The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-11
The East.

THE meeting at Pittsburgh on the Sd be-
tween iron manufacturers and representa-
tives of the Amalgamated Association re-
suited in rupture, and a great strike was
said to be imminent.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention has been called to meet at Har-
risburg, June H.
A FEW days ago the failure of Foster 81
Mckay, boiler and engine manufacturers
at Titusville, Pa, for $250,O0O was an
nounced.
BY recent explosion of gas in coal
mine at WillSesbarre, Pa, two men were
killed, and many tombstones in an ada.
cent cemetery were overturned by the force
of the explosion, which occurred six hum
dred feet below the surface.
On the 4th, in New York, at the election
for officers of the Vanderbilt system of
roads, William H. Vanderbilt retired from
the Presidency of the lines, but remains a
member of the Board of Directors of each.
Mr.. Vanderbilt gave his reasons for retir-
ing to the assembled Directors, maintain-
ing the stability and strength of the corpo-
rations; and resolutions regretting his de-
formation and eulogistic of his manage
ment were passed.
THE New York Legislature on the 4th
passed bill prohibiting free passes being
granted to any one except railroad EN-
ployes and officers.
DYNAMITE was pronounced as simply
personal warfare by the Executive Coun-
Gil of the Irish-American National League,
in session at New York on the 4th.
A DESCENT was made by agents of the
Post-oflice Department on the 4th upon two
establishments recently carrying on pri-
vate post-office business in New York, the
two concerns delivering about forty thous-
and letters daily on the penny post plan.
Over twenty thousand letters and packages
were seized.
A WARNING was issued to New York
bankers on the 4th against taking eleven
stolen Bank of England notes for e., 900
each. The numbers include Il, 1S0 to rs, 100.
AN invitation has been extended to the
free-thinkers OF this country and Canada
TO meet in convention at Rochester, N. Y,
August 90, for session of five days.
THE Legislature of New York has adj
journed sine die.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts has
refused to admit to bail Charles Freeman,
who murdered his child at Pocasset, in
1870, while laboring under religious excite.
ment.
A FEW afternoons ago Frank Mann shot
and killed Mrs. Mary E. Moore, and then
himself, at Millbury, Mass. Mrs. Moore
had been living apart from her husband,
was expecting divorce, and received at
tentions from her murderer. quarrel
precipitated the tragedy.
AN opinion has been expressed by many
lawyers that the great Brooklyn bridge can
not be made free for any kind Of travel.
THE Council of the American League has
empowered Thomas Brennan, Secretary of
the Irish National League, to organize
branches in the United States. 1t is also
proposed to send commission to Ireland
TO ascertain the true condition of affairs in
that country.
WHILE fire was in progress at Hano-
yer, N. H., on the 9th, Prof. Henry E. Par
ker had his skull crushed by a falling Chin
ney. Eight dwellings and outbuildings
were destroyed.
LIGHTNING, it has been ascertained,
caused the recent explosion in the Lehigh
Valley colliery, near wilkesbarre, Pa,
passing down by the wire bell-rope and ig
hitting the gas.
FIVE dwellings and some barns and sheds
were consumed in fire at Rondout, N. ".
a few mornings ago. Two children of M.
Cohn, aged four and twelve years, persisted
in the flames.
THE bill which practically repeats what
are known as the Sunday Blue laws" of
New York has been signed by the Cover
nor.
NEW YORK and Chicago were connected
by telephone on the 9th, and few ''hellosn
were exchanged.
AT Boston on the 9th the six-day contest
between horses and bicycles ended in a
victory for the horses. The total score
was: Horses, 921 miles; bicycles, 500
miles.
The revivalists, Moody and Sankey, ar
rived in New York on the 9th from Europe.
On the 9th the steampship Alaska arrived
at New York, makingthe trip from Queens
town in six days, twenty-three hours and
forty-eight minutes, the quickest time on
record.
GAS generated by small locomotive
sutfocated several men in coal-mine near
Ashland, Pa, on the 7th. Some of the vic.
Tins were revived with difficulty, and three
were thought to be fatally injured.
THE failure is announced of A. o. Tints.
1nan 81 Co., coke manufacturers, of Pitts.
bpEgh, Pc, liabilities over So0O,toO.