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Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.


MADAME WITHWORTH announces that she
iVI has Just opened a school for teaching her
perfect system of dress cutting and fitting az her
residence No 20 Fountain street. Full instruction
given in two lessons a q satisfaction guaranteed.
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DARTIES looking for the best window and
door screens invited To call and leave
their orders at No. South Division street, Porter
block tbasement) lS3
DOARDING-By the week or day Rooms
= furnished unfurnished. ~ West Park
Place. 10
GAVE p PER GENTLY PURCHASING YOUR
- Reed and Rattan ware Of the undersigned
Chairs. Cribs Sofas Hampers, Tets and all
manner of Rattan Goods. made 10 order on the
shortest notice. Special attention given 10 Re
Basketing and repairing Baby Carriages, and all
N'''''' ''' '''' ''''' A. FALKEL.
128 80 Chatham street. West Side.
BUILDERS ATTENTION. have about 30
. VI feet of hemlock bill stuff, such 2xi. 2x6.
ks and 2x10. mixed lengths. nearly seasoned.
suitable for building purposes. VIII sell IN car
los At bottom figures b. Abbott, = Canal
street Grand Rapids, Telephone l2s iS2
kdILK, MILKn MILKIl-For good, sweet
ivl milk cream. ice cream, confectionery. etc
csll r. 81 South Division street. MOrans Cream
cry. lls
MANUFACTURERS. Physicians. Inventors.
IVI and others using pamphlets. descriptive
CIRCULAR etc. can have the same satisfactorily
written no ia Mss. 10y addressing l. '. H.. care
If the Grand Rapids TELEGRAM. Obituary bio
graphies specially. Samples Of work shown.
and referenC - given. n
ADIES should call at the Nme Kellogg
L school OF Dress Cutting. p Monroe street
and learn the French Tailor system Of cutting
and making their dresses without any re
basting or rehtting. lZL-f
\ATlIL the lady who found small red silk
wv umbrella ~ the corner Of Cherry stre-st and
College avenue please return the same 10 Nra- W.
ID. Gilbert corner College avenDe and 'herFy
street or 20 Gas Office
a RTFSIAN AND TUBULAR WEELS Made
~ on short notice. Apply to o. &. Taylor.
Cfrandville.
rVFRYBODY should know that the Windsor
Z Dining Hall. III Monroe street. II the only
strictly fret class restaurant IN the city. Special
rates fodinner boarders.
QUITTING AND BASTING dome ~ the Mn q
u KeIlogz's School 81 Dress-cufting. DO retit-
ting or uniting. satisfaction guaranteed, don Z
fail 20 cali
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04
FOR RENT.

nLEASANT ROOMS-with frst-class board,
r with privileges of parlors and music. Call
at $50 Sheldon street. 13S
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04

DOARDING-By the week or day Rooms
= furnished unfurnished. ~ West Park
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04

MADAME WITHWORTH announces that she
tVI has Just opened a school for teaching her
perfect system of dress cutting and fitting AZ her
residence No. 80 Fountain street. full instruction
given in two lessons q satisfaction guaranteed.
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Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04

DARTIES looking for the best window and
door screens are invited to call and leave
their orders at No South Division street Porter
block. (basement.) 1S3
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04

Tor SAIE-Grist mill located at Iona. VIII
7 trade for city property. We have several bar
gains in improved farms. and IA number Of desir-
able city lots. Ives d Dudley. % Fountain street
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04

TOR SALE-A fine residence property at Lake
side MuskeeOn's most popular suburb;
street-cars run in front of house; will exchange
for Grand kaI ids property OAddress ". NJ.
hartford. TELEGRAM Office.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04

TOR SAIE-The desirable house and lot now
occupied 10y Col. G. b. Hinsdill. on Madison
avenue one Of the best locations in the city. The
house has all modern improvements. Lot lOO by
$50 feet. POsSessiC4 given at once. This tne
property will be SD cheap. Enquire of f. 5.
Pierce. II
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
THE EAST

In a herd of thoroughbred Holstein cat
tie at Port Richmond, Staten Island,
ro-pneumonia had broken out on the
9th, and was spreading rapidly. The herds
affected would probably be quarantined.
A GASOLINE explosion occurred in pro-
vision store at Germantown, Pa, on the
9th, and three men named Ref, Richer
and Gauzert received burns from which
they died, while the case of a fourth vict-
i'm, Kratz, aged seventy -four, was hope
less.
GENERAL GRANTS remains lay in state
at the New York City Hall on the 9th, and
were viewed by over 100000 people.
THE Webster block at Manchester, N. H.,
was destroyed by fire on the Sth, seven of
the inmates perishing in the flames.
GUsTAvUs RIcHNER, of Scotch Valley,
Pa, recently killed his unfaithful wife and
her paramour with a scythe and then
hanged himself.
1T was stated ON the 10th that over $5,-
100000 was expended throughout the
country in concentrating the death of
General Grant The actual funeral ex-
penses in New York were $10,655.
A WAREHOUSE at Boston containing
nearly 100000 worth of hemp, jute and
MANILA was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
In Chenango County, New York, Edwin
Preston shot and killed his sweetheart,
Tilda Miner, as she sat at the breakfast
table on the 10th, and then fired fatal
bullet into his own body.
AT Plymouth, Pa, the typhoid plague
was on the 10th succeeded by an epidemic
of dysentery, which was carrying off
many victims.
THE County Convention of the Prohibi-
ton party was held at New York City on
the 10th, and resolution was adopted in
structing delegates to the State Conven-
tion to vote for Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
for Governor.
NEAR Philadelphia, Moro Phillips, a
Texas millionaire, who built the first house
on the island where the city of Galveston
now stands, died recently.
STATEMENTS on the 10th were to the eff
feet that the Grant family would spend
the remainder of the summer at Mount
MacGregor, after which Mrs. Grant will
resume her residence in New York,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
WEST AND SOUTH.

The new census of Iowa, completed on
the 9th, showed a total population of
2,200, 200, against 1,624, 6f5 in 1880.
AT recent distur bance at Prestonburg,
KY, forty shots were fired. Proctor Ar
nett was killed, Lee Patrick fatally wound
ed, and two others injured. All the parties
were colored.
ON the 9th cyclone passed down Loup
Valley, Neb., which nearly wrecked the
town of Ord. Buildings were blown down,
crops demolished and general destruction
extended for a great distance
FROM Appomattox Court House large
crowd assembled on the 9th and draped
in mourning the house in which Generals
Grant and Lee signed the terms of sur
render in 1865. The drapiug will remain
thirty days out of respect to General
Grant.
The new railroad bridge across the Ohio
River at Henderson, KY, costing $1,000
600, was formally opened to traffic on the
9th.
A LARGE mob which surrounded the
house of an unpopular citizen of Eureka
Springs, Ark, named Young, on the 9th,
was fired upon from within by Young's
son, and retired with three men wounded,
two of whom would die
Is AT Eufaula, l. t., Carpie Barehead, a
young member of the Creek Nation, who
had committed several murders, was exc
cuted on the 9Th by being shot to death
while seated on his coffin.
\ AN Amherst County lVa,) negro, VIII.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
THROUGH A TRESTLE.

A Train Goes Through TrestIe-Three
Persons Killed and Number of Others
Injured.
New RICHMOND. o., August 10.-A train
consisting Of a passenger and two empty
coal cars went through Jhe trestIe on Nine
Mile Creek, Saturday. on the Cincinnati 6
Eastern Railroad. The trestle, which has
been considered unsafe for some time, is
about nine miles from here, and the news
of the disaster was brought in by special
messenger. The train was in charge Of
Conductor E. S. Durham, with Wilson
Gallon as engineer.
The following are the casualties: Mrs.
Donaldson, of Newton, wife Of the Master
Mechanic Of the road, instantly killed; Con
ductOr Durham had one arm and two ribs
broken and is very badly, if not fatally In
juUed: William Smith, of Locust Corners,
died half an hour after the accident: Isaac
Tate (colored) had his skull fractured and
died Sunday morning. Henry Sutton, of
Batavia, young school teacher, compound
fracture of the thigh and badly bruised
about the head; Charles Lewis. of Stone
Lick, leftleg broken and right arm broken in
two places and several cuts in the face; Ellis
Smith, fireman, RIB broken and bruised about
the face; Wilson GALLON was badly seaIded;
Harry Moore and Rye Jones, both of New
Richmond, received slight injuries. A four
year-old child of Mr.. Donaldson was injured
in the side and it is feared fatally. A two
year-old boy, brother OF the preceding. was
injured about the head and it is thought to
be compound fracture of the skull. The
passenger car fell at an angle of forty-five
degrees, the rear end remaining on the
trestle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT Colon on the Isthmus of Panama an
epidemic was prevailing on the 9th, and
the mortality was appalling. Yellow
fever had broken out at Mazatian and
Tehuantepec, Mexico
ACCORDING to Bombay reports of the
9Th Yakoob Bey's son had, with Russian
assistance, occupied Kashgar, and was
menacing Koaldja, province claimed by
China.
THE British Government on the 9th took
energetic measures to keep out the cholera.
The Importation of rags from Spain had
been prohibited and stringent local regu-
lations ordered enforced.
DERBYSHIRE eng coal and iron miners
were engaged in riot many hours on the
9th. During one of the battles with the
police nine miners were dangerously
wounded.
THE panicky feeling in Spain caused by
the rapid spread of the cholera was in
creasing on the 9th. Many villages had
been deserted by the inhabitants, the sick
being abandoned and the dead left I'M
buried. Thirty three deaths from cholera
occurred at Marseilles on the 9th, and 1000
-
ported in Spain on the 9Th.
GERMAN and French newspapers on the
9th continued to indulge in mutual recrim-
nations. The Cologne Gazette urged an
Anglo German alliance, and warned
France of policy of revenge.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL introduced
the Indian budget in the House of Com
mons on the 9th. The deficit was 81, O29, 900.
In the province of Canton, China,
recent flood, caused by the bursting Of
embankments, inundated an extensive ter
ritory, sweeping ava; number of viii
lagos and involving the loss of ten thou
sand lives. The rice and silk crops were
almost ruined, and vast amount of prop
erty was destroyed.
THE Sioux Indian chief, White Cap, who
joined Riel at Batoche, was arrested on
the 10th and taken to Regina for trial.
Riel's mother and wife have been pros
trated since sentence was passed upon
him.
ACCORDING to advices of the 10th the
Black Flags in Tonquin had raided five
Christian missionary stations and COM
pletely destroyed them. Many of the
missionaries were killed, and large num-
Der of converts slaughtered. Neither age
nor sex was spared in the butchery.
Z In Spain there were over four thousand
new cases of cholera on the 10th and near
ly sixteen hundred deaths. At Marseilles
and Toulon the pestilence was spreading.
Granada had been abandoned by the doc
tors, and many dead bodies lay unburied
in the streets. 1898 r% Af
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

lam Parks, was arrested on the 9th for
starving four of his children to death.
Parks, who is widower, wanted to marry
again, and the woman he aspired to win
refused to accept him while his children
| lived.
AT Scottsburg, Ind, John C. Brady was
murdered in his house on the 9Th by an un-
known burglar.
| AT San Francisco news was receiyd ono
the 9th that the bark Napoleon, of New
| Bedford, had been crushed in the ice in the
Arctic. Twenty two lives were lost
| A FARMHOUSE near Rock Rapids, Ia,
was struck by lightning during storm
the other evening, and the five inmates,
John Mcclure, wife and three children,
were killed.
| On the Sth a boat In which five persons
were attempting to cross the Columbia
/ River in Oregon was swept over the Cas-
| cade Rapids, and all the occupants were
| drowned.
| AT Lynchburg, Va, Judge James Gar
land, who served in the war of 1872, and
| had been member of the Masonic fra
ternity seventy three-years, died on the
| 9th, at the age of ninety five years.
WHILE bathing in the Saline River on the
9th, three sons of Mrs. Henry Rawles. of
Dallas County, Ark, the eldest lad OF
thirteen, were drowned.
AT Las Vegas, N. NJ, the Montezuma
Hotel was destroyed by fire on the night
of the 8th, causing loss of 100000.
SEVERAL persons were fatally injured
| by a falling wall during recent fire in an
oat meal mill at Leavenworth, Kan. The
loss was $4,000.
THE Cleveland rolling mill strike still
continued on the 10th, and thousands of
men, women and children were reported
to be in destitute and starving condition.
On the 10th Maxwell, the alleged MUIR
derer of G. Arthur Preller, whose body was
| found in trunk at a St. Louis hotel in
April last, arrived in San Francisco from
New Zealand in the custody of officers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
LATER.

A NUMBER of miners were suffocated by
gas on the 18th in colliery at Macana-
qua, Pa, the disaster being caused by the
breaking of theIengine which supplied the
mine with air. At late hour in the even
ing seventeen dead bodies had been dis
covered.
Two BROTHERS named Pond were at
tackled the other evening and killed by an
Infatuated bull, which they were leading
to their farm near st. Paul, MINI.
ST. LOUIS proposes to eject a monument
to General Grant, and committee has
been appointed to solicit the necessary
funds.
THE General Land Office at Washington
had on the 18th specific knowledge of the
Illegal Enclosure of nearly 100000 acres of
the public domain. and estimated that not
less than ten million acres in addition
were Illegally inclosed.
SEVEN Cuban bandits were recently
executed at Matanzas.
THERE were over $500 new cases Of
cholera reported in Spain on the 18th, and
nearly 400 deaths from the disease. The
Archbishop of Seville was among the
victims.
The anti Monopolists of New York will
meet at Albany, September s, to nominate
State ticket.
Mrs. Annie Cory, of Lowell, Mass, at
tempted to light her fire with kerosene on
the 18th while holding her six-months -old
baby in her arms. Tbs can exploded, and
both mother and child were fatally burned.
THREE dead bodies were on the 18th
taken from the ruins of the burned oat-
meal mill at Leavenworth, Kan.
Hon. ROBERT MALLORY, member of Con-
gress from Kentucky during the war, died
at his farm near La Grange on the 10Th.
FURTHER advices on the 18th confirmed
the recent report that over ten thousand
Christians had been massacred by the
Black Flags of Tonquin, in. the provinces of
Biendile and Phyen. Murders and in
cendiary fires were of daily occurrence.
A TRAIN on the GrandlTrunk struck an
express wagon containing George Walsh
and James Miller at Blue Bonnets, Cam
ada, the other evening, demolishing the
wagon and killing both men.
EXPORTS of merchandise from New
York during the seven days ended on the
18th were valued at 5,44S,SS1.
The two daughters and a son of plant
er named Vandermere, living near Dallas,
Tex, were burned to death on the 11th by
the explosion of can of kerosene which
they were using to starta fire.
KANSAS CRY was visited ON the 18th by
heavy rain storm, which flooded many
cellars and caused the collapse of two
-
County, Ohio, inflicted serious damage
upon crops, and destroyed large amount
Of property.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

FRANCE, Germany and Italy have en-
tered into negotiations with England
for the extensions into their domains of
the British Parcels Post, which has Just
been extended to Gibraltar and India.
The charges are to remain the same
one shilling for every package up to
seven pounds. The Parcels Post has
rapidly won favor in England, twenty
five million packages having been sent
during the past year, and repeated trials
have shown that the service is more
prompt than that of the private COM
panieS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

The Berlin butchers have a special
periodical, which has lately taken pains
to expose the secret trade in horsehesh.
1t has been proved that at Hasenhaide,
a suburban resort Of Berliners, one
thousand pounds of sausages were sold
in one week, consisting of lard and
horsehesh.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
ONE Of the men on the schnonnr that

ONE OF the men on the schooner that
captured the one-thousand-pound tur-
tie off the Maine coast the other day
says: ave had q hard tussle with the
crtter One of our men was sitting on
the bow when the monster thrust its
head out of the waves and snapped at
HIM Great Scott, sea-serpentp .ex-
claimed he. We put out in a dory, and
when he saw us he gave chase. | har-
poCned him in the neck. One man had
his foot caught in the line and was car
ried overheard. We fought him for an
hour. One man was injured by blow,
and before the critter was subdued a
third man was knocked overheard aud
sur bnat was sinking
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

IT is said by old prospectors that
there is not a mountain peak in Colora-
do on the tip-top of which there is not
u tin can. Tourists and mountain
climbers have habit of taking up with
them q tin can, to be left at the summit
for the disposition on slips of paper of
the names Of all those who ascend the
mountain after them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

Miss BLANCHE WILLIAMS, of Brant-
ford, Can, who has just matriculated
in the University of Toronto, is the first
eolored girl ever admitted to the privi-
leges of the University. Six years ago
two colored sisters matriculated, but
owing to the regulations then in force
they were not allowed to attend lee
lures in University College. Miss Will
Jams passed in mathematics, history,
geography classics and English, and
obtained second-class honors in French
and German.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

AN extraordinary and tragic accident
has occurred near Paris. A horse was
seen running wildly along the road to
st. German, the vehicle to which the
animal was attached being envcloped
in flames, Several persons having sue
cecded in catching the horse, dread
full sight presented itself In the bot
tom of the burning vehicle the body of
the driver was found reduced to an al
most indistinguishable heap of cinders.
1t is supposed that the man, having lit
his pipe, fell asleep, and that the burn
ing ashes set fire to the old woodwork.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

DURING the past year as many as
1,3OS wolves were killed in France-9
tull-grown males and 80 females, TIA
half-grown ones, and 493 young ones.
The premium paid for killing a grown
wolf is 200 francs, for female $50, for
a half-grown animal 100, and for a
young one 40 francs. Wolves still exist
in all but thirty-two departments.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

In an account of bicycle contest,
London Truth says: THE bicycle mile
time was reduced by M. Weber by
two seconds, to two minutes 80 3-5
seconds-faster, probably, than any
horse outside America could trot the
distance"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

A RUSSIAN Investigator, who has
made close study of the climatic in
tluence of forests, and has gathered
much data of very definite kind, states
that one of the most important influ-
ences exercised by forests is their pro-
lection of the soil from evaporation by
winds, He is thoroughly convinced
that deforestation causes new climatic
conditions, and that in those regions
where the changes are for the worse the
process Of destruction should be checked
and replanting begun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

VELoCIPEDEs of every kind have
been expelled from the streets of Ber-
lin by an ordinance of the police, the
legality of which has been upheld by
the Prussian Court of Common Pleas, to
which some owners of bicycles and tri-
cycles appealed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

The internal heat of the earth is be-
ing investigated by the German Gov
ernment. A shaft sunk at Schlade-
bach has penetrated about 1866 feet
underground, believed to be the great
est depth yet reached by boring. At
this point the earth's temperature is 12O
degrees Fahrenheit.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

AT Berne, in Switzerland, large
Bengal tiger escaped the other day
from a menagerie. Instead of escaping
at large, however, OF attacking any
human being, it contented itself with
killing a large Newfoundland dog and
guarding the body until it was re-
captured.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
The annual gold bullion product of
Georgia mines is estimated at S400, 200.
NINE Presidents and ex-Presidents Of
the United States have died since Lin
coins first election

THE number of divorces in New
Hampshire for last year, as returned to
The Secretary of State by the Clerks of
the Supreme Court, is 315. By the last
census of the State the number of fam
lilies was given as 80
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14

AN enormous striped bass, caught off
Noman's Land (south Of Martha's Vine
yard, was recently on exhibition in
Boston. 1t weighed seventy pounds,
and was said to be the largest of its
species ever caught with line and reel
alone.