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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
Denartment of Labor.

WASHINGTON. Dec. Representative
Weaver, Of Iowa, will introduce in tile
House on the first opportunity bill TO
create Department of Labor. with
Secretary and an Assistant Secretary.
the former of whom shall be
Cabinet officer. The duties of this
department shall be to acquire and
ditTuse among the people useful information
on subjects connected with labor. to ascer-
tain the causes of discomfort which may
exist between employers and employees,
and to recommend proper methods
for the adjustment Of the same.
The Secretary is required to make
annual reports showing the general con-
dition of labor throughout the United
States, the evils under which laboreTs are
suffering. if any, and whether such evils are
the result directly or indirectly Of legisla-
ton, or from lack OF it, and giving a state
ment of all labor strikes, riots or disturb
ances, setting forth clearly the exact claims
of both parties to the controversy. Sworn
statements are to be required from employ
ers, showing the wages paid by them aud
the profits realized from actual cash capital
invested, exclusive of fictitious or watered
stock. The present Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics is to be merged with this department.
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Negroes Going West.

RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. IA remarkable
exodus of colored labor is now in progress
from several counties along the southern
border of this State. These counties are
Harnett, Cumberland, Robson, Richmond,
Columbia, Arson and Union. For some
months men have been at work In all that
section seeking to induce bodied men
and their families to go to Kansas OF
Arkansas. 1t is thought that in all be-
tween 1000 and 1900 persons have thus far
left, and this is so great drain upon the
labor of Richmond County that the people
are anxious to stop it, but they have been
so wrought up by the agents with stories OF
life and wealth in Kansas that they can
not be induced to turn back from the
promised land.
No reports have come back from hun
dreds who are already in Kansas and Ar
kansas. A few years ago there was sim
liar emigration from this State to Kansas
Many emigrants died and others returned
No cause is given for the exodus except
natural restlessneSs and the allurements
held out by agents. There is no abatement
OF the rush.
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The EAST.

THE official canvass of the vote of New
York State in the recent election gives the
following Democratic pluralities: For
Governor, Hill, 11,134; Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, JONES' ID, 1856; Secretary of State,
Cook, 1460S; Comptroller, Chaplin, 1925;
Treasurer, Fitzgerald, 1859; Attorney
General, O'Brien, 13,7O3; State Engineer,
Sweet, 12,249.
RECENT reports from New York an
nounced large number of wrecks on the
northeastern coast in late storms, and
great suffering by the crews. Several lives
were lost.
AT Hazleton, Pa., an acre of the surface
over the Harleigh mines caved in on the
18th, causing great damage and throwing
four hundred miners and laborers out of
employment.
TELEGRAMS on the 18th to BrddStreet'S from
leading trade centers throughout the United
States revealed somewhat better trade
generally West, Northwest, Southwest and
South than was reported at the East.
COFFEE sales decreased at New York dur
ing the year as compared with last year
2,432, 900 bags or thirty-one per cent.
THE final obsequies of the late William
the 18th. The funeral services were held
| in st. Bartholomew Episcopal Church,
! and was very simple in character
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT's will was fled
for probate in New York on the 18th. By
| the terms his eight children receive $40, OO0,-
900 each, the widow is given the use of the
family residence and personal property and
| an annuity of 100000 per year, about
Sl,0O0,O 600 is devoted to charity, and the re-
mainder of the property is divided between
the two eldest sons, Cornelius aud William
K, which makes their share of the estate
about S60,000000 each.
WHILE skating on the 18TH at North Had
ley, Mass. Henry Fl. Sexton, seventeen
years old, and James B, Palmer, aged
eleven, were drowned.
PATRICK O'RoURKE, aged seventy-one
years, who forty years ago loaned Horace
Greeley $1,000 to aid in starting the New
York Tribune, and who had been in charge
of the engine and press-rooms in that es-
tablishment ever since, dropped dead from
heart-disease on the 14th
Ii was declared by delegate Game, OF
Utah, in New York on the 14th that Nor
monism could not be killed.
A GAS explosion on the 14th in the Mill
Greek mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, fatally in
jured three men and MANNED seventeen
others
THE other day Benjamin Louth, ST., of
Pittsburgh, Pa. the inventor of process
for turning old steel rails into nail plate
sold his right to syndicate for $500 per
| day for the next sixteen years.
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THE EADS SHIP RAILWAY.

The Mexican Congress Passes Bill In
creasing the Land Grants to the Com
pany-More Time Granted.
New YORK, Dec. IA telegram re-
ceved yesterday from President DiaZ, OF
Mexico, by the President of the Tehuante-
pee Ship Railway Company, announced the
passage yesterday by the Mexican Congress
of the amended concessions to the company.
These amendments add to the previous
land grant 100000 acres, the Whole
land concession being equal to hall
the area of New Jersey. COalng stations
are to be permitted at either end of the
railway, to which coal from the United
States, or any other foreign nation cooper
ating with Mexico in guaranteeing interest
on the bonds of the railway company, is to
be admitted free, to the exclusion of
coal from all other countries. This will
give now market to the United
States coal trade If the United States Con-
gress joins with Mexico OH the guaranty
which the bonds to build the ship railway
are to be based. Mexico guarantees the
payment of S1.250,000 year for fifteen
years provided thai this or some European
nation will guarantee 50, 500, 900 more fOI
the same period. The time for completing
the road has been extended to 1894.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

Mr.. PARNELL's political lieutenant,
Thomas P. O'Connor, declared in recent
interview that what is sought for Ireland is
| Government similar in character to that
of Canada.
ORDERS were on the 18th issued for the re-
occupation of Dongola by British troops
| owing to the activity and increasing
strength of the rebels in the Soudan.
ADvIoEs of the 18th state that the Irish
National League has returned eighty-six
members of Parliament and is absolutely
master of the situation.
THE coolest weather known for the past
| five years was reported on the 18th as pre-
vailing in England.
TROOPS under the acting Governor of
Nuevo Leon, Mex, fired on General Reyes
and party at Monterey on the 18th, killing
an officer and three privates and wounding
six men.
EIGHTY-sIx deaths from smallpox &C.
Cured in Montreal and adjoining princi-
palities during the week ended on the 18th.
The number is the same as for the previ-
Gus week.
| In tenement house at Plymouth, Eng,
fire on the 18th burned twelve persons to
| death, and many others were seriously in
| jured by leaping from the windows.
THE funeral of the late King Alfonso of
| Spain, took place in Madrid on the 18th.
| THE followers of the new Mehdi were
being massed on the 10Th in great force and
the advance on the main army in Egypt
had begun. The British and native out
| posts were falling back before the advanc-
| ing hordes Of Arabs.
PROMINENT Englishmen met at the Ma.
| tional Liberal Club in London on the 18th
and resolutions were unanimously adopted
| pledging all those present not to employ
Irish labor in the future and to get rid OF
the Celts now engaged as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
A FEW days ago Henry Burke, mer
chant of st. Armand, Can, His fiancee
| Miss Cadorette, and the latter's brother
broke through the ice while skating at
| Phillipsburg Lake and were drowned. The
| bodies were recovered
IT was unanimously decided by the Sails
| bury Cabinet on the 18th to refuse to re-
ceive or to make overtures for an alliance
with the Parnellites. They will meet Par
lament with a programme of English
| Church Reform and Land Tenure bill
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
xLixth CONGRESS.


THURSDAY, Dec. 10-In the Senate bills
were introduced for postal telegraph;
to relieve commercial travellers from IL
cense taxes; for an international tribunal
of arbitration, and to open to homestead
settlement certain portions Of Indian Terri
tory. A joint resolution was presented
from the Legislature Of New Jersey for an
inquiry into the fitness of Alaska for a
penal colony, and large number of Presi-
Dental nominations were received. Ad-
journed to the 18th. The House was not in
session.
SATURDAY, Dec. 12.-The Senate was net
in session. In the House the Speaker pre-
sented large number of Executive COM
munications and resolution was intro
duced from the Connecticut Legislature
asking that a bylaw be passed for the as
certainment and counting of the Electoral
vote. Adjourned to the 18th.
MONDAY, Dec 14.-In the Senate a men,
orial was presented from the Constitutional
Convention of Dakota, with a draft of q
constitution under which admission to the
Union is asked. A motion was agreed to
increasing the membership of the Commit
tee on Appropriations to ten, and the Chair
appointed Mr.. Logan as the additional mem
Der. Mr.. Logan was also appointed Chair
man of the Committee on Military Affairs,
Mr.. Sewell, at his own request, being re-
leased from thatposition A message was re-
ceived from the President transmitting the
correspondence with Austria regarding
Minister Kelley. Bills were introduced to
suspend the coinage of the standard silver
dollar and to make the postal rate on sec
ond-class matter one cent per pound. In the
House discussion over the revision of the
rules occupied the entire session.
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Fort WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 15.-The eHgi.
neer of the south-bound passenger train on
the Lake Shore Il Michigan Southern Rail-
way yesterday morning discovered the
bleeding form of man OH his hands and
knees, near the track of New Era station,
sixteen miles north of Fort Wayne The
man was recognized as Lex Harner, and
died shortly after. Harner had been en-.
ployed by the Lake Shore Railway as a
track laborer, and had saved $500, which
he had drawn from the bank preparatory to
leaving for Wisconsin,, was last seen
in company with LEVITT ,ssler, about an
hour before his body was found. Kees,er
is missing, and it is thought he robbed and
murdered Harner
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AN EXCITING CONTEST.

Two Large Whales Killed by Party OF
Long Islanders After Long and Ter
rifle Conflict.
EAST HAMPTON, L. l., Dec. lathe
coast of Long Island was thrown into great
excitement early Saturday morning by the
announcement that several whales were
spouting southwest from this coast, and
about five miles out. Three boats crews
were quickly recruited and at eight o'clock
a. N. dashed through the surf in chase OF
the monsters At about 1880 o'clock they
came up with a bull and COW whale, and
the greatest fight that ever took place on
this coast was Immediately begun. After
having drawn the boats fifteen miles
out to sea the whales were killed.
Both boats then started for the shore
towing the whales Yesterday morning
they were viewed by thousands of people.
The bull measured fifty feet and the cow
seventy feet. 1t is estimated that they will
give from 1875 to $50 barrels of oil and 1900
pounds of bone. 1t is estimated that they
will net about $4,000.
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q. GRAFT BROWN.
Sudden Death at st. Louis of This Once
Noted Politician.

Sudden Death at st. Louis of This 0nce
Noted Politician.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 14.-EX- Governor B.
Gratz Brown died suddenly at his residence
in this city at six O'clock yesterday morn
ing. He was taken i'll last Tuesday with
pneumonia, which was followed yesterday
by heart disease, the immediate cause Of
his DEATH
Ex-Governor Brown was a native of Frank
fort, KY, and was fjfty-nne years of age In
1851 he settled i'll Missouri and soon became
prominent as Free soil Democrat He was
a staunch friend and adnirer of Thomas Hart
Benton, and this led him into duel, in 1885,
with Ex-Governor Thomas c. Reynolds, who
was recently q prominent candidate for
the position of Minister to Spain
Brown wounded Reynolds in the knee, lam
ing him for some time. In 1858 Governor
Brown was elected United States Senator
from Missouri, and in 1870 he was elected
Governor of the State by tho Liberal
Republicans he having identified HIM
self with that movement. lie was nomi-
mated for the .Vice.P Presidency by the
same party in 1872, when Horace Greeley
headed the ticket. After the defeat OF
the ticket Governor Brown returned TO the
practice Ian, in which he was engaged at
the time of his death. Hewas also for time
editor and, with William Mckee and General
Frank p. Blair, part proprietor of the old
Missouri Democrat, now the Globe Democrat,
OF ST: Louis. widow and nine children sur
ViVe him.
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PERiLS OF MINING.
Terrific Explosion of Gas In a Pennsylv
mia Mine--Four Lives Lost.

Terrific Explosion of Gas in a Pennsylya-
mia Mine-Four Lives Lost.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Dec. ia fright
full explosion of gas took place Saturday
morning in the Mill creek mine, operated
by the Delaware and Hudson Coal Com
pany. At the time of the accident there
were about 100 miners, laborers and boys in
the slope. The news spread rapidly and
the whole population seemed to have
gathered about the colliery The explosion
occurred in what is known as No. IL lift
which is located at the extreme end of the
opening of the slope, being 1000 feet from
the mouth, and therefore its ventilation was
a difficult problem. The gas had ignited in
the breast, where miner named C0ify was
at work. An exploring party of some TWEEN
ty miners entered the slope as soon as
the news had reached the surface. 1t was
soon discovered that many had been burned,
and they at once began removing them.
Owing to the extremely bad air, it was
difficult to remove the victims. The dead
are George Martin. Joseph Chasby, Peter
Coffee and Joseph Parduski. Nicholas
Gray, Samuel Morris and Peter Stone were
dangerously wounded. The dead were
horribly burned and mutilated, some hav-
ing been denuded by the flames.
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LATER.

GIDEON c. MooDY and Alonzo j. Edger
ton were on the 18th elected United State.
Senators from the proposed new State
Dakota.
TWELVE people were killed outright and
number of others were badly injured by
collision of trains on the 18th on the
Georgia Pacific Road near Atlanta, Ga.
GENERAL ROBERT TONES died at his
home in Washington, Ga, at six O'Clock on
the evening of the 18th, in his seventy-sixth
year.
In the Gunnison country in Colorado the
snow was six feet deep on the 18th, ard at
Sllverton its depth was two feet. The
weather was intensely cold.
THREE cars of the Utah & Northern ex-
press train were thrown from the track on
the 18th near Hawgood, an employee being
instantly killed and eight passengers
seriously wounded.
THE Arlington Cotton-Mills at Whining
ton, Del, were destroyed by fire on the
18th, causing loss of 800, 900.
Ii was announced on the 18th that the
Canadian Government intended to restore
the duties on tea and coffee and increase
the tax on coal to one dollar per ton.
mANGING-LANr fell from its fastenings
upon Mrs. Joseph Herrick at her home in
Muncie, Ind, the other night and her cloth
ing taking fire she was burned to death.
Her infant child was also probably fatally
burned
The Supreme Court of the United States
has sustained the Northwestern Road in
refusing to transport beer into Iowa, in
violation of the Prohibilory Liquor law of
the State
ACCORDING to the New York Produce Ex-
change, the visible supply Of wheat and
corn on the 18th was, respectively, IS, 49,
III and 1855, 72S bushels
BILLS were passed in the United States
Senate on the 18th giving to Mrs. U. s.
Grant a pension of 5000 per annum and
the franking privilege, and relieving from
political disabilities General A. r. Lawton.
OF Georgia. Bills were introduced for the
admission of portion of the Territory of
Dakota as a State and to pension soldiers of
the Mexican war. A joint resolution was
introduced for an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States providing that
the President and Vice-President shall
hereafter be elected for term of six
years, and that they shall be ineligible TO
reelection, and that the Vice President
shall be ineligible to tae Office of President
after he shall have filed the same in case
of vacancy therein. A proposed amend
ment to the rules providing that no liquor
be sold in the Capitol was defeated by
vote OF Sc nays to 20 yeas. In the House
resolution was offered providing for holt
day recess from Tuesday, December q, I'M
til Tuesday, January 5. The remainder of
the session was taken up with the discus
tion on the revision Of the rules.
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LOST IN MID-wINTER.

Lake Michigan Propeller Wrecked on
Charity Island-Story of the Disaster
Seven Persons Thought to Have Per-
shed.
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 12-The steamer
Oconto left Oscada on Friday, December 4,
at four p. H., and soon encountered a ter
rible gale. When the storm set in it be-
came impossible to see, and the lights
went out. There were twenty-five
passengers and twenty-five members of the
crew on board. At twelve o'clock Friday
night Charity Islard light was sighted.
Within fifteen minutes the Oconto struck
bottom at the southeast point of the island
Frank Teiper, first assistant engineer, who
arrived here yesterday, describes the wreck
as follows:
As soon as the boat struck the crew began
dealing out life-preServerS. After we got
ready for the ice-bath, in which none of US
could have lived fifteen minutes, we discov-
cred that there was no leak. When day broke
we set our coorS at halfmast and began blow
ing ewhistles. About ten O'Clock we sighted
the lighthouse-keeper and s assistant on
shore. We got our small metallic life boat
over the side, and in it five of us went ashore.
There we found two fish hutS. We then
brought the passengers ashore. There were
tyenty-three in all. Two ladies and child
were taken direct to the lght-keeper's house.
The men began keeping house i'll the fish
huts, They have food enough TO last them
two or three weeks, and plenty of blankets.
Monday morning our party came away in q
large yawl. Our party consisted of John VAN
slyke, son of one Of the owners of the Oconto;
Tom Croker, John CavNnaugh, Walter BoSt-
wick, James Ross, all of the crew; Anthony
Potts, of Forestville, and myself We took
aboard a compass, two bushels of salt and some
provisions. We started in the midst of cake
ice. Every minute or two the spray would
dash over and freeze as it struck. When we
got within four miles of Caseville we found
the ice frozen sol dly. yet not strong enough
to walk upon. We hosted our storm signal
and began cult ng our way with axes. Two
boats started out to helpuS, but they couldn {
reach. To add to our dismay we found
that the solid ice, detached fiOm the main
shore, was increasing in thickness every min
ute, and that it was drifting down the bay.
taking us with it. We cut. pushed, rowed
and struggled ike mad, reaching shore at
last at six clock Monday evening eight miles
below Caseville having drifted that far in the
ice.
Eight more of the shipwrecked crew and
passengers landed at Tawas yesterday
afternoon. They left the Oconto at one
o'clock Thursday afternoon in yawl AT
the time of leaving they had heard nothing
of the fate of seven members of the crew
who left for shore on Tuesday in small
boat. The thirty-four persons remaining
on the island have enough to eat for few
DAYS, but are all very downhearted
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wo children were fatally burned and other

two children were fatally burned and other
passengers were painfully hurt.
FLAMES destroyed the house of colored
women named Sparks at Chadbourne, ".
c., few days ago, and two of her children,
who were locked in during their mothers
absence, persisted in the flames.
The Hendricks Monument Association of
Indianapolis issued an appeal on the 18th
for contributions for the erection of suit
able monument in memory of the late Vice
President Hendricks.
A DAYTON (O) music teacher named Miss
Jennie Heagle committed suicide by poison
ing on the 18th, and husbands neglect
drove Mrs Hutchinson, of Aberdeen, D. t.
to suicides grave.
| On the morning of the 18th Ex-Governor
B. Gratz Brown died suddenly at his resi-
| dence in st. Louis at the age of fffty-nine
| years Mr.. Brown was United States
| Senator in 1868, Governor of Missouri in
1870, and candidate for Vice-President on
| the ticket with Horace Greeley in 1872
He leaves wife and nine unmarried chill
dren.
AT Mink's Prairie, Tex, on the 18th I'M
known persons entered the house of r. T..
| Smith during his absence and murdered his
| wife and two children, aged six and seven
| years.
AFTER quarrel on the 14th Mrs. Theresa
Stock, wife of a st, Louis police sergeant,
| shot and killed herself in the presence OF
her husband. She was beautiful woman
| aged thirty -three years.
| Oh the 14th the members-elect to Legis
lature for State proposed to be formed
| south of the Forty sixth parallel assembled
| at Huron, D. T.
TIE suspension Of the Orville (O.) Farm
| ers' Bank is announced, the result of out
side speculation. 1t was reported that
nothing remained for the depositors.
In trying to ford the Chattanooga River,
near Tallulah, Ca, on the 18th Ernest At
wood and bis bride, Miss Stella Wads-
worth, whom he married the previous day,
were drowned.
| The death of Commodore Charles
| Lowndes, U. S. N, occurred on the 18th
near Easton, Nd He was eighty-seven
| years old, and on the retired list.
| THE capture of Andrew Wilfred, one of
the boldest horse-thieves on record, who in
the past three years has stolen over five
hundred horses was effected at Blooming
| ton, ILL.,, on the 18th
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Our shipping Interests.

WASHINGTON. Dec 1.-THE report Of
the Commissioner of Navigation places the
total number of vessels employed on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts, including the
Western rivers and all inland navigation
except the Northern lakes, on June 20, 1885.
at19, 1913. and their tonnage ass, 720. of this
number 1852 were sailing vessels. ALL
steam vessels, ESQ canal-boats and 894
baTges. The total number of vessels en-
gagged in the coastwise trade, excluding
these engaged in the fisheries and upon the
Northern lakes and Western rivers, is 49,
slS. and their tonnage 2,0Ol,717,
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WEST AND SourH.

A CONFESSION was made on the 10th by
]. B. Mannix, the assignee of the late Arch
bishop Purcell. at Cincinnati, that he had
misappropriated 100000 of the funds that
fell into his hands.
A ooLoRED man named John Alexander
was hanged at New Orleans for wife
murder on the 11th
RECENTLY passenger coach and box
car OF a train jumped the track near Cald-
well, o., aud rolled down an embankment,
the former taking fire. A woman snd her
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A Big Royalty.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 15.-Benjamin
Louth, ST., the inventor of a process for
making nail plate out of old steel rails, has
sold mis- right to the patent of syndicate
OF i've Eastern firms. Mr. Louth claims thai
by the new invention there will be saving
OF at least $40 per ton in the
manufactured product as compared with
the present methods of production. In con-
slderation OF allowing the syndicate the
sole right to use the patent, Mr.. Louth will
receive $50 per day for one year and $500
per day for the remaining sixteen years Ut
the life of the patent.