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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-26
THE NEWS.
from Late Dispatches.
ERoM WASHINGTON.

ISRAEL LAwToN has been appointed
Superintendent of the United States Mint
at San Francisco.
THE War Department on the 18th To-
ceived dispatches from Colonel Bradley,
stationed at Santa Fe, to the effect that
there were no hostile Indians in New Mex
leo. 1t was thought that the Apaches had
also left Arizona.
OFFICIAL adviees received on the 18th
by the War Department stated that there
were now no s'boomers" in Oklahoma
THERE were 1913 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 10Th, against pa the
previous seven days. The distribution was
as follows: Middle States, 50; New England
States, II; Western, SO; Southern, "a; Pa
cific States and Territories, 80; Canada, 80
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses
in the United States the exchanges dur
ing the week ended on the 10Th aggregated
S771 023, 258, against $685. 1852, 124 the previous
week. AS compared with the correspond
ing period of 1884, the falling off amounts
to 1874 per cent.
For the first eleven months of the fiscal
year ended June 3d. 1885, the internal rev.
enue collections aggregated S103,697, 1874, a
decrease of SIS, 500 Ala as compared with the
corresponding period of the preceding
fiscal year.
DURING the week ended on the Goth the
issue of standard silver dollars from the
various mints was $464,9S7. The issue for
the corresponding period of last year was
1885,, 1896.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The most popular and successful
newspaper writer is the paragrapher.
His work is always read.-EeSt Ten
neSsee Wing.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, cousin Of
Bob Ingersoll, is prominent contrib
utor to the Pacific Coastrehgious press.
--Chicago Ipter-0cean.
William F. Laffan, who succeeds
the late Isaac w. England as publisher
of the New York Sun, is the ''OwI' of
the Tile Club, and edited Harper's
christmas.
-Garibaldi's memoirs will not be
published until ten years have elapsed
from the time of his death, This is in
accordance with the wish of the Italian
Government
Charlotte NJ. Younge is now in her
sixty-third year. She began to write in
1854, and one hundred and twenty
books, of various sizes, bear tribute to
her incessant energy.-M T. San.
stephen Bulmer, the weH-known
English atheist, recently deceased, left
five thousand dollars to his co-worker,
Bradlaugh; and to his own wife, who
had supported him for years, he left
the princely allowance of three dollars
a week.
The oldest actor was Jean Noel,
who died in Paris January Is, 1929,
aged lis years He entered the pro-
fession in his eighth year and still
acted when 100 years old, having rep
resented in all 2,760 roles. He acted
28,010 times.
Rev, David Winters, who died at
Dayton, O., recently, had been in the
ministry for sixty years, and is said to
have married more people than any
other one man in the country. Up to
April p he had married 5000 couple.
-Clecelaaad Leader.
The New York Tribune says:
1.-The name of the Rev. DR.. Leroy
Sunderland, who died recently at Hyde
Park, near Boston, aged eighty-two
years, is unfamiliar to many of the
present generation. But forty years
ago he was one of the best-known
writers and lecturers of the day.
The fiftieth anniversary of the mar
rage of Samuel Brown Haynes ana
Miss Rebecca Hosmer was celebrated at
their residence in Bolton, Mass, lately,
where they have lived fifty years. Mrs.
Haynes was the fourth daughter of the
late Nathan David Hosmer, of Acton.
and is the fourth child in the family
who has celebrated a golden wedding.
Charles Wexford, of the firm of
Charles Scribner's Sons, died in Lon
don few days ago from the lingering
effects of serious attack of pneumonia
which he suffered about year ago. He
was an Englishman by birth, but had
many interests and ties in this country
which made him regard it with alice
ton. Few men knew more of books
and authors than he is said to have
l1nown.-M y Herald
The correspondence of Peter the
Great is being prepared for publication.
A commission of Russian literary men
was appointed to bring together the
materials for such a work, and so thor
oughly have they accomplished their
task that they have collected more than
| eight thousand letters and documents
of the highest interest relating to the
great Car. Among these documents
are some of the exercise books in which
the young Peter wrote his writing les
sons. There is also letter dated 1888,
in which Peter, only six years old, de-
scribes to his mother the works which
he had seen in progress in the ship
building yards at Pereislawi.
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DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONES.
An Ohio Village Badly Damaged by a
Understandable Tornado in Missouri.

An Ohio Village Badly Damaged by
understandable Tornado in Missouri.
RAvENNA, o., June 23.-The most de-
vastating whirlwind ever seen in this part
of the State passed over Ravenna at about
1850 o'clock Sunday evening. Much rain
had fallen since four p. IN. Nothing I'M
usual was observed in the atmos-
phere till seven o'clock, when con-
trary currents of wind were seen,
one from the southeast, the other
from the northwest. They met over the
central portion Of the town, causing hiss
ing sound. Immediately white perpen-
dicular line was observed rivaling i'll bril-
liancy all aurora borealis, and carrying in
its wake every movable object within
radius OF quarter of a mile. A driving
rain accompanied the tornado. The almost
total darkness that hung overhead like q
pail during the one minute the whirWind
ragged made che scene extremely weird.
The Ktna House block was denuded Of
its twenty immense chimneys. The heavy
slate roof was next lifted, and, in falling,
struck out of plumb, scattering plaster and
debris through the hotel and badly soaring
the inmates. The Marvin and Beebes
blocks were unroofed. The Second Nation
al Bank building, hree-story brick, was
rent out Of shape. Reeds Hall, occupied
by the salvation army was demol-
ished. The opera house suffered with the
rest. It's dome was carried into the next
block. More than one hundred buildings
were badly damaged, and smaller buildings
were completely wrecked. The loss will be
about 500, 900. A travelling man named
Clark, from Chicago, was injured in the
Htna House.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 23.-The tornado
in Missouri Saturday night swept across
tie center of the State from Kansas City to
Louisiana. At Glasgow the losses are COM
puted at $4,000. The new Glasgow hotel
was unroofed and partly demolished, and
the mangled body of r. c. Wilson, of Al
ton, ILL.,, who was sleeping on the third
floor, found among the. debris. Many per-
sons were injured. Much damage was done
by the storm at Lexington, Fayette, Chilli
cOthe and Louisiana.
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HUMOROUS.

-"Do 1 believe there's such a thing
as haunted house?" asked Fogg.
''That depends upon how good-looking
the girl is who lives in it"-BoSt0W
| Transcript.
--"Why is it called the hon ymoon?"
asks an exchange. Honey, because it
is full of cells, and moon, because it
comes high" Throw another one at
u.s. YonkerS Statesman.
1t takes but thirteen minutes to lead
an elephant on train, while it takes
twenty for any sort of woman to bid
| her friends good-by and lose the check
| for her trunk.-Iroy Press.
Mistress Ito amiable servant maid):
81 am going to the opera this evening,
30 L shall probably be home late. " Ami
able maid 80, you needn't apologize
to me for that. Tim will be here. :"
81 think your mustache is just love-
ly, Fred, and | only wish ] had it on
my face" she said as she gazed into his
eyes with a sort of gone. But Fred,
the dolt, didn't catch on, and only re-
marked that he thought it was good for
three months growth. oil CITY Der
rich.
Judge: "How did you come by
these fish," Prisoner: II hooked
them" Judge: "What have you to
say, Mr.. Officer" Policeman: He
tells the truth, your honor; he did hook
.em and l saw it" Judge ''Then why
do you bring him here? Discharged.
Next case. "-Boston Beacon.
They were engaged. She was we'll
aware of his proximity, but with as
sumed Inconsistencies she turned her
back to him. He approached noise
lessly and kissed her. ''0hr' she
screamed, with feigned surprise. You
are regular electric batteryr' Eyes"
he replied, ''and you know exactly how
to stand so as not to miss the shock. -
LoaOeI citizen.
-"Jim McSnifter, said Galveston
school teacher to the worst boy in
school, ''you have been behaving your
self much worse than usual for the past
few days" 81 know it, but I've got TO
behave bad, y responded the boy. why
have you to behave worse than usual2'
Because the munlps are going the
rounds, and want to make up for the
time am going to lose when l catch
'em. - TEXAS StftifagS.
"A rural gentleman, who had never
seen furnace, while in crowded
store stood some time over the hot-air
register. He finally remarked to his
wife: 1--WE better 90 home at once; I
think am going to have fever; [ feel
such hot air running up my legs" He
was twin brother to the Connecticut
woman who sat down to warm her feet
against the iron safe After sitting
there twenty minutes she remarked: II
never did like them kind of stoves.
They don't throw out scarcely any heat,
those gas burners don't" - Boston
Globe.
You bet l fooled my wife the first
day of April, - said one man to another
the other morning. "How did you fool
herP' "Why, went home at dinner
time and pretended to be as mad as the
dickens about something, and when she
asked me what was the matter l ripped
and snorted around and told her it was
none of her business, and that if she
didn't keep her mouth shut I'd box her
ears And, will you believe it, fooled
her so badly, pretending to be angry,
that she hauled off and knocked me
down with a skillet "--Detroit Free
Press
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WAR BETWEEN FACTIONS.

The War Between the Hall and Jones
Factions in Knott County, Ky., Still
Raging-Nine Persons Have Already
Been Killed.
HINDMAN, KY, June 20.-The war be-
tween the Hall and Jones factions i'll this
knott county is still raging. Last week
one of the Jones party returned from Gin
cinnati, where he had expended $500 in
sixteen shooters. There was a collision be-
tween the parties Wednesday, and in the
fuslade, one Woodbury. was instantly
killed
Macham died on Monday, from wounds
received in battle fought few days pre-
yious. Talthall is still confined from the
effects of wounds received in the fight one
day last week. His recovery is doubtful
So far, the Jones party have decidedly the
best of it. Jones and his men travel well
armed and are constantly on the locs out.
This bloody business will not end until
one or the other of the gangs is extermi-
mated. just where the affair viii end there
is no telling. Each side gains recruits daily
and they are desperate individuals The
peaceful residents of the county think of
seeking more congenial climes if the author
tiles do not soon suppress the strife Nine
men have so Ear been killed.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In Toronto Bay Hanlan, the Oarsman,
was nearly drowned on the 18th by the
falling to pieces of a new boat he was test
ing. When rescued by some sailors he
was completely exhausted.
PORTIONS of Big Bears outfit in the
Turtle Lake region were found on the 18th
by scouts from Colonel Otter's camp. The
Indians decamped hurriedly, pursued by
Colonel Herchmer. Riel had requested his
friends to apply for a trial in the province
of Quebec. He was hopeful as to the re-
suit
FIRE recently destroyed one hundred
houses in the native quarter of Lagos,
West Africa.
ACCORDING to advices of the 10th over
$50 persons We're killed by the recent ex-
plosion in the Pendlebury colliery, near
Manchester, Eng.
UP to the Dist the Marquis of Salisbury
had not succeeded in forming Ministry,
and it was rumored that Mr.. Gladstone
would resume the Premiership.
On the Goth Queen Victoria entered upon
the forty ninth year of her reign.
By a recent explosion in a pit at Spe-
dale, Eng, ten miners were killed.
ACCORDING to advices of the goth the re-
cent storm on the Newfoundland coast
was the most severe that had visited the
island in forty years. Many vessels were
wrecked, and the destruction of property
was enormous. The loss of life was be-
heved.to have been very great.
The recent earthquakes in Cashmere
India, resulted in the loss of the lives of
3,0S1 persons, 10000 houses were laid in
ruins, and $4,000 animals persisted.
THERE were 316 deaths from cholera in
Spain and 719 new cases during the twen-
tyfour hours ended at six D. M on the
Doth.
On the Goth General Middleton was en-
camped at Beaver River Mission in the
Northwest Territory. His programme was
to place garrison atimportant points and
let starvation finish the campaign with
Big Bear.
On the 22d the Marquis of Salisbury de-
cided to accept Gladstone's place as
Premier, and assumed office in the evening
THERE were 100 new cases of cholera and
$50 deaths in Spain during the twenty :
four hours ended at midnight on the 22d.
BY a recent boiler explosion at Turcoing,
near Lille. France, seven persons were
killed and forty wounded.
ADvICEs of tie ed from Winnipeg say
that Big Bear had served notice on Gem
eral Middleton, giving him "four days to
leave the country under penalty of death
from bulldogs and mosquitoes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-26

GENERAL GRANTS summer home,
Mount MacGregor, is eleven miles
from Saratoga Springs, 1t rises one
Thousand feet, and the scenery around
it is beautiful. The mountain is aces
sible from Saratoga by narrow gauge
railway. On the summit is the Drexel
cottage, occupied by the General. 1t
is prettily situated among the trees, and
the scenery around it is picturesque.
The eye is satisfied with landscape of
twenty-five or thirty miles. Far below
is view of the Hudson, and in another
direction one can dimly see the Green
Mountains. The cottage is about a
third of mile from the hotel 1t is of
the Queen Anne style of architecture,
two stories high, and contains about a
dozen rooms. General Grants room is
IN corner of the house, on the first
floor, facing the piazza. There are no
steps to mount, and he can walk out on
The yerandas and enjoy the scenery.
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SHERBRooK, the county seat Of Steel
County, Dakota, with the exception of the
courthouse, was blown away by cyclone
on the Goth. No lives were lost.
MANY buildings in Leayenworth, Kan,
were wrecked bya tornado on the 21st,
and much destruction was wrought in the
surrounding country.
IN the village Of Beallsville, Monroe
County, o., the fever which scourged
Plymouth, Pa, broke out on the 22d.
CoRN-FIELDs in Wabash County, Ind,
were submerged on the 22d by heavy
rains, and wheat was threatened with
rust Other crops had been badly dam
aged.
On the ed an insect called the ssdumb
locust" was committing ravages on apple
trees in some of the southwestern counties
of Virginia, and trees were dying by hum
dreds..
In Grand Traverse County, Mich, snow
fell on the 22d.
AT Dayton, KY, Thomas Knott, on the
22d, leaped from railroad bridge into the
Ohio River, distance of 105 feet. He was
unhurt, and swan leisurely to shore He
AT st. Helena. Cal, Charles King, a
prominent vineyardist failed recently for
$4,000, with assets of $751;, 900. Indorse-
ments for friends caused the disaster.
A FEW nights ago fire destroyed the resi-
dence of w. D. Brimmer, at Dayton, Mimi,
and a three-year- old girl persisted in the
flames.
In portions of Michigan and Wisconsin
a heavy FROST inflicted much damage upon
crops on the 22d.
ACCORDING to advices of the ODD tor
nado in Missouri did great damage to
property at Lexington, Fayette, Chilli
Gothic and Louisiana, and many persons
were injured.
ON the evening OF the 21st cyclone
swept over Ravenna, o. Over one hum
dred buildings were badly damaged, and
smaller buildings were completely wrecked.
The loss would be about 100000.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

RECENTLY Meredith Workman, was COM
mitted to the West Virginia Penitentiary
under three years'sentence. He has spent
hind prison walls.
AT Salt Lake City, Utah, prominent
members of the police force were arrested
on the 18th for poligamy.
WILLIAM FREEMAN, aged eighteen years,
on the 18th, on Chicoteague Island, near
Tasley, Va, fatally shot Timothy Hills,
his wife and daughter, because the latter
rejected his suit, and then killed himself.
DURING the past few days nine men
have been killed in the encounters between
the Hall and Jones factions in Knox Coun-
ty, KY.
AT Baltimore, Md, George A. Pyers, a
wife-beater, recently received fifteen
lashes at the hands of the Sheriff. He was
the first white man whipped in Maryland
for that offense.
AN investigation of the barbarous treat
ment of colored convicts working on the
railroad in Abbeville County was ordered
by the Governor of South Carolina on the
10TH 1t was said that the prisoners were
inhumanly whipped, nine having died
from cruel logging
AT Farmersville, La, Perry and William
Melton, father and son, were hanged on
the 18th for the unprovoked murder of
John w. Cherry, an old farmer, a year
ago; Charles Campbell was executed at
Pointe a la Hache, La, for killing Theo-
dore Tuplevich last August, and William
Morrow was executed at GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, for killing colored man named
Dick Overton.
On the 10th Mary Kleman, aged about
twenty two years, confined in Jail in Chi
cago on the charge of attempting to poison
the family of Mrs. Michael Freres, her sis
ter, with whom she had made her home
for short time, confessed that she was
guilty, not only of the attempt upon their
lives, but of causing the deaths of her
mother, father and another sister in Du-
buque, la.
AT Fredericksburg, Va, Frank Burk-
man was on the 10th sentenced to thirty
six years. imprisonment for the murder of
two men, after having had five trials.
WHILE being inflated, hot-air balloon
at Charleston, w. Va, caught fire on the
18th and shot several hundred feet into
the air, when it collapsed, William Patter-
son, the "aeronaut," falling to the earth a
lifeless mass, 1t was his first ascension.
GEORGE SCHNEIDER was hanged on the
10th at Hamilton, o., for the murder of his
mother.
ADvICEs from Ross Ford Agency, /. T.,
state that four Indian police We're killed
on the Goth and a third wounded by a
brace of Bannock stock thieves, who were
in turn riddled with bullets. Six Indians
had been killed by whites in the Dalores
Valley, and the Chief of the tribe was much
enraged and demanded satisfaction.
A FEW days ago Hugh Phallis and
Patrick O'Brien were killed, and Michael
O'Brien, father of the latter, fatally
wounded, by the caving-in of a coal bank
at Richmond, o.
A MOB on the 21st hanged five negroes
charged with assaulting and numbering a
white woman at Elkhart. Tax.
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The New British Cabinet.

LONDON, June 23.-The following is an
authentic list Of the new Cabinet:
Prime Minister and Secretary for Foreign
Affairs-The Marquis of Salisbury.
First Lord of the Treasury-Sir Stafford
Northcote.
Chancellor of the Exchequer-Sir Michael E.
Hicks Beach.
Lord High Characteristic Hardinge Gift
ford.
Lord President of the Council-Viscount
Cranbrook.
Lord of the Privy Seal-fIarl of narrowly.
Secretary for the Home Department-Sir
Richard Assheton Cross.
Secretary for the Colonial Departmental
onel Frederick Stanley.
Secretary for War-Rt. Hon. William Henry
Smith.
Secretary of State fo1 India-Lord Randolph
Churchill
First Lord OF the Admiralty-Lord George
Hamilton.
President ofthe Local Government Board
Arthur James Baifour.
President of the Board of Trade-Duke of
Richmond and Gordon.
Vice-President of the Council-Hon. Edward
Stanhope
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland-Earl of Car
narvau
Lord Chancellor of Ireland-Rt. Hon. Ed
ward Gibson.
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both nations in the past and is a pleasant
augury for the future. AS it is to France
and the United States that the spread of
popular government in Europe is largely
Que, so 1t is but appropriate that an eudCr-
ing monument at this gateway of the worlds
commerce should remind all the people of
the fact and the artist has caught the in
spiration of history. The conception of Lib
erty Enlightening the World is deeply
poetic, because it is deeply true and
because the idea is great one; its
grandeur demands its association with the
gigantic in art, which has a beauty of its
own, and beyond the canons of strict criti-
clsm- May it stand as an imper.shable mon
ument of the ideas with which it is associ-
ated, which are themselves innermost and
interchangeable.
Mr. Frederick r. Condert spoke in sub
stance as follows:
The splendid gift which these gentlemen
have carried from their own soil to find a
nome in our bay is not the gift of a King,
nor an Emperor, nor any government what
ever, but the spontaneous Offering OF a peo-
pie, and OF the only people who stood spon-
sors for the infant Nation that needed help
as no nation ever did before. This bronze
memento typifies and perpetuates the COM
mon aspiration of two great nations, and
symbolzes the hope that only they and their
children shall see and live in sight of Liber-
ty torch, but that all nat ons and all poo
pie shall be warmed and made happy by its
rays.
melnentO in this. There is a lesson for all of
US, one that may be read by thousands who
shall set their eyes upon this statue 1t will
typify the part which liberty is learning to
play IN the world This torch. whose radiant
light will glorify our bay, will repre- sent the
real light of liberty as it relieves mankind
from the darkness of uncontrolled authori-
ty. Let the light of free press and free
speech pour its ruddiness into the dark re-
cesses never reached by such agencies be-
fore.
Teach men before you punish them: en-
tighten them as to their duties while you
point out their rights. Show the world that
the only panacea for the ills that human So
ciety has been groaning under and fighting
during all these centuries is liberty-liberty.
the friend of morality, of virtue, of truth, of
honor, of learning-1iberty, the foe of OPP
preston, of violence. of murder, of cow
ardice-liberty which takes nothing from the
man and gives him ALL even remedy for the
ills which constantly changing and restless
society will ever generate. This, let us all
hope and it our great statue will preach
this lesson for ages to come in her own peer
less beauty, we will bless and love it for the
giver's sake and for its own.
A collection in City Hall conc uded the
days festivities. Last night the French
naval officers attended private entertain
ment at Star Theatre by the Mexican band,
recently at New Orleans Exposition. To-
night they will go to Wallack's Theatre.
On Tuesday Admiral La Combe and his
officers will be taken on an excursion around
the bay, and on Wednesday they will be
banqueted at Delmonico's. Both courteses
will be under the direction of the Chamber
of Commerce.