The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-14
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
DOMESTIC ITEMS.
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$3.50, 1000 and the McGraw building.
A Pittsburgh bartender, whose lin
guistic and musical abilities have been the sur
prise of those to whom he doled out the
foaming lager and the inspiring cocktail, turns
out to be none other than German Prince.
Prince Salm Salm. His family is said to be ono
of the Wealthiest and most noble in Germany,
A fire which broke out in the Fourth
avenue car-stables, at New York, completely
destroyed the block of buildings and caused
the death of 100 horses The flames crossed
Thirty-second street and made an ash-heap Of
Mowell's furniture storage building, the loss
being estimated at 100000
West.
A remarkable disease has appeared in
Platte county, Mo-, which is described by some
as black smallpox, and by others as the orig
inal black soourge. Its victims rot before
death, and instances are given Of their bodies
falling to pieces while being prepared for
burial.
The Detroit Post and Tribune, In an
approximate computation of the losses by the
recent extensive forest and farm confagrations
in Michigan, furnishes the following figures
In Ottawa county 800 428
In Alegan county. Observation-Disclosures. 116,500
in ManiBtee county ............s......... 706,600
IN huron county ..',,...'................ o53,8l8
III Sanllac county,. I4O,O67
Total losses. Observation-Disclosures ,346, Alb
The property destroyed is thus enumerated
dwellings,. ,14
DhuIones' ..''.'''''...'. ................... .
Hotels Observation-Disclosures. 70
lia. or
DocAb '.'''.'! .-........... ~
The insurance on all this destroyed
property is said to be only $623632
Representatives of the different local
relief committees of Bay City, East Saginaw
Port Huron and Detroit met in the latter city
aud held q prolonged conference with Gov
JEROME with the result that the Governor was
unanimously requested toappoint State Gen.
trail Relief Committee, through whom, here
after, all aid for sufferers by The recent terrible
fires should be distributed. This will simplify
the work and conduce to the utmost economy
in the important work, which must necessarily
continue through the winter. Ex-Goy. Henry
p Baldwin heads the committee.
A casket of sheet bronze, with gold
mountings, was rendered by New York COM
pany for the Presidents remains. Mrs. Gar
field went to Cleveland to inspect it, and or
dored the transfer of the body. 1t is now
thought that crypt will be erected in Lake
View Cemetery and the caskot exposed to view
Lieut.. Bernard, pursuing the hostile
Indians in Arizona, telographed to Gen. VIII
cox, on the 7th inst, that the savages would
cross the Mexican border, and that he would
follow with tho sole intention of furnishing the
murderers and robbers. The Mexican Consul
at Tucson dispatched couriers to various points
on the line, asking the Mexican troops to CO.
operate in the pursuit.
The corn corner in the Chicago mar
ket burst last week, a decline of IA cents hay
ing taken place in soventy-two hours. The
freight blockade has been lifted in conse-
quence.
Two robbers known as Clark, alias
Clutch, and "Frenchy," both formerly Of the
notorious Stockton gang, were lynched at So
zorro, N. NJ. William Nicholson was lynchcd
at Saunders, N. NJ, for murder.
A deadly shooting afray occurred at
Quincy, ILL.,, between ex-Chief of Police John
McDade and gambler named Jackson
McDade used double barreled shotgun and
Jackson o revolver. Both combatants we're
MORALLY wounded
A collision of Northwestern trains ut
Fulton junction, ILL.,, caused the death of J. j.
Flanagan, the station agent, and lad named
Arthur Cuddy. Three other persons were
badly bruised.
In case in which the street railways
of Chicago seek to escape the payment of h Ii
Cense fee of $50 per car, Judge Drummond
gave the city a Judgment for arrears which are
estimated at $25OOOO.
A mob at Las Lunas, N. NJ, took
from Jail and lynched three Mexicans who muir,
dered James Little.
AdYices from Arizona, to the 10th
inst, report exciting events and rumors concern
ing the campaign against the hostile Indians.
Bernards command had been sent in pursuit of
one body of redskins, with instructions to fol-
low them into Sonora and cooperate with the
Mexican forces, provided the latter were willing.
The telegraph wires along the line of the Atch-
lson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad had
been cut between Grant and Thomas,
and tho bodies of five line-repairers who had
been murdered by Indians were found near
Wilcox, Arizona. As train on the Southern
Pacific was passing Wilcox, the passengers
could hear sounds of fight between the citi-
2ons of that place and the Indians, the latter
having evidently attacked the town.
The anniversary of the great fire in
Chicago was made the occasion, by the daily
press of that city, of reviewing its commercial
progress From the statistics printed by the
local papers we CLEAN that Chicago became
city in 1887 In the thirty-four years between
that time and 1871 she increased her popula-
ton to $4,000, q gain in thirty-four years of
about 100000, or an average gain per year of
about 5000. In the ten years between Oct. 9,
1871 and Oct. g. 1881, the gain in population
was 100000, or an average gain per year of
$4,000 In the thirty-four years from 1887 to
1871 the business of the city grew in volume
until the yearly sales had money value Of
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fire of 1871 the volume of business was more
than doubled. A year after the fire the bank
cloarings for tho week were $40, 600, 900.
Nine years later the clearings for the week
were $4,000, 900. In 1871 the value of the
manufactured products of Chicago was $780,
$4,000. In 1881 the value is 1886, 000 900.
The decade just ended began with q fire that
destroyed nearly $4,000 buildings and $780,
100000 worth of personal property and mer-
chandise The great fire of 1871 cut ont Of
Chicago city as large and as populous as was
the Washington of that year. In the last
ten years the lost ground has not only been
recovered, but a population larger than
that of New Orleans or Sau Francisco has been
added in other words, the city that was cut
out has been restored and another city almost
as large as the Washington of to-day and that
of ten years ago combined has been built up
around it. This rapid recuperation from the
effects of great calamity, and steady growth
in population and volume of business. conssi-
tutes one Of the wonders of the nineteenth