The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
West and South.

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DYNAMITE exploded few days ago at
stone quarries near Franklin, N. c., kill
ing Dock Robinson and Edwin Strong and
wounding four men, all colored.
In quarrel over note John Roe,
farmer near Carrolton, Mo-, was shot and
instantly killed a few evenings ago by
Henry Baugh.
THE Republicans have renominated Con-
gresham Reuben Elwood in the Fifth Il
linois District.
AT Rardin, ILL.,, on the morning of the
10th Mr.. and Mrs. Fleetwood, an aged
couple, were found dead in bed at their
home, with their Threats cut. A hired
man named James Winkleback had been
arrested for the crime, The old folks had
no money, and the motive for the murder
was a mystery.
On the 10th Indiana Republicans renom.
mated for Congressman Thomas M. Browne
in the Sixth, and Stanton j. Peele in the
Seventh Districts.
SEVENTY breaks had occurred in the
levees of the Arkansas River, in Tensas
and Concordia parishes on the 10th, and
large area of land was overfowed.
MATILDA c. WINGATE was awarded
$4,000 damages in the indianapolis Federal
Court recently against the Ohio & Missis-
sippi Road for the killing of her husband
on a train by drunken passenger.
THE Republicans of the Seventeenth IL
linois District have nominated H. ]. Ham
lin for Congressman. L. E. Payson has
been renominated in the Ninth District
T. A.
District.
The ex-Speaker of the New Mexico
Legislature, Juan B. Patron, was assassin
ated few nights ago at Las Vegas by a
cowboy.
A CYCLONE at Fresno, CAL, few days
ago demolished several buildings.
A COMBINATION has been formed by sew
enteen firms engaged in the manufacture
of vapor stoves, with capital of $780,
600, to equalize prices.
In Southern Minnesota and Dakota wheat
seeding was in progress on the 18th, a week
in advance of last year. There will be a
substantial increase in the acreage.
A MEAT and ice company, backed by
Eastern capitalists, is to be established at
Columbus, Tex, which will ship dressed
beef to New York, via st, Louis, and will
also manufacture cleo, oil and 'butterine.
1t was said similar establishments would
be started in Kansas and Nebraska.
THE three-days' convention of the Wom-
ans Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
of the West closed on the 18th at Milwau-
kee. Toledo, O., was selected as the place
of meeting in 1885. Mrs. A. j. Howe, Of
Chicago, was elected President.
MRS. CECILIA MURPHY, an aged woman,
was found on the 18th near fredericksburg,
Nd, with her skull crushed in and throat
cut. Her premises had been robbed, and
there were evidences of terrible strug-
gle.
NEAR Dayton, O., an express train on
the Pan. Handle Road went through a
bridge the other day, and the engineer,
fireman, baggage-master and express mes
senger were killed. The accident was said
to have been caused by train-wreckDrs.
HEAVY rains have fallen in California,
the rivers were swollen on the 18th, and
there had been many washouts. 1t would
take four or five Gays to repair the dam
ages done to railroads by the floods.
were taken from the reopened Pocahontas
mine, near Lynchburg, Va, but only six
of them could be identified.
AFRE few mornings ago destroyed nine
buildings, forming the principal business
blocks in the city of Tacoma, w. T., caus-
ing loss of $4,000.
The appointment is announced of Theo-
dore A. Hurd, Of Leavenworth, as Assoc
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kan.
sas, to succeed D. j. Brewer, who was
called to the Federal bench.
In Cincinnati on the 18th the train-load
of corn contributed by the people of But
Ter County, Kan, to the Ohio River suf-
| ferers, was sold at auction, realizing 81, 900.
r, w. DUNBAR has beenrenominated for
Congressman by the Republicans Of the
First District of Illinois.
A FEW days ago c. B. Fnlayson, seven.
teen years old, who murdered his grand
mother, hung himself in corridor of the
Portland (Oregon) Jail.
In the Idaho gold regions discoveries OF
quartz, said to be as rich in paying ore as
the Leadville carbonate, were announced
on the 18TH. The prospecters were greatly
elated, and anticipated splendid har-
vest.
BY boiler explosion recently at Ford,
Ia, two brothers named Spencer were
| killed.
FIFTY-FoUR bodies had been recovered
from the mine at Pocahontas, Va, up to
the 18th, and were all in badly mutilated
condition.
| AT Gainesville, Ark, posse of citizens
pursued a band of escaped prisoners on
the 18th, killing one and wounding three
of them. Four others had not been re-
taken.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from New Orleans
state that the river was gradually falling,
and planters were in hopes of saving most
of their seed cane.
FOREST fires have recently done great
damage in Dooley, Taylor, Webster, Sum
ter, Jefferson and Glasscock Counties, Ga.
The winds had drifted the huge sand piles
over tilledlands, making new preparations
for planting necessary.
AT Lyons, Tex, negro named Gibbs,
who murdered Mrs. Moore, was captured
by mob few days ago and burned to
death at a stake.
| a NEGRO named Berry johnson, after
choking his wife to death at Shreveport,
Ala, the other morning, filed her mouth
with snuff and informed the neighbors that
she died from going to sleep with snuff in
her mouth.
| On the 14th Miss Lizzie Smith, daughter
Of Jeremiah Smith, of Oxford, Ala, died
from the effects of dose of morphine ad.
ministered by doctor who thought it was
quinine. About year ago her eldest
brother was killed through the same mis-
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