The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
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A FEW days ago two brothers, David
and Solomon Slusher, were suffocated by
fire-damp near Wilkesbare, Pa.
The Democrats of the Twenty-frs
Pennsylvania District have rem oninated
G. E. Boyle for Congressman.
BY the fall of twenty-five tons of top
coal in colliery at Shenandoah, Pa, a
few days ago two miners were killed and
a third was fatally injured.
INFORMATION was received on the 7th by
an American railway company operating
III Mexico that diplomatic relations be-
tween that country and England, which
were suspended on the death of Maximil-
ian, had been fully restored.
AT Pittsburgh on the 7rh the iron mills
were employing 1000 men less than last
year, and the depression was greater than
for several years.
WILLIAM l.. SCoTT has been nominated
for Congressman by the Democrats Of the
Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania District.
On the Sth the Bear, Thetis and Alert, of
the Greedy expedition, arrived at Gov
ernor's Island, N. Y, and were received
by Secretary Lincoln. Generals Sheridan
and Hancock, and other officials, the forts
firing fNneral salute. The bodies of the
dead would lie in state in the hospital uic.
til removed by friends.
A CARRIAGE containing five persons,
who were returning from a funeral, was
hit by locomotive on the SSh at Connors
Station, Pa, and four persons were killed
and the two horses and the vehicle de
molished.
GEORGE H, CAsHrNGToN, of Chicago,
was elected President of the National
Dental Association at Saratoga on the Sth.
ON the sth John Jourdan, the notorious
burglar who robbed the Middletown
(Conn.) Savings Bank of $4,000, was capt
ured in New York.
JAy-EYE-SEE, in an attempt to beat his
record on the S5h at Buffalo, trotted with
out skip in 2:1O%.
In Pennsylvania coke operators are loud
in their complaints about the dullness Of
the trade. Over-production is the cause
OF the present depression.
PLEURo- PNEUBGoNIA and Texas fever APP
peared on the Ssh among the herds in the
vicinity of Lancaster, Pa. The infected
herds had been quarantined. 8st
THE failure is reported Of Holmes, Laf-
ferty & Co., dealers in live stock at Pitts.
burgh, with liabilities of 500, 900. The
Penn Bank suspension caused the failure.
ALONG the Atlantic coast a severe shock
of earthquake was felt on the 10th a
little after two p. M, extending from Phil
adelphia to Portland, Me-, and as fAr in
land as Cleveland. The shock lasted about
ten seconds and caused very serious alarm,
particularly in New York City. No seri-
Gus damage was done, though houses were
badly shaken, some ceilings were cracked,
and the people were terribly frightened.
A second shock was felt in some places.
AN unknown man came out Of the bushes
on an island in Niagara River on the 10th,
handed a stranger watch, leaped into the
rapids, and was hurried over the Horse
shoe fall.
THREE men were fined FIVE dollars each
a few days ago in New York for posting
socialist proclamations. A notorious Com
munist paid the fines.
In the villages along the south side of
Long Island another shock Of earthquake
was felt on the afternoon of the 18th.
1t was not as heavy as the day previous,
but sufficient TO cause excitement. a
shock was also felt at Mount Washington,
in Massachusetts, which awakened the
people.
A TRAIN struck Brooklyn sreet-car at
a crossing few days ago, the conductor
being killed and five passengers wounded,
one seriously.
A FEW days ago John Butler, farmer
of Hanover County, VT, shot his wife
fatally. he had been beating child, and
his wife interfered, and he turned upon
her. She had him arrested, but he escaped
from the officer, and, returning home, shot
his wife.
TIE doors of the Wall Street Bank of
Now York were closed on the 18th. The
shortage was said to be about $500 900, and
was caused by the defalcation of the cash
Ter, j. P. Dickinson.
JAMES B. REILLY is the Democratic NOM
inee for Congressman in the Thirteenth
Pennsylvania District.