The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-07
THE EAST,

The steamer Maasdam, On route from
RotSerdam to New York, was on the 29th
reported burned at sea. There were one
hundred and fifty passengers on board, and
their fate was a mystery.
On the Doth the Armstrong oil WELL near
Butler, Pa, gushed at the rate of 100 barrels
an hour, and in twenty-four hours put
5000 barrels in ts7k-beating all previous
records.
The death Of Signor Brignoli, the famous
tenor, occurred at New York on the 30th
ult
In fire in stables at Brooklyn, N. Y,
the other morning, fifteen horses persisted
LINDEN Cook, OF Fall River, Mass, one of
the oldest and best known manufacturers,
died suddenly few days ago on his door
step. He was seventy three years old.
HORACE DELAND, eighteen years of age,
failing in love affair, chained himself re-
Gently to a brush-heap near his fathers
house at Brookfeld, N. H., then set fire to
the pyre and was burned to death.
AT Fayette City, Pa, several stores and
dwellings We're destroyed by fire few days
ago, the loss aggregating $4,000.
A FEW days ago the old Schuyler man
sion in Albany, N. ", with the grounds
attached, once the property of General
Schuyler, of Revolutionary fame, was sold
In lots to q number of persons for $20,S45
IttSaad been rated as worth $50, 900. Within
the mansion Willard Fillmore was married,
and it was the scene of many exciting
episodes prior to and during the Revolu-
ton.
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farmer near Norristown, Pa, committed
suicide the other day by throwing herself
in front Of railroad train.
In a mine near Centralia, Pa, fall of
rock a few days ago killed three Hun
garians.
The firm of Alfred G. Luders g. Co., COM
mission merchants at New York, failed re-
Gently for 100000.
On the 31st ult. the New York Central
Road reduced the price of firs5-class tickets
to Chicago to $15. The West Shore and
Erie quickly followed with cut to $3.50.
Scalpers at st. Louis were selling tickets
TO New York at $14.
THE passengers and crew of the steam
ship Maasdam, recently burned at sea,
reached New York on the 31st ult., on the
Rhein, which picked them up ON the even
ing of October "a.
AT Klein's tavern, Columbia County,
Pa, in political fight the other night two
men, We're fatally stabbed by James d.
Keller, who was lodged in jail.
For the seven days ended ON the 31st
nit. reports to BrodStreet'S stated that
trade at nearly all commercial centers re-
manned quiet, with few prospects of gains
before the openings of che new year.
In the Pennsylvania petroleum field the
daily production increased 10,O52 barrels
during October, This was entirely caused
by the new Butler field with its phenomenal
wells, the old field being almost wholly ne
elected.
In Concord, N. H., three inches of snow
fell on the night of the 1st A slight fall
was also reported from a number of towns
in New Hampshire and Maine.
AT the port of New York the imports
during the week ended on the LIST were
SS,14S,0O0, of which S6,624,OOO were general
merchandise and 81 $4,000 dry-g goods
WHILE .workmen We're excavating re-
Gently for u sewer at Schenectady, N. Y,
they found corduroy road laid in 1890.
AT the Chester (Pa.) oil-works still ex-
ploded few days ago, fatally injuring
Mart n Ryan and Alexander Smith
On tue Sd the Erie & West Shore Rail-
ways were selling first-class tickets from
New York to Chicago at So.
THB firm of Thomas d. Sutherland &
Sor, prorrietors of the Franklin iron works
of Troy, ~ Y, made an assignment few
davs ago for S200.00
NEAR Pittsburgh, Pa, the Knoxville
coal-miae had on the Sd been burning three
days. she fire having been set by incen-
diaries, who used petroleum to spread the
flames.
In the;United States Mint at Philadel-
phia the coinage during October was
$1,41f,00O, and included 100000 silver dol
lars and 501, 300 dimes.
OLD friends and neighbors of William
Cullen Bryant commemorated on the Sd
the anniversary of his birth by the Plant
ing of trees on the public ground facing the
post-oF CO in Roslyn, L. /.
EA LIZ the morning of the Sd, near
HuntIi ed N, Pa, HOUSE occupied by
James nolt and George Rogers and their
families took fire. The men threw their
wives and children from an upper window,
and then jumped themselves. All were
badly hurt, and the rour children of Holt
wers believed to be fatally wounded.