The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.


g East.
At the Home for Aged Women in Bos-
ton, Mrs. Emma w. Shelton passed away at
nearly 104 years Of age.
A furious snow-storm ragged III parts
OF New York and throughout the New England
States On the 5th inst A foot of snow fell in
the northern part of st. Lawrence county, New
York, and there were snow-squalls along the
Hudson. The CatskilIs were covered with
snow, Eight inches fell in Northeastern On
tario.
The collapse Of the Mechanics Nation
al Bank at Newark served to develop the fact
that Harry D. Marchbank retired from a cor
responding cerksbip, two years ago, with a
deficit of $50, coo in his accounts. He is in the
custody of Deputy Marshal.
The Eagle dock, in Hoboken, N. T.,
caught fire and was destroyed, with two full
cargoes of merchandise and several barges and
lighters. The loss is estimated at 100000.
A tenement-house at the corner of
Laight and Yarick streets, New York, in which
sixteen families resided, was burned, and sew
eral persons persisted in the flames.
Cashier Baldwin, of the wrecked bank
Mt Newark, has been released on 800, 900 bail.
Marchbank the defaulting clerk, gave bond in
the sum of $4,000.
The schooner Della Hodgkins cap
sized in a squat off the New England coast.
The Captain and crew succeeded in getting
aboard again, and launched boat, in which
they left the schooner. During two days ex~
,posure to the storm, five men died of hunger
and cold.
West.
The Minnesota House of Representa-
tives passed the Senate bill for the adjustment
of the old bonded debt by vote of n to 80.
Mrs. Garfield has removed to Cleve-
land, where she will occupy for the winter one
of the handsomest residences on Euclid ave-
nue.. Her health is excellent Mrs. Garfield
went to gainesville last week and took out let
tiers of administration, the bondsmen being
Revenue Collector Streator and Postmaster
Sherwin, of Cleveland. The main property is
the house at Washington and the farm at Men
tor, The life insurance of 100000 has been
equally divided between the widow and family.
Snow fell at various points throughout
the Northwest on the Sd of November
The Minnesota House of Representa-
tiyes has adopted articles of impeachment
against Judge Cox and appointed committee
of five to present charges.
Apaches are depredating in the Satu-
Tipa district of Sonora, where they killed five
men, two women and child.
r. X. Scott, Ex-Governor of South
Carolina, was tried at Napoleon, Ohio, for the
murder Of Warren G. Drury, and acquitted.
A divorce granted to Mrs. Anton
Stein, of Iowa City was speedily followed by "a
triple tragedy. The discarded husband killed
his former partner with butcher knife, in
flicted fatal wounds on the throat of her moth
en- and ended his own life by poison. Stein
was Polish adventurer, and was at one time
connected with q German newspaper in Chi
Cago.
The guard at the grave of President
Garfield has been reduced to non-commis-
HiOilSu OlcSE hlu OGll Ulel, VINO are camping IN
the cemetery.
Col. Watson B. Smith, Clerk of the
United States Court at Omaha, was found dead
in his Office, having been shot by
some unknown assassin. Col. Smith
was q strong temperance man, had taken
an active part in enforcing the High-Li-
cense law and the Sunday Closing law, and had
thus incurred the enmity of tho liquor men.
He had received q number of letters threaten
ing him with death if he persisted in his oppo
sition to the liquor traffic, and it is thought that
he was murdered because he did not heed the
threats. The murder has caused great indig.
nation among the respectable people of Omaha
and throughout Nebraska, where Col. Smith
was well and favorably known.
A party of hunters near Fort Steele,
Wy. Ter, used arsenic by mistake for cooking
purposes, instead of baking powder, and near
" all of them died from the effects OF the dose.
Capt. j. N. Dubois, a well-znown
member of the Kansas City Board of Trade
and prominent wool and hide dealer, swndled
parties by means of forged and raised bills of
lading to the amount of over $50, 900, and has
fled to escape arrest.