The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-24

ward of 81, 900 was offered for his capture.
Tascott is the hayward son of prominent
Chicago business man.
PETER YANNICE, eighty years of age
dropped dead of heart disease on the 18th
at his house near New Maysville Ind, and
his wife, aged eighty years, was so shocked
by his death that she fell dead from the same
disease few hours afterwards
The steamer City of Pekin arrived on the
18th in San francisco with smallpox on
board. This was the fifth successive steamer
to arrive there with that disease.
A FIRE at Oscala, Fla, burned dozen
business houses and residences ON the 18th
ONE year ago Daniel and John O'Day, of
Jackson, Mich, were convicted in Tennes-
see of counterfeiting, and sentenced to fif-
teen and ten years imprisonment re-
spectively. 1t was discovered on the 17tb
that they were innocent of the crime, and
they were released
On the afternoon of the 10Th a cyclone
swept over Mount Vernon, Ill, resulting in
the death of at least thirty persons, the
wounding OF uabout two hundred others,
and the almost total destruction of one-half
of the city. Reports from the surrounding
country say the storm swept every thing for
miles
The firm of Mueller & Gogreare whole
sale dealers in liquor at Cincinnati, failed
on the 10Th for $780, 900.
On the 18th F. B. Poupart, confidential
secretary to Adolph Schreiber treasurer OF
the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, alb
seconded with $40, 900 belonging to the ex-
change.
On the 18th Matthew Gardner, seventy
years of age, and his wife, Anna Gardner,
who was one year older, were both found
dead in bed at their homes in Milwaukee
They died from old age.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, A. s. Brandt and
his daughter were arrested on the 18th for
making and passing counterfeit silver dol
lars
On the evening Of the 18th Miss Emma
Black, weary from watching at the bedside
of a sick friend, fell asleep before fire at
Winchester, o., her clothing caught fire
and she was burned to death
The failure Of the Western Nail-Mill Com
pany of Beleville, Ill, occurred ON the
18th for $4,000. Five hundred men
were thrown out of employment
In theater at Youngstown, O., the gall
lery fell on the 18th, and a number of per-
sons were badly injured
FURTHER advices of the Goth say that the
recent cyclone in Mount Vernon, Ill, killed
thirty four persons outright wounded over
one hundred others, some fatally, swept
nearly four hundred houses from the face
of the earth and made homeless over one
Thousand people. An appeal for financial
aid had been sent out, and Governor Oglesby
also issued proclamation calling upon the
public to contribute.
In Perry and Randolph counties. Ill, a
tornado on the Goth wrecked several build
ings and destroyed vast tracts of timber
No lives were lost
AT the Bellaire (O.) blast furnace the
workmen were given q voluntary advance
of ten per cent by the management on the
Goth.
The Prohibitionists carried four more
counties in Michigan ON the 20th-Lenawee,
Livingston Ionia and Newaygo.
On the Goth George W. Hill, manager at
New Orleans for the Diamond.Match Com
pany, disappeared with $40, 900 belonging
to the company
A TORNADO unroofed nearly all the houses
in Lafayette, Ky, on the Goth, and num-
bers of tobacco barns and granaries were
blown down. No one was injured