The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-30
The East.

FIRE broke out few days ago in the
residence of James Savery, of Green Town.
ship, Pa, and he rushed in to save his
children and succeeded, but he was burned
to a crisp.
TWAS reported on the Dist that Charles
r. Chubbuck, confidential clerk for John
]. Robin, a New York custom-house broker.
had absconded with $4,000.
AT Erie, Pa, revenue officers captured
an illicit still and three Burdick brothers
on the Odd.
The other night Patrick Dodd and wife.
of Attica, N. Y, blew out the gas in their
hotel-room in New York, and were suffo-
Gated.
ON the Odd the National Bank Of Rah-
way, N. D., suspended payment. The au-
thorized capital was 100000, but only
100000 had been paid in.
I'm New York City on the evening Of the
I'D Henry Ward Beecher presided
over tariif-reform mass meeting, and pro-
nounced the protective system terribly op-
presslVe to the poor men of the country.
JOHN STEINHIBER shot dead Thomas
Kerns, aged seventeen, at Ashland, Pa. a
few days ago, alleging that he mistook him
for desperate. Kerns narrowly escaped
lynching.
SUIT was commenced in the Federal Court
at Boston on the 22d by the National Home
for Disabled Soldiers to recover from Cen
eral Butler $1S,375, for which he had failed
to account.
JOHN McKEoN, United States District
Attorney for the Southern District of New
York, died ON the 22d.
JOHN CHISHOLM was hanged on the ODD
at Newark, N. j., for the murder of his
wife.
AT the wedding of Maurice B. Flynn and
Miss Florence G. Moss in New York CITY
a few days ago Father Mcdowell Off
ciated, and received as his fee check for
$4,000.
DECISION has been rendered by the
Massachusetts Supreme Court that WON
an may be legally appointed on the State
Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity.
This decides in the affirmative the question
whether or not a woman is a person, under
the statute.
In Brighton IN. J.) newspaper office ON
the 23d Democratic politician named J.
i. Van Syckle shot the editor, John
Cheeseman, in the breast. The wounded
man threw his assailant to the floor and
fatally pounded him.
ON the Pennsylvania Railroad near
Philadelphia an express train struck a
wagon few days ago and killed Mrs.
Christiana Frey, aged fifty years, and her
son William, aged twenty-four years, and
fatally injured William Frey, Sr.
A vERDIoT for $4,000 damages has been
awarded Mary O'Connor, who was en-
ployed in mill in Philadelphia, and
leaped from window during fire, and
was permanently disabled.
The discovery was made on the 23d that
A. b. Johnson, who recently killed him
self in Utica, N. Y, appropriated $500
600 belonging to the mcdonnell estate.
of which he had sole control. Mrs. Mac,
Donnell is sister of the dead defaulter
On jacks Mountain, near Allensville,
Pa, forest fire was raging on the 93d,
and had extended over an area of several
thousand acres. Over twelve thousand
cords of wood had been burned.
GOVERNOR BUTLER has pardoned Bernard
Boland, who ten years ago was sent to the
Massachusetts Penitentiary for life. on
conviction of murder, because of the dis.
covery that the statutes win not permit
boy to be sent to State Prison.
A VERDICT for S4, 500 has been secured bv
J, w. Virgins, of Brooklyn, against Ed
ward Day for calling him an old fraud.
Foes have compelled the close of navi.
cation on the st. Lawrence River, and
boats went into winter quarters ON the 3d.
On the night of the oath James Ruddy
and his wife, son, and lady visitor were
murdered at Laconia, N. H., and the house
set on fire. Thomas Salmon, a boarder.
was suspected Of the crime, and was In
JAIL His trunk was searched, and was
found to contain the mangled remains of a |
Mrs. Ford, with whom he had previously
boarded.
A WAGON containing William Mcintosh.
a venerable farmer, and his wife, of Lanes
vile, VT, and Rev. Joseph House and his
daughter Mary, of Berlin, was struck by
the engine of an express train a few even.
ings ago, and all four were killed.
THOMAS EVANS & Co.'s extensive glass
factory at Pittsburgh, Pa, was destroyed
by fire on the 25th. Loss, 100000
THOUSANDS of acres of forest trees were
destroyed by the recent gale on the New
Hampshire and Maine border. The loss in
Chatham alone was on the oath estimated
at 100000. In many instances the homes
of wood-choppers had been ruined, and |
much suffering among them would ensue
this winter unless relief was given them.
A GIRL named Phoebe Jane Paullin was
murdered in some underprush near Rose