The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-06

of Illinois and Missouri on the SUN uit.
showed the wheat to be damaged from
twenty to thirty per cent.
CITIZENS lynched two Indians on the 31st
ult at Ashley, NJ T., for the murder OF
three prospectors.
J. d.. CHAPLIN, the Findlay (O) bigamist,
under sentence to term in the peniten-
tiary for marrying eleven women, at
tempted to commit suicide on the LIST, but
failed
In Chicago the railroad strike had spread
on the 1st from the Burlington until it in
Guided the Milwaukee & ST Paul and the
Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne roads. The freight
traffic Of the ST Paul was almost COM
pletely tied up. An unconditional surren-
der and an Immediate return to work were
the only terms held out to the striking en-
ployes II
BENJAMIN E. HOPKINS, assistant cashier
of the wrecked Fidelity Bank of Cincin-
matt, was on the 31st ult sentenced to
eight years in the penitentiary.
On the LIST Ellsworth Letter, Kansas
City teamster, shot his wife and killed him.
self in a quarrel over money.
DURING a storm at Warren, Ark, few
days ago the colored Baptist church was
| demolished, and great damage was done in
the surrounding country. @
The barn of John McCrum, at Wheeling,
W. Va, was burned ON the 31st ult, and
twenty-five cows persisted in the flames.
The cost of the Western railway rate war,
which lasted fifty days, was on the 81st
ult estimated at SIS, 900, 900 to the COM
panies involved The loss on business in
and out Of the two cities of St Paul and
Minneapolis alone was nearly $500, 900.
On the I'd thirty horses were suffocated
by fire in Thomas Dagin's livery stable in
Chicago. a II
AT Decatur, Ala, all unprotected win
| dows were wrecked on the I'd by hail and
wind-storm One building was blown down
and man named Eckford Cooper was
killed ~ s&
GENERAL conspiracy among the train
hands on all the railroads centering in Chi
cago to enforce boycott against the Bur-
lington was Enthusiastically apparent on the
ID All the roads except the Rock Island
stood ready to make fight with their
switchnen for the handling of 20" cars
when they arrived. Freight business was
nearly paralyzed, and on the ST Paul road
only through passenger trains were run
ming.
| TENNESSEE Prohibitionists will hold con-
vention in Nashville May % to nominate
State officers
| In the Sioux river above Elk Point, D. r.,
| the ice-gorge broke on the 3D. and the high
water had flooded all the low country fol
! twenty miles. No loss of life was reported,
| but the loss of stock and damage to prop
| erty would be large.
| A J. BOWMAN was killed by lightning al
Metamora, Ind, on the night of the ID while
in bed His wife beside him was not
| harmed. EE
WHITES and negroes engaged in street
| quarrel on the I'd at Lima, O., and one oil
the white men was killed and two others
were fatally injured 1914
CALIFORNIA Democrats will hold theil
State convention at Los Angeles May Is.
SOCIETY was organized on the ID al
| Springfield, Ill, for the annual observance
of the death of Abraham Lincoln, to be
| composed of thirty-eight members, or one
| for each State in the Union, and to b.
called tho Lincoln Memorial League.
| On the I'd a woman was elected mayor at
| Oskaloosa, Kan, and a. common council
entirely composed of women was also
| chosen.
HoUsE-PAINTERs at Cincinnati to the num-
Der of eight hundred struck on the I'd fol
an advance in wages and decrease In
| hours
In the case of Zephyr Davis, the young
negro who recently murdered Maggie
Gaughan in Chicago, the jury returned {
verdict of guilty on the ID and fixed the
penalty at death by hanging.