The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
In the South Memorial Day was gener-

ally observed on the 11th
WILLIAM SPENCER, seventy-six years of
age, and Mrs. Mary Shaw, aged seventy
two years, were married at Shelbyville, Ill.,.
on the 18th. The groom has been married
four times and the bride five times
Mrs. ANN TYER, Of Wabash, Ind, over
one hundred years old, fell down cellar re-
Gently, receiving probably fatal injuries.
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed thirty
stores and dwellings and the gas-works at
Hot Springs, Ark, causing loss of $780,
900.
NEAR Nogales, A. T., six Mexicans
stopped a train on the 18th, killed the con-
ductor and express messenger, fatally
wounded two passengers and escaped with
booty of $3.50,
THE signal service will use carrier
pigeons as means of bringing weather re-
ports from the Bahamas to Key West
In Chicago, on the 18th Zephyr Davis, the
young negro who murdered Maggie
Gaughan, a working girl, was hanged in
the county Jail.
Tx the Mississippi and other rivers high
water was doing great damage on the 18th.
At Alexandra, Mo-, the town and adjacent
country was submerged, and in Daven-
port, Dubuque, Clinton and Muscatine, Ia,
and in Quincy and Rock Island, ILL.,. floods
were causing much distress and loss of
property.
THE firm of j. Lusk & Co., of San Fran
cisco, operating the largest establishment
in the world for canning fruits and vege-
tables, failed on the 18th for 5000, 900.
On the 18th it was announced that reign
of terror existed in Chambersburg, Ind,
on account of the use of dynamite by
whisky men against leading Prohibition
lists. Several buildings had been blown up.
INportions of the Northwest heavy frosts
were reported on the 18th, and in several
Illinois towns a May snow storm YVES wit
messed.
The Sny and Indian Grove levees above
Quincy, ILL.,, broke on the 18th, and thou
sands of acres of winter wheat on bottom
lands were flooded and hundreds of head of
stock drowned. Late at night the dam at
Rock Island gave way, and two OF three
hundred families were reported in danger.
REPUBLICANS made the following Con-
gressional nominations on the 14th: Ten
nessee, Second district L. G. Houck IRE
nominatedD; Nebraska. Second district,
James Laird (renominated) Third dis
trict, George w. Dorsey (renominated) :;
Missouri. Sixth district, J. B. Upton.
A PASSENGER train was standing at the
depot at Fountain, Col, on the 14th when
it was dashed into by several freight cars,
one of which contained naphtha and an
other powder, and an explosion occurred
which killed six persons, injured many
others and totally destroyed twenty build
ings. The loss to property was estimated
at 100000.
In sections of Nebraska frost on the 18th
did much damage to crops.
BY the giving way Of the dam on Hamlin
river, eight miles north of Ludington
Mich, on the 14th twenty three dwell
ing houses were carried out into Lake
Michigan The people had all moved
GRANDMA TYER died at Wabash, Ind, on
the 18th, aged one hundred and one years.
from injuries received by falling down
cellar stairs.
THE convicted Indiana tally-sheet forgers,
Coy and Bernhamer, must serve out their
sentences of eighteen months in the peni-
Tertiary. Their application for writ of
habeas corpus was denied on the 18th by
the United States Supreme Court.
On the 18th James Smith, of Lorain, O.,
was placed In Jail ON the charge of kicking
his wife to death.
In Northern Michigan several towns
were visited by severe snow-storms on the
18th.
FIRE at Goldendale, W. T., on the 18th de-
stroyed the entire business portion of the
town.