The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
The East.

On the 9TH the steamer Bolivia arrived In
New York with 143 assisted" immigrants
on board.
LIGHTNING struck Bleallie e. Co.'s mill,
at Armstrong, Mass, few days ago, and
1t was destroyed, causing loss of 100000
A STORM at Dover, N. H., on the night of
the 9TH caused the bursting of sewer,
which flooded the Cocheco Print Works,
damaging prints ready for shipment and
other stock TO the extent of $4,000 Seven
persons were struck by lightning and three
persons were killed.
CROPS have been seriously injured by
continuous rains in the vicinity of Scran-
ton, Pa, and additional heavy rains fell ON
the 9th, accompanied by thunder and light
ming, which caused loss of life.
A RAIN, hail and thunderstorm in the
vicinity of Brattleboro, VT, few days
ago resulted in great damage to crops.
Land'slides ON the railways delayed all
trains.
By the capsizing of a pleasure boat off
Staten Island, N. Y, few days ago three
men were drowned.
AT Peekskill, N. Y, during the sham
battle on the 4th of the Thirteenth Regi-
ment, of Brooklyn, twenty-five men were
Frustrated by the heat. The mercury stood
at ninety-eight degrees.
AN aeronaut named Grimley, who
assembled from Honesdale, Pa, on the 4th,
in balloon, landed on the 9th in the Cats
kill Mountains, N. Y, and had terrible
experience
MINERS at Ely, VT, who could not get
Ehnir
town with gunpowder on the 9th, and had
already committed acts of violence The
Governor ordered four companies of militia
to the place, and would also attend himself
to prevent outrages.
SERIOUS injury was done by wind and
rain on the 9th in the vicinity of Albany,
N. Y, trees, ice-houses and barns being
demolished, and crops injured.
IT is announced that Timothy Smith, a
clerk in the office of firm of brokers' in
Boston, has confessed to having stolen
$4,000 and lost it in gambling.
AN oil-tank at Oil City, Pa, was struck
by lightning on the evening of the 9th, set
ting it ON fire, and $4,000 barrels of oil were
consumed.
In Philadelphia six cases of sunstroke
occurred on the 9Th, five of which proved
fatal.
GREAT mortality among children in the
tenement districts'of New York has been
caused by the hot wave. Up to noon on
the 9th the total deaths for three DAYS
numbered 494. There was also twenty-six
cases of sunstroke ON that day-three fatal
THE steamer City of Rome arrived in
New York ON the 9th with thirty assisted
immigrants, mainly from the work-house
at Ballanisloe.
j. d. BALDWIN, of Worcester, Mass,
proprietor of the Spy, died suddenly on
the Sth. He served three terms in Con-
gress.
WHILE bathing in the SchuylEill at Read
ing, Pa, two brothers, Aaron G. and Wash
ington G. Detweiler, prominent and wealthy
physicians, were drowned a few evenings
ago.
Ex-JUDGE A. B, JAMES, of the Supreme
Court of New York, and ex- Congressman,
died at Ogdensburg few days ago.
INTENSE heat prevailed in New York on
the 18th. There were 176 deaths, with thir-
teen fatal cases of sun-stroke. Each street
was patrolled by carts loaded with blocks
of ice and covered by tarpaulins. The
deaths for the week numbered 1851, against
7l6 the previous week.
WHILE August Alters and child were
riding in small boat on the river at AL
bany, N. Y, on the Sth storm overlook
them, and they sought shelter under a
bank. The fierce wind blew down a tree.
which struck the boat and killed both the
occupants.
A FIRE recently destroyed the State
Alms-house buildings at Bridgewater,
Mass, causing a loss of $150,000. The six
hundred inmates were removed in safety
James Gilmore, a negro inmate, confessed
that he fired the buildings.
On the 7th five families of "assistedn
Irish immigrants landed at Castle Garden,
New York.
UNDER command of Governor Barstow,
four companies of Vermont militia went
to the copper mines at Ely on the It'll and
captured eleven of the striking rioters. 1t
was found that the families of some min
ers were on the verge of starvation.
On the Sth seven deaths from sun-stroke
occurred at Philadelphia.
EIGHTEEN deaths from the excessive heat
occurred in New York City ON the 9th, five
being caused by sun-strokes.
AN agent at Pittsburgh, NY, informed
the Treasury Department on the 9th that
large numbers of "assisted" Irish immi-
grants We're entering the United States
from Canada, some being ticketed to the
Western States. Many who We're helpless
and starving were sheltered in the Erie
County Alms-House The Treasury Off
cials say pauper immigration, via Canada,
can not be prevented.
On the 9th Francis B. Webster, of Cam
bridge, Mass, was arrested for swindling
the Alta Mining Company out OF $4,000.
ON lie New England Road, near Plain