The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

WHILE intoxicated Michael Nancy, a
farmer Of Saxton Station, Mo-, started
home the other night, but took the wrong
track, got bewidered, and, lying down,
was frozen to death.
THE Inauguration of Governor Hughes,
Of Arkansas, took place on the 18th.
A SETTLEMENT was recently established
by four Mormon elders near Spartansburg
S. c., and twenty three indian converts
from York County had been taken there
THE death of Thomas Farrell, aged one
hundred and eleven years, occurred on the
10Th at st. Paul, MINI.
CHARLOTTE Hook, aged forty five,
hanged herself recently at Baltimore,
when about to be arrested for spending
$3.50 belonging to another which was left in
her care.
On the 10Th the bodies of two young men,
Thomas Harvey and Samuel Knox, were
found in Brush Pond, Greene County, Ind,
where they had been drowned New Years
Day while out hunting.
A STOCK dealer named Samuel Williams
was murdered the other night by a high
wayman near Red Key, Ind. The assassin
fed without securing the 81 900 his victim
possessed.
THE other night Mrs. Mary Mccoy and
her infant child were burned to death near
Winfield, w. Va.
In Chicago the special G. and Jury con
cluded its investigation of the Eighteenth
Ward election fraud on the 10Th, and voted
to indict Mackin, Gallagher, Shields, Hans
brough, Sullivan, Biehl and Gleason.
Mackin was also indicted separately for
the bogus tickets.
In the Indiana Senate bill was intro
duced on the 10Th prohibiting aliens from
holding real estate.
THE store of f. w. Thornton, ct Lafay-
etteville, N. c., valued at $4,000, was de-
stroyod by a recent fre@
LAST October a three hundred pound
hog, owned by Farmer Buchanan, at Ros-
coe, ILL.,, was accidentally buried under
straw-rick. The animal was unearthed
alive on the 10Th, and found to weigh but
twenty five pounds, out had increased it's
avoirdupois materially since it's discovery.
THROUGHOUT the entire West snow fell
heavily during the ten hours ended on the
evening of the 10th, reaching as far South
as Northern Texas. Railway traffic was
greatly impeded.
THE execution of William Felix Henry
(colored) occurred on the 10th at Ed
wardsville, ILL.,, for numbering two negroes
in 1888. Weight Leroy was hanged at
San Francisco for choking Nicholas Skier
ret to DEATH
On the st. Paul Road passenger train
was ditched the other night near Storm
Lake, la. One coach was turned over, and
several persons were injured.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the Ohio
Legislature on the 10Th for joint commit
tee toinquire into the cause of the strike in
the Hooking Valley, and report on the con-
dition of affairs within a month.
G. w, MURPHY, for circulating false re-
ports against the character of young lady
at Americas, Canvas taken from his house
the other night by party of young men,
stripped to the waist and given thirty nine
lashes with a cowhide.
BY the bursting of an engine boiler at
Laclede, Mo-, a few mornings ago four
men were probably fatally scalded
MARTIN DEL EsooBEL, tobacco manu-
facturer OF New Orleans, failed recently
for 1924 600
A FIRE broke out at 30 O'Clock on the
morning of the 18th in detached ward of
the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the In
sane at Kankakee, and the building was
totally destroyed. The ward was occupied
by forty five patients, six attendants and
one night-watchman. Seventeen patients
were missing, and up to fiveslo'clock in the
evening thirteen bodies had been taken
from the ruins, burned beyond recognition.
THE death of Rev. William Barry, who
founded the Chicago Historical Society in
1856, occurred on the 18th. He was over
eighty years of age.
FARMER named Taylor Bollard, re-
siding near Franklin, Ind, who refused to
trust his money to banks, was murdered
on the 18th, and robbed Of 1000 or more.
AS the MISREPRESENTATION in Indian Ter
ritory, five Indians We're frozen to death
few days ago. Great restitution prevailed
among the tribe.
THE other night a hurricane swept over
Steubenville, o., causing damage esti-
mated at $4,000. The First Presbyterian
OnuFCn was a cOmpleJe wreck.
ALL over the county railroads were
.blockaded by snow on the 18th and tele-
graph wires were down everywhere.
A BILL was introduced in the Dakota
Legislature on the 18th to remove the Cap
ital from Bismarck to Pierre.
THREE colored persons, one man and two
women, were drowned in Horseshoe Lake,
Dear itt1a Ponly Arl- n fav,- a owe o,r0 lx-
the capsizing of boat.
In the vicinity Of Cincinnati ten miles of
telegraph poles were destroyed by wind
storm on the 18th.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the resi-
denee of Mr. Phillips, at Mobile, Ala,
on the 18th, and Mr.. Phillips, his wife and
daughter persisted in the flames.
The funeral services over the remains of
the late ex-Vice-P President Colfax took
place at South Bend, Ind, on the 18th.
TEXAS adviees of the 18th continued to
report great loss to cattle and sheep by the
severe cold weather in various parts.
UPON plea of guilty David E. Swami,
who embezzled sol, 900 from the Northern
Pacific office at st. Paul, was on the 18th
sentenced to thirteen years and six
months Imprisonment at hard labor.
A TRAIN on the Wabash Road was
thrown into ditch by a broken rail on the
10Th near st. Louis. Eleven persons were
injured-Un United States Express Messenger
J. j. Mattocks fatally.
FIVE barges and six coal boats, contain
ing 900 bushels of coal belonging to
j. G. Fisher & Co., broke from their moor
ings few days ago near Woods Run, on
the Ohio River, and sunk.
THE lower house of the Dakota Legisla-
ture by a unanimous vote on the 10Th
passed bill memorializing Congress for
division Of the Territory and the admission
of the south half to the Union,