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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-09

floods were generally subsi1ing on the 18th,
but the damage inflicted would reach start
ling figures. Railway communication was
greatly interrupted. M
A FALL of earth in the Esmeralda mine at
Deadwood recently killed three men.
THE Sheriff of Sherman County, Neb.,
Charles Waite, was Tilted by widow, who
twice changed her mind as to the propriety
of marrying him. He lost his reason, and OIL
the 18th killed her and himself with a re-
volver.
w. S. BATTLE, an extensive cotton manu-
facturer of Raleigh, N. c., has failed for
1926, O01
FREIGHT and passenger train collided
near Sidney, o., the other day, resulting in the
death of four employees. 81
In the Criminal Court jury room at St.
Louis few days ago John C. Parker, who was
to be tried for murder, shot his wife through
the head and sent another bullet into his own
brain.
JOHN B. SMITH, of Birmingham, Ala, was
killed few days ago by William Donahue in
quarrel arising over game of cards
FRUIT and shade trees in some portions of
Central aud Southern Illinois were greatly
damaged by the recent sleet storm.
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HUMOROUS.

Ladies' are like watches pretty
enough to look at; sweet faces and
delicate hands, butsomewhat difficult to
regulate after they are set a going
Somebody put fresh turnover in
among those on the counter of a railway
restaurant and the traveller who cot
hold OF it was so astonished that he
gasped four times. S0n1erUiLLe Journal.
Dear Mr.. Jones'" said learned
woman, "you remind me. of barome-
ter thatis filled with nothing in the up
per story ''Divine Amelia Brown"
said he, ;"you occupy my upper story"
IN O. Pic0yW7e
'-"Well William, what has become
of RobertP" "What, airn't YOU card
sirP'' ''No! Not defunct, I hoper'
That's just exactly what he as done,
sir, and walked off with every thing he
could lay his ands on!',-Punch.
We are willing to take a certain
amount of stock in newspaper accounts
of Western cyclones, but when AN Ar
kansas paper tells us about azephyr car
rying a bed-quilt sixty-one miles, and
u.
there. boston Globe.
"A very colored man who entered
complaint against another for assault
ing and battering him upon the head,
was told by the Justice: II don't see
any marks ''Does We s'pose he hit
me wild a piece of chalkr was the in
dignant rejoinder. The case proceeded.
Tim going to a mas Iuerade ball
this evening, and want an appropri-
ate dress he said to the costumer.
"What is your bus ness?" 20, I'm
mi1kman.'' ''Ah! Then you'd better
put on a pair of pumps and 90 dis
guised as a waterfall. N Y. C0mner-
ciaL.
Miss Malvina Rumley had lust
started out with her beau for walk,
when her little brother johnny calls to
her from the fence: 81 say, Malviny,
don't you bring that teller back here to
tea with you. Mamma says there ain t
more n enough biscuits to 90 around
as it is -Aleropder Street.
Herbert Spencer says the coming
American will be more powerful man
than has heretofore existed. This must
imply that he will be more wealthy than
Vanderbilt, for the richest man is the
most powerful. We have a vague no
ton that we are not the coming Amer
lean. "-N0rriSt0Wn Herald.
When Mrs. Fogg asked her lord
and mas er for fur cloak, and he re-
piled that, really. my dear, l can not
Iur get you, she did not feel so bad be-
cause she couldn't get the cloak, but
was quite broken down by the heart
less manner of an who could make
pun On a matter of such transcendent-
al Importance. Boston TRANSCRIPT
Mrs. Peter Schinsky is one of those
Austin ladies who take much better care
of their animal pets than they do of
their children. She has got a pet poodle
by the name of Fido. Yesterday Mrs
Schinsky's little boy. Bob, asked his
mother: "Shall | give Fido this piece
of sugar he is begging for?' "No, my
child, it might spoil his teeth. Eat It
yourself, Bobby. "-Te1as Sifti''gs.
"A man of tact always manages to
get out of a difficulty. The clerk of a
parish. whose business was to read the
g first lesson, came across the chapter
in David in which the names Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego occur twelve
times, and finding it extremely difficult
to pronounce these names he went
through the chapter referring to them
as 6 the aforesaid gentlemen. Giica-
go Tribune,
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From Washington.

CONGRESS has been petitoned by the New
York Chamber of Commerce to suspend the
coinage of silver dollars.
On the LIST Henry A. Bowen was indicted
at Washington for corruptly endeayoring to
influence juror Dickson.
A CALL was issued on the 1st by Secretary
Folger for SIS, 100000 extended SIS. the prin
cipal and accrued interest to be paid at the
Treasury on the 1st day of May, and interest
to close on that day.
The public-debt statement for January
shows the following: Total debt dncluding
interesH, $1,9l2,692, 424 Cash ia Treasury,
$31S, 7S5, 631. Debt, less amount in Treasury,
1888, 9O6, 792. Decrease during the month,
$l9, $3.50, 8S3 Decrease since June 30, 1882,
sos, OO7, 667. f..-#
AN order has been issued by the Post-of1ice
Department forbidding the delivery of regis
tered letters or the payment of money
orders to Flemming e Merriam, R. E. Ken
dali g. Co., Charles ]. Henri Co, Cud-
worth q Co., and Bennett, Koltzman q Co.,
of Chicago, whose alleged swindling opera
tions have been very extensively advertised
throughout the whole country and Canada
as a mutual enterprise for dealing in grain,
provisions and stocks.
SUIT has been ordered by the Secretary of
the Treasury in the name of the Government
against the Union Pacific Railroad for ST.
100000. HHn
A DISPATCH from Minister Hunt to the
Secretary of the Navy on the 5th stated that
Lieutenant Harder had left Yakutsk to get
the bodies of Lieutenant De Long and party.
DURING the week ended on the 3D. the
standard dollars issued from the minis num-
bered 198,O0O-against $4,000 for the CORE
spending period last year.
THE United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that the act OF the Legislature of New
York taxing steamship companies one dollar
for every alien passenger landed is invalid.
THE House Committee on Coinage, Weights
aud Measures on the 9Th adopted-6 to p
resolutions declaring it to be iuexpedient to
discontinue the coinage of silver under ex-
listing laws; that ''all coin now in the Treas
ury, with the exception of an amount not
exceeding twenty-five per cent. of the out
standing greenback circulation as a redemp-
tion fund, and also excepting all sums held
for redemption of outstanding gold AID sill
YER certificates, should be at once used in
the payment of outstanding interest-b bearing
obligations Of the Government which are
subject TO call and payment" and recon-
mending this, as in the judgment of the
Treasury officials additional vault,room for
the safe storage of coins should be provided,
the Committee on Appropriations approprl-
ate such sum as they shall be advised as nee
essary for providing such additional vault
room, and also recommending that such adj
ditional vault-room should be located in the
Mississippi Valley at such point, or points,
as should be determined by the Secretary of
the Treasury.
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A Returned Californian.

They still love the old homestead
An interesting event which has Just oc-
Cured in Antrim, N. H., is the return
from California, after an absence of
thirty-one years, of man whose Feia-
tions and trends have long suppos d
him to be dead. According to the local
paper there, he went to California when
the gold-fever broke-out correspondent
with his wife some years, and III n
ceased corresponding-just as many
another man has done under the same
circumstances. His only son, who was
about min, years old when his father
went away, is now merchant in An
trim and one of the selectmen of the
town. About two months ago he re-
ceiyed letter from Sacramento, saying
that his father was very i'll there, and
not likely to recover. The son replied
Immediately, directing that his father
be cared Tor, and subse uentlv he re-
ceived a letter from the father himself,
saying that he was etter and might
come East A Jews days ago q telegram
from Chicago announced that the long
lost parent was en- route for Boston,
where he was met on his arrival by the
son, who recognized him and escorted
him home. The wife is still living.
Perhaps she may have regarded this as
a clear case, of desertion; but no doubt
she, in her old age. gladly received her
Husband. The returned Californian is
more than seventy years old. Once in
a while there is q case of returned
Californian" in the New England States
very similar to this instance. San
Francisco Morning Call
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LATER.


The Michigan Legislature adjourned on the
Sd until the 18th. At the time of the adj
journment the Senatorial deadlock had not
SO; Stout, 20; Chamberlain, IL; Whitney, 81;
Willtts, s; Palmer, 4; scattering, II.
ABOUT 81, 900 in money and stamps were
stolen from the Birmingham (Ala.) post
office a few nights ago. -
Four HUNDRED Kentucky mlitiamen,
with three pieces of artillery, escorted the
murderers Neal and Craft from Lexington to
&rayson on the 9th, where their trial was to
take place. /. r a.
IN Lowell (Mass.) hotel on the 9th Robert
J. Smith, influenced by jealousy, shot his wife
himself
MISS ALICE BLAINE, daughter of the ex-
Secretary of State, and Colonel John G. Cop
pinger, U. S. A, were married in St. Matthew's
Catholic Churchoat Washington on the 9th.
The President and nearly all the leading Off
GERS of the Government were in attendance
NoPAwsHE, who for, more than twenty
We rs had been chief of the Usage Indians,
died of pneumonia few days ago.
A SUBSCRIPTION was opened on the 9th in
County Wicklow, Ireland, to aid Parnell in
paying mortgage on his estate.
THE following failures occurred in Montreal,
Canada, on the 9th: SENEGAL, Cadieux Il Co.,
whiskey dealers; Lohenson q Co., tobacco
nists; Hood & Co.. stationers; ]. Rozaud &
Co., tailors, and r. Jellyman 81 Co., paper
box manufacturers.
THE schooner L. j. Carney was wrecked on
the New Brunswick coast few days since,
and all on board persisted.
CONTINUOUS rains in Ohio threatened on
the 9th an increase of the floods. The rivers
were rising, and the formation of gorges
would cause great destruction. The sections
about Defiance and Fremontwere inundated,
and the damage was enormous. The river
caused terrible havoc at Wabash, Ind, many
persons being rescued by boats from thesup-
per portions of their dwellings,, and num-
bers were in destitute condition.
REPORTS from Western Texas on the 9th
indicated a loss of twenty-five to thirty per
cent. in tlocks of sheep, owing to the terrible
storm
NEAR Upper Sandusky, o., a few days ago
an unknown man, with his wife and child, at
1OlHPVCu W ShOSS a SWOtlcu CTeth III Du9Sy,
and all were drowned.
DIRECTOR BURcHARD stated on the 9th that
of $135, 405, ESQ in standard silver coined in
the past five years there are s37, S74, Ill in
circulation and S72, as, 40 represented by
certificates.
In the United States Senate on the 9th,
after a lengthy consideration of the Tariff
bill, eulogies upon the late Representatives
Updegraff and Hawk were pronounced. In
the House appropriate resolutions we're
adopted in regard to the late Representa-
tives Updegratf and Hawk The Tariff bill
was discussed in Committee Of the Whole.
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NEARLY. 300 men we're thrown out OF en-
pIoyment by the recent burning Of the Curtis
Agricultural works at Albion, n. I. Loss,
100000
A LEADING dry-goods house of New York
CITY has been sued by J. F. Riday to recover
SIC. coo damages. He alleges that he was
poisoned by wearing a pair of stockings
which the house sold him.
THE dea of Prof 6. w. Greene, the his
torian, who WIS an intimate friend of Long
fellow, of whom he was preparing biography,
occurred at East Greenwich, r l., recently,
aged seventy-two years.
In New Haven on the 4th the Original Jubi-
lee Singers we're arrested for giving a con-
cert in violation of a Sunday law of 1856.
They could be fined twenty-five dollars each,
and every person in the audience was liable
to an assessment of four dollars.
A Loss Of $3.50, 0J0 was caused by the recent
destruction by fire of the Burdett building in
Troy, N. Y.
A FIRE originating in the millinery store Of
l. Seabrunski at Jersey City, swept away
seven other establishments few days ago,
the losses aggregating S125 900.
On the night of the Sd al ice-gorge at
Meadyille, Pa, broke and flooded the central
TT Of the city. Three hundred families
were taken from their houses in boats. A
flood at Bradford, Pa, swept away five
bridges aud inundated five hundred houses.
Eighty-fve families had to flee for their lives.
At Pittsburgh on the 4th food caused a
loss of 100000
DURING a recent de 'irium George Mahon,
a patie It in New York hospital, under treat
ment for delirium tremens, killed a fellow
patient with stool, and afterward wounded
an attendant.
On the 5th Walcott, the New York quail
eater, finished his sixty b rds in thirty days,
and maintained that he could eat three each
day for sixty days.
A FIRE destroyed an oil-tank containing
10000 barrels of oil ne Titusville, Pa, a
few days ago, and two men, one woman and
one child were burned to death.
WHILE a train was crossing bridge over
Ischua Creek, on the Buffalo, New York q
Philadelphia Road the other day, the struct-
ure gave way, and Engineer Hall, Fireman
Briggs, Conductor Love, four passengers and
the baggageman lost their lives.
IN New Hampshire an earthquake shock
was experienced on the morning of the 5th.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
A Mother Kills Her Three Children.

A Mother Kills Her Three Children.
A few mornings ago word was received at
the Central Police Station in Milwaukee that
a woman had murdered her three children at
the tenement-house No. 400 Sixth street.
The patrol-wagon was promptly dispatched to
the scene, and returned with the murderess.
whose face, hands and scanty clothing were
dyed with the blood Of the innocent victims.
She was thinly clad and had quilt thrown
over her head and shoulders to protect her
from the keen air. Nevertheless her features
presented pinched, half-frozen appearance,
which the added griminess rendered positive
~ revolving. At the station she was given
seat near the stove in the female department.,
and after becoming warm answered few of
the questions that were put to her by the
officer in charge. She gave the name, Of
Helane Cempirek, and stated that she was
native of Bohemia, that her age was twenty
three, and that her hus band, John Cempirek,
was employed in the works of the Milwaukee
Bridge Company. Her murdered children,
she stated, were all girls-mere infants-aged
respectively three and one-half years. oneyear
and eight months, and four months When
asked whether they had made any cutlery, she
answered: But little, as the butchery was
quickly accomplished" A smile crept over
her countenance as she made the lastremark.
To the inquiry as to what had led her to COM
nit the shocking crime, she replied: II read
it in the books-two Bohemian Catholic
books" While the patrol wagon was gone for
the unfortunate husband. several reporters
visited the tenement house where the butch
cry occurred, and were appalled, at the sight
presented to their gaze. Passing through
an alley from Sixth street, and entering
basement room in the rear of the building,
the floor Of which was flooded with water,
on tossed and tumbled bed, despatched
with blood, lay the three bodies. No more
shocking sight could meet the eye. The little
ones were stabbed, hacked, chopped, disem-
.bowled, and their arms and legs severed from
the frail bodies A carpenter drawing knife
and two small-sized carving or butcher knives
had been used in their slaughter. The names
of the children were Anna, Clara and Helen
Cempirek 1850 st8 %
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New flye-cent pieces to the number of 1922
400 were put into circulation in Philadelphia
on the LIST The new coin would be struck
ut the rate of 100, 600 pieces a day.
THREE robbers were found by the sexton
of an Episcopal Church in New York a few
days ago in the act of leapiug from the win
dows, and he soon learned that they had cut
eight pictures from the frames and drank the
communion wine.
The American Powder Company's mil at
Acton, Mass, blew up a few days ago, de-
stroying the buildinr, and sh king houses
Tor miles around, but no Q upoyes were in
jured.
A MAsssmeeting in the interest of prote c.
tion was held in New York on the evening OF
the LIST, at which speeches were made by Pc
ter Cooper and. William NJ. Evarts. and reso-
buttons were adopted asking for a reduction
of revenue taxation, and the passage of
Tariff bill based on the findings of the Tariff
Compassion.
A MAN named Leonard and his son in
Kingston Township, Pa, were found dead
from hunger a few days ago, while the wife
and two other children were on the brink of
starvation,
For the seven days ended on the LIST the
business failures reported to Dun Il Co. ag-
gregated sos, against ga for the seven DAYS
preceding OF this total 36 were Canadian
failures.
IT is announced that extensive salt depos-
its have been discovered in Wyoming County.
N. Y, and gold has been found in the Adj
rondaclS region in the same st tie.
WILLIAM d. MURPHY, Of New York, year
ago, sued William II, English, late Demo-
crat;c'candid tie for the Vice Presidency, to
recover, for twenty-five speeches made in In
diana, the sum of 81, 1S0 The latter denied
that he employed Murphy, and declared that
the alleged contract was against public policy
and void The plaintiff demurrei to the last
defense, and the New York Judge, before
whom the case was heard on the LIST. rem
dered judgment for plaintiff on his demurrer,
and gave defendant leave to amend his an
swer
A FEW days ago John Kenny, sentenced to
Imprisonment for life for murder at Brook
lyn, n Y, shot himself thru ugh the heart in
Raymond Street Jail How he procured the
pistol was unknown,
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d. A. RAY, Inspector.
ANOTHER FIRM.
POsT-OFFICE INSPECTORS OFFICE.

CHICAGO, JANUARY ., 1888
The Hon. ]. 3. Stuart, Post-ofice. Inspector.
Sir: 1t has come to, my knowledge that
concern styled Bennett, Hoffman s. Co., man.
ayers of Mutual Cooperative Club at l55 and
l57 East Washington street, Chicago, has re-
Gently commenced a new scheme to defraud,
using the mails therefor exactly similar to
those of Flemming, Merriam s. Co., r. E. Ken
dali & Co., Charles ]. Henri s. Co., and Cud-
worth & Co., which schemes / have in my re-
port of this date on cases 21.794 c, and No
q, T69 C, fully exposed: l recommend in this
case that the Postmaster at Chicago De direct
ed to deliver no registered matter nor to pay
any money-orders to Bennett, Hoffman l.
Co, as they are frauds Very respectfully.
ID. A. RAY. Post-ofice Inspector
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Wasting Time.

One day a grand post-office official at
Washington happened to be passing
through a Government Office with which
he was not connected. There he saw a
man standing before the re reading a
newspaper. Hours afterward, return
ing the same way, he was shocked to
find the same man, legs extended, be-
fore the same fire, still buried in the
columns of a newspaper. Halo. sirn'
cried the indignant Head of Depar :
ment, 'what are you doing?''
Cant you see what | am doing?''
was the answer.
4 "Sir, | came through this office four
hours ago, and 70 nd you reading the
paper; [ returned. and you are still
wasting your time in the same man
ner.'
Every true; you have stated the case
to nicety.n
Hereupon the Head of Department
naturally fires up. ''What is your name,
STRIP hessaid.
"Well, l don't know that my name
is any affair of yours what is your
nameP"
Sir. Iwould have you know that I
am the so-and-so of the post officep'
"Indeedl well, | am very glad to hear
1t. | am, sir, simply one of the public,
who has been kept waiting here four
hours for an answer to a simple ques-
ton, and / shall be much obliged i YOU
will use your influence to get me attend
ed to. p CHICAGO Herad
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"A Newfoundland dog seized a lady's
sachel in depot in Bangor, Me-, day
or two ago, and ran with it up street
and down, pursued by score of men
and boys. Fleet of foot he distaneed
them all, and at last brought it back
and laid it uninjured at the lady's feet.
Boston Post.
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The Church of England has an in.

The Church of England has an in-
come of "a, 525. 900, Of this, Episcopal
and cathedral officials receive G342. 81.
The patronage of 4, 1862 benefces, . III
an income of FL, 513, 092. is eccleslasti-
cal and collegiate; that of S45, with an
income of f297, 345, belongs to the
Executive; and that of 1921, with an
income of f2,719,958, to private pat
rons.
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THE Woman's Mutual Insurance and Acct
dent Company is one of the latest institu-
tons in New York. 1t is designed to benefit
sewing women and servant girls.
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ITALY has national debt of s., 500 0OO, 900.
With this load, she maintains an army of l.
600, 600 men. She fears war with France not
many years hence.
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THERE are thirteen grounds for divorce in
the State OF Kentucky, and the next Legisla-
ture expects to ring in cold feet.-LouisgiNs
Courier Journal
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Weber sued Taylor in Chi ago
for alternating his wife's affections, and
was elated when the foreman of the jury
said: eve find for the plaintiff" but
correspondingly depressed by the rest
of the verdict, "And award one cent
damages. ''-C Chicago Herald
1t lies with each individual to de-
ter1nine for himself alone whether he is
capable of grasping the situation wait
ing for him.
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ALLEGED GIGANTIC FRAUDS.

WASHINGTON. January 81.
Following is the report of. Special Agent
Ray in the matter of several Chicago firms ex-
eluded yesterday from the mails, with the in.
dorsement of the Chlef-Inspector:
POST-OFFICE INSPECTORS OFFICE.
CHICAGO, January 25, 1888
The Hon. David B. Parker, Chief Post-ofice
Inspector:
The accompanying reports of INSPECTOR Raw
are respectfully Yeferred, with the reeoni-
Laendation that firms named be excluded from
the mails as fraudulent, and that the action of
arely telegraphed to the Postmaster at Chi
cago, In advance of the mail, that the fraud
may be stopped at once, as large amounts by
registered letters and mOney-orders are daily
received. }. b. STUART,
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STATE OF ILLINOIS J -

Daniel A. Ray, being duly sworn, doth de-
pose and say that from careful examination
he is led to believe and does believe the firms
styled Flemming & Merriam, r. E. Kendall s.
Co., Charles ]. Henri & Co. and Cudworth &
Co., of Chicago, ILL.,, are engaged in conducting
fraudulent schemes by the use of the United
States mails. DANIEL A. RAY.
Sworn to before me this oath day of January,
1888. E. c.. TURNER, POST Office Inspector.