The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
The East.

HAFh Unwilling uOuSSSy u pldUlDR-lnlll
and million feet of lumber were de-
stroyed by fire at Pittsburgh the other
morning.
THE f. B. Tower, a large fishing
schooner, of Boston, went ashore at Prince
ton on the 25th, having lost it's Captain
and eight of the crew.
A SCHOONER capsized on the 25th Off
Vineyard Haven, Mass, and the Captain
and three seamon were drowned.
THE failure is announced of William Fl.
Jenkins 81 Co., door manufacturers, of New
York, for $4,000.
THE death of Rev. l. w. Pembroke, the
Oldest Congregational minister in New
Hampshire, occurred on the 25th at Con-
cord
WHILE Captain Cribbens, stroke -oarsman
of the life-saving crew at Erie, Pa, was at
tempting to cross the bay there the other
night his boat foundered and he was
drowned.
THE Captain and first officer of the
steamer Tropic, for violating the neutrality
of the United States by furnishing arms
and ammunitionto the Haytian Insurgents,
were sentenced at Philadelphia on the
26th to one years Imprisonment and to
pay fine of $500 and costs.
A REPORT from Dun's Mercantile Agency
on the 26th showed that business was
improving, with marked increase in
clearings. Profits were not large, but
money was being made, and most all
traders felt satisfied with the seasons
business.
THE Democrats of Massachusetts, on the
Goth nominated for Lieutenant Governor
James s. Grinnell, for many years Chief
Clerk in the Department of Agriculture at
Washington.
LEWIS BROTHERS, liquor dealers in New
York City, failed ON the Goth for $11S,000
In fit of insanity Mabel Stone, young
daughter of retired banker of West New
ton, Mass, obtained a revolver few days
ago and killed herself.
The jewelry store of L. S. Stowe 81 Co.,
in Springfield, Mass, was entered by
burglars on the 2Sth and the safe broken
open and robbed Of goods valued at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
EDWIN N. BENsoN's country residence at
Germantown, Pa, was burned few days
ago, involving loss of 100000.
On the 9th Lord Coleridge sailed from
New York for England.
In Washington County, N. Y, David Adj
ans starved himself. The sum Of $4,000
had ON the 9th been found secreted in his
house, and the heirs were searching for
$4,000 more. His wife died of starvation
ten years ago.
A FEW days ago James Hagan, aged
eighteen, of Newcastle, Pa, deliberately
placed revolver at the head of Willie
Harris, aged sixteen, and pulled the
trigger, inflicting fatal wound. Hagan
claimed he did not know it was loaded.
AMONG the passengers of the steamship
Alaska, which arrived in New York on
the 2Sth, was Pere Hyacinthe.
AN explosion of fire-damp on the after
noon of the Goth ult in the Pennsylvania
Coal Company's shaft near Pittston.
caused the death of two men and injured
six others, three seriously. The bodies of
the victims were badly burned.
NEAR Brooks Tunnel, Pa, on the Balti.
more & Ohio Road, the dynamite in q
magazine mysteriously exploded on the
2Sth ult., blowing five men to pieces.
Buildings for distance of fifteen miles
were shaken, and all the windows within a
radius of seven miles were shattered by
the conclusion. The shock also burst rocks
in twain aud uprooted trees.
A YOUNG woman named Annie c.
Cheever was found dead on the Doth ult. in
Pike County, Pa, with bullet-hole near
her heart, and her left breast riddled by
small shot.
THE death of G. N. Fox, Assistant Secreta-
ry of the Treasury under Gideon Welles, oc-
CURED in New York City few days ago.
JAMES STEELE, one of the persons who
was burned in the recent squib explosion at
Kingston, Pa, died on the 2sth ult He was
the seventh victim of the disaster and the
fourth member of his family burned to
death.