The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
The East.

The proprietors of the iron-mills at Pitts
burgh, Pa, Cleveland, o., and Wheeling,
w. Va, signed the Amalgamated Associa-
lions scale Of prices on the 31st ult., and
the anticipated strike has thus been avert
ed at these places. The proprietors Of the
five mills at Cincinnati refused to sign the
scale, and five thousand employees stopped
work.
The Conservative leader in the House of
Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote, arrived
In New York on the 31st ult. to attend the
marriage of his son to Edith, the daughter
Of Hamilton Fish
The Harvard College (Boston) Board of
Overseers voted on the 31st ult.--ffteen to
eleven-against comforting the degree of
LII. d. ON Governor Butler.
HANLAN defeated Kennedy in the three
mile boat-race on the 31st ult. at Point of
Pines, near Boston, by twenty lengths.
Hanlan's time was nineteen minutes and
four seconds, the fastest on record.
The Philadelphia mint coined 1900 gold
dollars, 100000 silver dollars, $4,000
dimes, 2,58O,0 tive-cent pieces, and $780,
600 cents during the month of May.
In Huntsville, Cumberland County, Pa,
few nights ago Mrs. Susan E. Douglas
cut the threats of her three boys in her
husbands absence, and then killed herself.
She was temporarily insane.
BILL was passed by the Pennsv'
vania Legislature on the 1st which de-
prives the Standard Oil Company of the
monopoly it has virtually enjoyed in the
pipe line.
THE failure of John Raber, Brooklyn(N.
W brewer, for $4,000, occurred a few
days ago.
THE number of immigrants which had
arrived at New York up to the 1st was fifty
thousand less than for the corresponding
period in 1882.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
disarmament of Washington's army was
celebrated at Fishkill, N. Y, on the I'd.
THE wholesale clothing firm of White &
Rush, of New York, have failed for $751;.
600.
Mr.. S. w. MEDDAUGH and wife, two old
residents of Ithaca, N. Y, aged respective
ly eighty-three and eighty-two years, were
thrown from their carriage while riding a
few days ago, and fatally injured
On the Housatonic Railroad, in Massa-
chusetts, Sunday trains were stopped on
the 3D. by the authorities, the clergymen
of Berkshire County having presented a
petition against running trains Sunday.
NEAR Mineola, L. l., few nights ago
an incendiary FIRE destroyed Silas Aber-
toon's barn, together with thirty.nine mich
cows and three horses.
In New York an American Industrial
League has been incorporated, the object
of the League being to develop, protect
and advance the various industries of the
United States.
THE Salvation Army was notified By the
Chief-of-Police of New Haven, Conn, on
the I'd that they would be arrested if they
sang In the streets. The Salvationist
Captain said they would not stop until or.
dered by the Mayor.
On the New York and National Oil Ex-
change great excitement prevailed on the
4th, the market opening at $1.2l per barrol
and closing at $1.14N. The total sales were
over seven million barrels.
THE speeder-tenders at the Blackstone r.
~ Cotton Mill struck on the 4th, causing
the shutting down of the machinery.
Eight hundred operatives were thrown out
of employment.
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD boy, Of Troy, N. Y,
named Theodore Martin, fatally shot his
fourteen.year-old brother the other night
while examining pistol which he had
found.
On the 4th w. S. Gladstone, nephew of
the Premier, arrived in New York with his
wife and child, intending to spend some
months in travelling.
THE House bill to abolish the contract
system in prisons and reformatory institu.
tions has passed the Pennsylvania Senate.