The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-16
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A FIRE swept away the woodentmiIls in
shamrock Mills, r. l., the other night, en-
ploying several hundred persons, together
with several houses. Loss, 100000.
AN ARRAY occurred in the office of
O'Donovan Rosa, in New York, on the 9th
between Captain Thomas P. Phelan, of
Kansas City, and Richard Short, leading
Irish Nationalist, Mr.. Phelan being fatal
ly injured.
CATHERINE VAN NEssEN, an aged wom-
an, was burned to death at Pittsburgh
the other morning by the explosion of ,an
oil-lamp.
AT Pottsville, Pa. four boys were
drowned on the 9th by the ice giving away.
AMONG the miners and laborers in the
vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Pa, an extensive
movement is on foot to organize for the
mutual protection of their interests.
T. w. CLARK, of Boston, member of a
banking firm, was missing on the 9th, and
was supposed to be sojourning across the
border. His shortages were placed at
$4,000.
a PASSENGER train was ditched by
wreckers the other night near Bethpage
Station, L. l., the locomotive falling upon
and killing the engineer and fireman. but
the few passengers on board escaped with
bad shaking.
ADvICEs of the 9th to Bludstreet's from
leading business centers throughout the
United States indicated, in many instances,
evidence of an improved feeling in COM
mercial circles. The general situation,
however, was considered far from salts
factory, and the Industrial outlook was I'M
favorable.
On the 10th Moses D. Naar, editor Of the
True american, the Democratic organ of
New Jersey, died at Trenton, in the fiftieth
year of his age.
THERE was great destitution on the 18th
among the eight hundred operatives of the
Merchants wooden mills at Dedham, Mass,
who were only working on half time.
JOHN KELLY's daily, the New York Star,
ceased publication onNthe 10Th, but the
weekly will be issued as usual.
THE boiler of the steam-tug Dougherty
exploded on the 18th near Elizabeth, Pa,
killing two men and scalding three others.
The smokestack was blown over hill two
hundred feet high.
LEWIS CARL stabbed his son to death
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The young man had interfered in quar-
rel between his parents.
GENERAL GRANT was on the 10th report
ed to be suffering from cancer Of the
tongue, caused by excessive smoking.
HAVING yielded to the request of GEN
eral Grant, on the 10th William H. VAN
derbilt bought in all the real estate war
relics and wo ks of art mortgaged to him
by the General, and presented the entire
list to Mrs, Grant, also the debt aud judy
ment, with the c. ndition that ON the death
ofthe General all articles of historical val
ne shall become the property of the Nation,
to be preserved at Washington. Mrs.
Grant accepted the gift of the relics, but re-
fused the debt gift
TRESdoors of the Farmers Bank of Eliza
BEETHOVEN, Pa, were closed on the 10th.
The liabilities were $50, 900, and the deposits
ors were likely to lose heavily.
AT the port Of New Y ork the imports,
exclusive of specie, for the week ended on
the 10th were SS,774,00o
TEE death Of Captain Charles w. Folcer.
only son of the late Secretary of the Treas
ury, of consumption, occurred on the 18th
lot Geneva n, y, at the age Of forty years,