The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-23
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A YOUNG commission merchant named
John L. Mcdowell, of Altoona, Pa, after en-
bezzling nearly $4,000, absconded on the
14th.
IT is announced that Governor Butler, of
Massachusetts, has compelled The resignation
Of the State Insurance Commissioner. He
alleged that the official had accepted pres
ent of $4,000 from an insurance company.
THE MARI ige of Samuel Hides, aged seven
ty-seven years. and clairvoyant named
Mann, has been annulled by Troy On. W
court. and the deeds to property given to the
bride were cancelled.
On the 18th the remains of Ex-Governor
Morgan were inferred at New York. Among
the pall-bearers were President Arthur and
Genera Grant.
MARSHALL JEWELL was inferred at Hart
ford, Conn.,, on the 14th The funeral was at
tended by ostmaster-General Howe, ex-
Postmaster General James, Secretary Chand-
Ter and ex.Secretary Bristow.
THE Democrats of Pennsylvania will meet
in State Convention at Harrisburg in August.
THE New York Legislature has passed a
bill to reduce the fare on the elevated rail-
roads in New York City to five cents.
ELIJAH KEMPER, aged eighty-four years,
and Rebecca Rider, of twenty-nine summers,
were married at Lancaster, Pa, few days
ago
For attempting to commit suicide boat
man of New York. who tried to hang himself
In his cell in the Tombs a few nights ago, has
been sent to the State Prison for one year.
This is the first sentence of this sort under the
new code.
Four wards in Buffalo, N. Y, were under
water on the 18th, and three hundred head OF
cattle were drowned in three pens. There
was four feet of water on the race-track.
AMONG the deaths which occurred on the
18th were those of George Dawson, for fifty
years connected with the Evening Journal at
Albany, N. Y; Prof. Lyman H. Atwater, OF
Princeton College, and Ann Gerry, of New
Haven, Conn, daughter of signer of the
Declaration of Indepence, aged ninety-one
years.
WHILE crossing the railroad track at Wall
ingford, Conn.,, few days ago a sleigh was
struck by locomotive, and the occupants,
two boys and a"girl, were killed
THE sum of $12, 900 was forwarded to Ire.
land on the 18th by Father Walsh, of Water.
bury, Conn, for Land-League purposes.
The United States Iron and Tin-plate
Works near McKeesport, Pa, we're recently
destroyed by fire. Loss, 800, 900; insurance
$4,000.
The default ny officers of the wrecked City
Bank of Jersey City, three in number, have
been sentenced to hard labor in State Prison
for ten, six and four years respectively.
A NUMBER of stores and dwellings, com
prising the best portion of Bradford VT
were consumed by fire few mornings ago.
A FIRE recently destroyed Valentines knit
ting mill at Bennington, Vt, causing Loss
of 100000.
EAST of the Hoosac Mountains great gale
prevailed on the 10Th, wrecking depot al
Zoar, Mass, and blowing freight cars off the
track.
A DESPERATE named John Cavenaugh, o.
Pittsburgh, entered car of passenger trair
near that city few days ago and fired pts
toll down the aisle, killing two persons The
shooting was done on general principles
there being no cause for the cowardly deed
1T is announced that the tidal wave pre-
dicted for March g. by Prof Virgins, is sucf
a source of alarm at Rockaway Beach, N. Y.
that the families of some of the Landlords
have concluded to remove until the day bt
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