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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
MOB JUSTICE.

Noted Desperate in Missouri Pays the
Extreme Penalty Without the Aid of
thB LAVA Like Case iii California
MARYvIILE, NO., Dec. 1O-About two
o'clock yesterday morning Charles f.
Stevens, alias ''Omaha Charley" who
shot Hubbard Kremer in a saloon last
week, was taken from jail and
hanged by masked mob. When the
mob, about sixty i'll number, appeated at
The jail Sheriff Anderson refused to give
up his prisoner, and when the lynchers
made rush for the jail he and his deputy
fired, wounding one of them dangerously:
The NIB finally obtained possession of the
keys to Stephens cell The prisoner offered
resistance and chung to the railing with
fearful tenacity. It is reported he bit
and that another masker was wounded
III the atn dtiring thB shttting. Tfh8n
they took Charley to the bridge he wanted
to be heard. They told him to go ahead.
He said: Gentlemen, what does this
mean?" Some voices said: us this all you
have to say?" He said nothing more uns
til they pulled him lip, when he exclaimed:
! My God!" The Sheriff aid sherif's
deputy made gallant defense The
shooting of Kremer was unprovoked. He
is yet living, with chance to get well.
''Omaha Charley" was a desperate man,
and, While many believed he merited such
treatment, yet the laW-abiding citizens Of
Tie cUmnitnits dFepiy regret ttat tbe law
was not permitted to take its own course
DAGGETT, Cal, Dec, 10.-A mob of twenty
men yesterday morning SURROUNDED the Off
GERS in charge Of Lett Fsrthiiig aid 1Niiliail
White, alias William Pitts, charged with
having dubbed Josiah 0. Harris to death
with a wagon spoke on the night of the
5th inst. The mob told the officers to
keep perfectly quiet and there would
be no fuss They then marched
Pitts to the outskirts Of the town, put
a rope round his heck, threw the other end
over the cr6ss-arm of d telegraph POLE, and
hoisted him up. lie was dead in few
minutes. Pitts was a deserter from the
United States army, having enlisted under
the name Of William III. White in the Sec
ond Cavalry, Company F, stationed at Fort
Ellis, NJ. I. Farthing was told to leave the
COUNTRY
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wer- already dead, and others of the thir-
teen poisoned were in critical condition.
AT Mckinney, Tex, John Adams and
Will Moore, rivals for the hanE of young
lady, killed each other during quarrel re-
Gently:
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Louisville
Courier Journal, who had investigated the
pestilence caused by drought in the mount
ainous regions of Kentucky and Virginia,
reported on the 9th that up to date 2,045
deaths had occurred.
In Dawson County, d. T., natural gas
has been discovered, and coal and petrole-
um are now supposed te be abundant In
that region.
A FULL confession has been made by
Cook, The leader of the gang which re-
Gently robbed the train near Little Rock,
Ark, and all the bandits were in custody;
save one. Ten watches and $500 in money
had been recovered.
IT is reported that a portion of the treas
ure buried in Arkansas by the pirate La
fitte in 1872 has recently been discovered
in iron safes by eonyicts laboring On the
Pine Bluff & Swan Lake Railway.
In the northern pineries of Michigan log
gers were on the 9Th reported to be in a
wretched condition, some Of the Swedes
selling their labor for ten cents day.
For food they were furnished rye bread
and coffee with salt heat three times a
week.
In North Carolina the extreme drouth,
which commenced about July 1, was
broken by copious rain on the Sth. In
many localities wells had become dry, and
the farmers had been unable to pillow and
plant wheat, oats, rye and small grain.
The rain was general all ever the States
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LA1ERI,.


The town of Polkton, on the Carolina
Central Railroad, was almost destroyed by
fire at two o'clock on the morning of the
9th. The fire was accidental and
originated in drugstore. This is the
fifth North Carolina town burned In tho
last thirty days, the others being Colds
bore; Wilson, Toisnot and Warsaw.
THIRTY rebels were killed in an attack
on the railway at Suakim on the 10th.
CHARLES STEVENS, alias Omaha Char
ley," desperate, was taken from jail
the other morning at Maryville, Mo-. by q
mob and hanged to the railway bridge,
Mrs. JANE EWING, a widow, who lived
twelve miles southwest of Selma, Ala,
was going to town recently on horseback
with two little sons, one before and one be-
hind, when dead tree on the roadside fell
ON them with crash Instantly killing the
three together.
THREE blocks of houses at Trenton, Pa,
we're burned early on the morning of the
9th, Thomas Barlow, his wife and three
children and man named Fitzgerald
perishing in the flames.
TIFFIN BROTHERS, a great wholesale
grocery house at Montreal, have failed,
owing 100000.
EXPORTS from the port of New York DUR
ing the seven days ended on the 9th, exs
elusive of specie, were 50, 1861 00--an in
crease of 81, 1S3, 900 over the week before
WILLIAM PITTS, alias White, who re-
Gently beat citizen to death with wagon
spoke, was taken from the officers at Dag
gett, Cal, a few mornings ago and hanged
to a telegraph pole.
WADE HAMPTON was reelected United
States Senator by the South Carolina
Legislature on the 9th.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Cullom
Springs, Choctaw County, Ala, on the 9th
over the discovery Of. oil, drilling for which
had been going on for over year. 1t was
said that the flow of oil was greater than
could be secured.
THE reported death Of FL Mehdi, the
False Prophet, was premature. It was his
uncle, the Governor of Ell Obeid, who died.
THE United States Senate on the 9th.
by a strict party vote, decided to take up
the bill for the admission of Dakota. and
Mr.. Harrison gave statistics to establish
the claims of the people of the south
eIn half of that Territory. A bill for the
sale of the Cherokee Reservation in
Arkansas was passed. Mr.. Sherman
introduced bill for the erection of a
statue of Lafayette. In executive session,
Mr.. Riddleberger objected to the confir-
nation of Hugh McCulloch as Secretary of
the Treasury. In the House Mr.. Chalmers
introduced bill 10 restore the republican
form OF government to the State of Missis-
slppi. Further consideration of the Inter-
State Commerce bill occupied the remain
der of the session.
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A MONSTER UNION.
The Window-GIass Workers of the World
Joined in One Vast Organization.


Joined in One Vast Organization.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 10.---The window
glass workers of the world are now banded
together in an oath boilnd uiiioii the ini-
theilse federation was completed in England
last Saturday Ever since the International
Convention of Window-glass Workers was
held in Belgium, nearly year ago, agitators
have been forming assemblies iii all parts Of
England. They met with some reverses;
notably at Sunderland, bit success has at
last crowned their efforts, MI. A. G.
Denny, formerly assistant secretary of the
home organization, was one of the foremost
organizers. He is in the employ of the In
ternational Association. The officials of the
association here received intelligence yester-
day from MesSrs Denny and Frank, the lats
ter being the National President of the En-
glish Union. Both STAGED that the organi-
cation of the workers there was now COM
plete, embracing every skilled employee of
the kind in the Kingdom. A head
quarters had been established at Sun
derland, the center of the window-glass
industry in England. The local unions
are well managed and promise to become
powerful labor organizations. Pres
ident Isaac Cline, when speaking of the In
ternational Union, stated that the fedora
tion would undoubtedly prove beneficial to
the craft and manufacturers. Trade, he
said, was only fair in this county and Bel
GUM, Where the other branch of the Inter-
national Association is located.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

The fire losses in the United States dur
ing November amounted to $7,900,0O0, and
for eleven months of 1884 the loss is placed
at SOL 100000.
In his annual report on the 9TH Secretary
Chandler, of the navy, stated that the ex.
penditures of the Department for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1884, were $17,292, sol.
The estimates for the ordinary purposes
and public work for the next fiscal year is
$17,S6O,6jS, and the estimates for the in
crease of the navy, $15,O71,572. OF this lat
Ter sum about one-half will be needed for
the coming fiscal year.
+ THERE were 800 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 9th, against 2e2 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows; Middle States, SO; New
England States, 80; Western, 1O6; Southern,
Y; Pacific States and Territories, 26; Cam
ada, "a.
ON the afternoon of the 9th at 2;2O o'clock
the American flag was uDfuFied from a
staff on the top of the Washington monu-
ment as the signal of the completion of the
work, which was commenced in.1S4S. The
total weight of the monument is 100 O0O, 900
pounds, the total cost 81 100000, and tits $50
feet high.
LII has been decided by Attorney General
brewster that it is Illegal to approve plans
for public buildings where the expenditure
required for their erection is clearly great
er than the appropriation made by Con-
gress.
The United States internal revenue COL
lections for the first four months of the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1885, were $685.
3Io,616, n decrease of s., 623, 794 compared
with the same period of the previous fiscal
year.
"A LETTER was sent by the Postmaster
General to the Senate on the sth recon ,
mending that the post offices shall be sup,
piled with larger clerical force.
The exchanges at twenty leading
clearinghouse in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 9th aggregated
TS66,7s2, 139, against $659, 500, OS4 the pres
vions week. As compared with the cor
responding period of 1885, the clearings in
dictated a decrease of 1915 per cent.
" PRESIDENT ARTHUR received information
on the Sth OF the successful negotiation of
reciprocity treaties with Guatemala, San
Salvador and the United States of Colon,
hia,
A DECISION has been rendered by the
United States Supreme Court that the act
of Congress is valid and constitutional by
which Collectors of Ports are required to
assess fifty cents head-money upon every
passenger not citizen arriving in mis-
country from abroad. ~
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WISCONSIN Items.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 1, 94Ca95c; No. p
720725sc. Corn-No. 2, 32(033c. Oats
No. 2, 26r026Kc. Rye-No. 1, 52]<C053c,
Barley-No. Spring, 4916c; No. 8, ACC.
William J. Ogle has been commissioned
postmaster at Oxford, Marquette County
John Gray, of the town of Weston,
Marathon County, was killed recently
while hunting, by the accidental discharge
of his own gun.
A military company has been organized
at Eecedah, Juneau County.
The east-bound express erain on the
Marquette g. Mackinac Railroad was
thrown from the track seven miles from
Marquette few days ago, by a broken
rail. The coaches were piled in the ditch
and badly wrecked. Several persons were
slightly injured.
The Eau Claire authorities are support
ing about 200 INDECENT people.
Prominent Wisconsin horsemen held g
meeting at Milwaukee recently and organ
lied an association of trotting-horse
breeders. H. L. Dousman, Of Prairie du
Chen, was chosen President. One or more
trotting meetings will be held each year.
Coon & Hanson, furniture manufacturers
at GAINESVILLE failed recently.
An attempt was made at Madison the
other night to burn Browns block, one of
the largest in the city. The prompt arri-
val Of the department thwarted the incen-
diaries.
Il il reported that wolves and foxes arc
causing niueh annoyance and damage to
the farmers in the towns of Ludington ana
Seymour, Eau Claire County.
EHerfran Stackle, of Hartford, Washing
ton County, died suddenly the other night
He left the house about six O'Clock, ands
not returning, his daughter went IN search
of him, and found him dead in the wood
shed. He was born in Saxony in 1851,
came to that county in 1852, locating In
Milwaukee, and after living in various
places moved to Hartford in 1878.
William Williams YVES recently placed
in jail at Green Bay for alleged embezzie-
ment of 81, 40, part of the estate of Esther
W. Williams, deceased.
The amount of claims against the De-
funct Pioneer Lumber Company, OF Eau
Claire, VIII aggregate 100000.
Joe Lane, a. counterfeiter who escaped
from Jail at Madison the other day,
forwarded from the lumber regions to
the Federal authorities an acceptable bond
for lis appearance whenever wanted, with
the statement that he had to go home tc
get bail.
There are 3S7 students attending the
University of Wisconsin. The graduates
from 1854 to 1884 number 1,072.
Nick Ames, seventeen years of age, who
has become notorious as the boy burglar
of Wisconsin, was recently captured IN
dug-out near Galena, H., and taken bach
20 Lancaster, Grant County, for trial.
Hiram B. Myers, an old resident, was
found dead in his residence at GAINESVILLE
the other morning. His wife could give
no explanation, and an inquest would be
held.
One man in Northern Wisconsin sen
sixty deer. car asses to the Milwaukee
market in one consignment few days
ago.
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RAILWAY ROBBERY.

An Arkansas Passenger Train Attacked
by Band OF Five Daring RObbers-The
Passengers plundered of Cash and VAL
uabies to the AIf1Oupt of $6,OOO-The
tfhfeN6s Tracked TO Their Rendezvous
by BioodisGattds ard Captured.
LITTLE Rock, Atfs, beS. S.-Between
ten and eleven o'clock Saturday right the
passenger train on the Little Rock, MisSs-
Sippi q Texas Railway was stopped at d
point three miles below here by five masked
fobber8, who ran the train on a switch, COW
cred the officials and passengers with re-
volers, and then proceeded to rob
them. No opposition was offered. Upon
a slender-looking man appearing,
revolver Il hand, and ordering the pas
sengers to hold up tlleir hands, all hands
went up While this MAI was keeping
the passengers in check, three of lie Yob-
bers busted themselves breaking open the
safe III the baggage-car. Presently another
Ebbbet came into the passenger car and be-
gail collecting the watches and pocket
books, which he tossed into sack, per
forming this operation in Shout ten minutes
By this time the safe had been cleared
of its contents and the robbers told the pas
sengers not to attempt to move for ten miIl-
uteS, as it would be unhealthy for them to
venture forth before that time. They then
plunged into the woods, disappearing in a
westerly direction The total amount Sc
cured by the robbers Is estimated at $4,000,
of which $4,000 was i'll the safe of the
Southern Express Company's car. Free
man Smith, of the firm of II. Waterman &
Co., of St. Louis, saved $500 by hiding the
money in his boot.
Early yesterday morning bloodhounds
were put on the trail of the robbers, and
followed them straight into the city. Be
fore noon Joseph Cook, j. G. Jones' John
Clifford, Charles Campbell and boy named
Parker, five in all, had been arrested. Jones
will probably be released. Three Of those
arrested have been identified as among the
robbers The State has offered $1,000 for
the capture of the robbers to which the
railroad company has added like sum-.
Circumstances point strongly against Cook,
Clifford and young Parker. In addition to
their being identified it is proven that they
were away from their boarding house until
two o'c10cIy yaStnrdav morning
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Killed by Her Son.

HAMILTON, O., Dee 8.-George Snyder,
fifteen miles away, was put in Jail here
late Friday night charged with the
murder of his mother, Catherine Snyder,
aged seventy-iye years, who has been miss
ing from her home in this city four weeks.
collect the interest He paid her $125. His
story is that he started with her next day to
the railroad station, when two robbers de-
manded her money, and upon her refusal,
killed her, and made him promise under
penalty of death to say nothing about the
murder. He said they buried her. HeI
body was disinterred and found in her night
clothes The suppOsition is that he killed
nrl in his own house.
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Authentfe account OF tne strange anu
Fatal Disease Recently so Prevalent in
Portions Of Virginia.
WAsH1NGToN, Dec. s.-DE j. B. Hub
EEL, field agent Of the American Associa
ton 81 sf!e RSd Cross, has written the fol-
lowing letter to Miss Clara Barton, from
Wise County, Va, relative t. the disease
which has been prevalent in that State.
''This morning called on Judge G. W. Kill
gore, attorney, editor and member of the
Legislature, Wh5 has taken pains to collect
spHne data and particulars of the disease in
t1is ara tffe adjoining e0uHties. The first
case which tpSSfe5 IN this region was that of
William Bates at Pstsna !, Gaps gaIIneeefi s
the beginning of the drought. Hs fingered
nearly two months, when he died. The
pext three cases appeared at Glad
vile, ~ August, also before the drought
began Ihs 1sheF cases occurred in Bowl
ca6fp. al6hg the tributaries of the creek,
whSre II becaTne general epidemic, causing
sixty dtetFs II sbecalas general over wise
September, when the deaths were frequently
five per day. Asnearly as ea!} rs aseeFtained
the deaths in this county number Sw6 hum
bred. In Lee, Dickinson and Buchanan C5HL
ties, Va. and Mcdowell, W. Va, scatteffns
cases Occurred averaging abouG twenty deaths
iii each. Whatever the original cause of the
oisssss may have been, there is no DOUBT that
pure water. The first eases which appeared
We're bloody fux with vCmit; the latter as
sifrnihF fhe firm of Asiatic cholera In nearly
all cases 43Aag IRE katients died they were at
tackled with sevtTs gyiping, with the
above-named sympt0fnss the disease
existed in two forms, one - Shove, the
other commencing without Elplng
and yomit Those Elected in the latter way
never died Large quantities of sometimes red
and Sometimes dark blood appeared at varl-
Gus stagss Of She disease. All who died were
conscious 20 The last, and every adult was not
only anxious to Gle btt prayed to die. The
disease has now nearly disappeared in this
couHtg, there remaining but three critical
cases, but 4 HIS left many crippl6s i'll e0ndl-
ton resembling tf;t1 eaused by rheumatism.
The remedy which proved most etfectual
was a compound of castor a1id sliTe oil, laud-
anum and camphor, or, where no physician
was in attendance, simple treatmcGb OF
*aftn tea and careful nursing. None OF inc
attending physicians seemed to understand
the disease, aha their treatment was simply
Experimental Iii chs commencement various
forms of mercury were tisea and every pa
Sent so treated died. The disclose was more
fatal along ths creeks afid rivers than on the
high lands Onb ysar ago the same Or q
similar disease attacked . Ynat and his wife on
Dry Pork, in this county, aid both Y so Two
years ago two cases appeared, ana he PEP
sons recovered. | will send samples of water
from the different sections where the disease
has prevailed to Washington for chemical an
2I@SiS I expect To 40 into kentucky tomor-
F4w lDec6fnber 81. There has been plenty of
food and flo restitution Of any kind, save the
lack of proper fngd c4l attendance"
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SEVEN YEARS FOR REFLECTION.
The Sentence Imposed by the Court on the
Much Married Melville.

1Uc ScHJcACc lInPOScu ny ISte COuTG OH Tie
Much Married Melville.
TOLEDO, O., Dec 5.-Neiyille, the sensa-
tional bigamist, was brought into court yes
terday, guarded by two attendants. He
was looking pale and haggard, and seemed
to hate lost the nerve that character
lied fifn during Tile tFiai. His counsel
made an earnest plea for neN trial on
the ground tlat the court erred in admit
ting the confession made to Detective
Brown, and in not admitting the testimony
tending to show that the prisoner had no
intention of committing bigamy when he
married Kiss Whitney: The court refused
to grant now trial. When Melville was
asked what he had to say he arse and
spoke as f6llbvs:
q am moi here to ask fnf nasfoy, but fot
justice. Justice ! have not obtained. Before
| married Miss whitney told her of my mar
rage to Miss Rollo and of the divorce. /
thought we were divorced. So did she. After
have served my sentence | will return and
claim my wife for she is my wife. Then we
can 30 to other lGnds where can recover my
good hatfie and 0b;r;n the honor due il"
Judge Lennon then reviewed the evil
derce arid seiitenced Melville to seven years
in the pellitglit;ai'y, lie FIJI extsnt Of the
law. Melville simply said: do you call
that Ohio iust;ce?" The Judge answered:
"We do" Neville WAS then taken back
tn iaiI
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The EAST

OTlS I. u, CLARKE, of Rhode Island was
nominated by the President on the 4th as
Commissioners of Pensions, with Calvin B,
walker, of Indiana, and Noah 2. Love-
ridge, of Michigan, as Deputies.
FIVE Worcester (Nfass.) lads built shed
In the woods and supplied it with imple-
ments of war, being determined to harden
themselves by exposure this winter for o
campaign against the Indians next sum-
mer' Two of the band were arrested a
lew days ago for burglary and larceny.
The Women's Suffrage Association of
Rhode Island met in annual convention at
Providence on the 4th. In an address Su-
san b Anothony said the reason SO little
mad been done for woman was because she
was disfranchised.
Y DYNAMITE and gunpowder exploded at
Strafford, N. H., the other evening. de-
stroyiRg house and its contents, and bad
ly injuring eight persons, four of them ia
tally.
J LEVY, the famous cornetist, was married
TO Miss Stella Costa, a member of his con-
cert company, in the opera-house at Erie,
PA, on the evening of the 4th.
The Democrats of the Nineteenth Penn
sylvania District have nominated John A,
Swope for Congressman, to fill the I'M
expired term of William A. Duncan, de-
ceased.
A FIRE destroyed Feignespaugh's brew
cry at Newark, N, j., the other day, the
loss reaching 100000.
The New York Aldermen on the 9Th
passed over the Mayors veto a resolution
permitting the construction Of a surface
railroad in Broadway
CONNECTICUT clergymen in large num-
bers appeared before the Railroad Com
missioners in Hartford on the 9TH to adyo-
cate restriction of Sunday traffic on rail
roads.
JOHN PURsonT crazed with jealousy,
took oxalic acid at New York the other
night, then hacked at his head awhile with
an aHs and finally shot himself dead.
A PROTEST was entered by business men
of Gloucester, Mass, on the 9TH against
any reciprocity with Canada which would
permit Che entry of fish free of duty.
> AT Pittsburgh, Pa, terrific wind storm
prevailed on the evening Of the 9th, doing
immense damage to property, Mrs. Adam
Paff and her two children, . boy aged six
and girl aged eight years, were killed by
falling sign, and other persons in various
portions OF the city were injured, some ia
tally.
A TEMPERANCE revival was inaugurated
by Francis Murphy at Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently, and up to the 9th he had secured
1900 signatures to the pledge.
The other morning Joseph Slime, aged
seven years, venturcd on thin ice in the
canal at Wesufeld, Mass, and broke
through. His brother Charles, aged nine
years, went to his rescue, and both were
drowned.
WHHE terrific wind and rain storm
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BosroN, Dec. GA special telegram
from Victoria, B. C., says: Five days
since it was reported that three-ton
sloop, which left here with nineteen China
men, who were to be Struggled, and two
white men, for the American shore, had
been swamped and all hands lost
In addition to this disaster two. more white
men who left Foul Bay seven weeks ago in
a leaky boat with twelve Cinnamon, for
Washington Territory, have not since been
rcurd of, and all are beliyed to be drowned
The temptation to smuggle Cinnamon
across the border is very strong, as for each
one landelt the owners of the boat receive
tWensy-fvs dollars,