The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
The East.

ON the 22d Jay Gould cabled Vanderbilt
at London that a better feeling prevailed
on the stock-market, that no further fail.
ures were expected, that the crops were in
an excellent condition, and that the new
trunk-line pools had been completed and
signed. Vanderbilt replied that his views
were i'll accordance with those held bv Mr.
Gould.
AT pittsburgh recently a we'll of natural
gas of eight thousand horse power, was
struck at depth Of fifteen hundred feet
TIE oldest practitioner in the United
States District Court, ex-Judge Welcome
X. Beebe, was killed by the cars at Evona
Station, N. j., on the 22d. He was seventy
five years of age.
The shore end of the Bennett Mackey
cable was landed by the steamer Faraday
AT kockport, Mass, on the ed, and then
the vessel sailed away to make splice at
buoy 200 miles to the northeast. She
wouldnext pay'out 1000 miles in the deep
seaSection.
On the Parker & Harms City Railroad
freight train went through the trestle near
Harms City, Pa, few days ago, and was
badly wrecked. Two men, named Thomp-
son and Cook, were killed.
The following is General Buffers letter
accepting the nomination of the National
Autobiography organization for President
of the United States.
lowell, Mass, May 81, 1ss4.-Gentlemen:
nave the honor to receive your courteous
note giving me the action of the convention
at Chicago on the 18th instant of the repre-
Eentatives OF Auti-Monopoly, The honor of
designation q fhni
candidate for the Presidency of the
Republic can not be too highly appre-
OF pupo peoy w VII Each Each
resolutions | need only to add that if the
votes Of the electors shall intrust me with the
executive powers of that high Office, each of
them Will be fully, justly and energetically
used to make every measure OF relief to the
people and reform in the Government point
cd out In your platform the principles and
character of the Administration. Accent for
yourselves personally my most grateful con-
sideratten, BENJAMIN r. BTTTT,ER
JOSEPH B. MCDONALD, lumber-dealer
of Woburn, Mass, has failed for $l25, 900.
A COLLISION occurred the other night be-
tween New York Central trains at Brigh-
ton Station, n. Y, and twenty persons
were injured, among them the Japanese
Prince and eleven. members of his suite.
1T was discovered on the 23d that Charles
~ hiuchieys paying ISIleT ol tne W Ssb
Side Bank of New York, had embezzled
$4,000. He had disappeared.
A FEW days ago john Cummings, clerk
of the Standard Oil Company at Long Is
land City, disappeared with $4,000 which
he drew to pay employees.
IT is announced that syndicate has pur-
chased from Fisk Il Hatch, of New York,
all the Government bonds the firm held
which placed them in a position to settle
their affairs.
AN oil tank of the Atlantic Refining
Company in the suburbs OF Philadelphia,
was struck by lightning on the 2Sd, the
flames spreading rapidly, and in short
time loss of $4,000 was caused.
BUSINESS was resumed by the Penn
Bank of Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 23d, and
its doors were kept open until five .. M,
during which time $4,000 were deposited
in excess of the amount withdrawn.
CHARLES B. CLARK was. hanged at Little
Valley, N. Y, on the 2Sd, for the murder
OF bic Wife =