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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
ANsoN sTAeeR.
A Story of Ante BeIIum Times Concern
ing the Late General Stager.

A Story of Ante BeIIum Times Concern
ing the Late General stager.
1t was way back in the fifties, when
telegraphing was in its infancy and
reading by sound an accom- plishment in
which few excelled. General Stager
was never good sound operator, and
read from the instrument with consid-
cradle difficulty.
One day he was told that the assistant
at Toledo was absent from the Office
without leave On the day following
the missing operator reported for duty.
General Stager. then at Cleveland,
asked him to come to the key. You
were absent yes erday without permits
sion. This is the second time this has
occurred. If you can not give better
excuse than you did before / shall have
to dismiss you" he teicgraphed the
young man. The operator knew that
the General was not clever at reading
the sound, and so for couple of min
utes he ratified the key as hard as he
could, without saying anything that
was at all ineligible. Then suddenly
slowing up he added, so plainly that
any novice could read it ''and that is
the way it all happened. "
General Staeer was too proud to ask
the operator 10 send slower, notwith-
standing ever ything that came over the
wire was unintelligiblc Co him except
the concluding words ssOh. we'll"
said he, unwilling 10 confess his igno-
rance, 'If that's the case you are per-
fectly excusablc, and We'll say no more
about it. ~ Washington, Letter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Tom Thumb, now the Count
sss Magri, wears for shoes a child's
No. 5, and the Count wears child's
No. 8.
Mrs. Elizabeth Granger, of Pitts
field, Mass, who has been a widow
seventy-five years, celebrated her one
hundredth birthday anniversary re-
Gently.
Robert Collyer says the scientific
length of a sermon is thirty minutes.
If man has anything at all worth
saying he can say it in that time with
out repeating himself.
"A marked spirit of deferential
courtesy is shown by the more impor-
tant of the English reviews in treating
of the works or personality of American
literary men who have won their spurs.
Chicago Current.
The Emperor of Germany has con-
ferred upon Minnie Hank the honorary
title of g Imperial Chamber Singer" a
distinction shared by only three other
foreign prima donnas, Adelina Patti,
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt and Artot-
Padilla.
John Leveridge, born in New York
City in 1890, admitted to the bar in
1872, and a soldier of the war of 1912,
is the oldest member of the New York
bar. He is still, at the age of ninety
five years, in active practice, and has
son sixty-eight years of age who is also
lawyer of repute. IN I. Sun
Some of the ephemeral poets of
generation or two ago, who fiuttered
and scared aloft on not over-strong
pinions, are nearly forgotten by readers
of the present day. Among them was
Granville Mellen, who wrote so many
temperance lyrics that he acquired the
aqueous nickname of "water melon. "
Boston Budget.
The story is denied that 'Orpheus
G. Kerr is in straitened circumstances.
One who knows him says of Mr.. Newell
that .'he is not old. but, on the con-
trary, young, hale, merry and the de-
light of charming circle of which bis
family is the center and most devoted
to him. In other words, Orpheus G.
Kerr lives an ideal life; he writes when
he pleases, and besides his family, who
adore him, he has many friends. -
Chicago Tribune.
DR. Allibone is The veteran literateur
of America. At the age of thirty-four
he began his Dictionary Of Authors,
which may almost he termed his life
work, since it gave him occupation for
eighteen years. His only assistant in
this task was his wife, who copied the
manuscript notes to the extent of 20, 600
pages of foolscap. This work contains
$40 double columns and includes q
list of $4,000 writers, and such pro-
duction shows it's authors enthusiastic
love of literature.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
Bloody Acts of a Drunken Father.

BALTIMORE, Md, June 1.-For some
time past Charles Barnes. a farmer, living
near Woodlawn, Cecil County, has been
drinking heavily, his drunken carousals
being of almost nightly occurrence
A month ago he drove his wife out of
the house. She took refuge with brother,
taking with her her two youngest children.
Mrs. Barnes father arranged reconcilia-
ton Friday. and was about to leave for his
home at Wilmington, Del, Saturday, when
Thomas E. Brown, who married sister of
Mrs. Barnes, came up to bid his father
in-law goodbye. Barnes went into the
house, got his gun, and, coming to
where Brown sat in a buggy, deliberately
shot him dead The father-in-law went for
assistance, followed by the murderer's eId-
est son, aged thirteen. Barnes called him
back, and when an officer arrived the boy
was found lying dead on the kitchen floor.
Another boy, aged eleven, had also been
shot, but not fatally. Barnes was arrested.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
Cowboys Secure Free Concert.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 28.-Theo-
dore Thomass concert troupe, which arrived
yesterday afternoon, reports that their
special train was boarded at Coolidge, n.
NJ, by mob of cowboys, who, with drawn
Tevolvers, made the musicians play and
Madame Materna sing. The musicians began
playing "Home, Sweet Home" but the
cowboys yelled for the 'Arkansaw TRAY
eller." Thomas issued orders tG give them
what they wanted. Materna complained of
headache, but the cowboys would not
take no for an answer. Just as she was
beginning to comply with their request the
engine whistled and the cowboys jumped
and fired volley as the train moved off.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

THOMAS WEIGH, the venerable col
ored man who, whenever the United
States Supreme Court is in session, sits
outside the main enrance-door and
opens and closes it for visitors and law
yers, has been in the employ of that
court for thirty years, and is full of in
teresting "reminiscences of the Justices
he has known belonging to the court
and of the lawyers who have practised
before them since 1856 or Whereabouts.
He thinks much of the dignity of the
court and the respect that should be
shown it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

TIE recent appalling disaster at Gin
cinnati adds seventeen more to the long
list of victims by fire in this country
since the year commenced. The list
of these disasters is us follows: JAN
uary Is, Kankakee Insane Asylum, II;
February -, Philadelphia Insane Asy-
lum, %; fire at Vicksburg, 81; fire in
Now York, IL; fire in Brooklyn, 21; and
the latest calamity at Cincinnati, IT,
making in all 1875.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

THE other day Thomas Rice, OF
Shrewsbury, Mass, arrived at North
borough from Boston, having q pack
age containing $4,000 in gold, silver
and bills. He placed the package on
the outside of window-sill at the sta
ton, transacted some business. got into
his wagon, and started for home, leav-
ing his money behind him. About an
hour afterward 81 man discovered the
package, and soor informed Mr.. Rice
by telegraph that his money was safe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

Francis MURPHY. although very
successful temperance advocate, does
some queer things. At q meeting in
Pittsburgh recently an old topper told
Mr.. Murphy that he was willing to
swear of, but wanted to take one more
drink first The lecturer not only let
him go, but gave him money to buy the
drink. The topper came back and
signed tue pledge according to promise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

For the purpose of being imprisoned,
to secure shelter and food Flora Emily
Downs, a newspaper writer, broke the
window of jewolry store, at st. Louis,
late tho other night, distracted some
articles, and then waited to be arrested.
The woman told story OF great suffer-
ing, and wanted TO be sent to the peni-
tentiary. Some Of the officers believed
that her mind had become deranged.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

HENRY BERGH, the New York
humanitarian, wants law passed
making it felony for young people
to get married before the age of TWEEN
ty-fve, and he would have clergymen
scourged who marry young people
with no visible means of support.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

OFFICIAL life in Washington has
been unusually fatal. Not to mention
the tragic deaths of Lincoln and Gar
field, of late we have seen Hunt, Gar
fields Secretary of the Navy, dying
af;er painful illness, white Minister to
Russia, in q foreign land. Howe, Ar
thurs first Postmaster General, and
Folger, his first Secretary of the Treas
ury, died in Office, and Frelinghuysen,
his Secretary of State, q few weeks after
retiring to private life. Now we have
General Graat in precarious condi-
ton, and even Arthur's health has been
much broken
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
An Enraged Drunkard Empties His Re
volver Into Crowd,

BACKGAMMON, n. Y, June George
Axtell was lodged in Jail here Saturday
night, charged with killing two men, fatally
wounding tnird and injuring two others.
Axtell was at Deposit about forty-fye
miles east of here on the Erie Road, and
had been drinking freely throughout the
day. While in the saloon he became an
gered at a negro waiter. and pulling re-
volyer began firing. The saloon was
crowded. .Axtell fired five shots killing
two outright, wounding third lily and
two mora seriousIs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

ALL the Government officials in Japan
were privately instructed some time
ago to wear European costume during
Office hours. but, as some are still using
Japanese dress, the authorities are said
to have resolved on making the meas
uro compulsory after July next.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

EULA Brown, of Courtney, Tex, is
probably the Youngest telegraph opera
tor in the world. She is but little over
seven years of age, yet there is hardly
detail of railroad telegraphy that she
is not familiar with. Her father has
been an operator for years, and the
little one has passed most of her time
in telegraph office since she was old
enough to creep. Bcf9ye she had
learned to write plainly she could send
a message over the wires at fair rate
of speed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

A WOMAN in Nevada took fall of
1856 feet off ledge the other day,
brought up in tree top, helped herself
out, and went home and cooked dinner
as if nothing but circus procession
had passed bY.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

In letter addressed to an Indian
graduate of the Carlisle Pa.) school
Senator Edmunds says: II shall be
glad at the next session to do anything
in my power to make a general pro-
vision that any Indian who chooses
voluntarily and in some formal way to
renouncc his allegiance to his tribe and
assert his desire to become citizen of
the United States, with all its rights
and responsibilities. may do So"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
A Noted Prisoner Freed from the Joliet
PenitentiarY.

JOLIET, ILL.,, May 2S.-Charles W.
Angel, the defaulter, was released from his
ten-year term in the penitentiary here at
six o'clock last evening. Mr.. Angel has
decided to make this city his home for the
present, having been offered the position OF
manager by three well-known firms here.
Angel had been the secretary of the
Pullman Palace Car Company about
eleven years when he left Chi
cago, July "a, 1878, defaulter to the
company in the sum of S113, 600, of which
he surrendered $4,000 when arrested.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
VIII There BE Another Grasshopper
Plague?

DENVER, Col, May 28.-Millions of
young grasshoppsrs are reported coming
out of the sandy soil on the south side Of
the Arkansas River above Pueblo, devOur-
ing early vegetables and tender shrGbs.
Their appearance is similar to that of 1878,
when they were swept east by winds and
consumed an immense amount of growing
crops in Kansas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
EIoped while the wedding Guests waIted.

BALTIMORE, Nd, June 1.--Thomas Den
nison and Miss Estelle De Haven were
to have been married yesterday at the
Saratoga Street Lutheran Church.
The friends of the young couple
assembled in large numbers. An hour
after the appointed time for the nuptials,
the bridal couple having failed to put in an
appearance, the minister dismissed the as
semblage and said the marriage would not
take place. The cause of the poStponement
was the elopement of the groom with Miss
Rose Whiting, cousin of Miss De Haven,
who was TO have acted as the latter's BRIDE
maid
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

GRAssHoPPERs accumulated in such
quantities at gate on Wheatland
(Cal.) ranch few days ago that it was
necessary to remove them with shovel
in order to open the cate.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

mr. have dropped off to sleep all of a
SUD IN last night, for when l awoke
this morning / found my hand on my
forehead just as left it when signing
the cross on lying down" why, man,
that's nothing. I'll tell you what once
happened to me. One morning as !
awoke | found myself resting with my
hands on the bed and my body
stretching out in the air" '.WhatF"
81 must have gone to sleep in the act of
jumping into bed. Dub IN Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

THE Knights of Labor count among
their colleagues one Governor, one
United States Senator, three Congress-
men and one hundred and twenty-five
members of State Legislatures.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
Proved Failure IN the Roll OF william
Tell.

GREENFIELD, Mass, May 2s.--Gilbert
Prentice, sixty years old, living in Orange,
was instantly killed by his son William,
aged thirty-fye years, yesterday. Prentice
had been on protracted Spree ard while
drunk he seized gun and threatened to
Kill his son. Changing his mind he put a
TIN cup on his own head, William says, and
wanted him to shoot it Off William, see
ing nocap on the gun, aimed at his fathers
head and snapped the hammer. The gun
was discharged, shooting the old man
through the head.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
a FATAL CRASH.

Collapse of a Tenement Building in Jersey
City-Four Children Killed by the Fall
/ ing Debris and Eight Others Badly In
jured.
New YORK, May 2S.-A three-story
frame tenement on Colgate street, Jersey
City, fell yesterday morning at ESQ o'clock,
killing three children of James Anderson,
the owner, and Michael Webb, aged seven
teen years. Eleven people were more or
less injured, but none fatally. Five
families, made up of twenty-seven
persons, occupied the building. James
Anderson had the first floor, where he
lived with his wife and five children, three
OF whom-Barney aged nine years; Nellie,
aged seven, and Mary, aged eight months
were smothered in their beds by the wreck.
The second floor front was occupied by Hugh
Glnty, wife and two children, who all escaped
unhurt, but the Webb family in the rear
OF the same floor was carried down with
the walls, and Michael was mangled so that
he died within ten minutes after being ex-
treated The eleven people injured were
all jewellers on the upper floor The build
ing had been condemned by its owner some
months since, and yesterday was set as the
time for repairs to be made. 1t was put up
seventeen years ago on swamp land with
out the usual piIing foundation for such
land. The cellar had been full of water for
years and the wooden sills had been rotting
fof a long time, until one of them gave
away recently and let down one side Of the
building.
The scenes at the wreck were lamentable.
When the collapse occurred most of the
tenants were stirring, but every child in the
building was in bed A moment before the
collapse the building began to sway, first
inclining to the broken-sill side. Then it
gave sudden lurch, snapped, and,
swinging over to the other side, flattened
out ever the street and yard. A great
cloud of dust arose and with it came the
terrific shrieks of the little children so rude.
lyawakened. Thousands of men on their
way to work in the railroad shops and
foundries in the vicinity responded to the
call for help and soon the police and fire
departments were on hand.
Nellie Anderson was found in her bed
with a terrified look on her dead face,
while clasped close in her arms was her
baby sister Mary, the latter smothered by a
large piece of plaster falling on her face.
Nellie'S back was broken. On his knees,
holding to the side of the bed, with his
head buried in the mattress, was Barney
Anderson. A piece of timber had
fallen on his head. pressing his face
into the bed until he was smothered.
The youth Michael Webb was found
in an upright position, partially
dressed, his head crushed by timbers. Five
children of Hugh Carlin were sleeping in
an old-fashioned, double-width, upright
post bed on the top floor. 1t was thought
they had persisted, but luckily their bed
had turned upside down and so effectually
shielded the children from the wreck that
not one of them received so much as a
scratch. There are no building inspectors
in Jersey City, and the police say nobody is
to blame, and as Anderson has no property
save the wreck he can not be held for dam
ages.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
Two women and Three children Drown

WILMINGTON, N. c.. June Mrs.
James W. VIM, widow, and three of her
children, and Mrs. Tony Stefano, the wife
of an Italian musician, of this city, were
drowned yesterday off Zeke's Island, about
twenty-five miles below this city. The
children were wading in the water, and
getting beyond their depth Mrs. Winn and
Mrs. Stefano went to their rescue, wher
all were drowned.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

A CHEMIST in New York asserts that
in every one hundred pounds of green
tea used in this country the consumer
drinks more than half pound of Prus-
sian blue and gypsum.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

THE Legislature of Pennsylvania
passed over the Governors veto the bill
ordering counties to bury all bodies of
destitute soldiers, and mark their graves
with headstone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
A seventeen-year-oId boy was ar.

SOFoHUteH- COT -UIU UUy WIS 1T
rested in Portland, Me-, recently, fol
selling rum in bottles, which he carried
around in his pocket His parents
supposed he was attending school, in
stead of which he had been at work in
a rum shop since January, until the
shop was closed, since which time he
has been peddling liquor in the street. -
Boston Journal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

IT is said that General Grant intends,
if he lives, to write second book-a
history of the men ard times during the
eight years of his civil administration.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

MIR. James Danner, late of Louis
vile, having been laid by the side of
his four wives, receives this touching
epitaph from the Indianapolis journal:
An excellent husband was this Mr.. Banner;
He lived ina thoroughly honorable manner.
He may have had troubles
But they're gone, like bubbles:
Hes at peace. now, with Mary, Jane, Alice and
Hannah
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

A Commercial street man wears
the champion belt for meanness Just
now. His clerk is an expert penman,
and was practicing his art in shading
the letters on the addresses of some en-
velopes, when the employer, happening
to overlook him, said: '.Mr. Daybook,
/ would not shade those letters; it
wastes the ink awfully. Boston Com
nlerciaL Bulletin.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
FIGHTING AGAINST CHOLERA.

The French Government Taking Meas
demic.
PARIS, May 2S.-Dr. Praust has been
sent by the Government to Marselles to
advise upon measures for preventing a repe-
tition of last years cholera scourge. There
are some indications that the authorities
are waking up to the fact that cleanli-
ness beforehand is what is needed rather
than medicine afterward. There have been
some attempts to render Marseilles and
Toulon less filthy, but they have largely
failed because of Indifference among the
citizens. The Spanish Governments pro-
hibition of further NEGOTIATIONS by
Dr.. Ferran is ostensibly due to the
fact that some persons who had
been subjected to the treat
ment died. DR.. Ferran, however, points to
the fact that out of 6, 900 persons inoculated
with the cholera germ, the deaths, if any,
have been SO few as to escape record. He
does not see how the Government Commits
sion of Inquiry now at work can fail to re-
port favorably on his system in.yiew Of such
results as these. The doctor, however,
cares nothing about the result except from
a humanitarian point of view, and says that
If the Spanish Government will not let him
save people from cholera in Spain, he will
visit Paris and London, and explain the
system in public there, hoping to secure its
adoption by some Government.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

THE election of General Logan makes
the United States Senate stand Al Re-
publicans, "a Democrats and one va
cancy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

The Secretary of the London Swim
ming Club submits the theory that salt
water is a cure for lunacy. ITO
bathe, - he says, ''before retiring to
rest, after the heat and hustle of the
day, would be a sure means of inducing
sleep the happy, peaceful sleep of a
child that would be an antidote to most
of the ills that flesh is heir to, not for
getting lunacy, which is induced by
want of Sleep
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

Farmers around Wilmington, N.
G., will not raise above half the usual
crop Of peanuts this season.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

london lays twenty-eight miles Of
new streets every year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

New Orleans was founded by q
company Of French adventures in 1743.