The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-13
2 DoMEsTIC 1E9ELLIeENCE.
East

The condition of DR.. Tanner at the
beginning of the thirty-eighth day of his fast
was about the same as on the preceding two or
three days His features were no more hag-
gard or pinched, and he affected to be i'll good
spirits and confident of success. His pulse was
IS temperature 80 rs respiration, Is; dyna-
mometric tests, "a ldometers in the right hand
and 80 in the left.
Reese Owens, a prominent Pittsburgh
pork packer has failed, with liabilities of
100000
Pietro Balbo was hanged in New York
city on the 9th inst, for the murder Of his wife.
Hon. John Bgler, of Pennsylvania,
Ex-Governor and ox-United States Senator is
dead. He began life as printer
A travelling salesman for New York
N. Y. unlocked, and on returning found that
his trunk had been relieved Of $15, 900 worth of
diamonds
Tanners remarkable digestive powers
and rapid refrigeration have caused as
much wondelment as his unprecedented
fast In the seventy-eight hours fol-
lowing tho conclusion of his forty days
abstinence from food he gained in weight near
lytwenty pounds or at the rate Of four ounces
an hour During this period he ate voracious-
ly and at intervals of every hour or 50,
his diet consisting principally Of beefsteak,
potatoes, toast, milk, wine, watermelon and
fruit. DR.. Work zone of his attendants) says
the fact that Tanner has such great appetite
and such remarkable digestive powers shows
conclusively that he was not reduced to the
condition Of inaction even by forty days alb
stnence from food, and that he could have
gone on fasting several days longer.
A fire among the shipping and in the
lumber yards at Hunters. Point, opposite New
York city, destroyed $56O,OOO worth of prop
erty. ~ l# sgH Woft 81
THE population of Massachusetts is
l,7S3,s72, a gain of over 300, OOO4n ten years.
The Captain, engineer and owners OF
the recently burned steamer Seawanhaxa, to-
gether with four Government inspectors of life
boats have been indicted for manslaughter by
the Federal Grand Jury at New York.
West.
Friends of the victims of the Mamie
disaster at Detroit will sue the steamer. Gar
and Witch rai1down the yacht, for damages
During the month of July the death
roll of Chicago reached 1927. Nine hundred
of the deaths were of little children under 5
years old.
A careful estimate has been made Of
the yield of wheat in Minnesota, now being
harvested, and the lowest figures show an av-
erage of seventeen bushels per acre-a total
yield for the State in round numbers of. 900,
600 bushels. 8
A fire at East st. Louis, Ill.,, de-
stroyed freight warehouse and fifty loaded
cars. Loss, 100000.
An insane woman at Belleville, H.. :,
took mattress, saturated it with coal oil, ig-
nited it, and threw herself into the flames
She was burned so severely that she died in
fewho,ns. iE lii'A
Destructive floods, attended by loss of
life, are reported in Austria.
Lord Clifford, one Of the Roman Cath
Ole peers of England, is dead
A large body of troops has been or
dered to Ireland BY the British Cabinet, in view
of possible disturbances there. tt,...
Three cars attached to an excursion
train on the Springfield Southern railway went
through bridge over the canal at Waverly,
OHIO carrying $50 people to the bottom. One
man was killed and many others severely in
iured.
Ma n &asN Sd,
Three men We're killed ans several
seriously injured by threshing machine explo-
sion at Lakeland. MINI.
The old couple, supposed to be the
bloodthrsty Bender and his wife, lately ar
rested in Dodge county, Neb., turn out to be
gross impostors. When they arrived at the
scene of the Bender atrocities in Labette coun-
ty, kansas, they we're found to bear no resem-
blance to the original Benders. They are
tramps, and undoubtedly personated the Cher
ryv9le butchers with a view of obtaining free
railroad ride, in which they succeeded. -
The dreaded Spanish fever has broken
out among Texas cattle. in the vicinity Of Mo-
berry, Mo.
Col, Grierson is still pursuing and
fighting Victoria band Of savages in Arizona
and New Mexico. afs =
t Afe1 South.tS 900 &.
A horrible crime is reported from
Americas, Ga. Mrs Webster GunnelIs put
some morphia into lemonade, which she then
gave her ten children to drink and of which
she herself partoos. Three of the children and
Mrs. Gunnells win die. No cause is assigned
for the rash act 81
Gen. William 0. Butler, of CarrolIton.
KY, soldier of the war of 1912, and candidate
for Vice President on the ticket with Lewis
Cass, in 1S4s, has just died at the ripe age Of
90 years.
A series of heavy transforms in all
parts Of North Carolina have seriously dam
aged the grain and cotton crops.
The condition of the cotton cron
throughout the Southern States is unusually
good and an unprecedented yield is predicted
WASHINGTON NOTES.