The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-16
The East.


TUE Assistant Postmaster of Brooklyn, N.
Y, few days ago turned from pile of bills
amounting to 1890 to answer an INQUIRY,
and soon discovered that the money had van
tshed
A BILL has been passed by New Jersey
Legislature prohibiting the employment in
factories of male children under twelve and
female children under fourteen, without at
least two years schooling. as
APPLICATION has been made by two com
panies to the Legislature of Massachusetts
for charters to build ship can Il across Cape
Cod. 3a ,,a
AT Pittsburgh and Allegheny, where many
stores and houses had been vacated, the riv-
ers were falling on the Sth, but the Ohio was
rising along its entire length, making in
creases to its devastating work. Sections of
Cincinnati were under many feet of water
At Marietta, Pomeroy, Ironton, Portsmouth
and Fremont the floods were terrible, the de.
ytruction of property was very heavy and
many persons had been rendered homeless.
at ParSersburg, W. Va, three hundred peo-
Die were without shelter, and the mail was
being delivered In skiffs. :.
By vote of 104 to 81, the Maine House of
representatives few days ago ordered the
rohibitory amendment engrossed, aud n
proposition to except cider from its provis-
ons was rejected-yeas, Sc; nays, so.
TwENTY-FoUR horses and six mules were
consumed by the recent burning of stable
II P, Lorillard's farm at Jobstown, N. j.
The reason given by the proprietors of lead
ng india-rubber factories In the United States
,or closing up for an indefinite period, throw
ug eight thousand men out of employment,
as the high price of the crude material.
That noted Corouer's Jury summoned at
ew York, composed of Messrs. Grant, Conk
mg Vanderbilt, Gould and the ex-Mayors of
he city, failed to appear on the 9th. Each
the prominent persons subpmuaed were
deferred by other business from sitting on
he case. i
THE proprietors of all hotels in Buffalo, N.
Y, have been ordered by the Fire Commits
Sioners to place balconies on each floor and
connect them by single ladders, under penal
y of fine.
A MAN named Henry Bowie, of Jersey City,
IS attempting the feat OF eating four quail
per day for a month.
ONE of New York Citys Oldest merchants,
William E. Dodge, famous as philanthro.
pist, died in that city on the 9th. Mr.. Dodge
was seventy years old.
A BOND in the sum of 81, 900 has been given
by Richard X. Fox of New York. not to repeat
within year the offense of promoting prize
fight ~, IS
OVER one hundred leading Germans at the
recent farewell dinner in New. York to the
German Consul. General refused to drink to
the health of Kaiser Wilhelm. ~
GAMBLING and policy shops. in Boston to
the number of two hundred or more closed
their doors a few nights ago in consequence
of an order by the Police Commissioners
A FEW days ago three employees of the
Commissioner of Jurors in New York and
lawyer were arrested for. Systematically leay-
Ing the names of certain citizens off the Jury
lists, by which the sum of 100000 per wear
yas believed to have been realized from con.
spicuous people. fA
THE Chief Clerk of the City Water Depart
aent of Camden, N. j., Thaddeus p Butler,
as absconded leaving large deficit in his
accounts. ~