The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-03
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

Both houses of the Mexican Congress
have approved of Eads contract for ship
railway across the isthmus of Tehuantepec.
The number of people drowned by
the sinking of the steamer Victoria, at Lon
don, Canada, is known to be over 200. A dis
patch from London of the 26th ult. says the
| funeral of the victims lasted all day and all
the preceding night. There were not hearses
nor collins enough to meet the emergency. and
vehicles of all kinds were used to convey the
dead to the cemeteries. The behavior of rough
characters on board the itl-starred vessel is
said to have had much to do with causing the
| disaster. The calamity is to be commemorated
| by a monument in a cemetery overlooking the
scene of the disaster.
Gen. Grant sailed for home from the
City of Mexico on the 9th ult., having secured
everything he desired.
Mr.. Robert p. Porter, Chief of the
Wealth, Debt and Taxation Department of the
United States Census, states that the net debt
of oil the cities and towns of the United States
with population Of over $500 is $3.50, All, 1873.
Thirty-nine negroes have been SEN
fenced to death for rebellion against the
| Government of the Danish West Indian island.
| The Russian Government are COM
meneing to revenge the atrocities perpetrated
on the Jews. Over 1900 persons have been
arrested in the Kieff district.
Irving, the famous English tragedian,
has received and declined an offer of 800, 0O0
| and expenses for seven-months' tour in this
country.
The Italian Minister of Commerce
states that, as the examining commission at
Havre continues to report the presence of
| trichin@ in pork, the Government must con
| tinue in force the measures taken to protect
the public health.
A distinguished deputation of leading
London Isrselites called upon Earl Granville
and Sir Charles Dixie with reference to the
persecution of the Russian Jews. Earl Gran
vile said that foreign nations were sensitive of
interference, and it was inexpedient, therefore,
to make any official representation.
Herr Most, editor of the London
Freiheit, has been convicted Of melting to
murder On account of his being foreigner,
| the Jury recommended him to the mercy of
the court.
An attempt at eviction caused a battle
near Carrick, Ireland, in which several persons
were wounded.
Contracts have been made for the
shipping of 10000 bushels of spring wheat from
st. Paul to Glasgow, via New Orleans, at IS
cents per bushel
During the past ten years the annual
production of buckwheat in the United States
has increased about 100000 bushels. Barley
has increased 100000 and rye 100000
bushels in the same period.
While Eli Martin, Napoleon Martin.
and James Bouchard, of Port Kent, N. b.,
were breaking jam of logs on Fish river, they
were carried over the falls and drowned.
Burned: The Collier whitehead works.
St Louis, loss $40, 900; railroad depot, two
churches, and other buildings at Kenton, Ohio.
loss SAG, 900; B. W. Hoyt's shoe factory at Ep-
| ping, N. H., loss $S5, 1000.
d. L. Moody has gone to his home in
Northfeld, Mass, for the summer.
Ransom Cook, the inventor of Cooks
auger and the Armstrong gun, is dead.
There is lack of unanimity among the
religious press of the country regarding the
Revised New Testament.
In regard to the outrages upon Amer
lean fishermen at Fortune bay and at Aspee
bay, Secretary Blaine and Minister Thornton
have reached an agreement The claims ag-