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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
A STRANGE STORY.


While Walking on the Street Mary
Carney Is Robbed and Has Her Throat
Cut.
SPRINGFIELD, O., Dec. 27.-Last night
Mary Canney young Irish girl but few
months in this country, appeared
at the door of her uncle's house with
gashes in her throat, cut in the
shape of a cross, seyering the wind
pipe and just missing the jugular
vein. Medical aid was hastily. summoned
and the girls wounds were dressed. She
tells a strange story. 'Iwas going up Lin
den avenue" she said ''when noticed two
young men walking behind They followed
me some distance, finally caught up with
me, and attempted to force conversation.
One of them then said: You have some
money. Give it to u.s. They then caught
hold of me, and while one of them
held his hand over my mouth the other
pulled ring off my finger. | felt some
thing sharp pass across my throat, and
begged them not to kill me. At that they
both left and walked rapidly away. knew
had been hurt and hurried here. l could
not cry out, my throat hurt me So" The
girl tells her story in a straightforward
manner. The police have been unable
to discover the young men or any trace Of
them
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
A TERRIBLE DOOM.

Masked Men Surround Jail at Raleigh,
n. G., and Take Charge of Two Negro
Criminals-They Are Taken to River,
Loaded with Chains, and Thrown Into
the Dark Waters.
RAIEIGH, n. c., Dec. 27.-On Saturday
last Charles Smith and Henry Davis, both
colored, were arrested in this city
under charges of burglary and assault
and battery. Smith confessed that he and
Davis and twenty other men were guilty.
On Monday Smith and Davis were
taken to Clayton under escort of
fifteen men. They were examined
Tuesday on the charge of burglary, and
were committed to jail in Smthfeld with
out bail. 1t was late in the night when the
examination was concluded, and the pris-
oners were lodged in the lookup, guarded
by two men. About three o'clock a. m.
a few of the citizens were aroused
by the tread of horses in the
streets and expected parade of boys
in fantastic dress, it being near Christmas.
No attention was paid to the crowd Of one
hundred horsemen, all disguised as Ku-
klux, as they rode through the streets to
the Place where the prisoners were confined.
Arriving there the door was quickly
forced open and cooked pistols were
presented at the heads of the guards,
who lied. The prisoners begged piteously
for their lives. Davis declared his inno-
cence, and protested that Smith had sworn
falsely against him and that he was not
guilty. Not word was said by the
masked men. Smith and Davis were quick
ly placed on horseback, each with man
behind him.
The procession then formed with the ne
groes IN the center, and rode away in the di-
rectlon of the Neuse River, which runs
withili few miles of the town. The ne
grOes knew they were nearing their doom,
and continued to plead for their lives.
About two miles from the town the
cavalcade reached the bridge across
the river. The water here is twenty
feet deep, and the current is sluggish.
Here halt was made, and all dismounted.
The handouts and the chains were still on
Smith and Davis. Quickly their legs were
tied together and the chains were wrapped
around their bodies and securely tied. At
a sign from their commander four of the
maskerS seized Smith and four seized
Davis and hurried to the bridge Smith
and Davis now realized the mode Of
death, and made the woods ring with
horrid yells. The masked men said moth
ing. bit held their victims suspended for a
moment forty feet above the water, and
then withdrew their support. There were
two deathly cries, sudden splash, and all
was over. The banks of the river had been
manned to prevent failure. The bodies did
not rise, and soon the avengers rode away
and dispersed, and were all at home before
daylight.
The prison guards told next morning
what had happened, and some msuspect-
ing persons thought Smith and Davis had
been released, but before night it was gem
orally reported that they had been lynched.
There are grave doubts as to the guilt Of
Davis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
HURT In A PANIC.

A False Cry of Fire in Connecticut The
alter Causes Wild Rush for Life in
Which Many Women and Children are
Hurt.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dee. &c. There
was a serious panic last evening at Ben
nett's Museum. The audience was a large
one packing the house in every part, many
ladies and children being present. An
intoxicated man, who sat in the rear of
the house, created a disturbance and
was being elected, when some one
started a cry of fire. The audience
became alarmed in moment. A panic be-
came inevitable. Men rose from their seats
and screamed while children cried and
women in their fear fell fainting. The
alarm became general, and there was a
rush for the exits, many moving
toward the stage and leaping into the
orchestra. 1t was the usual scene enacted
in a panic--the men losing their heads and
each seeking only his own safety. The
stronger pushed on regardless of the
piteOus appeals of the weaker. When the
excitement was at its height Dale Arm
strong, one of the employees, pushed his way
10 Tile middle Oh the mouse ana III lOud
tone of voice assured the excited people that
there was no cause for alarm. His reassur-
ing words had no perceptible effect at first,
and fOr nearly two minutes pandemonium
prevailed.
In the midst of the excitement newsboy
leaped from the gallery, sustaining slight
injuries. The shrieks of women, the cry
ing of children and the hoarse utterances
of men made the scene one of hor-
roE When the audience gained the
street it was learned that the cry
of fire was a false alarm. Thirteen
ladies and double that number of children
were more or less injured, and one man
had both legs broken in jumping from the
stage. Two ladies were caught under lot
OF chairs. and were extricated in badly
bruised eenait!9n ana minus mess Of tAes
eIntAlng. 2'''
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
FATAL FLAMES.
Three Lives Lost by the Burning of
Hotel and Opera-House in Racine,
LWis. psi

Three Lives Lost by the Burning of q
Hotel and Opera-House in Racine,
lWis. g
RACINE, Wis, Dec. 29.-About one
o'clock yesterday morning the loud report
of an explosion startled the guests in the
Blake Hotel here. Almost Immediately
the cry of fire was heard. There were
about sixty guests in the hotel, among
them being the members of the Thomp-
son "Beggar Student Opera Company,
which had been appearing in the Blake
Opera House, adjoining the hotel. When
the cry of fire was raised the guests, most
of whom were asleep, hurried out of the
burning building, amid great confusion and
excitement. Nearly all were in their night
clothes. BY the time the fire department
arrived the beautiful hotel and opera-house
were burning fiercely, and the firemen, CIV
ing up the attempt to save them, confined
themselves to an endeavor to save the adj
joining property.
1t was at first thought that all the inmates
of the hotel had escaped, but investigation
disclosed the fact that Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Glover, of the opera company, and Mrs.
Patrick, chambermaid, were missing.
They have not since been seen, and there
is no doubt they persisted in the flames
Mr.. and Mrs. Glover belonged to New
York City. The members of the opera
company lost their personal effects, in
Guiding nearly all their clothes, of
the total value of about $4,000. Mrs.
K. r. Doud, wife of ex-Mayor Doud,
who occupied apartments in the hotel,
lost SIS, 600 worth of jewels, pictures, books,
etc., among the latter being a magnificent
collection of Dante's works. Mrs. Doud es-
capped in her night-clotheS. Among the
other losers by the fire are Villas, druggist;
Wood Bros, hardware; Lena Johnson,
cafe; Montgomery & Long, BARRIERS;
Rausch, variety store, and Duffy, saloon.
The total loss is about $150,O00; insurance
about $50, 900.
The Opera House, which was an exceed
ingly handsome structure six stories high
and measuring ninety by one hundred feet,
was built in 1881 by stock company at
cost of 100000. 1t was fitted throughout
in fine style, and was said to be one of the
handsomest places of amusement in the
West
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
About the New Treaties.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Secretary FIRE.
linghuysen, in abiding to the report that
the Spanish treaty is to be withdrawn, said
that in fact there is no foundation for it.
He said further that this rumor has doubt
less grown out of the fact that the Spanish
Minister had been authorized by his Gov
eminent to accept certain notifications,
providing that they. will make the treaty
moro acceptable to this Government These
notifications are intended to neutralize the
opposition of the cigar and tobacco interests
of the South. The Spanish Minister in an
interview said: 1.-The Spanish Government
is willing to accept such modification in re-
gard to sugar and tobacco as the American
Senate may adopt or recommend.
The Nicaragua treaty is growing in pop
ularity every day, and particularly among
Representatives from the South, who say its
confirmation will afford splendid opportu-
nifty for the assertion of an American policy
on this continent. The comments of the
European press have had good deal to do
in intensifying this feeling.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE


AROUND the prisons in London extra
guards were placed on the oath as pre-
caution against the operations of the dyna-
miters.
THE residence of Mime. Albani, the singer,
at Vile d'Avray, Partisan suburb, was
recently entered by burglars, who stole a
quantity of valued souvenirs of her career.
In the Southern Provinces of Spain two
severe shocks of earthquake were expert
enced on the Goth. The convent at Seville
was partly destroyed. Many people were
injured by falling walls.
A FIRE early the other morning de-
stroyed the farmhouse of Benjamin Du-
fresno, at st. Martins, Can, and Mrs. Du-
fresno, a boy aged three years and a lady
aged eighty persisted in the flames. The
remainder of the household were badly
frozen while seeking shelter two miles dis
tant, one girl dying soon after.
ADvICEs Of the 9th from Tonquin report
daily encounters between the Chinese and
French at the out-posts. The Chinese con-
tinued pouring troops into Tonquin and
Formosa.
AN infdel named M. Paquet, of Toronto,
NdI'. was pdrtS Ecu GHe Otner Jay Wnlle
denying the doctrine of eternal punish
ment, and died soon after.
TIE premature explosion of dynamite
blast at Bracebridge, Ont, recently blew
one man to pieces and fatally wounded
three others.
ADvICEs from official sources on the 2Sth
from the Province of Grenada, Spa;r, state
that 526 persons were killed by the recent
earthquake there, and in Malaga 100. At
Albania 800 lives were lost and 100 houses
were destroyed. Over half the inhabitants
of Albunchas were killed, and many
houses were wrecked at Jimena, Cajor,
Torrox and Alfarnetejo. The people were
panic stricken and business was paralyzed.
1t was estimated that the total loss of lives
would reach over 1000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
WIT AND WISDOM.

de loGdes' takers amt allus de
wiseSt men. Geese makes more noise
den derOOsters, but da amt got nigh so
much sense.-ArkGnSGoO Traveller.
"A child's thought.
a little child looked out at night
Upon the stars in heaven so blue
And cried aloud, in glad delight:
Dod,s floor has cracks, His light shines
froo!"
Judge" What sort of man, now,
was it whom you saw commit the as
saultr Constable" Sure, your Hon
or, he was small, insignificant era
thur about your own size, yer Honor"
N Y Herald.
=" Where've you been Frank?"
Down to st. Louis" What do
ing?" Running photograph gal
lery" odd it workP'' Work! I
should say it did. First day 1 hung
out sign: Babies taken without
prior notice, and the next morning I
found four on my doorstep. - Omaha
Bee.
=" Has Burlington very intellectual
community" asked the new minister.
intellectual, parson? Well, I should
cOnstrue. There's three dancing clubs
on North Hill, two skating Kinks down
town, four bowling alleys on Main
street, weekly hop at the South Hill
barn, and a school-house on West Hill.
Intellectual, parson? Town Jest runs
to brains. "-Burdette.
"A New York inventor has made a
machine by which he claims to reduce
the temperature of room to eighty
five degrees below zero if necessary.
1t will, no doubt, be in great demand
by young men who have at last
screwed up courage to ask the old man
for the hand of his daughter-an
agonizing moment when the tempera-
ture of room suddenly goes up to
10 deg. in the shade. -N0rrist0Wn
Herald.
He had just gone down and pur-
chased two tickets for the opera, and
grasping the two halves of his weeks
salary he fastened to the house and
was ushered into her presence. ''Ah,
Miss De Smith, a very cold day, is it
not? Will you not allow me the pleas
ure of being your escort to the opera
tonight" 80, thank you 50 much,
but Mr.. Brown has asked me, and / am
afraid / shall have to refuse you; am
so sorry. Yes, indeed, it is a very,
very cold day.''-Chicago Inter Ocean.
He had a crowd around him on
the Campus Martius, and when he had
placed his toothache-cure on the board
before him and got his lamp brightly
burning, he said: Gentlemen, the last
time was in your fair city some ono
hit me with an egg. 1 sincerely"
At that instant turnip, thrown by
some one in the outer circle, struck the
mans hat and carried it ten feet away.
He reached out his hand for it and con
tinued: Thank you! | was going to
say that preferred turnips to eggs, but
would it be asking too much of you to
boil them first?' '-Det7OH Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
Editorial Suffering.

"rve got two little gems I'd like to
read to you, and 1 want your candid
opinion about them," said the in
truder.
The editor sighed heavily ana.
dropped his overworked scissors on
the floor.
The visitor read the first poem with
deep feeling and in different voices.
The editor listened with closed eyes.
occasionally he groaned in his spirit.
g Well, now what do you think of
thatP' asked the visitor with some
animation, looking at the editor with
an air of eager expectancy.
81 like the other one best"
But I've not read the other one to
you yet.
That's why I prefer it. It's in
finitely superior to the one you have
lust read ~ Issas sijgiags,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
An Internal Machine.

New YORK, Dee. 27.--A paper box con-
tanning an Internal machine was brought by
boy to the office of the American Tract
Society yesterday afternoon, and one of the
clerks sent for Anthony Comstoclx, whose
Office is in the building. Mr.. Comstock
broke open the box from the bottom and
found that it contained half pound
of powder, bottle of nitric acid and some
broken glass. The working spring, which
the removal of the top would have freed,
was rubber band attached to piece of
sand-paper. The boy messenger said a
man had given him the box and directed
him to the Tract Company. 1t was evident
ly intended for the murder of Anthony
Comstock. No arrests have been made.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
Nearly 1000 Lives Lost.

MADRID, Dec. 29.-The official reports
show that 266 persons were killed in Malaga
and Granada by the recent earthquake.
The population of Granada is still encamped
in the square, the richer classes lodging in
carriages along the promenade. The facade
of the cathedral is seriously damaged.
Many houses were destroyed in Jimena and
whole family killed in. the village of Cajar
by falling chimney. Over half the in
habitants of Albunuchas were killed Al
hama Is mostly i'll ruins. Commerce is par
alyzed. Two hundred houses at Alfarnetejo
were damaged. The panic is subSiding.
The shock was not felt in the northern and
northwestern Provinces. The Government
has granted $4,000 from the National
Calamity fund for the relief of the sufferers
in the Province of Granada.
Later advices state that 500 lives were
lost at Albania; 750 houses and the church
were destroyed and thirty persons killed at
Periana; the town hall and many houses
were damaged at TorroX, the inhabitants of
which fled panic-Stricken. 1t is now esti-
mated that 600 persons were killed in the
province of Malaga, including those killed
at Albania.
Fresh shocks more violent than the first
have occurred at TorroX and Albania The
panic III THOSE places las revived.
The latest advices from the province of
Granada state that 526 persons were killed
by the earthquake there, and in Malaga 100.
In Albania over $50 bodies have already
been recovered. In Beriana sixty bodies
have been recovered. Many persons died
from fright. The convicts in Seville Prison
attempted to escape.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
Torture by Chinese Robbers.

NEWARK, N. j.. Dec 27.-Three China
men in American dress entered Hung
Chung's laundry, 555 Market street, last
night and demanded the key to his
money box. On his refusing to give
it up they strung him up to a rafter
and with Ratchet and knife hacked him
all over the body until, wild with pain, he
revealed the hding-place of the key. They
took all the money'he had and left without
releasing him. His means attracted atten-
ton, and the neighborS finally cut him
down and attended to his wounds. He can
hardly recover. He says he can not identify
his aSSailantS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

The Mason cotton picker is said to
be an entire success. Commissioners
appointed on behalf of the New Orleans
Exposition have followed the machine
in the field, and record their official
opinion that one picker, carefully
driven, drawn by one mule, and fol-
lowed by three cleaners, will do the
work of forty pairs of human hands.
The flying metallic fingers pluck only
the full-blown cotton. The plants are
uninjured The fiber thus plucked
is automatically bagged. - ew York
Post
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
An Internal Machine.

EAsToN, Pa, Dec. 29.-An internal ma
chine was found on the Jersey Central
Railroad track Friday, near Westfeld.
1t consisted of a square package bound by a
shawl strap, and was placed near the rail
so as to appear to have been accidentally
dropped. The track-walker found it. The
package is so constructed as to explode 4
struck heavy blow. 1t contained fifty
eight cartridges of dynamite and lot OF
No. giant powder. Had the package not
been discovered, 1t would have been struck
By the next train and a terrible disaster
Elpst hege been The result
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
A Horrible Fate.

PLYMOUTH, Wis, Dec 29.-Jacob Avery,
owner of small Touring mill near the vii
lage of Greenbush, eight miles west of here,
while oiling the machinery of his
mill Saturday had his clothing caught
on a fast-reyolying horizontal shaft He
was rapidly whirled round and pounded
against the floor with such violence that
the body, when found for he was alone at
the time, was a Shapeless mass. The limbs
were broken and splintered, bones in many
instances protruding from the mutilated
body. The head was pounded into pulp.
All his clothing except one boot was torn
from his body The deceased was fifty
years of age and quite wealthy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
Roughs at a Wedding Reception.

LEXINGTON, KY, Dec. 81. = Thursda
night at wedding reception given by a
man named White to his son, nine miles
from here, the festivities were interrupted
by gang of five roughs, who came in and
committed various indignities. Dan Hayes,
a farm hand employed by White, began
shooting at the Toughs, and killed one of
them, named Charles Blackwell, and seri-
ously wounded another, named Bliss. The
others escaped and are at large
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
General Grants Financial Troubles.

New YORK, Dec. 29.--It was learned
Saturday that executions had been issued
under the Judgment rendered against Gem
eral Grant in favor of William H. Wander
bilt fur $15O,00O which the General bor-
rowed the Sunday before the failure of
Grant & Ward, which the General used
to help them. The execution COW
ers houses in Washington and PhiladeI-
phia, farms near st. Louis and Chicago, and
all the Generals relics of the war, swords,
medals, gifts from friends at home and for
eign rulers, his pictures and bric-a-brac, and
even the engraved card of thanks awarded
him by Congress. Mrs. Grant has consented
to waive her interest in the real estate so
that Mr.. Vanderbilt may be fully Sc
cure. The ST. Louis farm is valued
at $685. and the Chicago farm at
$4,000. But the Generals friends are
fearful that all the property may
be sold. General w. Z. Sherman while
here last week became acquainted with this
action, and has quietly set about relieving
his old comrade in arms. MI. Vanderbilt
has consented to release his debt for $780,
900. Cyrus W. Field has undertaken to
raise part of this, and General Sherman
has gone on to Philadelphia and Washing
ton to interest gentlemen there to raise the
balance
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

The population of Connecticut by
the census of 1880 was 622, 700, and
may be roughly computed at the pres
ent time at 100000. In this number
Mr.. Frederick FL. Nash has detected
more than 5000 above so years old, and
publishes list of them arranged by
townships. Of the 5000 there are 651
more. than go, and 120 more than 100
years old.-M T. Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

"A lady in New York who weighed
two hundred pounds lost thirty pounds
by living on tea clone for three weeks.
She never regsined her flesh when she
resumed her regnlaE dlek-M Z Tires
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
XLVIlIth CONGRESS.
Second session.


WEDNESDAY, Dec. 24.-Both Houses,
without transacting any other business,
adjourned to January 5, 1885.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-03-01
reg raiasy.rwe IEaRs.

Tsday ends the thirty second year Of
the separate existencs Of Washington a,
q Territory. Ga March ., 1855. th,
country north u shs Columbia riveI
was separated from that 60 the ssuth
and became political division by 1t
self. Since TINT time IL has passed
through trials OF one kind aud another.
periods Of staRpation and business De
preston, dangers from hostile Indians,
INSTALLATIONS and Misunderstanding
bat taken altogether the progress made,
the prosperity OF the country. tbs ad.
vance toward the highest civilization
has been steady aud continuous. The
setsisr Of 1853. kpkins back ovsr the
past years aud a,ntraatihg 80 With IS,
would almost believe that q magician
had been al work upon oar fair Western
land Where The los cabin of the set.
tlsr aud the bal Of the trader stood,
there are wealthy and popalous uisi. 9
With palA.iai rsridsness aud massive
houses OF trade, where the eAncs
threaded The loneis river or crossed the
silent bay, the whistle Of The steamer
nov swakena The echoes and he plash
Ing paddle breaks the surface Of the
water in myrisds II flashing ripplss and
hghi-FenectiuR wives: where q srrae.
Cling and scatssted tea batilsd Nth
forrest foes, pr,ad aud sslf.rsiiant
psepls are Surrounded by the comforts
Of the highest civilization.
let, after ,hirty.tvo years, the polI,i.
cal rights Of our Territory remain an.
recognized. and car peeph are now. a.
they we're then. sls political vas.aA. Of
those who live liz, older sonamunisi.s.
Long since wsshineto demanded STATE
hood. In justice nnd In rish, il should
be hers. bui u IL nsf. First one and
then the other pclitical party hes dsnied
justice 10 oar people. uatil the settler
vhe has watched .lse growth Of the Ter
fiaoFy year after PEAR with pride and
hope, RrOws SICK =, heart ard fssls TIA,
he will never nee the crown Of state.
hsed placed upon hla queen. Thirty.
I've yearss and I, 10 not yea. How much
sonRer win there b, wasbinsson Ter.
ritosy . how Iona vSll 10 be until we
shall be pread and hapey 10 sail oar
saves esatssns Of The State Of wash. |
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