The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-13
The East.

The assignee has made a report of the
condition of the Penn Bank of Pittsburgh,
Pa, which shows that 81 ,466, POS are due
depositors, and that the overdrafts aggre-
gate $l,250,9J4 Most of the directors
withdrew their accounts ON the day the
bank closed for the last time.
TIE other morning the Palisade Mount
ain House, ON the Hudson, ten miles above
New York, was destroyed by fire. Loss
on building and furnitNre, $130,000; insur-
ance, 100000.
PARIS HALDEMAN has been nominated
for Congressman by the Democrats of the
Fifth Pennsylvania District.
The death of Alonzo Hitchcock, in
ventor CT the "Ryan revolving fort,n and
many other devices used in the late war,
occurred in New York few days ago.
He was a close friend of Abraham Lin
colu.
In was asserted. on the 9Th by Miss Nivi-
son, who manages the sanitarium near
Hammonton, N. j., where the bodies of
twenty-one infants were recently found
buried, that an epidemic of measles caused
the mortality, and that the children had
all been baptized and inferred with re-
tense, as foul play was suspected.
CONNECTICUT Democrats met in State
Convention at New Haven on the 9th and
adopted resolutions declaring in favor of
tariff for revenue only, and elected dele
gates-at-large to the National Convention.
d. LUTz q Sons brewery. with the malt
and ice-houses, stables and two dwellings,,
were burned the other night at Allegheny,
Pa, causing a loss of $4,000.
On the 9th five hundred striking laborers
of the South Pennsylvania Railroad got
into free fight at Somerset, Pa, and one
man was fatally injured. Further trouble
was expected.
THE Democrats of Vermont held their
State Convention at Montpelier on the 9Th
and nominated L. w. Redington for Gov
ernor, Delegates-at-large were also elected
to the convention at Chicago.
CoUNTERFEITsy of legal-tender notes were
reported in circulation in New York City
on the 9TH. They are of the series of 1878,
and very good limitations, but on the back
of the counterfeit the word "this" in the
notice, "this is a legal-tender," ETC., is
spelled "tis"
THE bill passed by the New York Legis.
lature to prohibit the sale of illustrated pc.
lice papers and similar publications to
minors has been signed by Governor
Cleveland, and it is now a law.
On the Schuylkill Railroad on the 9th
near Reading, Pa, a heavy blast wrecked
dozen houses and fatally injured boy
aged four years:
On the 9th John c. Emo, the defaultine
bank President of New York, was indicted
for forgery in the second and third de-
grees. There wa&ssaid to be no question as
TO his extraditicR from Canada.
A GENERAL Improvement in business
throughout the country was reported by
Brodstreeps Commercial Agency on the
9th, being the first gain in trade noted
since the panic among the Wall street
speculators~
WHILE out. driving on the; s'h at Chap.
paqua, N. Y, Miss Gabrielle Greeley,
daughter'of he late Horace Greeley, was
thrown from her vehicle and had her right
shoulder broken, besides being bruised in.
ternally.
THE committee appointed by the Ma
tional Republican Convention to notify
Messrs. Blaine and Logan of their nomina
tion has been requested to meet in Boston
on Juna 2o,whence they will proceedto Au
gusta.
HENRY G. WoRK, widely known song
writer, died Il Hartford, Conn, few days
ago.
The WINsLow 81 ROGERS shoe factory
at Salem, Mass, valued at 100000, was
destroyedby fire a. few daysago throwing
two hundred persons out Of employment.