The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

Dooly County, Ga, killed his little brother
on the 9th by knocking him on the head
with piece of wood. This is the young
est murderer in the history of the country
On the 9th electric wires ci ossed the
telephone wires at Dayton, O., and de-
stroyed the telephone service throughout,
the city.
On the 9th T. c. Freeman, young man
nineteen years Of age, made insane by
smoking cigarettes, was placed in the
asylum at st. Joseph, Mo-
A STORM swept across the country north
OF Anderson, Ind, on the 9th, laying waste
strip a mile wide. A large amount Of
young stock was killed.
By the capsizing OF the sloop Flora B., of
PennsTille, Del, in a heavy blow on the
9th near New Castle, five women from
Pennsville, who were III thelsabin, were
drowned. 8sg a
THE name Of the town of Highwood, ILL.,,
was on the 10th changed to Fort Sheridan.
+ TEN persons lost their lives in the recent
fire at Chattanooga, Tenn. ~ 49,
The execution Of Hugh M Brooks, also
known as Maxwell, who murdered his
friend Charles Arthur Preller in st. Louis
April 6, 1885, and placed his body in
trunk, took place on the 10th. Henry
Landgraf, who murdered his sweetheart,
Annie Fisch, in 1855, was also hanged on
the same scaffold.
On the nth the River and Harbor bill be
came law without President Cleyeland's
signature.
Mrs. PRISCILLA HARDY celebrated her
one hundred and third birthday on the
18th at Little Rock, Ark
6 A FIRE in Fresno, CAL, damaged business
houses to the extent of $500, 900 on the 18th
& Mrs. SARAH ROBINSON died at Forest
Hill, Md, on the 18th, aged one hundred
years. Mrs. Robinson never saw steam
boat nor railroad, and died in the house
she entered as bride in 1907.
The percentage of the baseball clubs
in the National League for the week
.ended on the 18th was as follows New
York, 1858; Chicago 5SS; Detroit, $50;
Philadelphia, .512: Boston, Al; Pittsburgh,
1856; Washington, 1893; Indianapolis, 1854.
American Associations: ST Louis, .675;
Brooklyn, 500; Philadelphia 607; Cincin-
natl, Cos; Baltimore, .443; Cleveland, .3sS;
Louisville, .375; Kansas City, .309 Western
Association: st. Paul, .657; Des Moines,
sos; Omaha COS; Kansas City, .543; Mil
waukee, .46S; Chicago, .432; Sioux City,
Ala; Minneapolis. 1857.
AT Shenandoah, Ia, an attempt on the
18th to arrest Frank Gallup for killing F.
l. Pine, resulted in Gallup's shooting
David Campbell and Bert Rice dead before
he was himself Killed by shot
THREE constables who had Andy Ham
lin under arrest were owertaken by friends
ofitheprisoner near Cumberland Falls, KY,
on the 18th, and during the fusilade which
ensued two of the officers were killed and
the third mortally wounded. 4s I'd
The death of Iowa Ann Taylor, aged one
hundred and thirteen years, occurred on
the 18th at Mexico, Mo. ss
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs Of the Seventh Iowa
district on the 18th nominated Rev. j. A,
Nash for Congress. #
On the 18th Robert. Broom (coiored) was
lynched at Utica, Miss, for shooting DIR.
L. w. Halliday without provocation.
AT Roberts, Tex, Joseph Hodges acct
dentally shot and killed his wife on the
18th.
A FIRE destroyed nearly one half the
business portion of Stanton, Ia, on the
18th. e