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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-23
LATER.

MALCOLM HAY, recently First Assistant
Postmaster- General of the United Sta les
died on the Goth of consumption at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
THREE THOUSAND Frenchmen have died
nine months.
FIRE on the Goth swept away the
municipal buildings at Pensacola, Fla.
In Spain there were fifty three new
cases of cholera and forty two deaths on
the goth. In Palermo, Sicily, forty four
new cases and twenty -one deaths oc-
Cured.
THE explosion of boiler on the goth at
Ridgeville, S. c., killed three persons and
mortally injured three others.
TNCENDIARIEs burned the East Avenue
Presbyterian Church at Scheme ctady, N.
Y, the other night, the loss being $4,000.
JOHN CALVIN has been nominated for
Congressman by the County Democracy
of the Eighth Congressional District. New
York City.
The military craze had on the 10Th in
fected ail Greece and the people were
clamoring for war. Thirty thousand of
the reserves had been enrolled during the
last few days.
HE thirteenth annual meeting of the
Carriage Builders National Association
opened in Boston on the Goth, with two
hundred members present.
THERE were seventy zone new cases of
smallpox and thirty six deaths in Mont
real on the Goth. The Board of Health
recommended that all theaters and
churches be closed.
NEAR Williamsport, Pa, on the 10Th
two passenger trains collided. two en-
ployes being killed and several persons
severely injured.
A FOOT of snow was reported on the
goth from nearly all parts of the peninsula
of Michigan, blockading the railroads
A LONDON Grand Jury on the goth found
true bill against Mr.. Stead, editor of the
Pail Nall Gazette, and the other prisoners
in the Armstrong case, for abduction, con-
spiracy and indecent assault.
ACCORDING TO the figuring of the New
York Produce Exchange, the visible sup
ply of wheat on the 10th was 10, 10, 49,
bushels, and of corn 49,, 423 bushels.
IT was stated in Berlin on the Goth that
the Porte was about to invite the Powers
to conference in Constantinople. Prince
Alexander had ordered out for Immediate
defensive service all the national militia
of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia.
BURGLARS entered the residence of Mr.
G. j. Adams, at Chicago, the other night
and stole jewelry, cash and other val
uables amounting to more than s., 600.
Among other things taken was the gold
pen, given by Mrs. Lincoln to Mrs. Adams,
with which Abraham Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation.
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An earthquake shock, lasting ten Sec
onds, was slightly felt at Sandersvilie,
Ga IN the 18th

An earthquake shock, lasting ten sec
onds, was slightly felt at Sandersville,
Ga, on the 18th.
A FARMER and his family near Osawkie.
Kan, were driving home on the 18th with
a en-pound package of powder in the
wagon, when his wife, attempting to light
a pipe, dropped spark. The explosion
which followed killed the woman and fa-
tally injured the other three persons.
AT a recent meeting held by coal miners
and mine-owners in Chicago resolutions
were adopted declaring against strikes
and lock- outs, and urging the settlement
of wages by arbitration.
Snow fell to the depth of two inches on
the 10Th in Kansas City, Mo-, and in por-
tions of Kansas.
TEE National Prison Congress met in
fourth annual session at Detroit on the
18th. Discussion on reform in prison man.
agement occupied the fist days session.
MARY WEsTPALEN, while temporarily
insanei on the 10Th, threw her two-year-
old child from second story window in
Cincinnati and leaped out herself. Both
were fatally injured.
NAsAoa1HENED OJ VII OuOo SDtlE
lives and property, the Cinnamon on the
Pacific coast were leaving in droves on
the 18th. eastward bound.
WILLIAM S. BATES residence in Chicago
was destroyed by fire at six O'Clock on the
morning of the 10Th. While Mr.. Bates
was endeavoring to extinguish the flames
his wife, aged thirty three, two sons,
aged four and six years, and the mother
in-law, aged seventy two, were suffocated,
and their charred bodies were found by
the firemen.
BENJAMIN BLANCHARD, of Terre Haute,
Ind, the Kansas land speculator and or
ganizer of large excursions to the West
fled few days ago, and on the 10Th it was
said he had swindled various parties out
of sums aggregating $25o,000. The poor as
well as the rich are among his victims.
A DRIVER of street-car in ST. Louis
was attacked by strikers on the 10Th, and
in the row which followed passenger was
fatally shot The victim was colored
woman.
MANY Mormons had on the 10Th left
Salt Lake City to escape prosecution for
polygamy.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

DIR Oliver Wendell Holmes, who
recently celebrated his birthday. says
that he is Revolutionary patriot now
zone of the men of '76."
Colonel j. Annoy Knox, one of
the editors of TEXAS Stf1iRgs, is said to
smoke twenty cigars daily. That's
what makes him so funny.-M 7.
Times.
The late Emery A. Storrs could
not save money. His annual income
was twenty-five thousand dollars
year, but he left no personal estate
Chicago NeaoS.
Rev. Moses A. Hopkins, recently
appointed Minister to Liberia, used 10
be hotel porter in Pittsburgh, and
prepared himself for college while in
that employment Pittsburgh Post.
Oscar Wilde has written a poem
about his baby, beginning with these
lines:
90 paby boyi thine eyes are like mine own,
AS blue as heaven, as tender as the dove
Mr.. Sturgeon has at length COM
pleted THE Treasury of David" which
he commenced to write twenty-one
years ago. He has also in the press
new work entitled, 'Storm Signals"
They tell funny story in Hart
ford Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
speaking of the length of her residence
in that city, said: L don't remember
when / came; l do not live by years"
This being repeated to Mark Twain,
"a wish. +" he observed, ''the tax col
lector would adopt that principle. -
Calvin E Stowe was fine scholar,
the first in his class in college, of great
wit. most attractive speaker and
once very prominent before the world
But the fame of his second wife
author of "Uncle Toms Cabin be-
came so great that he seemed to fade
all out, and was finally only known as
''Mrs. Stoves husband. "-EUcry Other
Saturday.
Robert Bonner is past sixty and
worth $5,000,000 or $6,000,000, No
man is better satisfied with his paper,
his fortune, his PreSbyterianism, his
horses and himself And he ought TO
be, having begun as type-setter, with
out friends or influence, and having
achieved his present position by un-
tagging energy and perseverance. M
Y. journal.
Perhaps the most notable example
of story which was offered to pub
Usher after publisher only to be re-
turned to its author, is that of Robinson
Cruso. 1t was at last printed for W.
Taylor, at the shop in Pater Noster
Row, MDCCxIx." 1t proved a gold
mine for the plucky publisher. He
made profit of one hundred thousand
pounds out of the venture M T.,
Tribune.
MIR. Spoford, the Librarian of Con-
gress, recently told correspondent that
literary activity in the United States is
on the increase, and that about one thou
sand more copyrights have been granted
during 1885 than at corresponding
time in 1884. This increase is largely
due to the great number of articles
copyrighted by newspapers and maya
zines. Of his american Almanac,
| Mr.. Spofford said: at has not very
large circulation. The library edition
reached last year about eighteen hum
bred, and seven thousand of the paper
edition were sold, the last, however, at
SO cheap price that they barely paid
the cost of publication. IN. Y. Post.
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A NOTED LANDLORD GONE.

Death at Long Branch, N. j., of Charles
Leland. the Famous Hotel-Keeper.
LONG BRANCH, N. j., Oct. 2O.-Charles
Leland, the famous hotel keeper, died here
yesterday at the age OF sixty-one. He COLI
tracted heavy cold while on recent
yachting trip and pneumonia speedily fol-
lowed with fatal results. The funeral
services will be held in New York, at DR..
Houghton's sLittle Church Around the
Corner" on Wednesday.
Mr.. Leland was born in the Green Mount
an Coffee House, at Land Grove, VT, in June,
1874. His father and grandfather before HIM
had been engaged in the hotel business He
eighteen years old came to New York and
obtained situation at the old Carleton
House, but in short time was engaged
as room clerk in the Bond Street House,
afterward the fremont Hotel. From here he
went to the Union Place Hotel, now the Nor
ton House, in q similar capacity, and re-
manned there until 1873 In 1852 three of the
brothers purchased the Metropolitan Hotel,
and the Lelands conducted the hotel for
over twenty years and made their
name as hotel-keepers famous. The
chased by them in 1854 and over $S0000o
was expended i'll improving it. Charles Le-
land was a genial man and very popular.
Two daughters are the only children who sur
yive him. His wife died some thirteen years
ago. One of the daughters married William
@. Barrett, of the Barrett House. and the other
Mr., Wheaton, of the Vanderbilt Hotel,
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TONS OF MONEY.
How Huge Sums A re Carted Through the
Streets of the Capital.

How Huge Sums re Carried Through che
Streets of the Capital.
There is always good deal of hard
cash being carted about the streets at
Washington. Money is hauled about
the streets of the National capital by
the millions every day in the year.
Boxes and bags of gold and silver, huge
bales OF bonds and treasury notes, and
wagon loads of silver dollars. If you
only had what is hauled about for one
day, and you wouldn't have to pick
your day (e exclusive of Sundays and le-
gal holidays you would be several
times over millionaire. On some days
the money-changing is greater than on
others, but the same ceaseless carting
up and down, to and from the Treasury
doors, of hard cash goes on. Big ex-
press wagons are always backed up at
the eastern front, and the crashing and
MASKING of the heavy iron-bound boxes
and road-safes upon the massive plat
form resound from morning till night
The rolling of the iron trucks transfer
ring these boxes to and from the great
vaults can be heard all over the build
ing. People get used to most anything
except starvation; SO they grow accus-
toned to this daily shutting and smash
ing noise. We who have lodged the
boxes and wagons for years only notice
them as a nuisance, while strangers
do not understand what it all means.
Even Treasury officials forget all about
it. For instance, the other day when
steamers arrived at the navy-yard with
silver dollars from New Orleans, the
Treasurer of the United States sug-
gested guard of four armed marines
with each wagon-loads from the boats
to the Treasury.
Nonsensep' exclaimed the Super
intendent of Adams Express Com
pany, "we handle ten times as much
money as is contained in a wagon
load of silver dozen times day, and
often in packages which could be car
ried away by one mani"
To see one of the heaviest Adams
trucks loaded with $4,000, in silver
dollars, drawn slowly up Pennsylvania
avenue is to appreciate the humor of
the, marines. The boxes are piled up
half way to the level with the wagon
side. Each one contains but 81, UO0,.
and yet weighs about 275 pounds.
Di4 J or ever lift 1000 silver dollars?
Well, / have lifted sack containing
that much, and L should not carry it
very far for it. On top of this load
sits Treasury clerk, armed to the
teeth, with sun umbrella. Nobody
envies him up there on his borrowed
wealth. No mob of road agents
would care to lug off a box of 275
pounds worth but $4,000. 1t takes four
men to carry single box, and they
could never get away with four days
start - Washington Cor. Cleveland
Leader.
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THE EAST.

AT the recent session of the American
Board of Commissioners of Foreign Mis-
sions at Boston Rev. Mark Hopkins was
reelected President and entered on the
twenty eighth year of his service in that
capacity.
NEAR North Hoosac, N. Y, the Troy &
Boston Railroad bridge was burned the
other day, two firemen of North Benning-
ton, VT, being killed by falling timbers.
0. F. Coy, North Bennington merchant,
was fatally injured.
In Wilkesbarre, Pa, few nights ago,
Ivor Williams, aged fifteen, fell down a
shaft at coal-mine distance of six hun
dred feet, and was crushed into shape
less mass.
Two BROTHERS, John and William Kes-
ter, aged fifty and fifty-fou years, resid-
ing at Seybertsville, Pa, refused the other
night to give up their money to four
tramps who invaded their premises. The
Migrants then bound the brothers, beat
out their brains with clubs and decamped.
BRADsTREET's advices of the 10Th from
various portions of the country indicated
that the merchants regarded the outlook
as hopeful
RECENTLY two little children of Mrs.
Kamberger, of New York, played with a
lighted candle, and the baby, seven months
old, was burned to death.
THOUSANDS of acres of oyster beds along
the Connecticut shore Of the Sound were
covered with sand during recent gale,
infiicting upon the oyster men damages
estimated to amount to 100000
THE arrest of William S. Warner. who
is supposed to have secured most of the
funds of the wrecked firm of Grant &
Ward, was made in New York on the 18th.
He gave bail for appearance in court
On the Pennsylvania Road an express
tram ran into q detached emigrant- car on
the 18th thirteen miles outside of Jersey
City, killing nine persons therein and mu-
tilating three others. Soon afterward a
Lehigh Valley train dashed into the wreck,
killing its engineer and fireman.
FLINT GLASS manufacturers In the East
met at New York ON the 18th and decided
to shut down rather than submit to de-
mands for increased wages. Nearly 5000
men are thus thrown out of employment.
BY recent accident on the Northern
Railway at Andover Plains, N H., three
men were killed and six cars were
smashed.
In Yates County, N. Y, Joseph Rapal-
yea, farmer, was swindled out of 50, 500
on the 18th by sharpers.
AT Syracuse, N. Y, William H. Graves,
prominent citizen, and the patentee of
various toys and mechanical devices, died
on the 10th from the effects of morphine,
taken with suicidal intent.
THE other day Frank Larrabee was acct
dentally shot and killed by his nine-year-
old son at Richmond, n. HI.
THE death of Charles Leland, the we'll
known hotel-keeper, occurred at Long
Branch on the 10th. at the age of sixty
one years.
The number of killed in the recent rail-
way accident near Jersey City, N. J., was
placed on the 10th at twelve, with five
others fatally injured. Thomas P. Pratt,
the telegraph operator who it was claimed
caused the disaster, had been arrested.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-23
WEST AND souTH.

NEBRASKA Democrats met in State Con-
vention at Lincoln on the 10th and nomi-
mated Frank Martin for Supreme Court
Judge and r. r. Livingstone and John
F. Zolin for Regents of the State Univer-
sity.
The colored people OF Kentucky win
hold State Convention at Lexington No
yember 26 to ''protest against the treat
ment received at the hands of the domi-
nant whites"
On the 10th complete unofficial returns
from every county in Ohio gave the fol-
lowing as the result for Governor at the
recent election: Foraker (Rep), 90, 201,
Hoadly (Dem.), S5,51S. Foraker's plu-
rality, 17,6SS.
THE failure is announced of Danzigers
Brothers, dry-goods merchants at New
Orleans, for $2S5,000.
A REPORT by the Chinese Consul at San
Francisco on the 10Th stated that since
May g. 1882, when the Restriction act went
into force, $4,000 Chinese had left that port
and $4,000 had arrived there.
FIRE destroyed the house and barn of
Peter Henger, near Ithaca, Neb., the other
night, Henger's wife and child and his
brother perishing in the flames.
The houses and barns of r. d. Cone,
James Miller, John Lewis and E. Ensign,
near Tracy, Mimi, on the 10Th were burned
by a prairie fire. Great damage il other
sections was reported.
In the vicinity of Somerville, Ala, after
a quarrel on the 10th in regard to the
division of property Wesley Hopper wound
his left arm around James Edmonson and
deliberately cut his throat four times from
ear to ear.
AT Yuma, A. T., the new railroad bridge
across the Colorado River, which cost
100000, was totally destroyed by fire a
few days ago.
The recently discharged United States
Grand Jury at Blackfoot Falls, /. T., in
dicted twenty mine Mormons for unlawful
cohabitation.
THE hanging of Frederick Grenier oc-
Cured at Columbus, o., on the 18th for
the murder of Margaret Selling.
The death of Captain Alexander Haley,
the only colored man who ever command
ed vessel in the ocean trade of this coun-
try, occurred in Baltimore on the 18th,
aged eighty.six years.
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a NEW precedent has been estab-
lished by a Judge in Rochester, N. Y.
A Mre Wagner, finding that her hus-
band had transferred his affections to a
Mss Fannie Stevens, brought suit
against the young lady, claiming S1O,-
600 damages, Although the case was
without precedent, aud the attorneys
for the defense tried to have the COM
plant dismissed on this ground, the
Judge denied the motion and allowed
the wife to present her case to jury.
After hearing the evidence, the jury de-
cided that Miss Stevens had alienated
the affections Of Mr.. Wagner, and re-
turned a verdict awarding the wife
$4,000 damages.
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BURNED TO DEATH.


Four Lives Lost in a Blazing Cottage in
Chicago = The Heroic Endeavors of a
Mother to Save Her Child from the
Flames Rewarded by Death. 4f
CHICAGO. Oct. 2O.--A terribly quick
spreading fire broke out in the one
story-and-a-half brick cottage So Yer
non Park place, owned and occupied by
w. S. Bates, few minutes after
six o'clock yesterday morning, in which
four persons were burned to death. The fam
lily consisted of seven persons and a SER
vant-gi1 and all but three met most
horrible death. The death list is as follows:
Mrs. Mary Bates, wife of William S. Bates,
aged thirty-three years; Mrs. Grayson,
mother of Mrs. Bates, aged seventy-two
years; Johnny Bates, aged six years; Ed
die Bates, aged four years and six months.
The rescued were William S. Bates, Thomas
q. Grayson and Martha Bates, a child of
two years, the youngest of the family.
Shortly before o'clock yesterday morn
ing the new servant girl, Mary Dolan, who
had been employed Saturday, got up to
start fire in the kitchen to prepare break
fast. The rest of the family were still
abed. 1t is not known whether the girl
used kerosene to start the fire, for there
were both an oil stove and range in the
little kitchen. The household were aroused
by sudden explosion. Mrs. Bates at once
sprang up from her bed, and snatching her
infant in her arms rushed with it to a place
of safety. Returning 10 her burning home,
the agonized mother heard her boy crying
loudly for help, and breaking away from
bystanders who were trying to restrain her,
entered the building to save her other chill
dren. She was not seen again until the
flames had been eXtinguished. The firemen
then, on entering the building, found, with
in six feet of the front door, the brave
mothers incinerated remains with those
of the boy clasped in her scorched and
withered arms.
Mr.. Bates endeavored to save the other
boy and his wife's aged mother but the two
were overcome by the smoke, and persisted,
Mr.. Bates, and his brother-in-law, Thomas
Grayson barely escaping with their lives.
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HUMOROUS.

Water is most liable to escape when
it is half tide N Y AeWS.
"A grammatical parade the
greatest man may come across crater.
"A 'duck of a girl must be very
closely watched. or ten to one she'll go
off and marry some quack. Chicago
San.
Rufus Hatch says that the farmer
is boss of the situation. So he is, but
still the boys will get away with the APP
pies occasionally. Philadelphia Gail.
The great advantage of being rich
is that man can wear cd clothes
without exciting remark. There are
other trifing advantages, but not
worthy Of mention just now.-T0tedO
Blade.
81 can't make head nor tail out of
this letter from George" remarked Mr..
Porcine to his wife" I'm not sur
prised," returned that estimable lady,
George shutters so badly, you know"
Chicago Rambler.
IAN emcute is looked for in
Madrid" says recent cablegram.
We had one, too, the other day, but the
cork worked out before we we're ready
to use it. 1t ought to have had little
sugar in it anyhow. -Nes0nsan Indc-
pendent.
-Passenger-Oh, Captain, is there
any cure for seasicknessp Captain
Oh, yes; sure cure. Passenger Gas
steamer pitches and rolls Give me
some quickly. Captain-Only cure L
know of is to lie on your back on green
grass and look at the stars. -Phila-
delphiG call.
"A dry-goods advertisement says:
Everybody knows that Faille Fran
caise is crowding hard upon gros-grain
silk" We beg leave to differ with the
statement. There are no doubt dozen
persons right here in this town who
are not aware that such momentous
occurrence was eventuating. Norris
tom Herald.
Wife Cat a late hour = Well,
where in the world have you been?
Husband--To tell you the (hic) truth,
m dear, some of the (hic) bows at the
offs gone way on (hic) vacations,
y'know, an-an shorthanded, homes
truth, M dear, s. help me. Wife
You seem to have filed the vacancy
pretty full.
-Materfamilias Ito Tommy, who is
helping himself literally to cUrrant
jam at the supper table, Tommy.
after the solemn warning / should
think you would not eat so much pre-
serves Tommy--What solemn warn
ing, mamma? Matertamilias = The
death of Jumbo; he died of too much
jam. you know. Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
"A Useful Timepiece: ST Jackson,
from the Del Vale settlement came to
Austin not long since. and his first call
was on Matchmaker. .sDis heah
watch has gotten sumfin' de matter
wild hit. The matchmaker examined
it carefully, and asked how long since
it bad been running. ''Hit hahn been
running for noah den a yeah. y :'Why
didn't you bring it sooner?" '.Bekase
| couldn't get along widout it. - TEXAS
lSiiftings.
-Erudite grocer balancing can of
peaches in his hand -My dear mad
am, did you know that we really knew
nothing about canning fruit and vege-
tables until the ruins of Pompel we're
uncovered, and splendid specimens re-
covered, canned over twenty centuries
age? Snappish lady customer = No,
/ didn't know it But / did know your
canned goods were very old. How
long before you will have your stock
from Pompeii worked oft? - Chicago
Tribune.
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THE Montreal Board of Health was
recently notified of case of small pox
to be removed to the hospital The
ambulance was sent, but the driver cot
drunk, and, entering the wrong house,
he found man lying on his bed drunk.
AS this mans face was flushed the
ambulance man mistook him for the
smallpox case, and bundled him into
the vehicle. When the patient awoke
from his drunken stupor, he found him
self in the smallpox hospital. He pro-
tested to the doctor that he was not i'll:
but the physician, an ignorant French
Canadian, was not to be persuaded,
and it was only after five days iyola-
ton that the man was allowed to de-
part.
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AIongolians on tho Wing.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct 19.-For thirty
days past many Chinese have been passing
through this city in parties Of from five to
twenty on their way East. Yesterday mouEi
ing half a dozen Chinese, all OF the better
class, arrived at the union depot from Chi
cage, and left few hours later for Phla-
delphia, Boston and New York. A rather
notwithstanding Monaghan, who seemed
to be chaperoning the rest of the
party, said in excellent English that he
and his friends had left more or less Iucra-
tive occupations IN San Jose and San Fran
cisco because their lives were threatened.
They all had saved a little money, and were
going to locate in th G East.