The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-08

In the beleaguered city of Sinkat, Egypt,
the residents had on the 31st ult. eaten all
the dogs in town, and nothing remained
but the horses and one bag of barley.
THE British Government on the 31st ult
asked an English firm which controls
steamboat traffic on the Nile to have every
steamer and sailing vessel ready to take
troops and stores to Upper Egypt and
bring away refugees from Khartoum.
AT Hamilton, Can, four houses fell the
other day from the weight of snow on the
roofs, and Mrs. Burns and her child
were fatally injured.
The firm of P. w. Thomas Sons & Co.,
of London, brokers, failed recently for
fS35,0O0.
FIRE few nights ago destroyed Chap
man & Sons and Adamson's elevators at
Toronto, Ont, entailing a loss of $3.50, 900.
A FIRE few evenings ago destroyed
lace factory and numerous other buildings
near Pere la Chaise Cemetery, in Paris,
and one hundred families were rendered
homeless.
WHILE Baker Pasha was making a recon-
noisance on the I'd from Trinkitat, Egypt,
El Mahdi's supporters fed, but were pur.
sued bycavalry, and hundreds of the rebels
were killed.
LONDON advices of the 3D. state that Sc
we're gales and heavy rains had caused
great destruction of property in England,
the Isle of Man and the Island of Jersey.
The streets of towns had been inundated,
bridges demolished and breakwaters de-
stroyed.
THE death of Eugene Rouher, the head
of the Bonapartist party in France, oc-
Cured on the Sd, after brief illness.
COMPLAINT was made to the Dublin au-
thorities a few days ago by William
Meagle, who was witness in the Phoenix
Park murder trials, that frequent assaults
and continued prosecutions had made his
life miserable.
ON the Sd Lieutenants Sharber and
Schuetze left Berlin for Hamburg en- route
to the United States with the remains of
Commander De Long and his companions,
of the ILL., fated Jeannetue.
The agricultural associations of several
counties in England have passed resolu-
tions urging Parliament to restrict the i'm
portation of cattle in order to prevent the
spread of the cattle disease.
AN American marksman named Captain
Austin was recently giving exhibitions of
his skill in Great Britain. At Leicester he
twice shot potato from the head of his
daughter, but at the third attempt the ball
plowed the scalp, and he was placed under
arrest.
In Paris on the Sd placard was posted
urging the disaffected and unemployed
workingmen to appeal to arms for the i'm
provement of their condition.
| AT Clonshanny, Ireland, agrarian dis
turbances on the 4th resulted in the murder
of farmer named Egan. Several arrests
were made.
THE other day munitions of war in
tended for the insurgents in Hayti were
seized on board schooner at Richmond,
Va, and were forfeited to the United
States.
| A CHURCH, two steamers and large
business house in Bermuda were destroyed
by incendiary fires on the 4th. Rewards
were offered, and the penalty is death.
TEN THOUSAND visitors attended the
| opening of the ice carnival at Montreal on
the 4th, among them being the Governor.
General and party. The city was hand.
somely decorated.
HENRY MoNTIETH & Co., dyers, of elias.
gov, failed a few days ago for $4,000.
A PETITION has been issued by the Legis.
lature of British Columbia praying for a
restriction of the importation of Chinese
laborers, and stating that there were
eighteen thousand Cinnamon there now
/ most of whom were destitute
i SPEAKING at a Observation-Disclosures meet
ing at Glasgow on the 4th Michael Davitt
demanded for Ireland system of self
government similar to that of the Domin,
ion of Canada.