The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-07
West and South.

The distribution Of rations to people
made homeless by recent floods still con-
tinued on the 2Sth, and over 1000 people
were being provided for. Hundreds of
persons were suffering who were getting
along after fashion before the cold snap.
The banks between Memphis and Evans
vile, Ind, were lined with people, who
were housed in open barns, out houses,
ETC., and with the mercury down to zero
much suffering must ensue.
CITIZENS of Medina County, Tex, had,
up to the 2Sth ult., hunted down and
lodged in jail thirty-nine fence-cutters. A
detachment of rangers was stationed at
Castroville.
In one hundred miles above and below
Shreveport, La, the country was shallow
sea on the 28th ult. The planters would
lose heavily in fences, stock and horses,
and the colored population were in great
distress.
ARIZONA advices of the 2Sth ult state
that the Apaches were again on the war
path in Sonora, Mex. Near Chipua they
killed two men and stole several horses,
and the dead bodies of several Mexicans
were found on Mexican soil near the Dor
der. Large numbers of cattle had been
stolen from Los Piedras and De Lumbre.
A Federal force was in pursuit.
MARSHALL L, POLK, the defaulting Treas
urer of Tennessee, on bail pending trial,
died at East Nashville on the Goth ult, of
heart-disease.
AT Jackson, o., the Sheriff on the Doth
ult. hanged Luke and William Jones (broth-
foI.f ba do, of r
Ben Gillian was hanged at Bayboro, N.
c., for killing Henry Carter with club,
and William Moore (colored) was executed
at Franklin, La, for the murder of China.
man.
The failure is announced of E. DERRICK &
Co., dealers in BAGS and Irvine at San Fran
cisco for $3S0,0
ADvIcEs of the Doth ult. from New Or
leans state that the rivers above were still
rising and the overflow spreading. At
Helena, Ark, the situation was critical,
the river rising ten inches day. The
Iron Mountain trains were stopped and
the city cut off. A heavy force was
strengthening the levees. Great distress
was being experienced, but no loss of life
had been reported.
IN Chicago on the 10Th ult. National
bank, with 100000 capital subscribed,
to be called the Me tropolitan, was organ
lied.
On the Goth ult. the Republican Editorial
Association of Indiana, at its meeting at
Indianapolis, deprecated making prohibit
ton an issue in the coming campaign.
THE death of the widow of the immortal
John Brown, of Harper's Ferry, occurred
on the Goth ult. at San Francisco.
On the Goth ult. Orrin A. Carpenter,
charged with killing Fora Burns, was taken
from the Lincoln Qll.) Jail to Peters
burg, where it was expected the trial would
begin March 10.
The Senate bill prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of all intoxicating liquors
was ordered engrossed by the lower House
of the Iowa Legislature on the Goth ult.
The Iowa House on the 1st passed the
Prohibition bill-52 to 41--all the Republic
ans and one Democrat voting for the meas
ure. There being Prohibition majority
of twenty four in the Senate, its passage
in that body was considered certain.
The courthouse at Weatherford, Tex,
with the records Of the courts, was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire the other
day. The loss was estimated at $4,000.
AT the election on the 1st E. n. Funston,
Republican, was elected to Congress from
the Second District of Kansas, to succeed
the late D. c. Haskell, by a majority of
nearly four thousand.
NORTH CAROLINA advices of the 1st state
that in the recent cyclone in that State one
hundred persons were.killed, two hundred
and fifty were wounded, and property val
ued at half million dollars was destroyed.
Richmond, Arson, Chatham, Union, Shell
by, Wake, Harnett, johnson, Ashe, Nash,
Robson, Montgomery and Cumberland
Counties suffered the most
AT Lexington, KY, the city election on
the 1st resulted in the dereat of the DEM
ocratic ticket. for the first time in ten
years,
A CoLoRED burglar broke into house at
Vevay, Ind, early on the morning of the
| Sd, and at noon he was on his way to the
penitentiary, under a sentence of five
! years.