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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

1T was learned from the Northwest on
the Both ult, that there had been very little
rain for week, and that the crops were
suffering from drought.
REPORTS of the Both uIt. state that the
cattle in the panhandle of Texas and the
sheep in the southwestern part Of the
State were dying by thousands, owing to
the drought
DECORATION DAY exercises were quite
general throughout the country on the
29th At the grave of General Ransom in
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, in the presence
of two hundred comrades from ST Louis,
General w. T. Sherman delivered an elo-
quent address.
On the Both ult the revival commenced a
month ago in Baltimore, Nd, by the evan
gelists Sam Jones and Sam Small came to
an end Over 400,0o people attended their
meetings and over 1000 professed religion.
Many churches reported largely increased
membership
A MOB at Dexter, Kan, few days ago
lynched William Bryson, horse-th1ef.
UNKNOWN persons robbed the safe of
County Treasurer Fahrley, of Perry Coun-
ty, Mo-, on the Goth ult. of $4,000.
PHYSICIANS testified on the 31st ult in the
Maxwell trial at st. Louis that they lad
made an examination of Preller's body,
which had been exhumed for the purpose,
and found the parts claimed by the pris-
oner to be diseased in a normal, healthy
condition.
The Knights of Labor at their Cleve-
land convention on the 31st ult. made de-
mand on Congress, embodying twelve
propositions The first seven relate to the
public lands, one asks for the abolition of
all laws requiring property qualification
for voters; another favors an income tax;
and one asks for the passage of law pro-
hibiting the employment of minors for
more than eight hours per day
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the Pres
byterian General Assembly, before its adj
journment in Minneapolis on the 31st ult
criticising Christians for reading or adver-
Using in Sunday newspapers.
In the round-house of the International
q Great Northern road at Palestine, Tex,
locomotive exploded the other morning,
killing two men and wounding nine Others
AUGUSTUS WILSON is the Republican can
didate for Congressman in the Fifth Con-
gressional district of Kentucky.
IT was decided by the furniture dealers
carpenters, painters and various other
branches of business in Chicago on the 3lst
ult. that their employees must return to the
old ten-hour day, and the eight hour move
nent in the city was admitted to be fail
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gislation on the Land Laws
and Other Topics Asked Fora Warning
to Consressnen:
CLEVELAND, o., June L. Yesterday
mornings session Of the Knights OF Labor
convention was by far the most important
in its results to the public at large, if not
to the order itself, Of any session OF
the convention. A resolution was
adopted requesting Congress to declare
the national election day legal
holiday. letter was ordered sent to the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers. The contents and charac-
ter Of the letter are withheld until it has
been received by the Amalgamated Associ.
alton, but the assurance is given that
it contains nothing but the best
of good will and the spirit of
fraternity. 1t was resolved to
appoint at once and send to Washington
special committee OF three to look after
the labor legislation now pending before
Congress. The committee on legislation
presented the following proposition in the
nature of demands OF Congress, which were
ra titled by the convention:
II. That patents for the public lands be
given to actual settlers only.
SO. That all land owned by any individ-
ual or corporation in excess of 100 acres
whether improved or unimproved shall be
taxed to the full value of improved lands.
%. Calling for the immediate forfeiture
of all lands where the conditions of the
grant have not been complied with.
"A. Asking that patents on lands where
the conditions have been complied with be
issued forthwith, so that the taxation may
take effect at once.
IS. Calling tor the removal of fences
from the public domain.
&c That after 1890 the Government shall,
by purchase and right of eminent domain,
obtain possession of lands now held by
aliens.
~. That after 1886 aliens shall be prohib-
tied from acquiring title to lands.
IS. Asking the abolition of all laws re-
quiring a property qualification for voters.
80. Requesting the nassage of flaw levy
ing a graduated income tax.
10. Protesting against the cutting down
of the appropriation for the labor bureau.
I'll. Asking for the passage of the bills
approved by the Congressional Labor Com
mittee
''12. Asking for the passage of law pro-
hibiting the employment in mines, shops,
factories ETC., of minors for more than
eight hours per day"
In this connection the following resolu.
ton was adopted
ReSol0ed, That we will hold responsible
at the ballot-box all members of Congress
who neglect OF refrain from voting in
compliance with these demands.
The committee on strikes and boycotta
presented their report, recommending that
all authority to order boycotts and strikes
be vested in the execu tive board. AS the
hour for the noon recess had already ar.
rived their report was laid over until the
afternoon session for discussion and &C
ton. At O'Clock the convention took
recess until two p. m.
At the afternoons session the report
presented by the Committee on Strikes
and Boycotts, recommending that al
authority to order boycotts and strikes
be vested in the Executive Committee, was
taken up, and after discussing the subject
until 1870 O'Clock the convention adj
journed without having arrived alta settle
ment OF the question.
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BLOWN TO PIECES.

An Explosion at Dynamite Factory in
New Jersey Tears Into Shreds Two I'm
fortunate Workmen-The Force of the
Shock Felt Twenty Miles Away.
TOMS RIVER, N. j., May 2S.-A building
used as drying house at the United States
Dynamite Works OF James Volney & Co.,
situated in a dense forest about two
miles from here, exploded yesterday, and
two men, Atwood Hyres, of Toms
River, and John Graham, of Yves leicester
County, N. Y, were blown to atoms. The
latter had been working in the mill only
two months. Had the explosion taken
place a few moments ter several other
employees, who were about to enter the
building at the time of the disas ter,
would have been killed. The
unfortunate victims OF the dis
aster were literally torn to shreds,
and fragments of their flesh were found
hanging to trees more than 300 feet away
from the scene OF the explosion. Three or
four years ago three or four men were
killed at these works by a similar acct
dent. The shock of the explosion
was felt twenty miles away. At
WATERFOWL seventeen miles distant,
doors were forced open and windows
smashed. At For&ed River, thirteen miles
away, the plastering was shaken from the
walls, and throughout the surrounding
country for twenty miles reports are com
ing in of glass broken by the vibration
and OF other damage done to farm houses.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLIxth CONGRESS-

WEDNESDAY, May 26. - In the Senate
the Chinese immigration bill and the bill
providing for the taxation of railroad
grant lands we're considered. Mr.. Call sub
mitted an amendment to the Agricultural
Appropriation bill requiring that all ma
chinery purchased under the provisions of
the bill shall be built within the United
States. In the House debate on the Oleo-
margarine bill occupied the entire session.
THURSDAY, May Pin the Senate eulo-
gies were delivered on the life and charac-
ter of the late Senator Miller, of Califor-
MIA. In the House, after the reception of
several committee reports the Oleomarga-
rine bill was further discussed.
FRIDAY, May 28-A tbs Senate the
bill to investigate Indian affairs and
the Northern Pacific Railway Land For
fixture bill were discussed at length. Ad-
journed to June L. In the House the Oleo-
margarine bill was further considered, and
during the debate Mr. McAdoo proposed a
tax Of seventy five cents on each dish of
hash, every boarding hose keeper to be
required to file statement of ingredients.
Adjourned to June /.
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WEST AND SOUTH,

e. n. MORRILL, has been renominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the First
Congressional district of Kansas.
A QUARREL arose at the Democratic con-
vention in the Seventh Indiana district on
the 9th over candidates, one faction re-
nominating w, D. Bynum for Congressman
and the other nominated Leon Bailey.
BY tho recent storms in Ohio nearly two
million dollars worth of property was de-
stroyed.
NEAR Nebraska City, Neb., the barn of
Frank Stooker was burned few days ago,
fifteen fine horses perishing in the flames.
A CONFEDERATION at McGregor, Tex,
destroyed twenty business houses the other
day
IN Southern Arizona the Indians were
still raiding on the 2Sth and reign of
terror existed throughout the Territory.
Many lives had been sacrificed.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the mas
ter-masons of Chicago on the 2Sth declar-
ing the eight-hour movement failure.
On the 18th of June next the semi-cen-
tennial celebration of the admission of
Michigan into the Union will occur at
Lansing, pursuant to an act of the last Leg
islature.
In the South extremely hot weather pre-
vailed on the 2Sth.~
THE Knights of Labor in convention at
Cleveland, O., on the 2Sth decided to in
crease the executive committee from five
to eleven members. with permanent head
quarters at Philadelphia.
BY the upsetting of their boat at Bristol,
Ind, Miss Mamie Giddings and Horace
Madden, school-teachers, were drowned a
few days ago.
AT the small town of Bloomdale, o., a
gas well which seemed capable of yielding
one million feet per day was developed re-
Gently.
In honor of the Nations dead heroes
memorial exercises were held on the 2Sth
in all the public schools of Chicago.
ABOUT 100000 loss was caused by the
whole interior of the Valley City Mills at
Grand Rapids, Mich, collapsing the other
| day.
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!. snanish Eishinr SMACK se.ued.

CEDAR KEYS, Fla, June 1.-The revenue
cutter Dix, Captain Fenger, arrived Import
at six p. m. Sunday with the Spanish fish
ing smack Chlotilde OF Havana, which she
captured off Anclote Key of this State for
violating the fishery laws by fishing with
in three leagues of the American shore. and
for irregularities in her papers. The
Chlotilde has 5000 salt fish aboard. The
crew consists OF ten men and officers,
none of whom speak English. She now
lies in this harbor with prize crew from
the Dix on board. The captain has been
reported 10 the authorities at Washington.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

NAVIGATION of the great rivers of
Alaska must be attended with uncom-
mon difficulty Boatmen have not only
to pull against the stream, but against
the salmon, which, according to Gov
eruor Swynford, are so numerous as to
stop the progress of boats. This re-
minds one of Petroleum V. Nasby's
description of Alaska's isothermal line
as corkscrewing in and out, enabling
the polar bears to jump off their ice
bergs into strawberry beds.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Government submitted it's measure
for the expulsion of all members of the
families which formerly reigned in France
in the French Chamber of Deputies on the
9th.
GREAT damage was being done by the
lava from Mount Etna on the 27th. All
the streams and water-courses in the dis
trict had dried up, and water famine pre-
vailed. An old convent outside of Nicolosi
had been ingulfed, and many persons
were flying from their homes.
In Southern Japan cholera ravages were
increasing on the 27th.
In several places in Germany many
cloud-bursts have done great damage. All
the vineyards at Bingen were totally de-
stroyed.
IT was reported on the 2Sth that frosts
and hail-storms had destroyed the potato
crop in many sections of Ireland.
SEVENTY persons were drowned by the
recent loss of the steamer Lydeemon, from
Melbourne for Sidney.
THERE were reported thirty two new
cases of cholera and twelve deaths at Ven
ice on the Both ult
THE oil refinery of Otto & Buettner and
Berlin, Germany were burned recently,
causing a loss of s, 250,000.
AN epidemic arising from the eating of
raw beef prevailed at Chemnitz, Germany,
on the Both ult. One hundred and twenty
three victims were reported and the dis
ease was still spreading
ORDERS were issued on the 31st ult. by
| the provincial mayors throughout Belgium
prohibiting the Socialistic demonstrations
announced for the 18th of June.
OWING to the eruption of Mount Etna be-
coming more violent all of the inhabitants
of Nicolosi had removed on the 31st ult.
from the town.
FoRTY-six Liberal members of the House
of Commons, at meeting of the Cham
berlain party in London on the 31st ult.,
| resolved TO vote against a second reading
of the Homerule bill, making majority of
ffty-one against the bill
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

In Hartford, Conn, a venerable lady
recently died who had been marked
character in that State. She was the
last of five daughters of Rev.
Iephaniah and Hannah Hadassah
Hickox Smith, of Glastonbury. Their
remarkable names were Hancy
Zephina Cyrinthia Sacretia, Laurirla
Aleroyla, Julia Evelina and Abbey
Hadassah.
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Under American protection.

MELBoURNE, June 1.-Advices from
Samoa, dated May %, state that Ger
man man-of-war proceeded to the territory
of King Tomasese, whom Germany up
holds against King Maheton. Tie British
and American Consuls at Apia entered a
formal protest against Germany's super
vision of King MaIieton's authority, and
in response to that rulers appeal for pro-
lection the American Consul hoisted the
Samoan under the American flag and i'm
msdiately telegraphed to President Cleye-
land notifying him of his action in estab-
fishing protectorate over the disputed
territory
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

J The people of Newfoundland have
permitted the unchecked slaughter of
half-grown and old seals, and now the
result is seen in a great decrease in the
number of seals that eau be found,
and this year the annual seal hunt has
been a comparative failure. In con-
sequence there will be restitution and
suffering among the fishermen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

DIR. r. B. BIBBER, of Bath, Me-,
kindly furnished the funds wherewith
to equip John Traynor for the voyage
he proposed to make across the At
lantic in row-boat. Mr.. Traynor
started last September, and has not
since been heard from, but Dr. Bibber
is not discouraged, and says he isready
to send out another man.
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0 --
State Officers Resisted,

SPRINGFIELD, H., May 29.-The State
Veterinarian tried recently to kill some
horses suffering with the CHAMBERS in Taze-
well County, but the owner, a German
farmer, resisted. The Board of Live Stock
Commissioners visited the place and found
about forty farmers gathered to receive
them, and apparently prepared to offer vi
olent resistance to any effort to kill the
horses. They we're pacified with difficulty,
and they finally permitted the board to
take the horses from the stable for inspec-
ton. The matter was finally compromised
By the adoption OF an order by the board
placing the stock under quarantine for a
few weeks.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

THE special newspaper train from
New York made the run to Buffalo on
u recent Sunday in nine hours and
twenty minutes, beating all previous
records of fast running on She New
York Central Road. Buffalo is 1901
miles from the metropolis, and on Sun
day the New York papers were deliv-
cred there at noon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

THE Pinkerton Detective Agency re-
ports that the Mollie Mcguire organi-
cations have no further existence in
Pennsylvania. The four anthracite
coal counties in which they prevailed
to such an alarming extent have been
excluded from the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, and they can not, there
fore, get the passwords and signs of
that society. In these four counties,
where twenty-one Mollie Maguires
were hanged, peace and good order
now prevail.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

CLINTON, Ia. June 1.-The Midland pas
senger train, coming from Anamosa yes
terday morning, ran over three young
Germans who had been to adance at Goose
Lake Sunday night, and Lad become
drunk and laid down on the track to sleep.
They were farm hands and had arrived
from the old country only a few weeks ago.
One died soon after being struck by the
train; another will die, and the third is
slightly bruised.
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Great Forest Fires in Mexico.

CRY OF MEXICO. May 28.-The fire at
Amecameca is twelve miles broad, and is
travelling rapidly. The damage so far is
incalculable. Great forests have disap-
peared which have been worth at least
$4,000, 600 to the people OF the valley
and its surroundings, on account OF
their effect on the climate and the rains.
Five Indians persisted in one day by being
burned to death. Huts and novels have
gone down like straw, and It is as yet i'm
possible to ascertain how many lives have
been lost An army OF about 1000 men,
including Indians and soldiers, are tena-
ciously fighting the fire and trying to
head it off.
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-Twenty-three years ago DR.. Lobs-

-Twenty-three years ago DIR. Lobs-
cheid, German physician, married
Bertha Won Bieberstein. Six years later
she be anne insane and was placed in
an asylum in Silesea. In course of
time the husband quit Germany, and
after extensive travels settled in
Youngstown, O. Recently he was con-
siderably surprised when his wife
walked into bis office The doctor says
she is still insane. She declares that
she is sane, and that she is looking for
her son whom her husband Kidnapped
and sent to California. = Cleveland
Leader.
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EACH Congressman is entitled to
5000 paper packages of vegetable
seed, 500 of flower seed, 800 of tobacco,
30 quarts of grass, 80 of cotton, % of
sugar beet and 20 each of corn and
sorghum, to distribute among his con-
stituents.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

CATANIA, May 2S.-The lava from Mount
Etna is advancing toward Nicolosi at the
rate of forty meters hourly, and is now
within one kilometer OF the town. The
adjacent country is also menaced and the
inhabitants are flying from their homes.
All the streams and water-courses in the
district have dried up, and water famine
prevails. An old convent outside OF Nicol-
osi has been ingulfed. The King has sent
10000 lire for the relief Oh the sufferers
from the eruption.
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Bank Suspension Caused by a RascaIly
EmpIoye.

PEORIA, ILL.,, June 1.-The directors of
the Merchants National Bank announced
last evening that owing to the serious i'm.
pairment OF it's capital, caused by the enl-
bezziemement of funds by it's late book
keeper j. Finley Hoke, which has just been
discovered, the bank wouId be obliged to
suspend payment pending examination by
the bank examiner. The directors believe
that all depositors will be paid in full and
without much delay. Hokes defalcations
have been going on for years, and will ex-
coed 500, 1000. He covered up his crimes
by classifying the interest account. Hoko
is now in Canada, and until yesterday II
was supposed that he was suffering from
mental arrangement.
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sANDusKY, o., May 2s.-A terrific storm
OF hail swept through bellevue and the
western part OF this county about two
O'Clock yesterday morning. Ice fell in
chunks, smashing windows and killing
small stock. The ground was covered to
the depth of an inch with the hail. Imme-
diately following came a deluge of water
driven in sheets through the air by tor
nado, which carried away outbuildings
roofs and fences. In North Monroeville
and Bellevue fifty houses were badly dam
rod
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

GENERAL SHERIDAN says the malaria
he caught when he accompanied Presi-
dent Arthur to the Yellowstone, three
years ago, still hangs on and returns
to give him a shake every seventh and
twenty-iirst day as regular as clock
work
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

In q recent issue of the Christian
Union was an article entitled "How to
Pack Trunk" The society tor the
suppression of profanity might appro-
priately follow it up with series of
articles: How to hang curtains, tack
carpets and joint stovepipes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

CHICAGO, May 29.-Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Thorne, OF England, came to this country
about two weeks ago. They reached this
city last Friday While in Washington
Mrs. Thorne noticed pin OF the black,
mourning kind, in her pillow at the hotel.
Endeavoring to extricate it, she pricked
her thumb. Shortly alter reaching Chi
eago 1t began to pain her. She died of
blood-poisoning at the Grand Pacific yes
terday morning.
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THE unloaded pistol has again been
heard from. Mr.. Becker, of Brooklyn,
N. T., undertook to instruct a timid
domestic in its use and laughed at the
girls dread of handling the weapon
until an unexpected bullet cut short
the laughter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04

Or the scventy-seven persons in the
Utah penitentiary for polygamy, thirty
five are English, twenty-five American,
ten Scotch, two Swedish, two Irish,
and one each from Norway, Denmark
and South Wales.
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ALL ULSTER IN ARMS.

WarliISe Preparations of the OraDgemen
An Army Said to Have Been Organ
lied to Make War Against Govern
ment at Dublin.
New York, June 1.-The World prints
long and sensational special cable story
dated London, giving a circumstantial ac-
count OF the Ulster army OF Orangemen,
and predicting civilwar in Ireland should
the Gladstone measure for home
rule be successful 1t is more
than intimated that General Lord
WolseIey will be commander-in-chiefo of the
Orange forces. The fact that the Ulster
army is fully organized is no longer secret
among Orangemen. In London many of
the titled men in the House OF Commons
are officers in the several corps, and more
than thirty nob!emen are also enrolled.
The organized forces are divided as fol-
lows: Cavalry, 2,302; artillery, 1926; en-
gineers, 2,736; rifles, 971; infantry, 63,-
S95; not classed, 7,160, making total OF
nearly 1000. The Orange army of Ulster
comprises two army corps, the first of
which is styled the army of action the Sec
ond the army of reserve. The army of az
ton is mainly recruited from the ranks
OF the unmarried residents OF IL
ster, and from those up to the age of
forty live who have not families dependent
upon them. The army OF reserve is COM
posed of those belonging to the Orange
body up to fifty-five years OF age. Wig
lance committee with headquarters at
Belfast is Entrusted with the armament
of the army OF action. The vigilance corn-
mittee directs provincial districts and local
committees. The provincial committees
have centers at Lisburn, Lurgan, Colerain
and Enniskillen. The centers of district
and local committees correspond with
headquarters of regiments and sections.
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THE cashier of Baltimore bank
died few days ago at the age of
eighty-elght years, after a continuous
service in the bank of ffty-four years.
lie never had occasion to visit Canada.