The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-17

The East.
On the 9th, John Fisher, aged eighteen,
and Winifred Butler, young lady, were
drowned at Quincy, Mass, by the upset
ting of sail-boat.
On the night of the 9th the entire body
of the Salvation Army was arrested in
Syracuse, N. Y, for parading through
the streets singing, in violation of the ordi-
nance.
The New Jersey National party met in
State Convention at Asbury Park on the
9th and nominated Benjamin Urner, of
Union County for Governor. A platform
was adopted which opposes all monopo-
lies; fayors Government control of rail-
ways and telegraph lines; demands equal
taxation, universal suffrage, and favors
submitting to the popular vote an amend
ment to the State Constitution prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors.
THE failure is reported of T. S. Atwater,
bag manufacturer, Of New York, for
$4,000.
A RACK supporting five hundred tons of
metal gave way in the steel warehouse of
Hussey, Howe 81 Co., at Pittsburgh, few
days ago, killing two men and injuring
three others.
THERE was no material change in the at.
titude of the telegraphers' strike on the
10th with the exception of number of
telegraph operators in the employ of the
Panhandle Road at Pittsburgh quitting
work, both sides still refusing to make con-
Cessions.
THOMAS MCCREERY e. Co., bankers at
Beaver, Pa, suspended on the 10th.
THE fratricide, William III. Ostrander,
who was hanged at Utica, N. Y, on the
10th used profanity and obscenity on the
gallows. He said he did not have fair
trial, and finished rambling talk by re-
marking Life is no good to me-"
BY an explosion of fire damp in colliery
near Shenandoah, Pa, ON the 10th Thomas
Williams was fatally and Hugh Edwards
seriously burned.
AT Camden, N Y, p. e. P. Costello's
large tannery was destroyed by fire the
other night. Loss, $1,000
ONE hundred Of the Western Union Tel
egraph wires were cut in the vicinity of
New York City during the night of the
18th, and at other points reports of wire
cutting were announced The strikers in
the Panhandle Railroad offices at Pitts
burgh returned to work on the 18th, the
company reinstating them with the under
standing that they leave the Brotherhood,
and at other places operators were said to
be returning to their posts under similar
conditions.
AT st. Adams, VT, on the 18th railroad
officials met and arranged fastpassenger
train between Chicago and Boston, the run
to be made in forty hours.
MASKED men few nights ago beat B. j.
Ryan, night operator at South Bellingham,
Mass, into insensibility, and laid his body
across the track. Assistance came before
any trains passed.
In New York on the 18th stranger en-
tered the Center Market, and going to a
butchers stand Topped Off his left-hand
little finger with cleaver. He then quiet
ly departed, leaving the dismembered
digit behind.
NEAR Demler, Pa, Oliver Doris, John
KeIlvis and James Conner were struck by
q train few nights ago, and crushed to
death. They had stepped out of the way
of freight train and got in front of an ex-
press coming in the opposite direction.
On the 18th Mr.. G. e. Heath rode down
Mount Washington to the Glen House on a
tricycle., making the eight miles in fifty
five minutes, while tho bicycle record is
one hour and fifteen minutes.
AT Vineyard Haven, Mass, over fifty
houses were destroyed by fire on the night
of the 18th, causing loss of 100000. The
village has two thousand inhabitants,
an appeal for aid had been sent out to the
country at large.
On the 18th Oscar Wilde arrived in New
York from Europe. He comes to superin-
tend = production of his play "Vera."
FEW days ago, at Wakefield, Mass,
John f. Sweltzer, shoe manufacturer,
hanged himself with the rope of his chill
dren's swing
ARTICLES of incorporation were fled in
New York on the 18th for an international
iron and steel company, with a capital of
$lO,O0O,0OO.
THE anniversary Of the establishment of
the Freedmen's Aid Society of the NJ. E.
Church was observed at Ocean Grove, N.
j., on the 18th. The years receipts
amounted to $17S,0OO.
THE commandment of the torpedo station
at Newport, r. l., Captain Selfridge, will
have the only gun-cotton mandatory in
the country in operation within three
months. Heretofore the Government has
been obliged to depend upon foreign deal
ers.
On the 1Sth the Senate subcommittee on
Labor and Education convened in the Post
office Building in New York, and COM
menced an investigation of the telegraph
strike by examining Master Workman
John Campbell, of Pittsburgh.
ONE of the most popular summer resort
houses near Philadelphia, the Hotel Devon,
was entirely destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss, 100000.
By an explosion in Nagle's quarry, at
Glasgow, Pa, few mornings ago, two
men were killed and several other en-
ployes were badly injured.