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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
A Railway Wreck.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 24.-An accident occurred
on the Louisville & Nashville Air Line. AS
the passenger train from Louisville was
about six miles from East St. Louis it
struck a broken rail. The engineer felt
the shock and put on the brakes, and all
the coaches passed over in safety except the
last two passenger-cars and the sleeper, all
of which were crowded. These two tipped
over and were dragged along short dis
lance when the couplings broke.
The number of persons injured, as of
ficially reported, is thirty-seyen; but of
these only about eleven are badly hurt
Mr.. Stern, a clothing merchant, of Phila-
delphia, received a severe scalp wound and
a violent confusion on the left side Of the
face.
Mrs. Weidner, Of Canton, No., has a very
severe scalp wound, and her shoulder and
knee hurt.
The scene and excitement were heart
rending among the sixty men, women and
children who occupied the coach and Sleep
er. The women shrieked and the wounded
groaned, and blood flowed profusely from
the numerous cuts the inmates received. 1t
was a long time before the women could be
quieted. The wounded were brought to
East ST Louis when those who were not
badly hurt went on to their destination.
Others of the wounded were brought to this
city.
Mr.. Anthony received a frightful scalp
wound. He cried: ''Oh, my poor wife and
children, when he became unconscious and
delirous. Anthony's injuries are notso bad
as at first reported. The physicians now
express strong. hopes Of his recovery. He
is Treasurer and General Manager of the
Household Sewing Machine Company, Of
Providence, r. |.
1t is now believed that none of the in
jured are fatally hurt.
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THROUGH A TRESTLE.
Three People Killed and Twenty-O One In-
jured in Railroad Accident Near Fort
Edward, N. Y.

Three People Killed and Twenty-One In-
jured in Railroad Accident Near Fort
Edward, N. Y.
Fort EDWARD, N. Y, Oct 23.-The
Caldwell, Glens Falls and Fort Edward
train to connect with the Albany and Troy
train bound north left Glens Falls at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon for Fort Ed
ward. 1t consisted of the locomotive,
baggage-car and one passenger coach.
Over the canal feeder, few rods
from the Fort Edward Depot, was
wood bridge, the bottom of which
was about twenty feet above water about six
feet deep The engine slowed up when
nearing Fort Edward, but in going over the
bridge the engineer, Edward Deal, felt the
structure totter. He threw the throttle wide
open and passed over in safety. When the
tender struck the other side of the bridge
Deal felt a sudden lurch and looking back
ward he saw the bridge, baggage-car and
passenger coach go down into the water.
Immediately there was intense excite
ment Fire bells were rung, and hundreds
soon arrived at the scene and assisted in re-
moving the dead and wounded from the
wreck. The passenger coach lay upon its
rightside, the bottoms of the windows being
on a level with the water. John Jenkins,
the conductor, was in the middle Of the
car when it went down. He was serious
ly disabled, but did not lose his presence
of mind. Binding his cap on his hand he
broke through the windows of the left side
and crawled to the roof. Some of the
bridge timbers had crushed through the
roof, and these were removed and the Occu-
pants of the car were removed through the
aperture.
The list Of the killed and wounded is as
follows:
Wincop, Gloversville; Mrs Michael Monohin,
GlenS Falls.
Wounded-B. Theiz fatally injured; Thorn
as E. Connors, Glens Falls, legs broken and
shoulder sprained: Patrick Howard, fireman,
badly injured internally; T.Brady, brakeman,
Glens Falls, leg broken, internally injured;
J. Jenkins, conductor, face and head badly
cut; Edward DealiL ger, cut about the head;
head badly cut; Mrs. L. M. Hamland, Fort Ed
ward, head and side injured; Mrs Anna lis
dale, Whitehall, injured slightly about the
chest; Thomas LOOMS, baggageman, shoulder
sprained; Charles Scheffers, expressman,
shoulder dislocated Charles Calestraski, foot
bruised and head cut; James LOOMS,
Sandy Ec,d a bruised donder and Spt james
broken and injured internally; Abraham
Wing, Fort Edward, head and neck cut, Mrs.
G. W. Carr, Fort Edward, cut about head aud
body bruised; N. Goldstein, Glens Falls, bad
y cut about the head; Jacob Goldstein,
slightly injured; John n, Lessick, proprietor
of the Albion Hotel, Saratoga. head and chest
injured; Mrs. Florence Stoddard, Fort Ed
ward, injured about the limbs and head;
John Cashion, Glens Falls, conclusion of the
spine
A large force of men is engaged in clear
ing away the wreck, and there is a report
which lacks confirmation that there are two
bodies under the wreck. The accident was
caused by the weakness of the support OF
the bridge.
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The East.

THE golden weddings of Mr. and Mrs.
William II. Starr, of New London, Conn.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Starr, of
Groton, Conn.,, were celebrated on the 18th.
Fifty years ago William H. Starr and his
betrothed attended the wedding of Charles
H. Starr, but did not intend to be united
on that occasion. The fever proved con-
tagious, and ohe double wedding was the
result.
LOREN B. SESSIONS, charged with bribery
in the New York Senatorial contest in
1881, was acquitted on the 18th by a jury
Mt Albany, N. Y.
A FEW nights ago Sumner Osgood and
his wife, an aged couple, were suffocated
by coal.gas at Holland Patent, Ny.
THE reports made by Dun's Commercial
Agency ON the 10Th showed that business
was generally good throughout the
country.
In the Methodist Church at Baysfield, L..
l., while an oyster festival was in progress
a few evenings ago two well-known citi-
zens Of the town engaged in violent
alteration, growing out of an old feud,
which terrified the whole assemblage. The
this manner overturned and extinguished
the lights, after which a panic ensued,
and no less than ten persons, including
the pastor of the church, received severe
injuries.
CHARLES I. CHANCE testified before the
United States Senate Committee on Labor
on the 10Th, at Boston, that he had seen the
tanned skins of several women and that
the business had been carried on for at least
eighteen years, but lately had been increaS-
ing. He designated the tanneries where
the human hides" had been perfected,
and stated that the proprietors themselves
did most OF the work on them.
EDWARD HovEY, who killed his sister-in-
law, Fanny Vermilye, was executed in the
Tombs Prison, New York, on the 10Th. He
was virtually carried to the scaffold, and
presented picture of despair.
THIRTV-SIx Mormon missionaries arrived
in New York City on the 21st, on their way
to Europe.
DURING heavy squall off Provincetown,
Mass, on the Goth number of vessels
were damaged, and the schooner Helen M.
Crosby, of Gloucester, lost eight men.
REV. DR.. HENRY G. POTTER was conse.
Grated Assistant Bishop of the diocese of
New York on the 21st
By the fall Of platform at the Harvard
regatta on the Charles RIVER q few days
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The Trichiniasis in SaxOny.

) LONDON, Oct, 22.-The trichiniasis in
Saxony is increasing and spreading. There
are now five hundred officially reported
cases. The mortality has reached the I'M
precedented average of twenty per cent. of
the total number of infections. In many of
the districts entire families are
Frustrated. The scientists, who have
been studying the plague, have
announced that the disease will
become epidemic if it continues to develop
for the full period of a month as it has in
creased in the twelve days during which it
has already existed. This declaration, in
the face of the fact that the number of GER
titled cases is increased daily at fearful
rate, has produced an alarm bordering on
a panic. The politicians engaged in the
business of building UP German protective
policy are taking advantage of the
SaXony plague, and attempting to con-
vince the public that the disease was
introduced in imported American meats.
They have succeeded in raising popu-
lar clamor against American pork, and eff
forts will be made to Increase the restrictive
character Of the present laws against its i'm
portation. Heretofore these laws have de-
rived their support entirely from the poll
ticians and German hog raisers, the con-
Sumers having been generally opposed to
them, but the Bismarck enactments are now
securing the growth of a strong popular APP
proyal, which it may BE impossible to over
come, no matter how strongly proven ILL
founded
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Raising Ostriches.

New YORK, Oct 22.-The stock Of the
first ostrich farm in the United States was
shipped from this city Thursday. 1t con-
sisted of three pair of three-year-old ostrich
es, which were sent to Sylvan Lake, Orange
County, Fla, on the steamer Western Tex
as. The birds shipped wei ghed from $50 to
200 pounds each, and stood about seven
feet high without any stockings. They
are natives Of Nubia, in Upper Africa.
1t took eight months to transport safely the
birds from Nubia to this city. They reached
here September 10, and the last six weeks
have been reveling in dieto fine quality
of hay and delicious mash of bran, oats
and cracked corn, in the wilds Of Hoboken.
Their first crop of feathers will be due next
year. After they have moIted their present
wholly unmarketable coat and got to work
at the feather business in earnest year
later, or when five years old, they are ex-
pected to be able to furnish two crops an
nually and begin the raising of families.
The result of this experiment will be
watched with much interest by scientific
and business men.
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aunt, and both persisted. Ten residences
were burned.
A RECENT fire destroyed the store of S.
B. Smith, at Vaudeville, Mich, and four
men were burned to death.
A SEVERE snow-storm ragged for three
days at Tellweide, Col, and the mountain
passes were on the 22d covered to the depth
of four feet
A DISsoLUTE young man of Kansas City,
named Daniel Mcmahon, went to a dance
house at Armourdale few days ago and
INDUCED in wild spree. His father sought
him out, and found him engaged in an
ARRAY, the end being the accidental killing
of the father by his son.
WHILE the people were passing out of a
circus tent at Nashville, Tenn, the other
evening James P. Briefly killed Robert P.
Bates with revolver, causing stampede.
Ten years ago Bates murdered the brother
of Briefly at dance.
PRESIDENT JEFFERsoN's grave at Mon
ticello, Va, has been inclosed with hand
some fence and adorned by suitablemon-
ument
THE death is announced of Hon. Elisha
Foote, Commissioner of Patents under An
drew johnson. He died at st. Louis, of
heart-disease.
A sLooP foundered off Newport News,
Va, few days ago, and three men were
drowned
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Foreign Intelligence.

THE cattle market at Breslau, Germany,
where the plague had appeared, was closed
on the 18th.
In village near Alexandria, Egypt,
four deaths from cholera occurred on the
18th.
HIGH tides and terrific gales were pre-
vailing all along the English coast on the
18th, and many casualties were reported.
Limerick, Ireland, was partially flooded.
THE suspension of S. R. Warren & Son,
of Toronto, famous as manufacturers Of
organs, is announced.
For robbing Jews seventeen peasants in
Styria have been condemned to imprison-
melt.
1T was reported on the 10Th from Berlin
that terrible gales had prevailed along the
Baltic coast and through Northern and
Central Germany. Many lives had been
lost and buildings blown down. Fishing
boats and other vessels were wrecked near
Lubbock.
TWELVE brigands at Palermo, Italy, were
sentenced to death OH the 10Th, and eleven
others received life sentences. They infest-
ed the Amarosi district and murdered four
teen persons in the past six years.
ON the 10th James Russell Lowell,
United States Minister, was nominated as
a candidate for the rectorship of the Scotch
University of st. Andrews, at Edinburgh,
Scotland.
AT colliery in Wharncliffe, Yorkshire,
Eng, an explosion occurred on the 10Th,
and twenty miners were killed. Five who
were in the shaft escaped with their lives.
BILL-PosTERs in London on the 10Th re-
fused to placard the announcement of
lecture by Michael Davitt.
THE announcement was officially made
on the DIST that the treaty of peace had
been signed between Chill and Peru.
AN avalanche overwhelmed six work
men recently at Asaro, Spain, and five
of them were killed.
AT Gibraltar four more shocks of earth
quake were felt early on the morning of
the goth. lasting about ten seconds.
SUIT was brought by James Dun, col
ored citizen of Windsor, Ont, few days
ago for the admission Of his daughter to
the public school, but the court sustained
the plea of the school officers that there
was no room.
"ENI1 -lhhEE pGISOHS Hdu uleu lTOm
trichiniasis at Ermsleben, Saxony, up to
the 21st, and 226 were still suffering.
In colliery near Stokes-upon-Trent
Eng, six men were killed and three others
were injured by an explosion few days
ago.
The death of Captain Wayne Reid, the
novelist, aged sixty-six years, occurred
in London few evenings ago.
ON the 22d the wife of John Russell
Young, American Minister to China, died
at Paris.
AT Malta and Trieste shocks of earth
quake were experienced on the ed, and
residents of Smyrna were said to be afraid
to enter their houses. sd
GREAT excitement prevailed at Quebec,
Can, on the 22d over rumor that the POI
lice had discovered a plot to assassinate
the Marquis of Landsdowne, the new Gov
ernor-General of Canada, it being asserted
that the plot grew out of Irish dissatisfac-
ton with his course as landlord.
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Alleged SWindle.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 22.-Warrants
were issued for the arrest of B. L. Gardiner
and Arthur L. Blue on charges of using
the mails for the purpose of defrauding
others. Under the firm name of 7. c.
Gordon & Co. they addressed letters to all
parts of the country, offering for sale COM
bined thermometer and barometer, which he
promised to forward on receipt Of twenty
eight cents. Their mail for nearly month
averaged more than thousand letters a
day, all of them presumably containing re-
mittances. Investigation showed that the
instrument has in no case been forwarded
according to orders. Gardiner was found
to have fled. Blue recently left the city de-
linquent to the United Order of Honor, Of
which he was treasurer. Gardiner is
wanted in several other cities for different
swindles. Letters are still being received
for the firm at the rate of several hundred
daiIy
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ago student named E s. Mead had his
chest crushed and right leg broken, and
eight others were seriously injured.
A TWENTY horsepower boiler in plan
ing-mill at Brooklyn, NY, exploded few
days ago, killing the Waterman and nearly
wrecking the building.
JACOB LUTZ, Of Rochester, N. Y, was
murdered by John Kelly on the 21st, and
son of Lutz was fatally injured. The
motive was to steal ten dollars.
THE opening of the National Horse-Show
took place on the 22d in New York, with
four hundred fine animals on exhibition.
On the 22d the baggage car and passen-
ger coach Of a Delaware & Hudson train
fell through trestle near Fort Edward,
N. Y, twenty feet to the Champlain Canal,
killing three persons and wounding twenty
others, one fatally.
The barge John Marsh, with a crew of
five or six men, was lost during heavy
gale on Lake Ontario off Charlotte, N. Y,
a few days since.
A FEW days ago young man named
Thackery, of Stony Creek, Conn.,, returned
from long sojourn in the West, fell in
love with his fathers second wife, and
eloped with her.
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LATER.

AN explosion of powder on the 23d In j.
II. Smiths Excelsior squib factory, &C
Kingston, Pa, blew eight children out of
the building, one ia ling in the creek. Their
ages were between fourteen and sixteen,
and all were horribly burned and black
ened by the powder. One was already
dead, and five others could not recover.
AFIRE at Miles City, NJ. T., few days
ago destroyed thirteen buildings on Park
street.
SIX miles from East St. Louis on the 23d
a broken rail caused two coaches of a
Louisville & Nashville train to jump the
track and they were dragged some dis
lance on their sides. Thirty persons
were injured-ten seriously and one IA
tally.
A BOILER exploded on the sd in the
pump factory at Belpre, o., killing one
man and wounding eight others, four
fatally.
Four additional deaths from cholera oc-
Cured on the 23d at the Arab village near
Alexandria.
THE rear car of an Indianapolis, Bloom
ington & Western train jumped the track
on the 23d near Rainstown, Ind, injuring
eleven persons, two fatally.
THE Marquis of Landsdowne landed at
Quebec at ten a. m. on the 23d, and was
Immediately sworn in as Governor Gen.
eral of Canada. The populace exhibited
much enthusiasm.
ORDER had been restored ON the 23d at
Port-au-Prince, whore 1900 lives were lost
and 100000 worth of property destroyed
during the recent massacre.
JOHN NJ. GLIDDEN, of Cleveland, o., Sec
rotary of the Republic Iron Company, is
insolvent, and on the Esd confessed iudg-
ment on claims aggregating S1l1,OOO
A FoUR-sToRY building at st. Louis, the
upper part of which was used as hotel,
was destroyed by fire on the 23d, and five
persons were reported as burned to death.
THREE children named Ingus, the oldest
girl of twelve years, were drowned in a
pond at Elkhorn, Manitoba, on the 23d. The
girl was on the pond skating, when the ice
broke and she fell into the water. The
younger brothers tried to save her, and all
three persisted in the presence of their
mother on the bank.
The ''old line" Democrats of Massachu-
sets on the 23d issued an address repudiat-
ing General Butler and invoking Demo-
cratic support for the Republican candi-
date for Governor.
WHILE dance was in progress at a
house near Gardiner, Col, few evenings
ago two Mexicans while standing outside
fred several shots into the house, killing
two Mexicans, one ofwhom was the owner
of the house, and two white men, one the
son of prominent citizen. Intense ex-
element prevailed, and . lynching was
probable,
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POST-OFFICE REPORT.

WASHINGTON, Oct 22.-According to the
annual report of Frank Hatton, the First
Assistant Postmaster General, the average
amount of work performed far exceeded
that of any previous year, while the COM
plants have been fewer. The whole num-
Der of offices June 80, 1888, was
1865, an increase of 1862. Penn
sylvania, with 3.716 leads the States;
New York second, with S,OS2, and
Ohio third, with 1890. Lancaster County,
Pa, had 15S offices, the largest in any coun-
ty. The removals and suspensions mum
bered SIG. The adjustment of the lalaries
of Presidential postmasters has advanced so
far as to warrant the belief that for the first
time in the history of the department the
salaries will be equalized. In order to meet
the urgent demands of the service for
clerks in the post-offices, and at the same
time keep within the appropriation, it
was necessary to create fund by making
reductions in the salaries of clerks in one
hundred and ninety-fiye Offices This fund
was used to give relief at points where adj
ditional clerks were absolutely needed.
Many clerks at separating offices are under
paid, and in several cases the postmasterS
were compelled to employ clerks at their own
expense. The adjustment of the salaries of
Presidential postmasters for the next year
illinvolve about 81, 600, 0O0 The establish
ment of the carrier system is recommended
for towns within short distances of each
other which have not singly. the required
qualifications This could be done by es-
tablishing central office and discontinuing
the others. In large cities the system of
free-deliyery is too confined at present, and
has had the effect of lessening the
revenues of the department through
the competition of private companies.
This may be remedied in the case
of important letters by providing a
special stamp which, if affixed to letter in
addition to the ordinary postage stamp, shall
entitle the letter to immediate delivery up
to ten o'clock at night In view of the ex-
cess of receipts on postage on local matter
alone over the cost of its delivery, it is rec
commended the postage on local letters can
be reduced from two cents to one
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Fatal Result Of a Quarrel.

AUGUSTA, Ca, Oct. 23.-A bloody and
fatal fight occurred Sunday near Mclean
Church, in Burke County. On Saturday
there was a difficulty between two young
men, Syms and Rogers, at the base
ball grounds. Syms cut Rogers in
the hand. After Church Sunday
he difficulty was renewed. Thorn
as B. Syms and his sons, Frank and Thorn
as, were shot by f. B., j. M. and Warren
Rogers and Rufus McNorrell and John T..
Cox. Thomas B. Syms was shot five times
and killed. Frank and Tom Syms were
mortally wounded. John Rogers was shot
in the face by a friend. Tom Syns' family
were unarmed. All parties were respecta-
bly, connected and well-to-do farmers
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There recently arrived in Louisville,
KY, two brothers named Gallagher,
who are unusually large, fne-looking
men, the oldest being about six feet
seven inches, and the youngest six feet
one inch. Their family is one of the
most remarkable ones in several re-
spects that can be found anywhere.
They live in England, and there are
twenty brothers and one sister, all liv-
ing, save these two. under the family
roof. OF this number, the smallest of
the lot is the youngest son, who is one
of the brothers above mentioned, and
he is six feet one inch tall. Average
their respective heights at six feet two
inches each, which is rather small, the
total height of the sons and daughter is
one hundred and twenty nine feet six
inches. The parents of the children
are not larger than the ordinary size,
and are both living Louisville Courier
journal.
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Four Boys Found Blasting Cartridge.

NEW YORK, Oct 22.-John Burke
Michael Taylor and two brothers named
William and John Cottingham, boys ranging
from six to eight years, found giant
powder cartridge Sunday afternoon at
Broadway and Fifty-eighth streets, where
blasting operations are in progress. They
applied match to the fuse John Burke's
skull was fractured, the Cottingham broth
ers eyes were so severely injured that they
will probably lose their sight, and Michael
Taylor was severely cut about the head and
face. Burke will probably die.
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Preparing His Message.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23-The President
will prepare his message to Congress in the
Soldiers Home, and it is probable that he
will remain in his present quarters through
November He is better pleased with this
location than in the Executive Mansion and
has made himself perfectly comfortable
with all the latest household conveniences.
His mornings are devoted principally to
work on his message, and consequently he
Is usually delayed coming to his otiee Ill
afternoon.
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"A hundred years ago the lowest let
ter rate for forty miles OF less was
eight cents, and SO on up to twenty-five
cents for distances over five hundred
miles, and these high figures remained
without important changes for over
hall century. Boston Post,
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Mrs. Thomas Cooch, of Pottsyille,
Pa, so seriously burned by her clothes
taking fire few days ago, has died.
Two hours before death she insisted
that the wedding Of her daughter to
Young gentleman of Pottsville should
take place by Der bedside. and the sol
emn ceremony was performed in accord
snce with the dying mothers request.
Ptttsbz1rqh Post