The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
WEST AND SOUTH,

In Omaha, Neb., six persons died on the
I'd from the excessive heat.
CHARLES, alias "Blinkey" Morgan, the
principal figure in the fur robbery and
murder of Detective Hull igan, at Cleve-
land, was executed at Columbus, O., at an
early hour on the morning of the 3d.
GOVERNOR GRAY, of Indiana, on the Cd
directed the Acknowledgement to visit the
counties of Crawford and Perry, and do all
that he could to bring the participants in
''White Cap" outrages to justice.
The thermometer at Mt Carroll, ILL.,, in
Dictated 10 degrees in the shade on the I'd,
and in other portions of the State extreme
hot weather was reported.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows on the I'd: Ohio, Sixteenth dis
trict, E. L. Tybarker Rep); Illinois,
Twentieth district A. T. Robinson Dem !;
|sNebraska, Second district, Rev. George
Scott Pro.); Maryland (all Prohibition
ists), First district, w. n Hartman; Sec
ond, j. l.. Benson; Third, j. D. Bowling;
Fourth, Rev. N. H. Reed; Sixth, W. w.
Moore.
A WIND and rain-storm on the I'd did
great damage to crops in the vicinity of ST.
Cloud and Sank Rapids, MINI. In the
former place twenty-one houses were
struck by lightning and two children were
killed. and in the latter many streets were
flooded and houses could only be reached
by boats.
Four fatal cases of sunstroke occurred
in Chicago on the 3d. the thermometer reg
istering "a degrees in the shade. At Evans
VILE, Ind, three men died from the heat
four cases were reported at Burlington
Ia, four at Indianapolis, Ind, and two at
Dubuque, la.
THE death of Mrs. Joseph Koczorowki
occurred on the Sd in Chicago, at the age
of one hundred and three years She was
a native Of Poland.
DURING a quarrel on the Sd at Elkhart
Ind, Benjamin Scott, wealthy Texan,
| fatally stabbed Con Crowley, young
stock dealer, George Newell leading
farmer and capitalist, and James Smith, a
| colored porter at the Clifton House.
A CYCLONE on the Sd at New Market, Ia.
tore up large trees by the roots, and build
| ings were moved from their foundations or
| demolished No one was injured.
On the Sd the British Government re-
| quested further respite for Hugh NJ.
Brooks, better known as Maxwell, under
| sentence of death at st. Louis for the muir
| der of Preller -
STORMS at Duluth, Mimi, flooded base
ments on the Sd, washed out sewers and
railroad tracks and caused other damage,
the total amounting to $50, 900. At Halle
wood, Mimi, Mrs Mclaughlin and two
sons were killed by lightning.
BUSINESS blocks fronting on the public
| square at West Unity, o., were burned on
| the Sd, causing a loss of 100000.
| On the Sd Henry NJ. Vinont, made insane
| by excessive cigarette smoking, was sent
to an asylum from Millersburg, KY.
AT Newberne, Tenn, an incendiary fire
on the 9Th destroyed the entire eastern
| part of the town.
| HE percentage of the base ball clubs
in the National League for the week
ended on the 4th is as follows: New
York, $50; Chicago, 600; Detroit, .594 !;
Philadelphia, .493; Boston, 451; Pittsburgh,
AS; Indianapolis, 1892; Washington, 1857.
| American Association: St Louis, .666:
Brooklyn, 1884; Philadelphia, $50; Cincin-
natl, .607; Baltimore, .45l; Cleveland, 1872;
Louisville, 1855; Kansas City, .294. Western
Association: st. Paul, 1886; Des Moines,
900; Omaha, .5S4; Sioux City, .4s1 Kan
sas City, .476; Chicago. .455, Milwaukee,
| $50; Minneapolis. ISL.
| The house of Martin Olsted, near Lanes
boro, Mimi, was struck by lightning on
the 4th, and Olsted and five of his chill
dren were killed by the stroke.
| PROF. ELISHA GRAY, of Highland Park, Ill.,,
| received a patent on the 4th on the teletau-
| graph, an invention by which messages
can be transmitted by wire in the sender's
| own handwriting, doing away with skilled
| operators.
| On the 4th Charles Perkins, noted
horse-thief and murderer, shot and killed
two deputy United States marshals and