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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01
NEWS OF The WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
From Washingtons


THE business failures throughout the
United States and Canada during the
seven days ended on the 18th numbered 24O,
against 232 the previous week. The dis
tribution was as follows: New England
States, 20; Middle, "a; Western, So;
Southern, 80; Pacific States and Territories,
ID; Canada and the Provinces, 81.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
reports for the fiscal year ended June 80
that the aggregate receipts of his depart
ment were $121, 10000, decrease of
nearly $23,000,000 compared with the pre-
vious year.
For the quarter ended June 30 returns
from 1853 letter-caTrier post-oflices showed
a falling off in revenue as compared with
the corresponding quarter of the previous
year of $350,3l6. Oh this basis the receipts
for the year would be $2,O90,0 900 less than
for the previous year. The diminution is
due to the reduction of letter postage from
three to two cents.
THE President has appointed John 4.
Bryant United States Marshal for
Georgia, General Longstreet having been
removed.
The President left Washington on the
goth for his summer vacation.
THE exchanges at twenty-three leading
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the 26th aggregated $685.
702,3SO, against $500, ,112 the previous
week. AS compared with the corresponds
ing period of 1888, the clearings showed
q decrease of 1877 per cent.
THE entire Expenses of the Greedy re-
lief expedition approximates 100000.
The ostim ated cost was $500, 900.
The Internal Revenue Commissioner has
decided that all taxes on distilled spirits
must be paid September /, the day they
become due, otherwise the property will
be distrained.
In the United States Treasury on the
2Sth the amount Of gold was about $119,-
100000, being nearly $15,OOO,0OO less than
a month ago. The decrease was due to the
redemption Of bonds and the payment of
interest.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01
The Greedy Party.

WASHINGTON, July 25. The programme
with regard to the Greedy relief expedition
has been settled. The vessels will sail from
ST Johns on the 18th or goth inst, and
proceed direct to Portsmouth, where they
will be officially received by the Secretary
of the Navy, the officers of the North
Atlantic squadron now at the port,
and the State and local authorities. Lieu
tenant Greedy and other survivors will dis
embark at Portsmouth, and the vessel will
proceed to New York with the bodies of the
dead, which will be landed on Governors
Island, and placed in the charge of Major
General Hancock. The latter will transfer
them to the care Of relatives and friends
upon application. The vessels are expected
in New York about the 1st of August
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01
Death by the Steam Thresher.

RUsHv1LLE, Ind, July ga steam
thresher exploded yesterday on Joseph
Halls farm, six miles south of this place.
Eugene Swain and David Henderson were
instantly killed; Ney Innis survived the
accident but two hours. Haden Crayon.
Jr., was badly injured, and is expected to
die. William Stevenson had his leg broken;
Thomas and Butch Innis. Robert Thompson
and Chris King were seriously hurt,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01
st. John Accepts.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 26.-J. S. Littell,
of Newark, n. j., received the following
telegram yesterday morning from ex-Gov-
ernOr st. John:
ROCHESTER, N. Y, July 25.-To Hon. John
B. Finch, George r. Scott or NJ. b. Bennett:
/ was at Lakeside yesterday. and did not re-
ceive your telegram until II Is morning.
While did not seek or desire the nomination,
greatly appreciate the unaninity with which
it was given, as well as the honor it con-
ferred can only say now that 1 acquiesce
in the action of the convention, and, looking
to God for His guidance, shall try to do my
duty.
(SigneG JOHN p JoHk
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01

There were withdrawn for consumption
during the year 1,137. 056 gallons of spirits
distilled from fruit a decrease Of 116, 222
gallons as compared with the preceding
fiscal year; rs, 479, S45 gallons of spirits dis
tiled from grain, molasses and other ma
terials, an increase of 2,971, O60 gallons;
1886, 619, OH cigars, an increase of 227,-
73O, 025; 909, 1913, $40 cigarettes, an increase
of 26S 1O1, 9S7; 1902, 645 pounds of snuff,
an increase of 318,273 I68, 593, 4l9 pounds
of tobacco, an increase of 1916, 232, and
IS, 99S,61 barrels of fermented liquor, an
increase of 1,240,7 27.
The following statement shows the aggre'
gate receipts from internal revenue by
States and Territories during the past fiscal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01

james Street. for many years en-
gineer on the Lehigh & Susquehanna
Railroad, became suddenly insane re-
Gently, and as his train approached
Mauch Chunk, instead of slackening, he
opened wide the throttle waive and ran
for several miles at the rate of mile
minute, frightening the passengers and
all along the line. = Pittsburgh Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01

-Four little children, all less than
twelve years old, landed at New York
recently and were sent to their parents
in Ohio and Chicago They came from
Switzerland alone, with leather tags
tied to them giving directions to tho
Captain of the vessel and the railway
conductors.-M. Y. Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01
REVENUE FIGURES.

Annual Report of Commissioner Dudley
Receipts Aggregating $121,59O,039 Ac-
counted for in a Tabulated Statement.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-The Commits
sioner of Internal ReVenue has furnished
statements relating to the transactions OF
his bureau for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1884, and comparisons with those of the
preceding fiscal year. From these it APP
pears that the aggregate receipts of the tis-
cal year were 1921, $40, O39, a decrease COM
pared with the preceding year of $22, $685.
3O5. These sums are made up as follows:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01

"A dandy little sharper walked into
avillage store in Salem County, N. j.,
bought lot of axle grease, put it up
in small, neat packages. and then ped
died great deal of it out as corn salve
at twenty-five cents q box. He had
some on sale at the very place where
he had purchased the grease. He next
went to Bridgeton, purchased five box
es of soap at five cents per pound, cut
each pound into sixteen pieces. and the
farmers snapped at it as Texas shaw
ing SOAP at five cents q cake.-M I.
sam
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01

The summers sport at Block Island
is sword-fishing. Frequently the game
shows fight, and in such csses the ey-
element is intense. The sword-iish
caught on those waters weigh from two
hundred to five hundred pounds. and
the swords are from two to three feet
in length.
Millions Bible has found its way into
the British Museum. 1t contains the
dates Of the birth Of his children in the
poets handwriting,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01

New Orleans, a semi-tropical city,
instead of adopting a style of -archi-
lecture sui ed to the climatic conditions
prevalent there, initiates the methods
Of higher ATTITUDES; resorts to architect
ural forms which, however eautiful in
themselves, are utterly unsui able to
the place. The Times Democrat calls
this an endeavor to .'engraft upon the
stock of the equator the product Of the
arctics, and wishes p re, ormation.
Fishermen in Lake Erie have taken
to using dynamite to secure big hauls.
They sink the charge and set it off by
means Of electricity. The shock kills
the fish, which come to the surface and
are gathered up.-BsUdto Cypress.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
X X
GLASS NOTES.

The St. Louis glass works is still idle
The glass factory recently built al Haver-
hill Mass, is in operation
The flint house at Ottawa, ILL.,, is making
full time, with good prospects.
Our pressed ware glass factories report
trade as Stacking up somewhat, although
all are moderately busy.-Labor Tribune
The window houses hereabouts are run.
ming steadily, but trade is not brisk with the
ma nufacturers.-Labor Tribune.
The Sippo glass factory, at MassiIlon, O.,
is in a fourishing condition, and running
full handed.
The French Window Glass Company of
Missouri are operating one furnace, and
while small orders are numerous enough. in
some instances and for certain sizes their
acceptance involves an actual loss. The
bulk Of the companys product is taken by
local psrties-Age OF Steel.
In the glass trade vast advancement has
been made in this country in the matter Of
fine quality and artistic designs We are
now not far behind nations that have been
long foremost in the manufacture of glass
ware, and should our progress in the next
ten years equal what has been done in the
past decade we shall rank with the best
The conference Friday. December 18th,
between the flint glass workers of the Ohio
VALLEY and their employers having failed to
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
STARVING CHISAMEN.

The announcement from British Colum-
bia that large majority of the twenty
thousand Chinese in that Province are out
Of employment and that hundreds are IN
iminent danger of starvation is rather sorry
reading for these Christmas times. Ottawa
advices say the utmost restitution prevails
among these people along the entire line OF
the Northern Pacific road, and that many
are taking their lives by poison, the rope, or
the revolver preterring 10 put an end to
their existence rather than lace the inevita-
bic misery which the winter has in store for
them.
Crime is also increasing at terrible rate,
any Of the half starved foreigners having
Joined secret society known as the High
Blenders" having branches in all the large
towns. the avowed object Of which is the ob-
tanning of food and clothes by theft and vlo-
leuce, and the probabilities are that before
spring the Provincial prisons will be vel
filed with Celestials.
The immediate and unconditional return
Of these people TO the Flowery Kingdom, at
the expense OF the Dominion government
appears to be the proper remedy for this
state of affairs
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD.
GENERAL INDUSTRIAL.

Nothing of particular interest tranSpired
among the industries of this city during the
last week, other than the fact that the Top
mill is making arrangements to cut steel
nails. The writer doubts if this is news for
it has been the prediction Of a number of
workmen that this mill would be cutting
steel nails the moment they found they
could make them successfully. This firm
made few steel nails last week very sue
cessfully; now, whether they intend making
them exclusively after the holidays or not
could not be ascertained
All our mills will close Wednesday, and
the indications are they will not resume
work until the following Monday.
One thing is certain: this will be the
gloomiest Christmas the workmen OF this
eth have seen for sometime, owing entirely
TO the lack of securing work. There is
several hundred of good industrious work
men in this city that have not made dol
lar in the last four months. Quite num-
Der of these men are the fathers Of large
families, who are now in very Strengthened
circumstances. During his usual rounds
reporter met several OF these workmen, one
of whom said: ooh, some people say: Why
don't he go to work at something elset
while others remark: Go West and work on
farm Of your own These people never
stop TO think what my condition is fnan-
cially. have not hit lick for nearly five
months They do not seem to realize that
men like me have feeling and pride for our
families and would be proud to get any
kind of work, so that the grim wolf Want
could be kept away from our doors. No.
they never think Of such things. They give
advice and go on their way needless as to
whether such advice could be put into prac.
tice. l tell you, sir there are plenty of
families in this city who are nov on the
verge of starvation, and what IN the name
of all goodness they are tC do to live during
the coming winter God alone knows" This
is about the condition of affairs in this city
among those workmen who have been out
Of employment for some time. Those, OF
course, who have had work in the mills,
such as 4he naiers, will be able to keep
everything snug aud cosy during the com
ing cold spell.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
WHAT GOES UP IN SMOKE.

From present indications the losses By
FIRE in the United States and Canada during
1884 will foot up the enormous total OF
$llOOOO,0OO. For the eleven months ended
December lst the actual loss footed up
SIOl, coo, 900, with an additional $i2O0,OOO
of loss incurred between the LIST and 18th
insts. to be added thereto. The remaining
days Of December will about round out the
o SIS for the year to the estimated total given
above
Up to December lst the loss in 1884 was
nearly $40 .OOO,O 900 in excess OF the average
Of the past twelve years, and this despite
the added experience of fremen and the
improvements in fire ext u shing ap'
planes.
This is an enormous drain on the re
sources of our people, and one for which
partial remedy, at least, should be found.
An increase of $lO,OOO,OOO in the aggre-
gate loss from fire, in single year, should
set builders, inventors and insurance men
TO thinking
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
a SEIY TESAL COLONY.

The announced intention Of the French
government to remove its penal colony from
New Caledonia to Madagascar should call
forth remonstrance from the civilized
world. The circumstances Of the Australian
government and of the inhabitants of the
neighboring islands have forced France to
cease sending the dregs OF her criminal pop,
riation to the South Seas, aud the assault
upon Madagascar for thepurpose ofobtaining
territory whereOn to erect similar colony
should result disasterously to the French
people.
Africa at large has made great progress
toward civilization in the last two or three
decades, and none Of its many nations have
done better in this respect than Madagascar.
The outrage sought to be inflicted by France
should meet with the earnest protest Of all
who have the advancement Of the world at
large at heart.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
TIE WINTER RESORTS.

Ths new colony OF cottages at Long
Branch ate open for inspection
Real and imaginary invalids are begin,
ming to congregate at Atlantic City.
Nearly all the winter resort hotels in Flor,
ida are conducted by Northern men.
Jacksonville is considerably ridiculed for
styling itself the Saratoga ofthe South"
Visitors are increasing at Bermuda
which so many believe to be the winter re.
sort Of the future.
January 18th is the date announced for
the opening Of the new San Marco hotel,
St. AugUstin.
Several of the Florida hotels are wisely
advertising material reduction in the terms
of board.
4 wholesale introduction of the electric
light has taken place at the Hygeia Hotel,
Old Point Comfort, Va.
Havana, of late wears, has lost favor as
winter resort, while California and New
Mexico have steadily gained
There will be military ball Christmas
eve at the Royal Victoria Hotel. Nassau,
\. P, given by the officers of the garrison.
Great expectations are formed for the
sew winter resort hotel at Virginia Beach,
opposite Norfolk. Va, the time of the open.
ing Of which will soon be made known.
Families are beginning to put in an ap-
pearance at the Highland Park Hotel
Aiken, S. c., where, according to the circu-
lar, they remain for health and pleasure
from December to May
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
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MINES AND MINERS.

A valuable vein Of coal has been dis GOV,
cred near Wepclla, Manitoba.
The Midland mine has about suspended
operations, the coal being all taken out.
The mortgage on the property of the Cen,
trail Ohio Coal Co. is about to be foreClosed,
according to the Boston papers.
The Colorado Coal and Iron Co. has be-
gun the erection OF twenty-four additional
coke ovens at Crested Butte
1t is stated that the Union Pacific Rail
road Co S coal interests at Bozeman, Mon
tana, are so far developed as to be capable
Of producing 200 tons a day. The COM
pany has four hundred acres Of coal land
and is now erecting new coke ovens.
The mining situation has developed no
new features since our last issue. The min
ers are still al work, although some mines
are doing very little. This, we suppose, is
due to having stocked the market previous
to the misunderstanding Review.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
A STRIKE AT sTauTHERs, OHIO.


A strike has been legalized by the execu.
tive committee of the Sixth district, dating
from December l5th,in the Summers Bros.
mill, at Struthers, Ohio, near Youngstown,
against certain rules of the company, which
are the most obnoxious and tyrannical that
have yet come under our notice. The COM
pany insists: First, that all men in their
employ must draw orders from the COM
pany; second, that all men in their employ
must buy coal from the company; third,
that al men in their employ who are board
ing outside The company boarding house
must go 10 board at the company boarding
house ANY one refusing to comply with
the above rules will be discharged
The first rule is in plain violation OF the
laws of the State of Ohio, and is o; itself
sufficient 20 make free men rebel. But
what will be said of the second, where the
men are to be compelled to buy coal from
the company at from $3.50 to 81 per ton
when it can be had of the retail dealers ct
from 81 to 81 80 per ton? And still worse
is the third rule compelling man TO board
where his master" sees fit, and, we sup.
pose, at such figures as he chooses to charge
Tor board. What is more damnablc than
this last rule? And is there any living man
who can be found TO go TO work under it?
That company, if they have the right to do
this, surely have the right to regulate the
issue OF their employees who are married.
Already four men have been discharged for
refusing to board at the company boarding
house and though every endeavor was made
to settle the trouble the manager absolutely
refused 10 withdraw the rules, hence the
strike. We think it needless to ask men to
stay away from place Ike Struthcrs until
the trouble is settled, bu, We do ask the
labor press to pass these rules arounl.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
MILL NOTES..

More machines are being placed in the
nail factorya Brierlieid, Ala.
There is talk of building a rolling mill at
New London, Conn, some time next year.
The Harrison wire mill, of St. Louis, is
still idle.
The mills of Andres, Bros. Co, at
Haselton O, are still idle.
The mill of the Trumbull Iron Co, at
Girard, o., is again in operation.
The rolling mill of Kimberly & Co, at
Greenvlle, Pa, is running two-thirds OF its
capacity.
The Scranton Steel Co., on Thursday,
Tee. llth, rolled ll2O steel rails weighing
go pounds each.
The Falcon mill at Miles, O., will shut
down one week for repairs after January |.
The nail factory of the Falcon Iron and
Nail Co, at Niles, O., is on full time with
orders ahead.
The I.aclcde rolling mill, St. Louis, has
lone nothing for some time, and prospects
are poor
The blacksheep mill a! Brazil Ind, has
ngain started up at a reduction Of from TO
/ per cent
The New Jersey steel and iron works, OF
Trenton, will reduce their employees 10 per
cent this week.
The forge department Of the Jefferson
mill, at Steubenyille, has suspended indei'
nteiy.
The Bayview, Wis, rolling mill has re-
sumed.
Tie Norton iron works Ashland, KY,
is again running.
Get into the Union out of the cold and
out of the way productions Of wages.
The Standard mill at Clifton, W. Va, is
going to try and make nails out of old steel
rails. 1t is an experiment.
In the new mill at Toledo, puddler who
makes q ball less than l25 pounds or ever
22j pounds loses it, and if any ball breaks
the squeezer the puddler who made the ball
IS held responsible, and has to pay for the
oreakage in addition to being discharged.
The mill at Leetonia, O., is doing very
little.
The Youngstown rolling mill in on double
,arn, with good prospects.
The Centralia, ILL.,, Iron and Nail Co.'S
works are running about half time with q
poor demand for nails. A shut down is ex.
pected soon.
Both the Chicago mills are idle. The
North is 10 be turned into a beam mill at
once.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
yANrED-A SALVAGE CORPS.

The annual report of the chief of the
New York FIRE patrol to the Underwriters
Association Of that city contains some sta
,istics well calculated to impress upon our
local insurance companies, merchants, and
citizens generally the value OF that service
and the necessity for ike auxiliary to the
present FIRE department of Wheeling. The
New York salvage corps costs the insurance
companies about $4,000 annually, and IS
estimated to yearly save property to the
value Of three-quarters OF million, TOR
which the companies would otherwise have
to pay through its destruction or damage
BY water. During 1854 the patrol has a.
tended !, 1854 actual fires, and spread 1850
goods and furniture covers and 9OI root
covers, the property so protected being
valued at many millions of dollars.
The actual requirements Of salvage
corps are few and simple. Given quarters
contiguous to the business centre Of a city, a
moderately heavy strongly-constracted
wagon. one or two feet horses, an ample
supply of gum covers and tarpaulins, two
or three axes and as many buckets and four
active men will do more and better work IN
the way Of saving property from damage or
loss than half the regular fire department.
Arriving on the ground in advance Of the
heavier apparatus, the flames would either
he checker at the start, or, that being im-
possible. goods and merchandise, pictures,
pianos, and furniture generally would be
securely covered and wrapped in water
proofs, so that By the time the steamers had
arrived and settled down to work the enevl-
table deluge of water could De turned into
the burning building with comparatively
little resulting damage.
Almost every fire which has occurred Of
late years in the business portion of Wheel
ing has entailed loss from water equaling
or far surprising the loss from fre-the
blaze in the third story Of the Peoples
Bank building, three or four years ago, the
REILLY fire, the blaze in the OGLEBAr resi-
dence. at Twelfth and Chapline streets. and
the MclANE block fire being cases in point
This is a matter which should receive i'm
mediate attention The loss from water a.
the REILLY fire alone would have supported
an efficient salvage corps for half a dozen
wears, and this example is liable to be re
pea;ed q, any hour. 4 tri!ing blaze in any
one Of hundred mercantile houses along
Market or Main streets would inevitably
cause many thousand dollars loss BY water
which the promp; spreading Of a few hand
red dollars worth OF ;arPaulins would pre-
vent.
That salvage corps would save to ou'
business men and insurance companies
several times its cost every year, no one, wc
take it, will dispute; that great loss inflicted
in the past could have been prevented o.
the presence of a salvage corps We know
from sad experience and that repetition
of such loss may come at any moment !,
tolersbly certain.
To lock the stable door before the horse
is stolen, is the proper caper.