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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-17
A QUEER MALADY.
Details of the Strange Disease by Which
an Iowa Merchant Passed Away.

Details of the Strange Disease by Which
an Iowa Merchant Passed Away.
DAVENPORT, Ia, July IA remark
able disease of the brain, which ended in the
death of the sufferer, James Croak, a we'll
known merchant of this city, is engrossing
the attention of physicians here. Mr.. Croak
first fell i'll in April, 1884, suddenly losing
consciousness for five minutes The next
symptom was trouble with the left eye, and
for some time he saw double. In COM
paratively short time total loss of vision
in the left eye resulted. Double vision in
the right eye ensued within six months, and
soon sight departed from that eye. The
blindness was absolute. No pain was con-
nected with this phase of the disease. Mr..
Croak seemed in perfect health, and the
eyes, to one unaequanted with him, have
not the slightest traces of blindness. Then
followed a gradual and finally an absolute
loss of hearing and of the sense of smell.
Accompanying this stage Of the disease
was an occasional twitching of the muscles
of the face and mouth, and numbneSs of
the right side. M a
For three months prior to his death Mr.
Croak's sufferings were fearful. The pain
seemed to be in the top of the head, and
was most intense. Anodynes, successful
in other cases, were powerless in his.
During all this time he was able to be
about, since there was not the slightest
dimnution of his physical strength
The only way in which he could
gain relief was to bend forward with his
head inclined to the right. For two days
ofior ri his death hn was in oon1atoco
state. A post-mortem examination re-
vealed hard tumor two and one-half
inches long and two inches thick on the
brain. There was no evidence of injury to
the skull, and no disceverable cause for the
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FIVE DEATHS BY FIRE.
TVE DEFE ITO . U. TTnEs
Three Firemen Fatally Injured at Albany
Two Fatalities at Belfast. Me.


Two Fatalities at Belfast, Me.
ALBANY, N. Y, July 13.-The livery
stable Of Albert Burch was burned at three
o'clock yesterday morning. Thirty horses,
none valued at less than $500, were in the
stable. Four of them were led out, but
two were SO badly burned that they died
shortly afterward. The other twenty
six were consumed by the fire.
A few minutes after the stable had burned
the north brick wall of the Boardman &
Gray piano factory tottered and fell. John
A. Luby, who was on duty as foreman Of
steamer No. 2, was dug out of the debris.
He was still alive, though his face was
burned to a crisp and bruised by the fall. A
few hours after he was taken homehe died.
Foreman Fred j. Wallen and Hoseman
Rufus K. Townsend were also taken out
alive, the former injured beyond recovery
and the latter with both legs broken
and otherwise injured. The life
less body of David Wheeler, of steamer
No. 4, was taken from the wreck by his
comrades. The piano factory was four
story brick building. The others entirely
destroyed were of wood. The total loss is
placed at 100000, not half of which was
covered by insurance. John A. Luby was
the most skillful Republican politician in
Albany Courtyard was the acknowledged
leader of the stalwarts in this section. He
had been a volunteer fireman since 1878.
BELFAST, Me-, July 13.-Between twelve
and one o'clock yesterday morning two men
named Welsey Twombley and Allen Casey
went into one of the stables of the Belfast
Livery Company to sleep. An hour later
fire broke out in the stable, probably from
a cigar or pipe. The stable was completely
destroyed. The two men were burned
up, their charred corpses being found in
the runs, while third man, James Nc
Cabe. barely escaped. Twenty of the
thirty horses of the company were con-
sumed. The flames rapidly spread, and
were not controlled until the American
House, with stables, two sheds in rear, and
three business blocks, containing four stores
and photograph gallery, were totally de-
stroyed. The loss is $45, 900; insurance,
$4,000. The American House was built
in 1924, being one of the oldest hotels in
Maine.
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HUMOROUS.

"A farmer says he is going to mako
his sole remaining son drug clerk be-
cause he wants one pharmacist in the
family. Boston Budget.
She: "Itis really wonderful to sec
how we'll the men keep step" He:
''Bah, that is nothing! When | was a
soldier [ used to keep step better than
all the rest put together. "-Burlingtors
Haw6eye.
"A New York tooth carpenter adj
vertises full set of teeth for five dollars,
while you wait There are places out
West where you can have full set of
teeth inserted for nothing while VOC
wait, unless the bulldog is Chained
Peck'S San. ........-
Ethel: "What does r.. s. V. P.
mean on all these cards mamma is go-
ing to send out?" Edward (ten years
old): "Why, that means, well, let me
think, oh, yes, it means, refreshments
served at five precisely! | thought you
knew that much. "-Boston Beacon.
"A sad-looking man went to the
United States Mint and applied for
board and lodging. "Sir," said t.e
mint man, haughtily, this is not q
boardinghouse." mop" replied the
sad-looking stranger. II was told this
was the place where they make cash."
And then they scent him away.-M Y
Herald.
"A lawyer walked down the street
recently, with his length of arm taxed
to hold lot of law books. To him a
friend, pointing at the books, said:
"WEy, | thought you carried all that
stuff in your 6ead?'' Il do quickly
replied the lawyer, with knowing
hrak; "these are for the Judges. -
toledo LLade.
Full many flower is born to
aush unseen" Oh, no, Ariadne, not
much it isn't, unless the flower is quite
conscious that somebody is looking at
it it does not waste its time in idle
bushes. 1t attends strictly to business,
holds up its head and briskly asks the
next bee that comes along to step in
and examine its new stock of domes-
tics and imported pollen tefore pur-
chasing elsewhere. -Burdette.
ave are of, cried fair bride AS
the locomotive pulled away in its en-
deavor to move the train. "Just listen
to the chew, chew of the engine"
"What bad habits" replied the groom,
with tear in his eye. why, darling,
what do you mean?" she inquired
sweetly. ''Nothing much, angel, ex-
cept that the engine not only 'chews'
but smokes" She got off at the next
station and returned to her parental
home.-Merch0nt Traveller.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Ding Dong is the name of a Oh nese
telle who lives in Newark IN. i. Mail
1T is said thai Bernhardt's two am
bitions are to grow fat and write good
poetry.
The profits of the late Hugh Con-
way on the shilling edition of Called
Back were $4,000. N y. Tribune.
Mrs Frelinghuysen and her unmar-
red daughters viii make Washington
their future home, - Washington Post.
Anita Armour, who recently made
a successful debut in opera at Trieste,is
Miss Aunie Lipp:ncott, daughter of
''Grace Greenwood" of Philadelphia
Philadelphia Press.
1t is asserted that the manuscripts
left by Victor Hugo will ill ten
volumes. Three of them will be prose
and poetry; the others notes and letters
written during his exile.
Miss Julie jackson, only daughter
of the late General Stonewall Jackson,
at her wedding recently received as a
bridal present from Hon, W. w. Cor
coran, of Washington, a fruit set of
solid gold.
Perhaps the most successful literary
assimilation" ever perpetrated was by
Victor Hugo, who remodeled Cesar
assertion, that it was better to be first
in village of Gaul than second in
Rome, into ''It is better to be the
head of fly than the tail of q lion. j"
Contrary to the general belief
Francis Scott Key did not write the
''Star Spangled Banner while "con-
fined as Il prisoner on an English man
of-war." He wrote it on his own boat,
to which he was sent while the bonn
bardment was in progress. He was not
a prisoner but rather guest of the
British Admiral, having visited the fleet
| to secure the release of relative. Chi
cag0 Herald.
Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle
Remus") is very modest and diffident.
| When he was in New York, few
months ago, number of journalists
| determined to give him banque5.
When he heard it he Immediately took
a train home and telegraphed back for
his baggage. The thought of making
an after-dinner speech was more than
he could stand. Christian Union.
The following are the ages of the
Wellknown women named: Nine.
Adam, 40; Mary Anderson, 2G; Sarah
Bernhard Al; Mrs. Besant, SO; Rosa
Bonheur, 63; Miss Braddon, As; Miss
Gordon Cumming, As; Lady Eastlake,
6S, Empress Eugene, SO; Emily Faith
| full, so; Mrs. Gladstone, 70; Julia Ward
Howe 6O. Mmo da Novikoff AZ, Ion
ny Lind, Ga; Pauline Lucca, Do; Helen
Modjeska,4 Al; Florence Nightingale, 60;
Christine Nilsson, AZ; Mrs. Oliphant.
81 Ouida, 40; Adelina Patti AZ; Chris
tina Rosetti, So; Ellen Terry, 81; Mrs.
Weldon, 48; Mrs. Henry Wood, Co.
~ Y Herald
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.

The War Department was advised on
the 9th by General Schofield that no
| Cheyennes had yet been in Kansas
| and no citizens had been killed. A hun
dred young members of the tribe had,
issued for the concentration of all troops
| that may be available in the event of a
serious outbreak.
ACCORDING to dispatches received by the
| Signal Service Bureau on the 9th marked
meteorological disturbances had been ex-
perienced during the day along the entire
Atlantic coast. At Dover, N. H., the ther-
mometer indicated 102 degrees in the shade.
| The extreme heat was everywhere fol-
lowed by terrific thunder storms, and
numerous persons in various places had
been killed by lightning.
| CHARLES KNOTT shot and killed Mrs.
| George Morris and then killed himself at
| Washington on the 9th. He was believed
| to have been insane.
| THE widow of the late r. T. Merrick
died on the afternoon of the 9th.
THERE were 1914 business fail ures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
/ days ended on the 10th, against I'll the
| previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, As; New
England States, 20; Western, 60; South
ern, 26; Pacific States and Territories, 10;
! Canada, "a. aeae4hN F#8E&4M
/ COLONEL JOHN GIBBoN, Of the Seventh
Infantry, was on the 10th appointed Brig
adler General, vice General C. G. Augur
retired.
| ACCORDING to the June wheat report OF
the National Agricultural Department is
sued on the 10th the aggregate yield was
estimated at $4,000, 900 bushels. The con-
dition of corn was higher than in any year
since 1880 1Ss3 excepted), and cotton had
materially improved.
THE men, of-war Tennessee and Yantic
under command of Admiral Jouett, were
on the 18th ordered bone from the Isthmus
Of Panama, as the trouble there seemed tc
be at an end.
AN order issued on the 18th directed
three thousand troops from the depart
ments of Texas and the Platte to Fort
Reno, Indian Territory, for service against
the hostile Cheyennes.
For the first eleven months of the past
fiscal year the imports of the United States
aggregated in value $50, 295, 1874; exports
1871 1851 1928; excess of exports, $161, 1885,
259.
AT twenty-six leading clearing house:
in the United States the exchanges dur.
ing the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$751;, 1897 ,046, against $685. 1854 the previ-
GUS week. AS compared with the CORE.
spending period Of 1884, the falling of
amounts to IA per cent.
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cases of sporadic cholera existed in To.
ledo, o., proved, upon Investigation on the
11th to he unfounded

cases of sporadic cholera, existed in To.
ledo, o., proved, upon Investigation on the
18th, to be unfounded.
On the 18th Christopher Mann, the old
est man in Missouri, and companion Of
Daniel Boone, died at his home near Inde-
pendence, at the age Of one hundred and
eleven years.
In Lake Minnetonka the steam yacht
Minnie Cook was capsized during storm
on the 18th, and ten persons, including ex-
Mayor Rand, of Minneapolis, his wife and
two SONS, j. R. Coykendall and wife, and
four others were drowned. A''
JUDGE POWERS, Of Ogden, Utah, on the
18th imposed the extreme penalty of the
law-six months imprisonment and $500
fine-upon two prominent Mormons con-
victed of Illegal cohabitation.
The recent water-spout near Blooming
ton, ILL.,, entailed loss which was on the
18th estimated at over $250,000.
Anew days ago the Worlds Exposition
| plant, buildings and machinery at New
| Orleans were sold at auction for $4,000.
On the evening of the 18th cyclone
passed over Rock Dell, Mimi, destroying
farm buildings, crops and other property.
No lives were reported lost.
THE Indian Territory cattle trails were
| opened up on the 18th, and cattle were
moving north from Texas without him
drance.
On the 18th the bodies of the ten persons
who were drowned recently in Lake Min
netonka, near ) Minneapolis, were recov-
cred.
1T was stated ON the 18th that the excite.
ment in Indian Territory was increasing,
and bands of Cheyennes were constantly
on the move, stealing horses and cattle.
The Indians appeared to be anxious regard
ing the Governments intentions, and were
DESTROYS of ''big talk"
AT Shauncey, Ga, R. M. Peacock and
Charles Thompson shot and killed each
other during quarrel on the 18th, and a
stray bullet killed negro who was stand
ing near. s4. fs
THE Governor of Kansas on the 18th
sent letter to the Secretary of the In
terror protesting against the transfer OF
| the Apaches from Arizona to the borders
| of Kansas. f H5a
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BALDM ESS.
How Produced and How 1t May -
Avoided,

How Produced and How 1t May 30
Avoided.
If one would avoid baldness-more
easily prevented than cured-keeping
the head cool, by temperance in all
things, and the feet warm by proper ex-
ercise, will be an important condition.
Those who have not sufficient brain 20
Earm the head, or do not exercise it
efficiently, but must wear fur cap
within doors, everywhere, will be very
likely early to lose the hair, all but that
outside of the hat or cap, that having
some of the advantages of air and cool
ness. 1t seems absurd TO suppose that
cold is naturally and necessarily
taken by simple draft of cool air''
on the uncovered head. There are
some, however, who do not dare to
have little pure air, cGol and refresh
ing, reach the head, while they may be
utterly reckless about the temperature
of the feet.
Badness may be produced by Excess
scalp most easily prevented by clean
illness of the head-by indigestion, by
irritating and indigestible foods, by de-
bilitcting diseases and by failure to
be well nourished by the use of plain,
simple and wholesome food. since the
best way of sustaining the whole body,
or any of its parts, is to obey oil of tho
laws of our being. those relating to di-
gestion. to pure air. sunlight and clean
Illness being prominent-Go Golden Rule.
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WHOLESALE POISONING.

Sixty Residents of NIomence, ILL.,, Taken
Violently Ill After Eating Dried Beef
One of the Victims Dies in Great Agony,
and Several Others Reported Beyond
Recovery.
KANKAKEE, ILL.,, July 14.-On Thursday
last butcher named Hoag, living at Mo
menee, small village twelve miles from
here, received from the Rice Butcher and
Supply Company, of Chicago, a consign-
ment of dried beef The meat seemed
to be of a very fine quality, and was
purchased by very large number of per-
sons. That night and the next day all
who had partaken of the meat were
taken violently i'll, and sixty persons in the
village were taken with violent pain and
cramps in their stomachs, backs and legs.
The pains and vomiting were accom-
panied by violent purging, and the
sick persons found it impossible to
retain medicine upon their stomachs,
the only relief the patients expert
enced being afforded by hypodermic in
jections of opium. Only one death has so
far resulted from the poisoning-tha of the
wife of DR.. Shronts, who expired Sunday
in great agony--but five others are danger
ously sick and not expected to live. Their
names are Mrs. III. Worcester, Ed Gibeault,
Rillie LOCKER, Miss L. Burton and Mrs. A.
Culver.
The dried beef was put up in canvas
sacks, and was believed by all who exam
med it to be of first quality. When exam
ined under microscope, the meat is seen
to be covered with immense numbers of
little worms, about two hundred being Wis
ible Oh each square inch. DR.. Shrouts
gave some of the meat to a healthy dog,
and the animal soon died. Portions
of the diseased beef have been sent
to Chicago analytical chemist, whose re-
port has not yet been received Several
physicians have been called from this place
to attend the sufferers, and members of the
Board of Health are expected at Momence
to inquire into the matter
CHICAGO, July 14.-lsaac A. Rice Presi-
dent of the Rice Butcher Supply Company,
said last night that he sold Hoag & Scran-
lin, of Momence, from thirty to fifty pounds
of dried beef weekly. He claimed to sell
nothing but freshly-dried beet, which, as a
rule, was disposed of as fast as it came from
the smoke-house. He could understand, he
said, how canvassed beef in the hands of a
grocer might get tainted or wormy, but
butchers rarely had such trouble, as they
were more careful. With the beef he sold
there was he thought, little chance fol
such O tn ng, as it was all freshly cured
when sent out, and the firm bought weekly
to get it fresh.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

GENERAL De CoURCY was authorized by
the French Government on the 9th to de-
pose the present King of Anam if he re-
fused to submit to French authority, and
to place on the throne another member of
the reigning family. l@sas'9it
In Venezuela revolution had broken
out on the 9th, and the insurgents had
seized the steamer Libertador, with sever
al Government chiefs on board.
In the West Marlborough paper mills,
near Hamilton, Cam, boiler explosion on
the 10th resulted in the death of two men,
Edward Maloney, fireman, and John A.
Stutt, one of the owners of the mills
ACCORDING to French dispatches of the
10th from Anam a great number of the
rebels had laid down their arms under a
promise of amnesty. tnsa y
CAIRO adyices of the 10th say that I'M
less measures for relief are taken before
September l Egypt will be completely
bankrupt. ~
| In an editorial article on the 18th tae
Pail Mall Gazette announced it's intention
of continuing the exposure of vice in Lon
don. HE ,lat
DURING June the number of emigrapts
from the port of Bremen to the United
States was twelve hundred less than for
the same month of 1884. The total decrease
for the six months of 1885 has been over
thirteen thousand.
ADvICEs received on the 18th at Cairo
stated, on the authority of a letter received
by merchant at Handek, that Eel Mehdi
was dead and that his followers were
fighting among themselves. The story
was partly confirmed from other sources.
| In Austria and Hungary terrible floods
have occurred recently. At Pesth a wa
terspout destroyed $780, 200 worth of prop
erty.
The treasure discovered by the French
in the royal palace at Hue was, up to the
18th, valued at $2,00O,O00. The King of
Anam was held a prisoner.
THERE were 1,417 new cases of cholera
in Spain during the twenty-four hours
ended at six p. m. on the 18th, and 667
deaths. The disease had appeared in four
new sections. The official report shows a
total of 10000 cases in Spain since the in
ception of the scourge, and total of
$4,000 deaths. s''
| ON the 18th the streets of London were
| flooded and traffic greatly impeded by a
| heavy storm.
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No Yellow Fever at New Orleans.

New ORLEANS, July lie Considerable
excitement and indignation was created AT
the different Exchanges yesterday by the
announcement that dispatches had been sent
to Chicago and New York reporting twelve
cases of yellow fever in this city. The
rumor is not true. Only two cases have
been reported by the Board of Health. and
the diagnosis OF one of them lead people
to believe that it was not a genuine case of
yellow fever. An item in an evening naner
offers a reward of 500 for the name Of the
person who sent the dispatches. No cases
of yellow fever exist in the city. ~
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A Wild Ride.

WABASH, Ind, July 11.--An engine
pulling the east-bound express on the
Wabash line broke side rod one mile west
of here Thursday night and section of the
rod knocked a hole in the boiler from which
steam escaped in such quantities as to
render it impossible for the engineer
to stop. In this condition the
train passed through the city at
speed of forty-five miles per hour, the engi-
neer and fireman going to the baggage car,
leaving the engine with no one in charge.
A mile east of Wabash the steam became
exhausted and the train stopped. The en-
CINE is badly wrecked. No one was ini1lrad-
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LATER.

AN Indian raid was reported early on
the morning of the 14th near Eagle Pass,
Tex, in which fifteen Mexicans were killed,
The cavalry having been sent to the In
dian Territory, leaves that section UNI
protected. sf af
The Cheyennes were on the 18th said to
be leaving their reservation in large
squads, scattering in all directions. Dis
patches received at Fort Omaha stated
that no further danger was apprehended.
GENERAL GRANT suffered somewhat on
the 14th from rheumatism, but in other re-
spects his condition was but slightly
changed. -s.
WHILE hosting the center of the new
gasometer into position at Albany, N. Y,
a few days ago the gaff gave way, pre-
cipitating three men to the bottom of the
shaft, 105 feet, killing them instantly.
MRS. SUSIE WILLIAMS, of Baxley, Ca,
locked her three children up the other
day while she went to the field to work.
On her return she found the house and
children burned up.
The fires in the cranberry boys and tim
Der lands of Southern New Jersey were on
the 14th partly extinguished by rain, hav-
ing burned over $4,000 square miles and
causing immense loss.
TIE Munster Bank of Cork and Dublin
failed on the 14th with liabilities of IS, $780,
600. The majority of the stockholders
were ladies who were dependent solely
upon the banks dividends for their sup
port.
FIVE murderers confined in the jail at
Asheville, n. c., overpowered the turnkey
on the 14th and locked him in a cell, max
ing their escape to the mountains.
LOUIS j. JENNINGS, formerly editor of
the New York Times, win contest a bor-
ough in England at the coming general
election, in the Tory interest. 's
ALBERT Ross, business man of JEFF
two weeks, shot and fatally wounded his
wife on the 14th and then killed himself.
Jealousy caused the tragedy.
THE strike among workmen at Bay CITY,
Mich, and other points had assumed such
a threatening attitude on the 14th that
Governor A1ger called out the militia to
protect lives and property.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
six p. m. on the 14th there were 1902 new
cases of cholera and 473 deaths reported in
Spain.
A STORM of wind, rain, hail and light
ming swept through the Allegheny Valley
on the night of the 18th, working havoc
from Pittsburgh to Titusville. In the tele-
graph office at Harmarsville James Nc
Feeters vas killed by an electric shock.
Railway tracks We're submerged at many
places, villages and manufactures flooded
and crops ruined. The aggregate losses
were enormous.