The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-16
West and South.

of sheep by dog at Jetfersonville, Ind,
shot and killed his brother David.
In Cecil County, Md, many miles of tim
Der had been burned over on the 9Th by
forest fires, and large number of barns
and other buildings had been destroyed.
The fire was still raging.
A TRIP from Detroit to Cincinnati was
made on the Sth by William FL. Vanderbilt
and a party Of friends in 81 hours, the
distance being 263 miles. Between Day
ton and Lima, "A miles, the run was made
in 66 minutes, and from Dayton to Hamil-
ton the train ran 80 miles in SO minutes.
ORRrN A. CARPENTER, it was announced
on the 6th, had sold his business interests
at Lincoln, ILL.,, and was making prepare
tions to leave the county.
A MOB took Henry Sevaim, who muir
dered a woman, from Jail at Winston, N:
c., few nights ago and hanged him.
The postmaster at North Manchester,
Ind, was recently arrested by an agent of
the Post-office Department, who secured
from him confession that he took ES103
from registered letter.
A LARGE building at Savannah, Ca, was
blown down by gale the other evening,
killing one man and fatally injuring two
others.
TWENTY-FIVE young men graduated
from the Baptist Union Theological Semi
nary of Chicago on the Sth. President
Northrup reported that the institution
owned property worth 100000 and owed
nothing, but was in need of library
building and chapel.
OVER one-half of Madison and Tensas
Parishes, in Louisiana, were under water
on the 9th. Cattle were dying in great
numbers from starvation and the stings of
buffalo-gnats, and negroes were fleeing
from the flooded regions.
THREE men were struck by lightning
and instantly killed during recent storm
at Kriser, n. G.
THE statement was made by the Illinois
Department of Agriculture ON the 9th that
the prospects were not encouraging for
over eighty-four per cent. of an average
yield of winter wheat.
By the explosion of the boiler of loco
motive in the Missouri Pacific shops at
Parsons, Kan, the other afternoon, two
men were instantly killed and four others
were severely hurt. The pecuniary loss
was $4,000.
AT Elizabethtown, KY, masked men on
the 9th took from jail negro who had
criminally assaulted white woman, and
hanged him to a tree outside the city, with
a placard ordering no one to touch the
corpse.
THE command of the Department of
Texas has been assumed by General Stan
ley, with headquarters at San Antonio.
THE execution of James S. Coleman
(colored) took place on the 9th at Column
bia, S. c., for the murder of Sarah Willis,
his wife's sister.
THE grand stand gave way during a
game of baseball on the 9Sh at Chilicothe,
o., ten persons being seriously and forty
others slightly wounded.
THE California Legislature on the 9th
adopted resolution requesting it's repre-
sentatives at Washington to urge the pas
sage of bill to organize the Territory of
Alaska.
The death of P. G. Cumming, Ex-Governor
of Indiana, occurred at Bloomington on
the 10th. He was seventy-nine years old.
ABOUT three acres of ground at Zanes-
vile, o., were sunk several feet.hy a sup
posed earthquake on the 18th, carrying
down number of houses, which were bad
ly damaged. No lives were lost.
The failure was announced on the 10th
Of the Northwestern Manufacturing and
Car Company, of Saltwater, Mimi, of
ident, with liabilities OF about $1,000,0O0
and assets that would aggregate "a 900, 600.
j. H. Townsend & Co., millers, also sus-
pended, their liabilities being estimated at
$500, 1000.
THE name Of the post-office at Damphool,
Tenn, has been changed to Blizzard by the
Postmaster-General.
On the 10th Warren B. Johnson, sixty
five years old, who left California June /,
1882, with horse, wagon, COW and dog,
arrived at his home in Webster, Mass, all
theanimals accompanying him.
S. p. BURT, of Milwaukee, Vice President
of the North Chicago Rolling. Mill Com
pany, dropped dead in hotel in Northern
Michigan on the 10th. Two months ago
he married woman who had been a do.
nestle in his family, to whom he leaves a
costly mansion and $500. 900 in property.
On the night of the 10Th Lawrence
Spuller, OF Petersburg, w. Va, enraged
over the clandestine marriage of his STEP
daughter to Edward Taylor, followed
them, and after they had retired entered
their room and fatally shot them both.
Spuller was arrested.
On train near Dallas, Tex, ]. Casino,
a Catholic priest, en- route to California,
was robbed on the 10th of $4,000 by three
unknown men.
AT either side of Shreveport, La, the
Red River had overflown its banks for sew
eral miles on the 10th, inundating planta-
tions on both banks of the river. Several
houses had oeea swept away, and the dam
age done was very great The river was
still rising.
A FIRE q few days ago destroyed the
paint and varnish works OF Sherwin, Will
Jams s. Co., at Cleveland, causing loss OF
| $50, 900.
The house of planter named Kite, near
Red Fork, Ark, was entered by four
masked robbers the other day, who fred
six charges from revolver into his body,
and escaped with $40 they found under
the floor.
ScHAEFER defeated Slosson by 800 to 3S4
in the billiard-match at Chicago on the
18th for the championship Of the Omitted
States.
A FIRE recently destroyed the Kentucky
Lumber Company's mills at Williamsburg
| Ky.s causing Q loss of $4,000,