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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Senator Frye's Scheme for the Formation
of a Defensive Alliance of All the Gov
ernments of the American Continent.
!. WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator Frye will
introduce in the Senate tomorrow bill
directing the President to invite the Amer
lean nations to send delegates to peace
congress to be held in Washington October
/, 1886. Each countryis to send as many
delegates as it chooses, but is to have but
one vote. One hundred thousand dollars
is appropriated to entertain the delegates.
The objects of the convention are to form
a defensive alliance against European
monarchies and other aggressors, to
establish a customs union, steamship
communication between American ports,
a uniform system of customs regula-
tions, classification and valuation and
invoices, a mmon silver coin
to be legal tender in commercial
transactions between citizens OF all the
contracting nations, and to devise plan
for the arbitration of disputes arising be-
tween the nations. The President is
authorized to appoint twenty-four dele
gates, equally divided as to politics, three
of whom shall be learned in international
law, and the remainder men who
are actively engaged in agricult-
ure, manufacturing, and the expor-
tetion and Importation of merchandise.
These delegates are to serve without COM
pensation other than the payment of their
actual expenses.
Mr.. Frye said that he should press this
bill upon the attention OF the Senate, and
believed it of greater Importance to the
agricultural, Industrial and mercantile in
terests of this country than any that had
been proposed foryears.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
WEST AND snllru

AT Forth Worth, Tex, smallpox was on
the 10th declared epidemic, and the mayor
Of Dallas had proclaimed quarantine.
THE Chr0nicle, of Knoxville, Tenn, the
leading Republican paper in the South has
been purchased by Frank w. Palmer, for
merly postmaster of Chicago.
UPoN investigation Andrew Holman, of
Lakota, D. T., treasurer of Nelson County,
was on the Goth discovered to be a defaulter
in the sum of $11, 400.
NEAR Pierre, D. T., farmers were seeding
on the Goth, and il the warm weather con-
tinued expected to have their small grain
in by the end OF the month
THE Floresville (Tex.) post-ofIice was
robbed of $500 in stamps and $1,000 in cash
on the Goth.
FLAMES on the 21st at Wilmington, N. c.,
after burning cotton steamer swept along
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DRIVING OUT DRESSED BEEF.
Gotham Dealers Discuss the New Rates
and the Purpose of Them.

Gotham Dealers Discuss the New Rates
and the Purpose of Them.
New York, Feb. 21.-The Post publishes
the result OF a series of interviews as to the
results of Fridays action of the trunk
line executive meeting advancing the
rates on live stock and dressed
meats from the West to the sea-
board in ratio which disoriminates
against the handlers and shippers of
dressed meats. 1t finds that the result to
the customer in the city will be an advance
in the price of beef of from to cents per
pound; on mutton, 3 to cents, and On
pork, to cents One of the largest live
stock dealers in this city said:
We hope in this way to starve out the west
ern dresSed-meat companies. The cattle trade
and slaughterers have been almost driven out
OF the business, To-day. there are fully five
hundred men who were formerly employed in
cattle-yards or slaughterhouses in this city
who have no work to do. The western peO-
pie bring their own clerks and handlers from
Chicago. and give no show whatever to New
Yorkers. They are underselhng us, but
should they get a monopoly of the business,
as they hope to do, it would not be long before
they would advance their prices. The lew
rates will force them to quit the business.
Many OF the Wholesale dealers in West
w aoHihB ooH ustIkeO are now purchasing
their supplies from the dressed-meat COM
panies. One of these dealers said:
/ have been in the meat business for forty
three years. / get all my supply from these
companies. Cattle brought here to be killed
are huddled into cars. are poorly fed and wa
tered, and when they reach here are often
bruised or. in a feverish condition on
account of the journey. The trade in dressed
beef is increasing every month, and sooner
or later all the cattle will be slaughtered in
the West and brought to this city in refrigera-
tor cars This is offlya bold stroke on the
part of the cattlemen to drive dressed beef
out of the market, but it will not succeed.
The railroad men are aiding the movement
because their profits from the transportation
of live cattle are much larger than from
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
FiTZ JOHN PORTER.
The Bill for His Restoration to the Army
Passes the House by Good Majority
The Nacatiy Vota

The Bill for His Restoration to the Army
Passes the House by Good Majority
The Negative Vote.
WASHINGTON, Feb 19-The Fitz John Por-
ter bill was passed by the House yesterday,
the vote beings; Yeas, III; nays, 49, Prior
to the voting Messrs. Phelps On. j., Curtis
Pa.l and Warner (O9 spoke in favor of the
bill. Mr.. Bragg (Wis.) moved the previous
question and closed the debate. Mr.
Everhart pa moved to recommit the bill
with instructions to strike out the words
prior to his appointment under this act" SO
as to make the proviso read: "Said Fitz John
Porter shall receive no pay, compensation or
allowance whatsoever" Mr.. Reed, suggest
ing that this gave an opportunity fer vindi-
eating Porter from any question of money,
demanded the yeas and nays. The motion to
rec0mmit was lost on vote of yeas, liz; nays,
113. -
The negative vote is as follows:
Messrs. Adams Ill.,, Allen (Mass.). Ander-
telle, Brown tPa.l, Brown (O.), Brumm. Blu
chanan, Buck. Bunnell, Burrows, Butter
worth, Campbell PAL. Cannon, Caswell,
paws, Dinghy. Dorsey. Durham, Evans,
Funston, Gallinger,. Gilfllan, eros
yenor, Grout, Guenther, Hanback,, Hen
derS0n ia J, Henderson Ql), Hepburn, Her
man, Hiestland, Piers Hiscock, Hit, Holmes,
Hopkins, Houk. Jackson, johnson IN. W,
Johnston 1nd1 Kelley, ketcham. La Toilette,
Lehlback. Lindsey, Little, Loutitt, Lyman,
Willard, MilIiken, Moffitt, Morrill,, Morrow,
Negley,. Nelson, o Donell, OfNeil pa, Os-
born, Owen, Parker, Payne. Payson, Per
kins, Peters, Pierce, Price Reed tMe3,
Rice. Rowell. Ryan, Sawyer Scranton, SEES
sions, Smalls, Spooner, Steele, stephen
son, Stewart Vtl. Stone lMass.l, Strait.
Struble. Symes, E. B. Taylor, Ike Taylor tO.l,
Zach 1act Taylor lTenn.s Thomas (llLl Thomas
lWis.l, Thompson, Van Schaick. Wakefield,
Warner MOI, Weaver tNebl, West, White,
tMlnn.). Whiting and WOODBURY..
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DASHED TO DEATH.

The Insane Wife of I'rof. Waldo, of Yale
College. Escapes from Her Keepers
After Long Search She Is Found Stand
ing at the Top of High Bluf-Fright-
ened at Pursuit, She Leaps from the Cliff
and Is Dashed to Pieces on the Rocks
Below.
New HAVEN, Conn, Feb. 20.-The wife
OF Prof. Leonard Waldo, of the Yale OBJ
servatory, while laboring under fit OF
temporary insanity yesterday morning es-
capped from her nurse and left her home on
Prospect street. For long
time Mrs. Waldo had suffered in
tensely from various troubles, and
Thursday night she passed without
sleep until four o'clock in the morning. She
was first missed about seven o'clock. A
hasty search revealed the fact that the
lady had scantily attired herself in a
wrapper and with nothing but slippers on
her feet had left the house. Prof. Waldo
was informed, and with his servants
searched the observatory grounds. By
three o'clock in the afternoon nearly
eight hundred students and at least
two hundred citizens were searching in all
directions for the lady. About four o'clock
one of the searching parties got a clue to
Mrs. Waldo's whereabouts and finally
found her at Pine Rock, few miles from
the Waldo residence. AS the party APP
preached Mrs. Waldo was trying to ascend
the lace of the rock, which is nearly per-
pendicular, and they called to her
to hold until they could come to
her assistance. At that moment she was
seen to slip on the rock and fall
headlong down the precipice, striking
among the rocks at the feet OF her friends.
She lived but few minutes after being
picked up. Mrs. Waldo was thirty-five
years OF age, and leaves two young chill
dren. She was a native of Philadelphia
and niece OF Judge Fullerton, of New
York.
Mrs. Waldo's sister died last summer I'M
der circumstances nearly as distressing as
the tragedy of yesterday. Mrs. Waldo and
her sister drove to Double Beach on the
Brantford shore for a days outing. No
sooner had they reached Lindsey's
Hotel, situated near high bluff,
when Mrs. Waldo's sister jumped out
OF the carriage rushed up to the top of the
bluff, hurled her parasol and hat on the
grass, and then threw herself over the cliff
into the water, striking her head on the
rocks in her descent. boatman succeeded
i'll rescuing her, and she was brought to this
city, but died from the effects of the shock
1t is believed that this led to Mrs. Waldo's
nervous troubles.
Prof. Waldo is heart-broken over his
great sorrow. He is man of tender SEN
sibilities, and it is feared that the blow will
PROSTATE him. The deceased lady was
about thirty-fve years Of age and beau
tiful woman. She was very highin society
She leaves two children to whom she was
tenderlY devoted
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CALLED HOME.


A Rumor That the Chinese Government
Has Issued q Proclamation Requesting
the Return to the Flowery Kingdom of
ALI the Chinese in America-A Belief
That Americans in China VIII Be Asked
to Leave That Country.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 22-The Chinese com.
munity here is excited over the arrival
from Hong Kong, via San Francisco, of a
copy OF an imperial proclamation stating
that on and before the fifteenth day of the
fifth moon of the present year MAY 10y all
thesubjects OF the Tai Tszlng Empire( China
who are now residing in the United States
OF America are requested to return; and
that upon application to the consuls free
transportation viii be provided from any
part of the United States to any part of
the Chinese Empire, except the citizens
OF the province OF Quong Tung,
who, on account of their superior
numbers, are required to pay half-fare.
BY the somewhat disguised lam
guage of this proclamation it is strong
~ intimated that an early retaliation is
contemplated by the Chinese Government
upon the American export trade and
American residents in China for the
eOnUlnued OutrageS lnHleteG upon
her citizens here. This, if sue
cessfully carried out, will shut off an
annual expectation of some $50, 10000
from the American shores. There are in
China at least 5000 Americans Who would
be exposed to Imperial persecution. The
Chinese in this country aggregate $4,000.
The impression prevails here that the
major number of them will take advantage
OF the proclamation.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22.--The Chinese residents
of Chicago claimed last night that no in
formation concerning the proclamation
had been received, and the truth of the re-
port was doubted. They could offer no
explanation of the matter and treated II
with indifference. But few of the China
men, they say, would return to China, as
they claim to enjoy greater liberty in this
country, and can make more money from
their earnings than in their native coun-
frv
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
A GREAT STRIKE.
Magnitude of the Trouble in the Coke
Regions of Pennsylvania-What Both
CRnital and Lahnr Are Lnsins, Daily

Magnitude of the Trouble in the Coke
Regions of Pennsylvania-What Both
Capital and Labor Are Losing Daily.
PITTSBURGH Pa, Feb. 2O.--The action of
the coke-workers at their convention at
Scottdale Thursday, in resolving to
accept no compromise, has had tendency
to increase the bitterness of the strug.
gle and a settlement seems further away
than ever. More men are idle now
than at any time since the beginning
of the strike. Only two small works were
in operation yesterday, and these were not
running FULL Notices will be posted up by
many operators on their tenement houses
in a few days making l,aal demand upon
their tenants to vacate their property on
March ] and after that time evictions will
likely become general.
The magnitude of the strike is greater
than many people imagine. The amount
OF capital invested in the coke business
from Pleasant Unity to Fairchance is
about SIS, 100000. This great sum does
not include speculative investments inscoal
land, but is the aggregate of the cost price
OF the different plants of the region.
Not only is no interest being made
on this great total, but on the other hand
more capital is being expended in keeping
the property intact from external danger
from strikers and internal danger from
flooding. The monthly interest is almost
100000, while it is impossible to com
pute the expense account without access
to the books. The railroads are losing
freightage to the extent of 800 carloads
daily, while 2, 600 cars on the side-tracks are
bringing in no revenue whatever. On the
other side about six thousand five hundred
laborers, engaged in operating the works,
are losing $4,000 daily in unearned wages
making for the thirty three working days
they have been idle gross loss of
$4,000. The consequential damages to
outside employment affected by the strike
will be very heavy.vI 1t will take years fer
both capital and labor to recover the
ground lost during this unfortunate disa-
orrearnant,
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LATER.

The Tennessee State Temperance AL
lance met at Nashville on the 23d, dele
gates from twenty-nine counties being
present. Reports showed that prohibition
was rapidly gaining ground in the State.
A CABIN on plantation near Columbus.
Ca, was burned early the other morning.
and an old negro and his wife persisted in
the flames.
The National Law and Order League at
It's annual session at Cincinnati on the 29d
adopted a resolution requesting all minis
tiers throughout the United States to preach
a sermon on the duties of Christian citizen
ship on the second Sunday of February
next.
JOHN s. LAVENDER, one of the original
free State leaders in Missouri, who rose to
the rank of Brigadier-Generali in the Union
armies of the Southwest, died in st. Louis
on the 23d, aged sixty two years.
AT fair on the 23d in Aulnay France a
heard of bullocks broke loose and charged
into crowd of spectators, killing three
persons and injuring one hundred and
forty others.
A FIRE on the Esd in the Parliament
buildings at Ottawa, Ont, destroyed valu-
able marine and patent records The finan-
cial loss was heavy.
THE Iowa Legislature on the Esd passed
the Mccoy bill exempting from taxation
the homesteads of the widows of soldiers
who fell in the war or died of injuries re-
ceived therein.
GENERAL Crook left Tucson on the 23d
for Mexico to meet Geronimo, with whom
he expects to make terms for the surren-
der of all the hostile Apaehes
DURING the week ended on the 10th
BOG, $50 standard silver dollars were issued
from the minis.
THOMAS R. HuDD (Dem) was on the sd
elected in the Fifth Wisconsin district to
succeed the late Joseph Rankin in Con-
gress.
The report that the Chinese Consul Cen
eral has advised Cinnamon to quit Amer
lea and return home was denied on the
23d
In the United States Senate on the 23d
bills were introduced to facilitate the adj
ministratiOn of the laws in Alaska and to
establish quarantine station at San Fran
cisco The bill appropriating $3.50, 600 for
monument al the National capital in men,
DRY of General Grant was passed, and a
favorable report was made on bill to con-
flrm the entries made under the
public land laws The Educational bill
was further considered. In the House a
bill to forfeit the unearned land grant of
the Atlantic &c Pacific road was passed. A
resolution was reported directing. that the
surplus IN the treasury be paid out on the
public debt, and it was referred to the Com
mlttee of the Whole. A bill was also re-
ported granting pensions to all invalid
soldiers or their widows or children who
ere dependent on their daily labor for 4
living.
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Water street for three blocks, causing
losses estimated at 81 OOO001

Water street for three blocks, causing
losses estimated at 81, 100000.
THE Supreme Court of Indiana has de-
clared the Telephone law to be constitu-
tional. This fixes the rental of an instru-
ment at thirtysix dollars per annum.
Al Gunnville, Tenn, two Mormon elders
while preaching on the goth were taken
from the church by masked crowd of
men, tied TO trees, stripped to the waist
and almost beaten to death
IT was decided by Judge Wylies in the
common pleas court at Columbus, o., on
the ed that Daniel ]. Dalton, clerk of the
courts of Hamilton County, must furnish
the election returns demanded by the Legis-
lative investigating committee or serve a
term in prison.
RICHMOND (Va.) business men in mass
meeting on the I'D denounced the system
of boycotting introduced by Knights of
Labor and appointed committee of TWEEN
ty-fve to organize resistance to it.
San FRANCISCO advices of the 22d say
that within the last thirty days nearly all
the Cinnamon of the northern and middle
provinces have awaited themselves of the
opportunity of free transportation and
have returned to China.
The death OF DR.. Peter Akers, a pioneer
Methodist minister, occurred on the 22d
at Jacksonville, ILL.,, at the age of ninety
SIX. He was sixty-two years in the pulpit
AN Oregon City mob on the I'D herded
forty-two Cinnamon employed in the
wooden mills, hurried them to the wharf
and paid their fares to Portland with
money taken from their pockets.
Dr.. J. H. GLEASON, a prominent physi-
clan, drank carbolic acid in drug store at
Cleveland, o., on the 22d by mistake and
died in ten minutes.
THE first anniversary of the Michigan
Club, Republican organization, was held
on the evening of the 22d at Detroit in the
shape of a banquet, covers being laid for
more than one thousand persons Senator
Palmer presided and Senators Logan,
Evarts, Conger, Henderson, Governor AL
ger, Governor Foraker and others were
present
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
WILLING TO GO.

Many Celestials Already Returning 90
China in Obedience to the Imperial Re-
calla-A Synopsis of the Document-The
Empire Big Enough for All-The Chi
hese Consul at New York Thinks His
Government Contemp1ates Retaliation.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 23.-The alleged Chinese
proclamation mentioned in yesterdays
dispatches bears the seal of the Gov
ernor of the Province of Quong Tung
and is dated the ] 9th moon of last year.
It further says his Imperial Majesty re-
grets exceedingly that such measures
jects, but he was told at very unguarded
moment that the barbarians could not be
trusted with compact. 1.-THE mistake
shall not be made again. Our own Empire
is large enough and rich enough in its
own resources. Immense territories lie in
waste in the middle provinces, and our peo-
pie have lived for the past tens of thou
sands of years in prosperity and happi-
ness at home; why not for the next
tens of thousands of years, when we
can successfully bar our doors against
labor-saving machinery" The proc
lamation makes an extra provis-
ion of ten dollars to be given to each poor
old man who may apply for passage home.
According to the latest advice from San
Francisco within the past thirty days near
ly all the Cinnamon of the northern and
middle provinces have awaited themselves
of the opportunity of free transportion
and have returned to China. There are
now only the Cantonese and Hong Kong
ties remaining.
New York, Feb. 23.-The report OF the
issuing of an imperial edict recalling the
Chinese from this country has caused no
surprise among the New York Cinnamon,
and the more intelligent OF them believe
that it is well founded. Ching Hoy, of
this city, Chinese Consul in New York and
a man of fine attachments, said last night;
can not say that I am advised that an i'm
perial proclamation has been issued compel
ling all Cinnamon in this country to return
home as the report states. but can tell YOU
that the Consul-General of San Francisco has
sent out notices advising all Cinnamon to
leave. Whether the Government is back
the 'n suggesto oan Of 90' re eay u
have no doubt measures of this
kind will be taken by our Government If
Cinnamon are driven out and outraged here
why can our people drive out all Americans
from China? The good fame of this country
has been disgraced by the recent outrages,
and the question has become very serious
it seems 10 me That no acton IS taken ABOUT
it by your Government. There is
no protection to the Cinnamon at all,
but American merchants and missionaries
are well treated in China, and whenever i'll
action, not only paving damages but
redressing the wrong done. What / don't
understand is why the good people of the East
here remain silent. 1t certainly is not the
intention of Congress that merchants and
others should be treated in this way. If Moth
ing is done to stop this thing, the commerce
between the two countries, amounting to
eighty million dollars, will be destroyed
There has been so much trouble that China
men prefer to 80 home from all parts of the
country.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

RESOLUTIONS were adopted at the wom-
an's-sufrage convention in Washington on
the 18th calling on Congress to submit to
the States at once the question Of the right
of women to vote, and protesting against
the admission to the Union of any Terri
tory where the elective franchise is denied
to women.
THROUGHOUT the United States the bust
ness failures during the seven days ended
on the 10th numbered for the United States
251 and for Canada thirty five, or q total of
1885, against 275 the previous seven days
The total failures from January to date
is 2,093
IT was unanimously agreed by the House
Committee on Post-offices on the 10Th to re-
port adversely all bills for the purchase
or construction of telegraph lines by the
Government
SECRETARY MANNING issued call for
10000, 600 in three per cent. bonds on the
10th, to be paid April /. So far during
February the treasury has disbursed near
ly 10000, 900 on pension account.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
1857 ,391 1872 against $9S7, 23o, 7s4 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with thu CORE
spending week of 1885, the increase amounts
to 40.3 per cont.
Ir was reported on the Goth by Major
Williams, a special agent of the treasury
at Washington, that nearly all imported
books were undervalued more than fifty
per cent
SENATOR CAMERON, of Pennsylvania,
Senator Vest, of Missouri, Senator Mitch
ell, of Pennsylvania, and Senator Miller,
of California, were all seriously i'll at
Washington on the 21st.
GEORGE WAsHINGToN's birthday was
commemorated at the National capital on
the ed by an artillery salute, parade of
militia companies and a pilgrimage to
Mount Vernon by the Continental Guards,
who placed on Washington's tomb basket
Of flowers.
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The Bodies to Remain in the MIN.

WnKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. 22.-The officers
OF the Susquehanna Coal Company are
very much afraid that the men constitute
ing the rescuing party at slope No. win
quit work within the next twenty-four
hours, as they have reached very close to
the point Of the cave-in, where there is
great danger ahead. They have no means
of escape should another rush Of sand and
rock come. Should they refuse to work it
is probable that no other men can befound
to take their places, and the twenty-six
bodies of the miners who we're entombed on
Deeember l8 viii forever remain ip the pit.