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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03
THE EAST.

The New York City street-car drivers
and conductors effected a com promise
with the company on the Goth, the former
to return to work and try the new schedule.
The company agreed that If the schedule
required the mon to work more than
twelve hours, they would voluntarily re-
turn to the old one.
The Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania in
convention at Harrisburg on the Goth nom
mated the following ticket: For Governor,
Charles S. Wolfe; Lieutenant Governor,
a. A. Barker; Auditor General, Charles L.
Hawley; Secretary of Internal Affairs,
John N. Morey, Congressman-at-lar ge,
Rev. j. NJ Palmer (colored)
NEW YORK CRY street-car drivers and
conductors on the 9th agreed to the pro-
posed compromise, and would return to
work
CHIEF CLERK GAYS deficit in the Pitts
burgh pension Office was on the 9th found
to be $11,337. His populations extended
over five years.
The nomination of mayor for New York
was rendered to Henry George on the 9th,
and he accepted on condition that thirty
thousand laboring men sign an agre ement
to vote for him.
NEAR Elmira, N. Y, on the Goth, four
Italians were engaged in a deperate fight
on the railway track. An express train
killed one and fatally injured another,
and third was captured.
New York clothing cutters, who were
loo ked out on the 2Sth, caused 10000 per-
sons to be thrown out Of employment on
the Both. The fight was brought about by
the demand made by the cutters that the
employers should not give work to non
union men.
A PREssMAN in New York City, Law
renee Donovan, on the 18th jumped from
the Brooklyn bridge, and escaped injury.
DANIEL DREW, a large passenger steamer,
was totally destroyed by fire on the Goth
at Kingston Point, N, Y. The loss is $780,
600.
The arrest of Supervisors Larkins, Car
roll and Gallagher, of the Brooklyn Board
of Supervisors, took place on the 3oth ult.
on charge of conspiring to defraud the
people of Kings County.
WATSON AsHE, II. George and Joseph
Horner were killed by train near Sum-
mer Hill, Pa, on the 30th ult. They
stepped from one track to escape an ap-
preaching train and failed TO see another
engine, which moved them down.
AN explosion of fire-damp on the 30th
ult. in a colliery at Scranton, Pa, caused
the death of five men and injury to two
others. 1t was rumored that others were
imprisoned
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known, were in wagon not far from
Farmer Kann. Six others, four girls and.
two men, in the same wagon. were badly
shocked and slightly bruised. One of the
two former had his knee crushed by fly
ing stone or brick and the other badly
lacerated and fractured arm
About thousand feet southwest of the
scene of the explosion two Danish families
live in a small cottage. They are John
Jung and his wife and the formers son,
also married. Two large pieces OF rock
came through the roof, shattering house
and furniture. The old couple were buried
beneath the ruins and sustained serious in
juries on head and arms. The younger
couple and their child escaped unhurt.
A dozen members OF picnic party
bound to Mount Forest narrowly escaped
humiliation. They were passing the ILL.,
fated magazine when the explosion &C.
Cured. The wagon was about four hun
dred feet away from the building when it
blew up. Stones from the foundation and
bricks from the walls flew with deadly
force toward them. Good fortune favored
them, however, and but two occupants OF
the wagon were injured.
The scene of the disaster was visited by
not less than $4,000 people yesterday
afternoon. Every telegraph and telephone
wire for miles around were blown from their
fastenings, so that it was some time before
the news reached tho city, but when it did
the people came troopng out, and the mar
row sidewalks in that quarter were too
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03
The Farmers, Cono-oss.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. 27.-The Farm
ers' Congress yesterday passed resolu-
tions asking Congress to create the OF.
flee of Secretary of Agriculture, the inclm-
bent to be member of the Cabinet; re-
questing the extension of the civil-service to
all telegraph stations; asking Congress
to regulate Interstate commerce in such
a manner as to protect productive indus
tries; recommending an appropriation of
$4,000 900 to stamp out contagious dis
eases among domestic animals requesting
that the ministers to France and Germany
be instructed to prevent restrictions
upon American farm products prop
erly shipped; recommending the res
toration OF the wool tariff of 1867, ana
the maintenance of that on rice and
sugar; requesting State Legislatures to
pass laws against dealing in futures; APP
proving the Oleomargarine law; providing
for the incorporation of the Farmers
congress, and requesting the farmers OF
each State to form subordinate bodies,
The next meeting will be held at Chicago
on the Tuesday preceding the opening of
the fatstock show in 1887.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

DIR. Biting, of Baltimore, Md, re-
Gently made bet with lady acquaint-
ance that he would commit suicide, the
stakes being fifty dollars q side. One
subsequent morning the doctor was
found dead in his bed with deep
wound in his head just above the ear.
and revolver in his hand. He left a
note to the young lady with whom he
made the bet, saying: Il have done it,
and was not drunk. You have lost and
! have won The fifty dollars, The woman
was deeply grieved over the act, as she
believed she was the cause of it.
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right leg. The wound was so serious and
painful that Father Horgan was compelled
to have it dressed by surgeon. An old lady
was the only other person in the church at
the time She was uniniured.
There were many miraculous escapes
and thrilling incidents. John Kelly, with
out a mark or a scratch the worse for his
adventure, is sure he Travelled fifty feet
through the air. He was walking down
Archer road about aquarter ola mile from
the Laflin-Rand magazine when he heard q
terrible roar. The sidewalk raised up
with him, and then he felt himself
sailing through the air. Stones and
rocks whistled by him, and the
next thing he knew was hall an hour after
when he came to his senses in pile OF lay.
He had been blown into a haystack fully
one hundred feet from where he stood.
Frank Minshaw, fireman on the Chicago
Grand Trunk railroad, was in the cab of
his engine three hundred yards away when
the explosion occurred. He was blown
from the cab across an adjoining railroad
track, distance OF about fifty feet, but
was unhurt.
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AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

Earthquakes in Greece XIII Six Hundred
Persons-Over Thousand Injured
Violent Shocks in Italy and Egypt-A
Little One in South Carolina.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-A terrible disaster,
resulting in the loss of hundreds OF lives, is
reported from Athens. The towns of Pyr-
gos and Philiatra, in Morea, have been al.
most swept from the earth by an earth
quake while number OF other towns and
villages have suffered in greater or
less degree. Almost every house in
Pyrgos and Zante was wrecked by the
upheaval while Phi.iatra was swallowed
up. The whole western coast oil
Morea was violently affected, and the in.
habitants have all fled to the open coun.
try, seeking comparative safety. Late
Saturday night Athens was visited by an
earthquake shock, and the inhabitants oil
that city are in O. state of the widest ter.
ror. Many have fed to the surrounding
country, fearful that the shock may con.
tinue and that they may be crushed by
falling buildings.
The CONFUSION was general along the
Mediterranean from Naples to the Lcvant.
In Italy the earthquake was felt through
out the provinces of Syracuse Reggie,
Palabria, Potensa Pazzuoli, Bara and
Arelino. In many instances the houses
swayed violently to and fro and consider
able damage was done TO property. The
people were terribly frightened and deser ted
their homes, fleeing to the open fields and
to the churches. The town of Naples was
visited by two earthquake shocks,
greatly alarming the people, who fed from
their dwellings, and crowded the streets
leading to the suburbs. Whole families
are leaving the town. Two eruptions oil
Vesuyius have occurred, and the volcano
is very active. Violent shocks were expert.
enced at Alexandria and other points in
Egypt, causing great terror among the
natives. So far as known, however, nc
serious damage was done, and no loss Of
life has been reported.
ATHENS. Aug. 30.-The district which is
affected by earthquakes is phenominally
large, especially as to width, and at least
six towns have been entirely destroyed,
while score OF others are partially de.
molished. On the main land there has
been great damage to property but com.
paratively little loss OF life. On the islands
the deadly effect of the disturbances has
been most severe and it is estimated that
600 persons have been killed and upward
of l, 900 seriously injured.
In THE UNITED STATES.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 3O.-A shock
of earthquake was felt here Saturday
morning at 4:48 o'clock. It extended as
far north as Summerville, twenty five miles
from here.
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other SO seriously injured that it will die.
When picked up Kann showed little sign OF
life. His body was torn by brick, mortar
and glass, and the shock had made him
unconscious. He was taken to the county
hospital, where he died on Monday.
Mr.. Kann was hurled through the air
for q distance of over a hundred feet, his
mangled body being found half hour later.
The base OF the unfortunate mans skull
was blown off and the brains were oozing
out upon the muddy field. Pieces of wood
and iron had penetrated his back and
caused horrible gashes all over his body,
from which the blood was flowing, gather
ing in pools. All Of the clothes OF the
man, except those covering the lower ex-
tremities, were as if cut off from his back,
only few shreds hanging loosely around
the lacerated form.
Philip Bowler and Peter Hamm took ref
uge from the storm in some empty Grand
Trunk freight cars and were struck by fy-
ing blocks OF stone. Bowers right arm
was broken. He was taken to his home
GIT South Halsted street Hammis in the
county hospital with severe wound in
his face.
Justice Tierney's capacious residence,
about 600 feet southwest of the scene OF
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National colored Baptist Convention.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 30.-The National Col.
ored Baptist convention was in session
here last week. Interest centered on a res.
olution which favored prohibition. A mum.
Der of speeches were made and the discus.
sion drifted into politics and became quito
animated. The chief point was the substi-
tuition OF the word temperance for prohi-
bition, and finally both words were
dropped and a resolution adopted express.
ing strong sympathy with the movement
now going on in the country designed to
destroy the liquor traffic, and praying
that it may be su ccessful,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

The rivalry between New Hampshire
and Vermont is unusually strong along
the banks of the, Connecticut river.
The feeling on one side is that New
Hampshire is great State, not so
large as Texas, to be sure, but Rhode
Island is smaller; not so easy and level
to till as Illinois, it is acknowledged, but
its scenery is considered far grander.
Across the stream one learns that the
only possible reason that can be urged
for allowing the Granite State to remain
in the Union is that one can get a good
view Of Vermont from some parts of it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

The way to make justice and law re-
'pected by the whole people, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean, is for the courts to
quit tinkering with law and enforce the
statutes inst evil-doers. There is
no lack of wise laws, but laxity in
their enforcement. 1t is this condition
which makes lynching and outlawry
among ordinary law-abiding citizens
so common in these days.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03
one struck b,

. MAN Dhn pounds, the Etna 3d.
HOUSE. 900 pounds, the Orient
al 100000 pounds, the Forsyth $4,000
pounds. and the Austin 60. 900 pounds.
The greatest wonder of all, considering
the condition OF the other magazines
which contain dynamite is that no other
explosions followed. The Oriental, Haz-
ard, Dupont and American magazine
buildings are all smashed in, but
the black powder, giant powder,
dynamite and nitro-glvcerine stored
in them is intact. The Dupont, the
largest of them all, was the worst dam
aged. The front and one side OF the build
ing and the roof are missing.
The list OF the dead, dying and injured is
as follows:
DEAD-Carrie Earnsworth, aged four
teen; John Kann, aged thirty five.
FATALLY JNJURED-John Gugl, Mrs. John
Gugl, Miss Eliza Devine and James Shan
non.
SERIOUSLY INJURED-William Kelly, Dan
iel Kelly John Madden, Philip Bowler,
john Lorden, Mr.. and Mrs. John Jung, Pc
ter Ham and Mrs. Kennedy
Each hour since the explosion has re-
vealed new damage and fresh injuries.
The victims are numerous. Perhaps fifty
persons were more or less cut or hurt.
The deaths may not exceed three or four
but several others are at present in dan
gerous condition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

The other afternoon dispatch and
a letter bearing an immediate-delivery
stamp were sent simultaneously from
Boston to the same address at Rox-
bury, Mass, the one being left at the
central office of the telegraph company
on State street, and the other at the Bos-
ton post-olfice. Both reached their
destination at precisely the same mo-
ment. This prompts the Boston Tran
script to "scoro one for the Immediate
delivery stamp"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03
Restored to Power.

LONDON, Aug. 30.-Prince Alexander ar.
rived at Rustchuk yesterday afternoon,
where he was formally welcomed by III.
Stambouloff. the head of the provisional
Government, in the name of the people OF
Bulgaria. N. Stambouloff then restored
to Prince Alexander the reins of power and
declared him once more upon the throne
of Bulgaria. Prince Alexander was
much moved. and declared, in reply to
the address of NJ. Stambouloff, that he
would sacrifice his life for the people The
popular enthusiasm over the return OF
Alexander was unbounded.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

"THE most persistent swordish, :"
says the Boston Journal, "was the one
that attacked the schooner Volunteer,
of Gloucester, recently, while the crew
was fishing. The first intimation the
men had of the charge was a per-
ceptible jar, which was repeated again
and again until four charges were
made. When the schooner came into
port she WAS taken upon the marine
railway, and it was found that the
sword had been broken off four times
in the keel within aspace of ten inches,
about six feet from the sternpost.
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18th owing $4,000 The assets were
A1na aaa

18th, owing $4,000. The assets were
placed at 800, 000
ANARCHISTS named Louis Juhl, Henry
Batzel and William KIoth, all residing on
West Seventeenth street, were arrested
by Chicago police on the GOTH They
had been holding meetings at night, with
their followers, in Kloth's cooper-shop.
Guns and swords wers found in their
houses.
NATIONAL LEAGUE baseball clubs at the
close of the week ended ON the 18th stood
as follows: Chicago, games won, 6S; lost,
D. Detroit, won, S.; lost, e. New York,
won, 81; lost, g. Philadelphia. won, so;
lost 80. Boston, won, 40; lost, 4S. St
Louis, won, SO; lost, So Kansas City,
won, p; lost 63. Washington, won, IA;
lost. II.
A son of General Sherman, of the army,
is to be professor of rhetoric in a Catholic
college at Detroit.
THE firm of NJ. Pettingill & Co., shoe
dealers at Peoria, Ill. confessed Judgment
on the Both ult. for about $4,000 They
employed convict labor at Joliet and Ches-
ter, and their failure was the result of q
boycott by the Knights of Labor
The Episcopal Bishop-elect for Eastern
Maryland, Rev A. l. Drysdale, expired on
the Both ult at Waukesha, Wis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

IT is reported that twelve hundred
and fifty tourists have assembled Pixies
Peak this summer. There is no danger
in this instance of fellow getting
counted more than once, so the report
must be reliable
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
A Powder Magazine at Chicago
Struck by Lightning.
One Hundred Thousand Pounds of Pow.
Ger and Dynamite Explode-Two Per-
sons Killed, and Many Injured
Serious Eject of the Shock.
BLOWN sKYwARD.

CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-During terrifcrain
storm about $50 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, lightning struck Latin & Rand s
powder magazine on the Archer road, one
and quarter miles beyond Brighton Park.
and nearly eight miles from the center
of the city. One hundred thousand
pounds of black powder. dynamite and
giant powder were stored in the building
pierced by the blade. A terrific explosion
followed, the shock being felt through
out radius OF ten miles. Situated in close
proximity to the Latin & Rand magazines
were the powder houses OF the Austin, Amer
lean, Oriental, Forsyth, Hazard, Ameri-
can and 1Etna Companies. All OF these
buildings were stored with high explosives
and black powder.
Latin & Rand's magazine was the only
one struck by lightning; but the 9th
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

A NEAR-sIGHTED Bostonian is trying
to explode the favorite theory of sum-
mer resorts as to serpents. The writer
dares to venture the assertion that the
Soa-serpent is a string of sea-weed with
a bobbing barrel as a head; that the
waves give it life, and the imagination
lntonsilies the optical illusion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

A LEADING Eastern fashion paper
announces: "The hair is now worn
on top of the head" This will be
a hard fashion for good many old
boys who have run to high foreheads.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03
Impending Famine IN Texas.

DALLAS, Tex, Aug. PIE. L. Walker,
county Judge OF Stephens County, arrived
here yesterday seeking aid to avert starva-
ton in his county which he says is entire
ly denuded of grass, without crops,
and with only post-oak and mesquite
leaves for stock food. About one
third of the population have ex-
hausted all supplies and the remainder
are mostly without bread or meat and
needing outside aid to save them from
starvation. Cattle are dying in large
numbers, and unless moved to the ranges
none can survive the winter. Shackleford,
Young, Palo Pinto. Throckmorton, East
land and Baylor Counties, he says, are
but little better off.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

A COMPLETE set of school text books
to be sold at cost are being prepared
for California in accordance with the
vote of the State, and viii be intro
duccd into the schools next winter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

A DAYTON man went to Cincinnati
the other day, and some one who saw
him and knew him went to the tele-
graph office and telegraphed in the
Dayton man S name to his wife for fif-
teen dollars, and got it by telegraph
mOneY-Order
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

JOHN FITZGERALD, president of the
Irish National League, on reaching his
homo at Lincoln, Neb., the other day,
was saluted by all the steam whistles
and bells in the city and cheered by
live thousand citizens. AT the opera
house he was congratulated by Gov
ernor Dawes and others.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

AFTER this, under the new extradi"
tion treaty, the United States can re-
claim any defaulter or embezzler. or
other criminal, who escapes to Japan.
But the trouble is that our scoundrels
don't banker after Japan half as much
as Canada.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

THE language of postage stamps is
thus codifed by the Chicago Herad:
Upside down means i love you.
Right up and down means Goodbye,
sweetheart, goodbye +"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03

The sea serpent, now on his regular
summer cruise, has reached Portland.
1t is represented as about one hundred
and fifty feet long, and as wearing a
rather mild expression"
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small to hold them. All that remained to
mark the site OF the powder house was
great hole in the clay, in which not q ves-
tige OF either building or powder packages
remained. The iron of the latter has dis
appeared completely from the face OF the
earth; the stones and brick in the building
and portions OF the roof timbers were
scattered far and wide over the
prairie. The tall weeds around were blown
fiat away from the hole, and leaves and
twigs stripped from the silver maple trees
strewed the ground. A two acre patch OF
potatoes near Gugl's house will not need
digging this fall; the surface of the earth
was blown completely away, leaving the
potatoes exposed. 1.-THE barn OF the Orient
al Powder Company, which had also
caught fire, smoldered and smoked and
the stencil of burning horse flesh filled the
air. In the fattened-out hog pen two pigs
lay stretched out. The rest were nowhere
to be found. On the path to the door of
the Gugl house lay the house-dog, killed by
the shock.
After the explosion lightning set fire to
some hay-stacks belonging to Gugl, which
were destroyed and killed his horse.
Houses all over the city, as tar north as
Jefferson and south to Englewood, were
perceptibly rocked By the earth shivering
and shaking under the force OF the explo-
sion, and the damage done to window
glass all over the city is something enor-
nous, extending as it does from the North
western Horse Nail Works at Brighton,
which has scarcely a whole window pane
left in it, through McCormck's Reaper
Factory and other immense struct-
ures in the southwestern part of
41o oit o1o 11,,ei
ton of the West side, the down town bust
ness district and away over into the North
division. People upon the streets were
blown from their feet or out of vehicles,
and those within doors were cut in very
many cases by fragments of the bursting
glass. People attending services at
number of churches were panic-stricken.
and many left their pews and rushed into
the streets needless of the binding rain
storm.
The explosion caused a panic in the
Holy Family Jesuit Church. where mass
was being said at the time. TWAS thought
that lightning had struck the church and
set it on fire, and the fremen entered car.
rying hose in their hands, which in-
creased the confusion. A wild scene fol-
lowed. Men, women and boys mounted
the seats and dashed through the win
dows, and not whole window was left in
that part of the building. Many people
were cut and bruised, but nobody sus-
tanned fatal injuries.
Large plate glass windows in many bust.
ness houses in the heart of the city were
shattered. The shock put out the gas in
the Grand Pacific Hotel and caused live
ly scene among the guests. Many of them
rushed downstairs minus shoes and stock.
ings, while others clad in scant raiment
huddled in the halls and corridors. No
serious injury was done to the building.
Two windows in the Board of Trade build
ing were demolished. Damage is reported
as far north as Evanston.
Father Horgan, the pastor of the little
Catholic Church at Cicero, near Brighton