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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16
LATER.

LATEST advices on the 18th from the Ohio
State election indicated that the Repub-
licans had elected their ticket by about
$4,000 majority, as follows: For Governor,
Joseph B. Foraker; Lieutenant Governor,
General Robert P. Kennedy; Treasurer
John c. Brown; Attorney General, Jacob
A. kohler; Judge of Supreme Court, T.
A. Minshall; Member Board of Public
Works, Wells S. Jones. g 1t was also con-
coded that the Republicans would have a
working majority i'll the Legislature, in
surfing the return of John Sherman to the
United States Senate. The Prohibition
vote was estimated at 10000.
CONSIDERABLE damage was inflicted al
| Baltimore and other points on the 18th by
heavy winds.
:" EDITOR JOHN NICHOLSON, of the Deseret
.NeaoS (Mormon organ), and two others
were sentenced at Salt Lake on the 18th
to the full extent of the law for illegal CO.
habitation.
The strike of the street railway EN-
ployes at st. Louis was practically ended
on the 18th, all the cars being run with
out interference.
cases of cholera and 40 deaths reported
on the 18th. In Spain the disease was de-
creasing.
REL has bean further respited to the
10Th inst, the Privy Council at London
having postponed the hearing of the case.
ADvICEs of the 18th say that floods in
the valleys of Switzerland have destroyed
large amount of property and caused
the loss of number of lives.
UP to the 18th six hundred changes had
been made in Presidential post offices. OF
this number 249 were caused by removals.
Hog cholera was on the 18th said to be
making terrible ravages in twenty coun
ties in Kansas.
A FIRE on the 18th at Fredericton, N. B.,
destroyed 500, 900 worth of property and
rendered thirteen families homeless.
JOHN HOFFMAN, a saloon-keeper, fatally
shot his wife and then himself on the 18th
at Newark, N. j.
NATURAL gas was on the 18th being
rapidly substituted for coal at Pittsburgh,
Pa. Another rich strike had been made
near the city.
A SEVERE storm prevailed along the At
laatic coast on the 18th, and for the first
time in twenty five years there We're no
arrivals at or departures fromsthe port OF
New York. The tide at Rockaway Beach
was the highest known for years.
The Illicit distillers of Franklin County,
Georgia, have begun war upon law
abiding citizens whom they suspect of
having informed upon them. A young
e.. al.
several cases was assassinated on the 18th.
and many persons had been ordered to
leave the county or take the consequences.
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The Crops.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The Depart
ment of Agriculture reports that the yield
OF wheat per acre for the area harvested is
ten and a half bushels, and only nine on
the area sown, which was nearly 10000, 900
acres. The area harvested will not exceed
S4,0OO,OOO acres. The indications point to
a yield of twenty-six and half bushels of
corn per acre, which would give yield of
1860, 100000 bushels. The oats crop
exceeds 600, 100000 bushels. The con-
dition of cotton has dropped
from eighty-seyen to seYenty-eight per
cent. The rye average is 1914 bushels near
ly two bushels short of the yield of 1884
The average yield of the barley will be
about twenty-five bushels per acre. The
condition of potatoes has seriously declined
on account of the prevalence of rot in Few
York, Michigan and elsewhere. The de-
cline from the LIST of September was eleven
points
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WEST AND SOUTH.

FIRE on the Sth caused the total wreck
of H. S. Croker & Co.'s immense station
cry and printing establishment in San
Francisco, the estimated loss on building
and stock being 100000. Two iremen
were fatally injured.
AT Toledo on the evening of the Sth
Judge Foraker, Republican, candidate for
Governor of Ohio, and Governor Hoadly,
the Democratic nominee, engaged in a
joint discussion of political matters.
IMMENSE damage was being done by
prairie fires on the 9th in the counties of
Pierce, Cedar, Wayne and Knox, in Colo
RADIO.
AN earthquake shock occurred in the
immediate vicinity of Louise Court House,
Va, about midnight on the 9th.
ST. LOUIS mobs on the 9th made demon-
STATIONS in several localities, threw street.
cars from the track, and Ia some cases
gave the occupants barely time to leave
the cars. The skull of one conductor was
broken by blow, snd policeman shot
and killed. rioter
The execution of Chris Petrioz at
Augusta, Ark, for the murder of wom-
an about year ago was witnessed by
three thousand persons on the 9th.
A MEETING of the United States Naval
Institute was held at Annapolis, Md, on
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mANeLED BY A MONSTER.


The Elephant Empress Tramples Circus
EmpEoya Beneath Her Feet and Disem-
bowels Him with Her Tusks-The I'm
fortunate Man Her Third Victim.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. R.-The big Afri-
can elephant Empress, owned by John
O'Brien, the circus man, was taken late on
Saturday night to Forepaughs winter
quarters. The beast was in charge of
Harry Coaley, the only man who can man
age Empress, and John Flood. The big
elephant is very vicious The midnight
journey was made without accident and by
one o'clock the elephant was placed in a
: stall and securely shac,lled. Coaley re-
manned up all night with his charge, and at
ten o'clock fed and watered it.
Robert e. White, who has charge of the
winter quarters, came in during the morn
ing to see the elephant. He was quite proud
OF his ability to manage elephants. About a
quarter of an hour later White volunteered
to show Allen and another man how he could
manage the elephant, ard proposed to bring
ii out and water ii. They advised him not
to attempt it. but he persisted. Going into
the stall, he unlinked the shackles or
Empress, who followed him to the water
trough and took drink. Empress had no
sooner finished than she wheeled suddenly
about without making a sound and struck
White a terrible blow with her trunk,
knocking him twenty feet away against
brick wall. She followed up this work
quickly by disemboweling the helpless man
with her tusks, and raising one ponderous
fore foot she set it down upon him, crush
ing his breast-hone and shouIder-blade.
Allen and friend fled at the first blow and
gave the alarm. A crowd Immediately
collected at the entrance of the house, but
no one dare enter. Empress stood over her
victim swinging her trunk viciously. Dan
Taylor arrived in few minutes, and taking
in the situation at a glance, seized an ele-
plant spear and prepared to go to Whites
rescue. Don't go iDS" yelled the crowd.
she'll kill YOU" Il can't stand by and see
that man lying there" replied Taylor, reso-
lutely. He advanced, spear in hand, and
i'll a low, cool tone commanded Empress to
go back. Slowly and sullenly she backed
away and, rs she retired, Taylor advanced
until he had reached Whites body. There
he stopped, and john Coyle ran forward,
picked up the injured man, and carried him
out.
While awaiting the arrival of an ambu-
lance Dan Taylor said to White: "Bob, why
did you go in there?" ''Just to be smart
replied White, who was still perfectly con-
scious. but I'm all broke up now, Dan"
White died While being taken to the hos
pitaL
1t is not known what disposition will be
made of Empress, but it is not supposed
that she will be killed, as she is very valu-
able, being regarded as the finest perform
ing elephant in this country. While on ex-
hibition she is docile, and children are per-
mtted to pet her. Empress has now killed
her third man, and her record includes the
injuring at least of score of men.
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AN EVENTUAL CRUISE.

Return of tho Revenue Cutter Corwin
fror, tho Arctic Seas-Nearly Two Hun
bred Whalers Rescued After Intense
afferings--Twenty-Fiv Sailors Lost
Explorations of the GorwIn's Crew.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Oct. 1S.-The
United States reyenue-cutter Corwin re.
turned from Alaska yesterday with 1872
wrecked seanica aboard She reports that
the New Bedford whaleg, Napoleon, was
sunk in the Arctic Ocean, and that twenty
two of her crew, including the first and
third mates, are undoubtedly lost
The crew, thirty-six in number, abandoned
the ship in four bOatS-nine in a
boat-and kept together one day and
night. The next day the boats separated in
fog. On the morning of the fourth day the
CorWin picked up one of the boats with eight
persons alive and one dead. In the afternoon
another boat was picked up with six of the
occupants alive. The two other boats were
never seen again. Those rescued suffered
intensely of cold and hunger. Joaquin
khlus had his feet badly frozen, and the
captain of the bark amputated his toes
prior to his rescue.
The Corwin also reports that the whal-
erS Mabel and George and Susan, owned in
Marblehead, Mass, were blown ashore in
Wainwright's inlet August 10, and William
Lee, cooper, August Wilhelm and James
Evans, seamen, of the Susan's crew, were
lost The others were taken off by the
Corwin and the cargo of the Susan was
transferred to the bark Ohio.
During the gale the Corwin sent boat
to the whaler Abraham Barker, which was
capsized. The crew were CALAMITY rescued
7 50
crew.
July the C0rwin arrived at K0tZebue
Sound, whence two exploration parties set
out-one under the command of Lieutenant
Cantwell to proceed up the KOwak
River, and the other Assistant
Engineer McIennegan, to proceed
up the unexplOred Noitak River
The Corwin then continued n0rthward,
coaled at Cape Sabine August II, turned
her course southwark, and arrived at Hot
ham Inlet August %, where she found both
exploring parties, which had returned after
having successfully executed their task.
McLennegan, who explored the Noitak
RIVER, reports having met Lieutenant
Stoney and party at the upper end of Hot
ham Inlet. Lieutenant Stoney was just
about to start for the interior The Corwin
brought mail from St0ney's party.
The vessel left the Arctic Ocean August
%, and arrived at st. MichaeIs September
4. Here she found Lieutenant Ii. +. Allen,
Sergeant Robertson and F. w. Packet, of
the United States Signal Corps comprising
the party sent out last year by General
Miles to explore the Copper River and the
region between it and tho Gukon River.
Here also was found tive English tour.
lists, j. w. Garland and F. r. Beatty,
who had made the remarkable trip
from the great Slave lake across
Mackenzie River to the Tukan and down
the latter to st. Michaels, Both parties
were taken aboard and brought here. Sep
TENDER the Corwin anchored off Halls
Island, where a sixteen hundred pound
Polar bear was shot and killed. 1t will be
sent to the Smithsonian Institute. October
the vessel finally left Ounalaska for this
port During the trip the health of all on
board has been excellent.
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He Left the Girls to Perish.

KITTANNING, Pa, Oct ia terrible
accident happened ON the Mahoning Creek
at what was known as MilIiron's dam, yes
terday afternoon, in which three young
ladies were drowned. A party of young
folks were on their way to MillirOn's
church, and, there being no bridge, were
obliged to row across. When
they arrived at the creek
Beckie and Annie Neale, daughters
of w. c. Neale, and Mary, the daughter
of James NeaIe, got into small fiatboat,
with w. S. Neale as oarSman. When they
had reached the middle of the creek the
boat sank. The girls grasped hold of the
young man, but he, being an expert swim
mer, managed, after terrible struggle, to
break loose from them and reach the shore.
The three girls were drowned. The bod
les were recovered.
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Great Loss of Life and Property.

CRY OF MEXICO, Oct 10. Continued
rains make railroad traffic impossible.
Passengers and mails on the Central Rail-
way are still delayed. The bridge at
Lerdo has been carried away, and the pas
sengers and mails are being transferred
in boats. There can be no permanent inn
provemeLt till it stops raining in the III.
terror. The rains in this city have several
times within the week flooded the streets,
making travel, except in cabs, impossible.
The lowlands about the city and neal
.Guadaloupe are flooded. The loss to the
farmers in the flooded districts in the in
terror will be heavy. A number of lives
have been lost i'll the rural villages by the
bursting of reservoirs.
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The supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, Oct 10.-The October
term of the Supreme Court of the United
States begins on next Monday. It's docket
contains 1,04O cases and Others are COM
ing in daily. The docket will probably
number 1900 cases before the end
of. the term. The court, by reason
of its energetic work during the last
four or five years. has ceased falling
farther behind -Four hundred and sixty
cases were disposed of last year, at which
rate, if continued, the last case on the
present docket will be adjudcated within
three years. The Judges are all in good
health, and there will probably be full
bench 1t the Opening.
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b. Lieutenant Denenhower read

the 9th. Lieutenant Denenhower read
paper in which he contended that the
scientific knowledge to be obtained by
Polar explorations is not worth the loss of
life entailed.
The first colored man ever authorized to
practice law in Maryland is Everett J.
Waring. an intelligent mulatto, who was
on the 10th admitted to the bar in Balti-
more.
UNSUCCESSFUL attempts were made to
run the street-cars in st. Louis on the
18th. Two riots occurred, cars being de-
molished and the drivers badly injured.
UP to the 18th prairie fires had been rag
ing for two days in portions of Northern
Nebraska, causing losses which would ag
gregate an enormous amount
Two MORE Mormons were. sentenced on
the 10th at Salt Lake City to the extreme
penalty of the law for Illegal cohabitation.
The other night shocks of earthquake
were felt at Richmond, Petersburg, Lynch
burg and other points in Virginia.
In the river at st. Paul, Mimi. Swede
named Olsen and his daughter were
drowned on the 10th by the capsizing of
their boat by a steamer.
ON the 18th a tidal-wave at Savannah,
Ca, submerged many plantations, leaving
the rice crop under water. Many houses
were also flooded. The loss would be
heavy.
The National Liberal League at it's re-
cent session in Cleveland, o., elected Rob-
ert G. Ingersoll President.
MIsTAKING his wife for burglar few
nights ago William Eastland, of Living
ston, Ala, shot her dead.
A FEW days ago Ben Little (colored)
was lynched at Mount Pleasant, Tex, for
talking slanderously about some ladies.
ON the 10th the League base ball season
came to an end, the Chicagos winning the
championship. The record OF games won
by the clubs is as follows: Chicago, 81;
New York, So; Philadelphia, Sc; Provi-
dence, 50; Boston, Al; Detroit, Al; Buffalo,
So; st. Louis, 81
THE Oregon Legislature has been called
to meet in special session November 8.
The principal business will be the election
of United States Senator.
In fire at Richmond, Va, on the 18th.
$50 hogsheads of tobacco and other prop
erty were destroyed.
In the Georgia Legislature the Civil
Rights bill introduced by Mr.. Wilson (col-
ored), of Camden, was defeated in the
House on the 10Th by vote of 107 to 8.
NEAR Dallas, Tex, four ranchmen were
killed by Apache Indians few days ago
and their stock driven off.
THE Corwin, a United States revenue
cutter, arrived on the 18th at San Francis
co from Alaska with 1872 wrecked seaman
aboard. Shs reported that the New Bed
ford (Mass.) whaler Napoleon was sunk in
| the Arctic Ocean, and that twenty two of
her crew, including the first and third
mates, were drowned. Other vessels were
also wrecked and some lives were lost.
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ganization at the close:
TIDAL WAVE AT SAVANNAH.
Georgia Rice Crops Ruined by High Water
Heavy Rains and Washouts.


SAVANNAH, Ca, Oct 12 "A strong north
east gale which has been blowing all day
caused tidal wave in the Savannah River
yesterday noon and another at ten p. IN.
The rice plantations are all submerged, the
banks are badly broken, and the crop is all
under water. The loss is estimated at from
sixty to seyenty-fye per cent Hutchinson
Island opposite Savannah, is inundated and
all Of the residents came over to the city at
night. The rice crop along the Ogeeche and
Satilla rivers is also damaged, and many
fields will be a total loss. The
heavy rain has flooded the country
south Of here, and the track Of the Savan-
nah, Florida & Western Railway is washed
out in several places. A fright train ran
into washout near Folkeston and the en-
gneer and fireman were seriously injured.
The Jacksonville & Savannah express is
also off the track at Callahan.
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A Great success,

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-The Flood Rock
explosion is pronounced by Lieutenant
Derby to have been a complete success.
The entire rock was shattered, and it only
remains for the grabblers to take the pieces
away. AT present the He'll Gate fund con-
tains $3.50 the balance of Govern
ment appropriation, and if funds are
supplied right along the channel
will be cleared within five years,
thus giving the great ocean steamers
an outlet to sea by way of the sound, which
will save forty miles on the present route
by way of Sandy Hook. But it will be
many months yet before the channel can be
used by ocean craft.
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Cleveland Refuses Royal Gifts.

WASHINGTON. Oct IA representa-
tive of the King of the Samoan Islands
called at the White House Friday to de-
liver number of presents sent by his Maj
esty to President Cleveland. The articles
consisted of a fuzzy white rug made
from the bark of the white mulberry tree,
a punch bowl made of native woods, and a
highly polished drinking cup made from
an unusually large Samoan cocoanut. The
emissary did not succeed in seeing the Pres
ident, but was told that the President did
not dare TO accept them. He took his de-
parture greatly disappointed.
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A Strange Discovery.

NATION, ILL.,, Oct 13.-Seyen years ago
a farmer living near here accidentally fed
seven or eight hogs quantity of brine, and
they drank largely Of it and died. The
carcasses were thrown into an unused
we'll and covered up. The farmer after
ward sold his farm to Patrick Nicholson.
who knew nothing of the affair. Re-
Gently, while digging deep ditch across
the farm, Mr.. Nicholson's men found one
of the carcasses ten feet from the surface.
1t was, to their establishment, well pre-
served and apparently picked, the streaks
of lean and fat meat being very distinct
Some neighbors who knew Of the well and
the death of the hogs explained the mystery.
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THE New York State Board for the
Equalization of Taxes met in Albany a
few days ago and made its return for
all the counties in the State, The total
equalized value of landed property in
the State is 1892, 34S, 21S; of real estate
and personal property, 5000, SS1, 457.
The equalized valuation last year was
$S,014,591, 372.
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THE trees on 1924, 0S9 acres of land
were consumed by fire during the last
census period The time is coming.
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, when a
forest of great trees will be a richer
treasure than any gold mine. Parties
who start fires in a forest should be
held TO an account for damages under
the law, just the same as if they should
fire a dwelling or burn stacked crop.
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STORIES of dogs giving evidence in
court are imumerable; but in Paris a
man has just established his right to a
fowl which he was charged with steal
ing by making it perform before the
police certain tricks he had taught it.
Ho made it crow, perch on his Shout
der, and do many other wonderful
things, which quite overwhelmed the
direct evidence of his having picked up
the fowl in the street.
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The Special DeIivery-Pos Speak
Well of the SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, Oct 12.-From the re-
ports received thus far, it appears that near
ly all postmasters speak well of the feature
OF the special delivery system, and the bust
ness is Increasing. The local matter equals
The outside matter in volume. The reports
show that the letters generally have been
delivered with surprising pTomptness.
Reading, Pa, reports the average time re-
CURED for delivery to be nine minutes,
while letters have been received at the de-
partment building in this city in seven
minutes from the time they were dropped
IN the postofiice.
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IT makes one SILVER to think of six
inches of snow on the hills of New
Hampshire and Vermont, but the 9th
or extreme is found in California, where
few days ago the mercury registered
one hundred in the shade, and the in
tense heat was said to be doing serious
injury to the grape and fruit crops.
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The social purity movement in Lon
don founded ON the revelations made
by the Pal Matt Gazette is steadily in
creasing in strength, aud is now headed
by the Methodist Church. Meetings
are being held to organize a general
system of boycotting tradesmen and
commercial houses managed by men of
reputed immortality.
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The Georgia washerwoman who as
tonished the community by announcing
that she had named her twins Mary
Magdalene and Virgin Mary has a good
second in the Iowa woman who has
called hers Gasoline and Kerosene.
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No more pungent witticism was
ever uttered than that of Charlotte
Cushman, who had been invited TO din
ner by friend, and, rather than dis
appoint him and the other guests,
went, though she had racking head
ache. She was seated next an insipid
rich man, who piled her with all sorts
OF empty small talk, to which she
made no response. Finally he said:
:. am afraid you are not IN your usual
spirits, Miss Cushmanr' "Oh! in
deedp' responded the actress; and
pray why?" because you don't seem
to appreciate wit" Humph!'' re-
piled the victim. "Try me and see.
Current Anecdole.
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A PICKLE famine is threatened the
coming winter. The present supply at
the East is set down at so, 600, O00-one4
half only of what is needed for the
Eastern trade. The Western crops have
suffered, and heavy advances in prices
are looked for.
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SARAH BERNTARDT, after selling her
jewels, her furniture and her villa, and
giving up large share of her salary
regularly, still finds herself $3.50, 900 in
debt. She hopes to clear $3.50, 900 on
her coming American tour.