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

A FEW days ago sleigh containing
twenty-seven ladies upset on Crooked Hill,
at Reading, Pa, and Mrs. HummeI suffered
to the extent Of a broken nose, three others
were badly injured about the head by the
horses feet, and others were more or less
bruised.
AT Philadelphia on the LIST Bertha
Clear, who recently married the living
skeleton, but deserted him after two days,
declared in open court that she was not re-
strained of her liberty, and so was permit
ted to return home with her father.
The other night sixty policemen of Phil
adelphia made descent on cockpit and
captured ninety-five spectators and seven
ty-two chickens. Nearly all the men paid
fines of S1l.50 each.
LAST summer Thomas Salmon, a liquor
seller at Woburn, Mass, was sentence TO
Jail for violation of the temperance law
While an appeal was being heard he was
elected to the Legislature. The Supreme
Court on the LIST decided that he must
serve out his term in prison.
THE death of H. i. Packer, President of
the Lehigh Valley Road, occurred at Mauch
Chunk, Pa, on the lst, aged thirty three
years.
B. ScHULTz, a Pittsburgh merchant, was
captured in Chicago on the 2d by detect
ives, on charge of embe zzling $1,000, more
than that amount being found in his
pockets, and Leon Cronson was arrested
in the same city for embezzling $4,000
worth Of diamonds from Goldsmith &
Kuhn, in New Y ork, and property valued
at $l1, 900 was recovered.
AFTER a short illness Wendell Phillips
died at his home in Boston, Mass, on the
evening of the I'd, in his seven y-third
year, leaving a reputation as one of the
most eloquent speake 5 and irrepressible
agitators " the United States. He rose to
leadership among the Abolitionists by a
speech on the m3r Ter Of Z. P. Lovejov in
1887, and became President of tue Anti
Slavery Society. His wife survives him.
AT Long Island City, L. l., Thomas Coll
ierand his wife were poisoned on the 2d,and
the brother aud sister of Mrs. Collier had
been arrested for the crime, the motive of
which was said to be the possession of
SO, 800 left by their father, who died mys-
teriously some time ego
AN AuNutn Nv = - bON recently or
tanned judgment against the Central Road
for $50 0 for the loss Of foot
On the q the Democratic Common Coun.
Gil of Newark, n j., deposed the Repub-
hcan polio offic ais and elected Democrats.
Two sets o officers were on duty, and the
Suprem Court would be appealed to.
AxEL PAULsEN sl1ated twenty-five miles
at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the I'd, in one hour
thirey-two minutes and seventeen seconds,
beating all previous records.
A FEW days ago non-union lasters, who
had taken the places of s.. ikers, were fired
upon at Boston when returning from work,
but no one was injured.
THE other day sixty-two new pupils for
the Indian Taining-School arrived at Car.
Isle, Pa
COUNTY CLERK KEENAN, testified before
the Legislative Investigating Committee al
New York on the ID that he paid Tam
many $500 for his nomination, and that
his incidental campaign expenses reached
$4,000.
In ten mills at Fall River, Mass, the
spinners' strike began on the 4th, three OF
the concerns closing down entirely, and
the Metacomet mill being shut down