The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-27
WEST AND SOUTH. !

BEFORE firing bullet into his brain on
the 10Th, Willie League, of Baltimore. Md,
aged fifteen years, remarked to q play
mate: 'Alice, am tired of living"
THE age of Mrs. Mary Murphy, who died
in Chicago on the 10Th, was 1oS years.
AT the Missouri State Democratic con-
vention at st. Louis on the 10th Theodore
Brace was chosen for Judge of the Supreme
Court.
THE arguments in the Anarchist trial at
Chicago were closed at noon on the 10Th
by States Attorney Grinnell At two
o'clock Judge Gary began reading the in
structions, and at $3.50 the jury took the
case and retired for elaboration.
THE Congressional nominations as made
on the Goth are: Democratic Virginia,
Fifth district, George G.. Cabell (renomi-
nated); Mississippi, Sixth district, l. l..
Stockdale; South Carolina, First district,
Samuel Dibble (renominated). Republic
an-Minnesota, Fifth district, John A.
Lovely; Iowa, Tenth district A. J. Holmes,
(renominated). Prohibitionists - Wiscon-
sin, First district. E. G. Durant;. Second,
S. q. Ford Eighth William 7. Price, the
Republican nominee, was endorsed; Hi
nois, Ninth district, James McGrew.
In the Anarchist trial at Chicago on the
Goth the sentence of death was pronounced
against Spies, Lingg, Parsons, Fielden,
Engel, Fischer and Schwab and Oscar
Neebe received fifteen years imprison-
ment. After the jury was polled motion
for a new trial was made. phe condemned
men were placed in murderers' row in the
Jail. The jurors received commentator
from Judge Gary.
A NEW counterfeit silver dollar of 1888,
which was received at the suh-treasurv in
Chicago ON the Doth, is heavily plated with
silver has good color and clear ring.
REPORTS received on the Goth from the
cotton belt of Texas showed that fully
thirty per cent of the cropsowere lost,
owing to excessive heat and drought.
AT Galveston, Tex, heavy storm on
the Goth wrecked about $50 buildings and
flooded, undermined and otherwise dam.
aged many more. Several persons were
drowned. The water rose as it did in 1865
and covered land twelve miles inland. The
total loss would exceed $20O,O00
THE Chicago carpet firm of w. H. Judson
& Co., made an assignment on the Goth
with liabilities of $l5S,000
OwING to disagreement as to the time
Of adjournment between the Senate and
Assembly, Governor Stoneman on the Goth
adjourned the California Legislature until
September z.
THE best timber in the park region oil
Montana was being destroyed by forest
fires on the 10Th. The loss was already
heavy.
AT the September term of court at Chi
cago fifty-one Anarchists, under indict
ment for conspiracy and riot will be
brought to trial. Eleven Of them are in
Jail, and the balance are under bonds to
appear when wanted.
The following persons came to death by
drowning in Minnesota on the night of the
2lst, by the. upsetting of row-boats: Au
! gust SwenSon, Charles Johnson and Peter
Erickson, in Lake Pepin; two daughters
of Thomas Lemara, boy named Jamaut
and girl named Goulet in Cedar lake
Robert I. Hubert, w. B. jackson, Jr., anG
two others, in Lake Minnetonka, and Johr
Fleming, Milo Underwood and John Nor
risey, at Lake City.
A FIRE caused by lightning burned
number of dwellings at Lafayette, Ind
on the Odd The wind blew down many
trees and fences and wrecked buildings
The streets were rendered impossible by
| the rain.
| WHILE temporarily insane Dread John
son, Glen Allen (Mo.) farmer, shot hi.
wife and himself dead on the 21st.
REPoRTs received on the 21st state tina
the recent hurricane in Texas demolished
seventy-fve houses at Victoria, forty a
Fort Worth and thirteen at Indianola, ant
destroyed s5000O1 worth. of property a
Galveston. The total loss to Texas was
Thirty eight lives, $1,000,000 to crops
IS, 100000 to city and town property anC
100000 to shipping and harbor improve
ments.
A FIRE in San Francisco on the 2lst de
stroyed nearly $2,O00,000 worth of prop
! erty, The blaze originated in machine