The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-04

excitement The conflict between the banks
and the Government seemed to favor the
former, for accordingly as the banks received
their checks for bonds that they sold to the
Government, just so soon were they deposited
with the Sub-Treasurer to retire circulation.
Meantime the market continued to fall, and
the minutes to the closing of the day were
anxiously counted. Money was 1 per cent.
bolus over night The banks refused all loans.
and were calling in their loans as rapidly
as human industry could. In addition
to the call for $25, 900, 600 of bonds made the
previous day, Secretary Sherman authorized
the Sub-Treasurer at New York to disburse
$4,000 600 for 5 and per cents, at par and
accrued interest. This caused temporary
buoyancy, and prices recovered to ~ per
cent, but during the afternoon there were
Factions and rallies until the last hour,
when the trading was enormous, and the
downward movement so rapid as to amount
almost to panic. The decline for the
day ranged from l to 14I per cent.
Money was stringent, the rate for call
"a
cent. per diem added even at this figure
solid mercantile houses were unable to obtain
the amounts they required. Exchange fell so
low that foreign transactions were virtually
suspended. The losses were enormous, and
that no failures occurred is strong evidence of
the soundness of business and the solvency of
dealers.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has can
celed all lecturing engagements, and contem-
plates series of revival meetings at Plymouth
Church.
Edwin G. Hayden was hanged at
Windsor, VT, for having murdered his wife,
Gertio Hayden at Derby Line, in that State,
on the 31st of August 1876.
The threatened panic in New York has
"eon ayerted. The purchase of bonds, by or
der of Secretary Sherman, threw SO, 1000, 900 or
IA, 100000 on the street and loosened the
money market, and the arrival of several
millions more from outside cities almost COM
pletely restored confidence.
The shops of the Laconia On. H. Car
Company were burned. Loss, 100000; insur-
ance, $4,000. Five hundred men are thrown
out Of employment.
A sensational weekly of New York an
nounces that Whitelaw Reid will next month
marry Miss Tennie Mills, daughter of D. o.
Mills, of the Bank of California.
West.
Mrs. Sloan and six of her children were
burned to death by an incendiary fire at East
Liverpool, Ohio. Mr.. Sloan awakened, discov-
cred the flames at an early hour of the morn
ing, and, telling the members of the family to
follow. picked up a 3-year-old daughter and
started for the stairs. The flames had cut off
their retreat by this time, however, and, turn
ing to window, he leaped out, atthe same time
telling the wife and children to do the same.
Before they had time to follow, they were sti1ed
by the smoke and persisted in the flames. When
recovered, the bodies were charred beyond re-
cognition, and it was only by the size of the re-
mains that the grown persons were distin-
guished from the children. All that is left of
family of ten are the father and one daughter.
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leap. Following is list of those who persisted:
Mrs. William Sloan, aged 81 years Lucia
Sloan, aged 10 Clyde Sloan, aged IL Lizzie
Sloan, aged II Alex. Sloan, aged 8; Paul Sloan,
aged 5; another aged IS months, and Wilbur
Skcels, o brother-in-law of the unfortunate
woman.
-Four men entered saloon near Fort
Wingate, New Mexico, and called for drink
The proprietor said he sold no whisky, but if
the men wanted to gamble they could, and be
supplied with whisky. The four men then sat
down with the proprietors. After playing
some time, row began, resulting in the death
of all the players, each being shot several
times.
A defective bridge on the Wabash
road near Plattsburg, Mo-, threw train from
the track. Eleven passengers were more or
less injured. Prof. r. A. Proctor was bruised
about the head.
A company has been organized at Red
Wing, MIMI, to build railway to, Zumbrota,
and thence to the Iowa State line. S. B. Foote
is President, and the capital is $S00,000.
Two Chicago highwaymen were guilty
of a frightful mistake. They attacked a citi-
zen named Milford Potter, who, being pow
eyfulman, took their pistols away from them,
shot and fatally wounded one of them, gave the
other sound thrashing, and then let the
scoundrels go, on promise that they would sin
no More.
The Common Council of Detroit has
granted Edison the right to lay wires for the
electric light through the streets of that
city.
The Chicago and Alton road has issued
its report for 1880, which shows net earnings of
$685. 400, an increase of 331@ per cent. over
the previous year. The line operates LOCI
miles of track.
The Legislature of Nebraska, which
closed its session last week. fixed the price of
liquor licenses at $500 to 1900 per year, and
provided that saloon-keepers must give bond
in $4,000 and be responsible for civil damages.
A bill was also passed making it misdemeanor
to treat man to alcoholic drinks.
Herman Fisher, of st. Louis, killed
Peter Kealeamann with one blow of his fist
A fire at Chatsworth, ILL.,, destroyed
ten mercantile houses, leaving $31 900 to be
adjusted by the insurance companies.
A gentleman who has traversed South.
ern Iowa and Northwest Missouri reports the
winter wheat in magnificent condition.
Harry S. New treated the people of
Indianapolis to sensation by cowhiding j. G.
Thompson for writing reflections upon his wife
and father.
Judge Moran, of Chicago, refuses to
grant naturalization papers to Cinnamon on
the ground that they are not white men.
A shocking double railway disaster oc-
Cured on the Hannibal and st. Joseph rail-
road. train was thrown from the track near
Bevier, Mo, in the night Twelve persons
we're injured, none of them very seriously.
however. A wrecking train with thirty
six men on board, which started from Brook
Ign, Mo-, to the scene of the accident. went
through bridge into broken heap, down
distance of over twenty feet. Every man was
injured more or less. Dr. Wood, one of the
p .ys'cians on the train, was killed outright.
and five oilers died shortly afterward. Not
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