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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
LATER.

INtheir report to the Secretary Of the
Interior, submitted on the 3Oth ult., the
Utah Commissioners declare that unless
the Territorial Legislature shall adopt
laws looking to the extirpation of polyg-
amy the Commission will be prepared to
recommend to Congress the most stringent
enactments compatible with the limitations
OF the Constitution which may be consid-
cred necessary for the suppression of so
great an evil.
By the explosion of dynamite placed
few evenings ago in the office of the Chief
of-Police at Frankfort-on-the-M Main by ma
licious persons the building was consider
ably damaged, but the officials all escaped.
AT tannery in Allegheny City, Pa,
where deep vat was being dug, three men
lost their lives on the Both ult. from foul
air, and two others were hoisted to the sur
face in an Unconscious condition.
INCENDIARIEs started fire at Homestead,
Pa, early on the evening of the Both ult.,
which consumed seven frame stores and
dwellings.
CYRUS SARGENT. a millionaire, and own
or of one hundred fine farms in Wisconsin,
ult. by being thrown from load of hay.
THE steamer st. Francis sank in the La
chine rapids in the st. Lawrence a few
evenings ago. Fifty passengers were res
cued and spent the night on an island. The
steamer was valued at $4,000.
EXPLOSIONS occurred in London on the
night of the Both ult. in the Praed- Street
Station of the Underground Railway, and
between the Charing Cross and West
minister stations. In the first instance it
was claimed that forty persons were in
iured. The lights in the station and cars
were put out and the glass and
woodwork shattered. In the latter case
windows along the line were broken, and
the roof at Charing Cross depot partially
collapsed. The explosions were attributed
to Fenians, it being asserted that rocket
like contriyances were found in the tunnel
near Praed street.
NORRIS RANGER, heavy Liverpool cot
ton merchant, suspended on the 30th ult.,
with liabilities estimated at S., $50, 900. Two
firms of brokers were carried down by the
failure.
THE annual report of Chief Inspector
Parker, of the Railway Mail Service, was
made on the 30th ult., and gives the num-
Der of routes now in operation at 993,
covering 109,S27 miles of railroad The to-
tai number of registered articles hand
led in the mails during the year
was 10, 459,717, and the estimated
total loss 627 There were received 81,
TO complaints of depredations on ordinary
mail matter, and 81 1908 on ordinary letters.
During the year 1853 post-offices were burg
larized; POO post-offices were burned; 10
highway robberies were committed; 10
mails were destroyed inrailroad accidents;
80 mails were lost by carriers, and % mails
were stolen from depots and stations,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
Dropped Lighted Paper in a Gas Well.

MINERAL RIDGE, O., Oct. GA terrific
gas explosion, which fatally injured Dr. A.
J. Leitch, prominent physician and Presi-
dent Of the School Board, and seriously in
jured seyera others, occurred Friday.
Worlmen struck rich vein of gas, and
many spectators came to see it. DIR. Leitch
very foolishly, and against the remonstrance
of the bystandeIs, rolled a newspaper
around a stone. lighted the paper, and
threw it down the well, distance of fifty
feet. A tremendous explosion occurred,
which shook the earth and blew the bricks
and trappings to splinters. DR.. Leitch, who
stood at the mouth of the well, was hurled
about fifteen feet in the air with terrific
force, and was horribly mangled. Both
eyes were blown out and his hair and nesr-
ly all his wllis5ers were scorched off. 1t is
feared his lungs are affected. He lies in a
critical condition, with little hopes of his
recovery. Several others were seriously
burned and injured by pieces of TIMBER
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
From Washinpton.

OK the 25th the Treasury Department.
purchased $4,000 ounces of silver for de-
livery at the Philadelphia, New Orleans
and San Francisco minis.
1T has been recommended by the Naval
Advisory Board that seven naval vessels
be Immediately constructed, the whole to
cost $4,283,OOO.
THE report of DIR. Mcdonald, Chief of the
money-order system of the Post-office De-
partment, for the fiscal year ended June
30, was made ON the Goth, and shows the
total number of money orders of all kinds
issued to be 9,273, S82, aggregating in value
$125,047, 23S; total number paid, 6,75l,O77;
value, 500, ,46S; amount of fees re-
ceived, 81 ,272, 060 The increased value Of
domestic orders issued over those Of the
preceding year was $3,955, $3.50, or 346 per
cent. The increased fees received were
S4S,111, or 4.57 per cent. The ratio of i'm
proper payments to total number Of orders
paid was as l is to 273,471.
THE annual report of Hiram Price, Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, was submitted
on the Goth to the Secretary of the Interior.
MIR. Price called attention to the fact that
the condition of the Indians in 1888 was
in advance of the Indians of 1892; asked
for an appropriation to survey the bounda-
ries of Indian reservations; for a law to
punish persons who furnish arms to the
red men, and for an appropriation to pros
ecute those who sell them liquor Nearly
all the tribes, he said, were ready to send
their children to school. 4 law to impris-
ON iufludAre I1non Indian lands he daov,,al
a necessity.
THROUGHOUT the United States and Can
ada tho business failures during the seven
days ended on the 26th numbered 239,
against 30 the previous week. The distri-
button was as follows: New England States,
"a; Middle, 5S; Western, So; Southern, SO;
Pacific States and Territories, So; Canada
and the Provinces, 80.
THURSDAY, November 49, has been desig-
mated by President Arthur as day Of Ma
tional thanksgiving.
BELvA A. LOCKWOOD, of Washington,
the female lawyer, was suspended on the
9th from practice before the Interior De-
partment for receiving illegal fees and
Withholding pension money.
The September exports from the United
States exceeded the imports by SO, 1877 ,052,
and for the year by SILT $4,000.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 9th ult. amounted
TO $l,179,930,655, against $1,215, 613,915 the
previous week. The exhibitw was accounted
a favorable one, and indicated an improve
ment in general trade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
The Yellow Fever Plague at MazatIan.


SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27.-In the middle
of August last j. A. Robertson and party
Of five went down to Mazatlan with the
intention of purchasing a sugar planta-
tion. Yellow fever was found to prevail
to such an extent in the place that the
party Immediately beat retreat and as
soon as they had gone into the country every
one Of them was taken down with the
disease, one dying. After recovering, Rob
eytson returned to Mazatlan, waiting an OPP
portunity to get away from the pesthole.
Up to the time of leaving, October Is,
5000, or one-third of the population, had
died. The local papers stated that dur
ing the first week Of September there
had been $50 coffin burials; but as large
portion Of the population was in abject pow
erty it was estimated the death rate was
fully 900 during the week. The day Robert
son left eleven bodies were thrown over
beard from the Mexican gunboat Democratic,
lying in the harbor. OF the large Amer
lean colony only two escaped an at
tack of the fever, and the names of seven
well-knowu San Franciscans are given as
having died. Robertson believed the fever
was at an end, it having nothing more to
feed on The virulence of the plague was
such that in some cases persons died thirty
minutes after being attacked.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
Fatal Railroad Accident.

CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-The incoming pas
senger train Oh the Panhandle Road col
lided with Michigan Central freight en-
CINE Sunday morning at 40 o'clock. The
accident occurred at the crossing of the
roads, near She..,5 vile, Ind, about thirty
five miles from this city.
The freight engine was standing di-
rectly upon the crossing at the time of the
collision. The dense fog prevailing at that
hour made it possible to see but a short dis
taLce, and this is said to be the chief
cause of the terrible disaster. Through
some misunderstanding on the part Of the
engineers, the passenger engine came to-
ward the crossing at a high rate of speed,
and before the freight engine became visible
through the fog the engines were in close
proximity and terrific collision occurred.
The force was such that both engines were
carried along some forty feet and totally
wrecked. The baggage-car of the passenger
train was driven into one of the freight cars,
and both demolished.
The crossing flagman, who was standing
near, saw the danger and rushed into his
box alongside the tracks, for protection.
One of the engines, capsizing, fell over on
the little structure and set it on fire. The
flagman was killed, and his body when
found was burned to crisp. A boy near
by barely escaped.
Norris, the engineer of the Panhandle
train, was killed. The head brakeman on
the Michigan Central also lost his life.
The engineer of the freight-train was seen
to leap just before the engines came to-
gether 1t was at first supposed that he
i i I..4 IL
by his blood and found nearly three miles
from the scene of the accident, dying and
out Of his head. His fireman, who escaped
unhurt, says he struck a fence when he
jumped, and it must have been So for he
was partly disembowled and knocked crazy
yet he ran an immense distance from the
scene Of the catastrophe before he sue
cumbed to his wounds.
The passengers were badly shaken up
but so far as could be learned none of them
were fatally injured.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
A DAY OF THANKSGIVING.
President Arthur in Proclamation Names
November 20 for a Festival of Praise.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 29.-The President

President Arthur in Proclamation Names
November 20 for Festival of Praise.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The President
has issued the following thanksgiving proc
lamatio1:
By the President of the United States Of
America:
I" In fllrtherance of the custom of this peo-
pie at the closing of each year to engage
upon a day set apart for that purpose, in
special festival of praise to the Giver of all
Good, j, Chester A. Arthur, President of the
United States, do hereby designate Thursday,
the 10Th day of November next as day of
n RATIONAL Thanksgiving.
1.-THE year which is drawing to an end has
been reDlete with evidences of divine good
ness. The prevalence of health, the fulncss
OF harveStS, the stability OF peace and order,
the growth OF fraternal feeling. the spread of
JOyment of civil and religious hberty-all
these, and countless other blessings, are cause
for reyerent rejoicing.
II do, therefore, recommend that, on the
day above appointed the people rest from
their accustomed laborS, and, meeting in their
vout gratitude to God that he hath dealt so
beautifully with this Nation, and pray that
His grace and favor abide with it forever
more.
8 In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city Of
Washington this 10Th day of October in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hum
dred and eighty-three, and of the indepen-
dence of the United States the one hundred
and eighth.
"lBy the PreSident.1
ssCHESTER A. ARTHUR.
FREDERICK 7. FRELINGHuYsEN, Secretary
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 27.-George Schencz,
of this city, just returned from the gold
fields near Lisbon, ID. T., says there is un-
doubleday gold in that country in paying
quantities, and he himself has located one
hundred and thirty-fiYe acres ten or eleven
miles above Lisbon, on the Cheyenne River.
There have been assays made of the ore,
and it viii average $40 to the ton. Already
Aiessls. Stewart, GrisWold 81 Frey have in
vested about $4,000 in land and machinery,
and propose to 60 to work this fall. Not an
ounce of free gold has been discovered there,
bnt the coolies are filled with an auriferous
rock formation which, subjected to crusheT,
can be made to yield in paying quantities.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
The Mormon Question.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S0.-It is proposed to
ask Congress this winter to pass laws MAX
ing the public record of marriage in Utah
necessary to its legality. This will enable
the authorities to find evidence necessary
for prosecution of any plural marriage. But
if the Mermons drop pelygamy Congress can
do but little with them. Only one in every
seven of the Mormons have made plural
marriages. Many M0T1nons do not believe
in poIygamy. Bishop Cannon, when he was
here last, said he had ne doubt but what
they would have to let golyganly 60
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
Pension Frauds.

WASHINGTON, Oct ga local paper
publishes an interview with United States
District Attorney Corkhill in regard to the in
vestigation now being made by
that officer into the fraudulent operations of
pension attorneys. The District-Attorney
says large number of attorneys have en-
gagged in fraudulent practices, and that he
has received hundreds of letters since the
publication Of his communications to
Secretary Teller containing specific com
plants of attempted frauds on the
part of firms in the pension business in this
city. He estimates that soldiers and their
relatives have been defrauded out of ST. 000,-
600 through the fraudulent practices of these
attorneys, and expresses the intention of
bringing the matter to the attention Of the
Grand Jury. Colonel Corlzhill renews his
request that all soldiers or others having
copies of deceptive circulars from agents in
this city or knowledge of any fraudulent
transactions on their part will mail him
full information upon the subject, in order
that he may bring the guilty party to jus
tice.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
Killed By a Falling Brick.

DAYTON, o., Oct. 27.-Friday evening at
half past five o'clock Mrs. DR.. p N,
Adams, lady highly connected, while
passing two-story building on which the
workmen were laying brick, was struck on
the head by brick which fell from the top,
distance Of probably forty feet 1t in
fiicted terrible wound on the top Of the
lady's head She fell into the gutter and
was picked up and taken home unconscious.
At ten o'clock she for astort while regained
consciousness. but soon died.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
West and South

AT Cincinnati ON the oath large number
of the officers and soldiers of the Army of
the Cumberland gathered, the occasion
being the annual meeting Of the society.
On the evening of the oath the billiard
game at Chicago for the cushion-carrom
Championship of America resulted in
slosson defeating Sexton by 800 to 4S6
points.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

to cover Liabilities estimated at 500, 900,
was announced on the 10Th ult.
The boiler in the tug Edic exploded in:
Mobile Bay few afternoons ago, killing
the Captain, mate, cook and fireman, and
painfully wounding the engineer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

"A horrible case of self-mutilation
recently transpired near Macon. Ga.
Edward Moore, an old clergyman, OF
Tattnall County, while under tempo
rssry arrangement of mind, became I'M
pressed with the idea that he must OBJ
tain relief by cutting off his hand, and,
after eating breakfast, went to shop,
procured an ak and deliberately chopped
of his hand. He walked some two hun
dred feet after he had completed the
act and fell over in ditch, where he
was subsequently found exhausted from
the loss of blood. He was taken to the
house, and after a little trouble the
physicians succeeded in improving his
condition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
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ImnaIed BY q Red-Hot Rail.

SCRANTON, Pa, Oct 27.-AIichael Dur
kin, aged forty, was oiling the rolls at the
steel-rail mill of the Lackawanna Iron &
Steel Company. A red-hot rail from the
rolls struck him in the back just above the
hips and penetrated his body, killing him
instantly, @ $50
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS
The State treasury.

The official statement recently issued of
the amounts received and disbursed by the
State Treasurer during the year ended
September so show that the amount in the
General fund September so, 1882, was 1884,
220.6S, while during the last fiscal year
81, sos, 092.17 were received, making total
of s., 1863, 3l2.S5. The disbursements from
this fund during the year amounted to
81, 296, 472. 40, leaving balance on hand of
$672, S4O.45, At the date of the last settle
ment, September 80, 1882, there were Sl62,
412.9S in the Trust funds, and the receipts
during the year were 1899, 963.70, the total
being 81, 162,S76.6S. The disbursements
from these funds were S922, 242 .93, the bal
ance on hand being S240, 1S3.75. OF the
Trust funds, s., SS7, 1891 have been invest
ed up to date; of the University fund,
S222, S9S.39; of the Agricultural College
fund, $2S6,6S6, and of the Normal School
fund, 81 PIG, 373, 66-lnaking the totaIinvest-
ment of Trust funds S4,6lS,0S7.9O.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

"A gentleman who processes to be
authority on the subject says that
the same car which conveyed President
Garfield from Washington to Long
Branch is now running upon the Ph9-
nixville & West Chester Railroad in
Pennsylvania. The seats, which were
at that time upholstered. were so cut to
pieces by relic-hunters that the COM
pany put in others made of cane.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
Did Not Want His Picture Taken.

NEW YORK, Oct 31.-Thomas Davis,
alias "Featherstone, a professional crimi-
nal, was arrested Monday. On being taken
to photograph gallery to have his picture
taken for the rogue's gallery he seized a
chair and smashed the camera.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

I'm jacksonville, Fla, one wall of a
store settled several inches and the SIDE
walk fell in. Upon examination it was
found that nearly the whole length of
the foundation wall and part of the front
wall and sidewalk had been wholly I'M
dermined by rats.-St. L02tSS Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
The remains of q soldier were foun,

The remains of a soldier were found
by some of Henderson's surveying par
ty, in a creyice of a rock about one and
a half miles from Camp Harvey, Idaho.
Part Of his gun and remnants Of his
clothing still remained. Some rocks
had been piled on top of him. He had
most likely been murdered by the Indi-
ans years ago, and probably been
placed on record as q deserter. C7sica-
90 Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

"A horse baked with New Hamp-
shire woman the other day, and she
quietly took out her knitting and sat
there for nine hours, when the horse
concluded he'd better be going along.
He'd never had any experience with a
woman before. Boston Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

While removing the old Catholic
parsonage to Liberty street, Batavia,
n. T., recently, the workmen found a
rats nest made of about two hundred
dollars worth of '-shinplastersa in a
pretty good state Of preservation,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

s'Give me the baby to hold, my
dear" is the name Of new song,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
DYNAMITE AND OTHER HORRORS.

Nearly Twelve Hundred Pounds OF Dyna-
mite Explode Near Confluence, Pa.-Five
Workmen Reduced to Fragments
Houses Shattered, Trees Uprooted and
Rocks Rent Asunder-Destructive Cy-
clones-Thousands of Lives Lost by the
Recent Earthquakes-A Fire-Damp Ex-
KlOsion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
A TUGS BOILER BURSTS.

MOBILE, Ala, Oct. SO. Sunday after
noon the steam-tug Edic exploded her boiler
four miles south of Fort Morgan, in Mobile
Bay, and sank Immediately with her Cap
tain, John Carney, Mate Andrews and a
coIored fireman. The engineer and cook
were picked up. The latter died while on
bis yvav To Fort Norpan
The Delaware farmer., 1883-11-16
Il Famous GaEGcy.

People who delight in beautiful and good books
will be astonished when they see il they have not
already seen the announcements Of the "Caxton
illustrated" and other editions OF standard authors
issued this season. The Typography, and all mo
chanical qualities of printing and binding are SIM
ply superb and the prices yeritable marvel to the
old-time book-buyer. The list includes the works,
complete. Of Dickens, 10 volumes, rednced in price
from S22 so to 5000 net; Thackery s,frOm SIC so
to S6 IS; George Elliot's from II to 50 70; Wash
ngton Irving's Works, from $50 to 81; ScOtt's Wa
verify Novels. from $50 to $3.50, HawthOnes
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VIM. Blacks, from SIS to 81, De Quincey's from
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REORGANIZATION before requiring any payment. on
reasonable evidence Of good faith, and will send
large catalogue Of these and other works free upon
application. John B. Alden, Publisher, .S Vcsey
ST., New York
The Delaware farmer., 1883-11-16

PETKRsoN's MAGAZINE for December is,as usual,
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The Delaware farmer., 1883-11-16

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The Delaware farmer., 1883-11-16
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