The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-31

dealer III pianos, sat down to one Of his III
strunlents on the 24th, played The dead
March," and then blew his brains out.
Business trouble was the cause.
THREE persons were struck by lightning
| and killed at colored religious meeting
on the Path at Carter,'s Wharf, Vac ~
IN the drying house of the Grand Pow
Ter Company. near West Berkeley, Cal,
a ton of powder exploded on the 24th, kill
ing two white men and three Cinnamon,
FIRE at Clinton, Ind, destroyed a
dozen business houses on the oath.
FREDERICK OBERKAMpF the Chicago mali
box robber, was on the 24th held for trial
in S., 900 bail.
JACOB PEAvY killed Frank and Elam
Hall (brothers) with an axe in a political
dispute on the 18th at Nashville, Ind
For thesWeek ended On the 25th the per-
centage of the base ball clubs in the Ma
tional League was as follows New York,
1858; Chicago, BIS; Detroit, 1926. Boston,
.515; Philadelphia, $40; Pittsburgh, Az;
Washington, $50, indianapolis, $50 Ameris
can Association: st. Louis, .694; Cincin-
| natl, GIT; PHILADELPHIA, 593; Brooklyn,
$50; Baltimore, .402; Louisville, 34l !;
Cleveland, $50: Kansas City, $40 Vest
ern Association:sgDes sMoines, .6T; st.
Paul, $50; Omaha, 800; Kansas City, .5f3;
Milwaukee, AS; Sioux City, .4sI; Chicago,
| 400; Davenport. .318 s4
In a cotton mill at Bremond, Tex, the
boiler exploded on the 25th, killing w. L.
Wooton and his two sons as
The engineers, fremen and switchmen
on the Peoria Decatur & Evansville,
Evansville & indianapolis. and Evansville
q Terre Haute railway went outonga strike
on the Goth on a complaint that the master
mechanic was gradually removing the
Brotherhood men,
Z The recent freshet in Louisiana swept
away over one hundred houses, left twelve
hundred people homeless and destitute,
caused the death of sixteen persons, and in
the inundated districts, covering four hnn-
dred square miles, not a head of stock was
| left alive. The loss to the State was esti-
mated at 81, 100000.
CHARLES W. WALDRoN, one of the own
ers of the Waldron Bank Of Hillsdale,
Mich, absconded on the 27th, taking with
him money and securities variously esti-
mated at from 900 to $4,000.
JAMES B. REILLY was on the 9th nom
mated for Congress by the Democrats OF
the Thirteenth district. M tss
ALL the creeks and sriverseins Southern
IHuldud uau on Jflo 2lGn become great
owing to severe storms and destructive
torrents, flooding cornfields, sweeping
away fences, stacks of wheat and hay, and
carrying off a great deal of valuable hard
wood timbat sSs 81
On the 9th the striking engineers; fire
| men aud swltchmen on the Mackey sys-
tenn of railroads in Indiana, who went out
! recently, returned to work at the terms
dictated by the road. u
On the 27th the forest fires in Northern
Michigan were extlngu1shed.k The reports
of property losses were said tothave been
greatly exaggerated, and no lives were
| known to have been lost.
On the 9th John Virts was driving
| along the river road at Tifin, O.. with his
sister, when the horse jumped s'over a
thirty foot embankment, instantly killing
them all. & -
The existence of yellow fever at Jack
sonville, Fla, during the month ended on
the 9th showed the following record:
Total cases, 107; deaths, IL: discharged as
cured, 2S, under treatment, GO; many OF
whom were convalescent.