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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
WEST AND snurH

THE Oregon Legislature on the 18th
elected ]. Ripple Mitchell (Rep,) United
States Senator on the third ballot.
DISAPPOINTMENT in love caused Mary
Gilchrist, aged eighteen, to shoot herself in
a public street at Baltimore the other day.
IN the Choctaw Nation about two hun
dred colored families had on the 10th regis
tered as members of the tribe, and would
receive annuities of 500 each from the
fund of 81, 100000 in the hands of the FEEDER
al Government. All negroes who declined
or were not qualified to register, eompris-
ing nearly six hundred families, would be
expelled by the military.
RABBI ISAAC NJ. WISE, D. D., of Cincin-
natl, said on the 10th that the object of the
recent Jewish Conference in Pittsburgh
was to Americanize the Jews four-ffths of
whom in. this country, he said, were in
favor of the project.
THE sufferers of the recent great fire at
Galveston, Tex, were still in distressing
circumstances on the 10Th. Therelief fund
to date amounted to s95,Ooo, and over two
thousand persons had been aided
A VAST tract of land in the vicinity of
Red River Station, Tex, had been burned
over by prairie fires on the 18th, causing a
loss of 800, 900 to cattlemen.
THE authorities at Tacoma, W. T., were
informed by Attorney General Garland on
the 10th that he would afford legal assist
ance in prosecuting persons lately arrested
in the Territory for attacks made on
Chinese residents
THE cattle-growers conference recently
held at Chicago, with representatives from
thirty-three States and Territories, organ
lied a National Association, electing ID.
W. Smith President and A. II. Sanders Sec
rotary.
MORMON converts from the Southern
States to the number of one hundred left
Chattanooga the other night for Utah.
Four hundred have gone within a year,
and ninety elders are now operating in the
South.
DURING the five days ended on the 10th
heavy rains had fallen in California, and
floods had done great damage in various
portions of the State.
GREAT earthquake waves at San Fran
cisco, fully equaling the upheavals caused
by the Java shocks some years ago were re-
ported by the coast survey on the Goth.
THE County Inirmary near Sandusky.
o., was destroyed by fire on the Goth, five
women perishing in the flames. The super
intenden5 was fatally injured.
THREE of the crew of the schooner John
Nichols were drowned by falling overheard
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
LATER.

THE continued scarcity of dimes on the
24th caused orders to be given to the Super
intendent of tine mint at Philadelphia to
coin into ten-cent pieces all uncurrent SUBJ
sidiary silver on hand.
Snow to the depth of six inches fell on
the oath at Westminster, Nd
THE Metropolitan Hotel at ST. Louis was
damaged by fire on the night of the oath.
One woman was killed by jumping from a
window, and it was feared that others per-
ished in the flames.
THE official count on the 9th gives Huron,
for State capital of Dakota, plurality of
2,121.
THREE men were arrested at Omaha on
the oath charged with robbing the post-ofH-
ces at Beatrice, Crete, Guide Rock, Endi-
colt and half dozen other places in Ne
braska.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
six p. m. on the 9th there were twenty-five
deaths from smallpox in Montreal and it's
suburbs.
Mass, great damage was done on the oath
by the tide which rose to the highest point
known in years.
DURING October 25,918 immigrants ar
rived in this country, being 6,179 less than
in October, 1884.
KING ALFONSO was reported to have died
in Madrid on the oath. Subsequent advices
were to the effect that he was seriously i'll.
THE highest tide known along the At
lantic coast for many years did vast dam
age on the oath at Atlantic City, Coney
I'll It'll. IL
the river front at New York was estimated
at S500,000
THE Colored Orphans Home at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was totally destroyed by
fire few mornings ago.
THOMAS A. DOYLE was on the 24th re-
elected Mayor of Providence, R. l., for the
seventeenth time, by a majority of 1916
over the Prohibition candidate.
UNUSUALLY heavy snow-storms were re-
ported in sections of Pennsylvania on the
9th In the Mount Carmel district two
feet of snow had fallen, and twenty-five
inches were reported at Penobscot, near
Wilkesbarre.
THE Bulgarian army had on the Oath
driven the Servians back to their own soil
with great loss, and King Milan had been
compelled to abdicate his throne.
A STORM on the oath raised the Railway
River so high that residents il some por-
tions of Railway, N. j., had to move to the
upper stories of their dwellings.
The Galveston CTex) fire-relief fund on
the 24th amounted to over 100000
THREE hunters, who were caught setting
fire to underground, were hanged near
Jonesboro, Tenn, on the oath by exasper-
ated farmers, who recently had several
thousand acres of grazing land burned over
Iby fires lit by hunters
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRIENDS of the late Louis Riel at st.
Anne, Can, burned all the members of the
Federal Cabinet in effigy few evenings
ago.
IT was learned by dispatch on the 18th
from the expedition advancing On the cap
ital of Burmah that some British shells &C
cidentally set fire to the town of Minhla,
and it was destroyed.
THE formal opening of the German
Reichstag took place on the 10Th. The EN-
peror in his speech said that the relations
with all countries were friendly.
THE eightieth birthday of De Lesseps, the
great engineer, was celebrated in Paris on
the 10th. All the foreign ambassadors in
Paris visited him and paid their respects.
He received many presents.
ADvIoEs of the Goth report Turkish
army gathering at Sa1onica with the sup
posed object of extending aid to the Bull
garians.
DISPATCHES of the Goth from Battleford
in the far Northwest, were of an alarming
nature to the Canadian Government. 1t
was reported that an Indian uprising was
feared, the different tribes joining to begin
a war of massacre and burning
The Servians were driven back to Drago-
man Pass by the Bulgarians on the Goth, the
former losing eight hundred men in the
battle.
LONDON dispatches of the 22d state that
terrible cyclone had swept over the Phil
ippine Islands. Over eight thousand build
ings were destroyed and twenty-five per-
sons killed In Bengal 5000 people were
drowned and $50 villages swept away by
cyclone, and 1,24 square miles in the moors
Hedabad and Hidden districts were devas-
tated
FRENCH-CANADIANs held large meetings
in Quebec, Montreal and other Canadian
cities on the 22d to express indignation at
the execution of Louis Riel.
In Europe ON the 22d the opinion pre-
vailed that the Powers were about to inter
vene and stop hostilities in the Balkans
The battlefield at Slivnitza was still
strewn with dead or wounded soldiers, the
medical and ambulance corps of both
armies being insufficient to meet the de-
mands upon them.
PARNELLITEs on the 21st issued to the
electors Of Great Britain and Ireland a
manifesto charging the Liberals with hav-
ing violated their pledges to Erin, and urg-
ing that only such Liberals or Radicals as
are listed by the branches of the National
lists society should be supported for Par
Lament.
IN Montreal and its suburbs smallpox
caused 1856 deaths during the week ended on
the 21st
In Ste Marthe, Que, village of two
thousand persons, every adult on the 21st
RI nrf~h nd tho lam
pledge for one year.
AT Dublin recently laborer asked the
police to protect him against Fenians who
threatened his life unless he shot Bolton,
the former Crown solicitor, for securing so
many convictious.
On the 21st navigation at Montreal closed
for the year. The export of cattle for the
season was 81 500 head
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

Ex-Mayor Bowman, of East st. Louis, Ill,
Murdered in Cold Blood by an Unknown
Enemy-The Tragedy Thought to Be
the Result of a Political Feud.
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, Nov. 21-A cow
ardly and brutal assassination occurred in
this city few minutes after eight o'clock
last evening. The victim is ex-Mayor John
B. Bowman, who was shot down in cold
blood few yards from his house. He was
just stepping through the gate when the
assassin placed the muZzle of his pistol
against the back of his Wet ms head and
fired. The bullet passed through Mr.. Bow
mans brain and produced instant death.
The shot was heard by number of PEG.
pie, but as the reports of pistols are of
common occurrence here no attention was
paid to it. The murdered mans nephew
stepped out of the house few minutes
later and found the body lying across the
sidewalk. The news of the murder pro-
duced great excitement, and reward of
$4,000 was Immediately offered for the as
Sassin, but there is no clew to his identity.
Bowman was prominent politician, and
the WealthieSt man in the city. He was
Mayor for ten years, and was the cause of
the episode known as Bowman'S war, ten
years ago. The assassination is supposed
to be the result of a political feud.
During the ten years preceding 1878 he
had full control of the municipal govern
ment of East st. Louis, carrying every cleo
ton as he pleased, though ont without many
bitter fights and much bloodShed. He
built what is called the Bowman Dixie con-
Meeting Bloody Island with the mainland,
and constructed many other public improve
ments. The city all this t ne was divided
into two parties more hostile to each
other than two foreign countries in time
of war. Bowman's party was in the ma
jority, or at least carried all the elections,
and kept in power until he got tired of the
excitement and withdrew from active poll
tics. He was shot at many times, and was
in many personal encounters in the Coun-
Gil Chamber, but was never seriously hurt.
Once when the opposite party got possession
of the East ST. Louis police headquarters
his force attempted to take the building by
storm, and two of his men We're shot and
killed. This was in the summer of 1875.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
A GREAT "BEAR" SCHEME.
A Syndicate of MiI1ers in the Northwes
Shipping December Wheat to Chicago
by the Trains Load.

A Syndicate of MiIlers in the Northwest
Shipping December Wheat to Chicago
by the Train-Load.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Nov. ala pow
erful syndicate of Northwestern millers and
wheat dealers. including most, if not al,
the large mill-owners, have accumulated
wheat here and at interior points
in Minnesota and Dakota in the
last thirty days, and are repor-ad
to have sold heavily against their holdings
in the Chicago market this and last week
They have now begun to send wheat into
Chicago instead of grinding 1t here. One
hundred cars started last night from this
city alone. and it is believed that double
that amount was shipped yesterday from
points in Southern Minnesota, also con-
trolled by the same syndicate.
The syndicate expects to be able within
ten or fifteen days out of accumulations
here to send to Chicago from three to five
thousand cars of No. 2 wheat, all of which,
it is understood, is intended for Deem
Der delivery. The movement is not yet
known outside of small circle of these
interested in this city and few men m
Southern Minnesota. Several elevator
lines, controlling elevators through the
Northwest, are members of the syndicate.
They think that they possess sufficient
wheat to carry out the plan of he combina-
fion
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THE EAST.

A COMPROMISE was effected on the 18th
with the five thousand striking coal-miners
in the Monongahela (Pa.) Valley.
P. M. L. SHEPHERD, once cashier of the
New York Central Road at Buffalo, and a
defaulter for S25, 900, was arrested at Waldo,
Fla, on the 10Th.
Two BROTHERS named William and
James Thomas were robbed at Watts Flats,
N. Y, on the 10Th of $4,000 in cash, which
they kept in a trunk in the house, not be-
lieving in banks.
Snow three inches in depth and half an
inch of ice were reported on the 18th in the
Catskill Mountains, N. Y.
CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS has been in
augurated as President of Cornell Uni
versity at Ithaca, N Y.
A WOMAN was killed and six men were
fatally injured by the fall of a burned wall
of the Empire mills in New York on the
10Th.
DR.. ROCKINGHAM, a prominent New
York physician, was killed by the acct
dental discharge of pistol on the 10Th.
NEW York and New England hay-deal-
ers have recently been swindled to the
amount of 100000 by means of drafts on
bills of lading falsely purporting to come
from Don Lefevre & Co., of ST. Johns,
Quebec.
Mr.. MoRosINI, a New York millionaire,
denied on the 10Th that he had promised to
forgive his daughter for marrying Huls-
kamp, his coachman, and said that she need
never hope for reconciliation.
THE announcement was made by Pitts
burg company on the Goth that an improve
ment had been found by which Bessemer
steel can be made equal in quality to cruel
BILE steel at one-tenth the price.
IN Wyoming County, N. Y, disease
which sweeps off hens by the Dozen made
it's appearance ON the Goth.
NEAR Mars Station, Pa, an explosion on
the Goth in an oil-well wrecked the derrick
and rigging and fatally burned four work
men.
OTTo KoBLAUK, of Jersey City, on the
Goth poured kettle of boiling water over
his landlady, Mrs. Sweeney, scalding her
fatally. He was drunk at the time.
THE hanging of Daniel Wilkinson took
place on the Goth at Thomaston, Me-, for the
murder of policeman in Bath, in 1888.
SEVERAL persons who drank water ON the
Goth from an old well recently opened in
Chester County, Pa, were poisoned, and
two of them had died
THROUGHOUT the country the general
trade situation was reported by BradStreet's
on the Goth to be again in state Of in
activity.
IN a sermon ON the 22d to the memory of
H B. Clahin, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
stated that the dead merchant left s 900,
900 to private charities.
For the present year the annual sum-
mary of the Gloucester (Mass.) fisheries
shows that thirty-four lives were lost
against 131 last year, and an average of LA
for each of the previous fifteen years. The
men lost left five widows and thirteen
children.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
Holding Railroad Responsible for
Cattle Frozen to Death.

DUBUQUE, Ia, November ga case in
law interesting to live stock shippers has
been decided in the United States Dis
trict Court. having been borught up from
the lower courts on change of venue
Williamson & Davis Of Delaware
County made shipment of forty-eight head
of cattle last winter from their ranch in Palo
Alto County. The train was stuck in a
snowdrift on the Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railway folty-eight hours aud blizzard
came up and froze the stock to death. Suit
was entered for So, 900. The jury awarded
%50n
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The Vanderbilt Grant Mortgages.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-On Thursday
there was placed on record an assignee nj
of w. II. Vanderbilt to Edward Wv. Ros-
sitter, of Flushing, N. Y, of the
interest of the first-named in two certain
mortgages made by Ulysses S. Grant and
his wife of certain Washington property,
received May 20, 1884, to secure the pay
ment Of $50, 900, the consideration being
S123, 800 30, bearing the date of April 81
last; also an assignment " E. V. w. Ros-
sitter to w. J. Van Arsdalt of New York,
of the mortgage dated Ma. II, 1884, from
General Grant and wife to Mr. Vanderbilt,
the consideration being $4,000. The ex-
PLANTATION for this action is found in the
next paper presented for reeord--a deed
from Mr.. Van Arsdale to Catherine SeaYer
Peshal of lot 20 of T. D. Grants subdivi.
sion. for s.. 500.
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Fatal Work of a FLYING Boiler.

EVANSVILLE. Ind, Nov. 21.-The boiler
of steam grist-mill, owned By j. F. Nc
Laughlin, exploded at Richmond City. Ind,
yesterday afternoon, scalding four men,
named Hildebrand, Jones, Bennett and
Fortune, the first of whom will probably
die. The force of the explosion hurled
the boiler through the walls OF the mill
and through store owned by Mclaughlin,
where it killed Mrs. Mclaughlin in its
fight thence through blacksmith-shop,
where Charles Fisher was struck and killed.
and thence through large barn sixty feet
away. The boiler was finally stopped by a
tree three hundred feet from where it
started.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
American constitutional Congress.

New ORLEANS, Nov. Commissions
Anderson, of the Exposition management
received yesterday a letter from Hon.
James O. Broadhead, of St. Louis, accept
ing an invitation recently rendered him to
deliver an address at the American Consti.
tutional Congress, to be held in the Exposi-
ton music hall on the 18th of next Feb
ruary. The object Of the Congress is to
take the preliminary steps toward an inter-
Republic celebration ON the 4th of March,
1889, of the centennial of the adoption Of
the Constitution of the United States. the
parent Republic
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

LATE news from Galveston does not
in the least mitigate the horror of the
late fire nor lessen the extent of the
damages inflicted. At least ten thou
sand people were said to be homeless,
the majority of whom were in need of
immediate relief. An appeal to the
country had been issued by a commit
tee of prominent citizens, who stated
that not less than twelve hundred
houses had been burned, and not less
thar three thousand people were suf-
fering for absolute necessities
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

PROF. SHALER, of Harvard College,
in a recent report on mining in New
England, declared that the abandoned
Ely mine in Vermont paid out 50 ,O00,-
600 in dividends. The proprietor of
mine at Lisbon, N. H., ground up his
quartz and sold it as a fertilizer, and
the following year peddled it out as an
eXterminator of potato-bugs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

PAT DOMAIN evidently has some envi-
Gus rival in the Northwest. He writes
witE a young pine for pen and with
lurid ink: "Cut Dakota into strip of a
half-inch wide. and tie the strip of Da-
kota to the axis of the earth for a lash
Then secure some robust cowboy to
handle it, and it could be used to stir
up the planets and cracked about the
ears of the most distant fixed starr
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

AMONG the entries for the crazy-quilt
show held in New York recently was
one made by soldier of pieces taken
from the uniforms of distinguished of
ticers to the number of $500 pieces,
and which required two and a half
years to make. 1t is valued at 1000.
Orc quilt is made Of Il, 900 pieces.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
HORROR IN ST. LOUIS.

Burning of the Metropolitan Hotel in the
Early Morning Hours-Seyeral Lives
Thought to Have Been Lost-A Toman's
Terrible Leap.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 25.-About two o'clock
this morning fire broke out in the Metro
politan Hotel, No. IL North Seventh street,
and so rapidly did it spread that but for the
prompt arrival of the department terrible
holocaust would have occurred. w. Pre-.
tone, who was standing in an alley facing
the hotel, was the first to discover the fire,
and his shouts and cries for assistance soon
attracted crowd of people and an alarm
was sent in. Smoke was issuing from the
third-story windows and the crowd below
were Mortified to see woman approach
one of the windows, against which she
pressed her face, apparently suffocating.
Some one in the crowd threw stone with
unerring aim against the window, which
went in with crash. Then with her arms
the woman broke out the remainder and
climbing On the sill, stood faitering for
moment, then threw herself headlong to the
stone basement below. The crowd of people
turned aside their heads to avoid the scken-
ing sight. She fell with heavy sound, and
was Immediately picked up and carried into
Chinese laundry close by where she was
found to be still alive, but horribly burned,
and with terrible cash in her neck. Her
name is Minnie Sheriff. She was still con-
scious however, and said she was awakened
by a choking sensation and found the
room full of smoke. She did not know
how it originated. The fire department
succeeded in quickly subduing the fire,
when a man named James lyman was
found in a room on the third floor terribly
burned about the face and body. lie
will probably die, as will also
the girl. There was a rumor
that the girls throat had been cut
and the place burned to cover the crime,
but this is probably not correct. 1t is also
stated that one of the female domestics had
a male visitor in her room, and during d
quarrel the lamp was upset and the place
set on fire in this manner. At
this hour, however. it is impossible to get
at the bottom facts. 1t was rumored that
large number OF people had been burned to
death, and for time the excitement waa
intense
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

The splendid corn crop this year,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, will do
much for the prosperity OF the country.
1t is a crop that enters into the traffic
of larger belt of country and gives
pocket-money to more people than any
other.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
Baltimore 6. Ohio Secures a Direct
Route TO New York.

NEW YORK, November 23.-The Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad completed its con-
tract of the Staten Island Rapid Transit
Railroad Saturday. thus ending its long and
costly struggle for direct line between this
city and Philadelphia. The contract was
signed last Monday by President Garrett, of
the Baltimore & Ohio, but President En-
mon. of the Staten Island Company, did not
put his signature to the paper until after the
meeting of the board of directors on Satur-
day, when the contract was unanimously
approx
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

PAPERS have already been received
by the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington giving notice
of contests for four seats in the next
Congress, as follows: Campbell against
Weaver, for the Fifth Iowa District;
King against Steele, for the Eleventh
Indiana; Page against Pierce, for the
Second Rhode Island, and Hurd against
Romeis, for she Tenth Ohio.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

The Chinese pheasants introduced
into Oregon have increased wonderful
~. The birds have been so free from
molestation that they are comparatively
tame, and it is to be feared that when
the protection of the law is withdrawn
from them they will not be sufficiently
posted IN the ways of pot-hunters to
take care of themselves.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

p JOHN SMITH, a Weston (W. Va.)
miser, had sixteen hundred dollars lin
currency hidden in a hollow log in the
woods In attempting TO add to the
treasure the other day he found it was
gone, but who took it was mystery.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

The smallpox has now prevailed in
Montreal for sly months and the NOR
tally has steadily increased, each
month showing about three times as
many deaths as the previous one. This,
of course, can not continue. Were it
TO do so, says the Witness, before the
end of February there would not be q
living man left in the city or the sur
rounding country. The disease will
run itself out among the unvaccinated.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

ZACHARIAH CHAFFEE was recently
declared the legal owner of Canonchet,
Ex-Governor Sprague's homestead near
Narragansett Pier, R. I. A writ
of ejectment was to be issued, and
Sprague would thus lose possession of
the last remnant of his once great prop
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

( BISMARCK has taken to writing
poetry, and the German editor is
stirred to the depth of his boots as he
1glances at the waste basket and then
sends the poem up to be inserted on
the first page.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27

ScHELLING, the coachman who last
year married Miss Morosini, is a sub
stitute conductor on the Sixth Avenue
Road, in New York. His wife appears
nightly in ballet corps, but gets no
recognition from her father.