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

band OF indians were surprised on the 9th
by 2 band of Mexican resid ents and eleven
of the savages were killed and thirty-two
horses were captured.
THE accounts Of S. r. Sterling, for four
ty, Va, were ON the 9th discovered to be
short over $4,000.
A BoUNTIFUL dinner was served at the
Cook County Hospital in Chicago, ON the
18th to six hundred patients An outbreak
Of fire, however, created wild panic, and
caused the destruction of the Christmas
tree, with $500 worth of presents, many
persons being severely burned.
AN extensive gas vein was struck at
Berea, O., On the Gath, after boring two
years. The gas rushed out so vigorously
that it ignited and set fire to the buildings
REAL-EsTATE and loan agent of Clinton,
No. named Silas E. Cheek is a defaulter
for about 100000, and has issued forged
mortgages. He is in Canada.
WHTLE defending his mother at Louis
vile, KY, the other night Philip Ewald
shot his fether four times, inflicting mortal
wounds. A
$ THE explosion of five boilers in the Spring
Valley Waterworks at San Francisco re-
Gently destroyed that building, involving a
loss of $4,000. Two men were killed and
two others dangerously wounded
BURGLARS on the night of the oath en-
tered the residence of James Phillips, at
Austin, Tex, robbed the, house and muir
dered Mr.. Phillips and his wife, The resi-
dence of Mr.. Hamilton was also robbed and
his wife killed. There was no clue to the
guilty parties.
TwENTY-sIx applications for surgical aid
in dressing wounds inflicted by pistols on
Christmas Day were received by the hospi-
tai in New Orleans Four murders were also
reported
EVERY store at Artesia, Miss, was de-
stroyed by fire the other morning.
A VETERAN of the Dayton (O) Soldiers
Home, named John N. Baker, was MUIR
dered and robbed of two hundred dollars in
the streets of that city on the 27th
Ar Chicago the billiard contest between
Jacob Schaefer,. of New York, George F.
Slosson, of Chicago, and Maurice Vignaux,
of Paris, for the championship of the world,
ended on the Goth with. victory for
Schaefer.
THE death Of many cattle was caused by
q new and unknown disease near Findlay,
o., on the 9th.
The alleged marriage contract between
the late Senator Sharon and Miss Sarah A.
Hill has been declared void by the Circuit
Court of San Francisco, on the gr ound that
the signatures were forged.
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FEAST OF THE FLAMES.

A Christmas Tree Takes Fire at the Coun-
ty Hospital in Chicago--A Panic Ensues
Narrow Escape from Serious Injury of
All Present-Many Receive Slight Isurns.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-An accident that
stopped just short of being an appalling
catastrophe happened at the Cook County
Hospital yesterday afternoon. An especial
effort had been made to enter tain the pa
TENTS. A substantial Christmas dinner had
been served to them, and the festivities of
the day were to have been closed by
a distribution of gifts. A mammoth
Christmas tree had been set up i'll
the middle of the amphitheater The
distribution had hardly begun when sud.
denly the tinder-like tree burst out into
great coue-shaped fame A wild panic and
a frantic stampede at once ensued, amid
shreks and cries of "Firen Visitors,
cripples and patients rushed up the steep
steps of the amphitheater and in
the mad struggle for escape it is
miracle that no one was trampled upon.
The smoke, the cries, the flames and the
cracking tree combined to make scene of
mad tumult. As the tree burned the heat
rose, and those who had crowded into the
upper tiers of the ampilitheater were the
AA'SSo oO'OiOAf DSOASiOSs. IA pablChGiH w dlA
jumped from window upon roof be-
low and broke two of his fingers A
woman and child jumped from another
window to the ground.
Two of the women who jumped from a
window to the ground, a distance of about
twenty-five feet, injured their backs, al
though they fell OH mattresses. 1t is not
known yet whether their spines were af-
focted or not. Over ninety persons were
either scorched bruised or singed.
THREE CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH.
New York, Dec 26.-Fire started at an
early hour vest rday morning in two
story frame dwelling on One Hundred and
Sixty sixth Street. near Kingsbridge Road.
which was owned by Daniel Phelan and
occupied by Patrick Drscol and his
family. The occupants were in bed.
Patrick Driscoll found his way out
and gave All alarm. When the fire
men reached the scene the building was i'll
flames. Soon after the entire structure
was consumed. Mr.. DriscolI, his wife
Mary, and a son named Patrick were seri-
ously burned while escaping. Three, chill
dren John, Julius and Mary, aged re-
spectively seventeen fourteen and seven
yearS-Were burned TO death.
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AN AWFUL FATE.


Barbaric fortunes Perpetrated by an Ala
bama Mob Upon the Colored Murderer
of Young White Woman-After Con-
Tossing His Crime the Miserable Wretch
Is Tied to Stake and Slowly Roasted
to Death.
MOBILE, Ala, Dec. 29.--Alex Reed, who
murdered Miss Carrie Boyer at Jamestown,
Clark County, was captured Friday night
near Caffelyille, on Rode's plantation, by
two negro men. Whites and blacks Joined
in the search. The blocks were as eager
as the whites to catch the MUIR
derer. A guard took him to Gains
town in chains. People along the road
demanded that Reed be lynched, but
the guard replied that he must be taken to
the scene of the crime. The guard, then
numbering two hundred men, reached
Gainestown with the prisoner at eight
O'Clock Sunday morning. The negro main
tanned sullen silence until Sunday when
he confessed his guilt. Then he said that
ne had not intended to kill the young lady,
but that his rifle went off accidently and
wounded her. Seeing that he was in for it
anyhow, he beat out her brains with the
gunstock.
Y.
Reed assaulted the young lady while she
was walking home after having visited a
friend near Jamestown. He concealed
himself with his gun by the roadside and
sprang on her as she passed through
strip of woods. She resisted and was too
strong for him to carry out his purpose.
The brave girl fought him until he MUIR
dered her.
After the arrival of Reed and the guard at
Jamestown it was evident that but short
shrift would be allowed him. About two
O'Clock Sunday afternoon a crowd of five
hundred persons, white and black, took
the prisoner out on the road near the
spot where the murder had been COM
mltted and chained him to tree.
Blacks and whites piled light wood about
the miserable criminal and when the pile
was breast high one among them applied
the torch. AS the flames shot upward the
negro gave shrek OF agony. The crowd,
seeing the smoke and flames eveloping him.
did not wish him to die so easily They
scattered the brands, and the man
was seen writhing in agony Once
more a pile of light wood was
constructed and the flames sprang up
briskly. Before they became fatal, howev-
ever, they were again subdued and again
the doomed wretch was seen convulsed with
pain, The third time the pile was lighted
1T was allowed to do its work, and the body
OF Reed was completely reduced to ashes
The crowd then dispersed to their homes.
This is the second incident OF the kind in
the same place. About seven years ago
a negro preacher who murdered an old
lady and q little boy, and assaulted a
young girl, was in a similar manner tied to
the stake and roasted to death.
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TIE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
From WASHINGTON.

THE bill granting Mrs. U. s. Grant pen
sion of S., 900 per year was signed by the
President on the sd.
A DECISION has been rendered by Com
missioner Black that soldier of the late
war who deserted in the face of the enemy
and was dishouorably discharged, but aft
erward re7enlisted and was wounded in ac-
ton, is entitled to a pension for the wound
so received
The Treasury Department on the 24th
purchased 100000 ounces of silver for
coinage into standard dollars The silver
dollar was quoted at 791S cents.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1913 failures in the United
States, against 2l7 in the preceding seven
days. Total number during the year TO-
964, against II 1866 in 1884
FROM various places in the United States
thirteen suicides were reported on the Goth.
THE resignation Of John Bigelow, who
was recently appointed Assistant United
States Treasurer at New York and con-
firmed by the Senate, was received by the
President on the 18th
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR LAMAR on the
10Th asked Attorney-General Garland to
bring a test suit to determine the title to
about 200,000,000 acres of land grant rail-
road lands in Alabama.
THE exchanges at twenty. six leading
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
SS6S, 301, $50, against s1,O96, 914,659 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with tho corre-
ponding week of 1884, the increase amounts
to Az per cent.
THE relative strength of silver and anti
silver men in Congress was shown on the
10Th by a canvass by states to be 1917 against
and 1913 for the suspension of silver coinage.
The Western and Southern members are al
most unit against the suspension of the
coinage, while the Eastern and Middle
States favor suspension.
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AN IMPORTANT ISSUE.


Relative Strength of the Silver and Anti
silver Men in Congress-The West and
South Almost Unanimous Against, While
the Eastern and Middle States Favor
Suspension.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-What is the rela-
tive strength OF parties in the House on the
question OF silver coinageis aninquiry that
is frequently made, and one that can not
be answered accurately until some test is
made which viii cause Representatives to
record themselves in answer to the roll call.
The advocates of silver are confident that
they have decided majority, and all the
surface indications seem to justify this con-
fdence. A number of members advocate q
continuance of silver coinage because
silver bullion is produced in their To-
caiities, and there are others who are
influenced in the same direction because
their constituents receive commercial adj
vantages from the silyer-Inining industry.
These members are necessarily and irrcvoca-
blycommitted to thccontinuance ofcoinage,
and arenot likely to change their opinions or
votes from any considerations of public
policy or to be influenced by arguments
that may be advanced by their opponents.
There is another and perhaps larger class
who advocate continuance of coinage, be-
cause they believe in the double standard,
and who are sincere in their belief that
the best interests of the country require
that the Coinage act OF 1878 should
be maintained The latter class
is made up of Representatives
from the South and the Mississippi Valley,
which includes all the States between Penn
sylvania and the Missouri River, with the
addition of Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota,
Kansas and Nebraska. 1t is upon the Rep
resentatives from the South and West,
therefore, that the suspension or continue
ance of silver coinage will depend,
and it is to these gentlemen that
the advocates of suspension look
for recruits when the contest begins in the
House. How far they will be influenced by
the arguments that viii be advanced
whether they will continue in the ranks
with the men from the Rocky Mountain and
Pacific Slope States or be drawn over to
the sides of the Eastern and Middle States
remains to be seen.
For the purpose of determining how the
House now stands on this question the
National Republican has made canvass,
and this canvass shows that 1913 members
favor the suspension OF silver coinage, and
1877 oppose it. OF the 1913 who favor sus-
pension thirty-elght are Democrats and
ninety Republicans. OF the 1877 who favor
continuing the silver coinage LA are DEM
ocrats and fifty three are Republicans.
The annexed table shows the vote by
States for and against suspension as indi-
Gated by the Republicans canvass:
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LATER.

ADvIcEs received at st. John, N B., on
the 2Sth say that many vessels were
wrecked in the recent storm on the Atlantic
and numerous lives were lost.
ALEX. REED, who recently murdered Mis-
Carrie Boyer at Gainestown, Ala, was
captured on the 28th by party of men an6
burned at the stake.
FOURTEEN HUNDRED poor children in
Washington were fed on Christmas day by
the Children's Christmas club
Ten persons lost their lives on the 2Sth in
the harbor of Rouen, France, by collision
between steamer and ferry-boat.
In joint convention of the two houses OF
the French National Assembly on the 2Sth
Ms Grevy was reelected President of the
Republic Of France by 135 majority.
THE issue of standard dollars for the week
ended on the Goth amounted to 743.94O,
against BIG, 497 for the corresponding period
in 1884
THE Buckeye glass works at Martins Fer
ry, O., which had been idle six months,
started up on the 2Sth, giving employment
to three thousand persons.
THE house of Emanuel Dill, near Moherly,
Mo-, was burned few nights ago, and his
twR little daughters persisted in the flames.
His son. aged twenty, was also fatally
burned.
TYPHOID fever was prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in the Albany IN. " Peniten-
tiary on the sSfh Ten deaths had occurred.
A ToRoNTo paper says the wrecking laws
of the United States and Canada are dis
graceful enactments, and that the statute
of the Dominion is both unwise and in
human. sissy
IT was reported on the 2Sth that Russia
and Austria were secretly arming. and that
both these countries had sent orders to En-
gland for large quantities Of stores for
their respective armies.
RICHARD 0. REINUARD, aged seventeen.
cadet at the Oxford (Md) Military Acad
envy, was accidentally shot and killed bv a
fellow cadet the other morning. Deceased
was son of Judge Reinhard, of Indiana.
/ HOMER WILLARD, prominent farmer liv-
ing near Lamar, Mo-, was j, ked to death
by his horse few days ago.
ALBERT PAINTER, proprietor Of the Wind
sor Hotel at Toledo, o., was shot and killed
on the 18th by II. A. Miller, his bartender
in dispute over wages
A CAR of the National Fish Commission
left Washington on the 18th with carp to
stock the rivers of Illinois
& COMMISSIONERS SPARKS on the 2Sth issued
regulations modifying his recent radical
orders assto claims for public lands.
a CIRCULAR was recently sent to all the
Liberal members of the new. British Parlia-
ment asking them to state their opinion on
the Irish home-rule question. The majority
Of those who express a definite opinion are
opposed to giving to an Irish Parliament
the control of the tariff and of the rnIira
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PARNeLL CAN'T COME.

The National Convention of Irish-Amerl.
cans, to BE Held in Chicago, Postponed
on Account of the Inability of the Irish
Leader to BE Present.
LINCOLN, Neb.. Dec. 24-Mr. Patrick
Egan, President of the Irish National
League of America, has received cable
gram from Hon. I. NJ. Harrington, NJ. p.
Secretary of the National League in Ireland
in which he says that NIr. ParneIl will moi
be able to attend the League Convention tt
be held in Chicago in January next, and
that he is inclined to think it best tC
postpone the convention until after tllt
meeting of Parliament in February. The
convention is therefore postponed to date
to be determined upon hereafter by the
Executive Committee of the American
League and Mr.. ParnelL Mr.. Egan will
call the National Committee of the Ameri
can League together some day in January,
by which time there may be infOrmatiOr
from ireland enabling definite date Va n
fixed for the convention
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THE FATHERLAND.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Mr. Frederick
Raine, the American COnsul-General at
Berlin, in his annual report, says that the
population of the area now compris ed in
the German Empire, which was 24,831 900
in 1916, had increased to AZ, 234, 900 In 1880,
and at the present rate of increase
it doubles once in forty-seven years.
This is in excess of the growth of pOpula-
ton in any of the neighb Oring Powers.
Great Britain, Mr.. Raine says, doubles her
population in tifty-0ne years; the Neither
lands in tfty-two years; Denmark in fifty
four years; Austria in sixty and one-half
years, and Belgium in sixty
one years; While France re-
quires two hundred years. The immigration
from the empire shows steady and marked
decrease since 1881, from which fact Mr..
Raine argues that either the economical
condition of Germany has improved; the
attractive force of America has decreased,
or Bismarck's colonial policy is proving sue
ceSsfnl. This policy is meeting with uni
versal approval throughout the empire.
Mr.. Raine describes another colonial en-
terprise of a novel character which is now
in successful oper, ton. Three or four years
ago., he says, several hundred thousand
tramps infested Germany and drew from
the people many millions annually be-
slowed on charity. 4 clergyman first
suggested the plan of colonizing these
people, and with the aid of men of wealth,
secured tracts of waste or partly cultivated
land in Westphalia, where he organized "a
workmen's colony" Local committees
were everywhere formed to counsel the
Withholding of aims and the bestowal of
an equivalent sum to the new colonial ell
terprise. The plan worked well, and tramps
were compelled to emigrate to the col
ony in large numbers There they were
washed, provided with clothing and fur
nished with employment as farm laborers.
Gradually, in the progress of colonization,
they found work at their respective trades,
and many of them became useful members
OF society.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Interesting Census statistles.

The compilation of the following agri-
cultural statistics for the fiscal year 1856, 20
be incorporated in the State census report
to be issued soon, was completed few days
ago by the Secretary of State. Number of
acres of farm land in the State, 1855, 247,
value of land, S393, $50, 1850; number of
farm laborerS employed, 6O,2S5; wages paid
them, SS5I9, $40. Horses and mules on
hand June 80, 30s. 1872; their value, s3l ,04o,
56S. Pounds of cheese made, 80, AIS, 800;
value of cheese, S2,9S4,S1S Pounds of
butter made, Sc, 24004S; value of butter,
$3.50, 1926. Bushels of wheat raised, 81 ,033,
OOS; value of wheat, S13, ,O46. Bushels of
corn, S7,71S, 394; value of corn, So, sc, 56l.
Bushels of oats, 3,047.410; value of oats, Sl1,-
00S,507. Hogs on hand June 80, 1,196, 200;
value thereof, S4,472,e5S Hogs slaughtered
and sold, h047, 1855; value thereof, Sl0,32S,-
no Cattle and calves on hand June 80,
1,54S, S99; value thereof, $2S,062,5 Cattle
slaughtered and sold, 22l ,377; value thereof,
1881, 1856 Sheep on hand June 30, l,429, 1877;
value thereof, 80, 353, OILS. Sheep slaughtered
and sold, 296S02; value thereof $79S,01S.
Value of agricultural implements, 15,0O0,-
100
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WEST AND SOUTH.

AFTER sixty-two years of continuous pub
ieation the Richmond (Va) Why sus-
pended on the 22d.
In n collision of trains on the 22d near
Asheville, N. c., caused by a conductors
watch being one hour slow three men were
killed.
THE hanging of Senator Payne in eff
gy took place at Canton, o., the other night
by the Young Democracy because of his ac-
ton regarding the appointment of a post
master
AN arbitrator in the person OF Senator
Thurman was on the 22d chosen to settle
the differences between the Ohio miners
and operators.
The Grand Hotel, an undertaking and
fulIittire establishment and a livery stable,
with q number of horses were DESTROYED by
fire at Vineennes, Ind, on the Esd.
HoGANsvILLE, a small village in Georgia,
was nearly wiped cut by fire on the 23d.
BECAUSE of the inability Of Mr.. Parnell to
attend the Irish National League sConven-
ton announced to be held in Chicago in
January, the conventional as been post
poned fsF 81
AT Society Hill, S. c., j. NJ Waddeli's
gin-mill was burned on the. Esd, three col
ored boys perishing in the flames
UPON going to the store on the ed Mrs.
Fred. Kopps of Vaudeville, w. Va, locked
her girl, four years, and babe, eighteen
months old, up in the house alone The
house caught fire during her absence, and
the children. were burned to death.
Ar Cleveland the family Give in numberl
of George Y. Karell, carriage manufact-
urer, developed trichiniasis on the 2Sd from
eating raw ham, the lives of all being de-
SPARED Of
AMONG the charitable institutions of San
Francisco, James c. Flood distributed
5000 on the 2sd as Christmas present.
THE Iron and Steel Works at Coshockton,
o., closed down on the 23d, throwing over
one thousand men out of work.
EARLY DAWN, the famous mare, with q
record of 2:211 4, and valued at $50, 900, died
on the 2Sd at Lexington, KY, from poison
given by unknown persons. A
AT Wellsville, o., dozen or more
drunken persons engaged in a street riot
on the 25th. Three men were fatally
stabbed, spectators wounded and stones
and beer-kegs hurled through windows.
AT Springer, n. NJ, the other night six
men broke into the jail and took out Theo-
dore Baker, whom they hanged to tele-
graph pole. A body of citizens drove off
the lynchers and cut Baker down-just
in time to save bis life
WHILE encamped near the railroad track
between Clifton and harrisburg, N. NJ, a
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THREE BRUTAL MURDERS.
Two Women and Man Butchered by
Robbers in Texas


Two Women and Man Butchered by
Robbers in Texas.
AUSTIN, Tex, Dec. a6--Shortly before
twelve O'Clock Thursday night City Mar
shall Lucy was notified that the house of
Mr. Hamilton, in the southeastern part of
the city, had been robbed and Mrs.
Hamilton murdered. The Marsha
found the woman dying of two ter
ribe gashes in the head, made by an axe.
While he was looking about the premises
he was notified that the residence of James
Phillips, a wealthy architect and builder,
had been entered aud butchery commit
ted.
James Phillips, Jr., and his wife
live with the elder Phillips. AT
midnight young Phillips was awakened
by his fathers voice calling fol-
help He responded at once, and
found his father dying of CHASTITY axe
wounds on the head, the bloody axe
lying on the pillow beside him,
while little child sleeping in the
same bed was unframed, but spashed
with blood and brains. Mrs. Phillips
was found murdered in the rear yard. The
body was nude and still warm. 1t is
thought that airs. Phillips was awakened
by the assault on her husband and was
stifled by the assassias. and that she was
still alive when dragged into the yard. The
police are dazed and have not the slightest
ciew to the guilty parties.
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New YORK, Dec. 25.-ReY. Dr.. Howard
Crosby is credited with having stirred up
gigantic and bitter fight between the
whisky men on one side and the beer men
on the other throughout tile State, the first
organized signs of which are expected to
appear early next week. The Crosby
plan is a high license. 81, 900 per
year for whisky and kindred liquors
and $3.50 year for beers and ales. The
brewers have taken measures to force this
scheme at the coming session of the Legis-
lature, and will present law for passage
modelled after the Harper bill in Illinois.
thus seeking to exterminate vast number
of the whisky saloons in this city.