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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-05
DOUBLE FRATRICIDE.
A Member of an Old and Prominent Ken
tucky Family Kills His Two Brothers in
. Quarrel Over Will.

A Member of an Old and Prominent Ken
tueky Family Kills His Two Brothers in
Quarrel Over Will.
CARLISLE, Robinson Co., KY, Sept 3d.
AT nODn Thursday at the old Rogers man
sion, on Indian Creek, near Blue Lick
Springs, where hundred OF more years ago
the ancestors of the family fought bloody
battle with the Indians, one of that old
family shot two of his brothers, one of
whom died last night, and the other, it is
feared, can not survive. The three
brothers were Samuel g., William
0. and Thomas Rogers. The father
of these men, dying very old, willed his ell
tire estate, which is large and consists of
lands, to Samuel G. and Robert Rogers, and
cut off William o. and Thomas Rogers with
out cent. Samuel G. Rogers was made
administrator of the estate. The two broth
ers who were disnherited, took legal
measures to break the will, and to that
end have been engaged for several
days in taking dispositions, travelling
from house to house, the residences of wit
nesses. At noon Thursday, when seated in
the old residence, where some of the boys
were born, Samuel drew his pistol in a
wordy encounter, and fired shot. 1t pen
etrated the clothing of one of the attorneys,
and in trice everybody except the
contestants rushed out of the room.
The firing went on till Sans pistol
was emptied. He then stepped out Of the
room and returned to Carlisle, where he has
beenarrested. DR.. French, of Cincinnati,
and Dr.. Dills, of Carlisle, were called to
the scene. William Rogers lay OH the
floor, near the front door, the bone
of his right leg, near the knee, shivered
to splinters, and bullet hole through his
abdomen, from right to left. Ho
suffered for ten hours and died.
Tom received shot in the
right temple, which came out above the left
eye near the hair; also shot in tho left
arm. His surgeons told him from the first
that he had the best chance to pull through.
He is still conscious and in his right mind
The chief actor in the tragedy says that his
brothers reached to draw their pistols befole
he commenced shooting, but their attorney
denies this and says they made no attempt
to draw Samuel Rogers was the only man
who shot, and he emptied his pistol.
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Mt. CARMEL, Pa, Sept. 27.-In hand
some tenement residence here lives two
Polish families, Zupish and Molinsky. Sat
urday the former accused the latter OF steal
ing from her, and the latter denied the
charge. Mrs. Molinsky and her husband
were both threatened with arrest. They
were totally ignorant of American law, and
firmly believing that terrible fate awaited
him and his wife within the walls of some
penal institution, Molinsky sat down and
commenced to cry bitterly. His wife and
four children were soon seen in tears. Five
minutes afterward Molinsky was a corpse.
While crying child had seized him,
and he caught hold of the bedpoSt
to steady himself, his quaking shaking every
movable thing in the room. He complained
of pain in the region of the heart, and
with loud, piercing cry, fell to the fooI
dead. 1t is said he was unquestionably the
victim Of broken heart, caused by fright.
The neighbors hurried in and found the
widow and four children vainly tying to get
the dead man to speak.
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NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL,

Strike and Labor Investigation.
session in New York City of the United states
Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Edu-
cation.l
Reuben f. Carroll an oil producer, testified
on the 27th. He said If it were not for the re-
bate allowed the Standard Oil Company by
railroads the Oil Company would have plenty
Of competition. All producers were obliged
to sell their products through the Standard Oil
company Independent OF the latter compa-
ny there were about one hundred thousand
persons interested in oil production. 10 COM
pete with the Standard Oil Company would
require capital of about $20,000000. Several
corporations had been formed to
compete with the Standard Company,
but they had been stopped in the
courts by injunctions and other proceedings,
and from the obstacles met with had been
Obliged to sell out. There was not so very
much oil now transported by raj, as it was
mostly conducted through pipes. There We're
many wells yielding to-day that had been
closed for time. The average yield per well
at present was six barrels per day The wit
ness did no think the Government should in
terfere with these matters Of Transportation
The Government might, he thought however,
regulate the charges Of trs importation.
Tho examination of Charles Seidler, of the
tobacco firm Of Lorillard Co., took place on
the 2Sth ult. He said his firm employed
about 1900 persons, and now pays wages
amounting annually to S2,5l0,000. They had
paid as high as $4,000,000 year. About forty
per cent, OF their employees are girls. Most of
their employees live in tenements. Unfort-
unately they are improvident, and spend
their wages as fast as they earn them. There
are o2l tobacco manufactures in the United
States most of them small. There are $780,
OOO pounds Of chewing tobacco manufactured
annually in the country. All who are injured
or become i'll in their employ are treated
without charge. He favored the establish
ment Of industrial schools Many employers
are turning their minds toward enhancing
theinterests of their employees socially and
otherwise. The committee adjourned to Oc-
tober l.
The testimony Of Mr.. Partridge, OF the
Produce Exchange, was given on the LIST
as to corners or gambling, as he char
acterized it, on the Exchange Nearly
1000 of the 5000 members of the Ex-
change, he said, were gamblers and the
law Of supply and demand had nothing to
do with this speculation. AS remedy for
gambling he said he would make it a penal
onense for parties to sell what they did not
own or control, and penal Oifense for any
body to buy up the necessaries of life and
hold them for speculation. Witness, in CON
Guiding, begged to present, through the COM
m1ttee, petition to Congress regarding this
evil. Senator Blair said they would incorpo-
rate the petition in the witness testimony
Clinton Kurdish, a rubber manufacturer,
advocated free trade, and Osmond FL
SchweLner read paper on the immense spec
ulative transactions Of the country, initiation
Oh the currency and on watered stock.
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The Washington postal authorities have
applied to the Post-Office Department Of
Canada for details in connection with the
Postal Savings Bank system. The de-
posts by the laboring classes of Canada
have grown to $12,000,000 per annum.
BUSINESS throughout the country was
on the 2Sth ult reported generally healthy
by Dun's Commercial Agency, and the re-
cent heavy failures in the dry-goods trade
were said to be the result more of specula-
ton than any stagnation in the trade.
The Post-office Department up to the 2Sth
ult. had issued 02,653,000 two-cent stamps
to postmasters throughout the country to
meet the reduction in postage.
THROUGHOUT the United States and Cam
ada the business failures for the seven
days ended on the 2Sth ult. numbered ITO.
as compared with 1T the previous seven
days, The distribution was as follows
New England States, "a; Middle, 81; West
ern, 40; Southern, IS; Pacific States and
Territories, 81; New York City, 3; Canada
and Provinces, 81.
THE Treasury on the Doth ult contained
gold coin and bullion amounting to 1905
247 ,6S5; silver dollars and bullion, S119..
ll5,569; fractional silver coin, $40, sos, 1875;
United States notes, $52,92S, 297; total,
S4O4, l0O,327 There was outstanding S144.-
S50,S11.
INFORMATION has been received at the
Post-offlce Department that figures on the
postal notes have been altered by filing a
hole through a small figure with bit of
paper punched from q higher figure, and
removing the written words with acid.
A RECENT ruling of the Post-office De.
partment Is to the effect that where a pub
fisher sends newspaper to person with
out an implied or expressed request, the
fact that the party addressed takes the pa
per from the post-office does not of itself
create liability to pay for it.
AT twenty-seyen leading clearing houses
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended ON the Doth ult. were ST.
O14,5lS,362, against 5000, 1889, 1852 the week
previous, indicating an improvement in
trade.
The standard silver dollars issued for
the week ended ON the Goth ult. amounted
to S671 ,499; for the corresponding period
last year, 1851 ,499.
The public-dept statement for Septem-
Der is as follows: Total debt (including in.
terestl $1,S77, ,256. Cash in Treasury.
S35l, 450,670. Debt, less amount in Treas
ury, S1,52I, 81 ,535. Decrease during the
month $l4,7O7,229, Decrease since June
80, 1883, $29,279,671.
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Of moccasin snakes caused fifty ladies in
the congregation to faint. Several persons
were bitten before the men could kill the
reptiles.
A FARMER of Celina, O., named John
Cantwell, sixty years old, shot and killed
his wife the other morning, and then killed
himself in the same way. The cause was
not known.
GEORGE WEsTMoRELAND (colored) killed
Constable Cox, of Vicksburg, Miss, on
July 20, 1869, and made his escape. On the
Goth ult. the negro was arrested at Brink
ley, Ark, his whereabouts having been
unknown for fourteen years.
EARLY few mornings ago fire at Mil
waukee totally destroyed the Conway Man
ufacturing Company's Works. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, $4,000.
FORTY out of forty-two Cinnamon en-
ployed in the powder mill at Stege's Sta
ton, CAL, lost their lives recently by the
explosion of the works.
In Delaware County, Ind, hail and
wind storm on the 1st destroyed orchards
and timber, wrecked numerous barns and
unroofed several houses.
1T was recommended by the Executive
Board of Ohio brewers and liquor dealers
on the 1st that, owing to the threatening
aspect Of the Prohibition movement, the
trade purchase no more grain until the re-.
suit of the election is known.
IT has been decided by the District Court
at Cincinnati that the churches held by
Archbishop Purcell could not be subjected
to the payment of his debts.
In political quarrel few days ago at
Liberty, Miss, Sheriff Wilmington was
killed by Eugene McElwee. A large num-
Der of persons at once gathered about the
scene, one of whom shot the murderer dead.
DURING gale at Lexington, KY, on the
1st the Cincinnati Southern engine-house
was destroyed, and a bank and newspa-
per Office and a warehouse were unroofed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-05
TRAIN ROBBERY.

Party of Masked Men Compel an Ex-
press Messenger to Give up the Keys to
His Safe-$15,O0 Stolen.
FoRT WAYNE, Ind, Sept. 29.-At 1890
Thursday night, while the south-bonnd ex-
press on the Eel River Division of the
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway was
running about thirty miles per hour between
Laketon and Roam Stations, Burt LOOMS.
the messenger of the Pacific Express Com
pany, which operates on that line, was made
aware that there were three men IN his car,
when he supposed he was alone. They sud-
denly rose up at one end of the car where
they had been concealed behind some boxes,
and confronting him with reyolvers de-
manded the keys to the SAFE LOOMS
drew his revolver. but was ordered to throw
up his hands. They then took the keys out
OF his pocket and hurriedly took all the
money there was in the safe, amounting to
nearly SIS, 900, besides some other valuable
articles After securing the money they
threw LOOMS on the floor and tied his
arms and legs and gagged him, and
lUEAou JAO uOOI On Inc OuLSlQ6a
When the train commenced to
slow up for Laketon they jumped
off. As the messenger made no noise or
opened the door at Laketon it was supposed
by the station men that there was no express
matter to leave at that station. After the
conductor saw his passengers off all right
the train proceeded on its way, and the rob
berry was not discovered until some minutes
after the train reached Peru By the time
word could be telegraphed back to Roam
and Laketon the robbers had fully two hours
the startof pursuit, and no clew has yet
been obtained. A few one and two-dollar
bills were found scattered in the grass about
mile south of Roam station.
In throwing LOOMS down and gagging
him they handled him roughly, and when
he was found at Peru he was insensible
from his suffering with the gag in his
mouth. He is now at the hotel under the
care OF physicians. The railroad and OK
press companies will each offer large re-
wards, and the people of that section of the
country are very much worked up over the
robbery that was committed in their midst,
for it isin thickly-settled country. There
is not the slightest clew either to where the
robbers boarded the train or how they got
into the car. They were all masked.
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The East.

A. M. KELLEY, of Richmond, Va, was
reelected President of the Catholic Benev.
olent Union of the United States, at its re-
cent session at Providence, r. l.
~ GIRL of sixteen years, named Blanche
Gray, whose weight is 517 pounds, was
married in a museum in New York few
days ago to David Moses, a young man
who tips the scales at less than one hun
dred pounds.
A FEW days ago William Walsh, a
Brooklyn IN. W lunatic, emaged because
his wife refused him money, caught his
eighteen-months-old child by the feet and
crushed its head against the floor.
THE price of the Times, Tribune and
word, OF New York City, having been re-
duced to two cents per copy, on the 9th
the Herald announced reduction to one
cent per copy. The newsdealers, however.
refused to sell at less than the old rates.
1T was discovered on the 9th that John
B. Carroll, formerly a clerk in the City
Hall at New York, who was discharged on
suspicion, had embezzled $4,000 by means
of false entries in his books.
AT the New York State Democratic Con-
vention held in Buffalo on the 9th Isaac
rs MI ildIu was nominated Tor secretary
of State, Alfred c. Chaplin for Comptrol-
Ter, Robert A. Maxwell for State Treas
urer, and Dennis O'Brien for Attorney
General. The platform denounces taxa
tion to raise surplus fund for distribu.
tion among the States by the Federal Gov
eminent, and heartily indorses Governor
Cleveland's administration.
Boston advices of the 9th say that ex-
Mayor Prince, of Boston, has declined the
Democratic nomination for Lieutenant-
Governor.
THE fastest three-mile time on record
was beaten by Hosmer on the 2Sth ult. at
the Hutton (Pa.) regatta, he going over the
course in twenty minutes and three sec
onds, with Ten Eyck only two seconds be-
hind.
THE failure of Blair Brothers, proprie-
tors of the Huntington (Pa.) Car and Car
Wheel Works, for 100000, is announced.
The four hundred employees who were
thrown out Of work had not been paid for
two months.
In New York recently heavy Judgment
was rendered against the Western Union
Telegraph Company, which was called
upon to pay the State $626,OoQ in taxes,
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He Blew Out the Gas and Died.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. CIV. P. VIM
field, dealer in agricultural implements at
Buena Vista, Ind, came down 10 the city
and stopped at the Sherman. On retiring
be blew out the gas instead of turning it
bff, and asphyxiation must have resulted in
! few minutes, as his body was not diseov-
Eed until late last evening.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-05

While engaged al Dallas, Tex, In dis.
pute as to the existence Of a God, Henry
Ehanks stabbed Adam Weimer to the heart
md escaped arrest.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-05

--"Good-bye' in the telephone re-
minds one Of autumn; 1t is the ''yell o.
leave
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-05

Mrs. James Vaughan, Of Gentle
Valley, Idaho, missed her eighteen
months-old babe, and her neighbors,
following the tracks OF large bear into
the Bear range of mountains, found t c
baby curled up in bunch of weeds
and grass, in the bushes, sound asleep.
with its little tattered and torn dress
thrown over its head. Close beside the
sleeper was the warm bed of the bea-,
which had abandoned its captive on the
approach of the searching party
Chicago Journal
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One of the female members of the
Rhinebeck family, one of the oldest and
most respected in the Knickcrbocker
days of New York, had a veritable
Enoch Arden case, her first husband
going to sea and returning after years
to find her married, and with sons. A
parley was called and the two husbands
left it to the wife, who decided in
twenty flour hours that less in ustice
would be done to all concerned by
clinging to the last man, whereupon
No. | departed amicably into eyerlast-
ing oblivion. N Y Tribune.
The Red Cloud chief., 1883-12-28
How They Get OIL.

In boring for oil Il wooden derrick Of
plank and toards Is erected. II Is usu-
ally twenty feet square at the base, sixty
to seventy feet high, with the corners 50
arranged that the top is about three
feet square. Here rests Il heavy piece
which holds the pulley over which the
two.inch drilling cable works. In the
less elevated localities il is necessary to
drive pipe tn prevent the caving in OF
the we'll and the influx of water. This
pipe is of wrought iron, eight inches in
diameter. and is driven in seventeen
foot sections by n heavy maui erected
in the derrick. Since it Is To guide the
drilling tools. great care is taken to
keep il s,ra 'ght. The engine, usually
of fifteen horsepower, is placed near
the derrick. twelve feet from the center
of which is placed the samson" post.
II heavy piece of timber. twenty inches
| square and twelve feet high, the top of
which is prepared to receive the walk
ing-bcam. This beam tapers slightly
each way from the center. IL is about
fifteen inches square, and Of such u
length that when properly balanced on
the samson post one end Is over the
middle of the derrick floor. To this
end Is fastened the cable and drilling
tools. which wciah some 5000 pounds
and the other end derives power from the
engine, giving the beam u rocking mo-
ton. which lifts and drops the tools.
They are lowered and drawn by the aid
of the ''bull'' wheel and shaft.
An cight-inch hole Is drilled below
the veins of fresh water, which are shut
OFF by y wrought iron casing tube, five
and-a-half incts ~ in diameter, lowered
ia sections eighteen feet long. After
the necessary length of casing Is intro.
duccd, the size of the hole is lcssened 10
iivc-and-a-half inches. and this size con
Times down till the well is completed,
After oil Is struck the tubing pipe, o,
two or two-and-a-half inches diameter,
is let down inside the casing, and n seed
bag dropped in between the tube ant
the casing The bag is of leather and
Il filled with flax seed. When it he
comes saturated with water il swcll'
and makes II watcr-tight joint, so thai
no water can get below ii. Four men,
two drillers and two blacksmiits. arr
required to sink n well, anil the cos
runs Is cents TO $3.50 per foot. eh'
rock, pulvcrized by the blows Of the
drill, Is removed by use of the SAM
pump. This is u heavy metal tube, si'
fSt long, which is rapidly lowered will
. every six feet Of progress. the drilling
tools being first withdrawn. The san,
pump has n valve in the lower part
which closes and retains the content
until the surface j. reached,
Tho process OF 't%orpcdOing' Il wei
Il rcsortcd TO when the well shows sign
The Red Cloud chief., 1883-12-28

share. There Is also q gain in It for the
Democratic party of "a partisan sort.
Had the elections this year yielded tho
results which the Democratic managers
and iigurc.hcads hoped for, the party
Spokesman would have kept up their
foolish idea that the Presidency was to
be had for the shouting for it-and their
campaign next year would have ended
in rs complete and ridiculous n col
lapse rs did the Greeley experiment.
But rs it is, the demonstration that tho
people are in u discriminating frame Of
mind. and are shaping their political nc
ton by convictions reached through real
thought. will force the Democracy into
putting their best food forward. and
compel them to make a serious and
relatively intelligent campaign. And
that will bring them more votes In every
state than the other kind of u canvas
would have done.
The change of front observable in the
Democratic newspapers ought not to he
lost on the Republican leaders and
guides of opinion and action. The rea-
sons which operate to send the Demo.
Gratis back on solid ground are good
reasons for increased Republican
prudence. watchtulncSS and efforts to
more than ever deserve the trust
| which the country has so long coniidcd
To the party. The bubble of Democrat
ic over-contidence has been ridcly
prickcd. Let Us SEQ 10 IL that we do
not ourselves risk defeat by blowing u
similar bubble. -.AtJdny Ersntng Jour
The Red Cloud chief., 1883-12-28
The Parrot Cry flushed.

A short time ago the Democratic edi-
tor had no other stock phrase Of which
he was so fond rs Turn the rascals
out."-unless il was ''The Republican
party must go" Discussion, argument.
grave reasons for. political action, all
these were not worth the while, The
Democratic eye say the promised land
so clearly; the Democratic nos,rils
scented so keenly tho appetizing spells
of an easy victory. that all thought OF
caution or sclt-rcstraint WAS lost in the
cXullan, shout that the pillagc must
soon begin, The time Of need for con
vincing people that there ought to be- a
change had passed; there WIS nothing
to do put hurrah v the clean sweep
which seemed. after so many weary
years of waiting, ut last ordained by the
kindly fates.
The late election results have sobered
the Democratic brain. We hear no
more the parrot cry that ''Ihe Repub-
lican party must go" The organs Of
the party of Butler and Kelly have re-
tired the tircsome tune of ''Turn the
rascals OUT They read in the chill
ing figures of New York and Connect
cut. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,
the lesson OF their folly. They see now,
"a wise mcn would have seen before,
that the walls Of the Republican jericho
are not IT, be- blown Over by the blast
OF sulh prnny-trumpets as their imita'
ta,ion Joshuas toot upon. And they
recognize that if "A Democratic President
is tobr elected next year it must be- by
the hardest, most skillful and bes
organized work IN opposition party ha'
ever done, supplemented by the choic
es, candidates AMI the most plausibl,
presentation o. real issues possible.
There isa pos tive gain to political
standards and morals in this change
which 9th n%artirs- or rataer the who'll
people without re erence to party