The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-04
West and South

HOUSES WoTo SuDLHGTS0u anu bl0 people
made narrow escapes. The principal dam
age, reaching 100000, was in Carroll
County, where crops, lumber and other
property were swept away aud cattle
drowned.
FLORIDA Democrats met in State Con-
vention at Pensacola on the Goth, and
nominated General E. A. Perry for Gov
ernor and M. H. Mabry for Lieutenant
Governor. Delegates to the National Con-
vention were also elected, who favor
Cleveland for President. A
The Democrats of South Carolina met in
State Convention at Columbia on the Goth,
elected delegates to the National Conven-
ton, and renominated Governor Hugh S.
Thompson and the present State officers.
WISCONSIN Republicans will hold their
State Convention, to nominate State Of
ficers, at Madison on the 3D. of Septem-
Der.
A BRIDGE at Logansport, Ind, over the
Wabash River, gave way on the Goth, let
ting Vandalia construction train into the
water. Engineer Grace and Fireman
Scott were instantly killed. and a brake
man was fatally injured.
AT New Orleans the other evening fire
destroyed property valued at 100000.
Three firemen were injured.
ANDREW YOUNG, of Chicago, was elected
President of the Master Plumbers Asso-
citation of the United States by the Nation
al Convention at Baltimore the other day.
IT was stated on the 9th that the dam
age by the recent storm in Maryland was
100000, the heaviest disasters occurring
in Carroll, Cecil, Frederick and Washing
ton Counties. The Mccullough Iron Com
pany's rolling. mills at Rowlandville alone
were damaged 100000, and Christie & Lo-
gan's canning establishment, in Cecil
County, with its machinery, was swept
away, together with $4,000 cans of goods.
THE execution of Dock Walker took
place on the 9th at Texarkana, Ark, for
the murder of Lucas Grant. Two thousand
citizens were permitted to witness the ex-
ecution. M
The manager of the Pacific Express
Company, issued a general order on the
9th forbidding agents or messengers to
receive intoxicants of any kind for ship
ment to Iowa when the Prohibitory law
goes into effect, July 4.
"A PORTION of Kansas was visited by a
terrific storm on the 9th. At Corning a
church and several houses were destroyed;
at Barnes Station houses were unroofed
and crops leveled; at Frankfort fifteen
houses were torn down and destroyed,
while six others were unroofed, and in
other sections much damage was done. No
lives were reported lost, but several per-
sons were badly injured.
In Won Behren's saw-mill, at Striker, o.,
the boiler exploded the other afternoon,
injuring eleven men, some of them fatally.
The boler-house and factory were demol-
ished. 5&8&H A8
Ed. OWENS and S. Nickerson, two horse
M. T., by cowboys, who recaptured several
horses. 5
CAPTAIN GEORGE RILEY, of Vincennes,
has been nominated for Congressman by
the Second Indiana District Republicans.
| FRANCIS MURPHY on the evening of the
| 9th closed his temperance crusade in Chi
cago. 1t was announced that over eleven
thousand persons had donned the "blue
ribbon" during the meetings.
CANYON, the Evangelist, was killed by
lightning while in bed the other morning,
| at Winnipeg, and members of his family
were injured.
ADvICES of the Doth ult. stated that one
hundred Indians in Northern Montana had
died from starvation during the past thirty
| days.
On the Virginia Midland Road the
| sleeping-car of train went through a
bridge near Lynchburg few days ago,
but all the passengers were saved, most
| of them being taken out through holes cut
in the ventilators in the top of the car.
| The Cincinnati murderer, Palmer, who
was partly responsible for the terrible
riots in that city last March, has been
sentenced to be hanged on October 10.
| In Western North Carolina, chiefly in
Buncombe and Mcdowell Counties, crops
and railroads suffered on the 2Sth ult. by
heavy rains, the former being washed out,
and bridges and trestles of the latter
wrecked. Five land-slides stopped all
| through trains.
WHILE engaged in digging sand in pit
south of Omaha four laborers were killed
recently by the caving in of a bank.
LEILA burgess, residing in Franklin
County, Ca, on the 10Th ult. quarreled
with her sister before church time. The
father interfered when Leila seized an ak
and struck him, killing him instantly.
The death of Colonel John A. Stevens,
Republican candidate for Governor in the
recent election, occurred the other night
in lberville Parish, La. He was seventy
hve years years of age.
By the capsizing of two boats recently
at the mouth of the Columbia RIVER, in
Oregon, Captain Olsen, prominent cit
izen, Samuel Blair, James Craig and four
unknown men were drowned.
WHILE driving a vicious pony the other
day at Huntsville, Ala, Louis Murphy was
fatally injured and his wife was instantly
| killed.
In Louisiana movement for the redxsc-
tion of the wages of sugar plantation
laborers at least twenty-five per cent. was
started on the 30th ult., making the aver
age about sixty-ive cents a day, with
rations. This caused much excitement
among the hands, who were almost exclu-
sively colored.
The failure Of Mellis Bros, wholesale
dealers in millinery and fancy goods, Of
Portland, Ore, for 100000, is announced.
AT White Cloud, Kan, Lizzie Brasley,
who fifty three days ago decided to kill
! herself by refraining from food. died