The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-25
The East.

The Lutheran Evangelical Ministerium
of Pennsylvania began its one hundred
and thirty-sixth annual session at Nor
ristown on the 18th.
In New York few days ago Alice Zim-
norman, the young wife Of Frank thinner
man, the artist, killed her twelve-day old
babe with pair of scissors, and attempted
to take her mothers life. She was insane.
BISHOP JESSE PECK, of the NJ. E. Church,
died at Syracuse, N. Y, ON the 18th. He
was born in Middlefield, N Y, in 1911, and
was licensed as local preacher in 1929.
He became Bishop in 1872.
THE Presbyterian General Assembly of
the United States convened in ninety-tifth
annual session at Saratoga, N. ", on the
18th, and the Presbyterians of the Church
South met at Lexington, KY.
THE Boston 81 Montreal express was de-
rallied by an open switch at East Granville,
VT, few days ago, wrecking the engine
and three cars, demolishing the depot, and
wounding several persons, one fatally.
THE postmaster and ex-County Collector
at New Brunswick, N j., Levi d. Jarverd,
was on the 18th said to have fledto Canada
A $4,000 shortage had been discovered in
his county accounts.
TWELVE THOUSAND shares of Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie Railroad stock have been pur-
chased by Vanderbilt for $1,000, 000 which
gives him a controlling interest in the road.
THREE trainmen were killed and $50, 900
worth of rolling-stock destroyed by col
lsion on the Maine Central Railroad few
days ago, near Augusta.
THE Prohibitory Amendment was defeat
ed in the Pennsylvania Senate on the 18th
nays, Is; yeas, 21--less than the constitu.
tional majority.
THE Granite State, steamer plying be-
tween New York and Hartford, Conn.,, was
burned to the waters edge at Goodspeed's
Landing on the 18th, the flames spreading
with such rapidity as to overtake four per-
sons, who were burned to death. One lady
jumped into the river and was drowned.
The loss on the steamer was so, 900, and on
the cargo probably as much more.
The death of Mrs. Lydia Pinkham, whose
face is familiar to all newspaper readers,
occurred at her home at Lynn, Mass, on
the 18th, at the age of sixty-four wears.
She spent SlS0,00O a year in advertising.
and secured a trade netting $500, 900 a wear
profit.
a FIRE a few nights ago destroyed the
car-shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, situated near Newark, Nj, the
total loss being $4,000. Many valuable
coaches and engines were burned. Nearly
five hundred men were left unemployed.
NEAR Concord, N. H., extensive forest
fires were raging on the 10Th, over four
thousand acres having been burned over.
Near Taunton and Barnstable, in Massa-
chusetts, fires were also causing great de-
struction in the woodlands, and in the vi
entity of Groton, VT, $3.50, 900 worth ofprop-
erty had been destroyed.
THE failure of Jesse Oakley & Co, soap
manufacturers, of New York, for $2O4,00O,
is announced.
THE death of Charles Avery, who was
Professor of Chemistry il Hamilton Col
lege, New York, for thirty-five years, from
1884 to 1869, occurred a few days ago, at
the age of eighty-seven years.
WHILE preaching in Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the Goth Rev. DR.. Hornblower, Of the West
ern Theological Seminary, was stricken
with paralysis.
In the railroad coal fields of Pennsylva.
MIA about four thousand miners returned
to work on the DIST, the operators having
complied with their demand for an in
crease of wages.
In the Courtof General Sessions at New
York few days ago seventeen gamblers