The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
diana. President. and T. N. Green, Of Ohio

ON receiving inforrna ton recently that
a young lady was being followed home in
the country by negro, about a dozen
white citizens of Fairfax, Va, rode out
and captured the villain, who was given
one hundred lashes on the bare back.
NINETEEN Chinese lepers embarked
from San Francisco on the 7th for their
native land. the city giving each five dol
lars and paying full fare.
SAM FAULKNER and Henry Allen. while
going TO camp meeting few days ago,
accosted the two Woodall brothers, near
Fredonia, Tex. Firing began, Allen be-
ing shot dead, the WoodalIs being NOR
tally hurt, and Faulkner might possibly
recover.
AT Omaha on the 7th the defendant in a
Mother Hubbard I" dress case was dis
missed, Difference to public opinion caus-
ing the Chief-of- Police not to prosecute.
Tie style Of dress involved was being
worn more than ever.
AT Petersburg, Va, the Grand Jury on
the 7th indicted the officers and several
employees of the wrecked Planters Bank
for misdemeanor or for felony.
A PROCLAMATION was issued on the 7th
by Governor Sheldon, Of New Mexico, for
the inspection of cattle, no matter from
what section, before they were permitted
to enter the Territory.
The other day runaway horse dragged
ex-Sheriff Goliath and Mrs. Leatherman
onto the railway track at Lima, O., and a
switching engine killed both of them, the
horse escaping.
In the neighborhood of Point Pleasant,
w. Va, three farmers at different points
had Within a few days suffered the loss
Of wheat fields from fires set by incendi-
aries.
In the La Belle Nail Mill at Wheeling,
w. Va, one hundred and fifty men were
discharged on the Sth, the mill-owners de-
Gliding to procure their steel bars from
Pittsburgh, doing away with their forge
department.. If other mills adopted this
plan, five thousand persons would be
thrown out of employment. The newt
movement had caused CONSERVATION at
Wheeling.
A FEW days ago Dorothea Gordon was
found hanging in the woods near Mount
Carmel, KY, with a rope made from her
dress. Foul play was suspected.
The following Congressional nominal
tions were made on the 9Th: Democratic
South Carolina, Second District, George
d. Tillman; Third, c. Wyatt Aiken
North Carolina, Eighth District, w. II. Fl.
Cowles. Observation-Disclosures, Fourth
District. M. D. Tenny.
DURING the progress of fire at Catletts-
burg, KY, a few days ago some walls fell
in, and three men, Bob Miller, John Ora
ham and David Kinner, were. killed and a
number Of Others were seriously wounded
The DANA ge to- property amounted to $780,
600. f..
NEAR Lima, o.. a tile-kiln collapsed the
other day, burying five workmen, two of
whom were rnortaily injured. 3sAH
A. LINDSAY entered the house Of his
stepfather, James A. Wright, at Airing
ton, Tex, a few evenings ago, and shot
him dead in bed. Then he killed his STEP
sister Fanny. fired several ineffective shots
at his fleeing sister, and escaped to the
woods. The cause for the murders was q
mystery.
AT Baltimore few days ago DR.. ]. P.
Hammond, rector Of st.George's Church,
dropped dead from heart-disease.
ELDER JAMES M. MORGAN has been NOM
mated for Congressman by the Green
hackers of the Seventeenth Illinois Dis
trict.
FEW days ago two brothers, William
and Thomas jennings, aged respectively
ten and twelve years, quarreled near Pike
ton, Mo-, when the younger plunged a
knife into the neck Of the other, severing
the jugular vein and causing death in a
few minutes.
THE death of r, B. Elliott, formerly e
member of Congress from South Carolina,
and considered the most eloquent negro
orator in the South, occurred at New Or.
leans few days ago. a1lt
A RECENT fire destroyed Showers
Brothers, bedstead factory at Blooming
ton, Ind, causing a loss in excess of
1000.
THE Martha Stephens, Missouri River
boat, sunk on the morning Of the 9th be-
tween Bonneville and Arrow Rock, five
persons being drowned and two scalded to
death.
A LOUISVILLE iron firm on the 9th sent
circulars throughout the country urging
that all furnaces be banked for four weeks,
with the hope of increasing prices.
CITIZENS of Lumberton, o., the other
day drove from town a large family
named Myers, suspected of various
crimes, and burned their house when they
left.
THE Republicans of the Seventh Ohio
District have nominated Daniel Balist for;
Congressman. N&
GEORGE RANKIN, aged nineteen, acct
dentally shot his brother, thirteen years
old, at Switz City, Ind, few evenings
ago. George then, through remorse, shot
himself through the breast and died soon
after, while his mothers death was mo-
mentarily expected.
Two MORMON elders who were holding,
meetings in Lewis County, Tenn, were
shot dead by masked men few days ago,
and warning was given to others to
leave the country.
In the Musselshell regions, in Montana,
another slaughter o. horse-thieves cow
boys took place few days ago, nine rob.
beers being killed. It was stated that there
was never period in the history of the
Territory when so much horse-thieying
was going on, and the citizens were de-
termined to effectually stopit. Fully fifty
thieves had been hanged or shot in the
past month. 8
The consolidation of the Denver Repub-
licdn and the Denver Tribune is announced.
The new paper will be called the Tribune
RepablicGD.
The other day Hart Allen, of Macon,
Ca, landowner, was killed by John
Taylor, his tenant, during quarrel about
the rent.
The walls of one portion of the Minnesota
State Capitol building at St. Paul have been
pronounced unsafe, and persons are pro-
hibited from entering the building.
THE Marine Glass, an Ohio River pro-
peller, exploded her boiler on the 18th OPP
posite Madison, Ind, killing the engineer
A man who was on raft some distance
away was thrown into the river and
drowned. f
r. w. MEDIATION and Thomas Bolar,
two old and respected citizens of Elmwood,
Mo-, were fatally injured a few days ago
by runaway team.
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