The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
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Failures Booth & Edgar, sugar refners
Boston, liabilities $75O,OOO; Joseph Poulks'
Sons shipping and commission merchants
New York, liabilities $45O,OOO; Manning &
Sears, cotton brokers, Boston, liabilities $780,
600.
There was terrific explosion and confagra-
ton on che Lehigh Valley railroad at slating-
ton, Pa, the other day. An oil train, going at
speed of twenty miles an hour, dashed into
freight train preceding it. An oil tank ex-
ploded with terrific force, killing four persons
and wounding twenty-one. Nineteen oil cars
and four merchandise cars were DESTROYED in
the confagration that followed. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
A shocking tragedy was enacted on the stage
of theater at Pawtucket, r. T., few nights
ago. One feat of the company consisted of the
shooting of an apple from the head or hand of
performer. Mile. Volante, trapeze performer
held an apple on her head, and Mrs. Jennie Fow-
Ter, known on the stage as Franklin, was to
shoot the apple. With uncommon recklessness
the shooter stood with her back to mark
taking aim by the reflection in the mirror. The
rifle was discharged and Mile. Volante fell
dead on the stage, shot through the forehead.
Mrs. Franklin was arrested.
One of the most sickening horrors of the year
occurred at Bath, N. Y. a few nights since. L.
G. Ford, an insane man, sent to the Steuben
County Poor-House from Hornellsville set fire
to the building used for the insane department
Of ha ;,1- IL.
insane people we're sleeping The fire spread
rapidly, and made the rescuing of the mates
matter of great difficulty and danger. About
forty were rescued by officers and citizens and
some others escaped but fifteen of the crazed
unfortunates persisted in the flames, and one
was injured shockingly, and probably fatally.
At Cambridge, Mass, three men were killed,
one fatally injured, and three others more or
less injured, by the explosion of a boiler in
seayey & Co.'s stamping mandatory.
Two more of the Massachusetts saving banks.
being unable to pay their depositors, have
placed themselves under the guardianship of
the new "stay law" which secures them from
the opportunities of creditors for the present,
and may enable them at some future day to re-
sumo the business of ''taking in" the thrifty
poor and their deposits.
Leman KlOus, senior partner of the firm of
Leman Klous & Co., wholesale dealers in hat
ters' materials, Broome street, New York has
failed for $780, 900.
West.
Chicago elevators contain 1927, 1873 bushels
of wheat; 724, 9S3 bushels of corn; 226.311
bushels of oats 169,074 bushels of rye, and
54s,6S6 bushels of barley, making grand to-
tai of 2,798,092 bushels, against 8,97O,868
bushels at this period last year. t
Henry Crouch, his wife and two children
were drowned in a pond near Augusta, Mich,
by the capsizing of boat, few days ago.
Joseph P. Bugbee, hitherto one of the most
honored business men of Indianapolis, has
been arrested for forgery. The amount of his
forgeries is somewhere in the neighborhood:
of $15O,000 #a
The first annual conference of the Mormon
church since the death of Brigham Young
has just been held at Salt Lake. The saints
appeared to be well pleased with the new adj
ministration, which is in some material re-
spects an Improvement upon that of Brigham.
There has been serious strike among the
engineers and fremen of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad, which was only sup
pressed by the calling outof the Kansas militia.
south.
The Bank of Jacksonville, Fla, was recently
robbed of $1,000. A man engaged the atten-
ton of the cashier while confederate entered