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

THE claim of Undertaken Merritt, of New
York, for the expenses of General Grants
funeral amounts to $14, 1925.
A COMPLAINT was filed on the 4th in the
United States Circuit Court at New York
by James A. Hinckley against United
States Civil Service Commissioners Eaton,
Gregory and Thoman. Thesuit is brought
with the avowed object of testing the con-
stitutionality of the CivilService law.
AT Putney. VT, Thomas HI. Brown, Jr.,
a Chicago paper dealer, met with terri
BILE death on the 4th by falling into large
revolving water wheel he was inspecting.
ON the 4th Rev. DIR. Stephen H. Tying,
ST., the well-known author and divine,
died at his residence in Irvington, N. Y,
aged eighty five years.
ESTIMATES on the 4th were to the effect
that nearly 1900 miners were idle in
Pennsylvania because of the strike for an
advance of half cent bushel for min
ing.
MRS. MARY MILLER, OF Buffalo, N. Y,
while insane, threw her four-year-
child in front Of railroad engine on the
4th, and the babe was terribly mangled.
AT New York, Kossuth, Marx & Co.,
wholesale dealers in jewalry and import
ers Of diamonds, failed on the 4th for $780,
900.
ACCORDING to Brddstreet's odvices of
the 4th the increased mercantile activity
now apparent is confined largely to print
cloths, bleached and brown cottons, boots
and shoes and raw wool.
A BARN at Clean, N. Y, was struck by
lightning on the 4th, killing two men and
destroying the building.
THE National Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union will hold it's twelfth an
nual meeting at Philadelphia October so.
THE last surviving officer of the war of
1912, Major Aaron Stafford, died at his
residence in Waterville, Oneida County,
N. Y, on the 9th, in the ninety ninth
year of his age, having retained his men
tai faculties to the last.
In the woods near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
wild man was captured on the 9th.
GENERAL GRANTS tomb was visited b.,
forty thousand persons on the 9th.
On the 9th several hundred tons of rock
projecting from the bank in Prospect Park
at Niagara fell into the river The crash of
the fall was heard for great distance.
E. BERRY WALL, Familiarity known in
the East as ''King of the Dudes," was on
the 9th reported bankrupt He was said
to have spent an inherited fortune of $780,
600 in three years.
ONE and two dollar bills in New York
had, owing to the measures taken to force
the circulation of silver, become SO scarce
on the 9th that they commanded pre-
MUM from business men of $1.25 for every
$1,000.
AT Hanover, N, H., Hon. Edward A.
Rollins, President of the Centennial Bank
of Philadelphia, and formerly Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue. died on the
7th,
THE body of Judge George w. Clinton,
Vice Chancellor of the New York State
Boardl of Regents, was found in a ceme-
terry at Albany on the 7th. He was seven
ty-eight years old. His death was at
tributed to apoplexy.
On the 7th the inaugural celebration of
Labor's Holiday took place. In New
York fifteen thousand persons took part in
the parade.
THE Genesta and Puritan started from
Sandy Hook on the 7th in the first of their
series of yacht races for the, international
cup, but the wind proved unfavorable, and
the trial was postponed.