The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-19
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WEsooTT u Co., bankers at Syracuse, N.
", have made an assignment with liabili-
ties of 100000.
FUND OF $4,000 was raised by the vari-
GUS glass-worbers' unions throughout the
country on the 11th to aid the prescrip-
tion glass blowers on strike at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
s. DANA GREENE, Commander of the
Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H., COM
mitted suicide the other day. His mind
was supposed to have been unbalanced by
literary work.
MRS. AUGUSTUS WILLIAMS, of Woon-
socket, Il. l., was surprised a few DAYS
ago by call from her husband, who mys-
teriously disappeared eight years ago, and
had been mournSd as dead. He invited
her to furnished house in Georgiaville,
which he purchased with part of a fortune
left him recently by h S grandmother.
OFFICERS of the Philadelphia mint re-
ported ON the 18th that attempts had been
made lately to palm off spurious bullion.
AT New Bedford Mass, a fire the other
morning caused loss of $4,000, with
heavy insurance. Two fremen were in
jured by falling ladders.
THE firm of H. j. Goodwin & Co.,
wooden dealers in New York, made an as
signment recently to secure liabilities of
100000
On the 18th the Macl1ay- Bennett Com
mercial Gable Company received its first
cablegram at its New York office from
Walterville, Ireland.
OK the 10Th the body of Estella Newman,
who, it was alleged, was restored to life on
dissecting table, was found untouched in
It's grave at Egremont, Mass.
In Butler County, Pa, an oil well located
half mile from all previous developments,
was torpedoed on the 18th, and commences
flowing at the rate of five thousand barrels
per day,
THE reports on the 10Th to BradStreet's
from leading trade centers indicated that
general trade at all points was at low
ebb.
DURING the season of navigation this
year 1,S2S, iii tons of iron ore were deliv-
cred at Lake E,ie ports, 1870, 42S tons in ex-
cess of last years record.
THREE men, Henry Beatty, Henry King
err and Emanuel Gross, were fatally in
jured the other afternoon by the explosion
of a boiler in Bittler's saw-miu near Shen-
andoah, Pa.
THE lamp-black works at Ludlow, Pa,
were destroyed by a gas explosion the 9TH
Ell night and several employees were in
jured, three fatally.
AT Boston, recently, a new Masonic or
ganizaton was formed, called the "Sov-
erign Sanctuary OF the Royal Masonic Rite
for the United States of America, y embrace
ing all rites from the fourth to the ninetv-
sixth degrees. Judge Isaac H. Parish, of
Michigan, was elected Most nlustrious
Past Grand Master.
LAST fall the wife of N. H. Brown killed
herself at Red Hook, N. Y, on account of a
report affecting her character. A few days
ago her husband killed himself at Tower
City, Pa, in fit of mental depression
brought on by the loss of his wife.
The Polish Catholic Church at Erie, Pa,
was leveled by a recent storm and thou
sands OF dollars worth Of fishermen's nets
on the lake were destroyed. Freight cars
were blown from the track, and forest and
orchard trees were torn up by the roots.
A FIRE swept away square of buildings
ct Houlten, Me-, the other night, causing a
loss of 100000.
THE failure is announced of Henry Levy
& Son, of New York, importers of fancy
goods, with liabilities of $500 900.
HEAVY loss was caused by hurricane
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th. The sea
wall was washed away and the lower por-
ten of the city submerged, rendering
MANY families homeless ard destitute.
Falling ehimneys demolished +wo school
houses, two men were seriously hurt, rail-
way tracks were washed away and a
canal boat was sunk
THE doors Of the City Bank of Science
tady, N. ", with a capital of 100000,
were closed on the 18th.
TIE Edgar Thompson Steel Works at