The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-20
The East.

The failure is announced of Phinney g.
jackson, merchants, at Portland, Me-,
with liabilities exceeding 100000.
I'm Philadelphia ship-yard five carpen-
ters were badly injured recently by the
compile would die.
NUMEROUS showers met on the 18th on
bhe hill near Springfield, VT, and uniting
poured down the narrow valley in a tor
~rent, carrying away bridges and buildings,
and doing damage estimated at $4,000.
THE failure of Orange Judd, of New
York, the noted philanthropist and ex-
publisher, is announced.
1T is announced that Horace Greeley's
old farm at Chappaqua, N. ", will be sold
at auction September s.
A FEW days ago ex-Treasurer Rufus s.
Mann, of Lansingburg, N. Y, having been
injuriously affected by a sun-stroke. emf
his throat from ear to ear.
A FEW days ago May Stultz, seven
year-old girl, of Waterford, Pa, quietly
climbed ladders to a scaffolding sixty feet
high, where her father was at work, to sur.
prise him. She grew dizzy on narrow
plank, fell to the ground, and was instant
ly killed.
In the various exchanges at New York
The sales of petroleum on the 18th exceeded
100000 barrels.
TwENTY-THREE joint ballots had up to
the 18th been taken for United States Sena-
tor in the New Hampshire Legislature with
out definite results. On the last ballot w.
e. Chandler (Rep.) had fifty-two votes, and
Harry Bingham (Dem.) one hundred and
thirteen.
a STONE weighing two tons fell dis
lance of forty feet at Fall River, Mass, a
few days ago, killing one man and severely
wounding four others.
THE death of Louis Walso, an Indian
Chief, aged one hundred and nine years,
occurred at Lake George, N. Y. on the 18th.
LIGHTNING struck the school-house at I'm
derhill VT, few days ago, and all the
children were more or less injured. One
little girl was rendered deaf, and boy
had the sole taken from one shoe and the
uppers from another.
GENERAL Tom THUMB (Charles Haywood
Stratton), who had been exhibited as a
dwarf for nearly forty years, died at his
residence at Middleboro, Mass, on the
10th, of apoplexy, aged forty-five years.
FREDERICK SCHULDT, of Reading, Pa, a
wealthy man, had his son arrested few
days ago for threatening his life, and while
locked up the young man hung himself
with strips torn from his shirt.
AN extensive lumber dealer at Tona-
wanda, N. ", named Frederick Smith,
failed on the 14th. 1t was said that differ
emit banks in Buffalo had $261 900 Of his pa.
per- Smith had fled.
Ex-TREAsURER HAvENs, of the Rutland
(Vt.) Railroad Company, was, on the 14th,
said to be short in his accounts to the eX-
tent of $4,000.
THE death of Mrs. Mary Ann Chandler,
the venerable mother of the Secretary OF
the Navy, occurred ON the 10th, at Con-
cord, N. H, She was in her eighty-second
year.
MRS. PHELPS, an aged lady, Mrs. Phelps
Jr., and the latter's daughter, aged ten
years, of Roanoke, N. ", were struck by
an engine on the Lackawanna Road a few
days ago while attempting to cross the
track, and all were killed. Their horses
were also killed.
BETWEEN Martha's Vineyard and the
Massachusetts mainland a telegraphiC
cable was laid on the 14th by the Western
Union Company.
A BOILER in paper mill at Glens Falls
N. V, exploded few days ago, injuring
twelve persons, two fatally. The property
loss was $1,000
FIFTEEN negro colonists sailed from
New York on the 10th for Liberia in The
bark Monrovia. The negroes were all from
the Southern States.
CoAL-MINERs to the number of five hun
dred near Pittsburgh, Pa, struck ON til,
10th for higher wages.
THE Prohibitionists of Massachusetts
will hold their State Convention Septem
Der 10.
On the 10th a ship from Alexandria
loaded with Egyptian rags, arrived at New
Haven, but no communication was allowed
between the crew and the shore.
THE Pennsylvania Republican Stat,
Committee has chosen Senator Thomas Y
Cooper as Chairman.
A RECENT fire in the pork-packing hous,
of Bell & Day, at Pittsburgh, Pa, com
municated to the pork house of Walker
Dunlevy q Co. Loss, $150,000.