The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

any personal interest in Mexico that might
be served by the ratification Of reciproc-
ity treaty.
LEROY WARNER recently asked judicial
confirmation in the Common Pleas Court
at Erie, Pa, of the sale Of his little daugh-
ter Maggie to Peter Wilds, the considera-
ton being one dollar. The request was re-
| fused.
The failure of George T. Comings &
Co., State Prison contractors at Concord,
N. H., for $4,000, is announced.
DOMESTIC troubles caused John Spaul-
ding, Of Bangor, Me-, to shoot his wife on
the 10Th, and then kill himself. Mrs.
Spaulding was not seriously hurt.
FARMER Of East Meadow, L. L, named
Selah Sprague, was attacked in his barn on
the 18th and probably fatally wounded by
mulatto named Charles Smith. The vii
lain then went to the house, struck Mrs.
Sprague, and began search for money
The neighbors heard the woman's screams
for help, and they secured the countr UNI
til they captured the robber.
REPORT was sued by the Bradstreet
Commercial Agency on the 18th that prices
for all commodities were generally frmer,
and that the movement Of merchandise
throughout the country had increased in
volume.
DR.. JOHN B. WooD, of New York City, a
well-known journalist, fell into the river
at that place few nights ago and was
drowned.
AFTER a service of sixty three years
Commodore Francis 3. Ellison, of the
United States Navy, died at New York a
few days ago.
The 9th was the Celestial New Years
Day, and it was duly observed by the Chi.
nese in New York, Chicago and other cities
in their peculiar manner.
THE failures are announced of Edward
Beane, the most extensive shoe-dealer in
Providence, r. l., and J. B. Wadsworth,
of Morrisville, n Y, proprietor Of eighteen
cheese factories, for $4,000.
In Pleasant Valley, mining to wn on
the Lehigh & Susquehanna branch of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, over fifty acres
sank in some places over two feet few
nights ago with terrible crash. The peo-
pie were panic-stricken and fed into the
streets and open spaces to avoid being
Of which were wrecked.
THE Baltimore g. Ohio Company has
purchased the lines of the National Tele-
graph Company.
ARRANGEMENTS were made recently by
about twenty leading ladies and gentle
men Of Boston for the establishment of a
crematory in that city.
THE fishing-schooner G.. W. Stetson, of
Gloucester, Mass, with crew of twelve
men, was on the 18th reported as lost.
AFTER a long idleness the Corning Iron
Works, near Troy, N. Y, resumed opera
tions on the 28th, giving employment to
fifteen hundred men. A general revival
of the iron trade throughout the country
was reported.
JAMES ALEXANDER, dealer in millinery
goods in New York City, failed recently
for 100000.
On the 18th Tilden c. Abbott, cashier of
the Union Market Bank at Watertown,
Mass, absconded with $31, 160 belonging to
the institution, leaving behind him wife
and four children.
The Free Thinkers of New England
formed an association at Boston on the
2Sth with bylaws demanding that churches
shall not be exempt from taxation; that
the judicial oath be abolished; that all
laws enforcing the observance of the Sab
bath and Christian morality be repealed,
and that the Bible LIE removed from the
public schools.