The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-19
The East.

A STEAMER made in imitation of the
Maid of the Mist ran the lower rapids at
Niagara on the 10th, remaining ten minutes
in the whirlpool.
The Prohibitionists of New Jersey have
nominated Rev. Solomon Parsons for Gov.
ernor.
The Western Union Telegraph Compa-
ny made its annual report on the 10th,
which showed that the company had 1872
726 miles Of wire and 2,917 offices. During
the year 40,6S1, Ut messages were handled,
the receipts from which were 19,454, 902,
against VII, ia, 165 last year. The expenses
for the year were Sill, 794,553, leaving net
profit of n $3.50, $40.
UPON being told a few evenings ago by a
friend that he had heard of her death, Miss
Jennie Noon, of Scranton, Pa, fell into a
swoon and died the next morning.
THE sessions of the Woman Suffrage
Convention, at Brooklyn, N. Y, closed on
the 18th. May B, Clay, of Kentucky, was
elected President. Resolutions were adopt
ed that Congress and the State Legislatures
be petitioned for constitutional amend
ments granting suffrage to women.
THE United States Senate sub. Commit
tee on Labor and Education met at Man.
chester, N. H., ON the 18th. Colonel
Thomas Livermore, agent of the Amos
keag Mills, testified that the mills turned
out annually about 60,000,0O0 yards of
cloth, at cost of between $5,000,000 and
S6,OOO000. The cost of labor was about
thirty per cent. of the total cost of the
goods, or about S1,50O,O00. The American
operatives, he said, numbered one-ffth of
all employed, and were the best opera
tives. The operatives were not discon.
tented. He did not believe there was a
labor union in Manchester, though many
efforts had been made to establish them.
There had not been general strike in
thirty years.
The miners employed by the Rochester
d Pittsburgh Railroad Company at Du.
bois, Pa, were on strike on the 10Th, and
through the use of brass bands and
various terrifying devices had bulldozed
the whole region. Trouble was antici-
pated.
WHILE on his way recently to Jail Isaac
Langa, a convicted incendiary, jumped
from an express train near Montpelier,
VT, which was going at the rate of forty
miles an hour, but was captured unhurt.
THROUGHOUT Maine extreme cold wealth.
er prevailed ON the 18th, and several inches
of snow were reported in the northern part.
1T was estimated that booksellers and
book-makers throughout the country lost
100000 on the 18th by the Justification OF
the reports of the races at Jerome Park, N,
Y. The fraud, it was thought, was perpe.
trated by expert telegraphers who tapped
the wires outside of the park.
SEVEN persons lost their lives by the re-
cent laundering of the Boston fishing
schooner M. o. Andrews.
MAMIE GORDON, aged fourteen, repri.
manded in school at Trenton, N j., the
other day for circulating an improper bal.
lad, drowned herself upon being told her
parents would be informed of her mis-
deed.
MRS. HEUDER was drowned few days
since at Erie, Pa. She was the fifth mem.
Der of the family to perish that way. They
believed they were doomed by curse ut.
tered by an ancestor in Bavaria.
THE death of Captain r. Beckwith, vet.
eran of the war of 1912, occurred on the
18th at Norwich, Conn.
A FURNACE engine on the Southwest
Railway ran into a passenger train near
Lemont Station, Pa, few days ago, tum-
bling over one car and setting it on fire.
or the eighteen persons in the coach, none
escaped injury, seven being seriously
wounded.
Mrs. FANNIE SPRAeUE, mother of ex-
Of I'll
was nearly eighty-four years of age, died
at Groton, Conn.,, on the 18th.
A CRY Of fire in the Elm Street School
at Waterbury, Conn. ,scaused six hundred
children to rush down stairs in the widest
confusion few days ago. One girl had
her collar-bone broken, another an eye bad.
ly cut, and third was taken out insensi.
bic.
AT Derry Station, Pa, John Bly, and
James Maloney, switchmen, were crushed
TO death by the cars the other day.
Four persons, viz: Margaret Curren,
aged seventeen; Alice King, aged five:
Mary Farrell, aged ten, and Daniel Far.
rell, aged seven, were struck by an engine
while walking on the track of the Balti-
more & Ohio Road near Connellsville, Pa.
on the 10th, and all were killed.
The wholesale clothing firm of Hyams
Brothers, Of New York and San Francisco,
failed on the 10Th for $259, 900, and Holz-
niger & BruclIheimer, importers of notions
and fancy goods, failed for 100000.
AT East Haven, Conn, the Blue laws
were on the 10th enforced, fourteen persons
being fined four dollars and costs for rid
ing in public highway the day previous.
AT birthday party on the 10Th at the
residence of Charles Tabor, in Ithaca, N.
", fifteen persons were poisoned from
eating cannod beef. One lady had died
and several others were seriously ~