The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-12-28
The East.


WILLET BRONSON, of New York City,
real-estate dealer, has failed for $25O,OOO,
and Daniel Gordon, y-goods dealer at
Rochester, N. Y, has made an assignment
for 100000.
A JEWELRY drummer named j. L. Clark
was few days ago robbed of tray of
goods valued at $1,000 In a Waterbury
Comm store.
MRS. A. e. THURBER, of Springfield,
Mass, who some time ago attempted to kill
her husband, was on the Goth sentenced to
ten years. imprisonment, and Edward G..
Rough, the discharged stage carpenter who
attempted to fire the Casino Theater In
New York, has been sent to State Prison
for seven years.
ADvICEs have been cabled to General
Grant of the completion of the Bartholdi
statue of Liberty, at Paris, to be placed in
the harbor of New York.
THE death of Rev. John B. Wright, the
Oldest Unitarian clergyman in the United
States, occurred few days ago at Way
land, Mass. He was ninety-three years
old.
THE opening of the new cantalever bridge
across Niagara River on the Goth was wit
messed by ten thousand persons. The
bridge was tested by sustaining the weight
of twenty locomotives and twenty-four
cars loaded with gravel without apparent
reflections.
f. H. WALwoRTH, of Saratoga, N. Y, who
killed his father in New York hotel, was
married recently to Miss Corinne B. Bram-
lette, of Louisville, KY.
FROM New York to Europe third-class
tickets were on the 2lst reduced to twenty
dollars, owing to a war in rates.
On Wards Island, New York harbor, a
wing of the Lunatic Asylum took fire a
few mornings ago, endangering the lives
of 1920 male patients, but the flames
were extinguished without injury to the
patients.
THE Brooklyn IN. W New England
Society gave its fourth annual dinner on
the evening of the 21st, President Arthur,
General Grant and Henry Ward Beecher
being among the guests. The President
responded briefly to toast.
CITIZENS of Brockaway, Pa, having
made unsuccessful efforts to close up a
house Of ill-repute which stood near the
railroad track, secured locomotive few
evenings ago, ropes were placed around
the house, the engine was started, and the
whole building was torn afrom its founda-
tions and completely wrecked.
TIE ship Regina, from Philadelphia,
went to pieces in a recent gale. Two of
the crew died of exposure, and the re-
mainder took to boat and raft and were
still missing on the 21st.
A FEW days ago Captain Gordon, who
abducted a child from Astoria, l.. l., was
fined 81 900 and sentenced to five years
hard labor.
IT has been decided by Surrogate at
Buffalo, N, Y, that the widow of Presi-
dent Fillmore was of sound mind and not
under duress when her will was executed,
by which her estate was given to several
churches and schools.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED laborers on the West
Shore Railroad in and near Utica, N. ",
were discharged ON the 21st, the heavy
snow preventing the carrying on of work.
An explosion of boiler a few days ago
at Bolivar, N. r., instantly killed George
Westervelt and William McNorton.
REPORTS made by the American Iron
and Steel Association showed that the
prices of those staples ruled steady, that
the consumption equaled the output, and
that a further depression in the trade was
not anticipated.
THE horse-railway stables at Cambridge,
Mass, were burned few days ago. Fifty
cars and several horses were lost in the
flames.
NEAR Catawissa, Pa, sleighing party
went over an embankment a few days ago
Eve persons being seriously injured and
three others slightly.
THE thermometer in New York and New
England On the I'D marked ten to thirty
below zero.
FRANKLIN SNAvELY, of the Pennsylvania
Iron Works, and his sons John and Jacob
were cunning the other morning near
Reading, when John slipped on the ice, the
weapon was discharged, and his brother
was shot dead.
The two hundred and sixty.third ami.
versary of the landing Of the Pilgrim
Fathers was observed on the ODD at Plym
outh, Mass.
CIRCULAR was posted on the 23d
throughout the coke country of Pennsyl
vania calling for the immediate expulsion
of she Hungarian laborersSfrom the region
the claim being made that they are filthy
immoral, ignorant, INSCRIPTIONS, and
simply intend to remain long enough in
America to make few dollars and Their
depart for their native land.