The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-16


4 "A St.Johns, CN. F.) special says the Arctic ex
petition steamship Guinare, fifteen days out
4 from Washington was towed into the harbor
of st. Johns. Her boiler showed signa of
weakness, and ire-boxes completely collapsed.
Several days will be required to put the engine
department in good, reliable condition.
The ninth day of DR.. Tanners fast in
New York was bulletined on the evening of
July as follows At IL a. m. his pulse was
Sc, and his temperature SO $40. His time was
passed in short maps, bathing his head, rims
ing his mouth and talking to the doctors. He
seemed strong and confident. Lying down
about 8, he was very restless, and suddenly
pitched his rubber pillow out into the mid
die of the floor. He then quietly famed
himself with a huge palm leaf. Throughout
the day he called for water oftener than pre-
viously, and he caused wet cloths to be placed
upon his head and hands, At 615 his temper
j took toy marble into his mouth to excite the
salivary glands. He was pleasant, and even in
clined to joke.
GEORGE ALLEN PRICE (colored), the
murderer of Willie Black, his employer, suffered
the extreme penalty of the law by hanging, in
/, Cincinnati on Friday, the 9th inst. Three
other murderer all negroes-were executed
on the same day, namely Alexander Howard,
Ne
boro, Ga, and Daniel Washington, at Charles
ton, S. G. an
A SYRIAN merchant doing business in
New York is reported to have effected combi-
nation which will control the opium traffic of the
world The capital invested is said to be $75,-
100000 Agents of the combination are in the
East negotiating for the purchase of the crop,
which is said to be scanty this year
u + 49,.
LATE information from Indian Terri
tory represents that parties are going in from
i Texas as we'll as from Kansas, and that great
excitement prevails. ~
| The quarterly circular of Dun, Barlow
& Co., showing failures in the United States
and Canada in the last three months and for
4 the first half year of 1880, as compared with
corresponding time in 1879, has been issued.
During the last three months, LOGS failures,
with liabilities of $780, III, $50, reported in
4 the United States, and, during the half year of
1880, 2,497, with liabilities of $32, 1888, 1853. In
/ the first six months of 1879 there were
i 4,058 failures, with $685. 779, $40 liabilities. ~.
/ A New York theatrical manager has concluded
an engagement with Sarah Bernhardt, who in
! tends coming to America in October. She will
play 1OOnights in New York and other cities. u.
The census returns give Minneapolis q popu-
itants. s*g
POLITICAL. 'sa
THE Democratic National Committee
met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York,
on the 18th inst. William H. Barnum of Con-
necticut, was unanimously elected Chairman,
and Frederick O. Prince, of Massachusetts,
Secretary. The members of the committee,
in company with the committee APP
pointed by the Cincinnati Convention,
| then proceeded to Governors Island to official
nation. Gen. Stockton was the spokesman
of the party, the candidates replying briefly.
The Democratic Congressional Committee also
met in New York on the 18th and effected re-
organization The committee, as it now stands,
consists of Senators Wallace, Mcdonald and
Whyte and Congressman Eppa Hunton, Fl. G.
Davis and J. G. S. Blackburn together with
August Belmont and Gen. w. B. Franklin The
committee will have headquarters at Washing
ton, and will cooperate with the National
Committee. ets 5Et3 LAYS
AT midnight, July 1914, DR.. Tanner
completed the fifteenth day of his long fast
He appeared weaker, and was evidently failing,
though he affected to be strong and in good
spirits. Pulse So; temperature, So; respira-
ton, Is. slif e ssaEalaA Rfe eva
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i AN official statement completed at the
Postofice Department shows that issues of
postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal
cards during the year foot up an aggregate of
1871, 932, &c. being an increase of nearly So
100000 over the total for the preceding fs-
cal year, or 1919 per cent. This percentage
is about double the average rate of in
crease during the previous five + years.
The largest actual gain to postal revenue was in
the issues of ordinary postage stamps, which,
during the last fiscal year, aggregated 800, 414,-
928, being an increase of 49, 297, $50, or II 4-10
per cent, over the preceding year. The issues
of newspaper and periodical stamps increased
Is LILO per cent? the totals being 81, 088 412 for
the fiscal year 1879, and 81, 252, 1903 for the
fiscal year 1880. ce~ TTfg egg-4 4Yi
IT has been decided, at Cabinet
meeting, that the President will not exercise
his discretionary power of withholding the ex-
penditure Of some portions of the river and
harbor appropriation made at the late session.
The entire amount will be expended.
A WASHINGTON correspondent tele-
graphs that the indignation of the census
enumerators at Secretary Sohurz is increasing,
for it is now stated that he not only insists that
their pay shall be reduced from the sum they
had expected, but that their salaries shall not
be paid at all until after the official report of
the census shall have been made y. Secretary
Schurz says the Government will employ all
necessary military force to prevent any occupa-
ton of the Indian Territory by the Payne expe-
dition or any similar unlawful intruders.
WASHINGTON people have been suffer
ing from a season of intense heat. For twenty
five consecutive days the thermometer meas
ured 81 degrees to 991a degrees, a longer con-
tinuous season of hot weather than has ever
been noted in the city. For eleven of those
days the heat was registered as over 80 degrees
for eight of the remainder as ,85 degrees and
over, on one day only going as low as 81 de-
grees. Orange Judd, of the .Aenuican 4gri-
c,tlteu'ist, has been appointed by the President
to be Indian Commissioner, vice Mr.. Barstow,
resigned. 1916 soH1
On and after Oct. l no cards will be
passed through the mails except the Govern
ment postal-cards. This order is rendered
necessary by practice which has grown M of