The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
THE EAST.

OWING to the cut of the Bennett Mackey
cable the other cable companies have re-
duced their rates to forty cents a word for
business messages.
In a museum at New Haven, Conn.,,
false alarm of fire was given the other
evening, and in the panic which ensued
many persons had their clothing nearly
torn off.
BY gas explosion John Goetz, Jr. and
his sister were burned the other morning
at Butler, Pa. Goetz died soon after, and
his sisters suffering and anguish at his de-
mise had rendered her insane.
FIRE recently destroyed the engine
house, boiler and machinery of the Min
eral Spring Colliery, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, throwing three hundred men and
boys out of employment.
AT Allegheny City, Pa, the other morn
ing Mrs. Barth was beaten by her insane
son, her face being reduced to pulp and
her skull broken The mailman was inn
prisoned after a desperate struggle with
the officers.
A PROPOSITION has been made by Bos-
ton woman to start fund with subscrip-
ton of $4,000, the income to be used an
nually for the care of the teeth of children
in the primary schools.
In drunken fight the other day at Mon
tana, Pa, one man was fatally shot and
two others were fatally stabbed.
THE British ship Lomby, loaded with oil,
while riding at anchor in the bay of New
York few days ago, was run into and
sunk by the steamship Cornwall. The loss
was S150,000.
THE Lake Shore 81 Michigan Southern
Railroad directors on the oath decided to
declare no dividend for the last quarter of
1854; and the directors of the Michigan
Central also separated without announcing
dividend.
THE firm of Ward, Stanton & Co., steam
boat builders at Newburg, N. Y, failed a
few days ago, throwing large number of
men out of work.
THE dry goods firm of Elliott Bros. &
Co., of Philadelphia, have failed for $227,-
900.
DURING gale few night ago eleven
barges, the property of the New England
Transportation Company, foundered in
Long Island Sound, and two tugs and
twenty two barges had not been heard
from.
UNKNOWN parties assaulted Mrs. John
Greenridge a few days ago near Green
ridge, Pa, who left her unconscious, and
she was frozen to death.
MINERS and cokc-drawers in the Con-
nellsville (Pa.) region propose to organize
a union to resist further reductions of
wages by the coke syndicate.
A FEW mornings ago sc, 1000 barrel oil
tank exploded at West junction, N. Y, the
shock being felt in Elmira, FIVE miles dis
tant, and houses near by were badly dam
aged. No one was hurt. The loss would
reach $1S0,OOO.
4 On the Goth Baltzer Gehr died in Craw-
ford County, Pa, aged 1903 years and six
months, and Thomas Van Valin died at
Syracuse, N. Y, aged 104 years and eleven
months.
THE death of DIR. William Darling, the
distinguished New York physician, &C.
Cured the other morning. In the delirium
which preceded his dissolution he deliv-
cred complete and coherent lecture on
anatomy.
AT Brooklyn on the 9th twenty oEe
victims of the Orphan Asylum fire were in
TERED, the charred remains being placed in
three coffips,
A FIRE destroyed Egbert's knitting mills
at Cohoes, N. Y, few days ago, causing
a loss of $4,000. A large number of hands
were thrown out of employment.
NEARLY one hundred saloon keepers
were arrested in New York on the 18th for
violating the Excise law.
A FEW days ago Sedgwick L. Plummer,
who graduated forty years ago from Har-
ward University and the Dana Law School,
died in the poor-house at Gardiner, Me-
He squandered fortune of $4,000.
b A PLAN was inaugurated in New York
on the 9th to relieve General Grant of the
debt of $150,000 due to William H. Wander
bilt. Friends in New York, Philadelphia
and Washington propose to pay 100000
and Vanderbilt will donate the other
$4,000
The other day an Internal machine, con-
tanning fifty .eight cartridges OF dynamite
and lQt ef slant wvaeg, wes found BY q