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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16
The NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
FROM WASHINGTON.

The report of the Commissioner of Pat
ents on the 9th showed that during the
fiscal year ended June 80 last 22,92S pat
ents were issued. The total receipts were
$1,074,974, sight decrease from the pre-
ceding year.
AIETTER has been written by Secretary
Manning declaring that he shall vote for
Governor Hill and the entire Democratic
State ticket of New York, and giving the
assurance that President Cleveland will do
likewise.
THERE were 204 business failures in the
United States and Canada, during the
seven days ended on the 9th, against 195
the previous seven days. The distribu-
tion was as follows: Middle States, Al;
New England States, 81; Western, So;
Southern, 20; Pacific. States and Terrific
ries, %; Canada, %.
CHARLES D. JACOBS, ex- Mayor of Louis
vile, KY, was on the 9th appointed Min
lister to the United States of Colombia,
and Charles Foster, of Indiana, Consul
General at Calcutta.
AT twenty six leading clearing houses
IN the United States the exchanges dur
ing the week ended on the 10th aggregated
2O,53O,653, against 1891, 172, 100 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
| spending period of 1884, the increase
| amounts to 24.6 per cent
THE United States Supreme Court began
it's October term at Washington on the
18th. There were 10000 cases on the
docket.
DURING the week ended on the 10th the
issue of standard silver dollars was ST.
064, IA The issue during the correspond
ing period of last year was $3.50, 997.
IT was stated by Surg General Ham
ilton on the 18th that the danger of chol-
era epidemic in the United States had
passed for the present.
A REPORT was submitted by the special
agent of the General Land Office to Com
missioner Sparks on the 18th, estimating
the value of the timber cut from the pub
lie domain without authority by the
Northern Pacific Railroad and Montana
Improvement Companies at $G13,402.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

The Papal See has approved the
edicts of the plonary council held at
Baltimore recently, and grants to the
Catholic Church of the United States
practical independence in many re-
speets, 1t has enlarged the scope of
clerical and lay education, dispensed
with bcneiices and parochial livings,
and grants to the hierarchy here the
pract cal control of all matters, secular
and spiritual, affecting the church.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

In attempting to put back upon
British soil Cinnamon who had come
into the United States in violation of
the restriction act, customs officer on
the Northwestern frontier has been
confronted with a Canadian statute
which provides that fee of fifty dol
lars per capita shall be paid for Chinese
readmitted into the Dominion. A novel
situation has resul;c1, which the State
Department will have to wrestle with
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

SINCE California began to import os-
triches, the Government of the Cape
OF Good Hope has imposed an export
duty of five hundred dollars head on
ostriches, in order to keep the birds and
the ostrich-feather business at home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

On the sides of the cave recently
discovered in Calayeras County, Cali
fornia, are seen huge powders, which
seem about to fall upon and crush the
invader of their grand domain A
closer observation viii show, however.
that the powders, which originally
were displaced from the roof, have
been caught in a fssure in the wall,
where they have remained in the same
threatening attitude for centuries, as is
shown by the depth of the calcareous
deposits which cover them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16
TIMBER THEFTS.

How Rascally Corporations Have Robbed
the Government of Over a Half Mill
lion Dollars obstacles Thrown in the
Way of Investigation.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. - Commissioner
Sparks, of the Land Office, has received a
report from NJ. D. Haley, Special Timber
Agent at Rathdrum, !. T., in regard to the
cutting of timber in the Northwest. The
reports cover the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company and the Montana Improvement
Company timber cases, making, with what
has already been transmitted, thirty-One
separate indictments in all, showing that
these corporations have caused to be cut
from the public domain 45, 100, 600 feet of
lumber and bridge timber, S4,744 railroad
ties, 15,40O, 600 shingles (61, 600 bunches),
32, 035 cords of wood and 10000 cedar posts,
To value the lumber at ten dollars per one
thousand feet (which would be low fig
ure, the railroad ties at forty cents per tie,
the wood at three dollars per cord, the posts
at eighty dollars per thousand and the
shingles at twenty dollars per thousand or
fifty cents bunch, would amount
to $613, 400. This does not represent
all the ties and wood cut for the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company by
Eddy, Hammond & Co., which changed its
firm to the Montana Improvement COM
pany'' in July, 1888. The agent found it an
absolute impossibility to get witnesses to
testify in those cases, or even to find persons
of whom he could obtain anything like sat
isfactOry information. Where the depreda-
lions were committed, between Rathdrum,
Idaho and Bearmouth, M. T., is very thin
Iy settled, and men who were employed on
the contracts during the construction of
the Northern Pacific Railroad have gone to
parts unknown. Owing to this, he says it
took much longer to complete this inveSti-
CATION than it otherwise should. He further
charges that he was hampered by officers of
the Montana Improvement Company, who
appeared to expect an investigation, and
were fortifying their position. The company
have agents along the line endeayoring to
suppress facts of the Montana Improvement
Company's operations. The company, ac-
cording to the report, is an INSCRIPTIONS
corporation, that will leave nothing undone
to gain its point.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

A NOVEL use for campaign torches is
that adopted by Byfield Mass. farm
er, who has purchased large number
and stuck them about his garden, keep
ing them lighted at night to kill the
frost
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

BENJAMIN SMITH, of Indiana, went
out one night to lock the barn, and the
Detroit Free Press says it was just
fourteen years before his wife saw him
again. She says she didn't expect him
any sooner
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

A TEXAS paper described a recently
discovered meteor as ''about the size of
water cam" and the next week the
editor received four hundred letters
asking how large water can was.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

AMONG the latest productions of San
Diego County, Cal, is sweet potato
weighing 273 pounds and squash
which tips the scales at 1863 pounds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16
90
BASEBALL

How the Clubs of the Leading Organza-
tions Stand at the Close of the Season.
Last Saturday witnessed the close of the
baseball season, the last of the scheduled
games of the National League and Ameri-
can Association having been played on that
date. The following shows the place oc-
cupied by each club of the first named Or
ganiZation at the close.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

THE Governor of Georgia has signed
the State Local Option bill, thus Sc
curing practical prohibition to many of
the cities and towns CT the State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

EIuHT MILLION acres Of Southern
Florida have never been surveyed and
are wholly given over to mosquitoes
and alligators.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian,
celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday at
his homo in Newport, r. l., a few
days since.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

IT is said that Washington Territory
is preparing to make application for
admission into the Union as a State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

AN eminent council of New York
doctors have decided that ''cousins
may marry" without violating wise
physical laws.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

IT is asserted that Kansas has never
had a breach-of-promise suit since the
State was admitted to the Union.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16

The Yuma Indians recently held a
grand council and resolved to adopt
pantaloons as an article of dress.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
ANDALusIA, April "a, 1885

Mr.. Henry NonAch is making general
improvements at his place of business.
We have neat little drugstore. with
Il fresh stock of drugs and notions gen
orally, managed by DR.. George r. Wells.
Our new doctor. F. D. Paul. is a broth>
er of Dr. W. A. Paul, of Rock Island,
He is doing fair practice and can be
found at s. r. Buffum's residence.
We have a roof painting company in
our village, known as Andrews, Thomp>
son. Spickler & Co, and they are ready
to paint things black-that is roofs,
bridges and anything in that line.
The following town officers have quail
fled and filed bonds in the town clerk 5
office; Supervisor, L. II Bowman; sure>
ties. Samuel Good, Alex Hayes Commis
sioner, George Bnrgoyne.
Our little village is looming up. We
had our village election on the 2lst inst
and the following is the result: Village
trustees-John H. Brookman, Jacob II
Brtton. Burril Smell. Village clerk
Chas. Hayes.
B. A. Vandeyeer has sold out his bust
ness aud general stock of goods to J II.
Brookmau. who has been in the boot and
shoe business in this place for about
twenty yeaIs; and We have found Mr..
Brookman to be thorough business man
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
SUBURBAN SIFTINGS.

RURAL, April 80.
Rain, rain, mud, mud, everywhere.
Services on next Sabbath at Beulah
church at IL o'clock by Rev. Carson.
Henry Simmon, of Des Moines, Iowa.
spent last week with his parents.
The people of Rural feel very much
elated over the arrival of their female
deity.
Our school is progressing nicely under
the management of Miss Hitler. She Is
well liked by the patrons.
1t seems as thongh it was too muddy
for the golden chariot on last Sunday, as
they went on foot.
There should be missionary sent to
preach the gospel to the heathens of Ru>
raj who play croquet on Sunday. So
thinks Rural school ma'am.
Mr.. Caldwell, of Missouri, is visiting
his brother William, whom he has not
seen for several years. Uncle Billy, as
he is usually called, has been getting
worse for the past two weeks
All nature is putting on her green
robe; the buds are bursting forth, and
everywhere that we look it is enchanting.
Notwithstanding the past week has been
quite wet, the farmers generally are done
sowing oats and some have commenced
to plow for corn, and few have planted
potatoes and made their garden.
There is a fine horse in Rural that was
purchased on Big island and he seems in
clined to go back home, for every two
weeks he wends his way northward, and
if the stars stand still or the moon refuses
to move. he continues north until he gets
south and he and the rider always puts up
at the Sunnyside and takes crow foot for
SUPPER
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
GOING TO HERAT.
RUSSIAN TROOPS MOVING IN THAT
DIRECTION.
An Important Position Captured The
British Ministry's DinicuIty and
nsibility-KOmarofss
Cheek-Forelgn Notes
Wsrlike and
Otherwise.

LONDON, April So.-Lord Edward Fitz
maurice, under secretary of state for foreign
affairs, announced in the house Of commons
Wednesday that the government had re.
ceived definite and reliable information to
the effect that the Russions were now in full
advance on Herat He also announced that
the report of the occupation of Maruchuk
had been confirmed.
These announcements created profound
sensation, and much bitterness was expressed
by the members. 1t is known that while the
ameer did not attach much Importance to
the holding Of Penjdeh, he thinks Maruchuk
point that is necessary for the defense of
Herat
gloomy feeling prevails here, the belief
being general that the commencement of
open hostilities between England and Rus
sia is now only matter Of fewdays. The
stock market was weak and prices declined
almost unipterruptedly. The whole list is
lower, but the greatest depression is in Rus
sian bonds. Consols are fractionally lower,
The duke of Cumberland, commander in
chief of the army, inspected the troops who
have been ordered out for active service in
case Of war at Aldershot Wednesday The
appearance called forth many remarks of
admiration from the onlookers. The duke,
in few words, complimented the soldiers,
and expressed the hope that in the event of
war they would acouit themselves as uobly
as their predecessors did in the Crimea.
The responsibility of the ministers is fear
fully augmented by the knowledge that if
war is to be declared it must be declared
by them. It is idle 10 sunnosa that
Russia will daclara war wbila sho
is marching successfully along her
chosen line of EXPANSION without any sucb
declaration, and while the only effect of de-
claring war would be TO authorize her
enemy to strike wherever it was most con.
venient. Russia is willing enough TO fight
and is fighting: but she will not declare war
and if Is becoming peneralIv haliaved that
She will not agrae 70 arhitrat;on
Tao stondord roporr;ner 20 tha occ,no ii ~,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
THE MARKETS.
CHICAGO, April 29

CHICAGO. April 80.
The board of trade is not in session to-day
Produce: Butter creamery, 22@
23c; good to fine dairy, l2@lSc; poor to
good packing, 5lsc per 10. Eggs-1l@
Ike per doz Potatoes--Good to choice
Poultry-Live turkeys, 1l@l3c for hens;
chickens, 10@1lc for hens, and &c for roost-
ers; ducks, 1l@l2c per lb; geese, 81. 00@6 10
per doz. Apples-Poor to fins, 81, ,50@350
per bbl
New York.
NEW YORK, April 90
Wheat-2@3c higher; excited, active and
feverish on war news; No. white, nominal;
No. 3 red May, Sl.0l%@L0Sk; June,
l.0SA@105ss; July, $L05H@L07%; Sep
tember, $l.0S@L09 Corn-l@2c higher;
only moderately active; mixed western spot,
57@60c; future, 57@59xc Oats-x@Kc
higher; western, 4l@50c. Provisions-Beef
firm; new extra, sll.50@l2.00 Pork, firm
and quiet; new mess, $500. Lard, higher
and firm; steam rendered, 81. Is.
St. Louis.
ST. Louis, April go
Wheat-Active AMI sharply higher on war
news, but closed about nc below top prices;
No; !, 2 red cash, s.; ;CS1s; May, sI;oS; June
$LO69s: July, SlO7S. Corn-Higher and
firm; cash, 47c; May, 4dKc; June, 479sc.
Oats-Higher but slow; cash, 4Oc: May,
3Sc; June, 364c bid. Whisky Steady;
$l.l4 Provisions-Pork dull; Sl200. Lard
dull; So 70@675
Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE, Wis. ,{April 80
Wheat Weak; Milwaukee No. 2, and
May, 9OAe; June, 921ic; July, 94}sc Corn
Strong; No. 2, 4Sc. Oats-Steady; No. 2,
Soc. Rye-Dull; No. l, Tic. Barley
No 2, 6l15c.
TOLEDO April 80.
Wheat-Active and higher; No. red
cash and May, 941Sc; June, 96c; July, 97slc;
No 2 soft, $l.05M. Corn-Dull and firm; No
2 cash 55c; April, soc bid; May, SIC bid,
June, 81. Oats-Dull;No. 2 cash, IS; May,
3S15c BID. Clover Seed-Weak; prime
medium 81. 50 asked.
Detroit.
DETROIT, April 90
Wheat-Quiet: No. white. Sl.04L cash;
sl04N May; SL06% June; $lO7 nominal
July; No red, $l.O3H cash; SLO4 May;
slO5H June; $l.07 bid July. No. 3 red,
94c. Corn-No. = SIC nominal Oats-No Q
white, $3.50 M. 3S1Sc cash, 3sAc bid
May.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
An Indiana Man Lnck.

WASHINGTON CITY, April 80 Mr.. John
s. Williams, of Indiana, has been appointed
third auditor of ths treasury.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30

NEW York, April 30 The total exports
Of produce from this port during the past
week were valued at s., S4z57o.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30

GOLFERS, w. Va, April SO-Right en-
the spot where Paddy Ryan defeated old
Joe Goss four years ago one of the hardest
and earnest glove fights on record took
place Wednesday morning between Ted
Dillon and a man named Crowley, two
light weights. The fight was for $500 a
siM Fully $50 men surrounded the roped
arena The fight was under London
prizs-ring rules, with thirty seconds
between each round. Forty-four bloody
rounds were fought At the end of this
round Crowley was carried to his corner,
and gave up the fight At this moment
there came cry of "there comes the sheriff
and posse," and all Of the party started on
the dead run up the railroad and over the
state line into Pennsylvania. Crowley was
unable TO run fast enough, and was the only
ms1 captured. He was sstaken to Wellsburg
by the sheriff He is terribly cut about the
head, ia g and body, showing the terrible
punishment he received from Dillon
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
The "Egyptien" Affair Settled.

PARIS, April 80. The Journal des Debats
says The Bosphore Egyptien affair has
been settled through the intermediary offices
of England upon the following bases: Egypt
apologies to M. Tallandier, the French
charge d'affaires; the office Of The Bosphore
Egyptien will be reopened, and the journal
allowed to reappear forthwith, and France
abandons her demand for the recall of the
officials who forcibly entered The Bosphore
Egyptien office, in view of the apology. A
Cairo dispatch confirms the above
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
A League of Neutrals.

LONDON, April 81. Dispatches from Ber-
lin says active negotiation are going on be-
tween the governments of Germany, France
aud Austria looking to the formation of a
neutral league by those powers in the case
of war between England and Russia
Italy and Turkey have been invited to join,
but it is stated that neither Of the latter
powers have given decided replies.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
Cattle ouarantine-Freight War.

DEs MONIES Iowa. April 30.-The gov
ernor will isue proclamation quarantining
Iowa against all cattle from Missouri Aii-
nois and all other states east Of the Missis-
sippi river, and prohibiting the transporta-
ton by rail of cattle from the state
Freights have been cut on all roads from
Chicago to Des Moines to 10 cents per hun
dred for all classes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
The Garnet and Strytax.

NeRFoLK, Va, April 80. The Russian
corvette Strytax put to sea at q. m.
Wednesday. The British consul here wired
the captain of the English war ship Garnet
at Hampton Roads. The Garnet signalled
her officers at Old Point Comfort to come
aboard The ship was made ready for sea,
under orders to keep watch for the Strytax.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
The STRAITS of Mackinaw Omen.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 90. A dispatch
received here from Cheboygan, Mich, says:
The straits are now open, and the grain
fleet can pass through by avoiding the field
o. ice This shore is entirely clear, but
heavy ice is running on the other side
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30

The stomach OF the ostrich is located
in its back. When an ostrich has the
stomach ache it wears its mustard plaster
in the same place camel does its hump
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30
The "(aaIi'' of KomaroG.

TInPUL, April SO-It is stated that Gon.
Komaroff has written to the Afghans ex-
pressing surprise at their conduct in forcing
him to give battle The Afghans are indig
nant at his impudence, and more cordial to-
ward the British. The populace at Herat,
however, appear to be as well inclined to-
ward Russia as toward England, and their
assistance as against Russia is rather doubt
full in the event of Russian advance upon
tho aitv
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-30

Advancing spring warns us to be pIe>
pared for warmer weather. Strengthen
the system, purify the blood, by taking
Hoods Sarsaparills.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-08-14
BOYS.
A Bad Thing Not to Have Them In tn
HOuse.

Bad Thing Not to Have Them In the
Hous-.
There never was such . boy; no.
know there never was such . boy!"
Mrs. Mitchell asserted and reasserted
with change of emphasis. There was
only one person within hearing. for the
boy whom she thought "beyond COM
pare" had vanished after being appre-
hended in . frolic with his immense
Newfoundland dog and his small
brother. and the three playmates had
left the room d sordered. ''demoral.
ized." Mrs. Mitchell said. She had
come home from drive with . plain
tive little woman. her cousin and guest;
and to find her sitting-room $50" was
ssupsettingn to her house-wifely e1u;li-
brium. The other lady silently re-
moved her wraps in an ante-room, and
came to sit down in the disturbed
time of picking up the
room. during which Mrs. Mitchell
contlnued: His grandmother says.
Tom is as full of misch eff rs an egg is
of meat just look at the threads in
this carpet pulled up by that out
rageous Rab's toe-nails! Charley never
gets into misch ef. even with Rab
always. ready to help: but when Tom
comes, then may expect someth ngr'
Half-provoked that her cousin did not
say . word in sympathy. Just see
here!' she exclaimed; ''they have made
taffy. Tom can coax Joanna to let
him make taffy any time when her irons
are of. and they have Clipped taffy
here on my clean table scarf Oh. oh,
IL you can tell me ANYTHING worse for q
house than to have two boys in it."
81 can. Not to have two boys in it.'
The words were few and quietly
spoken. but they fell upon the WORRY
ing mother-heart heavily. How could
she have so forgotten that ten yc,rs
before her cousin had buried two such
bows. scourged out Of her house by
diphtheriaa With what altered feeling
she went on with her task; and when
the room was faultlessly trim, and she
sat down. horrible dread seized her.
What II il wcre never to be upset" BY
Tom agaiue And when Tom came in
again. she looked ct him with differ
emit eyes. She failed to see that .
weight Of snow chung TO his rubber
boots: that tho Objectionable dog fol-
lowed him closely. looking askance
Il her, unit |. missing her Gus
tomary Out srl'' he lifted HE
heaa proudly. watching hisyoung mas
ter. She only noted the healthy glow
on the boys face and the merry sparkle
Of his eyes and the frank good humor
that was inseparable from his breath.
And when meek little Charley came In.
the weakest and slowest and always
the last of the trio. for once she Was
glad that Tom had moro vitality.
mar mar cried Tom. Il happened
to think that We did not give you and
Cousin Nara any candy, and i came
way back from Robinson u In Z
hurry 10 show you how good Il h to-
daym And when - kanded hoe the
pan u tam. Cousin Mars u1d-d ron
a'd noe-apprecjeee - eedet In
Mitchell mAde not - eoy nmytkfno
about 10 chfp6 On IL unD1ofnkoh2Y
sllily l1bls - = sFgte c.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-08-14

establshmsat had I considerable IN.
crease in It. deposits. which came in
great part from the seat Of war. being
lodged At high interest by officers OF
the commissariat and their worthy ac-
completes Of the military branch Of
the service. Another characteristic
fact which transp're in the course of
the trial was that when Rykoff became
bankrupt the majority of those clients
declined to rank a. creditors. fearing
doubtless that if they did so they would
DO compelled to reveal the shameful
secret of their ill-gotten wealth.
"StepniGk. in London Times.