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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

On the 7th two of the Colombian rebel
leaders who We're responsible for the re-
cent troubles on the Isthmus of Panama
were tried by court martial and hanged.
NEAR Lake Van, in Armenia, an ava
lanche from the mountains overwhelmed a
native caravan a few days ago and caused
the death of sixty eight persons.
EARL GRANVILLE on the Sth was notified
by the Russian Ambassador of the SUBJ
stance of a note from M. De Giers with
reference to basis for the Afghan FROM
tier negotiations. 1t was said that it was
not satisfactory to the British Government.
QUEEN DowAGER EMMA, of the Sand
witch Islands, died suddenly at Honolulu
on the 9Th.
On the Sth a battalion of four hundred
United States marines left Panama for
New York.
PROMINENT officials on the Sth denounced
the report that Earl Dufferin had resigned
his position as Viceroy of India in conse-
quence of the disastrous effect upon Brit
ish prestige in India of Mr.. Gladstone's
policy as untrue.
IT was believed on the 9th that the plan
for the arbitration of the Russo English
dispute had been abandoned. At lengthy
session of the British Cabinet it was pro-
posed that if further evidence disproved
Sir Peter Lumsden's charges against the
Russians for responsibility for the Penideh
incident, this evidence should be accepted
as conclusive and the project of submitting
the question to arbitration should be aban-
doned.
In the Gulf of st. Lawrence the crew
thirty two men) of the Newfoundland
vessel Young Prince were rescued from an
iceberg by French brig and landed in st.
Pierre. The men had been on the ice nine
teen days with scant provisions.
On the 9th an engagement took place be-
tween the forces of Middleton and Riel at
Batoche Crossing, which lasted the entire
day, the casualties among the Canadians
being six killed and eighteen wounded.
The rebel loss was estimated at seventy
five.
THE reorganization of the Congo State,
with Henry M. Stanley as Governor, was
announced recently.
The Montreal garrison artillery, muster
ing $50 men, left on the 18th for the North
west. No further news had been received
from General Middleton, as the wires were
down north of Qu'Appelle.
THE Colombian rebel, Prestan, was be-
sieging Carthagena on the 18th.
A PUBLIC statement was made by Earl
Granville in the House Of Lords on the 18th
to the effect that conference had been
held with the Russian representative on
the Afghan question, which resulted in an
agreement satisfactory to all concerned
THE White Cross Line steamer Helyetia,
en- route from Antwerp to Montreal, was
sunk in deep water on the 18th by heavy
ice in the Gulf of st. Lawrence. She had
a cargo Of freight valued at 100000. No
lives were lost
Four HUNDRED acres of uncut sugar.
cane were destroyed by recent fire on
the estate Union at Recree, Cuba. Forty
five houses were burned at Mayaguez
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
a SAD CASE.
Disheartened by the Disappearance of Her
Husband, a Chicago Woman Takes Her
Own Life.

Disheartened by the Disappearance of Her
Husband, a Chicago Woman Takes Her
Own Life.
CHICAGO May 8.-Charles A. Libby, a
well business man of this city, lnys-
teriously disappeared week ago last Mon
day, and nothing has since been learned Of
him. His family fear he has been MUIR
dered. 1t is thought by others that he
wandered away while in a state of mental
alteration. As day after day passed by, and
no trace of her lost husband was found, Mrs.
Libby became more and more respondent.
When the detectives gave up all hope Of
finding Mr.. Libby, two days ago, his wife
was Frustrated with grief The endeavOrs
of her many friends and of James A.
Libby, her husbands brother, failed to
arouse her. The recollection that yesterday
was the anniversary of their wedding
rendered her all the more Respondent. The
family retired as usual about ten o'clock
last night. Half an hour later shrek
from Mrs. Libby'S apartments aroused
the members of the household. James
A. Libby hurried into her room and
found her OH sofa. Beside her,
on the floor, was a small vial
which had contained carbolic acid. DIR.
Woodwork was summoned and pronounced
the woman beyond the aid of human skill.
Shortly after DR.. Pratt, the family physi-
clan, arrived. At 1915 O'Clock death re-
lieved the sufferer. She did not speak after
taking the poison.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
ON THE wAR-PATH.


A General Uprising of Indians as Result
of Poundmaker's Recent Defeat-Set-
tiers Deserving md Burning Their
Homes.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May S.-A rumol
which was current last night to the effect
that General Middleton's force has had
severe battle with the rebels at Batoche
tirely baseless. 1t is not known that Mid
dleton has as yet moved from his camp
south of Gabriel's Crossing. Advices from
Clark's Crossing say that the steamer North
cote was strengthened yesterday ana her
vulnerable parts rendered bulet-proof. She
will go down the stream simultaneously
with the troops and attack Batoche from
the river. A reconnaissance was made
Wednesday night by Lord Melgund advane-
ing with his scouts to within three miles of
Batoche, and learned that the rebels are
entrenched about the place and will
doubtless offer battle there. Later dis
patches from Battleford indicate that Col
onel Otter was not so successful in his fight
with the Indians as was at first reported.
The indians attacked his column and he
had to fight for dear life. He had to con-
test his way back to Battleford, as the In
dams endeavored to surround him and cut
off his retreat.
Scouts from the Northeast say that Col
onel Otter will have fearful time of it, as
Poundmaker, Little Child and all the other
chiefs are now on the war-path. Anumber
of half-breeds are directing them. Major
Steele was to send word back when he
reached Edmonton, but nothing has been
heard from him. There is perfect panic
in the Eleanor districts where scores Of
homesteads have been burned.
Edmonton adyices says: The region north
and east of here is full of hostiles, in fact
all the, Indians west of Battleford are in
war-paint and the settlers have all fled.
John Walkinshaw and Albert Hardness.
both from Ontario, were killed by Big
Bears band over week ago. Their wives
and the wives of the two missionaries are
DriSonerS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

One OF the most important discover
les of the many made in the pro-
life field of Indian mounds near Ho-
mer, o., was made a few days ago.
Beneath small mound and FIVE feet
below the normal surface five gigantic
skeletons with their feet to the east
were found in grave with stone
floor. Remnants of burned bones and
wood charcoal were plentiful, together
with numerous stone vessels and weap-
ons The skeletons are of enormous
size, the head of one being the size of
a wooden bucket. The most striking
articles besides the skeletons were
finely-fnished stone pipe, knife
shaped like sickle reversed and hav-
ing a wooden handle held by leather
thongs, and kettle holding perhaps six
quarts. Those who know say this find
Is one Of the Oldest in America and per-
haps the most valuable.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

The reorganization is announced of
the Flushing o. I.) Vigilance Commit
tee, which last summer proved such a
terror to married men in that place.
The duty of this committee is self
imposed, and consists of netting out
punishment to husbands who remain
out nights after eleven o'clock. All
such found hereafter will be taken to
the village fountain and ''ducked."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
The Anglo-Russian Compromise.

ST.. PETERSBURG, May S.--The following
announcement appears in the Official Mes
senger:
''In consequence of divergence of views
between the Cabinets of Russia and England
on the Interpretation of the March agreement,
it has been decided to submit the question to
the decision of an arbitrator. Meanwhile both
nations have agreed to resume the front err
negot ations, but or adiGerent basis-namely,
that the principal points of the frontier be
fixed by previous understanding between
the two Cabinets. the demnrcation of the
frontier on the spot, and the placing Of
indicating posts being reserved for the com
missions which both powers will send in order
to facilitate the work of delimitation The out
posts of both sides will not be Withdrawn from
the present positions until the arrival Of The
Joint commission, when, as fast as the direc-
ton of the frontier line is fixed the frontier
points will be occupied by the troops of both
parties concerned. 1t will then be the duty of
each to maintain order and security in its
respective territory"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
Maxwell to Re Held in custody.

WASHINGTON, May SECRETARY Bay
ard said yesterday that the extradition pa
pers of Maxwell, the murderer of Preller,
at 81. Louis, would be issued at once upon
the request of the Governor of Missouri.
The Secretary said the Governor
of Missouri would be expected to
send man to present the case against the
murderer. and that the latter would I'M
doubleday be he'd until the law officer ar
tween the Secretary and Minister West on
the subject, as has been reported This
Secretary said that such consultation would
be wholly unnecessary, as the murderer
would te held under the treaty until the sx-
tradition papers had been presented
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

PITTSBURGH. Pa, May IA distress
ing accident happened at Six-Mile Ferry, on
the Monongahela, Saturday night, by which
three persons were drowned. Thompson
Snyder runs a skiff ferry at that point be-
tween Lakewood and Hays Station. About
nine o'clock he started across the river with
six persons, four men. one boy and woman
When midway in the stream the skif
was caught in the swells of a passing
steamboat and capsized, throwing the en-
tire party into the water. Mrs 0reilla
Gnbenel and her son, aged eight years, and
man named August Ruse, were drowned.
The others managed to keep up by holding
on to the capsized boat until rescued.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
Miners, wives Engage in a Riot.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, May S.-Women ere
ated a serious riot yesterday forenoon at
the Conshocktone Stone Company's guar
ries. The men employed there struck on
Monday for an advance of wages from 81. 40
to S1.50 day. They were notified that
the wages due them would be paid yester-
day. Foreman Jacobs, on going to the
quarry yesterday morning, was assailed by
the wives and children of the strikers, con-
cealed in cars and adjacent underground.
He was mercilessly pelted with stones and
lime. The latter filled his eyes and almost
blinded him. He was knocked down and
painfully injured. a locomotive approached
and the mob dispersed. There were about
thirty women ard seventy boys in the crowd
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

SOME ten years ago writer in John
sons Universal Cyclopedia" concluded
his description of Horat with the proph-
ecy: "On account of its position it may
become the point of contention between
England and Russia in their Asiatic riv-
alries." Could anything have more ac-
curately described the actual state of
present afairsp
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
Polygamists Sentenced.

: SALT LAKE, Utah, May 11.-Angus
Cannon, Milton Musser and ]. c. Watson
were all sentenced Saturday for unlawful
cohabitation, and each received the
full extent of the law-S3OO fine and
six months Imprisonment Cannon said
to the court that he had not
broken the law-had lived with but one of
his wigs as wife, but when asked by the
Judge as to his future intentions, with a
view to mitigating his sentence, Cannon de-
clined to make any pledges. Musser
also declined to pledge obedience
to the law or admit his obligation to
obey it. Watson pleaded guilty, but would
make no promises
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

For several years spelling reformers
have worked hard, and about the only
thing they have to show as result is
the dropping of ''me" from programme.
Even that is not general yet, but meets
with favor in many places. Some
journals which fell in with the ere
form" have gone back to the regular
old way.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

THE State election in New York next
November will be noticeable for the
number of State offices to be filled A
Governor, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Secre-
taTy Of State, Comptroller, Treasurer,
Attorney-General, State Engineer and
Surveyor, thirty-two State Senators,
one hundred and twenty-eight Assem-
blymen and large number of irlpor-
tant county officers will be chosen.
This year is the first time since 1879
marked by so many vacancies, and it
will not again occur until 1891.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
-Ouv Dat,,zb Auinaals saws q.

Our Dumb animals says dog
belonging to the Salem Lead Company
broke pane of glass in his kennel and
went at once to the kitchen, and by
'.dog signs tried to point out the mis-
chief Then he undertook the job him
self. Picking from the ground with
his teeth the piece Of glass which had
fallen out, he made several attempts to
put it in place, but, having no expert
ence as glazier, he gave up trying,
and calmly awaited the return of his
master. The damage was then re-
paired and He was happy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

Prof. Thingumbob put up the fol-
lowing notice on the door of his lecture
room at the close of vacation: PRO
lessor Thingumbob viii meet his Glasses
on Monday next. A student among
the earliest arrivals carefully erased the
initial &c" of Glasses leaving the
word classes" When the professor
saw this he was wroth, and erased the
''ln of the mutilated word, leaving it
simply ''asses." And when the bulk of
the students arrived, they wondered
what made old Prof. Thingumbob 80
beastly personal, y know. Puck.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

DIR. METTKERKE, an English physi-
clan, in a recent publication ventures
the statement that single patent
medicine, very popular as a soothing
draught for infants, sis the undoubted
cause of death of 10000 children an
nually" in the Kingdom of Great
Britain
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

The expense to the people of the
United States since the year 1919 of
keeping the mouths of the Mississippi
River open has been $40, 100000 of
which $780, 900 was expended before
Captain Eads took charge of the work
and $45, 900, 900 since
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

A PARTY of Chicago gentlemen were
commenting recently upon the change
in the seasons compared with the olden
times, when Senator Logan, who was
present, remarked that when he was a
boy, in Southern Illinois, snow was
almost unknown there, and his concep-
ton OF 81 sleigh was derived from the
pictures in his school-bcoks. Now
sleighing is good there almost every
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
The estimated losses of the four firms
which ara the chief sufferers are.



The Chicago Lumber Company's yard oc-
cupied space one thousand feet long by
five hundred wide along the west bank of
the river from Thirty-fifth to Thirty-eighth
street West of the railroad track
and opposite the north end of the yard
it had huge planing-mill. This escaped
unframed. The company had in its yard
25 000,0 900 feet of lumber and 7,0O0,O 900
shingles. The best grades of lumber in
stock were piled in the southern portion of
the yard and over this the fire swept COM
pletely deyouring everything NJ. T. Green,
President of the company, said that as
nearly as he could estimate it, about Is, 000,-
600 feet of lumber, averaging in value seven
teen dollars per thousand, were consumed.
BigeloW Bros yard extended 1000 feet
along the east bank of the river between it
and Ullman street. It contained 10, 900, 600
feet of lumber, 100000 shingles and
1000, 900 lath, aggregating in value $780,,
900. About 100000 feet had been put in
the yard within the last month.
Adjoining the blazing piles in Bigelow
Bros. yards on the south was the plant of
Adams, Hastings IL Co., with 1000, 900 feet
Of seasoned lumber piled thirty feet high,
occupying dock frontage of 462 feet and
extending 232 feet back from the river. There
were 500, 900 shingles stacked at the north
end of the yard that had been in stock
eight months and were as dry as finder.
Before the avalanche of flame that swept
down from the Bigelow yards the contents
OF Adams, Hastings & Co. s yard were like
so much gunpowder. Of the 1900, 600 feet
of lumber in Adams, Hastings & Co.'s yard
fully two thirds were destroyed.
Marshal Kenney, with Truck 9, Engine
Company 81, five chemicals and several
hand-pumps, patrolled Laurel street east
of the cabbage garden, on the lookout
for the misunderstanding sparks that were
continually dropping in showers. The
detachment under Marshal Kenney ex-
tinguished some twenty incipient fires in
the frame cottages adjacent The most de-
structiye of these fires started in Thomas
Gillhooley's two-story frame house at Is
Thirty fifth street The house was occu-
pied by the families OF Robert Burns and
Thomas Slattery, and was damaged to the
extent of S., 500. Each of the occu-
pants suffered loss of 500 on house
hold effects. The frame cottage of Anton
StoIte at S78 Thrty-sixth street was dam
aged to the extent of $500. James Nc
Laughlin's two-story frame at 924 Thirty
seventh street was damaged $500. This
house sheltered four families, all OF whom
experienced small loss on furniture. None
of them had any Insurance
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

MISS LOUISA ALCoTr, the authoress,
has undoubtedly aroused the wrath of
all the New England searchers after the
unknowable, unutterable and unintelli-
gible by declaring that the so-called
mind-cure, to which she gave faithful
trial for full month, is an unmitigated
and unadulterated humbug.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

LIEUTENANT GREELY and Sergeant
Brainard are still engaged in preparing
the report of the Greedy Expedition to
Lady Franklin Bay and the subsequent
horror at Cape Sabine They have now
been at the task nearly five months,
and it is not known how soon it will be
finished.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
-
Predicts q Plague of LncnSts.

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Prof. G. V.
Riley. the Entomologist of the Agricultural
Department. says that the country will soon
be visited by two great broods of locusts, OF
the seventeen and thirteen-year varieties,
and that this will be the first time in two
hundred and twenty-one years that they
have appeared in conjunction. They will
not prove greatly destructive, and the injury
they win inflict will probably be confined tc
fruit trees. The visitation will be pro
lOnged until late in Tulv
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

A crotehety old doctor in New
York has won the hatred of every
fashionable belle in the country. He
says that the use of those costly grace
full smelling bottles, which enables a
lady to exhibit q plump arm and taper
ing fingers to perfection, is hurtful.
The strong salts cause headaches, sore
Threats. and, worse of all, red noses.
a. T. Mail
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

GOVERNOR ALBEIT has signed the
bill passed by the New Jersey Legisla-
ture making it unlawful to kill song or
other birds for the purpose of using
their skins for decorative purposes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

IT is held by Surgeon Sternberger,
of the United States army, that ''pneu-
monia is simply the failure of the sys-
tenn to resist the ra7ages of micro
cocci orsort Of vegetable fungus growth
that exists in every healthy human
saliva"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

A MOST remarkable occurrence hap
pened recently at Rockford, Tenn. A..
L. Speck was appointed postmaster but
declined. He said he was no applicant
and didn't want the place.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
The tunneling Of Tuscarora Nom

IH6 UuIIH6IIHS OF IUoCdTUId AIUUH-
tain, in Fulton county, Pa, is gigantic
work. Drills, propelled by compressed
air, are in operation on each end of the
tunnel night and day. The tunnel is
already bored 1920 feet on the west
side and 1890 on the east. As the
mountain is calculated to be just one
mile through, the boring is now half
completed. = Pittsburgh Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

THE indications are all good that this
will be capital year for Americans to
stay at home and look around their
own country that majority Of them
know but little about.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

GENERAL G. A. COMMA, ex-President
of Panama, who was driven from home
by the recent revolution, is now utiliz-
ing his Punishment travelling in our
Western States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

A CONGRESS is to assemble in San
Domingo on September 10 to decide
whether the remains of Christopher
Columbus repose there or in Havana.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

AFTER years of litigation Lookout
Mountain has been leased to liverymen
of Chattanooga, Tenn, and the point
will hereafter be open to visitors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

Dear me!' said lady on Fifth
avenue the other evening, . How the
china craze is growingl Here's New
York club that is paying $4,000 for q
pitcher. IN r Sun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

Manufacturers of wood mosaic
assert that they have found by expert
ments that hard maple on end is from
four to five times as durable as marble
and equally as durable as the hardest
baked tile.-- Chicago Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

The Bartholdi statue, which is COM
posed of more than two hundred
pieces, is expected to reach New York
this month.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-08
A RACE OMITTED.

In the makeup of Mondays
paper, the following account of the
fifth race at the Park on Saturday
was inadvertently omitted:-
5-KALAKAUA PURsE-S150. Two
mile dash; free for all.
Miles h Langford, j.. Robinson, l
Cornwell's Ii Hancock. Moon. 2
Idle Girl was withdrawn. At the
start Hancock took the lead, it being
several seconds before Langford
could be got settled to his stride
owing to being frightened by dog
on the track. At the three quarter
mile post Hancock was nearly five
lengths ahead, but this was reduced
some before the half mile post was
reached. Passing the judges stand
the first time Hancock only held n
lead of half a length, and they were
neck and neck at the three quarter
post. just after passing the half
mile post Langford took the lead,
and never again being headed won
by length. Time 1854.