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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-29
THE EAST.

THE death Of Austin Sheldon, who for
forty-tive years had lived in cave at
Dingman's Ferry, Pa, occurred on the Goth.
His mode of life was inspired by the death
of his young wife at Brantford, Conn.
THREE Philadelphia oil warehouses were
Quilted by fire few days ago. One man
was seriously burned, another persisted in
the flames and two young women had mar
row escapes.
THE strike in the Pennsylvania coke re-
gion near Pittsburgh was assuming serious
proportions on the Goth. -Four thousand
ovens and six thousand men were idle.
THE ship Frank N. Thayer, laden with
hemp, from Manila to New York, was
burned at sea recently, entailing :. loss of
$4,000.
JAMES MARSHALL and Miss Riser were
drowned on the 21st near Dawson, Pa,
while skating.
DrPHTHERIA in the northern portion Of
Berks County, Pa, has swept away thirty
persons within short period, and the dis
ease was on the ed still spreading
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY cattle were lost
in a recent gale from the steamer Nor
wegian, from Philadelphia to Liverpool
AT Johnstown, N j., Mrs Elizabeth Early,
aged seventy-fve, was burned to death on
the oath, her clothing catching fire from a
stove,
FLAMES swept away the ST. Cloud Hotel
and several business buildings in Philadel-
phia On the 25th, causing loss of $3.50, 900.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

In the United States and Canada the
total number of business failures during
the seven days ended on the 22d was 1914,
against 334 for the previous seven days
1T has been decided by Secretary Lamar
that all the appropriations made by the
Legislature of Arizona in excess of the sum
appropriated by Congress were in violation
of law and void.
THE resignation of Dorman B. Eaton,
CivilService Commissioner, was sent to
the President on the 23d, to take effect
March g.
AT twenty-six leading clearinghouse in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 23d aggregated $685.
2l9,672, against 1925, 1922, 1852 the previous
week.
THE death of Joseph c. Rankin member
Of Congress from the Fifth Wisconsin Dis
5rict, occurred in Washington ON the oath,
after long and painful illness, at the age
of fifty-two years.
IT has been decided by the Commissioner
of Pensions that soldier, who after serv-
ing term of imprisonment for deserving,
was restored to duty and was honorably
discharged, is entitled to pension for disa-
bilities received in the service
THE resignation of H. w. Cannon as
Comptroller of the Currency was rendered
ON the 23d.
THE Senate had up to the 23d confirmed
three hundred and thirty-nine Presidential
postmasters, exactly one third OF the 5otal
number nominated.
DURING the week ended on the Esd the
issue of standard silver dollars from the
minis was 205,4 51. The issue for the CORE
spending period of last year was 100, 496.
DURING the first six months Of the fiscal
year ended January /, 1885, the total col
lections of internal revenue were $685.
81, an increase of $2,029, 464 over the col
lections during the same period of the last
fiscal year.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
xLIXth CONGRESS.

THURSDAY, Jan. 21.-In the Senate bills
were introduced to enable the people
of Dakota to form State Government,
and to prevent the characterization of
American coin by making contracts for
gold payments void. A long discussion
over the Electoral-Count bill took place.
Adjourned to the 18th. In the House nearly
the whole session was occupied in discus
sing the bill increasing the pensions of
soldiers widows and the financial measure.
FRIDAY, Jan. 22.-The Senate was not
in session. In the House, after debate
which occupied the entire session, the
resolution offered by Mr.. Boutelle, of
Maine, calling on the Secretary Of the
Navy for information regarding the erasure
of inscriptions and the discharge Of Union
soldiers at the Norfolk navy-yard was
passed. At the evening session sixteen
pension bills were passed. Adjourned to
the 25th.
MONDAY, Jan. 25.-In the Senate c.
e. Walthall was sworn in as Senator
from Mississippi. Senator Cullom intro
duced bill to pay pension of one hun
dred dollars per month to all soldiers and
sailors who are totally disabled and who
have been receiving a less amount. SEN
ator Brown offered bill which provides
that no action shall be begun by the United
States to cancel land patent after three
years from date of entry. Senator Morgan
introduced q bill providing that members
of any tribe or nation under the jurisdic-
ton Of the United States shall be eligible
to appointment to office. The House met
and adjourned in respect to the memory
of the late Joseph Rankin, of Wisconsin.
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WEST AND snllrH

GENERAL KENNEDY, the President OF the
Ohio Senate, ruled on the 22d that the four
members from Hamilton County, whose
seats are in dispute, were not entitled to
vote, thereby placing the Senate in control
OF the Republicans, who caused an adjourn
ment to the 23d under the Presidents rul-
ing. The Democrats remained in the hall,
organized another Senate and passed
motion of adjournment until the evening
of the 25th. A long fight for possession Of
the Senate chamber was anticipated. There
are twenty Democratic Senators Counting
the four from Hamilton County, and sew
enteen Republicans.
On the I'D Henry Jackson (colored) was
executed in Webster Parish, La, for the
murder of grocer named r. A. Britten.
WHILE temporarily insane Mrs. George
Gravener, of Covington, KY, drowned her.
self and babe in cistern few days ago.
DISPATCHES of the 22d say that no less
than forty-one lives were lost by the recent
mine disaster at Newburg, WA.
In Searcy County, Ark, great excite
ment prevailed on the 22d over the reported
discovery of rich copper mines.
In the city and county of Los Angeles,
CAL, the damage to property by the recent
floods was on the I'D estimated at $500, 900.
Over six persons are known to have lost
their lives.
LOWELL B. HARRIS paid one thousand dol
lars for his supper at campfire on the
ed at Upper Sandusky, o., held for the
relief of INDECENT soldiers and their fami-
lies.
THROUGHOUT the Northwest the weather
on the ed was the most severe thus far this
winter. In Chicago and other portions of
Illinois the mercury fell to twenty three
degrees below zero, in Iowa it ranged from
welve TO twenty-six below, in Wisconsin
twenty-five below was reported and in
Minnesota thirty below. Railway travel
was supended at many points, owing to the
drifting snow.
The death Of James T. Farley, ex United
States Senator, occurred at jackson, CAL,
on the ed, at the age of fifty years
On the 2Sd the Republican members of the
Ohio Senate met, but as every Democratic
seat was vacant, an adjournment to the
18th was taken.
A FIRE destroyed the alms-house near
jackson. Mich. on the night Of the 24th,
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Rhode island Coal Mines.

The "Coal Mines is the name by
which hamlet and station in Ports
mouth, R. l., are known. Two mines
that are said to have been originally
opened in the present century, and to
have been worked spasmodically since,
are situated there. The product was a
cross between slate and ordinary an
thracite, with preponderancei favor
of the former 1t could not be burned
in ordinary stoves, though in war time,
when anthracite was bringing fourteen
dollars ton. Newport people to some
extent bought Rhode Island coal at
eight dollars ton, and managed to
burn it by mixing it half and half, OF
late years the demand for it has fallen
of, and few months since mining was
suspended altogether, after penetrating
to the depth of sixteen hundred feet.
The mines are full of water, and coal
mining I'm Rhode Island is probably
ended forever. Chicago Herald.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Senators Sherman, Evarts and
,Hoar are cousins.-M. Y Tribune.
Mrs. Brownlow, the famous par
sons widow, is still living at Knox
vile, Tenn.
james r. Randall, who wrote ''My
Maryland" when he was Twenty-Five.
is about to publish his first collection Of
poems.
-Jabal A. Early is described as a
venerable appearing man, his long.
white beard reaching to his waist, and
his bent figure indicating the rapid adj
vance of extreme old age.
Baron Tennyson's fortune is esti-
mated at $500, 900, all of it of his own
making, for the poet is practical and
always makes profitable bargains with
his publishers.-BoSton Journal.
M Pasteur has his theory of hap
piness. True happiness" he says,
''appears to me in the form of man
of science devoting his days and nights
to penetrating the secrets of nature
and discovering new truths"
-Parson John Jasper, the famous
colored preacher of Richmond, claims
that he has recently been solicited to
90 to England on lecturing tour, and
that man offered him four hundred
dollars to deliver his great lecture on
1.-The Sun Do Move, in Northern
city
1t is said that the wife of President
Adams contributed largely to the State
papers of her honorable and distin-
guished spouse, and that Mrs. Madi-
son was often useful in moderating the
temperament of the addresses which
her husband wrote during his term of
office. Chicago Herald.
-"Mr. Parnell," says writer in
the Chicago Tribune, ais bachelor,
and lives the simplest sort of life-in
lodgings, asa rule taking his dinners
at hotel. His habits are so quiet that
he and his sister Anna were guests at
the same hotel for weeks without know
ing that they were under one ROOF"
Mrs. Bancroft, the wife of the his
torian. is said to be preparing vol
ume of her "reminiscences and expert
ences, and as she was belle at Wash
iugton sixty years ago and has seen the
best people and places at nome ana
abroad, she can not fail to favor the
public with an uncommonly interesting
book.
Whittier says: AZ have never
thought of myself as a poet in the sense
in which we use the word when we
speak Of the great poets. l have just
said from time to time the things /
had to say, and it has been a series of
surprises to me that people should pay
so muck attention to them and rcmem-
Der them SO long"
John B. Cough re-appeared on the
lecture platform at MelTose, Mass, 8
few evenings ago and introduced HIM
self by explaining the cause of his long
silence II appear tonight" he said.
''for the first time in three months, and
for the first time in my life with set
of crockery in my mouth. have
dreaded greatly appearing before the
public, not under false pretenscs, but
under false teeth" Reports say that
MIR. Cough spoke "with ali of his old
cloquence and vigor."
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LATER.

THE first of the five games Of the inter
national billiard-match at New York, for
five thousand dollars side, between Wig
naux and Schaefer, resulted ON the Goth in
a victory for the latter by q score of 600 to
ga.
THE British Ministry was defeated on the
Goth by a vote of 329 to $50 on the question
of allotments.
THE winter in Europe has been the
severest known for a long period. 1t is
fourteen years since London saw so much
snow.
CHARLES HOWARD, night Waterman at
the railway shops in Marietta, Ga. was
murdered few days ago by unknown per-
sons with hammer, and his corpse covered
with live Goals
Six stores at Opelika, Ala, were de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth.
JOHN KELLY was reelected chief of the
Tammany Society in New York on the 26th.
His health is very poor.
THE damage to the orange crop in Flor
ida by the recent cold snap was on the Goth
estimated at S50,000,0O0
On the Goth Belleville, Can, was flooded
by rising water in the River MORA.
THE Rhode Island Legislature met in an
nual session at Providence on the 26th
The loss by the recent fire in Philadel-
phia was on the Goth placed at S750000
NINETY houses at Radna and two hum
dred at Lippa, in Pennsylvania, were par
TALLY submerged on the Goth by high water,
and several thousand acres of land were
flooded Fifty buildings had collapsed at
Lippa.
A FLOOD at Stockton, Cal, washed away
levees and caused a damage of $500, 600 on
the Goth.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt on the 26th
in Ulster, Green and Duchess Counties,
New York.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY began their
revival meetings at Knoxville, Tenn, on
the Goth.
THE Agricultural Department of Illinois
on the Goth reported deficit of five million
bushels in the amount required for home
consumption-a state of affairs not known
to exist for a quarter of a century.
THE session of the United States Senate
on the Goth was devoted exclusively to
tributes to the memory of President
Hendricks by Messrs. VOORHEES,, Hampton,
Sherman, Salisbury, Evarts, Ransom,
Spooner, Vest and Harrison. In the House
bills were introduced: For the relief of rail-
way mail clerks who have been in the serv-
ice twenty years; to authorize the pay
ment of postal-notes at any inoney-order
office; to limit the capital of any National
bank to S5,0O0.000; to prohibit the importa-
ton of pauper labor; to give preference to
American citizens in employing laborers on
public works; to pension survivors Of the
Mexican war, and to declare the silver dol
lar q legal tender.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-29
THE PRESIDENT ON LABOR.
Ms. Cleveland Gives His Opinion ON the
Eight-Hour Law-It Is Good Measure,
and Should Be Enforced to the Letter.

Mr.. Cleveland Gives His Opinion on the
Eight-HOur Law--It Is Good Measure,
and Should Be Enforced to the Letter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-At recent meet
ing OF the committee on Labor, OF the
House OF Representatives. statements were
made that the spirit of the Eight Hour law
was being violated ignored or evaded in
certain OF the Government departments,
and Chairman O'Nein was empowered
to present to the House resolution
of inquiry directed to the various
secretaries, asking in direct terms
whether the law was being inforced
by them. Pending the introduction of the
reaolution Mr.. O'Neill met the President by
appointment, and engaged in discussion
OF the labor question in several of it's
phases. The President seemed DESTROYS of
being understood as heartily in sympathy
with any contemplated legislation calcu-
lated to elevate the condition OF the work
ing classes. On the matter of the Eight
Hour law the President said:
believe that the law is sound and good
one, and that it should be enforced to the let
ter. 1t Ill becomes Government to eyade
the spirit and letter of its own enactments.
non-enforcement, hut if such are presented
tome will see that the abuse is remedied
and the law enforced, which | understand to
mean full days pay for eight hours work
The President said further:
appreciate the effect upon the mechanics
OF the country of the continually increasing
use of labor-saving machinery and / can
think OF no more practical relief for the
unemployed surplus than the occupat on by
1T OF the public lands. / do not hesitate to
say that am heartily in favor of any feasible
plan for the encouragement and assistance,
Il need be. of settlers upon the public domain
by the general Governments
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three aged women and two old men per-
| ishing in the flames. The fire originated in
the kitchen.
| AN aged white woman was murdered by
Clement Simpson, mulatto, near Hen
derson, KY, on the oath because she would
| not pray. mob soon lynched the MUIR
derer.
Our of forty-one persons who persisted
in the recent mine explosion near Newburg,
w. Va, fourteen had been recovered on
the 9th. The mothers, wives and sisters of
the dead men were in great agony, and two
had become insane.
THE other night the cavalry stables at
Fort Custer, M. T., were destroyed by fire,
and fifty-eight horses persisted in the flames.
A NEGRO named Sidney Brown, who killed
Samuel Ford, white farmer of Rockdale,
Tex, against whom he had a grudge, was
taken from jail few nights ago and
| hanged
AT Forest City, Ark; in recent family
quarrel William Custner killed John and
Vines Nichols with rifle and fed the coun-
try.
Paul, O. L. Foss, has been arrested for the
embezzlement of $4,000.
PROPER authorities took seven brothers
named Arnold, all made raving maniacs
through the loss of property, from their
home in Hickory County, Mo-, on the 23d,
to an asylum.
ACCORDING to the wisest judges the dam
age to the fruit crop of Florida by the re-
cent cold weather is nearly s2,0O0,O00.
The Choctaw Nation has been awarded
judgment by the Court of Claims against
the United States for $3S6,605.
In the Government suit against Maxwell
and others, involving 1,7O0, 900 acres of land
in New Mexico and Colorado, Judge Brewer
at Denver decided on the 25th in favor of
the defendants.
In the vicinity of Crested Buttes, Col,
snowslides on the 18th carried away two
cabins and killed five men.
JUDGE LOVE rendered a decision in the
United States court at Keokuk on the 18th
sustaining the constitutionality OF the Iowa
Prohibitory law, and giving the State
courts full powers.
UP to the 25th heavy rains had fallen for
several days causing considerable damage
in California. Half the town of Fresno
was inundated.
SEVEN business buildings and their con-
tents at Helena, Ark, were burned on the
25th.
On all Iowa railroads the snow blockade
was raised on the 25th.
AT Leavenworth, Kan, fifteen large
buildings have been completed for the
branch Soldiers Home, and two hundred
veterans are being cared for,
On the morning of the 25th the Repub-
ican members of the Ohio State Senate
met at ten O'Clock, but nothing was done in
the way of business for lack of quorum.
The Democratic members came in at four
o'clock, when q wrangle ensued. The pre-
siding officer refusing to put motion for
adjournment the Democrats got up and
walked out
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-29
VICTIMS OF AN AVALANCHE.
Farther Details of the Recent Snow
Slides in Colorado-.Tcur Men Dead.

Farther Details of the Recent Snow
Slides in Colorado-.Four Men Dead.
DENVER, Col, Jan. 25.-An Aspen special
to the Tribune-Repubican says that
Maroon Pass road has been the
scene of fearful loss during the re-
cent storm. The horrors of Thurs
day are intensified by the develop
ments OF Friday which show the Pass to
be a, snow-bound tomb. While men were
hunting for bodies in Thursdays snow
slide, word was received that another ava
lanche further up the canon took place at
midnight on Tuesday Clayton
Garrett, Sol Camp, Charles Tut
tie, Martin Riley, Jap Farris,
August Goodwin, al Sons and Martin
Patterson were asleep in cabin which
was supposed to be safe, as it was built in
grove OF heavy timber, but when the
slide came down it snapped the trees as
though they were pipe-stems, hurting
them against the cabin and crushing
everything into mass. Martin
Riley and August Goodwin had their backs
broken, and Riley was suffocated When
the slide struck the timber it divided, part
rushing across the guleh, burying cabin
on the opposite side, occupied by three
men, without lnluring them.
These men worked their way out at noon
and started to rescue their friends. Wednes
day evening, after cutting through num-
berless fallen trees, they effected an entrance
to the cabin and found three dead and the
other five suffering terribly. Sol Camp lay
on his face dead. The body OF Jap Farris
was pinioned across the back by
heavy timbers. Riley died in five minutes
after the disaster. His dying commissions
nearly caused the death of man under
meath him. All the men alive were nearly
| crazy when found. All were undressed and
had bitten themselves on the hands and
arms in their delirium, and presented q
sickening spectacle. They may all recover.
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Danger in the Frozen Orange.

New York, Jan. 25.-A dispatch from
Florida says that numbers OF persons had
been made sick there by eating oranges
that were frozen during the recent cold
snap. DR.. Edison took the cue and ordered
that thorough canvass should be made OF
the Southern steamers and the storage
places OF Florida fruit. 1t resulted in the
seizure of several hundred boxes of frozen
oranges, and they were dumped into the
North River
DR.. Edison explained that the mold
that forms between the segments
of the pulp and the impregnating OF the
Whole fruit by the essential oil of the skin
iorfa the element OF danger IN the frozen
orange.
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HUMOROUS.

They say those artificial eggs can
not be beaten.-PittSburgb Chronicle.
Jones must have been pretty sea-
sick going to Europe when he threw
up his engagement with his girl
Lowell Citizen.
Said an Alabama mother: "Never
would call boy of mine Alias, if I
had hundred to name. Men by that
name is allus cuttin' up capers."
Papa, what is a luxury? Father
1t is something, my son, that we can
do without. Logical boy-What a lux
ury mosquito must be. Golden Days.
From the prompt aud safe way in
which horse-thieves are hung out West,
it looks as if that portion of our be-
loved country was under the rule of g
hemp-era.-E Y Ledger
-"Why didn't you come when
rangP' said Texas lady to a domes-
tic. Because | didn't heah the bell"
Here after when you don't hear the
bell you must come and tell me So"
eyes, mum. "-IeTGS SiftigsgS.
-"Speaking of oleomargarine, re-
marked McSwilligen this morning, cit
has occurred to me that there is one
kind of butter which will always defy
counterfeiting. "Ah! what kind of
butter is that?" asked Squildig. "The
goat. "-PittsbWrgh Chronicle.
Angry Father-Now, confound it,
why don't you go to practicingP just
see that girl across the street how de-
voted she is to her music! Unappreci-
alive Offspring - Stop right there,
father. The girl may be studious and
all that, but that's typewriter she's
playing on.--Puck.
"A Lowell small boy who attended
the Old Ladies' fair had to be told
great deal about the chance he would
have to "grab." This became the CEN
trail thought in his mind. and he had'n
been long in the hall when he began to
ask: Mamma, when can / begin to
steal somethingP"-Loa0eU Courier.
Henderson, who recently pur-
chased an alarm clock, says the thing
is COMPOUNDED humbug. 81 set the
ALARM" he explained, "before going
to bed, after taking the precaution to
stop the clock, SO that its ticking
shouldn't keep me awake. And
would you believe it, 1 oversight next
morning a whole hour later than
ususln'-BoSton transcript
-Chatty Passenger" To show yer
what cheats they are, sir, friend o.
mine-lots O. money and fust-rate
taste, give the horder to one of 'em to
decorate his new 'ouse in regular slap
up style, spare no expense, with all
the finest chromios that could be 'ad.
You know what lovely things they are,
sir! Well, sir, would you believe it!
After they was sent, they turned out
not to be chromios at all, but done by
and with whitening contempt)-
"done by land, sirl''-Harper's Bazar.