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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04
THE EAST. Z

COMPLETE official returns of the recent
election in New York State show that the
total vote polled for Governor was 1884,
1885, of which Hill (Dem.) received 5O1, AIS;
Davenport (Rep.) 489,727; Bascom (Pro.)
3O,S66; Jones (Gbk.) 2,127. Hills plurality
over Davenport, 1881. For Lieutenant
Governor the plurality of Jones dem.
over Carr (Rep.) was 1852.
The thermometer at Mortified and other
places in Vermont registered ten degrees
below zero on the 9th, and in portions of
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire snow
fell to the depth of two feet.
CoAL-MINERs on strike near Pittsburgh,
Pa. attacked the non-union workers on the
9th, injuring many of them severely, and
five probably fatally. More trouble was
anticipated.
AT Ogdensburg, N. Y, Mr.. and Mrs
Aaron Nightingale celebrated the seventy
second anniversary of their marriage on
the 9th M. Nightingale is ninety-seven
and his wife ninety-four
OVER 100000 has already been obtained
for the New York Grant Monument fund.
On the 9th the special-delivery letter
system in New York, Brooklyn and other
cities was considered to be failure.
BY an accident on the 2Sth ult. on an
acqueduct under construction at Merritt's
Corners, N. Y, three men were instantly
killed and another received a fracture of
the skull. This made twenty nine men
killed by accident at the same place since
May last.
In the Monongahela (Pa.) Valley the
riotous miners frightened at the de-
termined stand taken by the authorities,
fed to their homes on the 2Sth ult
AT Pottsville, Pa, during riot on the
9Oth ult. between Italian and other railroad
laborers, three of the former were killed.
AN incendiary fire on the 30th ult. de-
stroyed almost the entire business portion
of the village of Savannah, N. Y.
REPORTS of the Both ult. stated that many
of the striking miners at Lucyville, Pa,
were in starving condition. and provis-
ions were being sent from Pittsburgh.
Two HUNDRED THOUSAND copies of the
first volume of the Personal Memoirs Of
General u. S. Grant, were issued in New
York City ON the 3Oth ult.
JAMES G. BLAINE has been chosen COM
mencement orator by the Dartmouth Col
lege senior class.
THE arrest of John J. Robinson was made
at Boston on the Both ult. on the charge of
swindling Buffalo citizens out of $4,000 on
patent process for manufacturing oil.
THREE little children of Mrs Patrick
Fitzgerald, living at Providence r. l., were
suffocated on the 3Oth ult., by the burning
of mattress. @
THE late Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, Judge H. F. French, expired from
heart-disease at his home in Concord, Mass,
an the 30th ult.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04
LATER.

KING THEEBAw, of Burmah, on the LIST
surrendered Internationally and the Brit
ish expedition under General Prendergast
was at Mandalay.
SIX men were drowned at Nerre- Boldu,
Me-, on the LIST while skating
THE dwelling of A, Grayson, prominent
citizen, residing three miles west of Mar
quez, Tex, was burned on the LIST, and Gray
sons wife and daughter persisted in the
flames
By the fall of derrick on the lst in an
iron-works at Wheeling, W. Va, one man
was killed and three others fatally injured.
Another man was killed by the parting of a
cable in blast-fu. lace.
OFFICIAL statistics show marked decline
in Canada's foreign trade.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio rendered a
decision on the 1st declaring the Cincinnati
and Cleveland election registry law to be
unconstitutional.
THE funeral of ce-President Hendricks
took place at Indianapolis on the 1st The
ceremonies were impressive and the attend
ance very large.
THE electors of Great Britain had up to
the LIST returned to Parliament 1911 Liberals,
It's Tories and So Parnellites.
AT the State Greek Iron Mines, near
Olympia, KY, an explosion on the 1st
wounded eight men, four of them fatally.
The eyes of one of the victims were blown
out.
The excitement among French Canadians
over the hanging of Riel continued unaba-
ted on the 1st
4, To {ho a,,6 - O
grants arrived at Toronto, Can, of whom
I,S19 went to the Western States The ar
rivals last year for the same period were
1900, 800 going West.
THE Philadelphia Civil-Service Reform
League met on the LIST and instructed its
Executive Committee to prepare bill for
introduction in Congress making it a
misdemeanor for member of Congress to
solicit the appointment of any one to a
public Office.
AT Enfield, Me-, on the LIST Ed Whitney
shot his wife twice, but not fatally He
then shot himself through the heart, dying
instantly. They had been married only
three weeks and she had left him.
DISPATCHES of the 1st from Monterey,
Mex, represented that battle was iInlni-
nent at Villa Garcia between the forces of
Rodriguez, the Revolutionist, and General
Zuequeta Heavy firing had been heard in
the mountains north of Monterey.
THE annual report of the Postmaster
General, issued ON the LIST, shows that the
total revenue of the Post-office Department
during the last fiscal year was 81, sec, S4s
and the total expenditures $4,000, 1SS, leav-
ing cash deficiency of S7,041, 345, due to
the decrease of revenues and the increase of
expenditures. The number of post-offices
is 51,252, and of money -order offices 1856.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE death of King Alfonso, of Spain, oc-
Cured at Madrid at AS on the morning of
the 25th, of consumption, at the age Of
twenty eight years. Princess Mercedes, the
five-year-old daughter of Alfonso, will be
Queen under the regency of her mother,
Christina.
THE hanging of Benjamin Simmons, an
iron molder, took place at London, Ont,
on the 27th for killing his paramour, Mary
Ann Stokes, last June.
BULGARIAN forces attacked the Servians
at Prot on the 9th, but were driven back
after sustaining heavy losses.
THROUGHOUT Canada subscriptions are
being raised for the benefit of Riers fam
lily.
THE eight Indian murderers sentenced to
death for their bloody deeds in the late
Northwest rebellion were hanged at Battle
ford on the 9th.
AFTER brief illness at Victoria, B. c.,
Thomas Corris, native of England, aged
102 years, died on the 2Sth ult He had
never before been i'll.
OVER six thousand of the French troops
in Tonquin have died or been disabled by
sickness since June.
AT the recent election Charles Stewart
Parnell and Timothy Healy, Nationalists,
were chosen for Parliament for the city of
Cork
PROT was captured and occupied on the
18th ult. by the Bulgarian army Through
the efforts of the Austro-Hungarian envoy
at Belgrade, an armistice between Servia
and Bulgaria has been concluded.
THE future of Spain was on the 2Sth ult
still an uncertainty. A state of siege had
been declared in large portion of the
country, and outbreaks of Revolutionists
and Carlists were looked for at various
points on the frontier, if not in Madrid
also.
AN attempt was made by King Theebaw
of Burmah, on the Both ult. to arrange an
armistice with General Prendergast, but
was compelled to surrender the forts at
Ava and permit the British to move for
ward to Mandalay.
THE Government of Germany has declined
to permit the landing OF an American cable
on it's coast.
TELEeRAMs of the 30th ult. from Mas
sowah, Egypt, deny the death of Osman
Digma, and say he has avenged the pris-
oners hanged in Abyssinia by massacreing
all the people of Kassala, Europeans in
cluded, and reducing the town TO ruins.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

in Springfield, ILL.,, on the 18th ult., at the
age OF seventy-eight years. He was mem
Der of Congress in 1888, 1910 and 1862. In
his Office Abraham Lincoln studied law,
and afterward was taken into partnership.
UNITED STATES soldiers on the 29th ult.
drove the cattle of Burke and Martin from
lands in Oklahoma and burned their build
ings.
Mrs. BIRDIE ScHRoYER, a young and
pretty woman, committed suicide with
strychnia at Norwich, o., on the Both ult,
and few hours later her husband took
chloroform with fatal effects
On the Goth ult. the season of navigation
on Lake Michigan for 1885 was declared
closed at Chicago. Vesselmen said it had
been season of unprecedented depression.
ONE-THIRD of all the swine in Central Ill
inois were carried off by hog-cholera the
present year.
IT was denied by Miss Sweet, late Pension
Agent in Chicago, on the Both ult tnat she
had been married. The Miss Sweet referred
to in a recent dispatch was a Long Island
woman.
NEAR Parkersburg, w. ", six men were
drowned in the hold of the steamer Emma
Graham, which sank in collision few
days ago.
A PACKAGE containing 5000 in green
backs was stolen from the Southern Ex-
press Company's safe at Hope, Ark, on the
Both ult. by robbers.
A HoRsE-THIEF named George 81. Reach
was taken by vigilantes from the officers at
Adams Ore, on the Both ult., and hanged
to tree. Henry Mason (colored) met the
same fate at Campbell Courthouse, Va,
for murder
In car of Dakota wheat which arrived
at Duluth, Mimi, on the Both ult. was found
the corpse of man who had evidently been
killed with coupling-pin. In an inner
pocket there was S465 in currency, which
his murderer had overlooked.
GENERAL Crooks report on the Both ult.
says the hostile Apaches have been killing
the peaceful White Mountain Indians, the
butcheries thus far including eleven women,
four children and five men.
In Arizona Territory the Indians were on
raid On the Both ult, aud several persons
at Wilcox and near Fort Apache had been
murdered. A general outbreak was feared.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04
WEST AND SOUTH. 7

NEAR Missoula, NJ T., freight trains col
lided She other day, destroying much prop
erty and killing three men and wounding
several others.
The arrest of Andrew Braun, President
of the defunct Hot Springs (Ark.) National
Bank, was made on the 27th on the charge
of embezzling $4,000.
THE sum of $4,000 was willed by ex-Sen-
ator Sharon, the California millionaire to
charitable objects.
THE Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Kansas and Nebraska winter wheat crop
was on the 9th reported to be in promis-
ing condition.
A BILL has passed the Oregon Legislature
prohibiting prize fighting in the State.
a MAN named Thomas Stanton, living
near San Bernardipo, Cal, was surprised
by four Indians on the 9th, who, failing to
secure the whisky they demanded, roasted
Ste nton alive.
THE death of Peter Donahue, pioneer
OF California, ranking among the million
aires, occurred suddenly in San Francisco
on the 9th He was President of the
North Pacific Road.
THE anti Prohibitionists, It was said,
would contest the result of the recent cleo
ton in Atlanta, GA.
AN inmate of the county poor-house at
Indianapolis, named Mrs Maria Woods.
aged lO2 years, fell from third-story
window of the building to the brick pave
ment on the 18th ult, receiving fatal in
juries.
WHITE minersat Bevier, Mo-, on the 2sth
ult. attacked colored men who had been
imported to take their places, and in the
melee three men were instantly killed and
half a dozen seriously wounded.
A CINCINNATI physician in treating a
patient on the 2Sth ult. with congenial cat
aracts in the pupil of each eye, made in
cisions below and formed new pupils
In the Tropic Furnace hoisting-shaft at
Jackson, o., boiler burst few days ago
and killed three men James Dobbins
George ingalls, and Henry Jones Children
were blown fifty feet, but were nninjured
TEE death of Hon. John I. Stuart occurred
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

The best approved scientific facts,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, disprove
the theory that freezing water destroys
the germs of disease contained in it.
There is no safety, but constant danger
in using ice from impure or stagnant
ponds. There is not a doubt but the
worst forms of disease are often intro
duced into homes in cakes of ice.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

Mr.. HENDRICKS is the fifth Vice.
President who has died in Office
George Clinton during the first term of
Madison, Elbridge Gerry during the
second term of Madison, William R..
King, Vice-President under Pierce and
Henry Wilson during Grants second
term, being his four predecessors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

PROBABLY the fastest long-distance
train in America is the limited express
of the New York Central, which leaves
Chicago at $50 o'clock p. M. and ar
rives in New York at 7:30 o'clock the
next evening, making the run of $50
miles in twenty-six hours. This gives
an average speed of 81 9-1S miles an
hour, including all stops.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

GALVESTON, Tex, is a city of about
$4,000 inhabitants, and when the sun
went down upon the day of the recent
great fire its business men had sub
scribed $3l 900 to the relief fund OF the
sufferers. 1t shows the good material
of the people of Galveston. Such pea
pie deserve prosperity and will receive
-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

JAMES DEMPSEY reported at Helena,
M. T., recently that his two compan-
ions-John Hoag, of Cleveland, and
Jacob Scheller, of Lafayette, Ind.--had
been devoured by wolves while crossing
the MOUNTAINS. From his position in a
tree Dempsey saw the men torn to
pieces and devoured.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

As THE pitcher that goes often to the
well is likely to be broken, so the ship
chat frequently scatters the spray at
her prov runs afoul of wrathful
Neptune at last The recently lost
George and Susan, built in 1910, dur
ing sixty-seven years OF activity, took
home to New Bedford, Mass, $4,000
barrels of oil and 10000 pounds of
whalebone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04
Death of the King of Spain.

MADRID, Nov. 26.-Alfonso, King of
Spain, expired Wednesday morning from
consumption accelerated by dysentery. The
Queen has been proclaimed Regent, the
the heir to the throne being a girl of four
years. Orders have been issued to confine
the troops to their barracks. The Pope's
benediction arrived before the monarch
passed away. Queen Victoria dispatched
special messenger to the Spanish Embassy
at London and sent telegram of con-
dolence. Alfonso held the reins of Gov
eminent for eleven years. He will be
buried in the palace of the Escurial. Fears
are entertained of trouble owing to a threat
ened rising of the Caylists.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

UPON the death of a rich Texas cattle
owner the other day it was discovered
that he had two widows, neither know
ing of the existence of the other until
then, Instead of going to law about
the estate they met on good terms,
came to the conclusion that there was
enough for all and divided the money
and property equally,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

The Pixies Peak Railroad in Colora-
do, when completed, as it is soon ex-
pected to be, will be the most notable
track in the world. 1t viii mount
two thousand feet higher than the Lima
q Oroya Road in Peru, The entire
thirty miles of its length will be sue.
cession of complicated curves and
rades up the sides of the great mount
ain, with no piece of straight track
longer than three handred feet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

The steamer Beaver, built in 1887 for
the Hudson Bay Company, and said to
have been the first steamer on the Pa
citic Ocean, was sold at Victoria a few
days ago. Her machinery is said to be
as perfect as ever.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

The volcanic fires of Vesuvius have
recently resumed active eruptions at
the old stand. The old fiery mountain
brings prosperity instead of panic to
its countryside now. When an erup-
ton is announced the tourists stream
into Naples and the whole district is
proiited.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

FRUIT trees in Southern Oregon ap-
pear to have all lost their calendar reck-
tning this year. Apple and pear trees
have had the second crop of fruit upon
them in many places, and some were
recently blooming again.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

The pathological Union of the
United States recommends that all
public fostering Of the English sparrow
be stopped, that its Introduction into
new localities be prohibited by law
and that all existing laws for its pro-
lection be repealed and bounties of
feCed for its destruction.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04
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a Hotel Rnrned.

ALLEGAN, Mich, Nov. 27.-An incen-
diary fire destroyed the City Hotel early
Thursday morning, the guests and servants
escaping in their night-clothes. One man
jumped from third-story window. and
another was rescued in an unconscious con-
dition. The financial loss is IS, 800, with
insurance of $4,000,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

WHEN Thomas Ford was convicted
OF murder in the second degree at Buff
falo, N. Y, the other day, and SEN
tencedto life imprisonment, he plead
ed with the Judge to change it to the
death penalty. Being refused, he gave
notice to the official that at the first
opportunity he would kill himself.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

The people in Northern Mexico are
reported to be strongly opposed to the
settlement of the Mormons in that part
OF the country, and threaten to resist
them with powder and shot.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

HUGH GILMAN, of Manchester, Eng.
was fined EDO for foroibly kissing a
young lady in railway carriage. The
article is cheaper in this country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

THERE will be an extra session of the
Kansas Legislature this winter to re-
apportion the State into Senatorial and
Representative districts.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

THE commander of the Danish Arc
tic expedition, just returned to Copen-
hagen says there is no possibility of
ever reaching the North Pole.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

The ninth anniversary of Francis
Murphy's first appearance as temper
ance reformer was celebrated in Pitts
hurgh on Thanksgiving Day.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

THEODORE ROOSEVELT says that the
big farms out West have bankrupted
most of the rich men who tried to run
them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

Mr.. BLAINE second volume of
Twenty Years in Congress viii be-
published in, January.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04

Rev, SAM JONES will hold series of
revival meetings in Washington during
the session of Congress this winter.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26
His Usual Advice.
Wall Street News.

Wall Street News.
There was another Cincinnati riot
the other day A young man who
had lost 80, 900 on wheat speculat-
ion went for broker with:
See here, didn't J on say that wheat
was as low as it could goa"
ooh, yes"
"And that 1t was a good time to
buy?'
Certainly"
"And that you'd advise any one
DESTROYS of specializing 10 invest in
wheat2"
II believe that was my advice"
"Well, sir, bought wheat on your
advice and am $40, 900 out OF pocket,
as you know"
Exactly"
But what are you going TO do
about it?" howled the victina.
"The same as [ always do, was
the placid answer. IT always advise
dropping wheat and going into oats T.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26
The New Postage Law.

WASHINGTON, D. G., March 49,
The Post Office Department has re-
ceiVed inquiries from all quarte, as
to the new legislation in the Post
Office Appropriation bill. TWAS not
possible, on account of the changes
made IN conference, to ascertain what
the changes as to postage we're until
the bill had been officially printed, A
certified copy of the bill, furnished by
the State Department, has just been
received from the Government
Printer. The following are the i'm
portant changes which will take effect,
beginning with July 1, 1885.
1. The weight of all single-rate let
tiers is increased from one-half ounce
each or fraction thereof to one ounce
each or fraction thereof. The same
increase of weight allowed for drop
letters, whether mailed at stations,
whether there is free delivery or
where carrier service is not establish
ed.
2. All newspapers sent from the
office of publication, including sample
copies, or when sent from a news
agency 10 actual subscribers thereto,
or to other news agents, shall be in
titled to transmission at one cent per
pound or fraction thereof, the postage
to be prepaid. This is a reduction of
one-half from existing rates
3. Any article III a newspaper or
other publication may be marked for
observation, except by written or
printed words, without increase of
postage.
4. That special stamp of the value
Of 10 cents may be issued, which when
attached to letter, In addition to the
lawful postage thereon, shall entitle
the letter to immediate delivery at any
place containing 4, 900 population or
over, according to the Federal census,
within the carrier limit of the free
delivery office, Or within one mile of
the post office, or any other post office
coming within the provisions of this
law, which may, in like manner, be
designated as special delivery Office;
that such specially-stamped letters
shall be delivered between o'clock a.
m. and midnight; that book shall
be provided Ia which the person to
when the letter is addressed shall
acknowledge its receipt; that messen-
gers for this special delivery are to be
paid so per cent. of the face value of
all the stamps received and recorded
n a month, provided that the aggre
gate compensation paid to any one
person for such service shall not ex
coed $50 per month; and provided,
further, that the regulations for the
delivery OF these specially-stamped
letters shall in no way interfere with
the prompt delivery OF letters as pro
vided by existing laws and regula-
tons.
These are all the provisions of the
new law which make changes in rela-
ton to postage. The Government has
doubled the weight which may be car
ried for 2 cents, has reduced the post
age one. half on newspapers sent from
publication offices, and has provided
that letter, for 10 cents additional,
may be Immediately delivered by
special messenger at any time between
7o'clock in the morning and mid