The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

| In the Westinghouse of the Vulcan Dyn-
amite Company, at Allentown, Pa, a re-
cent explosion instantly killed Jacob Heff-
ner, Isaac Kramer and John M. Bucken-
bone, injured three other men and
| wrecked three buildings.
DURING gale the steamer City of Co.
lumbus, from Boston for Savannah, Ca,
was wrecked off Gay Head, on the Massa-
chusetts coast, about three o'clock on the
morning of the 18th, and of one hundred
and forty-seven persons on board only
| twenty-three were saved. The Columbus
was a first-class iron ship Of two thousand
tons, valued at 100000. The victims were
mainly people from various parts of New
England who were going to Florida to pass
the cold months.
| BY the bursting Of a boiler in the kitchen
| of Frank 7. Sherwood, at Hunters Point,
L. l., few mornings ago Mr.. Sherwood's
little boy was killed, his brother fatally
| injured and Mrs. Sherwood was blinded
and burned.
| The failure of the Patchogue and Suffolk
County Bank, located on Long Island, for
$150,0O0, is announced.
FOUR men were killed and seven others
were wounded, two fatally, by a recent
boiler explosion in E. Y. & E. Wallace's
shoe mandatory and tannery at Roches-
ter, N. H.
| WILLIAM BRONSON, a New York lawyer,
made an assignment few days ago for
$653, 261, and William II. Guion, one of the
firm Of Williams e. Guion, steamship
agents, failed for about 100000. Specu-
lation in grain was the cause.
| WHILE Stephen Grant was attempting a
few days ago to separate two combatants
at Great Falls, N. H., one of the men
struck him with kettle, killing him in
stantly.
On the 10Th Edward Tappan, charged
with the murder Of the Maybee women,
made supplementary confession, in
which it was said he acknowledged he, and
not his brother John, committed the crime,
and indicated where the property stolen
from the Maybees was hidden.
| ITALIANS engaged in riot in New York
on the Goth, during which three persons
were fatally wounded and several others
were injured.
ADvIcEs of the Goth from Boston state
|
Columbus, corrected, foots up eighty ono
passengers, cabin and Storage. There
were forty-five officers, seamen and wait
ers. The total death-list was ninety seven.
Not woman of the number on board was
saved.
| THE death is announced of General Will
lam G. Plunkett, prominent manufacturer
at Adams, Mass.
IT has been decided by the Atlantic mills
at Lawrence, Mass, and all the corpora
tions of Lowell to reduce wages ten per
cent. in February.
| By the explosion of the gas-worlks at
Malone, N. Y, the other day the engineer
and boy were fatally injured.
For parading the streets of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, Alice Dixon and four iother female
members of the Salvation army were ar
rested few days ago.
BY the recent loss of the schooner Knuts-
ford, which sailed eight weeks ago from
| Gloucester, Mass, on fishing trip to the
! Georges, seven wives were made widows
and seventeen children were made or
phans.
| On the 21st leading residents of New Ha-
ven, Conn.,, celebrated the centennial
birthday of the city by listening to his
torical addresses from Prof. Dexter and
others.
THE death of Commodore Timothy A.
Hunt, United States Navy, occurred at
New Haven, Conn.,, ON the Dist, of conges.
ton of the lungs. He was seventy nine
years of age.