The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-03
The EAST

IHE People'S party Of Massachusetts
met in State Convention at Worcester on
the oath and nominated M. j. McCafferty
for Governor and Colonel John +. Marsh
for Lieutenant Governor The platform
adopted is the one presented by General
Butler in the Democratic National Con.
vention.
THE following Congressional nomi-
nations were made on the 25tb: Re-
publican - Pennsylvania, Eighteenth
District, L. Z. Atkinson (renomi.
natedl. Massachusetts,, First District,
Robert 7. Davis (renominated) Fifth,
James A. Fox. Democratic-Pennsyl
wanna, Seventh District, George Ross;
Seventeenth, Jacob Nj. Campbell (renomi-
nated); Eighteenth, A. j. Patterson.
Massachusetts, Seventh District, r. S.
SpolFord,
The A. I. Stearns Lumber Company's
property at Neponset, Mass, was nearly
all destroyed by Gre on ,the 18th, causing
n loss of $25O,Oo0.
THE death Of Galbraith McMullen oc-
Cured few days ago at Sandy Lake, Pa,
at the age of ono hundred and five years.
NELLIE HUBBARD, the daughter of ex.
Governor Hubbard, Of Hartford, Conn.,,
having secured divorce from the coach.
man with whom abe eloped five years ago,
was on the 25th married to Clark L. Smed-
ley, well-known and wealthy citizen of
New Haven.
AN examiostion by experts of the
books of Arnetd, Constable & Co., of New
York, dry-goods dealers, showed recently
that the pe1'tlations of Henry c. Pedder,
confidential clerk, and Herbert Seymour,
cashier, amounted to about 100000.
In a racn the other day at Mineola, L. l.,
three hoeses fell, the rider of one being
fatally burt and one of the horses was
killed
AT ON City, Pa, an association was
formed on the 25th, with a capital of
Sl0OO,DO, to purchase oil property be-.
longing to men who will not join the as
socist'on for the purpose of shutting
down the territory and restricting pro.
ductton.
FthE on the 25th at Pittsburgh destroyed
the gass-works Of Abel, Smith g. Co. and
the machine-shop of Robinson, Rea & Co.,
valued at 100000.
TUE Democrats Of the Nineteenth Penn
sJlvania District have nominated w. A..
Duncan for Congressman.
AT Boston recently William Haynes was
convicted of using the mails to defraud.
He received $1,000 or more by advertising
remnants of silk at starvation prices, and
usually sent skein in return for dollar
A MANUFACTURER of Pittsfeld, Mass,
Franeis Kernochan, arose in. the night re-
cenSly to repel burglars, but stumbled on a
stairway and shot himself fatally.
FIRE recently destroyed the Newport
OR. k) omnibus stable, six horses and a
large number of vehicles being burned.
For the seven days ended on the Goth
the imports of dry goods at New York ag-
gregafed $2,O6S,6o), against s., 1854, 900 dur
ing the corresponding period last year.
AT Atlanticville, L. l., great alarm was,
on the Both, felt over the spread of a ma
lignant form of dysentery, which had
brought sickness or death to nearly every
house.
On the fair grounds at Erie, Pa, few
days ago one of the pole props holding a
balloon fell when the aeronaut, Oscar
Hunt, had assembled, killing one person
outright and badly crushing number of
others, resulting in a panic. Hunt descend.
ed into the lake, and was drowning when
rescued.
OK the 9th ninetY-two firms in America
engaged in the iron-trade pronounced in
favor of restricting the production of pig.
iron.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, jewelry store was
robbie few nights ago of $4,000 worth
of goods by burglars.
In the vicinity of Bradford, Pa, a cy.
clone on the afternoon of the 2Sth did
great damage. At Alton seven houses,
the Methodist Church and a long bridge
were destroyed, and along the line of the
Erie Road for distance of twenty miles
trees were Frustrated and numerous
houses wrecked. Several persons were
injured, but none fatally, as far as known.
The steamer Oregon of the Cunard line.
arrived at New York on the 18th, after an
interval of six days and eighteen hours
from Queenstown. This was eight hours
below her previous record and the fastest
bTsns. Atlantic time,