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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
The EAST

The National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union assembled in eleventh an
nual convention at Philadelphia on the
30th ult.
BY the explosion of steam. drum in
New York City six laundry girls were ter
ribly burned on the 30th ult
In the Pittsburgh district mining ma
chine, which can perform the work of
several men, has been placed in Watson's
shaft, and number of miners have been
discharged.
BRADSTREET's advices of the Both ult,
from various business centers indicated
no general improvement in trade through
out the country, excepting in iron and
steel.
JUDGMENT was passed upon Ferdinand
Ward on the 31st ult. in New York. The
sentence is imprisonment at hard labor
at Sing Sing for ten years. Judge Barrett
remarked that the prisoner had done more
to unsettle public confidence in monetary
institutions than any man in the country,
and showed no remorse for his acts.
EARLY on the morning of the 1st ten
ement house in New York City was
burned and several persons persisted in
the flames.
HENRY R. DAVIS, freight collector on
the Fitchburg Railroad, Massachusetts,,
was on the 31st ult discovered to be de-
faulter to the amount of $4,000 to $40, 600.
OWING to ice, which was over an inch in
thickness for distance of five miles, nav
igation on the Champlain Canal at White
hall, n. ", ceased on the LIST.
MISS FRANCIS E. WILLARD was unani-
mous'y elected President at the session
of the National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union in Philadelphia on the I'd.
WIND and rain-storms of unusual sever
ity prevailed at Boston on the I'd and east
ward along the coast Several vessels
were wrecked.
A CONFESSION was made on the Cd by
John Howell, in Jail at Honesdale, Pa, for
poisoning four of his children, that he
killed his mother and sister in England.
and said that he intended to kill his wife,
eldest daughter and father in-law, and
then end his own life.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN's funeral took
place on the I'd in the Madison Square
Presbyterian Church in New York. The
remains were escorted to the church by the
Loyal Legion and the survivors of
Meagher's brigade, but no military display
was permitted.
DURING storm in Long Island Sound
on the ID a dredging machine parted from
its tow, and the crew of eight men were
drowned.
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him full charge Of shot, inaicting fatal


MUCH damage has been caused in Vir-
ginia by the lato heavy rains. The de-
struction of property on the Kanawha
River, in the vicinity of Chariestown, was
on the 1st estimated at $4,000.
A LUNATIc fired the county buildings al
Eerrick, Mimi, on the 1st, and persisted in
the flames.
The livery stables Of Hunt & Pence, at
Anderson, Nd, were destroyed by fire on
the 1st, and sixteen horses were burned,
among them being several valuable trot-
tiers.
AT the recent election in Ohio the
amendment to the State Constitution to
abolish October elections was carried by a
majority of 206, 453, and the amendment
changing the terms of township officers
from one to three years by 274, 453 ma.
jority.
The leader of the most daring counter
feiter gang in Arkansas, Enoch Beakley,
was sentenced to ten years. imprisonment
in the Detroit prison ON the I'd.
AT st. Louis the wife of Policeman Gal.
lagher gave birth to four girls on the I'd.
A FEW days ago silver coin of the value
of $4,000 was unearthed on the plantation
of john Chenault, in Wilkes County,
Georgia, where Confederate treasury
train is said to have been robbed.
OWEN T. ROUSE, of Missouri, is, by re.
cent appointment, to be United States At
5orney for the Territory of Arizona.
SAMUEL NEWTON, Choctaw Indian,
was legally shot to death in Indian Terri
tory on the I'd for wife murder.
IN his annual report on the I'd Governor
Pierce, of Dakota, stated that the pop
ulation of the Territory was 100000, an in
crease of 2S1 900 since 1880, that the farm
ers were prosperous, and that admission
to the Union as a State was strongly de.
sired.
NEAR Evansville, Ark, Rev. Thomas
Tenant died on the I'd aged one hundred
and fifteen years. He had been Metho-
dist minister for ninety years.
RECENTLY band of seventy-fiy In
dams, with hunting permits from their
agent at Buthold, started fires which
destroyed the cattle-ranges in the Bad
Lands of the Little Missouri.
ACCORDING to a recent census Kansas
City has population of 105,042, a gain of
fifty per cent. since 1880.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches,
FROM WASHINGTON.

AN employee of the National Metropoli-
tan Bank of Washington, named Edward
S. Balm, on the 30th ult. lost $40, 600 while
on the street. Balm claimed to have been
| robbed
A DECISION was rendered by the Land
Commissioner at Washington on the Both
ult. which restores to the public domain a
tract in California claimed by the Atlantic
& Pacific Road equal in size to the State
of Massachusetts.
w. f. SMITH, lawyer, of Plattsburg.
N. Y, has been appointed Assistant Sec
rotary of the Treasury, in place of Charles
E. Coon.
ADJUTAET GENERAL DRUMS report
shows that 6,515 enlisted men of the Uni
ted States army are drawing increased
pay for periods of continuous service
ranging from five to thirty five years.
DURING the seven days ended on the
Goth ult. there were 191 business failures
in the United States and Canada against
l07 the previous seven days. The distribu-
ton was as follows: Middle States, 80;
New England States %; Western, 4S;
Southern, 30; Pacific States and Terrific
ries, "a; Canada, q.
THE President has appointed Thomas E.
Heenan, of Minnesota, Consul at Odessa.
THE Utah Commits sion's annual report
made on the 31st ult, says that there have
been few polygamous marriages for the
year just ended, but that this arises from
enforcement of the law alone, not from
any change of sentiment on the part of the
Mormons.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
has rendered decision that a person en-
gagged in the Government service at a
stipulated salary is not entitled to pay
ment for extra services rendered outside
Of his regular duties.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 31st ult. aggre-
gated 1854 1875, 494, against 81, Ill, 617, 1899 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding period of 1884, the increase
amounts to 40.7 per cent.
The Director of the Mint in his recent
annual report estimated the production of
the world to have been during the calen-
dar year: Gold, $4,000, 900, and silver.
circulated in most cases at it's coin value,
$115,000,000. This is an increase of about
$1,OO0,OO0 on the production of 1888 of
gold, and falling off of about the same
amount in silver.
THE President has set aside Thursday.
November 26, as Thanksgiving Day.
DURING October the total coinage of the
mints was $5,250,9O8, of which $1,000, 900
was in standard dollars.
THE public-debt statement for October
is as follows: Total debt (including
interest), $1,27O, 374, ITO; cash in Treasury,
$4S7, 800, 400; debt, less amount in Treasury,
$792,57S,621. Decrease during October.
13,276,774. Decrease since June 3d. 1884.
$94, 071,2
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A Chinaman's Horrible Murder.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Chong Ong, a
Chnaman, who had lived since boyhood in
Cuba, and who was known by the name
of Antonio Saliva, came here some time
ago and established a restaurant. Yes
terday his body was found in his place
of business horribly Ipangled. The assas-
sin used a butchers cleaver. The dead
mans body was gashed by nine heavy
blows severing five of his ribs, cleaving
heart kidneys and intestines, and his head
was crushed into an unrecognizable pulp by
blow on blow. Eighty pieces of his skull
were counted by the Coroner. Several
Cubans have been arrested, but the police
believe that Chinaman did the work for
purposes of robbery.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Wisconsin Tax Apportionment.


The app0rtionment among the various
counties Of the tax levied for she year 1885
for educational purposes, as well as the
special charges against those counted for
the support of patients in the hospitals for
insane and inmates in the Wisconsin In
dustrial School for Boys, has been COM
pletsd by Secretary of State Timme. The
total amount of taxes levied for common
schools is $4SS, 1851: school-fund income,
$164, 5SS.S6; free high schools, $4,000; fifth
normal school, $4,000; university fund in
come, SCI ,017.45. The total special charges
against the counties for caring for patients
in the State Hospital for the Insane, $41,-
96416; Northern Hospital, $52,27S51; Mil
waukee Insane Asylum, $50, POS; Industrial
School for Boys, SS,719.26; care of chronic
insane, S1O,9S460.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
Oklahoma Again Invaded.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, Oct 3O.-GeneraI
Miles, commanding the Department of the
Missouri, with headquarters at Fort Leav-
enwOrth, received official information yes
terday afternoon that about four thousand
well-armed and equipped men are on
their way to Oklahoma territory, under
the leadership of Captain Couch, and an
neunce their determination to stay and
fight, if necessary. for possession of the
land. Captain Couch has organized staff
and the main body of the boomers are march,
ing with military precision and determine
ton. They expect to occupy the lands and
hold them until Congress declares them
open for settlements
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
Freight Train Dashed to Pieces.

La CROSSE, Wis, Nov. "a terrible
freight-train collision occurred at four
o'clock yesterday morning at Whitman, a
small station on the river division of the
Milwaukee Road, six miles above Winona.
1t is difficult to get particulars, as teIe-
graph poles in that vicinity were thrown
down and the wires are not up yet. 1t is
understood, however. that two heavy trains
collided and from twenty to thirty cars are
piled UP in the wreck. Engineer Sever
ance, residing in this city, was instantly
killed No trains have passed the wreck,
all being sent around by the way of Ram
Sey.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

In the Grand Street Museum at
Brooklyn, N. Y. the other night, the
elephant which had on previous occa-
sions cvinced a great dislike for the
lion, burst his shackles and made an
onset on the lions cage. The latter
beast seized the elephants trunk and
fierce fight resulted, the elephant being
finally got under control by the keep
crs, but not until he had smashed both
tusks and Suffered decorations of the
head. One of the lions legs was
broken, and Keeper Goodwin was con-
iinod to his bed from bruises which he
received during the conflict
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
Win Rest at Riyerside.

New YORK, Oct 30.-Mayor Grace re-
Gently wrote to Mrs. Grant asking that she
and her family give a clear and emphatic
expression OF their wish as to where
the body of General Grant should rest
permanently, because the Memorial Com
mittee was kept in doubt by the rumors that
Congress will be asked to have the body
removed to Washington. Yesterday Mrs.
Grant wrote to Mayor Grace. She and her
family selected Riverside Park because they
intended always to live near it, and New
York was chosen because she believed it to
be the Generals preference. The Memorial
Committee is now satisfied that Congress
will not NEEDLE with the matter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

A BRooKIYN woman has been
awarded five hundred dollars for dam
ages sustained by reason of another
woman calling her ga Shanghai hen. "
The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks per-
sons can not be too careful how they
handle their harn-yard metaphors. 1t
is all right to call woman duck, or
a dear little chick, but it is dangerous
and expensive to put her among the old
hens and geese.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

The winter is coming on and the
New York Journal takes advantage of
the fact to make few remarks that are
worth remembering: 1.-The doctor adj
vocates the wearing of plain old-fash-
toned flannel, and upon the threshold
OF winter people in general should heed
his advice. Heat IS life, and life is
worth living" This appears to be all
WOOL q yard wide.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
THANKSGIVING.
The President Designates Thursday, the
26th of November, as a Day of Public
Thanksgiving and Prayer.

thanksgiving and prayer.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.--The following
proclamation was issued yesterday:
By the President of the United States Of
America, a Proclamation:
The American people have always abundant
prosperity for which to be thankful to Al.
mighty God, whose watchful care and guiding
hand have been manifested in every stage
of their National life, guarding and protect
ing them in time of peril and safety, leading
them N the hour of darkness and danger.
1t is fitting and proper that Nation thus
favored should, on one day in every year
for that purpose espec ally appointed. pub
licly acknowledge the goodness of God, and
return thanks to Him for all His gracious
gifts.
Therefore 1, Grover Cleveland, President
of the United States of America, do hereby
designate and set apart Thursday, The 26th
day of November instant, as day of public
Thanksgiving end prayer, and do invoke the
observance of the same by all the people OF
the land.
On that day let all secular business be sus
pended, and let the people assemble in their
usual places of worship and with prayer and
songs OF praise devOutly testify their graft
gift for all that He has done for us in the
year that has passed; for our preserva
ton as united Nation and for our de-
liverance from the shock and danger of po-
ltical convusion, for the blessings of peace
and for our safety and quiet while wars and
rumors of wars have agitated and afflicted
other nations of the earth; for our security
against the scourge of pestilence
which in other lands has claimed
its dead by thousands and filled the
streets with mourning; for plenteous crops
which reward the labor of the husbandman
and increase our Nations wealth, and for the
contentment throughout our borders which
follow in the train of prosperity and abund.
ance.
And let there also be on the day set apart, a
reunion OF families, sanctified and chastened
by tender memories and associations, and let
the social intercourse of friends with pleasant
"reminiscences renew the ties of affection and
strengthen those of kindly feeling.
And let us by no means forget while we
give thanks and enjoy the comforts which
have crowned our lives, that truly grateful
hearts are inclined to deeds of charity and
that q kind and thoughtful remembrance viii.
double the pleasures of our condition and rem
der our praise and thanksgiving more accept
able in the sight of the Lord.
Done at the city of Washington, this I'd day
of November, eighteen hundred and
IL. 81 eghty-five, and Of the independence of
the United States the one hundred and
tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND, President.
By the President: Thomas f. Bayard, Secre-
tary of State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

ISAAC DAHMAN, of Fort Worth,
Texas has contracted with English
parties to deliver on the wharf at Gal
weston every fortnight for the next five
years the frozen carcaGses of three
thousand bcoves, at six cents per pound
Tor meat and nine cents per pound for
bdOS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

TIE Druggists Journal reports a
case of poisoning from postage stamps.
1t seems that the gum on the back is
capable Of absorbing foreign matter
floating in the air, which may find its
way into the system through the mu-
couS membrane of the mouth and
tongue of those who lick the stamps be-
fore applying TO letters.
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S

"A German critic thus distinguishes
between ridicule, wit, irony and humor:
''Ridicule is the wit of a stupid or vulgar
person; wit the ridicule of superior
intellect or man of the world; irony
the wit of a thinker, and humor the
irony of poet. Ridicule is like blow
with the fist, wit like the prick of a
needle, irony like the sting of thorn,
and humor the plaster which heals all
these wounds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
Desolation in Montreal-Over 5000 Cases
of SMALLPOX in the City.

MONTREAL, Nov. 3.-The city presents
most desolate appearance. Business inter-
ests are paralyzed, and firm after firm here
tofore supposed to be sound financially are
giving signs of dissolution. Since the be-
ginning Of the epidemic q 651 persons have
died from the disease and there are now
over 1000 cases in the city besides those in
the hospital Compulsory vaccination went
into operation yesterday, and all persons
refusing to submit to it will be vigorously
prosecuted. Over two hundred warrants
have already been issued.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

IT is said that Mr.. and Mrs. Collins,
the father and mother of Samuel Col
Inns, who was hung in Pike County,
Mo, August %, died recently from the
shock caused by the ignominious death
of their son. Their youngest daughter
was also reported deranged from the
same cause.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

"MEN are but children of larger
growth. " This is exemplified in the
ease OF the recent elopement from Phil
"delphia of the young couple-Augus-
tus Claudi, aged eleven, and Lizzie
Brown, aged twelve-for matrimonial
purposes, The boy possessed fifty
cents and the girl two dollars. No
young lady of wealth is safe from the
pursuit of fortune-hunters in this coun-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

A FARMERS wife at Northport, l.. l.,
was making soap under pear-tree re-
gently, when a pear fell into a pail of
potash, splashing some of the contents
over her face, neck and hands, dstrov-
ing the sight of both eyes, and burning
her so severely that her physician had
no hopes for her life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

A FARMER near Wabash, Ind, took
into II corn field a worthless dog the
other day and half-pound of dyna-
mite, tied them together, and fired the
fuse The remains of the cur were
scattered all over the man, who nearly
tainted from fright.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

A NAVAL. Caicer who was sent from
Washington to visit the principal sta
tons of Europe reports that the
stronger powers have each one hundred
or more torpedo-boats, and their coasts
arc divided into districts. France has
twenty-four dry-docks, completely
equipped, where convivt labor is large
ly employed. Russia ranks third among
the naval powers, with three hundred
and seventy vessels, and Germany has
within twenty years risen to the fourth
place.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

. LII is reported that Isaac Davis, a
Farmer near Lawrence, Kan, gathered
his corn with ladder this year. The
stalks were said to be sixteen feet in
length, and the ears twelve feet from
the roots.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

DIR Ross, of Montreal, whose violent
characterization course precipitated the
trouble there, was caught on train
the other day and forcibly subjected to
the lancet and quill.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

ROBERT GREEN, who died at Sig
mund, Pa, a few days ago, was once
very black negro, but some years since
he began turning white, and when he
died large segment of his body was
white.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

A FRENCH woman who recently lost
5000 francs at gambling table in
Monaco, being unable to secure the re-
turn OF enough money to leave, ended
her career with a revolver.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

Country papers are expected to
puff everything from chicken-fight to
a chlrch-festival, and everybody from
young politician to dead man who
chad his faults as who has not?n-
and furnish copies of the paper gratis.
- GGlyesto7s (IeG. } Nevs. ---
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

The October term of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts was opened
with prayer, the only instance of the
kind in that State on record.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

A METEOR fell near Geneva, Mimi,
recently, that weighed 400 pounds. 1t
was of bluish-gray color and very
hard
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

WILLIAM and Lewis Bache grand
sons of Benjamin Franklin, met in
Louisville recently for the first time in
1ifty-iour years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

TRAINS will soon be running from
Montreal to the Rocky Mountains, a
distance of 1884 miles.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

"A Michigan maiden has received
$4,000 damages from the man who
promised to marry her and then re-
fused to do SO. 1t is said the jury made
the damages large because twas shown
that for three months her heart was so
completely shattered that she would
pass millinery windows without glanc-
ing CHICAGO Tribune.
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The Karens. Of Burmab. are aid

The Karens, of Burmah, are said to
have an excellent method of settling
dispute between two chiefs. The OPP
posing ranks are drawn up on either
side of deep stream. Two cham
pions, being chosen, immerse their
heads in the water, and the first who
rises to breathe is held 10 be the guilty
and conquered party.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

THERE has been very little wife-beat-
ing in Maryland since the whipping
post law went into effect
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

"A good horse story comes from
the frontier station of Vroenhoven,
Belgium. As a horse and cart, APP
parently with a load OF hay, were
about to pass the custom-house, the
animal suddenly stopped, and would
not bulge an inch. Two customs of
fcers came up to lend hand. where
upon the driver took to his heels. It
turned out that the hay concealed
about seven hundred and fifty kilos
of Dutch tobacco Conscientiousness
must now be added to the other good
qualities of the horse.-M y Herald
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

The new capitol in process of erec-
ton at Atlanta. Ca. is of the same
style of architecture as that of the capt.
tol at Washington. The building is to
be 347 feet long and 272 feet at the
greatest depth. From the center a
dome is to rise to height. of $40 feet.
Liable to be shot for snipe'' is q
Nevada phrass tor slim man.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

THERE are in Utah twelve thousand
polygamists, according to President
TAYLOR.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
THE ELECTIONS.

The Democrats Carry New York by Ma
jority of 25,00O-Virginia Elects the En-
tire Democratic Ticket, and a Majority
of the Legislature, Insuring the Retire
ment of Malone from the Senate-Re-
publican Victories in Iowa, Massaehu-
sets, Pennsylvania and Other States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov 4.-Only
members of the Legislature were voted for
in this State yesterday. The result shows
decided Democratic gains
NEW YORK, Nov. Especial dispatches
from New Haven to the World show
Democratic gain of 81 members Of the
House. with six towns still to be heard
from. The SUMS dispatches show the
Domocrafio Gain IN no %
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06

JACKSON, Miss, nov. 4.--The election
yesterday passed off quietly. The indica-
lions are that the vote is unusually light.
as there was but one ticket in The field
Democratic-the result was walk-away.