The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-22
West and South.

West and South.
Il FEW days ago A. M. Chadwick, County
Judge at Omaha, Neb., dropped dead on
the street from apoplexy while on his way
to attend wedding at Trinity Cathedral.
WHILE cleaning revolver few days
ago Edward Gordon, of Bellefontaine, o..
shot his wife near the left ear, inficting
fatal wound.
A RECENT registration of voters at Nor
folk, Va, showed 1885 colored and 1922
white voters.
MRS. CARRIE HUNTER, the young and
beautiful wife of James M. Hunter,
wealthy stock-raiser residing near Rogers
vile Junction, Tenn, was shot and in
stantly killed while sitting near a window
on the evening of the 18th. Who commit
ted the crime, and for what cause, was I'M
known.
"A FEW days ago the wife of Bivens Perez
field, living near Bloomington, Ind, left
her little daughter alone in a room with an
open fire place, and when she returned the
child was lying on the floor burned to
death.
MISS EMMA ROGERS, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, a beautiful girl aged twenty years,
was fatally burned the other night by her
clothes catching fire from a CRATE. She had
been nursing sick brother for a week,
and being overcome with sleep sat down
near the fire.
AS ABOUT one-haIf of a flock of six
thousand sheep on the Dakota bad lands,
owned by Marquis Demores, have died
this winter, the belief was expressed on
the 10Th that they were poisoned by his
enemies.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th the
rear wall of two adjoining buildings in
Pearl street, Cincinnati, used as boarding
houses, and occupied by thirty-five per-
sons, collapsed, resulting in the drowning
and crushing to death of ten persons. The
search for other bodies would be continued
when the water lowered.
ADvICEs of the 18th state that the Indians
were starving at the Poplar Creek and
Wolf Point agencies, in Dakota.
SPEcULATIoNs by John S. Rappe, Presi-
dent of the Central Bank Of Upper San
dusky, o., caused the failure of that insti-
tuition on the 10Th, with liabilities of $780,
000
THOMAS BENTON was hanged on the 10Th
at Plaquemines, La, and some of the
women in the assemblage shrieked and
many tainted.
JOHN BEATTY was attempting recently
to convey his wife and three children and
two young ladies named Weatherford
across the backwater near Newburg, Tenn,
on the Tennessee River,when the slziff was
dashed against log by the current and
upset, and Mrs. Beatty and all the children
and one of the young ladies were drowned.
TREASURER MASON, of Jay County, Ind,
was on the 10Th reproted to be defaulter
to the amount of SAG, 900, and suit had been
commenced against his bondsmen.
CLAIMS fur establishment and Jevne's
grocery store in Chicago were damaged by
fire early the other morning to the extent
of $130,000.
THE failures are reported of George p.
Curry, banker of Augusta, Ga, for $780,
900, and Clarence Shepard g. Co., of Mil
waukee, hardware dealers, for 100000.
Two INTOXICATED men blew out the gas
in their room in a hotel at Lexington, XIV,
a few nights ago and died in great agony.
A DECISION was rendered on the 9Th by
the Illinois Supreme Court declaring con-
stitutional the Harper bill, which imposes
a license of $500 on whisky and $3.50 on
beer and malt liquor.
A SHOOTING ARRAY occurred at Stone
vile, d. t., few days ago between three
United States Deputy Marshals and band
of cowboys, during which one deputy was
killed, another man had his arm shot
off, and two others were wounded. Five
pack horses belonging to the cowboys
were shot.
ON account of smallpox quarantining
at the Indianapolis Qnd.) Jail, the release
Of over a hundred tramps was necessitat-
ed, who were on the 10Th said to be terror
izing the city, and many outrages were re-
ported.
NINE companies of rangers were on the
10th sent by the Governor of Texas into
the districts which had suffered most from
fence-cutting, and battle was expected.
On the 10th the winter packing of hogs
in Chicago showed a decrease of 450, 900
when compared with the corresponding
period of last year.
On the 10Th the entire family of Albert
Hammerling, of Minneapolis, Mimi, con-
sisting of his wife, three children and
wife's sister, were poisoned by eating raw
ham. Mrs. Hammerling had died, and the
others were in a critical condition.
SEVERAL business houses at Prescott
A. 4, were destroyed by fire few days
ago, and S. N. Holmes, proprietor of the
Daily Miner, persisted in the flames.
A TANK Of oil, which a boy fred the
other day at Bellefontaine, O., exploded,
and six children were severely burned.
THE cattle dealers at the Chicago Stock
yards unanimously adopted resolutions on
the 10th declaring that never in the history
of the country were our food animals in as
healthy condition as at present.
DISPATCHES Of the 10th from Winnipeg
given the delegates at the Farmers Union
at Ottawa, and state that many persons
were advocating open rebellion.
DURING the past year the Union Pacific
Railroad earned 500, 761, 100 and expended
$B6,670,OOO.
ONE of the many terrible scenes of the
recent food was a graveyard below
Cochransyille, o., wherein many collins
had been unearthed and several bodies
carried down the river. Bones and skulls
were uncovered, and mingled with the
driftwood and debris of every description.
Out of one hundred houses in Cochrans-
vile only three We're left standing.
The residents were in naked, starved
condition, being practically isolated
from the world. They made a rush
for the relief boat, and when bread
was handed out sat down, and, tearing the