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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06
FROM WASHINGTON

THE Secretary Of State received partic-
ulars from the United States Consul at
Malaga on the Both ult. concerning the re-
cent earthquakes in Spain. He said that
fifty villages were destroyed and 1000
lives lost; that thirty thousand people had
left Malaga, and those who remained were
sleeping in the open air. In one village a
river disappeared; in another churches,
converts and occupants were swallowed
up.
THERE were 800 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the
seven days ended on the Both ult., against
416 the previous seven days. The distribu-
tion was as follows: Middle States, II;
New England States, 40; Western, ia;
Southern 9S; Pacific States and Terrific
ries, 26; Canada, Al.
THE Secretary of War instructed General
Augur ON the 31st ult. to turn over the
leaders of the Oklahoma boomers to the
civil authorities for prosecution.
The President on the 31st ult. sent to the
House of Representatives a message ask
ing authority to return the steamer Alert
to the British Government, with a suitable
acknowledgement for the courtesy which
prompted her tender for the Greedy expe-
dition.
The annual report of the Commissioner
Of Patents, issued on the 31st ult., shows
that during the past year 20,297 patents
and designs were issued, of which 49,
013 were issued to citizens of the United
States. The balance in the treasury to the
account of the patent fund was $2,7S1, 695.
The public-debt statement for January
is as follows: Total debt (including inter-
est) 81, 1863, 470, 12S; cash in Treasury, $780,
341 1903; debt, less amount in Treasury,
1,409, 1885, 1926. Decrease during January,
$9,420,046 Decrease since June 80, 1884,
$40, 1921 $40.
MRS. LAURA De F. GORDON, of Califor-
MIA, was on the I'd admitted to practice by
the United States Supreme Court She is
the second woman to receive that honor.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States DUR
ing the week ended ON the oath aggregated
1921, 913469, against $694,53S,921 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending period of 1884, the falling off
amounts to 3S.2 per cent.
AT the various minis the coinage during
January was S4,642, 1S7, of which $685., 200
was standard dollars.
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The EAST.

AN express train on the Reading Rail-
road was wrecked few days ago at
Greenville, N. j., and more than third of
the seventy passengers ON board were in
iured.
the week ended ON the 31st ult., exclusive
of specie, were $7,419,000.
EARLY on the morning of the 31st ult. an
earthquake shock, preceded by rumbling
sounds, was felt in the northern portion of
Westchester County, N. Y, throwing
household utensils from shelves and ia
bles.
A NEGRO woman and her two children
persisted by fire in their house at Altoona,
Pa, the other morning.
In New York on the afternoon of the Cd
O'Donovan Rosa was shot at five times
by an English woman giving the name of
Yseulet Dudley. The affair took place in
Chambers street, near Broadway. Only
the first shot took effect making a serious
though probably not fatal wound in the
back The woman was arrested by a CITY
official, with the smoking revolver in her
hand. She expressed regret at the failure
of her attempt On being asked why she
shot Rosa the woman replied with smile:
because he is O'Donovan Rosa and l
am English" She also said she had been
four months in this country, and was a
widow.
GEORGE K. PROCTOR, President of the
Produce Exchange at Salem, Mass, died
in mysterious manner three years ago,
and on the I'd his widow was arrested for
the murder.
THE death of General John W. Phelps
occurred on the I'd at Guilford, VT. He
graduated at West Point in 1886, served in
the Florida and Mexican campaigns, and
was the first officer who armed the slaves
in the rebellion, resigning because his
course was disapproved.
THE other morning Thomas and Daniel
Sheridan, brothers, of New York, quarreled
while drunk, and their mother rushing in
between them, she received a bullet in
tended for Daniel, fatal wound being the
result
On the I'd Sallie Kitner, eighty four
years of age, died near Bonneville, Pa She
had for half her days lived in a dilapidated
hut, keeping twelve dogs and nineteen
cats. Her eccentricities were due to dis
appointment in love, and she ever after.
ward fed from men as from tigers.
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Soft blue were her eyes and lustrous,
Her breath was the breath of the South.
He kissed that girl on the forehead,
And got bang in the mouth.
81 hope you are not cutting
friend" said neighbor TO the farmer
who was scratching the back of pet
pig with a stick Bristling up with in
dignation, the soil-tiller replied: mo,
sir, I'm only scraping an acquaint-
ance."
"A young dude, who persisted in
smoking in ladies' sitting-room at a
railway station, was ''fred'' out of the
apartment by gentleman, who re-
marked: when there is so much
smoke there must be some fire. IN Y.
independent.
Mo- said the dying punster, with
a grim smile; mo, [ don't object to
flowers, but don't have any violets,
please. / shouldn't care to have my
grave violated, you know" 1t was
Immediately agreed that it was best that
he should go.-Boston Transcript.
Tim going to Cr' she remarked,
as she commenced to climb up the
vocal scale in manner which, if not
musical. was progressive. 81 hope she
may b0 lost" murmured the young
man or. the sofa to himself as he stopped
up both ears and edged toward the door.
Detroit Journal.
-"What in the world are you staring
at that young married couple so intent
ly for?' asked one young lady of an
other, in railroad train. "0hr' ex-
claimed her com<anion with a start and
a sigh. ''It's so natural for US girls to
contemplate matrimony, you known'-
burlington Free Press.
Bob saw the pale outlines of the
moon in the daytime and told Rot
about it. ooh, no, p" Rob protested; "you
can't see the moon till dark" "Oh,
yes" Rob persisted; land there it is"
''Well," said Rob, as he caught sight
of it over the tree-tops, sit ism t lighted,
anyway. - Golden Days.
"A lady advocating woman suffrage
recently brought down the house with
the following argument: Il have no
vote, but my groom has. [ have
great respect for that man in the
stables, but I am sure if I were to 90 to
him and say, John, will you exercise
the franchise@ he would reply, please,
mum, which horse be that?' "-EE-
change.
-"By thunder, if that girl don't
bring my breakfast pretty soon, I'll
give her piece of my mind" growled
an irate boarder. 1T will be the worse
for you, if you do" said a quiet board
er on the other side of the table "Pd
like to know why ''For the simple
reason that if you give her a piece of it,
there won't be enough left for a sam.
pie. "-Merch0nt Traveller.
AUNT Jane, is it quite true that a
lady may ask a gentleman to marry her
if it is leap year?" Eyes, my dear;
quite true. "But if he don't want to
marry her, Aunt Jane, what must he
do then?' ''He must give her a new
black silk dress, my dear, and then she
understands" 'Oh! Aunt Jane! Aunt
Jane! Now I know why you have so
many black silk dresses. 1.-The Judge.
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LATER.

GENERAL Improvement was noted
on the Sd in the iron trade in the East.
Inquiries We're numerous, and negotiations
were pending for large quantities of ma
tcrials
The Roberts Family of seven persons,
who reside on an island in the Susquehan-
ma, near Port Deposit, are hemmed in by
the ice and in a starving condition. Mr..
Roberts, by signals, notified persons ON
shore on the Sd that his wife and one child
had died.
In the district about Middlesex, VT, the
thermometer on the Sd registered forty to
forty-six below zero.
n By an explosion in coal mine at Savan-
ma, l. r., ON the Sd three mon were killed
and eighty nine seriously wounded,
dozen others receiving slight injuries.
Mrs. DUDLEY, who shot O'Donovan Ros-
SO. was arraigned on the Sd in the Tombs
Police Court at New York, where her
counsel refused to enter any plea, and she
was remanded to await the result of her
victims injuries.
IN a special message to the House on the
Sd President Arthur asks that a suitable
place Of deposit be provided for the swords
and testimonials rendered the Government
by Mrs. o. s. Grant, and urges that the
name OF the General be placed on the re-
tired list of the army.
A REPORT was published on the Sd at
pittsburgh, Pa, that Socialists had stored
arms AID dynamite in that city prepara-
tory to an attack on capitalists.
~ p
Boston, Mass, failed on the Sd with liabil-
itios estimated at 100000.
DISPATCHES of the Sd from Admiral
Courbet announced the capture of the Chi
Dese works commanding the Kelung mines
after a severe fight.
TUE Republicans of the Second Rhode
Island District on the Sd nominated
Nathan F. Dixon for Congress in place of
Jonathan Chace, elected Senator.
A PASSENGER train on the Dayton &
Irouton Road was wrecked on the Sd near
Dayton, o., and five persons were seriously
injured.
IT was reported ON the Sd that there was
great jubilation in England over the news
of the shooting of O'Donovan Rosa. Ex-
ira editions of the newspapers containing
cable dispatches from New York sold like
wildfire.
In the United States Senate on the Sd
bill was reported favorably to provide
two permanent reservations for Indians in
Northern Montana, and to grant $4,000
annually to each agency. The Inter- State
Commerce bill was further debated. In
the House q resolution was introduced re-
questing the President to take all neces-
sary measures to secure fair trial for
John R. Santos, an American citizen inn
prisoned in Ecuador.
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duced passenger rates from Chicago to
New York to So for first class and So sec
ond class. Rates to Boston were reduced
to S14 first class and SO second class.
THE leaders Of the Oklahoma boomers,
Captain Couch, Ell. Fl. Stafford, George w.
Brown and Colonel s. E. Wilcox, were ar
rested on the 30th ult. at Arkansas City
for conspiracy and rebellion against the
United States Government.
In the Mahoning Valley and at Cleve-
land, o., the iron manufacturers resolved
on the Both ult. that in view of the high
wages it would be advisable to close all
the mills from the middle of February I'M
til June 1.
THE Arkansas Legislature elected James
K. Jones (Dem.) United States Senator on
the 31st ult., the deadlock being broken on
the thirty first ballot after afprotracted
struggle of eleven days.
THE death of William Leonard, aged one
hundred and six, occurred at Seattle, w.
T., few days ago, and his wife, whom he
married seventy five years ago, survives,
being ninety-six years old.
e On the 31st ult Lucy Peek, aged one
hundred and fifteen years, was burned to
death at Charlottesville, Ga.
A FIRE on the 1st destroyed the First
National Bank building at Marquette,
Mich, the finest building in the city. LOSE
over $4,000. Occupants of the building
also lost property valued at 100000.
ADvIcEs of the 31st ult. state that over
100000 head of cattle had persisted in In
dian Territory through starvation and Sc
we're cold weather.
MRS. G. G. SMELL and her six-year-
boy were found murdered few days ago
at Strabane, D. T., an axe and knife being
used by the assassins.
JOHN SANFoRD's dwelling at Morris
town, Tenn, caught fire and was burned
to the ground few days ago. Two of his
children could not be rescued and persisted
in the flames.
EARLY the other morning a sleigh con-
tanning nine persons, who were returning
from ball, was struck by train near
Port Clinton, o., and three were killed and
three others were fatally injured.
A CONFESSION was made on the I'd by
Elijah Wease, aged seventy-fve years, ar
rested in West Virginia for murder, that
he killed twelve persons prior to or during
the years of the war, one of them being his
son. He was also leader of band of rob-
bers who ravaged that section of the coun-
try.
AT an Omaha boarding house twenty
three persons were on the I'd poisoned by
rough on rats, which had in some unac-
countable manner found it's way into the
sugar used in the pastry. All the victims
were out of danger except Miss Ogden.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Maine claims 5000 books and
pamphlets written by Maine people or
relating to Maine.
General Fremont's son, John c.
Fremont, Jr., has become a lieutenant
in the regular army.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes, better known
as tom Brown" has agreed to
write life of Peter Cooper.
The eldest daughter of Rev. Tai
mage is said to be one of the prettiest
girls in America.-N. 7. Sam.
1t is no more good journalism to
print everything than good art to paint
everything Christian Union.
A Texas court has decided that
newspaper can be sued in any locality
copy of its paper, and that no news
paper has any right to publish anything
but telegraph news and accounts of fires
and executions.
An Arizona paper of recent date
contains the following personal para
graph: Larry Chugwhistle, the pop
ular and gentlemanly baker of Sun Up
Corners, departed for the great ma
jority yesterday. We trust that he has
gone to the land where baking is I'M
known"
History writing is slow work. Mr..
George Bancroft began collecting mate
rial for his history at twenty-three, and
at eighty-four he is just finishing it.
Mr.. Richard Hildreth did not publish
his first volume till twenty years after
beginning the work. Mr.. John Lothrop
Motley spent seSeral years in his re-
searches before issuing his Dutch Re
public.
81 am not ashamed of the name of
Broadrip," said Mr.. Irving, actor, to a
Detroit reporter, land in private CORE
spondence always use it. But there are
well-known reasons why artists do not
like to figure before the public in their
own personality. Iselected that of Irv-
ing without thought of the American
author, of whom [ knew little. DE
troit Post
Josh Billings, who has abandoned
housekeeping and removed from Sixty
third street to the Windsor Hotel, New
York, is now about siXty-fYe years old,
and begins to feel the burden of life, IT.
respective of its probabilities. He has
been lecturing twenty-four seasons, and
has furnished a New York weekly a
half or quarter column miscellaneous
contribution every week for the last
nineteen years. A. z. Graphic.
DIR. Theodatus Darling, who died
at Bedford, o., few days ago, was
man of curious knowledge. 1t was he
who, as early as 1858, wrote one of the
first and best books on fish culture, and
he was the first man to hatch fish by
artificial means. Likewise he was the
first American who produced daguerre-
otype pictures in America, and various
conveniences in every day use are trace
able to the practical science of DR.. Oar
ling, a very retiring Cleveland
Leader.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE United Ireland, of Dublin, denounces
the recent dynamite outrages in London as
the work of men who believe they can
serve Ireland by carrying on campaign
against stone walls and stained glass.
THE loss was reported on the 10Th of the
American schooner Arcana in the Bay of
Fundy, with Captain Holmes and eight
men. OF four sailors who reached the
shore, three died from exposure.
TIDE engine house of the Canal Works at
Beveridge Bay, Ont, was blown up by
dynamiters few days ago. Two persons
were fatally injured and another was seri-
ously hurt.
MORE than a score of deaths from great
heat occurred at Buenos Ayres during the
past few days.
BETWEEN Sydney, New South Wales,
and Wagga- Wagga an express train broke
through bridge over a creek few days
ago, and forty passengers were killed.
THERE is no truth in the report that the
Grand Trunk Road has removed all Irish
employees on the Victoria Bridge at Mon
treal
ADvICEs of the LIST concerning General
OGeWarUS army at GuDat on the Nile were
to the effect that the Mehdi had determined
to make stubborn stand at Metemneh
The rebels were so strongly intrenched in
the town that it was deemed advisable to
await the arrival of reinforcements before
attacking the place.
THE Mayor of Liverpool was requested
by United States Consul Packard on the
31st ult. to publish the act of Congress for
bidding the landing Of paupers in the
United States, 80 that poor people may not
be deluded by ticket agents into spending
their last shilling to pay for passage to
America.
THROUGHOUT Ontario extremely cold
weather was prevailing on the I'd, the
temperature ranging from zero to thirty
below.
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A HOARY-HEADED VILLAIN.
An Old Man Arrested for a Crime Commit
ted Twenty-four Years Ago, COnfesses to
Several Murders.

An Old Man Arrested for Crime Commit
ted Twenty-four Years Ago, Confesses to
Several Murders.
PETERSBURG, w. Va, Feb. Sum
day Elijah Wease, aged seyenty-fve, was
arrested for the murder of Hiram Ault in
October, 1861. Wease was arrested at the
time and confined in Jail at Moore1ield. He
but released by Union soldiers. There
were only two witnesses to the
murder, George Reed and Anne Gun. Reed
was killed in the war Anne Gun disap-
peared WeaSe went to Virginia and
stayed until two years ago. Recently a
sister of the murdered man visited in the
West. There she met Anne Gun, and was
told the story of her brothers. murder. She
came back and had Wease arrested.
The fact of his former arrest was proven,
and he was bound over to the grand jury
Later in the day the astounding discovery
was made that Wease was the captain of a
band Of desperadOes who committed robbery
and murder. Twelve murders are charged
to the Old man. He has confessed to six
among others being that of his own son.
His method was to take the victims to
place called the Leap" and throw them
over. AT the place designated the remains
of five men were found at one time. They
were discovered by dogs bringing the leg and
arm of man home. The murderer was not
suspected there. The men killed, with two
exceptions, were murdered because they
were Union men. He has also confessed to
burning many houses. Owing to the lack
of telegraph facilities the names and full
details are difficult to get at
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches,
80
xLvIlIth CONGRESS.
Second Session.


MEMORIALS were presented in the Senate
on the 10Th to establish in California Soldiers
Home; to pension Union soldiers confined in
Confederate prisons during the war, and urg-
ing legislation to make the trade dollar legal
tender. An adverse report was made on the
bill for the voluntary retirement of
army officers 40 served during the
rebellion The Nicaragua treaty was
defeated, owing to the lack of two-thirds
reported for the free admission of foreign
goods for the cOlored mems exposition at Chi
cagO. Bills were introduced to establish a
Soldiers Home in California and to prevent
and punish the prosecution of fraudulent
claims against foreign Governments. The
River and Harbor bill was considered.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted in the Senate on
the Both ult providing that the two Houses Of
Congress shall assemble in the hall of the
House Wednesday, February IL, to count the
Electoral vote. The Pacific Railway and
Interstate Commerce bills were discussed at
some length. In the House the Post-otilce
Appropriation bill 1852, 253 200 was reported
AT the evening session thirty pension bills
were passed.
The Senate was not in session on the 31st
ult... Consideration of the River and Harbor
bill occupied the entire session of the House.
In the Senate on the I'd the Interstate Com
MERGE bill was considered, and it was voted to
strike out the provisions relating to equal IA
cilities and accommodations for passengers. .
In the Honse resolutions were introduced
asking for information as to instructions
issued by the Treasury Department regard
ing the entry of Chinese; as to the to-
tai expenditures for Deputy Marshals
and Chief Supervisors of Election, and as to
whether the British Government had made
representations at Washington in regard to
the use of dynamite in London. Bills were in
troduced: TO abolish the Census Bureau; to
give to the State of Nevada, for irrgating
purposes, all the public domain except min
eral lands; to prevent bribery and corruption
at elections and to extend the benefits of the
signal service to farmers in the United States
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Sporting Item.

Henry Bowers, Bob Allen, Jim Mere
dith and several other citizens, were
out on Onion Creek on last Sunday
shooting quail. They were shooting
near 81 Jackson's place, and 81 watched
them intently.
''Dey was de Gurus gemman cher l
seed, " remarked ST to Tiff Johnson, after
the visitors had returned to the city
metropolis.
what was there peculiar about
them?"
'.Nufin', cept ebsry time they shot at
bird and missed him, dey got so mad
dat dey cotched hold OBJ dar guns and
broke EN- right in two.
1t seems the gentlemen had breeeh-
loading guns, and 81 had never seen
any other gun than thS old-fashioned
muzzle-loader -Teras SJltngs,
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Found the Will in the Coffin.

BUrFALo, N. Y, Feb about eight
years ago Robert A. Wallace of this place,
died. He was member of the carriage
making firm of Harvey & Wallace, and, al
though he had repeatedly said he had made
provision for his children by former wife,
no will could be found, and his widow was
appointed executrix. She died about a year
ago, leaving the property to her own chill
dren and leaving out her step-children.
The friends of the latter, still believing that
Mr.. Wallace left will, conceived the idea
of searching his coffin, which has just been
done. The missing document was found
between the vest and shirt in which the
body was buried.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

A SHERIFF's posse recently captured
Meredith Cole, noted outlaw leader, and
five members of his gang, in Indian Terri
tory.
A FIRE few mornings ago swept away
the Stewart building, post-office, store
and all the records of the Probate Court at
Swan Lake, d. 7.
AT Springfield, ILL.,, Governor Oglesby
and the other new State officers were in
stalled in office on the 30th ult in the pres
ence of both houses of the General Assem-
bly,.
THE Michigan Central, Lake Shore and
Fort Wayne Roads on the 3Oth ult, re-
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Eligible to Pension Rights.

WASHINGTON, Feb. SIN pension case
yesterday Assistant Secretary of the In
terror Joslyn ruled that soldier who was
captured by the enemy while return
ing to his command at the expira-
ton of furlough was not deserter
because he failed to arrive at his post on
time. The question was presented in the
case Of Martha Lawson, who was an appli-
cant for minors pension. The record
showed that her father was deserter The
facts We're that he was captured while re-
turning to his command, and was in
carcerated at Andersonville, where he con-
tracted the disease for which pension was
demanded,
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Close of the Ice Carnival.

MONTREAL, Can, Feb. 2.-The winter
carnival for 1885 was brought to close, so
far as the official programme was concerned,
by liberal display of fireworks and col.
ored lights at the palace Saturday. Tho
carnival fun, however, is not all over, for
there are many visitors remaining in tho
city, who find ii hard to tear them,
selves away from the pleasant
associations formed during the week.
The ice palace still stands and will stand
for weeks to come. The carnival has been
very successful, and more visitors have
gone away pleased than did last year, a.
there has been less extortion.