The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-11-24
NEWS ITEMS.

The Metropolitan Hotel was nearly
destroyed by fire yesterday morning.
The Mayor. and City Council of Savan-
nah refused to observe the day appoint
ed by the President for Thanksgiving,
and appointed the nth. II III
California has eternally disgraced her
self with that lottery Even weddings
were postponed, in the hope that the
prize won would enable the pair to 90 to
Europe
A few days since playful and power
full man at workin the Kittery navy yard
threw his arms over companions waist,
and gave him such hearty squeeze as
to injure him internally, so that the man
died. No harm wasintended.
Information has been received by
agents in this country of the information
al Post Office money order system, that
Prussia has established money order off
ces at Metz and Strasbourg.
The little |" internal machines which
were so plentiful in the coal imported
last year into New England, have again
made their appearance 1t is suggested
that they are the torpedoes used by the
miners to crack off Goals in large Jumps 4
The Dayton Journal Believes in assess-
ing ofice-holders for public purposes,
saying that they should help to pay the
expenses of the party which puts and
and keeps them IN office. YE,g
It is d curious coincidence that Louis
XIV, of France, took Strasbourg by
assault from the Germans on the 28th of
September, 1881, and that it surrendered
to the German forces one hundred and
eighty nine years after, on the same day
Of the month, September 28th, 1870
Mrs t. NJ Avery, wife of a respectable
gentleman Of Chicago, in fit of mental
alteration wandered off to Niagara, on
Friday last, and committed suicide by
jumping over the falls.
In the Vanderpool murder trial the ju-
ry failed to agree, and the prisoners couh
sci has made motion for an imme date
new trial, and the prisoners release ON
bail This motion was waived and the
Court sets the time of trial
IA young peanut and paper peddler on
the Kansas Pacific railroad has received
teleg am from England, announcing
that an uncle has just died leaving him.
$L25O,000. He has concluded not to ped.
die any longer
The coin balance in the Treasury up to
last Monday was $97, $40, 000 gold certif-
Iicates, $l682t 900 iaurrency, $97 100000.
About one o'clock, Sunday morning,
fire broke out ii Baldwinsville, twelve
miles north of Syracuse. NY, and almost
the entire southern portion Of the village
is reported destroyed.
q Recent rumors from over the ocean in
dictate q war between England and Russia
as being imminent Uncle Sam can afford
to main neutral.
An actor named Rogers was recently
disturbed in the midst cfaone Of his most
thrilling efforts bya loud noise Hecom-
planned to the manager, "a loud noise an
noys me why is loud noise allDwed?"
A Miss Sessions, of Ohio hearing a
noise at her window, rose, and discovered
a ftrocious burglar With rare presence
of mind she clapped her hands, eiacr}at
ing, Scat, you devil and the ruffian
seated. 3t8a fa4aa
Chicago invested about $57 900 in tick
cts Of the San Francisco mercantile libra
nv lottery, anddrew $4,000 in prizes.
A poor but honest youth, at Whining
ton, N. c., was recently encouraged to b.
good and virtuous. bya reward Of ten
cents for finding ndrestoring to the own
er a pockef-book combining $435.
"A Chinese .tlief having stolen mission
ary's watch, brought it back to him the
other day to be SHOWN how TO wind it up
AT HQlYoke, Mass, a woman was steal
ing wood, when she tied it up with a rope
and slung il on her back. The wood
slipped, and the rope. got caught around
her neck, choking her to death.
Julia Burns, the tswiekedest woman in
ST. Louis" died Fast Friday leaving about
ten thousand dollars.
At the Brooklyn Navy Yard the old
frigate Niagara, second rate, is being torn
to pieces, with view Of altering her in
to a broadside iron1ead This is an ex.
pertinent as yet, and il is not known what
sort of craft she will become when her
plating is on.
A woman's cooperative association at
San Francisco has, during the past two
years, earned net profit Of thirty Der
cent. on the capital invested, and given
permanent employment to two hundred
women.
Tn mas Jay, President Of the First Ma
tional Bank, of Kokomo Ind, BACKED he
boots Of John w. Kern, a democratic la v
yer of that place, on an election wager.
A correspondent of the Richmond Wbtq
writing from North Carolina expresses
the belief that ex Governor Vance viii be
the next United States Senator from the
cod North State"
At fail in New York young LADY,
described as Gan heiress, beautiful and ac-
complisled," offers herself to be raffled
for-''ho married man, or bachelor over
50, to be permitted to take ticket" She
says she is convinced marriage is a lot
terry" and wants to prove it.
Quartermaster General Pitkin has sold