The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-06
The EAST.

AN'AiA5
Pennsylvania, all trains on several rail
roads having been suspended on the 9th
by washouts. In the mines at Ashland
and Wilksbarre work was entirely stopped,
and at the latter place house had been
carried down seventy-tive feet, and the oc.
cupants of surrounding dwellings were
seeking places of safety. Near Scranton
the crops had been almost ruined. Sev
eral dams were burst asunder by the pres
sure of the water and many small buildings
were carried away. At Stroutsburg many
cellars were filed The tobacco and corn
crops near Lancaster were ruined. A
cloud burst in the vicinity of Portland
wrecked a number of culverts and bridges,
and washed away tracks in large sections.
On account of refusal to increase their
wages one thousand employees of the Beth
lehem (Pa.) Iron CoInpany's Steel Mil
quit work on the 9th.
THE firm of Vanderhoof 81 Co., brokers'
OF New York, made an assignment few
days ago, with liabilities of $l19,90S.
DIR. HATHAWAY, of Philadelphia, in whose
cellar was found the skeletons of twenty
infants, was on the 9th fined five hundred
dollars and sentenced to seven years in the
penitentiary.
SOME of the inmates of the Bath IN. "
Home for Soldiers and Sailors published
afidavits on the 9th that they had been
subjected to shameful cruelties. X.
AT Harvard College, on the 9th class
of two hundred and ten was graduated
the largest in It's history. @E#N
HARVARD and Yale Colleges rowed theil
eighth annual boat race on the 2Sth, at New
London Conn, the Harvards being vic
torious.
1T is announced that Levi d. Jarrard
the missing County Collector of New
Brunswick, N. j., is "short" just $39, 900.
THE recent flood near Bangor, Pa, caused
loss estimated on the 2Sbh at 100000. AT
Ashland twenty collieries were flood.
ed, and all work was suspended. Nearly q
year would be required to free the Conyng.
ham SHIFT from water.
In New York few days ago three ex
pert bond counterfeiters, Isaac A. Briggs
Wesley Lyon and Emil Brie, were at
rested.
THE thread and cotton works of Samuel
Semple, at Mount Holly, N. j., were on the
2Sth attached for debts amounting to $140,-
600.
THE charges of cruelty against the off,
GERS Of the Soldiers Home, in Bath, N. ",
were investigated on the 2Sth, and the
statements were shown to be false by re-
putable witnesses.
THE death of Rudolph G. Bierlage, Con.
sul-General of the Netherlands at New
York during the past twenty-seven years,
occurred at Brooklyn few days ago, aged
seventy-four years. He was native OF
Amsterdam. y.F. Fs AftEtgtl
THE Jersey Lily, Mrs. Langtry, has Sc
cured a cottage at Long Branch for the
summer.
A GREEN worm, which has not appeared
before for twenty-five years, is reported to
be at work among the wheat fields in Berls
County, Pa, eating off the heads ~
A scHooL-BoY named Leroy Currier, thir.
teen years old and an only son, committed
suicide at Philadelphia few days ago by
hanging, because of failure to get his les.
sons. #StsE&4 IL
ALONG the shores of Staten Island eight
bodies of drowned persons have been found
during the past few days.
MERCHANTS, liquor.dealers and cigar.
men Of New York have inaugurated d
movement to drive the trade-dollar out oil
the city, and refuse them for wares. Bull
lion-dealers would give but eighty-five
cents for those coins. A similar move.
ment has been organized at the Chicago
banks.
AT the port of Boston within the past six
months 1850 ''assistedr immigrants were
examined, many of them being so aged
and intirm that they must necessarily be-
come public burdens.
THE New York authorities on the S0th
ult. sent twenty-three "assistedns immi-
grants back to England.
MoRMoNs to the number of $50 arrived in
New York on the LIST, on the steamship Ne.
vada, and it was stated owing to mis-.
sionary work in Europe nearly FIVE thou.
sand more converts to Mormonism would
come to this country within the next four
months.
The old Arcade Building, the Dexter
Yarn Company's mill, and other buildings
at Pawtucket, r. l., were recently de,
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
JENNIE RoBERTs, Meadville (Pa.) girl,
drowned herself few days ago to spite
her parents, who had refused to let her at.
tend dancing party.
EIGHT locomotives and the machine shop
of the Maine Railroad, at Charlestown,
Mass, were burned recently, causing a
loss of 900.
The following persons lost their lives by
drowning on the 1st: Frank Schulheis, at
Coney Island, N "; Henry Hillner. at
Bordentown, N. j., and Edward Boer, at
Boston, Mass.
In Is announced chat Stephen S. Price, Of
Philadelphia, has been held for embezzling
100000 Of the funds of the Richardson
estate, of which he was executor and
trustee.
On the S0th ult. Major Phipps, formerly
Superintendent of the Philadelphia Aims.
house, who committed heavy forgeries,
was sentenced 10 Ave years. impasonnaeut
BIT hard labor.
IN The Eastern States the movement
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