The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
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quantity or IeWeiry.
| Miss MARY COLLINS died on the Goth at
Darlington, Wis, aged one hundred ana
| ten years
| On the goth an entire family named
| Lathrop, father, mother and three chill
| dren, occupants of a farm house near Wolf
river, at Embarrass Wis, were swept away
| by the floods and drowned
ALL the saloons in Cleveland, O., were
| closed on the 22d, owing to the new liquor
| law
The southern limits of Duquoin, Ill,
were visited by cyclone On the 22d, which
demolished fences, barns, trees, outhouses
| and dwellings Several persons were in
| iured
| IN the Twelfth district of Illinois the
| Union Labor party on the 21st nominated
| l. N. Wise, OF White Hail. for Congress-
On the 22d the safe in the store of Bolts
& Quisenberry, at Santa Fe, Wis, was
broken open and robbed OF 81, 900 in notes
and $500 in cash.
| A FIRE nearly destroyed the business por-
! ton OF Winona, Miss, on the 21st
The new State House of Texas, at Austin,
| the largest State capitol building in the
| United States, was opened on the 21st to
| the Legislature and citizens
| THE Montezuma irrigating tunnel, which
| will reclaim two hundred thousand acres
of land in Colorado, was completed on the
| Dist 1t is over mile long, running under
one of the ranges of the Rocky Mountains
| A MAN named Likins at Cabool, Mo-,
killed his little boy and girl with an axe
and then cut his own throat ON the 21st
| On the 21st Thomas Sullivan and Henry
Vondergotten, both advanced in years, COM
mitted suicide at Indianapolis Ind No
| cause was known in either case.
| JOHN A. RICE, of Chicago proprietor of
the fremont House, and a widely known
| hotel man, died on the 21st after pro-
| tracted illness
| BELOW Ryan's packing house in Dubuque
the levee gave way on the 21st. and the
water rushed in upon the fats flooding
thirty houses and doing much damage
AT Hot Springs, Ark, the four-year- old
boy of William Stringer was attacked by a
game-cock on the 23d and so badly injured
that he died in few minutes
| On the 23d the ex-Soldiers' Mutual Assur-
ance Company of the Northwest was or
gained at Goshen, Ind, with a capital of
100000
The death of Rev George D. Croker, for
| ffty-one years Baptist clergyman, and
| from 1861 to 1885 chaplain in the United
| States army, occurred on the 23d at Kan
kakee, Ill.
UNION soldiers in favor of law making
every soldiers honorable discharge his
pension certificate for life will meet in Gin
cinnati May IA.
| On the 23d General Rea, Communicating
| Chief of the G. A. r.. said at st Louis that
in the past three months fourteen thousand
names had been added to the rolls of the
organization
JOHN PARSONS house at Centerville, KY,
was struck by lightning on the 23d, and
Parsons his wife and two children were
| killed.
| HEAVY hail and rain-storm did great
damage at and around Mobile, Ala, on the
23d
SEVERAL miners were thawing out dyna-
mite in the oven of stove at Baraga,
| Mich, on the 23d when an explosion oc-
| Cured which killed three men and injured
| two others
A FIRE destroyed eight large barns and
several thousand tons of hay at the Stock
Yards in Chicago on the 23d Loss, $780,
| O0O
AT Chippewa Falls, Wis, John Shay and
| William Williams were downed on the 23d.
Each man leaves wife and seven children.
| FL. T. BoYDsToN ON the 23d shot Miss
Lulu Frazier fatally at Cooper, Tex. and
| then blew out his brains. The postpone
ment OF their marriage by the young lady
caused the deed.