The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-18
The East.


THE arrest Is announced of John Egan,
ex-Speaker of the New Jersey House of
Representatives, upon the charge of at
tempting to bride Assemblyman Armitage,
of Newark, at the late session of the Legis-
lature.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th light
ming struck and exploded large oil.tank
in the Standard Oil Company IS works at
Communipaw, N. J. The blazing fluid
spread quickly in all directions, reaching
other tanks and exploding them, and be-
fore the fire was got under control twelve
great tanks, eighteen cars, six barges, a
dredge, three docks and five brick struct-
ures were consumed. Six men were miss
ing, and were supposed to have been
burned to death. The total loss would ex-
coed 81 100000.
On the 10th over eight hundred evicted
tenants from Ireland, most of whom had
been assisted" to emigrate by the British
Government, arrived in Boston.
AT the recent annual meeting of the Ma
tional Temperance Society, in New York,
Bishop Hopkins, of Massachusetts,, was
elected Presidents, and John N. Stearns was
reelected Secretary.
On the 10th Ward McConkey was hanged
at Pittsburgh, Pa, for the murder of
George A. Mcclure ON Augusta, 1881.
THE st, Adams (Vt.) First Baptist Church
was destroyed by fire on the 10th, causing
a loss of $4,000.
z. B. JOHNSON, of Leroy, N. Y, and s.
Burt, of Batavia, n. Y, drovers, were
killed by collision of trains near High
land Station, on the New York Central
Road, few days ago.
THE arrest of Andrew j. Smith, Presi-
dent of the Manhattan Fire Insurance Com
pany, occurred in New York on the 18th on
the charge of perjury, in making oath to
a false statement of the condition of the
company.
A CLAIM is made by the Baker family,
descendants of soldier who commanded
a troop of Hessians in the Revolutionary
dred and fifty acres in the heart of Phila-
delphia, which they assert rightfully be-
longed to their military progenitors.
THE death of Hannah S. Grant, mother
of ex-President Grant, occurred quite sud-
denly on the 18th at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Mary Corbin, at Jersey
City, N. j., aged ninety-four years.
ANGELO CoRRETTI was hanged at White
Plains, N. Y, on the nth, for the murder
of Daniel Cash.
A DYNAMITE explosion a few days ago
at colliery near Pottsville, Pa, killed
two men and fatally injured another man.
THE failure Of Henry K. White, a dealer
in straw-goods at New York, for $150, 200, is
announced.
OWING to demand of seven hundred fe-
male cigarette-makers at Rochester, N. Y,
for an advance of twenty per cent. on the
pay they were receiving, the employers on
the 18th instituted lockout.
EXCITEMENT prevails among the farmers
in Niagara County, N. ", over the appear
ance in all the apple orchards of aphides.
or plant-lice.
IMMIGRANTS to the number of 1880 ar
rived at New York during the week ended
on the 10Th, against 1884 for the CORE.
spending week of last year. During the
month of April the arrivals numbered u.s.
475, against 104,274 for the same month in
1882.
IsRAEL WAsHBURN, Ex-Governor OF
&aine, died at Philadelphia on the 10Th,
where ne nau Deeu unuer meulCal WeaL-
ment. He was seventy years of age.
In behalf of the creditors suits for $780,.
900 have been begun against the defunct
First National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y 1t is
claimed that amount was lost during the
Presidency of Lee, who is now in the PEN
itentiary.
1T was announced on the 14th that the
defalcation of the late William B. Carroll,
who was coupon clerk in the Finance De-
partment of New York City, was $146 $3.50.
v. RICHARDS & BRo., dry-goods dealers
at Augusta, Me-, have failed for 100000.
THE Executive Council of the Irish Ma
tional League of America has issued an
address "to the Irish-American societies
and to all friends Of Ireland" soliciting
all Irish-American societies of every kind
TO become affiliated with the National
League, and calls for meetings to be held
at which the principles of the League shall
be ratified.
THE wife Of Rev. e. L. Stoddard, rector
Of st. Johns Episcopal Church, in Jersey
City, n, J., while busting the shelves Of