The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-05-09
Our Chicago Letter

EDS. TELEGRAPH:-The eight hour mobs who
ruled the city on Thursday and Friday were
checked in their course on Saturday by the
heavy and constant fall of rain, and yesterday
there was no excuse for an outbreak, but it is
feared by the authorities that to-day another
effort will be made to coerce employees into
acceedng to their demands. The brutal scenes
of Thursday and Friday, beating inoffensive
persons and lntimidating by threats of the
direst vengeance, the destruction ofmachinery
and menaces uttered against life and property
most serious apprehensions, and were the fit
ting precursors for the wholesale incendia-
rism which rendered Friday and Saturday so
sadly memorable. Had not the rain of Satur-
day checked the mob, there is no possibility
of guessing to what extent their lawless VIC
lence might have been carried. A day or two
of rest and reflection often brings men to their
''sober senses" provided the time is not spent
in guzzling bad whiskey, an occupation in
which the majority Of the eight hour rioters
seem to excel, and this intervening time for
deliberation, added to the necessities of their
families and their knowledge of the excellent
| arrangement is made by the municipal authori-
ties to check and punish the first outbreak,
may reduce them again to law and order and
set them to work again to-day; or at farthest
| tomorrow, in legitimate manner The en-
| ployers are by this time united and sternly re-
| solved against them, and however they may
! boast and threaten, they cannot, at this time
hold out in long strike. Passive resistance,
the power of mastery inactivity" may be
very eficaciOus under certain circumstances
| but such circumstances do not exist here at
| present and it was a knowledge of this fact,
! a consciousness that a protracted struggle
must inevitably result in defeat, which drove
| the men to such acts of desperation as were
| committed during the past week.
The eight-hour law has been a fizzle of the
largest proportions. Whatever farther reck-
| less acts they may commit to-day, the record
ing angel has already passed this verdict on
the whole matter, and |, as his cOnfdant, do
not hesitate TO proclaim it. | have spoken of
INCENDIARIsM,
i AS among the evils which clustered about
our brief reign of mob law. The first instance
of it, was the burning of large bushes build
ing on South Water St., at midnight on Friday
night, by which some half dozen occupants
incurred loss of about $50, 900, three firemen
were killed by falling walls and three very Sc
verely injured The next was the burning of
1 Armour, Dole q Munger's great elevator, "a -
the total destruction Of this building with all
its contents, and the injury to the elevator B,
belonging to the same parties, and in close
proximity to the first mentioned, causing a
loss of over 100000. A lame attempt was
made by the Republican, which claims to be
the organ of the eight-hour men, to account
for this fire by some theory of friction of the
hosting apparatus which had been used few
minutes only, some hours before, to test its
capabilities. The simple fact that the flames
suddenly burst forth with great fury and ran
$50 feet along the roof against the vino, shows
, that some extra ordinary agent must have been
! employed to spread the combustion. The third
fire, clearly the work of an incendiary, was
Hoffman u Weiss foundry and machine shop,
which was burned down ON Saturday night, in
curing a loss of over Sc, 900. A fourth was at
tempted on Saturday evening, but happily
failed. Some miscreants attempted to burn
the planning mill of Soper, Wells 81 Co., but
the night watchmen discovered the fire before
it got under much Roadway, and eXtinguished
it. These are pretty instances of the moral
suasion of the eight-hour people. It is but
justice however, to the leaders of the move
ment, to say that they, frightened at the storm
that they have raised, are anxious to repudiate
all connection with the mob, and are out in
proclamations begging their dupes to desist
from their laWless acts.
CAUGHT AT LAST
EjThirty-six years ago the ingenious John
Spellman wooed and won the fair Catharine,
in the elysian parish of Megaugh, county Mayo,
Ireland, and for five years he gave good fair
J trial to her capabilities for the endurance OF
f the hymenial yoke. He was not satisfied
She did not realize all his fond anticipations.
So like Lord Lowell, he wandered forth,
"Strange countries for to see" He came to
America. She thought he had gone out to get
a drink or a cigar, and she waited twenty
years for his return. Then she too came to
America and diligently for ten years she
} sought her Jolly Jack, the rover" Her son,
now thirty years old, entered with zest into
the somewhat unusual sport, and at last cap
tured the game. The delinquent John was
discovered in Stephenson county, in this State,
living with Mrs. Spellman No. 2. He was
| persuaded to go back to Mrs S. No. 1, at Phil
adeIphia He lived with her fifty our days,
and that experience only strengthened his for
mer opinion. He wandered off to No. 2, again.
now No applies for divorce and alinony
in one of our Chicago courts.
The bleak winds of our rigorous cline render
CATARRH
One of the most prevalent and annoying
diseases from which our northwestern people
have to suffer- and as, until a very late date,
the painful and loathsome affection has been
deemed almost incurable by the medical fac
ulty, at least in its chronic FORM 1t cannot but
be matter Of general interest to know that
there has now been discovered certain and
speedy mode of cure-that mainly by medical
inhalation. DR.. S. j. Carpenter, at rooms Is
and H. Crosby's Opera House, practices this
mode OF treatment, and the testimonials of
many Of our oldest and most highly respected
citizens bear witness to his remarkable success.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
We are to have no opera, and the fashion
able world is in despair. Naturally Max Ma
retzek refused to come here with his troupe
when his expenses would have been 81 400 per
night, and we only bought $3.50 worth of sea.
son tickets. The prospect frightened him and
no wonder
Edwin Adams, the popular young tragedi-
! an, who has been playing very successful en-
a gagement at McVicker's, all last week. pro-
duces tonight the great sensational play of
i "Clairyoyance," in which he has been making
such great hits in other cities. At Woods
Museum, the spectacle of Cherry and Fair
Starr is still drawing large houses. 1t intro
duces a very excellent ballet, and legs will
draw in Chicago, even when everything else
fails.
i COMMERCIAL.
Business is generally rather inactive to-day,
and the markets are dropping. Flour is firm,
and in moderate demand with prices closing
at Sl2.50@14.25 for spring extra. Wheat, dull
and declining, S270@2.74 for No. 2, 50 20 for
rejected. Corn, declined 15502c from Satur-
days prices, .07@1.0 for No. 1, 81. 021501 O3
for No. 2, 94@96e for rejected. Oats opened
at an advance of 150lc but the advance was
lost at the close, 66@6715c for No 2. Rye,
; Sl.5419@1.55 for No. 1, AS for No 2 Barley
95@1O0c for No. 2. Provisions very dull
DON
'Can you do all sorts of casting here p
said solemn looking chap at the iron
works the other day. Eyes" said Frank,