The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-28
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THE EAST.
In the apartments Of Mrs. Rosa Murtha,
In Williamsburg, N. Y, kerosene lamp
exploded few evenings ago, and the
burning oil was scattered over Mrs. Murtha
and her daughter, aged twenty -four. Be-
fore the flames could be extinguished they
were fatally burned.
AT Haverhill, Mass, a fire destroyed
hotel and several stores recently, involv-
ing total loss Of about $25, 900. A girl was
fatally injured in jumping from the hotel
windows, and the inmates generally ex-
perienced very narrow escapes.
AT the convention in Pittsburgh on the
goth of the American Humane Association
John G.. Shortall Of Chicago, was elected
President for the ensuing year.
THE official report of the Connecticut
Board Of Canvassers gives the vote at the
recent election as follows: Cleveland,
67,l99; Blaine, 65,923; st. John 1906; But
Ter, l,6SS; scattering, 6. For Governor
Waller, $500; Harrison, 66,277; Palmer,
2,12S; Cnrtis, 1870; scattering, IS. Sum-
ner's Dem.) plurality for Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor is 255'
A MEETING of clergymen of various sects
was held recently at New Haven, Conn.,,
and it was agreed to hold q congress of
American churches in that city next May
The suit Of the Lamar estate against the
Secretary of the Treasury to recover S110,-
700 for cotton taken during the war was
dismissed in the United States District
Court at New York on the Goth.
The firm of Carr s. Hobson, agricultural
implement manufacturers at Bergen Point,
N. j., have failed. In January last the
concern owed $4,000, with assets of $751;
BOO.
The other day George T. Adee, an aged
capitalist Of New York, dropped dead in
The Bank of Commerce from heart disease.
In the twenty-eight ingram carpet mills
In Philadelphia the wages of the five thou
sand employees were on the Goth reduced
from sixteen to twenty per cent.
The other day Arthur Clark, sailor,
was found dying in New York boarding.
house Of yellow fever No other persons in
ihe building were i'll.
SEVERAL powder cartridges exploded
recently while being warmed by workmen
killed, two injured, and all the windows in
ihe vicinity wrecked
In Central Park, New York, statue,
representing the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers, will be erected by the New En-
gland Society.
BOSTON merchants met on the Dist and
urged Congress to suspend the silver dollar
coinage, to pass Bankruptcy law, and to
effect as speedily as possible reciprocity
With Mexico and Canada.
REV. w. H. RAMscAR, Superintendent of
ihe Home for Children and Seminary for
5irls at New York, was recently convicted
If sending children out to beg, and was
sentenced to thirty days in the city prison
and to pay a fine of 500.
THE Board Of Canvassers of New York
IN the 2lst declared the result of the recent
election in that State as follows: Cleve-
and, 56S,O4S; Blaine, 561,971; plurality,
LOTT. st. John, 24,94S; Butler, 1921.
In the cotton mills at Peterborough, N.
H., Hopedale, and Fall River, Mass, and
n the iron mills at Pittsburgh Pa, notices
nave been posted of heavy cuts in wages.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, street-car dashed
down the incline in Butler street few
lays ago, and, jumping the track, ran on
The sidewalk for block, when the horses
Tell, and the car passed over them, infict-
ing injuries which necessitated their be-
ing killed. The twenty three passengers
on board were badly bruised, two of them
seriously.
THE residence of William Caddy at Rip
ley, Pa, took fire the other morning, and
MIR. Caddy, who was an old man, was over
come by the heat in the building, and per-
lshed il, the flames His wife was serious-
ly injured.
IN Concord and in various other portions
of New Hampshire severe earthquake
shock was felt on the morning of the 23d.
DISASTROUS wind and rain-storms pre-
vailed in the East on the afternoon of the
Esd. AT Wilkesharre and Scranton, Pa,
houses were flooded and swept away, and
in portions of New York and Massachu-
sets considerable damage was done. No
lives were lost.
NOTICE has been given by the Waltham
Watch Company of Massachusetts, that a
large reduction will soon be made in force
and wages.
THE Castle Garden Labor Bureau man
ayers in New York have received during
the past few days about forty letters from
women throughout the country who desire
husbands and would be content with i'm
migrants. Many of these women sent
their pictures, and some of them appeared
to be quite good-looking.
THE firm of Clement, Hierdt & Co., of
New York, importers and dealers in wines
and liquors, has failed for S163,0OO.
Q. B. WILLIAMS, of Edinboro, Pa, rail-
way brakeman, fatally shot his wife few
evenings ago and then killed himself.
For the past two years they had lived un-
happily.
ALONG the Atlantic coast heavy gales
were blowing on the oath, and at New
York, Boston, Newport and Providence
considerable damage was done.
THREE brothers named Skirl at a polit-
icai gathering at Myerstown, Pa, few
evenings ago fatally stabbed John Kintzer
and his father.
/ IT Is reported that all branches Of the