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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.


IT has been decided by the Secretary of
the Interior that the County Judges of
Colorado may admit aliens to citizenship.
THERE were 154 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended On the 28th against 1919 the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, So; New England
States, %; Western, At; Southern, 20; Pa
cific States and Territories, %; Canada, s.
The fumigation of all Canadian mails
were ordered by the Post-office Depart
ment on the 28th in order to prevent the
introduction of smallpox.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses
in the United States exchanges during the
week ended on the 29th ult. aggregated
$644, S18,584, against $768, 696,SOS the previ-
GUS week. As compared with the CORE
spending period of 1884, the decrease
amounts to 8.8 per cent.
THE number of immigrants arriving at
the seven principal ports of this country
during the seven months ended July 81
was 281, ITS. as against 276,69O for the cor
responding period of last year.
DURING the twelve months ended July
81, 1885, the total value of merchandise ex-
ports from the United States was $733, 37S,-
429, and of imports during the same period
$571, 439, 215, decrease of $500, 5SS in the
former and of $94 ,403,072 in the latter as
compared with the preceding twelve
months.
THE White House, after having been
cleaned and renova ed during the Presi-
dents absence, was reopened to the public
on the 31st ult.
The imports of merchandise into the
United States during the twelve months
ended July 81 were valued at $571, 439, 219,
and the exports at 1888, 37S, 429.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A PARTY of armed men was on the 9th
said to have sailed from Cuba for the Flor
ida keys for the purpose of organizing a
filibu STEERING expedition to overthrow the
Cuban Government.
In County Kerry, Ireland, agrarian out
RACES were increasing on the 9th. The
Earl of Devon offered to sell his tenants
their holdings under the provisions of the
Land Purchase bill
IT has been stated by John Russell
Young, recently Minister to China, that
all the emigration from that country to
the United States comes from the city of
Canton, via Hong Kong, which is under
British jurisdiction. The Chinese Gov
eminent can not prohibit it's subjects from
going to Hong Kong, and once there they
are beyond it's control, and their departure
for America can only be prevented by the
English authorities.
A GREATER number of new cases of
smallpox was reported in Montreal on the
2Sth than on any previous day since the
outbreak of the epidemic in that city.
In London several thousand unemployed
workmen assembled on the 2Sth and de-
manded that the Government should as
s1st them to emIgrate
REPORTS say chat many Russian capt.
talists, fearing the result of the war
preparations and unsettled business in
their own country, are seeking investment
in America.
IT was rumored on the Doth ult. that an
expedition would be sent out from London
to search for General Gordon, many of
whose military friends believed that he
escaped alive from Khartoum.
AT Belfast, Ireland, Rev. Dewitt Tall
mage, of Brooklyn, N. Y, addressed an
assemblage of forty thousand persons on
the 30th ult
A FEW nights ago terrible storm ragged
over the British islands, detainingl vessels
and doing great damage at various places.
The two ladies of rank, who were re-
Gently abducted by brigands from Epirus
Mountain, in<European Turkey, have been
released by their captors upon the pay
ment of ransom of $40 900.
In collision on the 30th ult at Almeira,
in Andalusia, Spain, between the military
and mob, eight persons were killed and
twelve wounded. The riot grew out of the
wholesale exodus of wealthy citizens on
account of the cholera, and the consequent
loss of employment by the laboring
classes.
PISA, Italy, was visited by: a terrific
thunder storm few days ago, causing
great destruction. Several church towers
were shattered, but the famous leaning
tower escaped uninjured.
OVER $500 new cases of cholera and
nearly 1900 deaths were reported in Spain
on the 31st ult. "A decrease in the ravages
of the scourge was reported from France.
THE Government of Spain on the 31st
ult. forwarded to Germany copy of an
agreement signed three years ago by ma
tive Chiefs, in which they recognize the
sovereignty of Spain over the sCaroline
Islands.
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THE EAST.

IT was recently stated that ten thousand
ex-soldiers and sailors of New York State
had joined the G.. A. R. since the death of
General Grant The membership of the
order in the Empire State is now about
fifty thousand.
HUNDREDS of Hungarian and Polish
coal-miners were ON the Doth ult. leaving
Pennsylvania for the Northwest.
A REPORT that Preller, the supposed vic
tim of the ST. Louis murder by Maxwell,
had been seen there, caused sensation
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the Goth ult.
Ex-Governor FENToN's funeral at
jamestown, N. Y, was attended on the
Doth ult. by a large concourse of people.
All business was suspended, and many
distinguished men in public life were
present.
Snow ono inch deep fell at Mount Wash
ington, N. H., on the Goth ult.
A GAS explosion in a mine at Nanticoke,
Pa, few days ago killed two men and
seriously injured two others.
A LIGHTNING stroke at Newcastle, Pa, a
few evenings ago fatally injured three
persons.
ON the 31st ult. Tom Davis, a New Y DIRK
sporting man was shot dead in that city
byJames Holland, of Abilene, Kan, whom
Davis was trying to swindle out af $4,000.
In New York the first postal cards of
the new issue were sold on the 31st ult
A DRUGGIST in New York who care
lessly substituted morphine for quinine in
filling prescription, causing the death of
two young ladies, disappeared on the 31st
ult.
DURING the progress of a recent severe
storm in Pennsylvania lightning killed
several people.
= By natural gas explosion in bakery
at Pittsburgh on the 3lst uld., five persons
were terribly burned, two of them fatally.
The proprietors had recently introduced
natural gas into their ovens.
n On the 31st ult. Mrs. General Grant, with
her family, left Mount MacGregor for New
York City.
GREAT damage was done by hail-storms
in New York State on the 31st ult. In
Oswego County the loss to farmers was
placed at 500, 900; in Onondago County the
tobacco and other unharvested crops were
destroyed, and in Albany city and county
valuable property was ruined.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

Rev. JAMES Young, of Fossil, Ore,
killed his two children on the 9th by CIV
ing them accidentally an overdose of med
icine, and a little boy living across the
street from Young's residence lost his life
by drinking concentrated lye.
AT Lonoke, Ark, Henry Burnett, a
colored murderer, eighteen years old, was
hanged on the 9th.
AT the Chicago stock-yards the re-
ceipts of cattle on the 27th-12, 500-were
the largest on record, and the market
suffered a decline of ten to twenty five
cents, closing very weak.
NEAR jackson, Miss, a passenger train
ran off bridge on the 9th, the engineer,
fireman and one brakeman being killed
and eight men injured, two of them dan
gerously.
AN armed body of Zion Methodists on
the 9th attacked and fired into a camp
meeting held by Northern Methodists
(colored) at Piney Hill, N. G. The
Northern Methodists fed in disorder, seven
of them being wounded
The Amalgamated Association scale had
on the 9th been signed by all the iron
mills in the Mahoning Valley, and opera
tions were being generally resumed.
TOBACCO GROWERS of Southern Wiscon-
sin decided on the 2Sth to petition Congress
to protect their interests against the
Sumatra product, and ask that imports
from the latter island be made to pay the
full duty of seventy five cents.
LATEST advices state that three pilot
boats and fourteen members of their crews
were lost off Beaufort, S. c., during the
recent cyclone. The revised estimates of
the losses in Charleston from the cyclone
foot up $1,690,000.
On the 2Sth the British bark Victor ar
rived at Savannah, Ca, with fourteen of
the crew sick with yellow fever.
In Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Nebraska and Kansas light frosts occurred
on the 2Sth, but the crops suffered no
damage.
THE following executions for murder
took place on the 18th: Samuel W. Collins,
at Bowling Green, Mo-; John Waizman,
at Duluth, Mimi; Charles Townsend (col-
ored), at Huntsville, Ala, and Shelby
Montgomery, at Talladega, Ala.
AT Blanco, Tex, Al Locke, who MUIR
daughter, brother, sister-in-law and an
other relative, was taken from Jail on the
2Sth by mob and hanged. Twenty chill
dren were made orphans by Lockie's MUIR
ders.
AT Shelbyville, Ind, Joseph Fossleben,
aged twelve years, shot and killed his nine
year -old niece on the Goth with an old
musket he was playing with, and which
he did not know was loaded.
AT Rome, Ga, train ran through an
open switch on the 2Sth, killing one man
and fatally injuring three others.
NEAR gainesville, o., John Frank, a
wealthy farmer, while riding with three
strangers on the Goth ult., who had in
weighed him into speculation, was robbed
of his pocket book, containing s. 500.
A FEW days ago the steamer st. Paul
arrived at San Francisco with a cargo of
] sealskins valued at over $1,000,000
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LATER. =

MRS. U. S. GRANT, accompanied by
Colonel Fred Grant, visited the tomb of
her husband at Riverside Park for the first
time on the LIST. She clasped her hands
ON the railing in front of the vault doors
and wept long and silently. Hundreds of
people were present, and all stood uncov-
cred while the widow looked at her hus-
bands casket.
ANOTHER heavy rain and wind storm at
Charleston, S. c., on the 1st caused dam
age to the extent of 100000
MORE than 100000 cattle had up to the
1st been driven out Of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservations since the President
issued his proclamation. The number re-
naming was estimated at from $4,000 to
10000.
Frost was reported at several points in
the Northwest on the 1st.
DURING the eight months ended August
81 the receipts of all kinds of live stock at
the Chicago Stock-yards were greater by
1,177,457 head than for the corresponding
period of last year.
THERE were nearly $500 new cases Of
cholera in Spain on the 1st and over ], 100
deaths. A vessel which arrived at Leith,
Scotland, with several cases of the plague
on board, was quarantined.
REV. DR.. SAMUEL w. DUNCAN, pastor of
Baptist Church, in Rochester, N. Y, was
on the 1sU elected President of Vassar Col
lege, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
ALL the coal-miners at Shawnee and
New Straitsville, O., struck on the 1st for
an advance in wages.
WHILE sailing on the Potomac River on
the LIST, at Washington, a boat containing
John T. Morgan, Jr., son of Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama, and Mrs. Della Stella,
was upset by squall, and both were
drowned.
BURGLARS the other night rified the
post-office and Blountz's drug store at La
Gro, Ind, and secured large sum in cash,
postage stamps and jewelry.
A NEW commercial treaty has been
agreed on between Spain and the United
States which will work numerous reforms
in the Cuban customs laws.
THE publc-debt statement issued on the
LIST makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (including interest of Sl0,119, $3.50
S1,2G0. 71G,912; cash in Treasury, S492 ,065,-
800; debt, less amount in Treasury, S76S, :
711,5S3. Decrease during August, $3.50,
052. Decrease since June so, 1884, ST., o36,-
54J.
A sSEAK-THIEF entered the banking
house of Bateman & Co. at Washington
on the 1st and stole S1,209. There was no
ciew TO the robber.
DURINGIa quarrelsat Jamaica, N. Y, on
the LIST between Ann Saukin, aged six
ty- five, and Rosie Barnum, aged seventy,
the former hit the latter twice on the head
with an axe. inficting fatal injuries.
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DISASTROUS STORMS.
Great Damage to Growing Crops by Hail
and Rain in Ohio and New York.

Great Damage to Growing Crops by Hail
and Rain in Ohio and New York.
WHEELING, W. Va, Sept. IA terrific
hail-storm passed over Belmont County,
O., Sunday evening. The path of the
storm was two miles wide, travelling from
northwest to southeast. At Hendrysburg
every window pane exposed toward the
northwest was shattered. The storm
lasted only five minutes, but ragged
with great fury. A touring-mill was
blown down. One-third of the corn crop
has been destroyed and fruit much injured.
The tobacco crop suffered severely, many
fields being completely ruined. The hail
stones were Of unusual size, a number be-
ing over six inches 10 circumference and a
few measuring ten inches.
OswEGo, N. Y, Sept. IA severe hail
storm visited the southern part of Oswego
County Sunday afternoon, inficting damage
which is estimated to be over 100000
SYRACUSE, n. Y, Sept IA severe
hail-storm passed over northern Onondaga
County Sunday, doing great damage to
standing crops. The unharvested tobacco
crop was almost wholly ruined, and the
loss will reach high in the thousands.
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 1.-During the
storm Sunday night two and a quarter
inches of rain fell. Several land-slides on
the Hudson River Road caused hindrance
to trains. The farm lands along the base
OF the Helderbergs are under water, and
the crops in many instances are ruined.
The water broke through unfinished sewers
in this city, causing the pavements to care
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
A MONSTER MOBRED.

AL Locke, the Slayer of Eight Persons in
Texas in One Day, Hanged by Vigilantes
He Confesses His Crime, and He Says
There Were Six Others Whom He Want
ed to Kill.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. 29-Informa-
ton from San Marcos reports that mob of
seventy-fve persons at Blanco on Wednes-
day night went to the Jail and demanded
Of Sheriff Jackson the keys. Jackson said
he did not have them and also declared
that he could not procure them
After severe struggle Jackson was over
powered. The keys were found on his
person, and the mob then entered the Jail
and took out Locke, the man who COM
mitted wholesale murder in johnson City q
few dayssince.
When Locke was asked if he had any
thing to say he replied: II have" In re-
ply to the question: ''Why did you kill
them?' he replied: ''They were fixing to
mob me-" He was then asked if he lid not
remember that his brother had told him on
the morning of the killing that he (Al
Lockie) had better leave the country and go
as far away from it as he could. Al replied
yes. 'Did you kill every one whom you
felt disposed to kill?" ''No," replied Locke,
bitterly; Il did not. Six are still living
whom wished to kill" ''Do you wish to
prayT' 81 have been praying,'' said the
wretched man; then turning to an old man
in the crowd he said: ''You pray for me- :"
The old man declined, saying: "The Bible
does not teach me to pray for such as YOU"
Ibis ended the preliminaries. While the
conversation was in progress Locke was
ordered to mount the chair and stand ON it.
The moose was then adjusted and attached
to bough of the tree. The driver, at the
signal, moved forward and the murderer
was left suspended. The drop was suffi-
Gent and death was instantaneous. He
died without struggle.
tLockie's relatives and neghbors imputed
to him crimes with his step daughter and his
to the residence of his brother, Berry Locke
and shot ana killed Berry and his (Berry's)
wife. .neighbor named John Nicholson
rode up Just then He forced Nicholson
he shot and Killed Stokes There
Nicholson was lost sight Of His
horse was tied there's when found, and it is
supposed he also was killed. From there
cut the throat of Mrs. Henry Locke, Of Limo
County, Tex, wife of his step-son, who was
on visit to him. He also shot and killed
there Mrs. Stokes wife of the Stokes whom
daughter. Locke next attempted to kill
his wife, but, his cartridges being
exhausted. he could not fire another
shot, and she escaped. He then cut
his own throat, mounted his horse, and started
in the direction of Johnson City. After riding
a few yards he metThomas Brunswick, whom
he attacked and into whom he plunged a
knife, infiicting fatal wounds. The murderer
rested within two miles of it. By these muir
ders, about twenty children are left orphans. ]
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DEPREDATIoNs were committed on the
Both ult. by Arapahoe Indians on the cattle
ranges in the Big Eorn Basin and else
where in that section.
In Clay County, w. Va, mysterious
epidemic, with the symptoms strongly re-
sembling cholera, was prevailing ON the
30th ult. IL
AN order for the removal of settlers
from Crow Greek Reservation, in Dakota,
was issued by Commissioner Atkins On the
10Th ult.
1.-THE other day a man named Larsen,
who kept hotel at Leadville, Col, kicked
his bartender John Wohl) to death dur
ing a quarrel.
A FEW afternoons ago while sitting on
the porch of their house near Lindley's
Mills, o., William Miller, wealthy
farmer, and his wife, were both killed by a
stroke of lightning.
In recent gale the American schooner
Gustie Wilson foundered off Cape Hat
teras and all on board, seven in number,
were lost, except Captain Grape and two
seamen, who were rescued by passing
vessel Captain Grape is the man who
crossed the Atlantic with his wife in a
dory of thirteen feet keel in 1877.
The other night hail-storm in Belmont
County, O., which lasted only five min
utes, did great damage to crops and de-
stroyed considerable property.
A VERDICT was returned on the 31st ult.
by the Coroner's Jury which Investigated
the facts in connection with the death of
ex-Mayor Walkup, at Emporia, Kan, to
the effect that the deceased was poisoned
with arsenic by his wife,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

All the relatives of ex-Vice-Fres-
ident Wheeler have died in the last ten
years. Troy Times.
The Indians have given General
Sheridan the name of THE chunky
man-wh0-means-b business
Emperor William, of Germany, al
ways has a chapter from the Bible read
to him Immediately after dinner.
The majority of literary people now
spell the name of the great dramatist.
Shakespeare, and the minority are di-
vided up on several different spellings
of tn Y. Tribune.
Monroe was the only one of the
Presidents or ex-Presidents who was
buried in New York City, and his re-
mains were removed thence to Rich
mond before the war.-N y AGil.
Mrs. NJ. j. Pitman (Margery Deane)
is direct descendant in the fourth gen.
Grafton of that Captain Isaac Davis who
led the Concord fight and was the first
officer killed in the war of the reyolu-
ton Chicago Inter Ocean.
r.. j. Burdette consented to lecture
in Cape May recently, but objected to
the place selected for the lecture-a ho-
tel diningroom. He says: Il won't
lecture in dining-room;Ithe next en-
gagement would bring me into the
kitchen.
Edward Judson Ned Buntline) has
written between three and four hundred
serial stories, and once wrote six
hundred and ten page book in sixty-two
hours. He is now sixty-three years old,
and lives on his fine stock farm on the
Upper Delaware.
Benjamin Bathurst William Henry
Jeremiah Andrew jackson Simon Peter
George Washington johnson, ESQ.,,
lives in Lexington County, S. c., but
has to pay taxes on his name in three
other counties through which it runs
Macon (GG.) Telegraph.
The late DR.. Samuel Iren@us Prime
was for long time editor of the
Editors Drawer" in Harper'S MagG-
zine. When he took the Drawer
in charge he had. been editing the
Observer thirteen years without saving
a cent. For his services in conducting
the Drawer he received one hun
0LCo dOAld1S q uOAbA. 1ulS uS EGl1S-
iously laid away in bank, and at the
end of i've years had six thousand dol
lars cash. With this he made his first
payment toward his shares in the New
York Observer, which afterward brought
him wealthy. Y. Post.
Colonel Hoe, the inventor of the
celebrated Hoe printing-presses, al
though seventy-fve years of age, at
tends daily to the business affairs of
his great establishment in New York.
He is of a jovial disposition, and
walks through the workshops whis-
thing the latest operate airs and chat
ting pleasantly to his employees, many
of whom have spent the best years of
their lives in his service. Hell is a very
liberal. employer, the payroll of his
immense establishment amounting in
the busy season to over twenty thou
sand dollars a weekly. Y. Herald
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HUMOROUS.

-Mackerel are so plentiful and cheap
that the fishermen don't care whether
the school keeps or not.-L0OeU
Courier.
1t is said of the Chicago girl that
when she faints away she throws q
third of herself upon the ground. The
other two-thirds are already there
Boston Budget.
What sort of a flag does a man IN
furl when he valves an examination?
asks the Pittsburgh Chronicle TeIe-
graph. We should say flag of dis
tress.-M Y. Tribune.
When a civilized man tells his best
girl that she looks nice enough to eat,
she feels fattered. When a Fiji ISL
ander says the same to his sweetheart,
she takes to the woods. -Boston Post.
II hear you are an extremist
Hobbs" $50 am" "When did you
change your views?" "Since became
conductor of the slow freight. spend
all my time now kicking tramps off the
extreme end of the train. "--PhiEadeL-
pIiG Call.
-"What do you think of my mus
tache? asked young man of his girl.
''Oh, it reminds me of Western from
tier CITY," was the answer. ''In what
respect, pray?" because the survey
is large enough, but the settlers are
struggling. "-OI city Derrick.
Marriage in High Life.-Judge:
"John Henry, do you take this woman
to be your welded wife?" Bride: so
you ask him if he takes me to be his
wife? guess you had better ask me
if [ take him. he is only an editor. and
I've got forty-seven dollars laid up."-
Texas SJtimgs.
ITO clean the teeth use mixture
of emery and sweet oil, following it
with plenty of kerosene" This would
seem to be queer advice; but as it is
taken from a machinists' magazine,
and from chapter relating to circular
saws, we have no doubt it is given in
good faith.-M 7. independent.
Musical Amateur Ito Irish fddler)
-'.My good friend, do you play by
noter'' Irish Fiddler-"Divil note,
sor" M. Ado you play by ear.
thenf" I F.-'DiviI an ear, your
honor" M. Allow do You play,
thenP" l. Fly main stringth, be
jabbers! and it's moighty dry worr-kr'
Judy.
-'Look here! Iwish you would ex-
plain how this got into one of your
cigars,'' said a man, rushing into
Fifth avenue tobacco store and holding
Up little strip of calico. The manu-
facturer eyed it with disgust and ex-
claimed: "It's those new girls again. :
They don't seem to know the difference
between Mother Hubbard and a Con-
necticut wrapper!"-Pittsburgh CtrOfs-
GeLe- Telegraph.
Fanny, you should not beat your
doll with that heavy stick. You will
make all the saw-dust come out of it."
said Texas mother to her little girl,
who had placed her doll on the ground,
and was belaboring it with baseball;
bat. Il don't caro- if all the sawdnst
does come out of her." replied Fanny;
81 don't want people to say that my
children turned out bad because I
humored them too much. Chicago
Tribune.
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Saved After Months of sufferine.

HALIFAX, N. S., Aug. 29.-The steamer
Nova Scotian, which arrived here yesterday
from Liverpool, brought from st. Johns, N.
F., Captain Seablossom and twenty-one of
the crew of the American whaling brig Jsa-
bella, which was lost in the ice in Hudson's
Straits. The Isabella sailed from New Bed
ford May 81, 1884, and entered the ice pack
on July II. She was crushed in the ice
on the Goth of the same month twenty
miles north of North Bluff. 4 II OF the crew,
twenty-three in number, and stowaway
were saved. They wandered about on the
ice for four days, suffering intensely from
the cold. They finally reached settlement
called Acalier, and remained there until
September 8,