The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-09
WEST AND SouTH.

lakes, are as follows: Michigan, $205, $50 I;
Superior, $457, 400; Huron, $261 800; Erie,
ST., 725; Ontario, $500; making total,
by important disasters, of $1,276,40O 9th
er minor mishaps, $223,6O0.
A FIRE at Evansville, Ind, originating
in the dry goods house of Miller Brothers,
destroyed property valued at $250,0O0 the
other day.
WILLIAM PEARSON, a wealthy farmer
and a strong spiritualist, residing near
Chehalis, Wy. t., imagined a few days
ago that he received an order from high
er power to kill his infant child, and did so
with hammer. When he had finished he
showed what he had done to his wife, who
was also spiritualist. He then said that
if she would cut her throat he would do the
same. Both were found the next morning
half frozen, with their throats cut, but not
yet dead. Pearson had revived sufficient Y
to state what is above related. He and his
wife would probably die.
On the Baltimore & Ohio Road, near
Grafton, o., a wedge was driven in frog
early on the morning of the 31st ult.,
wrecking passenger train. The engine
was hurled to the bottom of creek, the
driver being killed, and the fireman was
scalded to death by escaping steam. Four
persons were injured seriously and num-
Der badly shaken up. The financial loss
was $4,000.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, prohibitory
liquor ordinance has gone into effect, with
limit of two years.
THE German bark Lille was recently
wrecked near Petrolia, CAL, and the first
officer, the cook and three seamen were
drowned.
MRS. CHARLES SELLERS, of Dayton, O.,
while handling pistol recently supposed
to be unloaded fatally shot her husband.
The loss of eight lives resulted from the
stranding of the Norwegian bark Lena re-
Gently on Hog Island Bar, near Birds Nest,
Va, in fog.
On the I'd the coolest weather recorded
at st. Paul, Mimi, was noted 36 below
zero. Throughout the Northwest the tenn
pnrature ranged unusually low, marking
50 below at Winnipeg, 45 below at Bis
marck and 40 below at Duluth.
AN explosion destroyed a powder mill
near Xenia, o., the other morning, an en-
plOye Delng blown TO pieces.
A MOB wrecked the Bristol tunnel on the
Balti uore & Ohio Road, near Lexington,
o., early few mornings ago. Three hum
dred feet of the structure caved in, COM
pelling transfer q passengers. The loss
to the railway company was very heavy.
On the I'd the Michigan Cent? al Road
cut the first class passenger rate from Chi
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| lowed by the Lake Shore and Pennsyl-
vania. A reduction to $3.50 was made by
the Chicago & Atlantic and the Niagara
Short Line.
AT a recent meeting of the Northwestern
Travelling Mems Association in Chicago J.
G. Miller was elected Pres dent There are
over 3,400 members, and during the past
year $4,000 was disbursed in benefits,
leaving about $4,000 in the treasury.
Two MEN boarded train on the Balti-
more 81 Ohio Road on the evening of the
I'd at Rising Sun, Ind, and robbed the
passengers of money, watches and val
uables, and then jumped from the train
while it was running at full speed.
AT Savannah, Ga, all the white mes
senger boys in the employ of the Western
Union Company have been discharged
colored lads taking their places.
On the night of the Sd an earthquake
visited Frederick County, Md.
IT was discovered on the Sd that J. G.
| Scrugham, teller in National bank al
Lexington, KY, was a defaulter fol-
$4,000. He had fed to Canada.
! In a mine at Wake vile, M. T., James
Lippett and William Bray were crushed
to death few days ago.
HUNDREDS of cattle in Northern Kansas
and Nebraska have been swept off by
some mysterious disease.
REVIVAL meetings were commenced by
D. L. Moody on the 4th at Richmond, Va.
he being greeted with large congregations
The other day DR.. John Maxwell, who
was in Jail at Sprinfeld, o., for poisoning
his three young daughters, hanged himself
in his cell.
BEGGARS swarmed the streets of St
| Louis ON the Sd. Over twenty thousand
| people were out of work, and the Sanitary
Aid Association was raising money tC
employ the destitute in cleaning the streets
| NIoBRARA (Neb.) advices of the Sd state
that a stage-driver and seven other men
had been frozen to death on the road be-
tween that place and Long Pine.
THE death of Judge Chalmers, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
occurred on the 4th.
| ONE Mullen, Cincinnati police lieuten-
ant, was on the Sd sentenced to one year in
Jail for imprisoning citizens on the day Of
the October election in order to defraud
them of their votes.
REV. D. NJ. BROWN, pastor of the Metho-
dist Church at Las Vegas, N. NJ, has been
compelled to resign in consequence of re-
nouncing mis- belief in the doctrine of eter-
nal torment.
| On the Sd the courthouse at Moerfield
| w. Va, was the scene of bloody fight on
the question of who had been legally
elected County Clerk. A strong guard was
ON duty and all saloons had been closed.
DURING the night of the Sd, the money
package recently lost by the Adams Ex-
press Company at Indianapolis was in
some mysterious manner replaced in the
safe, probably by the frightened thief.
| IT was ascertained bv detectives at
Grafton, w. Va. on the Sd that the recent
wrecking of passenger train was the
work of Mrs. M. Blake, who sought re-
venge for the arrest of her husband on
charge of robbing cars. She confessed her
crime.
THE other night Louis Feeder, night
Waterman at the Ryers factory in Bloom
| ington, Ind, was killed at his post by an
unknown man. His wife dreamed that her
husband was murdered, and going in
search of him found him dead. The motive
of the crime was theft.
WHILE skating on Syracuse Lake, near
Goshen, Ind, on the evening of the Sd
George Link and Eva Miles, twenty and
eighteen years old, respectively, broke
through the ice and were drowned.
THE California, Nevada and Tennessee
legislatures convened on. the 9Th,