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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
An InsOlent, Blundering judge.

1t is expedient for those ''clothed
with brief authority" to be careful
and courteous in its exercise. Some
persons vested with power think that
insolence is smartness. Such persons.
sooner or later, learn their error.
One evening, in the summer of 1912
gentleman disehbarked from barge
at Paris, where he, with a large
quantity of baggage, had been brought
from Fontainebleau. He engaged q
drayman to convey his baggage to &
certain place and then left the qxai on
foot.
The drayman omitted taking one
article-a large box, whose shape at.
tracted the attention of custom house
officer Thinking its contents might be
contraband, he ordered it to be opened.
To his establishment he found therein
the body of woman, wrapped from
head to foot in linen bandages, whose
discolored countenance indicated that
she had died from violence.
The officer at once summoned COM
missary of the police and surgeon.
Barely looking at the remains, - they
also decided that murder had been
committed A report to this effect
being made at the police Office the body
was removed to the naorgte.
On the following morning, as the
gentleman returned to the boat for his
missing box, he was rudely seized and
hurried before the police magistrate.
''We've got you, haven't we?" asked
that officer, tauntingly, as the gentle
man was brought in. Perhaps you
! thought to escape, but / assure you that
neither my officers nor myself can be
found mapping when justice demands
| that we be alert
81 should like to know what all THU
means" said the gentleman.
"Your pretense of ignorance will NOT
save you from the punishment due fol
your crime"
"My crime?"
eyes, the murder you committed, OF
to which you were an accessory"
murder! What makes you think ]
have been concerned in such crime?"
''Did you not bring with you TO this
city box containing the corpse of a
woman?"
Eyes"
"Who placed the body in the boxP''
'I did,
elbow old was she?'
"Not far from twenty-five, l think, "
smiling.
"Where was her home?''
SIN Egypt"
"Make note of these answers" said
the magistrate to the clerk. Then turn
ing to the gentleman he asked, ''When
did her death occur?"
'About three thousand years ago"
mo leyity,' remarked Ibis honor,
sternly.
"There is no levity in my statement.
must say you are the most stupid
Judge ever saw. Had not you and
your officers been the veriest ignoram-
uses, you would have known the body
is mummy" contemptuously.
/ ga mummy repeated the dumb
founded magistrate.
"Yes; from Cairo, whence have just
returned"
Sand who are youP''
''Count Dumont, President of the
Royal Society of Antiquities and mem
Der of the Academy of Inscriptions"
"My lord, implore your forgiveness
for the annoyance have caused you"
said the judge in the most abject
humiliation. Youths Companion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
Filled With Trichinse.

New YORK, April 12.-Antonio Plsino
twenty-five years old, of No. ITO Mulberry
Street, was taken from his home in the sick
wagon to Bellevue Hospital on Monday
night. He complained of tenderness and
pain in his muscles and thought he was
suffering from rheumatism. His symptoms
were those of trichinosis, and yesterday it
was discovered that he was afflicted with a
well defined case Of that disease, A piece
of muscle about the size of small pea was
taken from his arm and examined under the
microscope. In the muscular tissue were
found over DOZEN trichin@.-
DR.. Hammond, Assistant House Surgeon
of the hospital said that it has not yet been
fully determined whether the disease can
be cured or not. The treatment now fol-
lowed is to give the patient cathartics and
build up the system with nourishing food.
Much has to be left to nature. In Pisino's
case the disease has made great Roadway.
the trichin8 being found in all the muscles
This can be determined by the pain that it
causes the patient when pinched in any
part of the body. But three authentic cases
of trichinosis have been treated at Bellevue
Hospital in five years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
LATER.

ADvICEs Of the 10Th state that Cyclone
swept Blackhawk, Miss, leveling the
school, church, dwellings and barns, and
seriously injuring many persons. The
value of property destroyed was large.
Chiply. Ca, and its vicinity was also
visited by a tornado, which devastated the
district and killed several persons.
In dispute at Lawrence, Kan, few
days ago over a dirk, ten-year-old lad
named George Holloway drew revolver
and fatally shot playmate named Silas
Edmunds.
The nineteenth anniversary Of the
death of Abraham Lincoln was COM
memorated on the 10Th at the tomb in
Springfield, ILL.,, by about one thousand
citizens, who were addressed by General
Palmer and others.
THE annual banquet of the Iro4uois
Club, in honor of the birthday of Thomas
Jefferson, took place on the evening of the
10th at the Palmer House, Chicago. A
large number of distinguished Democratic
statesmen were present from abroad. A
letter from Mr. Tilden stated that he could
no longer aspire to be one of the party.
HENRY KILBURN (white) and Ben Strong
| (colored) were taken from the jackson
(Breathitt County, .Ky.) Jail the other
night by a mob and hanged. During Kill
burns career he had killed eight men.
FLOODS along the line of the Western &
Atlantic Road in Georgia caused the wreck
of passenger train near. Ackworth on the
10Th, and the engineer, fireman and mail
weigher were killed, and the mail agent
and conductor were seriously injured.
Five miles distant freight train went
through trestle, the engineer and fireman
losing their lives.
| G. j. PIERCE was lynched by a party Of
men at Asotin City, W. T., on the 18th, for
the murder of James Curtis, and Joseph
Casey was hanged at Tucson, A. T., for
the murder of Jailer Holbrook.
YELLOW FEVER was raging at Vera
Cruz, Mex, on the 10Th, and thirteen
deaths had occurred in one day.
| BILLS were reported in the United States
Senate on the 10th to create commission
on the alcoholic liquor traffic; for the re-
\ lief of the Nez Perce Indians in Idaho, and
to provide for coinage at the branch mint
in Denver. The Bankruptcy bill was
taken up, and it was agreed that any per-
son owing in excess of three hum
ldred dollars may petition for dis
charge. In the House it was re-
solved, by vote of 40 to 1888, to consider
the Tariff bill in Committee of the Whole,
and speeches were made by Messrs- Nor
Irison, Kelley and Mills. Bills were re-
ported for the sale of the Sac and Fox res
ervations in Nebraska and Kansas, and to
pension soldiers and sailors for disabili-
ties incurred beyond the loss of leg or an
arm.
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NEWS OF The WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
xLvIITth Congress.

THURSDAY, April 10.-Bills were intro.
duced in the Senate to protect employees
Of railroads engaged in inter. State
commerce, and to forfeit the land grant of
the New Orleans & Vicksburg Road. After
prolonged debate on the Naval Approprfa-
ton bill, the Senate adjourned to the 18th.
In the House Mr.. Eaton reported substi-
tute for the Senate bill governing the cleo
ton Of President and Vice President. A
prolonged debate took place on bills for
the erection of public buildings.
FRIDAY, April 1.-THE Senate was
not in session. In the House a bill
was passed to offer reward Of 600 for
ascertaining the fate of the Greedy ex-
plorers. A bill for the forfeiture of the
Northern Pacific land grant was reported.
A message from the President was pre-
sented, urging the appropriation of $751;
100000 for ornaments for sea-coast fortih-
cations. An evening session was held for
the consideration Of pension bills.
SATURDAY, April 1.-THE Senate was
not in session. In the House favorable
reports were made on bills to perm it
fruit-growers to manufacture brandy with
out the payment of tax, granting letter
carriers months leave Of absence each
year, and for the acceptance of the Illinois
81 Michigan Canal. Eulogies on the late
Representative Herndon, of Alabama,
were delivered.
MONDAY, April 14.-In the Senate the
Naval Appropriation bill was passed,
with amendments for the construction of
cruisers. Bills were introduced to place
General Fremont on the retired list and to
forfeit the unearned lands of the Northern
Pacific Road. Several sections oil. the Bank.
ruptcy bill were considered. In the House
bills.were introduced for tax of three per
cent. on incomes Of $1,000, and Of ten Del
cent. on s. 5000 or more; to place on the
free list agricultural implements and ali
machinery used in the manufacture oil
farm products; to retire John G. Fremont
with the rank of Major General; and tc
reorganize the Supreme Court of the United
States.
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A FIRE few days ago destroyed the
Elisha Graves House at Northampton,
Mass, which was over two hundred years
old.
THOMAS VEDDER and N. r. Pierson,
brothers-in-law, of Suspension Bridge, N.
Y, drove to Goat Island few days ago
and quarreled. Vedder shot Pierson
through the head, and then it was supposed
committed suicide by jumping into the
Niagara Rapids.
THE death Of Daniel Hawn, aged eighty
four years, occurred few days ago at
Huntington, Pa. He had been insane for
sixty years, and in all that time had been
kept in solitary confnementin room in a
house where five brothers, all unmarried,
lived. No intercourse was permitted him
with others during his long captivity.
THE Nelson Y. Mcfarland, Gloucester
(Mass.) fishing schooner, and its crew of
six men were lost at sea in recent gale.
ANOTHER postponement of the exposi-
tion of the Kelly motor took place on the
10th, as the ''work of perfecting the grad
uation" was not finished
The failure is announced of Henry 8.
Rosenthal, a New York cattle merchant.
for S13O,OOO.
A LAD named Willie Black, aged six
years, was killed by the kick of man
named D. w. Brett, at Philadelphia, a few
days ago. The lad accidentally ran against
the man while playing, and the kicking
followed.
In hotel in New York few days ago
Joseph Agate, retired New York mill.
ionaire, committed suicide by shooting
himself Dependency over failing health
was said to have been the cause.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the other day a
bank of sand caved in, burying two men,
who, when recovered an hour later, were
dead, their bodiss'heing badly crushed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
From Washington.

NOTICE has been given by the Secretary
Of the Interior that the forty-nine thousand
acres of land in the southwestern part of
the Omaha (Neb.) Reserve, thirty five
miles southwest of Sioux City, will be
open for actual settlers to file claims on
April 80 next Filings can be made at
Bancroft, Wisner, or at the United States
Land Office at Neigh, Neb. Terms, one
third down, and two annual payments at
five per cent. Prices range from five dol
lars to ten dollars per acre.
A FEW days ago the steamer Hohenzol-
Tern arrived at Baltimore from Saxony
with the grand bronze statue of Martin
Luther, which is to be erected in Washing
ton City in May.
REPORTS made on the 10th by the Wash
ington Agricultural Department stated
that there were 100000 acres in the
United States under winter wheat. This
area was about 100000 acres more than
last year.
1T Is provided in the substitute reported
in the Senate on the 10th by Mr.. Eaton
for the pending bill to regulate the election
of President and Vice President that the
S6COnU
Monday in December at an appointed place;
that on the second Tuesday in the January
following the House and Senate in Joint
convention shall count the votes from the
certificates Of the Electors, the result being
delivered to the joint presiding officer,
who shall announce the persons elected.
In case of an objection to the vote of any
State, made in writing and signed by three
members of the joint convention, the re-.
turns objected to shall be laid aside, de,
'bated for three hours, and voted upon per
capita.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 175 business failures in the
United States, and in Canada thirty-nine,
against total of 212 the previous week.
THE First-Assistant Postmaster General
states that during the nine months ended
March 81 last the post-offlce receipts were
1926, 446, a falling off, as compared with
the previous nine months, of $S,246, 246.
BEFORE the House Committee on Post
offices and Post-roadsi on the 18th DR.. Nor
vim Green, President of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, argued in opposition
to postal telegraphy. II, however, he said,
the Government was determined to enter
into the business, he thought it ought to
buy out the existing lines and manage the
work exclusively in its own way.
GENERAL ADAM BADEAU sent dispatch
to Secretary Frelinghuysen on the 18th
rendering his resignation as Consul Gen.
eral at Havana.
The issue of two and three cent stamps
during the first quarter of the present year
exceeded the issue for the corresponding
period Of last year by twenty.seven pei
cent There had been falling of in the
postal-card issue of 100000 since the in.
auguration of the two-cent rate
DURING March, 1884, the value of ex
ports of breadstuffs was SIC, 45S, 466
against ST., s41,ss3 the same month last
year, and for the nine months ended Marcel
3l,lSs4, $780, $40, against $167, 273, O25 fol
the same period last year.
AT the principal clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th we're $S32, 776, 1852
against $685., 04S,Os4 the previous week.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
The Art Of Cracking Hickory Nuts.

II understand that there is quite q
science in cracking nuts?"
'FThere certainly is, and there is some
difference of opinion as to the best
method of doing it. / got my expert
ence in this business when was boy
in Westchester County, N. Y. / guess
that there are more crack hickory nut
crackers in that section than anywhere
else Thirty or forty years ago the folks
had nut-cracking matches up here.
While sitting around a big fire in farm
house kitchen they cracked the nuts,
eating the meats with apples and cider
They threw the shells into the fire. The
shells burn very briskly, and when they
are charred glow like rubies. Lots of
queer stories are. told about the old
hickory nut time. When [ was boy
my mother, whowas born in Westches-
ter County, told me about an old man
who lived in little house in the woods,
and who during the whole winter sat
by the fire and cracked and ate nuts.
He cracked so many nuts, they say,
that he required no other fuel than the
shells to keep the fire going. can't
swear IHdb NC uIu uOO use any OOu0I AuoA
but the nut-shells, but there is no doubt
about his having existed, for my mother
often saw his house."
"What do you think the best wayp"
"The one that was always the easiest
for me was to take a hammer and a nice
round cobble stone. These secured
you take hold of the nut between the
thumb and forefnger of the left hand
and rest the side of the nut on the sur
face of the stone. Hold the nut firmly
and then give it sharp blow with the
hammer. If you hold the nutright and
strike it right the kernel will come out
in two pieces. Some person prefer
block of hard wood to stone, and some
use a fat iron. - Cincinnati News-JouT-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
THE CUBAN CRISIS.
The Government Rushing Headlong Int
Debt to Suppress the Insurrection.

The Government Rushing Headlong Into
Debt to Suppress the Insurrection.
New YORK, April IA letter from Ha-
vana, dated April ), says:
Serious accounts from the interior as tC
the movements of large parties OF bandits
and Government troops continue to come in.
Yesterday battalion of regular troops was
sent from Havana to VueIta Arbaje, and for
few days the coast in the neighborhood of
Havana was occupied by detachments of
troops. The Government is apparently
waking up to the situation. Private ae-
counts from ST. Domingo say that the
Cuban refugees there are in possession of
large amounts of money and are preparing
for landing in Cuba in combination with
parties here. This is probably the cause OF
the extraordinary movements of the troops.
The Government, in spite Of all these facts,
pretendS to ridioule all reports of threat.
ened invasion.
News has reached this city that the Min
lister of Colonies has made loan of
$3,000,000 with the Hispano-COlonial Bank
of Barcelona for the account Of the Cuban
Treasury, pledging in return daily pay
ment of $4,000 from the income of the
Cuban custom houses. The Cuban Treasury
will have to pay one per cent. commission
on the loan and an interest of nine and
half per cent. per annum.
This measure caused the greatest
indignation here and added to
the state of profound alarm and general dis
content prevailing, as the loan and contract
made with the same bank in 1880 was con-
sidered one of the calamities which brought
about the present state of affairs BY virtue
of the former loan, through which the
Banco- Hispano-C Colonial is realizing an inn
mense profit, the burden of which Cuba
alone has to bear, the bank is already re-
ceivI.g $33, 1000 daily from the income of the
Cuban custom houses.
"a petition which the tobacco growers of
Vuelta Abajo submitted to the House Gov
eminent, asking that urgent measures be
taken to remedy the evils which they EMU
merated destructive to their industry, has
been virtually rejected. The answer from
the Government settled none of the difficult
ties. A perfect panic is reigning in the
markets. Merchants, in order to sell their
drafts, have to submit to large loss on the
current rates of exchange, which are con-
tinually declining Some of the larger
houses cannot sell their bills of exchange at
anV ratnn
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Matthew Arnold reports that he
cleared $4,000 by his lecturing tour in
America.
Emily Faithful opens her lecture on
''Shams" with the statement that it is
equally applicable on both sides of the
Atlantic.
An Augusta (Ga.) editor SAYS that
five men in the Southern States now
read the newspapers where one man
read them ten years ago.
Ewing Isbell, of Warren county,
Ky, was born on Washington's birth
day, his wife was DO IN on the Fourth
of July, their only child was born on
Christmas.
Henry Ward Beecher says that be-
sides "Uncle Toms Cabin" the only
one he ever read of the numerous books
written by his sister, Mrs. Stowe, was
'|The Minister'S Wooing"
Dickens sketches of Young Gen.
tlemen," published in 1888, and his
''Sketches of Young Couples printed
in 1910, have been reproduced in fac
smile, and will be brought out in Lon
don.
Miss Elizabeth Peabody, of Boston,
now nearing her eightieth year, was the
first to introduce the kindergarten sys-
tenn in this country, and for more than
half century has been prominent in
works of philanthropy and sympathetic
with American progress in art and lit
erature. Boston Post.
General Graham, whose recent
victories in the Soudan have made him
famous, was a resident in Montreal
about eighteen years ago, and was then
District Commanding Engineer under
Colonel Ford. The General at that
time was one of the youngest Lieu
tenant Colonels in the British service.
M " Times. G
There are only two American
books which have market value ap-
proximating ST 1000; they are the EBAY
Psalm Book" which has been sold as
high as $1,000, and Eliot's Indian
ble-"Up-Biblum God," in the
aboriginal tongue, copy of which was
recently bought at the sale of the library
OF the late Judge Henry G. Murphy, in
New York, for the sum of $780, Chi
cGqo Inter Ocean.
Benjamin Gratz, who died in Phila-
delphia the other day, was the oldest
graduate of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and the oldest member of the
Philadelphia bar. His sister Rebecca
was a special friend of Washington
Irving, who regarded her as one of the
most lovely women and perfect types OF
the ideal Jewess possible to find. On
one of his visits to Sir Walter Scott he
interested the great novelist in her char
acter to such an extent that he took he1
for his model of Rebecca in ''Ivanhoe. -
philadelphia Press.
H. B. Claffn, the famous New York
dry-goods merchant is a very small
man, with fluffy hair and a small,
smooth, doll-like face. Every afternoon
at half-past three o'clock, wet or dry,
he jumps into light wagon behind a
fleet horse and goes spinning down to-
wards Coney Island from his winter
residence in Brooklyn. There is nothing
snowy or stylish about his turnout, and
few who see the little man muffied in a
fur-lined coat with a cloth cap drawn
over his flowing hair would take him
for an important millionaire. Y
San.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
Unfortunate Yankees.

HALIFAX, N. S., April 11.-Holmes and
Brecken, two Americans, were arrested here
in September last for having dynamite in
their possession, with dangerous weapons.
They were tried in the Supreme Court yes
terday on an Indictment for creating NUS
ance by having dangerous explosives in
their possession, thereby endangering life
and property. The evidence was the same
as that produced at the examination last
fall. Judge Thompson presided, and made
charge to the jury bearing hard on the
prisoners. After short absence the jury
returned a verdict of guilty under the law
Judge May sentenced them to two years in
the penitentiary.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD.
Sixteen Bodies so Far Found in the Poca.
hontas Mine.

$1,000
LYNcHBURGH, Va, April 12.-After
everything was got in readiness at Poca-
hontas Thursday evening, police force
was placed on guard at the main
keep back the crowds which had been
attracted by the notice that the bodies
would be reclaimed. Engineer Moody,
in charge of the rGscuing party entered the
mines to note the situation Of affairs When
they emerged from the mines they an
nonnced that the damage was less than had
been supposed, and little trouble would be
experienced in recovering the bodies of the
viitims. The two bodies reclaimed Thurs
day, horribly mutilated, were those of Boon
ssIaxey, a white boy, and Jim Grim, negro.
Work was resumed yesterday morning. A
still larger crowd congregated at the en-
trance and ropes were stretched to prevent
too near approach. The crowd however, OBJ
served proper decorum and there was no I'M
due excitement. A spirit of great soIemnity
seemed to pervade the assembly. The bodies,
as they were recovered, were placed in
boxes Oil the inside of the mine and several
of miners, well acquainted with the victims,
were placed at the entrance for the purpose
of identifying the bodies, but of the recov-
cred so far only six have been identified.
These are: Jim Grim, recognized by the
belt he wore; Isham Maxwell, by his boots;
George Maxwell, by being found with his
brother; William Slusher, by a patch on
one of his boots; young Jewell, by his hair
and the location Of his body; German,
recognized by his wife.
Many of the bodies were horribly man.
gled. Some had their heads blown off, and
others their arms and legs torn from the
sockets. Still others had their entrails torn
out entirely. An arm and leg were found
in the main entrance but the body to which
they belonged was not found.
A thrill of horror passed through the
crowd as the rescuing party brought out the
charred remains of miner with a dinner
bucket clasped in his arms 1t is probable
that he was just partaking of his midnight
meal when the explosion hurled him into
eternity. Several miners were found with
their picks in hand, and their positions in
dictate concluslyely that death was instan-
taneous to all in the mine. At $3.50 o'clock
the announcement was made that no more
bodies would be removed before nine
o'clock this morning.