The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-20

olution was introduced few days ago
to establish State Fireman's Associa-
ton. one of whose functions shall be the
complication of statistics. /" This was
not printers error
F, T. WAsHBURN. who was few days
ago placed in the Arkansas Lunatic
Asylum, lost his reason through serving
as a witness against a murderer in
Monroe County, and cherishing fear
that the condemned man would appear
and take his life.
WE think we have discovered the
meanest man in the person of Mem
phis (Tenn.) undertaken who recently
exhumed the body of little girl he had
buried and returned it to its mother be-
cause she could not pay two dollars, the
price of interment
The whipping-post still survives in
Delaware. Nine convicts were whipped
at Newcastle recently, eight for larceny
and one for burglary. The latter,
negro, received twenty lashes and stood
for an hour in the pillory. The others
received ten lashes each.
Things are still done recklessly in
California Recently, at the Columbia
Skating Rink, Willie Ebeler was seized
with fit of laughing and spit out
tack which had been in his lungs for
seven years. It was supposed he was
gradually dying Of consumption.
ONE lamentable effect of the dyna-
mite outrages in London is the dis
charge of Irsh people from employment
there. 1t is said that over 10000 Irish
people are out of work in that city, of
whom fully one-tenth have been dis
missed since the recent explosion.
In the United States Treasury.t the fund
to the credit of the Money-order Office
on account of unclaimed orders now
amounts to about 81, 100000. The Post
office Department has recently issued a
circular to the postmasters who have
issued unclaimed money orders, notify
ing them that money orders issued by
them remain unpaid, and instructing
them to hunt up the remitters.
JUSTICE IS sometimes curiously adj
ministered in the city of New York.
The other day man who brutally as
saulted his wife, and put out her eyes
with shoemaker's awl, was sentenced
to nino months in the penitentiary,
while young man who was convicted
OF stealing penknife worth twenty
five cents was sentenced by Judge
Cowing to twelve years in the peniten-
tiary.
HE honors are carried off bv the
Jones family. There will be three of
them in the next United States Senate
James K. Jones, of Arkansas; Charles
w. Jones, of Florida, and John P.
Jones, of Nevada. And there will be
only one Brown, and not solitary
Smith. The next House will also have
three Joneses-one from Alabama, one
from Texas and one from Wisconsin,
and there will be three Browns. but not
single Smith.
Miss MATILDA CHASE, who was re-
Gently burned to death at Annapolis.
Md, dreamed few days before her
death of the terrible fate awaiting her.
She was so much agitated that she at
once sent for her lawyer to draw up her
will. The arguments of her relatives
against the truthfulness of dreams in
duced her to change her mind, and a
few days later the dream was literally
fulfilled. Having made no will her
property, valued at 100000, went to
her only sister.
A STORY comes from Cleveland, O..
that the private detectives employed to
arrest the recent incendiaries there
shadowed y Socialist who was at last
seen to go into drug store and write
out prescription which was filled.
The detectives secured it and had it
made up, the result being colorless
mixture. This was applied to a door
panel and also to paper. 1t left no
stain, but in half an hour began to blaze.
This suggested the methods of the man,
who could easily sprinkle his liquid
over q heap of rubbish or on pile of
lumber, and be two miles away before
the fire would break out The man
was closely watched with the expecta-
ton of seeing him in the act, but he
took alarm and left the city.
THE Oklahoma region, in Indian
Territory, about which there is much
excitement, is tract of land extending
.from Red River in Indian Territory to
the Kansas line, containing about four
teen million acres. The tract is some
three hundred miles in length from
north to south and two hundred miles
in breadth. 1t was purchased by the
Government in 1866 of the Creek,
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and
Seminole Indians, with a view of set
ting freedmen and friendly Indians
thereon. A good deal of the land is OF
excellent quality, well watered and
tempting to land-grabbers 1t is said
that none of the purchase money has
been paid, while the lands obtained OF
the Cherokees were by the terms of sale
to remain in possession Of the tribe I'M
i'll occupied and paid for,