The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
Solomon s. Morey and Frank Lind

Grand Jury Of the New York Court Of Sessions
on the 18th inst, and made confession that
they had perjured themselves in the hearing Of
the Philip case. Morey was held as State wit
ness, al O'Brien was indicted for perjury.
A horrible accident occurred, few
nights ago, at Bordell City, Pa. Several men
employed in a saw-miI! were sitting around
stove, in their boarding house, playing cards.
The fire was low, and Joseph Keeps thought to
revive it by throwing o peach-can full of petro-
leum ito the stove. The gas caught
fire, and Keeps with an oath
threw the can away. 1t fell into
a bucket of crude oil, and instantly the struct-
ure was in flames. The burning oil flew over
everything. The men made wild effort to es-
cape, and five out Of eight staggered out of
the building with their clothing on Ere, and
we're frlghtfully burned. Three men persisted
in the fames and four others were fatally
burned. Keeps, the man who caused the dis
aster, escaped without harm.
The proposition of New York paper
to raise Presidential pension fund ia being
brlskly responded to in that city. Hon.
Edwin D. Morgan heads the list
with $4,000, conditional that $25O0OO
is subscribed before Jan. l. John H. Starin
places his name down for $4,000. Other sub
scriptions are George Jones, 81, 900; Arson G..
McCook, $3.50; Thomas l.. James, $3.50, and
A. J. Dittenhoefer, 800.
Two burglars entered the house of
Thomas O'Brien, a Syracuse merchant, and.
with carpenters hammer, Drained MI and
Mrs, O'Brien while they were sleeping in bed.
OBrien's condition is very precarious, and
there ID no hope of Mrs. O'Briens recovery.
A lady who went shopping in Broad
way with 500, 900 in her pocketbook offers one
fourth of the roll to the finder.
VIM. V. Grover, of Red Bank, N. J..
who is so years of age, six months ago married
Jemima Chambers, aged 10. The other night
he killed her while she was taking her effects
to her mothers home.
Kenward Philp has been held for
trial at New York on charge Of criminal libel,
and remains at large on his bond of $4,000.
Judge Noah Davis, in reviewing the case,
thought Hart the publisher of the Truth, dis
played reasonable caution before publishing the
Morey letter, but the course Of Hon. Abram
Hewitt he declared to be thoroughly rep
rehensible. The Judge regards the letter as
altogether a forgery. Mr.. Hewitt, srnarting
under the reflections of Judge Davis retorts
that the letter was published before he had
ever seen Mr.. Hart or the original. Of which
event Judge Davis must have been informed
and that when man becomes Judge he
should cease TO be partisan.
Hackensack, N. j., has been struck
by financial panic, and nearly all the banks
have suspended.
A wrestling-match between w. J. Far
rel, of California and John Mcmahon, of VeY-
mont. for the championship of America and
$1,000, took place at Pittsburgh, and resulted in
o victory for Mcmahon, who succeeded in
throwing Farrell twice out of three times.
A broker doing business in Broad
street, New York, has been robbed of $4,000
in bonds.
Diphtheria prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in Brooklyn.
-Four men lost their lives and several
others received serious injuries by a railway
accident near Pittston, Pa.
A lad at Elmira, N. Y, named Fred
Palmer, has lost an eyethrough poison received
from horse afflicted with epizoot.
West.
Allison, scout sent to the camp of
Sitting Bull, in British territory, has returned
to Fort Buford. The savage chieftain has
about 900 warriors, who are nearly out of food
and ammunition. He asks Gen. Terry to wait
until Nov. 20 for the return of Maj. Walsh, who
had offered mediation.
The railroad war continues. The
Wabash system of roads last week reduced
rates from st. Louis and Chicago to all East
ern points. The schedule adopted for limited
tickets is: Boston and New York; S4.25 Phila-
delphia, 1915; Washington, SO; Harrisburg
and Buffalo, 1925; Pittsburgh, 1925. The
rate between St. Louis and Chicago. continued
at 81 for tickets limited to twenty-four hours.
A fve-story building on Randolph
street, Chicago, occupied by Dwight Bros. &
Co, paper manufacturers. and Summons.
Clark & Co., furniture and picture-frame manu-
facturors, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
about 100000.
Six desperate characters broke jail at
Las Vegas, New Mexico. A posse which pur-
sued them killed two murderers and wounded
another.
Petroleum has been discovered at
City, The oil was found at 500 feet below the
surface.
Two small children left alone by their
mother in house on Poplar street, Milwau-
kee, were burned to death.
The Chicago Times is going to have
its type set by machinery, several type-setting
machines for this purpose having been or
dered from Brussels, Belgium.
Mayor Kalloch having, in recent SER
mon, denounced the Grand Jury of San Fran
cisco, and uttered bloody threats, Judge Freelon
has cited him to appear for contempt.
A railroad official at Cleveland says all
the funds required for new line from Buffalo
to Chicago have been raised, and that work will
soon commence.
A st. Louis saloonkeeper named Jo-
seph p Flanagan killed one man and MORALLY
wounded another.
A telegram from st. Peter, MIMI,
dated the 18th inst, says: "At a late hour to-
night fire broke out in the insane asylum at
this place, containing about 600 patients. The
building, which was one of the finest ediices
in the county devoted to the care of insane per-
sons, was burned to the ground. At this writ
ing it is thought that from $50 to 200 of the in.
mates have persisted in the flames"
Sitting Bull, who some time ago
evinced disposition to surrender, now bids
defiance to the United States Government and
says he will fight to the bitter end, that he will
die rather than surrender, and his warriors
seem to share his hostile sentiments, and dare
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