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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
FROM WASHINGTON.

DURING January past the total value OF
the exports of the principal articles of pro-
vision amounted to $6,611 ,597, against SILL
965, 978 in January, 1885.
IT was decided by the House Military
committee on the 18th to recommend the
construction of soldiers home west of
the Rocky mountains, at a cost of 100000.
SECRETARY WHITNEY on the 18th, in his
statement to the House Committee on
Naval Affairs, advocated the construc-
ton of six steel-armed cruisers, and said
that they should be begun as soon as prac-
ticable
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th,
there were 1875 failures in the United States
and 30 in Canada, against 2S9 for the pre-
vious seven days.
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$9S7, 230, 7S4, against s1,061, S01, 1882 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1885, the increase amounts
to 1916 per cent.
THE Commissioner of Patents report, is
sued on the 18th, shows that during the
year ended December 81, 1885, 25,61 patents
were issued, the receipts being $7,1SS ,0Se
and the expenditures 81, 024, 279.
SECRETARY BAYARD was visited by the
Chinese Minister on the 18th who informed
him of projected movement to drive the
Chinese from California, claiming that the
act would be disastrous to the Chinese la
boring classes and ruinous to Chinese mer-
chants
The House Committee on Coinage on the
18th rejected the bills to make treaties with
foreign countries to open their minis to the
free coinage of silver, and to provide fol
the unlimited coinage of silver. 1t then di
vided equally on measure to suspend the
coinage of stand lrd silver dollars, and de
cided to make an adverse report on Repre-
sentative BANDS bill for free coinage.
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FOREIGN lNTELLleENcE

CANADIAN advices of the 18th are to the
effect that six mounted policemen were re-
Gently killed by Indians near Regina, and
that the police at Edmonton and Saskat-
chewan bid defiance to their officers.
AT Madrid the thirteenth anniversary of
the founding of the Spanish republic was
observed on the 18th with numerous ban
quets.
ALL was quiet in London on the 18th.
The movement for the relief of unemployed
workmen was spreading throughout En-
gland.
ing hosiery workmen at Leicester, Eng, on
the 18th.
On the 18th the reported massacre of
Bishop Harrington and fifty followers at
UEegena, Africa, was confirmed.
ABOUT one thousand miners employed at
the mines near Halifax N. S., struck on
the 18th for an advance in wages.
ACCORDING to late reports Prince Bis
marck was preparing to yield entirely to
the Vatican in the religious dispute which
has been waged by Prussia against the
Papacy for the last fifteen years.
EIGHTEEN men were drowned by the re-
cent wreck of the British steamer Douglass
in Chinese waters.
AN excited mob of hungry French-C Ca
nadlans raided several stores at Paspebiac,
Can, on the 18th and carried off about
twenty-six barrels of flour.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
IN GOOD CONDITION.
Farmers Satisfied at the Prospect fox
Winter Wheat, Which They Consider to
BE a Bright One.

Farmers Satisfied at the Prospect fox
Winter Wheat, Which They Consider to
Be Bright One.
CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-Special dispatches to
the Tribune from twenty-three points in
Illinois show that the condition of the win
ter wheat is fattering, to say the least
The snow, except in one or two localities,
appears to be all off the ground, and
the only danger apprehended is from al
ternate freezing and thawing, and this
is not very great in the opinion OF
the farmers and those in posi-
ton to know. The instances of dam
age to wheat by the previous cold weather
are comparatively few and the loss is slight
Thirteen points in Indiana, with three ex-
captions, show that the yields promised are
good; three localities report that there
was some damage by cold weather where
the snow had drifted and left the ground
bare Reports from Kansas are flat
tering, though Kansas City dis
patch says the wheat crop in that State
is not in as good condition as is rep
resented. A Topeka correspondent, how
ever, says the wheat suffered no damage
during the cold weather. and that the har-
vest will be a fine one. Missouri and
Dakota are satisfied with the outlook,
though near Kansas City, in the former
State, the crop is not so good as it might
be- In Iowa those points which have re-
ported show an encouraging situation,
though around Keokuk there are some
fears for the future.
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members to the contrary, the orange trees
of the State were unharmed by the recent
blizzard
THE Susquehanna river at Fort Deposit,
Nd, was blocked by an ice-gorge on the
18th, and the water swept through the lower
portion of the town, flooding the streets to
depth of three or four feet. The inhabit-
ants were compelled to move promptly
leaving their houses and goods to the mercy
of the floods.
FIRE swept away the house of Jacob Al
len, at Halifax, Va, few days ago, and
tW of his children perished in tie flames.
A BILL was passed in the Iowa House on
the 18th exempting old soldiers from the
payment of poll-tax.
THE bones of many soldiers who we're
buried at Ship Island, Miss, during the
war were uncovered by recent storms.
AT Portland, Ore, an anti Chinese con-
gress assembled on the 18th and adopted a
resolution calling upon the citizens of
every locality to peaceably assemble and
from the State and Territory within thirty
days.
THE fugitive Mormon and ex-Delegate in
Congress, George @. Cannon, was arrested
on the 14th by Marshal Ireland at Winnie
mucca, New.
THE arrest of John B. Mannix, lawyer,
and until recently assignee of the Arch
bishop Purcell estate at Cincinnati, was
made on the 18th on charge of embezzling
S350,000 from the estate.
THE business portion of Flagstaff, Ari.,
was swept away by fire on the 18th.
Eighteen buildings, with their contents,
were consumed causing loss of over
100000.
DISPATCHES of the 14th say that ten per
cent. of the stock in the Arkansas valley
has persisted this winter.
THE crazy wife of Henry T. Kirk, we'll
to-do farmer of Hendricks County, Ind,
| after pouring kerosene over herself few
days ago set herself on fire, and was burned
to death.
ABOVE st. Louis the ice-gorge broke on
the l4th, and huge cakes foated past the
city at the rate of eight miles per hour,
sinking five or more boats at the levee.
DURING dispute at San Francisco on the
18th over some property Timothy Whelan
| aged twenty seven, killed his father, aged
SiAJJ -lOuI, anu UHou klD6u himself.
On the 18th the National convention of
third and fourth class postmasters began in
Chicago, with delegates from every part of
the country. L. J. Sacriste, of La Grange,
Ill, was chosen presiding officer. The object
of the meeting is to secure better pay for
services
THE Republicans of the Fifth Illinois dis
trict have nominated Charles Luling, of
Manitowoc, to succeed Joseph Rankin in
Congress
In Northern Michigan numbering opera
tions were resumed on the 18th. 1t had
been showing for thirty-six hours in the
Tawas district.
FIRE destroyed the large barn of W. S.
Lee, near Manor, Tex, the other night.
Six horses persisted and several thousand
| dollars worth of vehicles were destroyed.
CHARLES A. FELLOWS, aged twenty-five,
recently shot and killed his wife, aged
twenty, at Hays City, Kan, while crazy
with whisky and morphine
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ADvICES of the 10Th say that owing to the
floods in the East there were more than ten
thousand people homeless in Boston and
vicinity, and the property damage would
foot up from 100000 to $5,000000 in the
Boston inundation. The loss elsewhere in
Massachusetts was roughly computed at
$1,000,000; Connecticut, 100000, and in
New Hampshire S175,000. It would require
many months to repair the damage done to
dams and mill and factory interests.
THE bill providing for non-partisan cleo
ton commissioners in cities passed the Ohio
Senate on the 10th.
ADvICEs of the 10th say that in Choctaw,
Marriage and Sumpter counties, in Ala
bama, violent earthquake shocks were re-
Gently felt. In some places the ground
trembled, houses were damaged and cattle
were thrown down.
SAM SMALL, the Georgia evangelist, ar
rived in Chicago on the 10th aud COM
menced series of meetings.
SEVERAL of the fleet of Government boats
at st. Louis were sunk by floating ice on
the 10th, others were badly damaged and
many were missing, but might be picked
up at points down the river The loss was
placed at 100000.
THE funeral of Ex-Governor Horatio
Seymour took place at Utica, n. Y, on the
afternoon of the 10TH
The damage by the recent flood to the
cities of Albany and Troy, N. Y, was on
the 10th estimated at 100000.
THE fund for the relief of the unemployed
workmen of London amounted on the 10th
to 100000.
AN incendiary fire on the 10th at Green-
bush, Wis. caused the death of James Ehle,
his wife, father and three children, and
Miss Kinney.
G. III. MCCORMICK suspended operations
in his reaper factory at Chicago on the 10th,
after yielding in the matter of wages, be-
cause the discharge of five non-union men
was demanded by the workmen. The num-
Der of persons thrown out of employment
is fourteen hundred.
THE Iowa Senate on the 10th passed bill
to provide home for $50 veterans of the
Union army now being housed on county
farms.
A CONSPIRACY was discovered on the 10th
at Belgrade to dethrone Milan, King of
Servia
On the 10th new Interstate Commerce
bill was introduced in the United States
Senate and memorial was presented to
provide for right of way for railroads
through Indian Territory. The Education
bill was further discussed. In the House a
bill was reported authorizing the President
to raise two regiments of volunteer caval-
ry in New Mexico and Arizona to suppress
r j 4
to postal employees who have served TWEEN
ty years were reported adversely. The
Fitz John Porter bill was further debated
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THE EAST.

CHARLES HERMANN was hanged at Buff
falo, N ", on the 18th. He made de-
tailed confession of the murder of his wife.
HEAVY rains on the 18th overlooked the
Delaware river, and portion of Trenton,
N. j., was submerged, the water in some in
stances reaching to the second stories of
houses. Many bridges had been swept
away. Reports from all sections of the
State indicated alarming disasters.
MANY towns in Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire Connecticut and Rhode Island
were flooded on the 18th by incessant rains.
Citizens were imprisoned in their houses,
and mills, bridges and roads were wrecked.
The loss was estimated at over one million
dollars in Boston alone, where over nine
hundred houses were flooded, and at Provi-
dence, r, l., the loss would reach one
million dollars.
In the Eastern cities capitalists had up to
the 18th contributed $4,000 toward the
fund for Mrs Hancock.
THE death of DR.. d. B. Ewing, one of the
most prominent ministers of the Southern
Presbytery, occurred in Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 18th.
THE last funeral rites of the late General
W. S. Hancock took place at Norristown,
Pa, at three o'clock ON the afternoon of
the 18th. Among the pall-bearers were
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of
State; General William T. Sherman, Lieu
tenants General Philip II. Sheridan and
Major-General j. NJ. Schofield.
JoHN B. GoUGH, the great temperance
reformer, while lecturing in Philadelphia on
the evening of the 10Th was stricken with
apoplexy, and at last accounts was in a
critical condition.
MILL operatives to the number of over
FIVE thousand at Manchester, N. H., struck
On the 18th for higher wages.
AT Boston and vicinity on the 18th the
waters were subsiding, but at Franklin,
Dedham Center, East Dedham, Waltham,
Newton and Haverhill, Mass; Nashua, N.
H., and Augusta, Me-, the situation was
threatening. Country roads were impass-
able, and business was at standstill. The
total loss would probably aggregate $1,000
COO
THE relief fund for Mrs Hancock was on
the 18th nearly $4,000. The four Wander
bilt brothers each sent $1,000 and John w.
Mackay did the same.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
FORTY DAYS OF GRACE.

The Anti-Chinese Congress at Portland,
Ore, Adopt Resolutions Declaring That
the Celestials Must Leave idaho, Oregon
and Washington Territories by March az.
PORTLAND, Ore, Feb 15.-Four hundred
delegates attended the anti Chinese con-
gress here Saturday. The meeting was
enthusiastic but orderly. Resolutions
were adopted declaring that the
Chinese must leave the outlying dis
tricts within thirty days from Washing
tons birthday for San Francisco or some
more northern or southern point, not tar
rying within the boundary lines of either
Oregon, Washington or Idaho Territories;
condemning Governor Squire, of Wash
ington Territory, for. declaring mar
tial law at Seattle; demanding
his impeachment, and ordering that
Benjamin F. Butler be requested to
conduct the Impeachment proceedings; in
dorsing Senator Mitchell's ants Chinese bill
and urging it's passage by Congress. 1t
was ordered that certain newspapers on
the coast be boycotted for denouncing the
expulsion OF the Chinese. Nophysical DEM
onstration against the Chinese was made.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLIxth CONGRESS.

THURSDAY, Feb. IA bill was intro
duced in the Senate providing for the re-
peal of all treaties permitting the coming
of Chinese to the United States and pro-
hibiting their coming, except in the case of
diplomatic aud official personages. Petit
lions were presented against the passage of
the International Copyright bill; for the
opening of the Oklahoma lands to settle
ment, and for the adoption of constitu-
tional amendment to prevent disfranchise-
ment on account of sex. The House
bill for the payment of the ''Fourth of
JULY claims and bill regulating the pro-
motion of West Point graduates were
passed, and the Education bill was further
considered Adjourned to the 18th. In the
House bill was passed to enable National
banks to increase their capital stock and to
change their names or locations. Leave
was asked to introduce bill granting a
pension of two thousand dollars per annum
to the widow Of General W. S. Hancock,
but it was objected to. The Fitz John Por-
ter bill was discussed
FRIDAY, Feb. 12.-The Senate was not
in session. In the House a large number
of Senate bills were referred, after which
the Speaker occupied the time in the
call of committees for reports of private
nature At the evening session seventy
one pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY, Feb. 13.-The Senate was not
in session. In the House bills were re-
ported to quiet the titles on the Des
Moines river lands in Iowa; for the 1oca-
ton of a branch soldiers home west of the
Rocky mountains, and to protect mechan-
les, laborers and servants in their wages.
The Postmaster-G General reported that the
Eight-Hour law had not been held to apply
to letter-carriers. The Fitz John Porter bill
was further discussed.
MONDAY, Feb. 15.-In the Senate a
bill was introduced relating to the taxa
ton of public lands, and bills were passed
granting to the widow of General Grant
the franking privilege and for the relief of
the Mission Indians in California The
Educational bill was further considered.
A communication was received stat
ing that the President did not
consider it consistent with pub
lie interests to transmit copies of I'M
official papers from private citizens relat-
ing to the suspension of officeholders. In
the House bills were introduced: To grant
apension of $1,000 to General Hancocks
widow; for the free coinage of silver; to
revive the grade of General in the United
States army; for the issue of small bills for
circulation; and tariff bill by Mr.. Morri-
son, which will effect an estimated reduc-
ton of $2O,OOO00O in the revenues from Gus
toms. The Fitz John Porter bill was further
discussed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

New YORK, Feb. 16.-Ex-Sheriff A. "
Davidson has joined the army of default
ers. His income of sec, 900 or $4,000 a
year for three years as sheriff ought to
have enabled him to remain in this country,
but he spent it in high living and fast hab-
its and borrowed as much more,
and also spent that. Some of this lest he
borrowed from friends and some OF it from
creditors of the city-money obtained on
judgments. His bondsnIen have had to
hand over the amount OF their guaranty,
$50, 900, and yesterday Davidson's furni-
ture and equipments were sold at auction.
His sureties were liquor dealers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
Earthquake Shocks.

PANAMA, Feb. 15.-The earthquakes at
Amatitlan continue, and the few houses
that escaped ruin by the first heavy shock
are now quite shattered and uninhabitable.
The shocks now felt are accompanied by
very strong winds. The distress among
the people is aeartrending, end President
Barillas and his Cabinet have started a
subscription for their relief. The cold
weather at Quezaltenango is considered
phenomenal, the mercury having fallen
four degrees below zero and ths water in
wells being frozen
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

The aggregate resources of the saw
ings banks of New York City at the
commencement of the present year
were 1901, 100000. The amount due
dcpositors was 1856, 600, 900, an increase
in deposits of 81, 100000 during the
year. The total surplus on market val
ues at the same date was $45, 100000
The number of depositors on open ac-
counts was $4,000. During the year
the sum of SS,3O0,O0O of interest has
been credited to depositors. The
amount deposited during the year was
$75,0O0,000 and the amount withdrawn
$17,0OO,OOO.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

ever since the blizzard left us, ="
writes Northern visitor from Florida,
1--WE have had the most perfect summer
weather-real shirt-sleeve weather. l
have door open on each side of the
room tonight, and as / listen to the
chirp of the crickets and the croaking
of the tree toads can't help thinking
of June night in the North
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

in regard to the late freeze the Flor
ida AgriculttrjSt says: "The damage
is by no means as great as was anticl-
pated. Many young trees and buds
have been seriously damaged and the
fruit injured, but the old groves appear
60 have stood it bravely and will come
out all rioht. -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

THE disappearance of ariver is noted
in California as one of the results of the
recent great storm, The stream was
known as the Clearwater, and it flowed
out of San Gorgonio pass. 1t is ex-
planned that so much rock and earth
were washed into the channel that the
waters were driven out upon the Colo
RADIO desert to be lost in the sand,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

The old fashioned clothes-pin reme-
dy appears to be falling into disrepute
At any rate, fashionable New York
lady has been granted divorce from
her husband, the main basis of her
complaint being the fact that he snored
and made no effort to stop snoring.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

RIDERS of bicycles are bound to have
all the danger that can possibly be at
tached to their machines. Not long
ago somebody invented steam engine
to be placed just above the small wheel,
and now another genius comes for
ward with amainsail attachment. When
we finally get full-rigged bicycle,
with its steam engine, mainsail, spin
maker and all the other appliances sug-
gested or invented, we shall have a
new means of suicide which can not fail
to become popular.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
WEST AND SOUTH.

THE storming of the ice palace, the main
feature of the winter carnival at st. Paul,
took place on the 18th by five thousand
uniformed men.
IT was announced on the 18th by the
State Press Association of Florida that, all
previous reports sent North by individual
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
Bread Riot in Canada.

PAsPEBIAC, Can, Feb. 16.-The stores OF
Robin & Co. and LIE Boutilliere, here, were
raided yesterday by an excited mob OF
French Canadians, who carried off about
twenty-six barrels of flour. Every
effort was made by the agent OF
the firms, the clergy and the mayor
to bring the crowd to reason, but without
avail. The Government grant of a half
barrel each of -four and potatoes was Of
iered them, but was Indignantly rejected
1t is feared that TODAY the rioters will
be augmented by hundreds of others from
other parts of the country. Troops have
been telegraphed for.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

A WAGON containing three or four
persons, drawn by an OK, passed
through Madison, Fla, the other day,
and the occupants had placed a layer
of earth in the body of the wagon on
which typical Florida pine knot fire
was brightly burning from which they
were warmed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

A BLooD-srAINED mailbag reached
the department. at Washington few
days ago. 1t was the bag carried by
i M. Peterson, who was murdered by
Apaches between Crittenden and Lo-
chiel, A. t., in July, 1885, and whose
blood stains the receptacle. The mail
matter was torn in fragments and
scattered to the winds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
Robbed of a Fortune in Stocks.

New YORK, Feb. 13.-Frank J. Bowman,
a St. Louis lawyer, who is stopping at
Wizards Hotel, in Washington. entered
the Pennsylvania railroad depot few min
utes before midnight on Wednesday, intend
ing to take the owl train for Washington.
He sat a small vaiise on seat
IN the middle of the waiting-room, and
went to the Pullman car window, where he
gotta ticket for berth in sleeping-car.
When he returned to the seat the valise
was gone. 1t contained one hundred thou
sand dollars in telephone stock and bonds.
There were only few persons in the wait
iEg-room when the valise was stolen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

The New York Senate has passed a
bill which provides that civilian, no
matter how conspicuous his merits or
capacity, shall not be appointed to an
office covered by the civil-service rules,
if there is soldier candidate for the
same place who has been able to pass
the civil-service. examinations at all.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

EXTENSIVE copper mines have been
discovered in Lower California. They
are said to surpass in productiveness
any thing on the continent, and thou
sands of people are thronging to the
locality. The mines are owned prin-
cipally by French and English capital
lists, with the ROthschilds at their head.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
Report of the Patent Commissioner.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The Commission
er OF Patents has sent to Congress his re-
port for the year ended December
81, 1885. The. total receipts of the
Patent Office during the year were
$1,1SS,0S9, and the expenditures were ST.
24,379, leaving balance ofS163, 10. The
number of caveats fled was 1852, and the
number of issues 25, 691. In the year 1855
4, 435 applications for patents were re-
ceived, while during the last calendar year
the office received 35,717 applications It
is recommended that the salary OF the
assistant commissioner be increased from
$4,000 to So, 500.