The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-08-14

VICTOR hugo Is dying.
The English Chancellor of the Exchequ.
er and first Commissioner of Public Build.
ings have resigned.
On the 21st of July 10000 japanese,
mostly farmers armed with bamboo spears
assiste d by former Daimio retainers. arm
ed with swords, attacked the Government
castle at Furkuoka, set fire to the build.
ing, destroyed all the official books and
papers, and killed six officers.
There has been marked improvement
In the appearance of the crops in.
France, and there is q premise of
abundant har Jest and of excellent quail
ity'
SATURDAY.
The vessels comprising the European
squadron have been ordered to Spanish
waters.
John Roach & Son, of New York, have
secured the contract for building two iron
sloops of war for the Government at
cost of $4,000 each.
The wife OF Casaius Claxon, in Henry
county, KY, shot ind killed a man named
Payne, who was attempting to get in her
house at q window.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention
has adjourned to meet IN Cincinnati De.
cember 2.
Thos. Connerton and Thos. Feeney an
Patrick FeeDey, brothers, were killed IN
a we'll at Burlington Wis, on Thursday,
by ioui air.
Steamships leaving New York for
Europe this season have taken 1888
cabin pass eDgers.
Butt Cavanagh, of Providence, and
johnny Madden, of New York, fought a
prize fight Thursday, at Mountain View,
N. j., the former winning in nineteen
rounds.
Cubaus in New York city are prepar.
ing another expedition to land arms and
ammunition on Cuban soil by the steamer
Virginius.
I. FL. Hanbest, misery lawyer of
Philadelphia, died on Thursday, leaving
an estate valued at nearly 81 900 600.
President Grant has approved the new
rules of the Civil-service Advisory Boad.
A negro near Brighton Station, Tenn,
laid down to sleep in the open air, and
three white men saturated his clothes
with turpentine and set them on fire; from
the effects of which the negro died next
day.
Highway robberies on the mail routes in
the Rocky Mountain are becoming fire.
quent.
The President goes to Maine next week.
A ball will be given at long Branch On
Wednesday for the benefit of the Portland
fire sufferers.
The Steamer Wawasset was burned on
the Potomac River, at Chatterton's Land.
Ing, and over forty lives were lost.
Theirs will visit Lorraine next week.
The company organized to lay cable
direct from England to New Hamshire,
have changed the route, and will land the
cable on Newfoundland.
The cholera prevails in the barracks at
Berlin.
A strike mas closed nearly all the large
cotton mills at Rochdale, England.
Henri Rochefort was sent on board a
transport Friday to be taken to New Cal
edonia.
France has paid the third quarter of
the last mllllard of her war indemnity.
Count de Chambord has accepted the
French throne, formally rendered by
deputation of Legitimists.
Valencia has surrendered to the Spanish
troops.
The Emperor of Austria will visit the
German Emperor at Gastein after the
exhibition.
MONDAY.
The American Dental Association has
just closed largely-attended meeting at
Putin Bay.
The Fort Wayne Driving Park Associa-
ton races will be held Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday.
Ann Farley, employed in shirt fac
tory in New Haven, had her hair na11nht