged by back water.
AT Richmond, Va, the wife of Colonel
HI. Coulter Cabell was fatally burned re-
Gently by her clothing taking fire at
CRATE.
THE death of W. P. Rathburn, President
of the First National Bank of Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, and well-known capitalist, oc-
Cured few days ago.
THE bribery charges made against Gov
ernor Ordway, of Dakota, were dismissed
on the 18th, the court deciding that the
case was one of malicious prosecution.
In the peach belt of Michigan the
orchards passed uninjured through the re-
cent severe weather, but in the region of
Mobile, Ala, orange groves suffered dam
age to the amount of $1,O0O,0OO. Many
trees in Florida were saved by building
fires in the orchards.
The San Angelo stages each way were
halted recently by four Texas highway
men, near the Colorado River, who robbed
the mail-bags and passengers, making q
heavy haul.
AT recent session in Chicago of the
Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Society
resolutions were passed favoring high
license, recommending opposition to the
election OF saloon-keepers and their
sympathizers to municipal or State offices,
and an active propaganda in favor of
temperance reform. The President stated
that he had administered during the past
year temperance pledges to nearly 1900
persons.
A BRANCH of the Elk River in West Vir-
ginia overfowed on the 18th, causing the
lumber companies along the banks loss of
nearly $10O, 900.
The Legislature of Iowa convened on
the 18th.
REPoRTs received on the 14th by the
Michigan Agricultural Bureau state that
the wheat crop of the State was 23,147, 1876
bushels, Of which 1877, 900 bushels still re-
manned in the hands of the farmers.