The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15
West and South.

A SOLDIER and his sweetheart were re-
Gently married by Rev. w. g. Lane, of
Halifax, N. c., without license, and after
a few days the bridegroom deserted his
wife because the union was illegal. The
clergyman has been ordered to pay pen
atty of two hundred dollars.
A LocKPoRT IN. " merchant named T.
G. Walls, aged sixty-five years, met with
reverses and emigrated to Texas to re-
trieve his fortune. He poisoned himself
at Dallas few days ago, after having
subsisted for some time on one meal per
day.
On the Texas & ST. Louis Road Hon.
Richard Nelson (colored), proprietor of
the Galveston (Tex.) Spectator, was elected
from train on the 7th because he refused
to ride in the smoking car. He would sue
for damages.
FRANK and James Henderson while
crossing the river at Lafayette, O., few
days ago were drowned by their boat being
crushed by floating logs.
THE Congressional Apportionment bill in
Ohio, giving the Democrats twelve districts
and the Republicans nine, became law on
the 7th.
the other day man supposed to be Kid
Wade, a notorious horse-thief, was found
hanging to railway whistling-post near
Bassett, Neb.
By the upsetting of boat two brothers
named Nelson and two other young men
were drowned in Tuscarawas River at Ev-
ansburg, o., few days ago.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, band of boys
recently hanged a lad named Johnny No
Ian in barn, and when found and cut
down life was nearly extinct.
IT is reported that emigration from
South Carolina to Texas and Florida has
been quite general among the negroes
throughout the former State for some time.
AT Toledo, O., Robert Bailey, leading
colored man, was arrested on the 9Th for
marrying a white woman in December
last. He pleaded that the Probate Judge
granted the license on full knowledge of
the facts.
The water in the Ohio River was rising
at Cincinnati on the 9Th and the suffering
was increasing. Provisions were becom-
ing scarce at Wheeling, w. Va, where
fifteen thousand homeless persons were in
need. Wellsburg, w. Va, and some Ohio
towns along the river were also threatened
with famine.
On the Sth steamer and a sloop, carry
ing an armed force, sailed from Annapolis,
Md, to capture mon engaged in robbing
the oyster-beds in Chesapeake Bay.
AN address has been issued by colored
citizens of Bloomington, ILL.,, to the voters
of their race in the Northern States, urg-
ing conference at Pittsburgh, April 20,
to consider the growth Of political despot-
ism in the South.
A LAWYER at New Orleans, named James
Graham, who had squandered his wife's
fortune, killed her few nights ago with a
pistol while she slept, and then took his
own life with razor, nearly severing his
head from his body.
A FARMER named John Remington, and
his wife, residing near Frankfort, Kan,
were found dead in their barn on the Sth.
A hired man who had recently been dis
charged by Remington, and who was
missing, was suspected of the crime.
THE representative of an English syndi-
cate desiring to invest f5, 100000 in ranch
property in Texas left that State in dis
gust a few days ago, and would make an
adverse report to his principals. He said
there was more security for property in
Ireland, and no prospect of Improvement
in the near future.
DURING the one hundred hours ended on
the 10th rain had fallen continuously in
the district of Longview, Tex, submerging
the bottoms, and causing washouts and
slides on the railways.
THE other day James Geary, a railway
employee at Lafayette, Ind, killed himself
with revolver in presence OF several
friends who were helping him to hang
pictures in his room.
A TELEGRAPH operator at Milwaukee,
named Jerry H. Arnold, on the 10th fatally
shot Bridget Eagan, cook in a restaurant,
and then killed himself. Difference in
views on religious subjects caused the
tragedy.
In Chesapeake Bay the oyster pirates
lost two vessels by capture on the 10th.
Two hundred craft were blockaded by the
police boats, and an attack on the fleet
would be made.
THE capture is announced of three men
who had flooded with counterfeit silver
the towns on the border of Missouri and
Arkansas.
HIGH water on the 10th swept away the
house of Tim McCarty, who lived on the
Island at Wheeling, w. Va, and $500
in gold which he kept in the house was
lost
A QUARREL between A. S. Doran and the
three Flynn brothers, of Hot Springs,
Ark, resulted few days ago in the kill
ing of John Flynn and hack-driver, the
fatal wounding of the other two brothers,
and three spectators were also badly in
jured.
AT New Castle, Del, six convicts, five
of them colored, were a few days ago
whipped for crime,
A LARGE number of white men engaged
in business in Indian Territory were de-
clared intruders and given notice on the
9th to leave at once. Many who were en-
gagged in farming or stock-raising refused
to obey the order. Those within the Greek
limits would enter the plea that there was
no executive of the Government before
whom they could appear.
JAMES You've was killed and his brother
Henry fatally wounded in an ARRAY at
Richmond, KY, a few nights ago.
THREE men attacked Henry Warner, of
Canton, O., the other night, shot him
through the hand, and robbed him of $475.
The Umatilla, an iron steamer, was
wrecked on the rocks Of Cape Flattery. off
the Pacific coast, few days ago, the loss
being 100000. The Captain and crew
made their escape in small boats.
ALL the indictments found in the State
courts of Missouri against Frank James
were dismissed in the Criminal Court at
Kansas City on the 18th, on the ground
that the refusal of the Governor to par
don Dick Liddell deprived the prosecution
of its evidence. James was immediately
taken into the Federal Court and charged
with robbing the United States paymaster
at Mussel Shoals, Ala, and would be
taken to that State for trial.
A GALL for a Mass Convention of Ameri-
| can Inventors, to begin March % Of this
year, in the great Music Hall and EXPOSE
ton Building in Cincinnati, has been is
sued. The call recites that "the great mo-
nopolies Of the country have made strong
| efforts to destroy the present wise and be-