The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-27

In the Monongahela Valley the coal.
Minors strike had on the 10th spread to all
the pits of four pools, and 5000 men were
idle.
THE Onion Pacific Railroad Company
has elected Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,
of Boston, President.
On West Shore train on the 18th, near
Syracuse, pickpockets took 50, 700 from DR..
M. Angelbrow, of Minneapolis.
PRINCETON COLLEGE has bestowed the
degree of LII. d. on President Arthur, Gov
ernor Albeit, of New Jersey, and Justice
Harlan, of the United States Supreme
Court.
THE death of Bishop Simpson, Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, occurred at
Philadelphia on the 18th, after a lingering
illness. He would have completed his
seventy-third year in few days.
THE Vermont Republican State Conven-
ton at Burlington on the 18th nominated
Samuel e. Pingree for Governor, e. ].
Ormsbee for Lieutenant. Governor, and
w. H. Dubois for State Treasurer.
In Penock & Co.'s machine shop at Ken
nett Square, Pa, boiler exploded few
days age, badly injuriug eight men.
WHILE trying to light fire few days
ago in house at Pittsburgh, Pa, with
kerosene oil, the can exploded, and two
persons we're burned to death.
AT Braddock, Pa, fire recently de-
stroyed two hotels and six stores, valued
at $4,000, and hotel and two business
buildings at Bradford, in the same State.
AN assignment was made on the Goth by
X .NfM Ma. f.o,, 70
600. He valued his estate at SIC, 000, 900.
Mr. Garrison's counsel said the failure was
forced by the protest of notes bearing his
Endorsements
ADvIoEs of the 2lst stated that since May
petroleum had fallen from $1.03k to fifty
one cents, the panic being unparalleled in
the history of the trade.
On the 21St the committee appointed by
the National Republican Convention to
notify Mr.. Blaine of his nomination for the
Presidency proceeded to his residence in
Augusta. General Henderson read the adj
dress, and Mr.. Blaine responded that the
platform adopted at Chicago had his un-
qualified approval, and that he fully APP
preciated the responsibility attaching to
his leadership.
In New ork on the 21St it was reported
that De Lesseps had about concluded to
abandon further work on the Panama Ca
nal, owing to the difficulties encountered.
He had already spent fifty thousand
francs, and over two thousand of the EN-
ployes had persisted owing to the unhealthy
climate.
By the burning of the Wholesale bakery
establishment of A. d. Hasemar in Brook
lyn, few days ago, three fremen named
Henry Tyeck, George w. Haight and
Stephen Allen lost their lives by falling
walls, and eight horses were suffocated in
the stables.
AT Hunters Point, N. Y, Peter McCor-
mick, wealthy citizen, was shot and
killed few days ago by Patrick Kirnan,
one of his tenants, in a dispute about rent,
By an explosion of dynamite in the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tunnel near
Washington, Pa, few days ago two
men were fatally injured.
BENJAMIN CARRIGAN, aged one hundred
and three years, was buried at Troy, N.
", the other day. He served in the Cri-
mean and Mexican wars.
CALAIS, Me-, was almost surrounded bv
forest fires on the 23d, which were spread
ing rapidly. Numbers of men were fight.
ing the flames.
CALVIN REYBURN has been nominated
by the Democrats OF the Twenty fifth
Pennsylvania District for Congressman,