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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
TERRIFIC TIDAL WAVE.

The Steamship Germanic Encounters =
Terrible Tidal Wave-The Vessel Badly
Damaged-Many of the Passengers In
jured.
QUEENSTOWN, April S.-The White Star
steamer Germanic, Captain Kennedy, which
sailed from this port for New York ON Fri
day, the Sd inst, returned yesterday morn
ing in badly disabled condition. Captain
Kennedy reports that the steamer encoun-
tered terrific tidal wave on Sunday last.
The wave, he says, was tremendous and SO
sudden was it coming that little or nothing
could be done to ease or trim the vessel.
For time it looked as though the steamer
would be engulfed. The vessels head was
turned straight toward the approaching
mountain of water, and when it finally struck
the shock caused the steamer to tremble from
stem to stern with such violence as to spring
nearly all the plating. The bulk
head of the reading-room was stove in and
the saloon flooded. The boats and every
thing movable on deck were torn from there
fastenings. The steamer was thrown on her
beams-ends. and for while so violently did
she lunge that it was thought she would
surely go to the bottom. The passengers
were terrified into a state bordering on
frenzy. The ship was finally righted, and
when the sea Gained somewhat thorough
examination was made. 1t was found that
in addition to the staving in of the reading
room bulk-head, the forward steering gear
was so badly injured as to make it useless as
means for further handling of the ship.
The vessel was also badly sprung and the
captain decided that it would be perilous to
further continue on his course, therefore he
headed for this port. Many of the saloon
passengers received severe bruises by being
knocked about and struck with pieces of
furniture. One of the seamen was washed
overheard and drowned. The engines were
not injured in the least
/: The passengers are fulsome in their praise
of the captains conduct and the competent
manner in which he handled the ship during
the encounter. They say their escape was
simply miraculous, and are fully of the be-
lief that with less competent captain the
vessel would have surely fonndered.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
LATER.
sian outposts

IT was announced ON the 14th that Glad
stones hesitation over the Kooshk River
affair had emboldened Russia, and she was
now demanding explanations and with
drawals. Russia was attempting to dis
count the possibility of Polish revolt in
case of war with England by making ex-
tensive seizures of arms. The harbor of
Bombay had been lined with torpedoes, to
prevent the entry of q Russian fleet.
BURGLARS blew safe ON the 18th in a
savings bank at Miami, Mo-, and obtained
$1,000 in currency.
FORTY Senators and 133 Repre-
sentatives met in joint assembly in the
Illinois Legislature on the 14th. TheI only
vote cast for United States Senator was
by Senator Streeter, who voted for Con-
eral Black.
GENERAL GRANT passed a comfortable
day on the 14th, walking from his bed
room to the library several times. He con-
versed with his family during the after
noon and evening, and retired at ten p. M,
the indications being that he would enjoy
a good nights sleep.
On the 14th a snow storm was general
throughout Wisconsin, the snow drifting
badly in many places. Snow fell also in
Michigan and Northern Indiana.
TIE carelessness of a lad in Chicago
caused fire on the 14th in the Reed build
Ing. 70 to IS Wabash avenue, which was
extinguished after loss of $4,000 had
been incurred. Several of the occupants
and firemen barely escaped with their
lives.
The people of Union City, Tenn, on the
l4th took from the Sheriff and hanged a
negro named Pierson and white man
named Ward, members of a well known
band of robbers.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from Libertad
states that basis for peace had been ar
ranged between San Salvador and Guate-
mala; that hostilities had ceased, and gen.
eral amnesty had been proclaimed.
AT farm-ho in Holt County, O., the
other evening William CLARK shot Mrs
Harding and her son and daughter, on ac-
count of a criminal suit, and then killed
himself.
1T was reported ON the 14th that General
Middleton, representing the Canadian au-
thorities, and Riel, the leader of the half
breed revolt, had begun peace negotiations
by telegraph.
An extremely sensational murder was
discovered at the Southern Hotel in st.
Louis on the 14th, where a trunk was
found to contain the partially decomposed
corpse of man known as Arthur Preller,
OF London, Eng. A note placed on the
body read: $50 perish all traitors to the
great cause" The present theory was that
the man was killed by companion named
Maxwell, who was constantly with him,
and who disappeared April 8.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

In fire which destroyed several frame
buildings the other day in Berkeley, Va,
Mary and James Jones persisted.
ID. s. GRIMES, enraged because the Leg
islatuIe failed to reimburse him for time
and money expended, on the 9th totally de.
stroyed the Colorado exhibit at the New
Orleans show. This was accounted to be
one of the most attractive displays of the
exhibition.
THE failure of the Farmers Bank at Nor
folk, Va, with lie bilities of $250,000, oc-
Cured ON the 9th.
On the 9th S. K. Russ, once prominent
New Orleans merchant, poisoned himself;
Mamie Fisher drowned herself at fremont,
o., and George w. Chr hanged himself at
Indianapolis, Ind.
REV. HENRY WHITEHEAD, aged seventy.
five years, who settled in Chicago when
it was only military post, and with his
own hands erected the first Methodist
Church, died on the 10th.
Four HUNDRED persons who left En-.
gland to settle in the Canadian Northwest
have been diverted to Wisconsin and In
diana, in consequence of Riel's revolt.
AT the New Orleans Exposition the 10th
was exchange and merchants day. Four
thousand school children sang songs in
Music Hall, and little business was done
in the city.
HEAVY snow-storm set in at Peters,
burg, Va, on the morning of the 10th, and
the snow was still falling rapidly at four
p. M.
s. E. MOWER, one of the owners of the
Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, killed him
self with a revolver on the 10th while suf-
fering from neuralgia.
COLUMBUS CRAWFORD was executed at
YorlSville, s. c., on the 10th for the murder
of Ellison Sanders, and Richard Fraser
was hanged at Charleston, s. c., for kill
ing Jack Gethers. All were colored.
On the 18th the Democrats of the Thirty
seventh Illinois District elected Robert s.
Davis to succeed the Ia te Frank M. Bridges
| in the State Senate,
AN advance of ten per cent. has been al
lowed the striking workmen of the McCor-
mick reaper factory in Chicago, and work
| mas been resumed.
| TwENTY-EIGHT buildings were DESTROYED
by fire on the 18th at Lees Summit, Mo-,
entailing a loss of 100000
BLIND Ton, the musical prodigy, having
become hopelessly idiotic, Gene al Bethune,
of Columbus, Ca, has been appointed his
guardian.
THE two sons of poor woman named
Russell died the other day in Cleveland
o., of disease supposed to have been Ash
agic cholera. Three other children were
ill on the 18th with alarming symptoms.
On the 18th G. Henry Shaw, Democratic
Representative from the Thirty fourth
Illinois Legislative District, was found
dead in his room at the Palace Hotel
Springfield. He had been dead several
hours, and heart-disease was supposed tt
have been the cause.
MARY MOORE died ON the 18th at LII
Crescent, Mimi, after fast of sixty foul
days. She could only retain smell quanti
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

THE recent characterization demon
stration in Leicester leads the London
Standard to remark that there can
be no question as to which town in
England can claim the palm as possess
ing the most foolish and ignoront pop
ulation. Were smallpox to take effect
only among the 10000 who remon-
strated, it might be borne by the gem
eral public with composure; but un-
happily it is among the innocent
children of these people that the rava-
ges would be felt There are, as far as
is known, 5000 children unvaccinated
in that town, and there may well be
double that number. Of these, if at
tackled by smallpox, fully forty per
cent may be expected to die; and their
parents expose chem to this danger be-
cause, perhaps, one infant in 10000
suffers from the effects Of vaccination. y
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
Shot the Father and Son.

NAMoKA, Ill, April 1O.-Robert Will
Jams, an industrious negro tenant of the
Emmert estate. was shot twice while lying
in bed at midnight Wednesday night,
and his son William, aged eighteen,
was shot dead while sitting i'm chair
in the same room. On Monday man
calling himself Virgins hired out to Will
Jams. He worked on Tuesday and left ON
Wednesday morning. He returned again at
dark and requested food and shelter, which
were given him. He told stories until mid
night and then suddenly jumped up drew
a pistol, and. handing Mrs. Williams a
rope, told her to tie the hands of her
son William. With the pistol at her head
she complied. He then demanded the
money in the house, which was brought
him, amounting to ninety-five dollars. He
then cursed the elder Williams and shot
twice at him as he lay in bed, and fired at
the boy, hitting him in the right temple.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
OFF FOR THE ISTHMUS.

The Second Battalion Embark for Pana-
ma-WiI Clear the Isthmus of Columbian
Bushwhackers Charges Fever and
Spring Rains the Only Danger.
NEW YORK, April 8.-The tug boats
Nina and Catalpa conveyed the second de-
tachment of marines for Aspinwall from
the navy yard in Brooklyn to the Pacific
Mail dock at the foot of Canal Street in this
city yesterday afternoon. AS the tugs
steamed around the Battery and up the
river the filters and drummers played stirring
melodies, and the men scattered at will
around the boat, laughing and chatting.
When the pier was reached they quickly
landed, formed in companies, and marched
on board the Acapulco in single file.
Captain J. Fl. Higbie is in command, and
First Lieutenant William F. Spicer is Adju-
tant of this detachment, which is to be
called the Second Battalion, the one which
left Saturday being known as the first The
five companies are commanded by Captains
r. W. Huntington, R. S. Callum, w. S.
Muse, G. 6. Reid, +. M. Harrington. Lieu
tenants Allibone, Bader and Sharp COM
mand the three Calling guns, and Lieuten-
ants Mason, Kellogg and COlWell, of the
three-lnch guns. There are 140 men in the
two batteries. Commander B. Fl. McCaIla
is in command of the expedition.
Commander McCalla said: II don't know
how long we shall stay, but suppose until
the trouble is over. 1t seems already to be
subsiding, and our chief difficulty will be
the heat and fever"
Captain G. c. Reid said: 81 have spent
considerable time in Panama, and we may
have considerable trouble with these Column
bians. We have got to clear the Isthmus
and these fellows are great bushwhackers.
They shoot from behind, from their hiding
places and it is hard to catch them"
A naval officer who has had years of ex-
perience on the Isthmus, said: 1.-THE boys
imagine they are going on junketing tour,
but | fear they will be sadly disappointed.
1t is not only foolish but outrageous for the
Government to send few hundred men
down there at this season when the spring
rains and fever are setting in. Thou
sands of men will have to be sent and
hundreds sacrifced.'
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Defending the Public Domain.

WASHINGTON, April 1O.-Congressman
Payson, of Illinois, mad long interview
with the President yesterday on the subject
of unlawful Enclosure of public lands in the
West Mr.. Payson has probably greater
familiarity with the public-land ques'
tor than any other gentleman in
Congressional life. lie has made it
special study for years, and his sugges-
tons in the matter were warmly seconded
by the President who is determined that
the wealthy cattle syndicates shall either
cease violating the law or be punished. The
matter was discussed at the Cabinet meet
ing to-day. No final action was taken, but
it is understood that the President ex-
pressed himself in favor of prompt eject
ment of the unlawful occupants and that
Secretary Lamar will Immediately formu-
late some plan by which this pay be ac~
complished.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
HE REPENTED.

An Ex-Mayor of Niagara Falls, Ont,
Climbs Over the Suspension Bridge will,
Suicidal Intentions, but Changes His
Mind, and Is Rescued with Difficulty.
NIAGARA FALL, Ont, April 14.--John
Waugh, ex-Mayor of this place, who has
been falling in health of late, walked out
on the railway suspension bridge yesterday
afternoon, climbed over the railing, and
hung from one of the iron girders I'M
derneath the bridge by both hands, 100
feet above the rocks near the waters
edge Some friends saw him climb over
and ran out on the bridge expecting TO see
his body dashed to pieces on the rugged
rocks below; but the unfortunate man
repented his rash act and held on
for dear life to the iron Orders,
calling for assistance. Soon three
young men named Kerr, Howe and
Gillespie ran to his assistance, and
by bracing themselves with their legs and
leaning over the side of the bridge to the
danger of their own lives, rescued Waugh
from his perilous position. Mr.. Waugh has
for some time past shown signs of tempo
rary insanity caused by sickness from over
eXertion in political life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
OKLAHOMA BOOMERS.


A New Phase in the Movement--The
Boomers viii Send Captain Couch to
Washington to Place the Settlers In
tentions Before the President.
ARKANSAS CRY, Kas., April s.-Quite
new phase has been put upon the entire Ok
lahoma movement by the decision of the col
onists to send Captain Couch to Washington,
IN order that the numerous reports regarding
their intentions might be honestly placed be-
tore President Cleveland and the Secretary
OF the Interior. This was decided upon as
an offset to the reports which the cattle men
and opposers of the Oklahoma movement
have circulated in Washington, and which
do the boomers great harm. The Couch
colony, it is claimed, is not gathering of
idle vagabonds and Adventures who are
ready and anxious to defy the law in order
to accomplish their ends, but are peaceable
citizens, and the majority are farmers, bent
on obtaining homes under the homestead act
in the Oklahoma country.
They have all along claimed, they say,
that these lands were open to settlement
under the act by which they were purchased
from the Indians, and that, were it not for
the hostility of the cattle interests of the
country, Oklahoma would have long ago
been settled as thickly as Kansas. The men
are as determined to reach Oklahoma as
they were when Captain Payne first marched
into Indian Territory, but they will not go
in the face of the Presidents proclamation
and the seven companies of the Ninth
Cavalry, and will now wait until Couch re-
turns. 1t is thought that Captain Couch will
depart for Washington tonight, via. Kansas
City and Chicago.
When General Hatch came back to Ar
kansas City on Monday, he was met by his
chief scout, Baughman, with the informa-
ton that the boomers camp had grown con-
siderably in numbers since Friday, and that
the colonists were determined as ever. On
March LIST, when the first arrests were made
here by the deputy United States Marshals,
there were about 500 boomers in and about
the town. Now there are fully 1000, and
within twenty-five miles are 500 more, who
are eamped along the Arkansas River and
at convenient points where they can easily
keep track of what is going on at headquar-
tnrS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
A Married Woman's Liability,

WASHINGTON, April IA decision was
rendered by the Supreme Court of the
United States yesterday in the case of
Frances Dodge ct al, appellants, against
Thomas Knowles, which presents the ques-
ton of the liability of married woman
for certain debts contracted by her
husband, nomitally as her trustee.
The court holds that neither the liza,
bility for provisions supplied at dwelling
house where husband and wife and their
children are living together nor a promis-
sorry note given by the husband describing
himself as trustee for his wife, in payment
for such supplies can be charged in equity
upon the wife's. separate estate, without
clear proof that she contracted the debt in
her own behalf, or intended to bind hel
separate estate for its PAYMENT.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
FROM WASHINGTON.


RETURNS to the Department. Of Agri.
culture on the 10th indicated a reduction
| of ten per cent of last years area of winter
| wheat, or falling off of 10000, 900 bushels
| in this years yield.
On the 10th Robert B. Vance, of North
Carolina, was appointed Deputy Commits
sioner of Patents, and William E. Mclean,
Of Indiana, First Deputy Commissioner of
Pensions.
THERE were 200 business failures In the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 10th, against 249 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, AZ; New
England States, 81; Western, 40; South
ern, 81; Pacific States and Territories, 90;
Canada, 26.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$685., 371, 1853, against S642, 1919, 759 the previ-
Gus week. As compared with the CORE.
spending period of 1884, the falling off
amounts to 20.7 per cent.
ON the 18th Captain Couch, the leader of
the Oklahoma colonists, called on Secre-
tary Lamar, and was informed that the
cattle syndicate would be compelled to
leave the disputed territory. The ques-
ton of admitting settlers would be de-
cided later on.
THE following appointments to be Con-
suls of the United States were made by
the President ON the 18th: Charles T. Rus
sell, of Connecticut, at Liverpool, England j;
A. Halter Gross, of Pennsylvania, at
Athens, Greece; William w. Lang, of
Texas, at Hamburg, Germany; Henry
Vignaud, of Louisiana, Secretary of the
Legation of the United States at Paris
Augustus Jay, of New York, Second Sec
retarary of the Legation of the United
States at Paris.
JUSTICE ANDREW WYLIE, of the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia, now
seventy-one years of age, on the 18th asked
to be placed on the retired list.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
Trying to Defraud an Insurance Com.
panY.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, April 7.-On
February 81 the clothing store of NJ. Kauf-
man burned, and large portion of his
stock was supposed to have been destroyed.
The companies in which he was insured
sent special agents to settle the insurance.
Some occurrences led them to suspect sharp
practice of some kind, and they determined
to investigate the matter, and ON Friday
they found $4,000 worth of clothing had
been hidden in the stores of Kaufman's
friends. The companies in which he was
insured refused to settle any portion of the
insurance. and Kaufman will bring suit.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

THE bounds of the proposed public
park at Niagara Falls includes all oil
Goat Island, the Sister Islands. and the
numerous small islands immediately
ABOVE the American Fall, and the shore
boundary beginning at Port Day, nearly
opposite the lower end of Grand Island,
continuing northward to the pier of the
International bridge, including Prospect
Park
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
Protecting Settlers in Trouble.

WASHINGTON, April 14.-Land Commits
sioner Sparks yesterday sent letter to the
register and receiver at Walla Walla, W.
T., revoking the order made on March 90,
1885, allowing the Northern Pacific Com
pany to change its line of final
limits between the towns of WalluIa
and Dayton, w. T., so as to in
clude other lands in its grant within this
extended limit The order is said to have
issued i'll consequence of a misconstruetion
of letter from Secretary Lamar The or
der prejudiced the interest of settlers upon
149. 100 acres of land-a great deal of it
patented in favor of the purchasers of ZOO
acres from the railroad company.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

In Great Britain the number of en-
velopes manufactured yesrly is esti-
mated at 7OO.00O,00O. while in the
United States they amount to $780,
100000. If hand labor were employed
to do the work now done by machines
simply in making envelopes, taking no
account of the printing done by some
of them, the services would be required
of 275, 900 work-people.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
Too Many Marines on the YsthmUs.

WARRINGTON. April 14.-Admiral Jouett
telegraphed to Secretary Whitney yesterday
from Colon as follows:
1.-THE situation on the isthrnus is I'M
changed. Trains run across regularly with
oiIt molestation. 1t is the opinion among Off
Gers on duty at the Navy Department that the
marines who were recently sent from New
York will leave Aspinwall on their return
home within the next two weeks. The officers
apprehend no further difficulty, and sag it is
nselcss &C keep SO large a force upon the
lsihmus, unless the rebels show S GINS of con-
dnuing the deyastations't
Should the MARINES return Adm raj
Jouett VIII still have force of about six
hundred men TO protect Americans aud
American Interests
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
AT one of the theaters the 9th

AT one of the theaters the other
evening, man, who hao seat between
his wife and daughter, left it at the
close of an act for trip downstairs.
When he returned he found vacant
seat two rows back, between two
women, and dropped into it with the
remark: "As I was saying when I
went out, it's none of your pudding
what other women wear. Because
some one else makes fool ofherself by
wearing cotton stockings in winter, it
doesn't follow that you must do the
same" "Sir!'' came from both sides
of him at once, and the way he vacated
that seat made the solos of his boots
red-hot.-BufaLo Courier.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

A BILL is to be introduced in the
Massachusetts Legislature for the pro-
lection of the types and forms of news
papers from attachment for certain
number of hours before going to press,
providing that the proprietors furnish
other property or satisfactory bonds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

ties of water. The cause was supposed to
be cancer of the stomach.
ELEVATORS in Chicago contained on the
18th ID, 1881 ,150 bushels of wheat, 2,O57, SS5
bushels of corn, 533,613 bushels of oats,
1888 bushels of rye and 5O,43S bushels of
barley; total, Is, 63s, 389 bushels of all kinds
of grain, against q, 976, 223 bushels a year
ago.
On the 18th the Indiana and Wisconsin
Legislature adjourned sine die.
The Apache Indians were reported on
the 18th to be raiding the section about
Morenci, A. T., and two ranchers were
said to have been killed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

THOMAS STEVENS, the author of a
series of papers entitled "Across Amer
lea on a Bicycle" purposes to make
n trip ct about ten thousand miles
through Europe and Asia on his bicycle,
starting this coming summer. He says
he thinks he can perform the task in
eighteen months.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

THE sale of the Seney collection OF
pictures in New York the other day net
ted $406,6 600. This is the greatest sale
of pictures ever made in the United
States, and shows that money is lying
around loose when single picture sells
for S18. 200.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

IT is the belief of Public Printer
Rounds that the type-setting machine
lately invented by a Baltimore German
American, which he pronounced prac-
tical in every way, will, within the
next five years, revolutionize the art OF
printing in the United States and
throughout the world.