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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-25
MEN OF MONEY.
The Coming Convention of Bankers in
Chicago Partial Programme of the Ses-

Tho Coming Convention of Bankers in
Chicago Partial Programme of the Ses-
sion.
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-The silver que,-
ton will occupy good deal of the atten-
ton Of the Convention of the American
Bankers Association in Chicago next week.
Southern Bankers and Congressman from
the South and West will speak in favor of
stopping the silver dollar coinage. The in
Jernational aspects of the silver question
will be discussed by Mr.. Coe, Of New York,
Mr.. Dsaaa Horton, of Ohio, Mr.. l.. j. Gage,
of Chicago, Hon. E. S. Lacey, of Michigan,
Mr.. Hague, of Montreal, and others, While
Mr.. Newcomb, of Louisiana, Mr.. Flanna-
gan, of New York, and several Western
members of the association will make adj
dresses on financial panics and suggest ex-
pedients to prevent their recurrence. On
the second day the center of interest will
be i'll the discussion of the eXtradltion
treaties and suggestions for the extension
of their scope will be embodied in me-
mortal to Congress. sss
An interesting discussion On the causes
of the amazing growth and productive
progress of the Northwest will be introduced
by paper from Mr.. c. B. Evans. The de-
velopments of the fruit trade between tho
West and Europe will also be considered
in connection with the increase in the bank
ing facilities throughout the Mississippi
Valley since the war. The association
meets next Wednesday, September %, at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-25
THE NEWS
Compiled from Late Dispatches
FROM WASHINGTON.

ACCORDING to computation made at
the Treasury Department on the 18th the
bullion value of a standard silver dollar
according to the London rates of silver is
70 40 cents.
A BROTHER IN-LAw of the President, N.
B. Bacon, was on the 18th appointed
superintendent of the Custom House at
Toledo, 0.
THERE were 166 business failu res in the
United States and Canada during the
seven days ended on the 18th, against 204
the previous seven days. The distribu-
ton was as follows: Middle States, 81;
New England States, "a; Western, So;
Southern, %; Pacific States and Terrific
ries, 49,; Canada, IS.
On the 10th was announced the appoint
ment of Mr.. A. F. Seeberger as Collector
Of the Port of Chicago.
AT twenty six leading clearing houses
IN the United States the exchanges dur
ing the week ended on the 10Th aggregated
ST., 1880, against $40, 1927, 1S5 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending period of 1884, the increase
amounts to OIL per cent
AT various places the centennial of the
beginning of temperance work in the
United States was celebrated on the 21st.
DURING the week ended on the 10Th the
issue of standard silver dollars was $644,-
443. The issue during the corresponding
period last year amounted to $442,995.
The Treasury Department on the Dist
received for redemption a package of
United States notes worth about 800, 900,
which an Ohio farmer had kept buried in
the ground until the bills became mutilat-
ed and almost unacceptable.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-25
A MOVING WALL OF FLAME.

Hundreds of Acres of Growing Crops in
Dakota Devastated by Prairie Fires-The
Losses So Far Estimated at 100000
Some Loss of Life.
BISMARCK, D. T., Sept. 21.-No rain has
fallen in this region since the 1st of the
month. and the grass is very dry. Fires
began early this week near this city, and
since Thursday have travelled rapidly east
ward. About twenty-fivelthousan bushels
of grain and several hundred tons of hay
have been destroyed in the. Apple Creek
Valley north of Menoken, and at the
same time another fire ran from west of
Menoken to East Sterling travelling dis
lance OF twenty-five miles in about two
hours. The losses are divided among hun
dreds OF farmers, few of whom are cult
waiting over twenty acres. On the south
side OF the railroad the grain burned is esti-
mated at 5000 bushels. Persons who came
across Agard bottom, south of Bismarck
Thursday evening found another fire started
there and had to run their horses to save
themselves. The prairies near Menoken
and Sterling presented front of flames
miles long, and frequently flashing twelve
to fifteen feet into the air. Saturday the
flames reached Dawson, in Kidder County,
where the railroad depot was burned. The
aggregated losses by fire i'll North Dakota
the past three days will exceed S100,000
Nearly every farmer within ten miles of
the railroad for sixty miles east has lost
something, and many poor men have lost
ali they possessed save the ground over
which the flames travelled Fears are ex-
pressed lest the fires spread OYER the cattle
ranges and hay lands north and south of the
city. West of the Missouri the grass is
equally dry, and the horizon is nightly illu-
minated. Near Sims, about eight miles
west of here, a woman and child were
burned to death by their house catching fire
at night from prairie fires. Cattlemen of
West Dakota are watching the ranges
closely.
DICKINSON, D. T., Sept 21.-Prairie
fires are raging here. Miles of country have
been burned over, and numerous losses of
buildings, grain and hay in stacks are re-
ported. The farmers were not protected by
fire-breaks. 1t is impossible to estimate the
damage, but it will amount to several thou
sand dollars. The fire is supposed to have
been started south of here by Indians.
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EXCITEMENT IN KANSAS.
Stalking Out Claims and Breaking Sod on
Railroad and College Lands.

Stalking Out Claims and Breaking Sod on
Railroad and College Lands.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 1.-THE decision
of Judge Brewer, of the United States Cir
cult Court, in the suit of the United States
against the Southern Kansas Railway Com
pany, declaring 1900 acres of land hereto
fore held by that company to be wrongfully
held, and now part Of the public domain,
has created the widest land excitement
ever known in Southeastern Kansas.
AS soon as the decision was made known
men in wagons, buggies and On horseback
moved in great numbers from Chase, Will
son and other counties to Woodson County,
and also to Greenwood County, and began
stalking off claims, saying that Judge Brew
er's decision declared all lands heretofore
held by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail
way to be Government lands.
Men are building shanties and breaking
sod so as to perfect their claims. They
have even stuck their stakes and broken
ground OH lands which were entered by
college scrip and the patents for which
were on record before the Santa Fe or Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railways were or
ganiZed. tss g
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A Train of Oil on Fire.

louisville, Pa, Sept. 17.-The second
section of large train of mixed cars ON
the Catawissa branch of the Philadelphia &
Reading Road ran into the first section,
which by an accident had been compelled
to stop, yesterday morning, near Tamanead,
causing disastrous wreck. The second
section was composed of oil tanks and they
began bursting. having taken fire in the col
lision. The burning oil was thrown in all
directions, and the bursting tanks were
scattered all over the neighborhood. The
iron band of one of the tanks wound itself
around tree one hundred yards from the
railroad, while the end of the tank was
thrown three hundred yards. About thirty
thousand gallons of crude oil ran burning
along the railroad, destroying the ties and
warping the rails for nearly two miles, and
etfectually closing traffic on that branch for
week. The total loss will not be far from
S75. 600,
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LATER.

WILLIAM WINTER and his wife, of Point
locked their two children, aged three and
five, in the house. They returned in the
evening and found the house in ashes and
the children burned to death.
THERE were twenty seven deaths from
smallpox at Montreal Oh the 22d, and in
surrounding towns the scourge YVES rapid
ly spreading.
EFFORTS were making on the 22d to
drive Chinese laborers out of Washington
Territory, and convention to devise
means for that purpose would soon be held
at Seattle.
ONLY twenty-one thousand head of cat
lie belonging to white men remained on
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations
in Indian Territory on the ed.
AT Lewiston, Idaho, FIVE Cinnamon who
were locked up for murder and arson were
taken from the Jail by citizens and lynched
on the 22d.
THERE were 759 new cases of cholera
and go deaths from the disease reported
on tue 22d throughout Spain. In Palermo,
Sicily, PA new cases of cholera and 175
deaths occurred.
A SEVERE storm visited Tuscarawas
County, o., on the 22d, inficting much
damage upon corn fields and orchards.
A. j. HOPKINS was on the 22d nomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans of
the Fifth Illinois District.
The report was confirmed on the 22d
that Mexican troops had forcibly evicted
a Ay1>nV -
silver mines in the Carmen Mountain.
DURING the fiscal year ended June 30,
1885, the total number of acres of public
lands disposed of was 90, lis, G63, of the
value of $3.50, 114S0. The number of
original homestead entries was 50,S77, in
Guiding 7,415,S55 acres.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 22d the Cor
oner held an inquest on piece of bone one
inch long, all that was left of the body of
John Ostermeir, lad of fourteen, who
was ground to pieces in a rock crusher.
DURING the afternoon performance of a
circus at Titusville, Pa, on the 22d a tor
nado leveled the tents and created a gem
eral panic among the 10000 sightseers. A
large number of people were hurt-some
of them quite seriously.
A SEVERE northerly gale swept Lake
Michigan on the 22d, doing much damage
TO shipping at various points.
The New York State Republican Con-
vention met at Saratoga on the ed. Hon.
James w. Hustled was made permanent
Chairman. The convention adjourned un-
til the Esd after taking one ballot for Gov
ernor, which resulted as follows: Carr,
2o5; Warren, 1877: Davenport, 1O5; Morton,
y; Seward, 81; Swinburne, 80: Low, Is;
Drexel, 81; Bliss, 50; Cornell, 4; Evarts, 1;
Starin, l: Andrews, ].
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-25

The Noted Elephant Meets His Fats in
a Collision with a Freight Train-How
the News was Received by Barnum-A
Short Biography.
ST. THOMAS, Can, Sept. 17.-Jumbo is
dead. p. 7. Barnum's $4,000 pet ele-
plant was killed half a mile east of here on
the Grand Trunk Airline track Tuesday
evening. While being led along the track
to his car he was run down by a freight
train and so badly injured that he died in
thirty minutes. The trick elephant, Tom
Thumb, had his leg broken.
New YORK, Sept. Up. T. Barnum re-
ceiyed the news of the death of Jumbo
while at breakfast yesterday morning in
the Murray Hill Hotel. Mr.. Barnum was
very much affected, and said that Jumbo's
death ended the project of taking the show
to Europe next year, as had been intended.
Jumbo cost Mr.. Barnum $40, 900 in London
five years ago. He died without progeny.
Mr.. Barnum valued Jumbo at $4,000, 600
for exhibition and breeding purposes, and
will bring suit against the Grand Trunk
Railroad Company for damages in that
amount.
LONDON, Sept. H. The morning papers
contain column obituaries lamenting the
death of Jumbo. The Telegraph displays
large headlines reading: ''Sad death of
Jumbo. Killed by collision with railroad
train"
Jumbo was about twenty-four years old.
He was born on the west coast of Africa in
1861. He was captured as baby and kept in
Paris till four years old. He was then pur-
chased by the Geological Society of Lon
don and removed to their gardens in
that city. He arrived there in 1865: When
Mr.. Barnum took Jumbo away from England
the huge. pet was followed by the re-
Majesty, Queen Victoria. He arrived in this
country in April, 1882, and had been engaged
in visiting the principal cities ever since.
Jumbo in his life was subiect to much sick
ness. AS he grew in years he grew in knowl-
edge and wisdom. He was very fond of so.
ciety. His peculiar favorites, however, were
little children, whom he always delighted to
carry on his back and treated with the
greatest care and sentleness. Jumbo's last
visit to Chicago was made a little over year
ago. His food consisted of grain, bran. hay,
vegetables, such as carrots beets, etc, and of
these articles be consumed five hundred and
six hundred pounds daily. He drank about
three barrels of water day. He had grown
considerably since his arrival in this country.
He was twelve feet high and weighed ten
tons. His trunk was ten feet long.l
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-25

The Georgia Local Option. bill has
become a law. 1t provides that upon
the application for prohibition signed
by one-tcnth of the voters in any coun-
ty, the Ordinary shall hold an election
to determine whether or not spirituous
liquors shall be sold in that county. If
the result of the election should be
against the sale, the Ordinary shall give
notice once week for four weeks, and
the act shall take effect as soon as the
result is ascertained, except as to the
vested rights of persons whose annual
license has not expired. If the result
of the election should be ''for sale, :"
no other election on the ques-
ton shall be held in that county
within less than two years. When any
county votes against the sale' no per-
son shall sell or barter, directly or In
directly, or give away at his place of
business, or furnish at any other public
place, any alcoholic, spirituous or malt
liquors, OF any other drinks which pro-
duce intoxication. Nothing in the bill
is to prevent the manufacture, sale and
use of domestic wines or cider, or the
sale of wines for sacramental purposes,
provided they are not sold by bar-rooms
at retail. Licensed druggists will not
be prevented from furnishing pure alco
hol for medicinal or scientific purposes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-25
HUMOROUS.

The question is frequently asked:
"What is O dudep" It's easy enough
to tell what dude is. That's nothing.
lightning wrenched cornet from
the hand of an amateur performer the
other day at Lancaster, Pa Yet there
are people who don't like lightning
Chicago NeWS.
An exchange says that there is a
large falling off in the population of the
western part of Massachusetts. The
bicycle is bound to make.its way every
where. burlington Free Press. :
Guest Waiter, did you say this
was genuine turtle soup? Waiter-Yes,
sir; it was made out of the water of q
pond near here in which turtle was
kept last summer.-Ro Rochester Union.
Mother to little boy-What are
you crying for? Boy-T mashed my
finger. Mother-When? Boy-Yes-
terday. Mother-Why didn't you cry
then? Boy Cause L was plaSin' an
didn't have time. -ArkansaO 1raveLer.
-"Have you any malaria here?'
asked lady who was looking at ru-
raj boarding-place for her family.
"Well," said the landlady, 1--WE hain't
got none jist now; folks haven't asked
for it; but we'll get it for your family if
you want it." ~ see
Mary Jagged seven, but dignifed)-
"Johnny, L am surprised that you
should say ''too previous, y It naughty.
Johnny Jagged six, but precocious)-
What should l say? Mary Qoftily)
-" Say stake time by the bangs -
Chicago Herald. 8s @8
"A Tennessee young man recently
sent fervent note to his girl, asking
her to elope. The old man, however,
guarded her SO carefully that she was
unable to do so. But she managed TO
send him nice muskmelon., The
''cantelope' told him just how matters
stood.
in order to explain in clear and
simple manner the necessity of regu-
lating our conduct by some fixed stand
ard, schoolmaster asked pupil what
he ought TO do with his watch if it
went sometimes too fast and sometimes
too slow. "Sell it, was the immediate
response.-M T. independent
Uncle Jake Ito his chums, as an il
Illustration of the simplicity of stage
load of city folks recently under his
charge)-Ez we turned Claggett's
Bluff, about seven o'clock, the hull
crowd bursted out in "ohsn' and ''ahs!'
An what dye s'pose It was all about?
Why, one of them common red an yal-
Ter sunsets!- Harper 5 BazGr.
Summer Sport. ssassas4
A small boy sits on an old oak stump
And into a rotten hole ttH
He pokes with the force of suction-pump
The end Of a hickory pole.
But anon the small boy madly fees
With wall as loud as gong
Alas he had tackled nest of nees
And was hit by the queen bee prong.
= Washington HGtchet.
-Scene-English primary school.
Mistress (teachfng her class the alpha
bet to- Johnny (aged ye.)-Now
Johnny, let's hear how well you can
say your letters right through. John
ny-Ha, be, Sc, de, he, hef, ge, hatch
School-ma' am-Can' you say "aiteh, u
Johnny? Johnny essem-haitch, hi,
ia, ka, -School-ma' What!
There's no such letter as that. You
mean L. Johnny-Yessem, hi know;
but ma says you mustn't say he'll any
more, coz theX calls it sheol now.-M
Z. Sun. IA =,
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The last book read by General
Grant was 1.-The Fall of Republic. -
~ z. Post. ~
"A Canadian clergyman recently
preached five hours on stretch to n
congregation which patiently endured
it.
Nearly a half in number and two
thirds in point of circulation of the
newspapers of the world are printed Ia
English.
-Condensations of such novels as
'sThe Vicar of Wakefield" appear in a
new series of school ''readers" now be-
ing published in London,
Edward Everett Hale reiterates
Bulwer's assertion that three hours of
daily brain work is ample to get from
man the best that is in him.
Ira Wilde, of Dayton, o., recently
discovered at a G. A. R. reunion at
Springfield daughter that has been
lost to him for thirty years. Cincinnati
Times. $50
"A letter addressed to 'Charles
Smith, K PAM didn't bother the Bos-
ton postmaster over ten seconds. He
forwarded it to Cape Ann. -BOStOn
Transcript
Mason Mitchell, an actor, quit the
Kate Claxton Company to fight in the
Riel rebellion and got killed. 1t is now
said that he enlisted because an actress
had Tilted him.
The death of an aged Ohioan was
caused by the shock at discovering that
he was only ninety years old, instead
of being a centenarian as he had sup
posed. Cleveland Leader.
The name Emma itself conveys
luck. Emma Albani, Emma Nevada,
Emma Thursby, Emma Juch and En-
ma Abbott all high sopranos, and all
successful. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Frank j. Black, the genial and
brilliant young journalist who writes
about medieval theology and other lit
tie things, made us a very pleasant call
last evening. We were not in at the
time -PunGsutascney Tribune.
General Buckner's staff in the Con-
federate Army furnished the country
with three Episcopal Bishops-Galla-
CHER, who is now Bishop of Kentucky;
Harris, Bishop of Michigan, and Elliott,
Bishop of Texas.-M I. Mail.
''Hiawatha, told in words by Mr..
Longfellow, is being put into carved
wood by Winthrop Pierce, artist, at the
fine new house of George Slater, at
Norwich, Conn. Mr.. Slater inherited
about $15, 100000 from his father, who
gave 81, 100000 for the benefit of South
ern freedmen. Hartford Post
Rev Robert Laird Collier resembles
Henry Irving so closely that when in
London, he was mistaken for the actor
by intimate friends. Mr.. Collier says
that once a member of the Lyceum
Theater company talked an hour with
him about dramatic matters, supposing
him to be his employer. N Y. San.
One of the richest women in Denver
is Mrs. Bishop Warren, of whom so
much has been written since her mar
riage with the handsome and gifted
Methodist preacher. Many years ago
this lady went to Denver poor, hard
working sewing girl. Her face was her
fortune, for as she bravely piled her
trade she was wooed and won by one
Tiff, miner, and when he finally died
he left her a fortune of several million
dollars. Mrs. Lift was a devout Metho-
dist, and Denver gossips tell that Bishop
Simpson sent Bishop Warren to that
city on purpose to marry the million
aire widow. Their wedding was popu-
lar one, every Methodist in Denver
being invited Chicago Tribune.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


The Vermont bank defaulter, Brainerd,
recently abducted from Winnipeg, who
was on the 18th at Hamilton, Canada, said
that he escaped from his captors at Minne-
apolis through the cunning of detectives
from st. Paul and Chicago.
THE steamers brenda and Dolphin COL
lided on the 18th off the southeast coast OF
England. Seventeen of the crew and pas
sengers of the latter were reported lost.
AT Naples an earthquake shock, lasting
eight seconds, was felt en- the 18th.
AN engagement between the French
forces and an intrenched body of Hovas
took place recently at Tarafat, Madagas-
car. The French sustained a loss of thir-
ty-three killed and wounded.
In Montreal thirty three deaths from
small pox occurred on the 10Th, and the
disease was reported to be spreading to
other points.
The Sioux Chief White Cap, who par
ticipated in the Riel rebeIli on, was acquit~
ted on the 10th of the charge of treason.
felony.
DURING the twenty four hours ended at
six p. m. on the goth there were Sill new
cases and 313 deaths from cholera in Spain.
In Palarmo, Sicily, 224 new cases of chol-
era were reported and 1859 deaths.
ACCORDING to information received on
the 10Th a revolution was in progress il
Guatemala. A state of siege had been de.
clared.
The Spaniards on the goth occupied Yap,
the chief island of the Caroline group.
ON the 10Th the Governor General OF
Eastern Roumelia was deposed by the pop
ulace of the capital city, Phillippopolis,
who had proclaimed a union with Bulgaria
and established a provisional Government.
THE authorities of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad claimed on the 21st to have dis
covered that they had been defrauded by
their contractors and civil engineers to
the extent of $5S00O0.
ON the DIST China was said to be mass.
ing large bodies of troops on the Tonquin
frontier.
IN the southeastern part of Spain foods
had on the Dist caused a heavy loss of life
and property.
On account of the cholera business was
generally suspended ON the 21st at Paler-
mo, Sicily, and thirty thousand persons
had fed the city. King Humbert had
given $4,000 to the victims of the plague,
and placed one of his villas at the disposal
of the sufferers. The epidemic was in.
creasing at Gibraltar.
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A Great storm Down south.

New ORLEANS, La, Sept 21.-It has
been raining here almost necessarily since
Friday. The rainfall yesterday from nine
a. m. to nine p. m. as reported by the
signal-service observer was 1.65 inches.
Many streets and sidewalks were over
flowed, and the west end of Clai-
borne street is still under water. Tele-
grams from the Yazoo, Ouaehita, Red
and Mississippi River Valleys report ex-
cessiye rains and much damage to the cot
ton crop retarding maturity and prevent
ing picking. The rice crop throughout
Louisiana has been more or less damaged
by rais which retards harvesting.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-25

REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE has re-
turned to his charge in Brooklyn after
two months in Europe, The trustees
of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, with about
scveGty-fve OF the reverend doctors
personal friends, met the steamer down
the bay and escorted Mr. Talmage
home. He says: Il found American
a password to everywhere and every
one, don't believe there is nation
in the world so popular in all countries
as the United States"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-25

The Improvement OF the Niagara
Park reservation isprogressing steadily.
Tho cataract wood lot has been cleared
up, and the removal of an old building
makes the view of Goat Island excep-
tlonally fine. The old stone factory at
Bridge and Canal streets has been torn
down, and the old store-house on the
upper end of Bath Island has been de-
stroyed, the view of the rapids thus be-
ing uninterrupted.