The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
The East.

A RAIN and wind-storm of great severity
prevailed in portions of New York and
Pennsylvania on the 9th. At Muncie, Pa,
lightning struck an eight thousand gallon
oil tank, which was burned, together with
several houses. At Albany, N. Y, Sol, 900
damage was done.
On the 9th the Pennsylvania Legislature
adjourned sine die.
AT the organization of the New Hamp-
shire Legislature ON the 9th Republican
officers were elected in both branches.
The actress Lolita sailed from New York
few days ago for Europe, where she will
remain one year.
THE marriage of Miss Edith Fish, daugh-
ter of Hamilton Fish, ex-Secretary of
State, to Mr. Hugh Oliver Northcote, son
of the Parliamentary leader of the British
Conservative party, took place in New
York few days ago.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was reported
at Ansonia, Conn.,, on the 7th, because of
an attempt by priest to coerce Catholic
citizens to employ a young Catholic ply
stefan, who ha1 just hung out his sign, in
preference to the " heretical murderers I"
who had long practiced in the place.
Church rites, Father Byron said, would be
refused to those who permitted other doc
tors to attend them.
GREAT damage was done in the vicinity
Of Reading and Scranton, Pa, on the night
of the Sth, by rain storm.
In New England a general shutting
down of woolen-mills was inaugurated on
the Sth.
The Florida Ship-Canal & Transit Com
.pany held ameeting at New York on the Sth,
Mt which General Stone, the Engineer, re-
ported that it was feasible to cut ship
canal across the peninsula. The survey would
be made at once.
THE pupils Of primary school in New
York were panic-stricken few days ago
by false alarm Of fire, and large number
of children were severely injured. No lives
We're lost.
The death is announced at Portland of
,Eliphalet Clark the oldest homeopathic
physician in Maine, aged eighty-two He
was founder, with DR.. Gray, Of the New
York American Institute of Homeopathy.
THE noted oarsman, William Stevens,
missing since last December, was found
drowned few days ago at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
NEAR Newburg, N. Y, three powder
mills were struck by lightning and ex-
,ploded few days ago. One man was
killed and several barns in the vicinity
were badly wrecked.
. DAVID G. KNOWLES, aged seventy-eight
years, of Bradford, Mass, and John Behue,
of Philadelphia, Pa, aged thirty years,
committed suicide on the 10th. In Hart
ford, Conn.,, Raphael Rocco and Thomas
Buckley were stabbed to death; and in
Syracuse, N. ", Benjamin Morley killed
his step-daughter, Mrs. Luella Hynes, and
then killed himself.
The death of Chester w. Chaplin, ex.
President of the Boston & Albany Rail.
road, occurred on the 10th at his residence
in Springfield, Mass.
AT New York on the 9th an attachment
was issued against the property of Albert
Weber, the piano manufacturer, who was
said to be insolvent.
On the afternoon of the 10th five convicts
made their escape from the Jail at Hudson,
IN. Y, by digging through the walls.
THREE men were killed and two were IA
tally wounded by an explosion in the An.
sonia Rubber Works at College Point, L. l.
a few days ago.
A COMPANY, with the intention of laying
two new cables across the Atlantic, was in.
corporated at New York on the 18th.
DURING row at Troy, N. ", on the
18th, growing out of the strike at the
Malleable Iron Works, one man was shot
dead and two others were mortally
wounded.
The unwilling of statue of General SyI-
vanus Thayer, who was Superintendent of
the United States Military Academy from
1917 to 1888, occurred at West Point on the
18th.
SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY impoverished
Irish immigrants arrived at New York on
the 18th, their passage having been paid
by the BEitish Government.