The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-06

On the 30th ult Laura Webster, aged
eighteen, of San Francisco, had been asleep
for seventy days. Her physicians admins
tered liquid food to her through tube
THE Legislature of Kentucky copvsrr,ed on
the 30th ult. at Franl3~-
~, = FAMILY --aaea Hgliy. aacused Of horri-
w -aas1eFs st Oak Greek, Kan, were
eaptEe ed recently III Texas and killed. Inc
Ech was hung and the mother and daughter
shot while the posse was endeayoring to
captufe them. The old man escaped
HE following exections took place on
the goth ult: William Finchum, at Har-
risonburg, Va, Tor the murder of his brother;
Gus Ldmunson at Somerville, Ala, for
killing his wife; Albert Peters, at MariarIa,
Ark, for the murder Of William johnson.
and John Strickland, at Conway, S c.. for
killing liz mother.
AN election to fill the place of Seth Moi
fat, the late Congressman from the Eleventh
Michigan district, has been ordered for
February IL
TIE other DAY William Herring, who
killed his wife and her paramou- at ST
Francis, Ark, was lynched.
IN quarrel on the 30th ult in Justices
court at Sumter, s. c., Judge Haynesworth
was shot dead and two other men were IA
tally wounded
CITIZENS of the town of GAINESVILLE. Ind !,
on the Ohio river are preparing to elect
delegates to Congress They will demand
admission as Territory under the old Vir-
ginia charter, which it is claimed is still in
force
The sloop Lizzie Ella was lost few days
ago near Cape Bias, Fla, with her crew of
FIVE men.
AT the convention OF the Kansas Tenn
peranee Union at Topeka on the 3Oth ult
resolutions were passed to continue earnest
work for constitutional prohibition and de-
claring against third party agitation.
THE skeletons of fourteen murdered per-
sons were found on the Goth ult. in cav
ern near the ranch of John La Blant, a
Sioux Indian, at Willow Creek, D. T. La
Blant had fled
In the Northwest furious snow-storm
prevailed on the 30th ult and all railway
travel was greatly retarded.
The fourth annual session of the Michigan
Commercial Travellers Association was held
in Detroit on the Both ult
AN accident few days ago on the Gin
cinnati Southern railway, near Greenwood,
KY, resulted in the death of six persons
and the injury of twenty others.
AT negro matchmaking at Yorktown,
Ala, a shooting match occurred in which
three persons We're killed and several
wounded
JUDGE SToNEMAN, of the United States
Circuit Court at Cedar Rapids, Ia, has de-
clared the Iowa Registry law unconstitu-
tiopal
The death of James Hendricks, brother of
the late President, occurred at Shelby
VILE Ind, on the LIST, at the age of fifty
six years. The deceased was the last men,
Der of the Hendricks family.
A RECENT fire destroyed the Emmanuel
Presbyterian Church at Milwaukee Loss,
100000
In the Chatsworth Qll) railway disaster
last summer eighty-two persons were killed,
and the total damages claimed from the
Toledo, Peoria & Western railway were
$500, 900, the last of which was paid on
the I'd
Awhile man named Walthop was hanged
by negroes in Pickens County, s. c., on the
81 for crminally assaulting a thirteen-year-
old colored girl, who died from the effects
of the assault
A DISCREPANCY of 800, 900 was recently
discovered in the New Albany Qnd) city
treasury. No settlement had been had
for twelve years
FIRE destroyed twenty-one buildings on
the I'd in Salida, Col, with a total loss of
5000
On the 2d the sixty eighth General As
sembly of Ohio organized at Columbus,
Hon. T. E. Davis being elected President
pro tenn. of the Senate, and Hon. E. L.
Lampson Speaker of the House.
A FIRE wiped out the greater part of the
town of Hicksville, O., on the 31st dlts
Loss, 100000.