The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-14
West and South.

AT Wlnnetka, ILL.,, on the 0tn the Cor
oner's Jury concluded the inquest in the
case of the murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
son. The jury found that the old people
were killed by some person or persons to
the jury unknown, and that the evidence
cast suspicious against the butcher, Neil
McKeague, now under arrest.
The Union Pacific Railroad made it's an.
nual report the 9th, which showed gross
earnings of $21, 100000 for the year, with
an income of 81, 66O,000 from other sources
The operating expenses were $1,000, 900.
THE Democrats of Illinois will hold their
State Convention at Peoria July 2.
The Republicans of Iowa will meet in
State Convention at Des Moines April 80,
to elect delegates to the National Conven-
ton.
THE Prohibitionists of Ohio met in State
Convention at Columbus ON the 9Th to Sc
lect delegates to the National Convention
to be held at Pittsburgh May 81. The dele
gates elected were instructed to work for
the nomination of G. 7. Stewart, of Ohio,
for President. Resolutions were adopted
declaring that all good men and women
were tired of repeated compromises with
the liquor traffic; that Prohibitionists have
suffered from unfair counts of ballots, and
urging the friends of the cause to remedy
this state Of things, and demanding the
withdrawal Of all restraints from the
suffrage, without regard to color or sex.
The Wisconsin Republican State Con-
vention will be held at Madison on the 30th
of April, to elect delegates to the National
Convention, nominate an Electoral ticket
and select State Committee. The regu-
lar State Convention will be held in Sep
TENDER.
AT the recent session in New Orleans of
the Louisiana Republican State Conven-
ton John A. Stevenson was nominated
for Governor and William Burwell for
Lieutenant Governor. The platform adopt
ed favors judicious protection, encourage
ment of American ship-building, a vigor-
Gus foreign policy, the extension of public
education, and endorses President Ar
thurs Administration.
A SUDDEN rise on the 9th in the Sandy
River swept away two miles of lumber
fleets anchored above Catlettsburg, Ky.
Rats of timber were also broken loose,
and the total loss would be great.
On the 9th the levee one mile above
Friar's Point, Miss, broke, inundating
that place and doing considerable damage
The discovery was made in Chicago on
the 9th that the safe in the paymaster's
office of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Road had been robbed of $4,000. There
was no clew to the thief.
ALEcK DIETREsCHEN was shot and
hU nd Lots To
Cal, few nights ago, and when Scollard's
father heard of the tragedy he fell dead.
THE Michigan Republicans will hold their
State Convention at Grand Rapids April
"a to elect delegates to the National Con-
vention.
The following executions took place on
the 7th Noah Jackson (colored) at Lake
Providence, La, for the murder of his
wife; Harrison Williams, at Corsicana,
Tex, for killing his sister-in-law; and
David Mccain, near Traders Hill, Ca,
for the murder of William. Saxton.
The failure is announced of the Consoli-
dated Paper Company of Chicago, with
liabilities of $4,000.
The Mississippi River was over forty
miles wide on the 7th at Blacklist, Ark
Edward Lee was drowned there in the
flood.
On the 7th William Riley, aged sixteen,
and his sister Mary, aged thirteen, were
indicted for the murder of their father at
Adrian, Mimi.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, all the gambling
establishments were closed on the 7th, and
the sporting fraternity had evacuated the
town.
THE Captain of a propeller which reached
Milwaukee on the 7th reported Lake Mich
igan completely frozen over, with occa-
sional icebergs twenty-five feet high.
THE notorious desperate, Frank Rande,
who recently made a fiendish attack on his
keepers, and nearly killed one of them, in
the Joliet Qll.) Penitentiary, hanged him
self in his cell on the It'll, and was dead
when discovered. He had torn his under
shirt into strips to form a rope with which
to strangle himself.
THE other night w. H. G. Gestern, of
Omaha, Neb., a civil engineer, blew out
the gas in room at the Palmer House,
Chicago, and was sutfocated.
A FIRE a few days ago DESTROYED the
principal business block in Memphis, Scot
land County, Mo-, and falling walls killed
three persons and wounded seven others,
three mortally.
OVER four thousand miners in the Hook
ing and Sunday Creek (Ohio) Valleys
were Idle on the 18th because of the haul
ers strike against reduction.
On the morning of the 7th cloud burst
over Florence, A. T., the water running
four feet deep in the street, occasioning
$4,000 damage.
In the levee, fifteen miles above New
Orleans, a serious break occurred on the
Sth, flooding plantations and submerging
the Texas Pacific and Morgan Railways.
The Tennessee River at Chattanooga had
overlooked and railroad traffic in that vi.
entity was interrupted.
A sNow-sLIDE a few days ago at Alta,
Utah, killed eleven persons and swept
away the works of the new Emma mine.
The snow was piled forty feet high.
In Pyle Canyon, Union County. Ore,
five men employed in the construction of
railroad Were caught under mass of earth
and rock on the Sth and instantly killed.
AT st. Louis and Alton theleading glass
works resumed operations on the Sth, and
others would soon follow, after an idleness
extending over eight months.
A Heavy storm in California on the 9th
| converted the Santa Clara Valley into
vast lake for distance of eighteen miles.
mo damage TO property was estimated at
500, 900.
MOST violent form of the foot-and.
mouth disease has broken out among the
cattle in Woodson County, Kan. OF one
herd Of one hundred and twenty head nine
ty have lost hoof or portion of the leg.
Governor Click was on the 9th urged 10