The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-29
WEST AND SOuTH.


On the Goth three men boarded pasSen-
ger train on the Wabash road at Peru, Ind,
robbed several persons of their money and
jewelry, and jumped from the train while
it was running rapidly and made their es-
cape.
JOHN DECKER, fifty years of age, dele
gate to che National Republican conven-
ton from Cincinnati, was overcome by the
heat on the Goth and died in short time.
A WIND and rain storm visited Grand
Rapids, Wis. on the Goth, unroofng houses,
demolishing fences trees and small build
ings.
THE Democrats of the Sixth Ohio dis
trct nominated G. M. Saltzgober for Con-
gress on The 2lst.
TIE loss of the schooner Isabel and nine
teen of her crew was reported at San Fran
cisco on the 2lst
A HURRICANE visited Litchfield, ILL.,, on
the 21st upsetting and unroofing houses
and causing much loss.
CYCLONE passed east of Lyons, Ia, on
the 21st, wrecking several buildings and
leveling trees and fences. No persons were
injured.
In the Northern part of Sedgwick Coun-
ty, Kan, cyclone on the 21st did consider
able damage and fatally injured Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Watt. The track of the cyclone
was three hundred yards wide, and ex
tended over three miles of territory.
FIRE on the ed destroyed the main
building of the Albuquerque On. NJ In
dian school, which was nearing completion.
DEMOCRATS of the First Georgia district
nominated Mayor Lester, of Savannah, Ga,
for Congress on the 22d.
On the 22d William H. Grain was renom-
mated for Congress by the Democrats of
the Seventh district of Texas. i.
MUCH damage was being done by forest
fires on the ed in the vicinity of Pressure
Isle, Mich. j. G.. Brown alone had lost
three hundred thousand feet of logs.
WILLIAM PATTERSON (colored), convicted
of assaulting and numbering Jennie Bow
man on April %, 1887, was hanged at Louis
vile, KY, on the 22d.
AT Keyser, Ind, Joseph Bell was killed
and Joseph McNabb and William Bayliss
were fatally injured by the explosion of an
eng mes boiler on the S2d.
On the 23d Mrs. Phoebe Vennum. living
near Morrison, Ill, celebrated her one hun
dred and fourth birthday
A wATERsPoUT near Evansville, Ind,
did great damage to growing crops on the
23d.
WILLIAM JONES knocked John Carroll in
to bed of slaked lime at Alton, ILL.,, on the
ed, and Carroll was fatally burned His
assailant fed.
MARION DARLINGTON died on the Esd at
Churchill, Tenn, aged one hundred and
ten years.
The record of the base-ba clubs in the
National League for the week ended on the
2Sd was as follows: Chicago games
Won), 49, Detroit, so; Boston, 80;
New York q; Philadelphia, 80;
Washington, 10; Pittsburgh, Is; In
dianapolis, IS. The American Associa-
ton clubs stood: Brooklyn (games won)
81; St Louis, 80; Philadelphia, 80: Cincin-
natl, 30; Baltimore, "a, Cleveland, Is; Kan
sas City, IA Louisville, H. In the Western
Association the following was the order:
Des Moines (games won), %; St Paul, "A:
Milwaukee, 21; Kansas City, 81; Omaha,
10; Chicago, IS; Minneapolis, -l6; St.
Louis, IA,
On the 24th George Long who had been
counting the daughter of Henry Baker, a
farmer living near Indianapolis, Ind,
quarreled with Baker, because he opposed
the match, and in the fracas both were
shot dead
DURING wind-storm recently in the
vicinity of Palmyra, Wis, barns were I'M
rooted and lifted from their foundations,
trees and fences blown down and crops
greatly damaged from being beaten to the
ground.