The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-14

attacked by three hundred miners carrying
| giant powder, fuses and dynamite.
| A FEW days ago another person was
| convicted of poIYgamy in the United States
Court at Salt Lake City.
| THE assignment is reported of Henry
Wolff, liquor dealer at Louisville, KY,
whose liabilities were $3.50, 900. The insol-
vency is also announced of Gottlieb, Strauss
| & Co., hat-dealers of Cincinnati, O., who
owed nearly 100000.
THE failure of Wolff Bros. & Co., of
Chicago, hatters, for $4,000, is an
nounced.
A BOILER explosion in Mead's sugar
house at New Orleans a few days ago
killed eight men and wounded six others.
By the sinking of row-boat on the 9Th
at Mount Pleasant, Ia, Prof. j. w. Wolfe,
Superintendent of the city schools; Miss
Alice Carpenter, Principal Of the High
School, and Miss Edith Baugh and Miss
Eta Teter were drowned.
AT Napoleonville, La, few days ago
fire destroyed buildings valued at $500, 000
A prominent lawyer was burned to death.
AT Palatka, Fla, fire on the 8th de-
! stroyed fifty of the principal buildings, in
| Guiding four hotels and the several large
| business blocks. The loss was estimated at
| 81 100000
IN Mark Paine & Co. lumber yard at the
Northern Pacific Junction, twenty-five
miles west Of Duluth, MINI, a recent are
destroyed 100000 feet of. lumber, involv-
ing loss of $4,000
On the 9th the third plenary council of
the Catholic Church in the United States
opened at Baltimore with sixty five Bish-
ops in attendance.
! In Baltimore recently Joseph Katzen-
berger killed Emeline Miller, to whom he
was engaged, because he found her con-
versing in the street with young man of
whom he was jealous.
| ON the 8th Bernard Schiller, an old b.
hemian, together with his wife and three
year-old daughter, were found murdered
at Bryant Station, Tex, the bodies lying
near hay stack. Schiller and wife were
shot through the head and the child's skull
was crushed. They had been dead several
days. The cause of the crime was a mys-
terry.
| THE other night fire in the Louisville &
Nashville freight depot at Louisville de-
stroyed seventy-five carloads of freight.
Loss, 100000.
AT Toledo, o., piece of meat lodged in
the throat of William Peters while he was
eating dinner few days ago, and before
physician arrived he was choked to death.
WHILE repairing a furnace stack at
Birmingham, Ala, recently two workmen,
overcome by gas, fell into the furnace and
were killed.
THE other day Miss Ann McGhee, a
wealthy lady Of Marysville, Tenn, was
sitting in front of the fire az her home,
when her clothing caught fire, burning her
to death.
IT was reported on the 10th that in the
Union CIV. Va.) section the people, because
of an unusual drought, had been compelled
to use water from streams heretofore re-
garded as impure. A d sease known as
flux resulted, causing over one hundred
deaths, particularly among children. Live
stock had persisted in large numbers, the
loss from this cause alone amounting to
$4,000.
On the 10th the Spaulding iron and nall
works in Jefferson County, o., closed down
for an indefinite period
IT was estimated by the National Cotton
Exchange on the 10th that the cotton crop
in the United States this year would be
5,726,000 bales, slight increase over last
years yield There were prospects that
the stop crop" would increase this by 49,
900 bales.
THE other night A. N. AGREE, telegrapher
and express agent at Parmley, Ark, killed
himself. He was short in his accounts.
PHILIP HENNEssY, young married man,
was shot in the forehead at the polls in
Cincinnati on election day, and died soon
after from the wound. His wife Nellie,
aged twenty six, committed suicide on the
10th by shooting herself through the heart.
EARLY ON the morning of the 10th an in
cendiary fire at Duluth, Mimi, destroyed
two saw -rnills, four dwellings, store and
other buildings, besides 100000 feet of
lumber. The total loss was placed $780,
600, with 100000 insurance.
A FEW days ago black bear kept at
John Crisis saloon at Akron, o., sprang
upon James Cummings while he was go
ing through the back yard and gnawed
and bruised him fatally.
THE negro pianist, Blind Tom, is playing
through the South.
PASSENGER trains collided the other
morning between Berlin and Shelbyville,
Del, one of the engineers being killed and
the other fatally hurt. A passenger had
leg broken, and both locomotives were
wrecked.
HORSE THIEVES in Eastern Oregon are
doing prosperous business.
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