The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-16
WEST AND SoIIrH


TWENTY FIVE men took part in an ARRAY
with knives recently at Rutledge, Ca One
was killed, and many of the others were
badly wounded.
In the Indian Nation snow has caused
considerable suffering to stock. The losses
thus far this winter are about fifteen per
cent.
FIRE destroyed the county Jail in Fred
ericksburg, Gillespie County, Tex recently,
and one of the prisoners persisted.
THE Chamber of Commerce at Denver,
COL, invited all friendly to the unlimited
coinage of silver to meet in national con-
yention in that city on January %.
ADAM Brown, of Newport, KY, a
huckster, was chlo~oformed and $3.50 taken
from under his pillow few nights ago.
This was the savings of himself and wife
for years.
A FIRE the other evening destroyed the
extensive iron works of Stovering &
Fleming, on the fats at Cleveland, 0.
THE marriage of Major Mutt the famous
dwarf, four feet high, and aged forty four
years, occurred in Boston on the Sth to
Clara Corfeld, aged eighteen, and of the
ordinary size.
ON the Sth Elijah M. Haines was chosen
temporary Speaker of the Illino House,
and the Democratic caucus nominees for
temporary officers were elected. In the
Senate Mr.. Clough introduced an election
bill which prevents unregistered citizens
from voting A resolution was passed fix
ing January q as the day for the Senate
rial election.
JUDGE BLoDGETT overruled 81 motion in
the District Court at Chicago on the Sth to
quash the indictments against Mackin,
Biehl and others for the recent election
fraud, and fixed January % as the date
for trial.
JAMES M. BINGHAM, x-Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor of Wisconsin, died at Chippewa Falls
ON the Sth.
THE other day J. A. Bollin, of Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, fifty years old, and grand
father eloped with his wife's servant girl
THE death of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines,
the famous litigant, occurred at New Or
leans ON the evening of the 9th. She was
| eighty years of age.
For attempting to wreck train near
'Burchard, Neb., S. s. Voorhees, was on the
9th sentenced to fifty years imprisonment.
A FIRE at one o'clock on the morning of
| the 10th had burned two business blocks at
| Sioux City, Ia, and the flames was spread
! ing. Numerous offices, dental rooms and
other establishments had been burned out,
and the water supply was meager. The
loss thus far would exceed 100000.
AT the house of Mr.. Van Fossen, of East
Liverpool, o., eleven persons drank coffee
a few evenings ago. Mr.. Van Fossen and
a child died at midnight and the others
were not expected to live. A package of
rat-poison was found at the bottom of the
coffee-pot.
| AN assignment has been made blythe
Bank of Augusta, Ca, chartered by tbs
State long before the war. The capital
was S150,000
THE message Of Governor Porter on the
9th to the Indiana Legislature stated that
the debt was S4,S76,60S. He recommended
refunding the foreign debt of $5S5, 700, and
! announced that the school fund amounted
to 1888, 1928. Number of children IN
schools 501, 142.
| THE suicides are announced of Major
Charles B. Brady, wellknown st. Louis
citizen, and M. Guild, ex-cashier of the
| First National Bank of Cincinnati.
4 WIRE in a tobacco storage warehouse at
Durham, N. c., the other night caused a
loss of $4,000
In Franklin County, Miss, negro blew
out the brains of one of party of bull
dozers who recently came to maltreat him,
and the Coroner's Jury declared that it
was justifiable homicide.
THERE was great restitution on the 18th
among sufferers from the drought plague
in Wise County, Va, and aid was invoked.
OFFICERS of the secret service have,
since the recent arrest of Miles Ogle, the
counterfeiter, at Memphis, traced out his
| plates and papers, and found $4,000 in
bills near Louisville and $50, 900 at the Gin
cinnati stock-yards.
OK the 10th the special grand jury inn
paneled in Chicago to investigate the
| Eighteeth Ward election fraud and any
other Irregularities of the kind to which its
attention may be called began it's work.
AN aged couple Hugh McCallister and
wife, were found burned to death on the
10th in their house in Tippecanoe County,
Ind. 1t was supposed that robbers looted
4 the premises, kSled the occupants and then
set fire to the house.
On the 10th Dan Rolcomb, who was on
! trial at Jackson, Mich, for the murder of
four people at the Crouch farm near jack
son, more than q year ago, was acquitted.
THE other night desperadoes attempted
to burn Bozeman, M. T.,sand on the morn
ing of the 10th the ominous figures of the
Vigilance Committee, ."7444," were noted
at different points throughout the town.
A FIRE a few evenings ago destroyed the
Louisville & Nashville freight and pas
senger depots at Nashville, Tenn, all the
freight, one hundred loaded cars and
Linck's Hotel, causing loss of $4,000.
BURGLARS took twenty -ssven costly seal
skin sacques from fur store at Detroit a
few nights ago.
Snow was three feet deep in the Silver
ton (Col.) district on the 18th, a storm hav-
ing prevailed for thirty-six hours. Toll
roads were blockaded and business was
suspended.
UNDER the provisions of the Constitution
vote for United States Senator can not
be taken by the Illinois Legislature until
January 81.
NEAR Lockport, KY, river boat sunk
the other night, and the Captain, his fami-
ly and crew all persisted.
STRIKERS on the 18th fired Mine No. 8 of
the Hooking Valley property, at Straits
vile, o., the largest in that region.
JAMES DAVIS, storekeeper, killed three
cowboys in fight few nights ago at
Sand Creek, Wy. T., and escaped injury.
THE total cut in the Northwestern ium-
| Der region last year was 2,5a4a, ss9s, 1861 fest