The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
Mrs. J. Il. Rooney died at Chippewa Falls
a few days ago from modification result
ing from the extraction of tooth.
MICHIGAN.


MICHIGAN.
Mr. Vanwormer, who lives In Tuscola
County, is afflicted with dropsy. He has
been tapped for this disease 1874 times dur
ing the past seven years, and $500 pounds
OF water have been taken from his body.
At Newberry the other day Postmaster
Fred j. Stewart and his deputy, Clyde w.
Heux, were arrested for embezzleing 81 200
A fire at Hillsdale a few mornings ago
destroyed the residences of W. B. Bout
well and John lambert and five barns
Loss, $4,000.
Lyman Hawkins, blacksmith, was
severely horsewhipped at Charlotte the
other afternoon by Mrs. Addie Prescott.
She claimed that Hawkins insulted her two
children.
Cadet Stanley, of the Michigan MILITARY
Academy, near Pontiac, was drowned at
'row-boat contrary to the orders OF the in
titution.
Captain E. ". Watson, q. s. n, retired,
died in Detroit recently.
John McKinnon, of Port Huron, mate of
the barge Norway, was caught between the
vessel and dock at East Tawas the other
day and killed.
A vein of coal twenty-five inches thick
was struck recently on Whitmore's place,
near Mason, while drilling we'll
Coldwater is all broken out with measles.
A bridge at Republic, on the NJ. & N.
road, went down under freight train with
the engine and eight cars few days ago
and two men were killed.
smith, horsewhippcd by Mrs. Addie Pres
colt for indecent actions towards her two
little girls, has been sentenced to nine
months Imprisonment.
Fire and water the other morning dam
aged General Withingtons residence at
jackson to the extent of $4,000.
A dynamite explosion in the Colby mine
at Bessemer the other day killed Frank
Rohalsky and fatally injured three others
and caused damage Of $1,000.
Martin Bros, dry-goods dealers at Bort
Huron assigned a few days ago for the benz
eft of their creditors Liabilities about $50
600.
James Birney, of Bay City, died the
other morning of heart troubles at the age
of seventy years. He was the son of the
late James G. Birney, the Abolition 'candi-
date for President, and was appointed Min
lister to the Netherlands by President Grant.
He was at different times Leutanant-Go Gov
ernor of Michigan and member of the
Legislature.
Jesse Holmes shot himself through the
head in Browns Hotel in Union City re-
Gently. Cause, whisky.
During April LOIS aliens took out their
first naturalization papers in Marquette
County so as to vote next November.
MINNESOTA.
There is revival of interest in the silver
discoveries of about eight miles east of
Tower. Shafts have been sunk in different
places and rock bearing good indications Of
silver has been taken out
The other day ragpicker in st. Paul,
while poking among pile Of rags, discov-
cred the body of an infant apparently a
month old. A small rope made into a moose
was drawn about the child's neck, indicat-
ing foul play.
The reported sale of the Minneapolis,
Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic, Minneapolis
& Pacific, and Aberdeen & Bismarck rail-
ways is denied by Fl. E. Fletcher, the
treasurer.
The Farmers Alliance which, in conjunc-
ton with the Scandinavian Elevator Com
pany, own about fifty small elevators in
Minnesota and Dakota, propose to build
two large elevators in Duluth and ship the
wheat direct to England.
A man giving his name as Flucken was
arrested at Little Falls recently by de-
tective who says that he is Thomas Dunn,
iii cd oil in Wo11 IN To
cember last.
A st. Paul man named West was arrest
ed the other afternoon charged with com.
hitting the recent Sc, 300 bank robbery in
Amigo, Wis.
John Messenger, lately express messen-
ger Of the United States Company at Du-
luth, was arrested at Brainerd Tuesday
night charged with stealing $500 from the
company.
At Owatonna the other night burglars
opened the safe in P. Sanders hardware
store and secured $500 in currency. At
Rochester an attempt to blow open safe
was frustrated after the burglars had
drilled nearly through the door.
Mrs. Anna Verberge, Of Lake Benton,
committed suicide at her home the ether
day. She was temporarily insane.
Joseph Robler and Charles Miller were
killed, and John Fart badly injured by the
falling of a freight elevator at Horns brew
cry in st. Paul few days ago.
Owing to continuous rain the Minnesota
river at Mankato overfowed it's banks a
few days ago, and families on the lowlands
were compelled to move out.
Some william recently attempted to burn
up crowded boarding house at Duluth.
He had set fire to bundle of rags and
placed it under the stairs. One of the
boarders very fortunately awoke and ex-
tinguished the flames, otherwise large
loss of life must have followed.
DAKOTA.
A Bookings County school-teacher was
recently fined twenty-fv dollars in JUS
tfce's court for using undue violence in
Furnishing scholar.
Mark D. Scott, writing from Helena, NJ.
T., to his father in Sioux Falls, says it took
half a dozen Black Hills friends about
eighteen hours 70 convince the police au
thorities of that town that he was not Tas
rott, Chicago murderer.
The Oldest resident OF Dakota is Corne-
Illus O'Leary, residing near Elkton. He was
born near the lakes of Killarney, County
Kerry, ireland, April %, 1774. He has re-
sided in Dakota for eight years.
The participants in the recent assault on
Postmaster Judd, of Fargo, while in Maple
ton, had hearing the other day. and they
were bound over to the grand jury. Pa
pers were served on the same men by Judd,
claiming 900 damages
Reports from all parts of the Territory
show a general tendency toward mixed
farming.
The citizens committee to rebuild the
university at Mitchell have begun the work
OF raising funds and are confident of sue
cess.
There is living Elk miles northwest Of
Flandreau, Moody County, an Indian wom-
an by the name of Hannah Weston (Cetan-
winna). At present she is living with her
sixty fve-year-old grandson. She claims
to have been about six years old when the
revolutionary war broke out, which would
make her about one hundred and eighteen
years OF age. She is totally blind and has
been so for a number of years.
John Cary, while out hunting the other
oft