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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
UNDER ARREST.
ExPresident Fish, of the Marine Bank of
New York; in Custody on Charge OF
Fraud-His Story Respecting General
Grants Connection with His Financial


Ex-President Fish, of the Marine Bank of
New York; in Custody on a Charge OF
Fraud-His Story Respecting General
Grants Connection with His Financial
Transactions.
New York, May 26.--James D. Fish, ex-
President of the Marine Bank, was arrested
last night upon warrant issued by United
States Commissioner Shields. He was found
at tile Mystic flats, Broadway and Thirty
ninth streets, where he had been hiding.
He was not taken before the magistrate, and
is still III the custody of Deputy MARSHAL.
The warrant was issued upon the affidavit
of Augustus Serbia, the National Bank Ex-
aminer, who deposed that Fish had misap-
propriatcd 81, 14I. 900 between March and
May 6, 1884, by a series of credits to the
firm of Grant s Ward, in sums from $685.
600 to 100000 at various dates. The credits
were entered in the books of the bank as
loans to imaginary persons, and secured by
imaginary collaterals in stocks and bonds,
all of which transactions were stated to be
entirely fictitious.
Fish stated that he was never ON intimate
terms with Ward. aud did not see him
once month until just before the break
up Up to the day the Marine Bank
failed he had not the glilnmer of a suspicion
that the Government contracts repre-
sented by Ward were not genuine. July 5,
1882; he wrote to General Grant asking,
among othet things about the Govern
ment contracts. In reply lie received two
letters from General Grant, one written by
General Grant personally and the other by
George E.. Spencer, the cashier of the firm
of Grant e. Ward and signed by General
Grant himself. In both Grant said that all
transactions were straight and that the
profits were genuine.
Fish further said that the suit on which
Ward was arrested was originally again st
Ward himself, but as soon as he showed
General Grants letters and certain other
evidences of fair dealing the counsel for
City Chamberlain Tappan destroyed the
warrants against Fish. These Grant let
tiers were photographed, and a
dozen copies are now out III the hands of
lawyers. Fish wanted to publish
them, but his counsel forbade it, as such
publication would have disastrous effects on
General Grant. Fish said that thirty days
ago he was worth fully 1900, 900, and that
it was not likely that man aged sixty
three would deliberately throw away his
competence and ruin his family. Fish
also told how Ward would come
to him with slips of paper on which
were written alleged Government con-
tracts for supplies. Fish would 90 to
Wards office and generally found there
General Grant and Senator Chatfee. Ward
kept telling him all the time that General
Grant, Chaffee President Arthur and others
were helping him by political influence to
get contracts and thus deceived him, General
Grant making the deception complete by his
letters. Fish concluded by declaring that
he would produce the Grant letters and
other documents to show that he had been
basely deceived.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30

Compiled from Late Dispatches.
XLVIITth Congress.

THURSDAY, May pa bill was intro.
duced in the Senate providing for a.
payment of female nurses for services So
ing the war. The bill prohibit =. tha
mailing Of newspapers containin ( lottery
advertisements was placed RI the foot
OF the calendar. The Lat or statistics
bill was debated. In ne Hopsa the
action giving the co ntasted seat ~
the case of English vs. Peelle, Of Indiana.
TO Mr. Peelle was considered. and, bv a
vote OF lSo to 1T Mr.. English was given
Inc seat. A CHI Arge that the father of the
hewly-admie' ed member had abused the
privileges II the House, by attempting 10
influence votes in the case, was ordered to
De inve .Atigated.
NiDAY, May %. II In the Senate
r%n was passed. to establish in the Interior
department Bureau OF Labor, at an OK.
Pense noe exceeding $4,000 per annum.
Inc Commissioner is to collect informa-
tlon on the subject of labor and
ats relation to capital, the hours
or labor, and all other labor
STATISTICS. The Pension Appropriation bill
was also passed. In the House bill was
passed appropriating 100000 to pay. Ger.
tain quarbermaster claims, one-half of
which is due to citizens of Tennessee. At
tine evening session forty-two pension bills
were passed, including one giving fifty
dollars per month to the widow of General
Ord.
SATURDAY, May 24-The Senate was
mot VA session. In the House Con.
ference Committee reported it's concur.
renee in all the Senate amendments to tho
oil to establish Bureau of Animal In.
dustry, and the report was agreed to. A
bill was passed to permit Lieutenant
Reynolds, of the navy, to accept decora-
zion from the Emperor of Austria for
saving eleven lives
MONDAY, May 26.-In the Senate Ia
Worable reports were made on bills for
Two additional Associate Justices for the
supreme Court of Dakota, and to forfeit
the unearned land grants of the Atlantic
'& Pacific Road. In the House bills were
introduced to appropriate $4,000 for
10 home for disabled soldiers of
the Confederate army at Fred
ericksburg, Va; to abolish II.
cense taxes on dealers in tobacco. to
open overland communication with Alaska
ana develop her commercial resources: to
pension all Observation-Disclosures soldiers
Oh the rebellion at the age of forty-flye
years. and for the filming and Imprisonment
Oh any National Bank official who shall
oriIg loss ON the institution by loans made
Tor his OWL benefit.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
By the upsetting of boat four men were

By the upsetting of boat four men were
drowned the other day at Sayre, N. Y.
AT the recent session in New York OF
the African Methodist Episcopal Confer
enc1 the salaries of Bishops were fixed
az 81 800 per annum.
THE recent fire in the Atlantic crude-ciI
refinery at Philadelphia caused a loss of
100000.
The Erie Preserving Co.'s box-factory
at Long Island City was DESTROYED by
Ere few days ago, the loss being $i1s,-
600.
TEE doors of the West Side Savings Bank
OF New York City were closed on the oath
after "run." The President announced
that depositors would be paid in full.
TIE arrest of James D. Fish, ex-Presi-
dent OF the Marine Bank of New York
City, occurred on the 25th upon a warrant
issued by United States Commissioner
Shields, charged with having misappro.
priated the funds Of the bank to the extent
of 81, 141 ,000
By collision on the West Shore Road
near Savannah, N. Y, on the Oath, three
persons were killed and Aine others were
seriously injured.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, great excitement
was caused on the Goth by the closing the
second time of the Penn Bank A notice
set forth that the reason for closing the
bank was that Mr.. Riddle, the President.
had become suddenly and seriously i'll,
but it transpired that $265,000 in checks
against the bank were thrown out at the
clearing house.
The annual session Of the Baptist Home
Missionary Society began at Saratoga, N.
T., on the 26th. The report showed re.
ceipts during the year of S401, 692, the
largest ever known. During the year 145
churches were organized and in the South
and West 1Of new churches were erected
A CONFESSION was made in court on the
Goth by Cashier Petit, of the wrecked
savings bank of Erie, Pa, that he had en-
bezzled 100000. President Bartender, who
was in Jail, dared not leave that institu-
tion for fear Of being lynched.
a PLEA of not guilty was made by James
D. Fish, President of the wrecked Marine
National Bank of New York, on the 2eth
to the charge of misapplying funds, and
he was released on $30, 900 bail
FIVE men were2 killed by boiler ex-
plosion in the paper.mill OF Moore Il
Wilson near Waterford, N. Y, few days
ago.
The death of the wife of Robert Bur-
dette, the well-known humorist and editor
of the Burlington Hawkeye, occurred on
the 10Th at Ardmore, Pa. She had been
an invalid for many years.
IT was decided on the 26h by the strik-
ing cotton-spinnsrs at Fall River, Mass,
to resume work at the old prices. They
had been idle for several weeks.
By the upsetting of raft three men
named Charles Twitchell, Chauncey Cas-
well and Morris Caswell were drowned at
Crogan, N Y, few days ago.
FIRE recently destroyed the Mayall
rubber factory at Reading, Mass, valued
at 100000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
NINE PERSONS DIE BY VIOLENCE.

A West Shore Train Crashes Into Anoth.
er, Killing Four and Injuring Five
Strange Escapes-Two Dubuque Boilers
Explode.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, May 26-As the Roch-
ester express on the West Shore Road from
this city was drawing onto branch track
opposite Savannah station, about nine
o'clock Saturday night, the Atlantic ex-
press from Buffalo crashed into the baggage
car and made clean sweep of the smoker,
taking an entire row of seats with it and
leaving the two cars and the front end of
the first passenger a total wreck. Four
men were killed and FIVE wounded, COM
plete list being as follows:
Killed-John Wright, farmer, Savannah; A..
Waterbury cigar-maker, Newark; Joseph De-
bus, hneman on the Baltimore & Ohio Tele-
graph Company; Michael Doody, hneman for
the same company.
Wounded-Jobn 0'Grady, Nicholas Engler,
Matthew Butler, Harry Sherman and Will am
Acton.
The relatives of the killed and wounde d
inveigh bitterly against the recklessness
which made the accident possible. The
West Shore Company is censured on all
hands, the universal opinion being that I'M
der proper management the disaster could
not have taken place.
DUBUQUE, Ia, May 26.-About four
O'Clock Saturday afternoon two boilers in
Carr, Ryder & Wheelers sash and door
factory at this place exploded. The build
ing was wrecked and a third boiler, which
did not explode, was sent flying through the
air distance of thirty feet and landed up
against the wall of the MILL Engineer Mel
len and two firemen named Will
danger and Mclaughlin were in
the boiler house and were buried
in the ruins, all sustaining fatal in
juries. Two children of Charles May were
playing near the place when the explosion
took place, and were also killed. The corner
of dwelling near by was torn away, and
Mrs. Margaret Walter, her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Albert Walter, and three children of
the latter were more or less injured by the
fiyiDg debris
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Praying for a Good President.

CHICAGO, May rs. Members and friends
of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union held an alI-day temperance prayer
meeting in the First Methodist Church yes
terday. The day was devoted to fasting
and prayer for Divine guidance in the selec-
ton Of Presidential candidate by the Re
publican Convention next week. Similar
meetings were held throughout the United
States yesterday, in pursuance of call is
sued by the national officers of the Women's
Temperance Union
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
Left on the Eve Of His Wedding.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill May ga brilliant
wedding was TO have taken place here last
evening, but was indefinitely postponed by
the sudden disappearance of the prospec-
tive groom. John j. Condor, young mer-
chant, and Miss Mollie Boiler, pretty and
worthy young lady, were to we'd Five
hundred invitations had been issued, the
groomsman and bridesmaid selected, a
public hall engaged and all arrangements
made. On Saturday Condor departed, it is
not know where, but it is said he has gone
to Texas
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
A Mothers Terrible Deed.

ST.. LOUIS, May 26.--Mrs. Augusta Ed
munds, living with her husband and three
little girls at 1410 South Compton avenue,
this city, got possession of her hus-
bands razor yesterday morning and
cut her own throat and the
Threats of her three girls. Two Of
them died almost instantly; one of them
and the mother is still alive, but both are I'M
a critical condition. Not long ago Mrs. Ed
munds tried to cut her throat and since then
she has been closely watched by her hus-
band. Yesterday morning, however, during
the temporary absence of the latter, she got
possession of the razor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
Thousands OF Sunday School Children
in Procession.

NEW York, May 2s.-The Sunday
school scholars of Brooklyn observed Chill
dren's Day yesterday afternoon. In the
gard line of march there were &c. 1888 chill
dren from l62 schools, the Congregational
lists leading with u, 2O9; Methodists, TO-
SIG; Presbyterians, 1880; EpiscopaIs,
9.4O1. and Baptists, 9, 100. In attendance on
tho children were 6, 7S1 teachers and officers
The exercises consisted Of speeches and
singing. supplemented By music and re-
freshments.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
Presidential Electors.
The number of electors of the States under
the new apportionment is as follows:
Whole Sections Flooded in Texas.

GALVESTON, Tex, May 27.-Reports
from all over the State reveal washouts
over all lines of Texas railroads, and no
prospects of immediate improvement. The
eastern approach of the Bremond Narrow
Gauge Railroad bridge across the San Ja-
cinto River has been carried away. The
whole country thereabouts is under water,
and the people are fleeing to the highlands
for safety. Large numbers of cattle are
drowned, and stock of all kinds have suf-
farod
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
Majority Report on the DanvilIe Riot.

WASHINGTON, May 2S.-The majority
report of the Senate Election Committee on
the Danville riot was submitted yesterday.
1t declares that the riot was preconcerted
for the purpose of intimidating the negroes.
The committee found no evidence that the
negroes had fred a shot until after the
whites had fired volley. The whites were
generally armed, but the negroes were
not. Arms were distributed from
shops and stores to the whites who had
none. The objects of the whites were:
First, to intimdate the colored voters in
localities were they were strong; and,
second, to produce such feeling in tile
State as would induce white electors to join
with their own race and escape the reproach
to which they would be subjected if they
fraternized with the Triggers" 1t was made
to appear that the blacks were the offenders,
when in truth the white Democrats were in
possession of the town.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30

"A Chinese farmhouse is generally
sheltered by groves of feathery bamboo
and thick-spreading banyans. The walls
are of clay or wood, and the interior
consists of one main room, extending
from the floor to the tiled roof, with
closet-looking apartments in the cor
ners for sleeping-rooms. There is a
sliding window in the room, while the
side windows are merely shutters. The
floor is the bare earth, where at night
fall there often gathers together a mis-
cellaneous family of dirty children,
fowls, ducks, pigeons and litter of
pigs. all living together in happy har-
mony.
How much of humbug there is in
the claim that competitive trials Of
strength should be encouraged because
they develop a taste for healthful
sports is suggested in the report from
New York that walking match came
off in an atmosphere so stihed by the
smell of tobacco and bad rum that one
Of the contestants was made sick by it.
Boston I'rdnScr5 pt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30

The Rochester On. ~ Union has
opened its columns for opinions and
suggestions on protecting wives from
drunken husbands.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
pAxrf 30 TAKE SECOND PLACE.

Friends of Senator Payne OF ONO
say he would accept the nomination
for Yicu President on ticket with
Tild.n, and that this will probably DC
the result of the election. Mr.. Payne
docs not want the Presidency, but the
Vice Presidency would be right in
his line, % it we're, merely eleyating
him from the floor Of the Senate to
The tPresident's chair. Ohio Demo
Gratis are heartily in favor of this plan,
as it would give them another United
States Senator to elect, without run
ming the risk of losing the Legisla-
ture at the elections. In case Payne
should be elected to the Presidency or
Vice Presidency, he will be succeeded
in he Senate by Judge Hoadly or
Durbin Wood.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
IT IA predictcd that the Fashionable


1t rs predicted that the fashionable
Suicide will be by an electric shock.
II Il also contended that electricity
should be used in the execution Of
criminals, because death in that form
Is supposed to be painless. Somehow,
nobody seems 10 remember that when,
. few months ago, the Superintendent
Of one of the electric light companies
pas killed by accidentally touching
ono Of the wires, he had time to cry
~ am burned to DEATH" 1t is just
possible that death by electric shock
may be mere painful than any of the
old styles, and that the shock produces
only an apparent insensibility which
continues until actual death comes to
relieve the sufferer.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
MEXICAN WAR PENSIONS.

In the Senate on Tuesday Logan
gave notice, in order, he said, that the
Pension Committee might look into
the matter, that when the Mexican
Soldiers Pension bill came UP Tor con-
Sidsration, he would move to strike
out the amendments Of the Senate
Committee that provided that no one
shall have the benefit of the bill unless
ha is unable to make q living. This,
Logan said, was treating them as pau
pers, and putting them on the pension
list because of their being paupers.
He was opposed to such an amend
ment.
Williams gave notice that on Tues
day next he would call UP the bill re-
ferred to.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17

An advertisement in New York
paper this morning asked for the adj
df(ss Of the daughter of the late General
John Wooley, a distinguished Union
officer in the War of the Rebellion.
Inquiry developed the fact that the
notice was inserted by Mrs. Wooley,
! who was seeking her daughter, who is
rich and leader in New York society,
IS a last resort to stave off death by
starvation. General Wooley died
about six years ago leaving his widow
almost nothing, she struggled along,
attempting to support herself, but at
last gave up and retired to the suburbs
OF Baltimore TO die. An old friend of
the family accidentally learned of her
condition las. week and at once
advanced her money for food and
clothing. Mrs. Wooley was avery
beautiful Southern girl in Washington
society before the wer, and afterwards
became intimate with Mrs. Lincoln.
NhQwrotc 4 number of society books
Which attracted much attention. At
present shs lives in cellar attended
By an old cclored servant. The daugh.
fef advertised -or parted in anger from
her irctser acme years ago, but evil
dcnt,y does nc. know tie sad straits
- 1h,:a tho poor lady has been
isfudtl
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
4 pOLLrsCAL CHCL0AH.

Commencing upon the probable
effect the defeat of the Morrison tariff
bill will have upon the Democratic
party, and the trouble likely to arise
ilthe Democratic camp, in its Ma.
tionnl Convention, the Salt Lake
Chronicle phrophesies that "amid the
dcmoralizcd crowd at that Conven-
ton, with full knovledge of the
Republican program, Ben Butler will
rise serene as the fayorite son of New
England, and looking askance at the
sllpsrrnnuated Tilden, will claim to
be the El Mahdi Of the naw dispense
tion, and tho only Democrat Who can
carry New York State"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
REAL ESTATE. TO WIT:

That certain salt marsh known as and com
monty called the Rhodes and Wason salt
marsh, situate in Esmeralda County, Nevada,
about ten miles northeasterl5 from Belleville
and about four miles easterly from Soda
Springs, and more particularly described as
follows:
The southeast quarter OF the northwest
quarter ard southwest quarter and southeast
quarter and northeast quarter of section six
teen, all Of section ffteen, southeast quarter
of southeast quarter of section nine, south
half of southwest quarter and south half of
southeast quarter Of section ten, west half of
northwest quarter and west half of southwest
quarter of section fourteen, northwest quarter
and northeast quarter and the northeast uar-
ter OF southwest quarter and north hall OF
southeast quarter OF section twenty-one,
northwest quarter and northwest quarter OF
southwest quarter and north half of northeast
quarter OF section twenty-five, northeast quar-
ter and northwest quarter and southwest
quarter OF section sixteen, southwest quarter
and northeast quarter of southeast quarfer
of section nine, north half OF south
west quarter OF section ten, south half
of southwest quarter OF section eleven,
northeast quarter and northwest quarter and
southwest quarter Of southeast quarter and
east hs II Of southwest quarter and east half of
northwest quarter aud northeast quarter Of
section fourteen, west half OF northwest
quarter end northwest quarter OF southwest
quarter of section thirteen, easthalf and south
east quarter of section scTenteen east half of
northeast quarter Of section twenty, north
west quarter ard southeast quarter and SOUTH
west quarter of southwest quarter and south
half OF southeast quarter OF section twenty
one, south half OF northeast quarter and
north half of southeast quarter and nsrlheasG
quarter of southwest quarter of section
twenty-five, northwest quarter and west half
of northeast quarter and west half of south
west quarter of section twenty-three, north
east quarter Of northwest quarter and north
half of northeast quarter of section twenty
EIGHT; all in township number five north, of
range thirty-five east, Gcunt Diabo meridian;
together with all ana singular the tenenents,
hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto
belonging or in anywise appeitaining and
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
SUMMONS.

TN THE JUSTICES COURT OF TWEEN
i tieth Township, in the County OF ksmer-
aida, State of Nevada, |. N. Farwell, J. T.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
-
SCORING a POINT.

Mr.. Eaton, Of Connecticut Demo.
erat), in his argument against the
Morrison tariff bill, made this point,
spsaking Of farmer in his State with
whom he held a conversation, and
Who had been told the tariff was ruin
ing him: why" said the farmer, Il
came here few years ago with $500
and bought farm, upon which /
placed mortgage Of $4,000. | have
paid offthe mortgage, my farm is we'll
stocked and l have money in the saw
ings bank. ] did not know anybody
vas robbing me-"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
SPECIAL ELEcTIon koTIse.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON
Tbs Tyys,ty-niatb Dsy 81 May. 1854,
In the town OF Hawthorne, E.m eralds County,
speci,l election Will be held for the purpose
OF rsising $500 to build and .nrnish q school
house in said towr, which seid election shall
open not le.eT than eight o'clock A. N. and
shall continue unit, ai1 o'ctock y. NJ. OF the
sarls day.
J. ". BLIASLEy,
clsrt CT s;esrd -fCoIn,y Cunri,sicaer,.
Es1akxxxs. Lay &c, sssS
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-17
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION.

yI>o THE RESIDENT QUALIFIED
/ electors of School District Nc. 10, OF
Esmeralda County, Neysda: An eleetle N
will be held at JUSTICE FARW ELL .
COURTROOM, in Hawthorne, in said School
District No. 10,
On the 2eth Day Of MAY, 1854,
Between Abe hours of o'clock P. M and :
O'Clock I'm. for the purpose of voting and
ordering the sum of $1,000 TO be levied and
assessed upon the taxable property in IN. SAD ,h
school district subject to taxation. lot the
fund to purchase or build school-house and
to furnish the same in said school district
The votes to be used at said election shall be
written or printed on paper ballots and the
choice Of the electors az said election shall be
expressed on the said ballots IN wrlting OF
printing by the words TAX, Hes," or Tax,
No" according TO the choice Of such eleetor
By order OF the Board Of Trustees in and
for said School District No: IL.
f. A. ANGEL, Chairman.
Dated Hawthorne, April a. 1854