The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
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CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows ON the 22d: Democratic-New
York, First District, Perry Belmont ire
nominated); Second, Felix Campbell ire
nominated); Fourth, Peter P. Mahoney.
Prohibitionist-Ma Fourth Dis
trict, John w. Sayre. Peoples Party
Massachusetts,, Tenth District, James H.
Mullen.
In New York City ON the 22d the Repub-
lican County Convention dominated Louis
j. Phillips for Mayor.
A FEW days ago Seth Cook, of Rath bon.
vile, N. Y, who is 1913 years old, walked
a distance of seventeen miles to meet his
son.
THE examination of Samuel T. Boone,
who recently assaulted Governor Cleve-
land in the streets of Albany, took place
on the 22l. Three physicians found him
sane, but laboring under great nervous
excitement. He was discharged by the
Justice of the Police Court, and, in COM
pany with his wife, left the city.
NEAR Jersey City, N. j., an old stable
fell the other afternoon, burying three
boys in the ruins. Michael Sullivan, aged
twelve, was instantly killed, and the other
two were severely injured.
The Adams Express Company's office
at Woonsocket, r. l., was entered by burg.
lars a few nights ago, who carried off $11,-
900 in bonds and coupons, $4,000 in checks
and notes, and 81 900 in bank bills.
THE shaft in the Bear Valley, Pa, owned
by the Reading Company, was burning on
the 23d, necessitating the flooding of the
colliery, which would result in heavy loss.
DAVID A. PIERPoNT has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the
Twenty seventh New York District.
RAINS had on the 23d nearly extinguished
the forest fires in Southern New Jersey,
which still smoldered in the underbrush.
The damage would reach $250,000.
On the 23d the first snow-storm of the
season in Western New York and portions
of Pennsylvania occurred.
THE dedication of a Hebrew orphan
asylum, located on the Hudson River at
the upper end Of New York, occurred re-
Gently. 1t cost 100000, and has accom-
modations for five hundred children.
In a game of baseball at New York on
the 2Sd for the championship Of the United
States, the Providence nine defeated the
Metropolitans, of the American League, 6
to o..
BY the recent fire at Carthage, N. Y, the
total of the losses was over $4,000. The
total insurance was $l66,500. Great desti-
tuition was said to prevail among 100 home
less families, and appeals for aid were
again made ON the oath.
Mrs. ANNIE LOGAN, deserted by her hus-
band and suffering from poverty, gave
laudanum to her little boy few days age
at Philadelphia, then took some herself and
turned on the gas. When found both were
dead
A FEW days ago three incendiary fires,
started in close succession, in Chatham, N
Y, destroyed the Courier building, post
office, several stores, dwellings and barns
Loss, $4,000.
The failure is announced of Adams &
Allen, wool-dealers of New York, with
liabilities of $4,000.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
ON the 25th as follows Republican-New
York, First District, James H. Platt; Sew
enth, Lispenard Stewart; Eleventh, James
O'Beirne. tic-Pennsylvania, Four
teenth District, William Foster. Peoples
Party-PennsylYania Seventh District, w
G. Kennedy New York, Fifteenth Dis
trict, John Law.
The death of Prof. Lewis r. Packard, OF
Yale College, of consumption, occurred a
few days ago at his residence at New
Haven, Conn, at the age of forty mine
years.
AT Hamden, near New Haven, Conn.
the Blue law was put in operation on the
10Th, when f. Hill John Springsteen and
W. Hemlar were arrested for walking out
In the open fields with guns on their
shoulders, apparently bent on a hunting
excursion. A Hamden Justice of the Peace
imposed a fine of S34.
THE celebration of the one hundred and
eighteenth anniversary of the establishment
of the old John Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, New York, occurred on the Goth
special services being held.
THE registration in New York City this
year, shows a total of 240,951 votes. This is
$4,000 more than in 1880, and is the largest
registration in the history of the city.
On the Goth the centennial of Sir Moses
Montefore, the philanthropist, was cele-
bratsd at synagogues in most of the Amer
lean cities.
The other night burglars at Andover
Mass, took from the residence of Prof,
Austin Phelps $4,000 in bonds, and from
the house of Prof. John P. Taylor securities
valued at $4,000. All but $1,000 of the
amount was found in bushes near the lat
ter's house the next morning.
THE other day George McVeety, aged
fifty, was arrested at Jersey City, N. j., on
a charge of throwing oil over his wife, set
ting it on fire, and burning her to death.
THE Ancient Order of United Workmen
celebrated their sixteenth anniversary at
New York on the 9th. The society has
100000 members in the country, has paid in
claims S10,20O00O, and has taken care of
5000 widows and $4,000 orphans.
A FEW days ago William Maxon Rogers
Q prominent and wealthy citizen Of New