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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

AT various points along the Union Pa
cific Railroad Cinnamon had on the 9th
been ordered to leave, and were joining
the Rock Springs refugees at Evanston.
General Manager Galloway, of the Union
Pacific, said that mining operations would
not be resumed in any of the camps in the
disturbed territory until all employees
were assured of full protection. 1t was
reported that the number of Cinnamon
slain in the recent riot would probably
reach one hundred. Infantry had been
stationed at Rock Springs and Evanston.
AT Cherokee, Kan, Rev Charles w.
Price, a Presbyterian clergyman, hanged
himself on the 9Th His mind was thought
to have been unsettled by the death of a
brother and sister.
On charges of murder, arson, robbery
and riot, twenty two persons supposed to
be implicated in the anti Chinese riots at
Lock Springs, Wy. T., were arrested on
the 7th.
In the Sea Island cotton section great
destruction was wrought by the recent cy-
clone on the South Carolina coast
AT Rock Hill, s. c., j. M. joy 6 Co.,
COVGOH-ucdicISs ldlI0u Oh tu6 fbu LOT p-UU,
900.
A LOSS of over $4,000 was caused On the
18th by fires in the Standard Oil-works and
the National Oil and Naphtha works at
Cleveland, 0.
ACCORDING to advices of the 7th hail
storm in Charles County, Md, destroy ed
many entire fields of corn and tobacco,
the total damage being estimated at $780,
900.
The recently completed census shows
the population of Wisconsin tobe 1868, $50,
an increase since 1880 of 348, $50.
THE former President of the st. Adams
(Vt) Bank, Lawrence Brainerd, who. de-
camped two years ago with large
amount of it's funds, was on the It'll alb
Quoted from Winnipeg by detectives and
carried across the line into the States.
THE Pike County (Arl. Jail at Murfres-
boro was visited by mob the other night
which made an attempt to shoot the Polk
boys, confined for murder. Failing in
this, they fired the Jail, and the Folks were
burned to death.
OVER six thousand men participated in
the great labor parade at Chicago on the
7tb
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
HUMOROUS.

The Governor of the State Prison
ought to be pitied, for man with six
or eight hundred felons on his hand is
deserving of sympathy.-LoreU Cit
izem.
Joseph Taylor offers to let the cur
rent carry him over Niagara Falls for
$4,000. Mr. Taylor is extravagant.
1t is believed the current will undertake
the job for much less sum.-Pucb.
Fencing is the new craze among
young ladies, Well, if they will occupy
the fence occasionally it will give the
gate rest, and the whole business will
wear out together. Chicago Tribune.
"A man ia Long Wood, Fla, re,
Gently exchanged a.weekly paper for a
mule. This trade was not so inappro-
pirate as it would seem at first blush.
They arc both elevators of the human
race.-Ibe Judge.
care you superstitious, my dear?"
said Miss Birdie McGinns to a newly
arrived stranger in Austin, to whom
she had become enga red. "Not bit,
but why do you ask?' replied the
youth. Nothing. except you are the
thirteenth young gentleman to whom [
have been engaged. ''Ie1as Stftings.
"A man claiming to be scientist
wants some one 10 bore the earth 10
prevent its bursting. We have friend
who we think would be able to do it.
Up to this time he has devoted all his
boring energies to us, and we would be
glad to see him try it on the rest of the
earth. Boston Post.
"A little boy was told that he must
never ask for anything at the table, as
it was not good manners to do so. The
consequence was that he was frequent
ly overlooked. One day his father said:
Johnny, get me clean plate for my
lettuce" Take mine, pa; it's clean -
and he added, with sigh: "There
hasn't been anything put on it yet -
TEXAS SJtjngs.
Bessie, bit of a blue-eyed girl,
was about to go with her aunt to dine
at friends house. Don't forget
your manners, Bessie" said her moth
er. "Be sure to say yes, sir; no, SIR
and yes, ma'am' and no ma am when
any one speaks to you" At the table
the first question asked her was: 'tBes-
sic, will you have some soup?" "Yes.
sir; no, sir; yes, ma am; no, ma'am."
said Bessie, family, while everybody
burst out laughing. Golden Days.
Doctor Have you got the better of
the ague yet? Patient-No, sor. Me.
an my wife is as bad as liver, sor. Doc
tor-Did you get that whisky and quiz
nine | prescribed? Patient-Yis, sor;
but it did no good at all, at all. Doc
tor-That is strange! You took it ac-
cording to Instructions, I suppose?
Patient-Yis, sor; We know man and
his wife are one. Doctor-What has
that to do with it? Patient Well, We
see, sor, bein' as we are one flesh, tux
the whisky and gave Biddy the quinine.
The Whip.
You DON seem to hare the slight
est knowledge of natural philosophy
growled man. as the ice-man left
chunk on the sidewalk. With what
acknowledgements expression in
his eye, the dispenser Of frigid water
retorted: 'sYes, l do" ''Ther what
do you mean by leaving so small piece
of ice on red-hot day and such largo
chunks in cold weather?'' because
know that heat expands and cold con-
tracts. If left you bigger piece this
morning, before night it would swell so
that you couldn't getit in your refriger-
ator Good-dayr- Chicago Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
LATER.

A VIOLENT easterly gale swept Lake
Michigan on the Sth, doing much damage
to shipping in the lake, as we'll as to YES
sells in the harbor at Chicago. The
schooner Advance was wrecked fifteen
miles south of Sheboygan, Wis, and Cap
tain Paulsen and five other men were
drowned.
ADvICEs of the Sth state that the
steamer Will, from Genoa for Malaga, had
been lost at sea. Forty persons were sup
posed to have been drowned.
ACCORDING to New York reports Of the
Sth the visible supply of wheat in this
of corn about 100000 bushels.
THERE were 1870 new cases of cholera
in Spain on the Sth and $50 deaths from
that disease.
INCREASED activity was reported on the
Sth in the iron and steel trade,at Pittsburgh.
Orders were coming in freely, and prices
generally were advancing.
IT was announced on the Sth that the
recent abduction from Winnipeg of Law
renee Brainerd, She absconding st. Adams
banker, threatened to cause international
complications.
THE damage to corn. buckwheat and
growing products in Northern Minnesota
by the recent frosts was on the Sth said to
have been very great.
In the steeplechase at Coney Island, n.
Y, on the Sth Revenge fell with his jockey,
William Ford, both being killed.
PORTIONS of Indiana, Michigan and Mis-
souri, were swept by cyclones on the Sth,
houses being unroofed, barns blown down
and crops destroyed. No loss of life was
reported.
INDICATIONS on the Sth favored peace
full solution of the controversy between
Spain and Germany.
DR.. j. E. ROBERTS and wife, an aged
couple, were killed by the cars near Lex
ington, KY, on the Sth.
THE safe in the County Treasurer's office
in Linn Creek, Camden County, No., was
robbed of $1,000 the other night. Several
stores in the place were also visited by the
burglars
The American Historical Association
began its second annual session at Sara
toga, N. Y, on the Sth, with three hum
dred members in attendance.
a TERRIBLE cyclone struck Washington
Court House, O., city of four thousand
inhabitants, at eight O'Clock on the even
ing of the Sth, and almost literally swept
it from the earth. Four hundred buildings
were wrecked and several lives We're lost.
The village Of Bloomingbury was COM
pletely destroyed, and three persons were
killed. AT Plain City, Jasper and other
points buildings We're blown down and
great damage done. From other parts of
the State there were reports of damage,
but no loss of life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
WEST AND snurA

AT st. Paul, the Waterways Convention,
to- consider means for improving the
waterways of the country, was opened on
the Sd. William Warner, of Missouri, was
chosen President, and ex- Governor Bross,
of Illinois, delivered the inaugural ad-
dress.
The State Convention of Iowa Prohibit
tionists is to be held at Cedar Rapids Sep
TENDER %. The convention will nominate
4 candidate for Governor.
NEAR Warfeld, O., John Hawkes. and
John Stinchcomb, between whom feud
had existed fc~ years, met on the road on
the Sd and began firing at each other.
Both were fatally wounded.
THE Cincinnati freight depot of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, the
upper stories of which were occupied as a
grain warehouse, was destroyed by fire on
the Sd with all its contents, the loss reach
ing $4,000.
OWING to ill-health Judge G.. w. Nc
Ilvainee, Republican candidate for the Su-
preme bench in Ohio, declined on the Sd to
run.
ELIAS MAYFIELD, of Lebanon. Boone
County, Ind, shot and killed James Lyt-
ton on the 4th from an ambush. Both
were farmers. An old feud was the cause.
JACKSON COUNTY, No., was visited by a
severe wind and hail-storm on the 4th, in
ficting much damage upon crops, vege-
tables and fruits.
On the charge of numbering Isaac
Thomson (colored), aged six years, Sam
Durling, a n-year-old colored boy, was
placed in Jail at Farmersville, La, on the
4th.
NEAR Atlanta. Ca. on the 4th, William
Harett, aged forty years, was married to
Sallie Wilson, aged ten years, the parents
of the girl giving their consent.
WILLIAM KIMBALL, farmer, near DAY.
ton, O., shot three boys on the 4th, who
were stealing melons. The wounds were
not considered fatal.
THE post-office of Chicago disposes of
about ninety thousand postal cards daily,
but none could be had on the 4th, the print
ers at Castleton, N. Y, being behind in
their orders.
THE corn crop of Indiana was on the
9th estimated by the State Board of Ag-
riculture at 100000 to 10000, 600 BUSH
els.
In portions of Dakota, Minnesota and
Wisconsin corn was seriously damaged by
frost on the night of the 9th.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches,
FROM WASHINGTON.


THE August fire losses in the United
States and Canada are estimated at S.
500, 900, and for the first eight months of
the year at SCI, 500, 900.
A PATENT was granted on the Sd for an
apparatus, composed of a system of
springs to run sewing machines, entirely
doing away with the treadle. The motive
power is produced by simply bearing the
foot on rest
THERE were 1856 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 4th, against 154 the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, So; New England
States %; Western, 50; Southern, 26; Pa
cifc States and Territories, IS; Canada, IT.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 9Th aggregated
sos, 40, 745, against 1914, S18,5S4 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the corre-
spending period of 1884, the increase
amounts to 0.5 per cent.
The President returned on the 7th from
his summer vacation in improved health.
DURING the week ended on the 9Th the
issue of standard dollars from the minis
was 1872 The issue during the CORE
spending period of last year was 348, 497.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
Not Guilty of His Confessed Crime.

BosToN, Sept 4.-Concerning the MUIR
der in Waltham, confessed by man in
Youngstown, o., Chief-of-Police Stock
bridge states that 10 such man as was
named was ever murdered in Waltham,
but that six or seven years ago a
man named McMenny, not McNamee.
now living in Watertown. was assaulted
one night, badly cut, and left for dead by
his assailant, who reported he had killed a
man and cleared out This is probably
Goodwin, alias Gutter, and he has doubtless
ever since believed he has killed McMenny.
The only person ever murdered in Waltham
was man named Cullen, and the crime
was committed fully thirteen years ago.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
killed by a water-WheeI.

BRATTLEBoRo,, Vt, Sept 5.-Thomas
Fl. Brown, a Chicago paper-dealer, travel
ing i'll company with c. w. Gardner, OF
Springfield, was killed at Putney Thurs
day right by falling into large revolving
water-wheel which the two men were in
speeding. Mr.. Brown was carried around
for several minutes before the wheel coulG
be stopped. He died from his Injuries dur.
ing the night.
CHICAGO, Sept. The Thomas H
Brown, who was killed on Thursday even
ing at Putney, Vt. was the senior mem
Der OF the well-known firm OF Brown. Petit.
bone q Kelly, and left here Friday evening
for ten days vacation. He was expected
to return Monday or Tuesday next
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
rallied to Lower Her Record.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Sept. Maud s.
made an unsuccessful trial at Narragansett
Park yesterday to lower her record. A
brisk wind blew ND the .home-stretch, and
the air was chilly. John Murphy drove
the runner Longman to force tie
mare to pace. Her first quarter was
made in SO seconds, the half in 1:O31S, the
fastest half-mile OH record. The trotting
queen was fairly flying over the course.
She left her feet, however, after passing
the pole but quickly steadied, passing the
three-Quarter pole in lao. Murphy pressed
closely upon BARS sulky on the last quar-
ter, but the mare failed to respond and fin
iShed the circuit in 2:13.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

SEVENTEEN years ago the death PEN
atty for murder in the first degree was
abolished by Minnesota, and life inn
prisonment was substituted; but the
gallows has recently been regretted
Michigan tried the same experiment,
and not long since bill was passed by
the lower House of the Legislature re-
enacting the hanging policy, although
it failed of adoption in the Senate.
Maine did no hanging for six years,
and then went back to capital punish
ment
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

IT is stated that the recent explosion
of the steamer S. NJ. FELTON, at Phila-
delphia has been traced to the agency
of man named Adriance Spears, who
carried q line of accident insurance
which would have yielded him $3.50 per
week if he had been seriously injured.
Spears, however, was killed, and the
payment of his life policies, which call
for $4,000, viii be resisted. The de-
ceased is said to have bled the accident
insurance companies handsomely dur
ing the last fifteen years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

THE Boston Young Mems Christian
Union during the past summer provided
carriage rides for ipvalids. The inmates
of all the charitable institutions have
been benefited, and through the efforts
of the Associated CHARITIES number OF
Others have also been given rides In
these drives S44 carriages were sent at
an expense of $905.75.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

a FREIGHT train stopped at five-acre
melon field on the Bergen County short
cut of the Erie Road near Garfield, N.
u, the other day, and the men helped
themselves to the fruit The grower
took the number of the engine and re-
ported it, and the next day every en-
ploye on that train was dismissed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The Baltimore San says that unless
the Georgia Legislature, which is said
to have under consideration bill to
impose an annual tax of $3.50 GA bach
elors, adds to the measure q clause tax
ing to like amount maiden ladies who
have refused three or more offers, a
serious injustice may be committed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

In Sioux County, Neb., there are 49,
$40 acres of the public domain fenced
by the cattle companies; in Custer
County $4,000 acres, and in Lincoln
County 1913 acres, of which the GEN
eral Land Office has information. Ac-
cording to the late order of the Presi-
dent, the fences inclosing these lands
must be removed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

THERE are seven thousand wells in
St. Louis, about seven-eighths OF which
the Board of Trade has closed as abso-
lutely poisonous. Now "Well-O Own
ers' Protective Association" has
been formed, and they are trying
to have them reopened. "All's well
that ends we'll"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

On the LIST of next November a per-
manent exhibition of American pro-
auctions will be opened in Rome, under
the auspices of the Minister of Agri-
culture, Industry and Commerce, and
of the Consul-General of the United
STATES
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

VISITORS to the tomb of General
Grant make all sorts of excuses to speak
with the soldiers on guard. The camp
is a great object of curiosity, and the
persistence of the sight-secrs is heavy
tax on the good nature of Uncle SANS
artllerymen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The South American Commission APP
pointed by President Arthur is prepar-
ing its final report, which will be sub
mitted to Congress at the beginning of
the next session. Since its creation the
Commission has travelled 5000 miles
and officially visited nine countries.
The report will fill two thousand or
three thousand closely printed pages.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

AN officer writing recently from Sua-
kim says the ground burns the feet
through the stoutest boots, the ther-
mOmeter in the coolest room marks one
hundred and four degrees, and even
the backs of books curl from the heat.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

P ALEXANDER VoGELsANG, of Philadel-
phia, threatens to startle the world
with flying machine of a new sort.
Instead of using wings of enormous
size, he says he can do it with fans of a
length of two feet
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
Entirely Out of Postal Cards.

CHICAGO, Sept. "a postal-card famine
was. Inexperienced at the post-office yesterday,
and sign was displayed announcing that
lione were on sale. A clerk explained
that the firm at Castleton, N. Y, which
holds the new contract for furnishing postal
cards. is greatly behind in its orders The
first 100000 cards printed by the new firm
were received here August % and quickly
used up. As the regular demand for postal
cards in this city amounts to about 90. 600 a
day it is a serious matter to run out of
them
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

AT Montgomery, Ala, the other day
two little boys watched their father kill
and dress pig for barbecue, and the
next day showed how closely they had
observed the process by butchering
their baby brother in the same man.
Vnar
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

DAN RICE, the old circus clown, has
set up q claim to the whole island on
which stands the city of Gal ,ston,
Tex. Mr.. Rice has in his possession an
old Mexican land grant obtained from
Daniel McLaren, an original Spanish
settler, which, he says, covers the claim.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

"A pawnbroker at Savannah, Ga,
advanced two dollars on his own clock
and cruet-stand to negro thief, assur-
ing him that it was about as much as
the things were worth, anyway, and
the thief, being arrested, told the story.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

A HUNTER in Nevada went out to
look for grizzly bear, and as his rel
atives have spent three months in an
unsuccessful hunt for him, it is assumed
that he found the bear.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

"A facetious mob out West, who
pulled horse-stealing Indian to the
top of telegraph-pole By rope around
his neck and left him there, hung card
on his hat bearing these words: High,
the poor Indian. '-Merchdnt Irareter,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
The new paddle wheel built at Ros-

ton for the steamer Empire State con-
tains 444 pieces of white oak, measur-
ing 500 feet and weighing %, 500
pounds. OF bolts, straps and other
wrought iron fastenings there are 5,042
pieces, weighing total of 1892
pounds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

A PARTY of enthusiasts left Portland,
Me-, few days ago to dig for the coin
and gold and silver bars buried by Cap
tain Kidd on the desolate coast of Lab
p radOr
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

EVERYTHING is fair in September.
Four hundred and forty-fve State and
county fairs are advertised to be held.
this month.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The Bismarck Cd. To- Journal states
that the land Office has done fifty per
cent. more business than last year, and
more claims have been located by East
ern parties.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

IT is stated as fact that about fifty
thousand letters addressed to the Pres
ident of the United States are received
at Washington daily.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
A BUSY LIFE ENDED.

Death in New York of "Duke" Gwin, ex-
Senator from graphical
Sketch.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-Ex-Senator Gwin,
of California, died at noon yesterday at the
new Park Hotel. Senator Call, of Cali
fornia, was with him at the time of his
death. The dead mans sons had been tele-
graphed for and will arrive Monday. No
member of the deceased's family was pres
ent at the time of death.
William McKendry Gwin was born in Sum-
nar County, Tennessee, October O. 1905 He
graduated at Pennsylvania University, Lex
ington, KY, and studied medicine. In 1888 he
was appointed United States Marshal
for Mississippi by President Jackson, and
was elected member of Congress from
sioner of Public Buildings to superintend
the erection of the New Orleans Custom
house. He emgrated to California in 1873
was member Nf the convention which
framed the Consl ution of that State in
1S49, aud wassone Of the first men to repre-
sent California in tire National Senate, being
elected in 1850. In 1856 he was re-
turned to the Senate for the short term end
ing in 1861. He was the leader of that wing
OF the Southern-born pro-slavery Democrats
known as the chivalry" Gwin was elected
to the Senate in 1856 for the short term. He
cast his fortunes with the rebellion when the
war broke out and went to France in the in
terest of the Confederate Government With
Louis Napoleon and Macmillan he be-
came somewhat implicated in the scheme
to found a monarchy in Mexico, which
cost Macmillan his life. OWNS title of
Duke" was given him by his friends because
Louis Napoleon had promised to make him
Governor of Sonora and give him the title
of Duke if he would enter his service in
his schemes against the Mexican Govern
ment. The close of the War of the Rebellion
npped the scheme in the bud, and
Gwin returned to the United States and
was locked up in Fort Lafayette for his par
ticfpation in the rebellion. He was released
by President Johnson upon parole in 1865 and
returned to the West, where he engaged in
mining until the Hayes and 1flden campaign
when he became one of Mr.. Tilden's trusted
lipTfauaDtS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

According to an eminent Southern
authority on barbecues, it takes ten
hours to roast a whole OK to perfec-
ton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The tin mines in Virginia are re-
ported to be richer than those of Corn
wall.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
KENosHA, WISCONSIN.
PROPRIETOR.

The boys in the service of the new
United States quick letter delivery are
TO be paid eight cents for each letter.