The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-11
The East.

The inauguration of George d. Robinson
as Governor of Massachusetts took place
on the Sd. His message stated that the fund.
ed debt of the Commonwealth was So, AGO.
$50. de recommended that weekly pay.
ments to employees be made obligatory.
and ordered the strict enforcement of the
Liquor law.
In the Oxford colliery, near Scranton,
Pa, flre-damp explosion the other day
wrecked the mine and imprisoned fourteen
men for an hour, three of whom were seri.
ously burned, one fatally.
RUSSELL SAGE, it is reported, lost one
million dollars in stock speculations in
New York ON the Sd.
A COLLISION near Newcastle. Pa, OF
mail and freight trains few days ago ia.
tally hurt two persons, and number OF
others were badly injured.
THE execution of Robert Martin, aged
fifty-three, and James B. Graves, aged
sixty five years, for murder, took place on
the 3D. at Newark, N. ].
THE other day E. H. Kabbe, who was
the confidential clerk. of Sperry & Barnes,
commission merchants of New York CITY,
and who fed with over ninety thousand
dollars belonging to the firm, was arrested
In Chicago and taken to New York, where
on the Sd he made a confession, and about
$4,000 of the stolen money was recovered
from hiding-places in cisterns and out
houses.
AT Boston on the Sd the annual record
of shipwreck and loss of life in the Glouces-
ter fisheries was made up, showing that
seventeen vessels and 200 lives had been
lost during the year. Forty Of the men are
known 10 have left widows, and the num-
Der of fatherless children of which there is
record is sixty-eight.
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfected by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to
construct its own sleeping oars, as the
twenty-year contract with the Pullman
Company is about to expire.
DURING the year 1888 6S,00O,O0O bushels
of grain were exported from New York,
and specie imports exceeded the exports
by $1S,5O0,0O
On the 4th Robert A. Murray, who was
engaged in loaning money in Boston, fed
with $4,000 or more belonging to men who
misplaced their confidence in him. He
long since squandered afortune of 500, 900
left him by his father.
]. V. GARvER's dwelling near Duke
Center, Pa, was consumed by fire on the
4th, during the absence of himself and
wife, and four children, aged from one to
six years, who were left in the house, per-
ished in the flames.
THE iron mills at Pittsburgh, it was an.
nounced on the 4th, had plenty of orders
on hand, and the outlook for the trade was
very encouraging.
AT Newport, r. l., heavy gale pre-
vailed few nights ago, blowing many
boats ashore. A drag with thirty men was
overturned, many of them being injured.
THE Directors of the Northern Pacific
Road met in New York City on the 4th
and accepted the resignation of Henry
Willard, of New York, as President. On
the same day Mr.. Willard made an assign.
ment for the benefit of his creditors.
After all his debts were Cancelled he de-
sired that the residue be turned over to his
wife.
GOLDSMITH & KAHN, diamond merchants
at New York, have failed. The disappear
ance Of Cronson, a drummer, with $S5, 900
worth Of jewels caused the failure.
AT Philadelphia on the 4th four railway