The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-02

assaulted thirteen-year-o girl, was on
the 24tn, under the new law, sentenced
for life in the penitentiary at hard labor
JOHN LEE PAcEE, late treasurer of Colfax
County, Neb., was reported missing on this
24th, and his accounts were said to be short
$50, 600
A wIND-sToRM on the Oath at Haubstadt
Ind, blew down several cottages, unroofed
houses and barns and killed several cattle.
TREASURER DICKSON, of Marion County,
O., charged with being a defaulter to the
extent of $4,000, was arrested on the
-24th
RAIN on the Oath caused great suffering
among the people at Mount Vernon, Ill,
who were made homeless by the recent
cyclone.
ON the morning of the 9th the two thou
sand locomotive engineers and firemen on
the Burlington system between Chicago
and Denver struck for higher wages, and
all passenger and freight traffic was at
standstill Fully fifteen thousand employees
were directly affe cted by the strike.
GUSTAV WINKLER, of Milwaukee. during
quarrel on the 10Th shot his wife dead and
then killed himself Three little children
were left destitute
AN express train on the Union Pacific
near Cotton, Neb., wrecking eight freight
cars and two Pullman and two passenger
coaches Loss, 100000 One man was
killed and eighteen persons were seriously
injured.
REPUBLICANS of Kentucky will hold their
State convention at Louisville on the I'd of
May to elect delegates to the National con-
vention.
DEPUTY SHERIFF Coy, of Brownsville.
Tex, was attacked at Ell Cuero ranch by
five bandits on the 25th, and he killed four
of them and badly wounded the other.
On the 25th freight trains collided on the
Fort Wayne road at Bourbon, Ind and two
boys who were stealing ride were killed
P. P. MnLER's three children were burned
to death on the 25th at Annandale, Mimi
They were alone in the house when it took
fire
On the 26th one OF the most severe storms
Of the season ragged through Minnesota,
Northern Wisconsin, Eastern and Central
Dakota and Iowa, with the mercury away
below zero
AT Cedar Hill, Tenn, a wind-storm on the
25th swept away houses. barns and fences
and did other damage.
THE Georgia Republicans will meet in
State convention at Atlanta On the 18th of
April to elect delegates to the National con-
vention
OWING to the strike of the engineers but
very few passenger trains ON the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road were running on
the 9th, and freight traffic was entirely
suspended
OFFICIAL returns on the 9th of the
special election held recently in the Elev-
enth Congressional district of Michigan
give Seymour Rep.) a plurality of 4O2.
The boiler of a petroleum tank exploded
on the 9th on a crowded ferry-boat at
Vallejo Cal, and between thirty and forty
lives were lost and over twenty others
were injured
AT Shreveport, La, the Tilley Hotel was
destroyed by fire on the 9th, and R. c.
Craig, a Cincinnati commercial traveller,
persisted in the flames
BURGLARS fatally shot Charles Baum, pro-
prietor of the Baum House at Miamisburg,
o., on the 9th and robbed his safe of $500
The death of Colonel E. b CASH of Column
bia, s. G., noted for having killed four men
in duels, occurred on the 9th, at the age of
sixty-six years
ON the 9th Joha A. Beal. a thirteen-year-
old boy who murdered his mother near
Eaton, o., about year ago, was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life.
A FIRE destroyed the State Deaf and
Dumb Asylum of Missouri at Fulton on the
9th. causing loss of 100000.