The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-27

HE ice-bridge at Niagara Falls this
winter is said to be the most massive |
for many years, and is estimated to be
over sixty feet thick.
" A JUDGE in Utah recently decided
that in that Territory wives have no
rights in court. The men may dispose
OF their property as they please.
REV. CHARLES E. BURDETrE,
brother Of the humorist was married
recently to Miss Minnie Russell, q fell
low@snissionary in Farther India
SINCE mob at Cheyenne hung
doctor at that place for killing a pa
tient by wrong prescription the num-
Der Of physicians in Wyoming has de-
creased to such an extent that when
doctors are now wanted adjoining Ter
ritories have to be visited for Them.
A SINGULAR phenomenon is reported
from Stone Creek Valley, Perry County,
o. A solid sheet of ice and sleet formed
the other day on tract of forty acres
of valuable timber land, and the weight
of it was so great as to level effectually
to the earth every tree in the tract.
THE foreign manufacturers OF valen-
tines played shrewd game this year
by sending over their goods by mail in
four-pound packages, thus evading the
twenty-five per cent duty, as by the re-
cent postal treaty printed matter in
such packages can come and go free.
A BosToN girl who is teachingin Col
OradO writes home as follows: II have
forty scholars of all ages and teach al
most everything, grammar, history,
physiology mathematics, manners,
morals, common sense, personal clean
illness, fancy work and general civiliza-
ton"
A DETECTIVE in the Mexican Rev
enue Department met with a rather un-
pleasant experience a few days ago
He attempted to seize the stock of q
trader at Jalisco for selling unstamped
cigarettes, but was doused in fount-
ain, tarred and feathered, and driven
through the streets to the music of a
band.
PHILADELPHIA comes to the front
with a romantic marriage. William
Oliver and Bessie Roberts, two young
people accused of stealing jewelry, hay
ing been convicted, expressed a desire
to marry. They joined hands and We're
married, after which the Judge SEN
fenced them to two months each in the
House of Correction.
IT is alleged that few mornings ago
John Wisholm died at Newport, R. l.,
but the agonizing wailings of his son
were said to have recalled the old man
to life, he then related joyful exper-
fence during his transitory stay in the
other world. Mr.. Wisholm, it seems,
died for good" the next day, and was
buried
The attractions of the coachman are
yielding to those of the skating-rink
professor" in the eyes of foolish
mai1ens. One of the latest cases is that |
of the rich Ohio damsel who eloped with
skating teacher. Afterward the fell
low was bought off for $4,000 or $780,
600 and disappeared. Skatorial pro-
fessors will doubtless take advantage of |
the new craze.
A NEW but effectual method of suicide
is reported from Reading, Pa. John
Steinman, aged sixty-three, bachelor
of peculiar habits and the owner of a
two hundred-acre farm at Halls, we'll
stocked with cattle, was found in his |
barn sticking in barrel, head down.
ward, and with life extinct He was
burdened down with weights and stones
tied around his neck, showing that it
was deliberate suicide. Prior to sui
Gliding he killed all the stock upon the
place by cutting their throats.
AT the centennial celebration of the
birth of Daniel Webster in 1882, Colonel
George, in an address before the Web
ster Club of Concord, n h., alluded to
the fact that no statue to Webster had
been erected in the State of his birth.
Benjamin p Cheney, of Boston, has
now given contract to Thomas Ball
for furnishing such statue for the sum
of $4,000, with the cost of transporta-
ton added, to be completed, if prac-
ticable, as early as next November. The
statue is to be placed upon a suitable
pedestal, resting on permanent gram
lite foundation, in the yard of the State
House in Concord.
A BILL was passed by the Virginia
Legislature making it misdemeanor,
punishable by fine, for any Judge
school superintendent, manager or
employee of any State institution
to make political speeches or to
take an active part in political meet
ings. A county superintendent of
schools having violated the act by MAX
ing political speech last fall, has been
tried, convicted and fined fifty dollars
under the law. The case was appealed
to the State Supreme Court, which de-
cides that the law is unconstitutional,
the State Constitution guaranteeing to
every citizen freedom of speech.
THE recent decision of a Minneapolis
Circuit Court Judge deserves to go
laundering down the ages. A statute
of the State provides that anybody who
shall give information leading to the
arrest and conviction of person who
steals horse shall be paid reward OF
5000. An officer ran down a man who
stole mule and at great trouble and
expense secured his conviction. When
he came to apply for the reward he was
Il