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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17
The NEWS
Compiled from Late Dispatches,
xLIxth CONGRESS.
Second Session.


THURSDAY, Dec 8. - In the Senate a
bill was introduced for the redemption of
trade dollars and the recoinage of the same
into standard silver dollars. A long tariff
debate ensued, in which Senators Morrill,
Beck and Sherman participated. Ad-
journed to the 18th. In the House the
Electoral-Count bill and the bill extending
the post-office free-delivery system were
passed. A conference was ordered on the
bill to restrict the ownership of real estate
in the Territories to American citizens. The
bill to create Department of Agriculture
and Labor was discussed in committee of
the whole. The Sundry-Civil bill, which
appropriates sl9, 1874, liz, was reported.
FRIDAY, Dec. 10.-The Senate was not in
session. In the House Mr. Campbell m.
W announced the death of Congressman
Dowdney, resolutions Of regret were adopt
ed, and the House adjourned out of respect
to his memory
SATURDAY, Dec. 1.-THE Senate was not
in session. In the House bills were passed
FORGETTING the unearned land grant of
the Ontonagon & Brule River Railroad
Company of Northern Michigan, involving
3S4,600 acres of land, and extending the
laws Of the United States over the public
land strip south of Kansas and throwing
the region open to homestead entries.
MONDAY, Dec 10. In the Senate bills
were introduced to provide for the circula-
ton of National banks, and to authorize
the Secretary of the Interior to certify
lands for agricultural purposes in Kan
sas. The tariff question was discussed. In
the House bills were introduced for the
free coinage of silver, for the leasing of I'M
occupied Indian lands, to enable the people
to name their own postmasters, to admit to
the Union the Territories of Dakota Mon
tana, Washington and New Mexico, to pro-
hibit the appointment of Congressional
committees for funerals, to pension railway
postal clerks incapacitated in the service,
and to grant the franking privilege to in
mates of Soldiers homes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

temporarily insane. He was prominent
politician. the wealthiest man in the city,
and fifty three years of age.
On the 18th Mrs. Mcclure and her son
and daughter-Robert, eyed nineteen, and
Margaret, aged twenty-two-of Maple
wood, a Chicago suburb, we're suffoca' ed
by coalgas escaping from parlor stove.
THE Southern cotton crop this year is
estimated at g. 55,oO9 bales, which is about
200,0 900 bales less than last years crop.
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed the bard
ware store Of the A. f. Shepley & Can't
well Company, at st. Louis, with the adj
joining buildings. Two clerks and a porter
lost their lives by collapse of the floors.
The pecuniary loss was 100000.
In the railroad yards at Palestine. Tex,
five strikers who tried to induce their fell
low workmen to quit work, were driven
from town on the 18th by the city authori-
ties
IN Central Illinois the most extensive and
serious water-famine known for many
years was prevailing on the 18th. Farmers
were driving their cattle long distances and
were hauling water.
THREE robbers boarded passenger train
at BelleviIle, Tex, on the 18th, and robbed
the passengers of eight watches and s104
in money.
THE official canvass completed on the 18th
of the vote of the recent election in Iowa
shows the entire Republican State ticket
elected by the following majorities: jack
son, Secretary of State, 14,712; Lyons,
Auditor, 1851; Twombly, Treasurer, 49,
7S0; Baker, Attorney General, 1862; Pray,
Clerk of Supreme Court, 1882; Ebersole,
Reporter of Supreme Court, 1901.
THE death of Charles NJ Croswell, who
was twice Governor Of Michigan Tin 1876
| and 1879, occurred on the 18th at Adrian,
at the age OF sixty-one years. He leaves a
widow, son and two daughters.
On the 18th Miss Lettie Postle, living in
destitute circumstances at Detroit, re-
ceived notification from England that her
uncle, who died recently in Australia, left
her 100000
In the Eighth Wisconsin district special
election will be held January is to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Congress-
man W. T. Price.
THE Cincinnati evangelical ministers
passed resolutions ON the 18th that ballet
exhibitions tended toward irreligion and
| immortality, and should not be countenanced
| by Christian people.
THE Y. M. G. A. will hold their twenty
seventh international convention in San
Francisco early in May 1887.
THE ministers of all evangelical denomi-
nations in Chicago have decided to make
the third Sabbath in January day of
special temperance work.
On the 18th Judge Ayers of Indianapolis,
refused an injunction in the case affecting
the legality of the election of Lieutenant
Governor, and the Democrats would at once
take the matter to the State Supreme
Court for final settlement.
IT was decided by the Detroit Brick
makers Exchange on the 18th to boycott
contractors who deal with outside manu-
fact1Jrarl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17
LATER.

THE steamer j. M. White, the finest boat
on the Mississippi river, was burned at the
bank near Point Coupe, La, on the evening
of the 18th. 1t was believed that nearly
fifty lives were lost. The steamer cost
S225, 900, and had a cargo valued at $3.50, COO.
JOHN DILLON was on the 14th ordered by
Dublin court to give bonds for future
good behavior or go to Jail for six months.
AT the municipal election in Boston on
the 18th Mayor O'Brien (Dem.) was re-
elected by ,1O4 majority. The license vote
was: Yes, q, 223; no, 1875; majority
for license of s, 437, against 1889 last year.
ELEVEN HUNDRED coopers in Cincinnati
quit work on the 18th because their scale of
prices was not signed by the proprietors
ADvIcEs of the 18th from Washic gton
say that the diplomatic and consular appro-
priation estimates as completed cali for
| $l,671, 905. The total appropriation for the
current year was 81, 356,065.
THE people of Worcester Mass, on the
18th voted in favor of liquor licenses, and
elected Samuel Winslow (Rep) mayor.
Women worked all day at each poll for tho
temperance cause.
IN Cleveland, o., on the 18th August
Debcl5e fatally beat his estranged wife
with hammer and then killed himself
with a razor.
The Canadian Minister of Fisheries on
the 14th ridiculed the claims of Americans
in the fisheries question, and was especial
ly severe on the views of Secretary Bayard.
THE county courthouse at Poplar Bluff,
Mo-, was destroyed by fire on the 14th
The records and valuable papers wero
| saved.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 14th Robert
Bousenish, a Hungarian, shot his son dead
because the latter failed in his suit for the
hand of wealthy young lady.
SECRETARY MANNING on the 18th report
| ed to the Senate in answer to resolution
calling for information in regard to the
Oleomargarine law, that since November l
| thirty-four manufacturers of oleomargarine
and 204 wholesale and 2,415 retail dealers in
the same have been taxed.
THE cholera epidemic in Buenos Ayres
was on the decline on the 14th. Ten new
cases of the disease and thirteen deaths
| were reported from Vile Maria
A FURIOUS snow-storm, with high wind,
ragged in Chicago and throughout the lake
| region on the 14th.
FERGUs FALLS has been selected as the
location of the third Minnesota insane
asylum.
IN the United States Senate on the 14th
the bill for the retirement and recoinage
Of the trade dollar was reported favorably.
Bills were introduced for the amendment
Of the OleoRargarine law, and to increase
the pensionSof those who have suffered
disabilities equivalent to the loss of foot
or hand. The House amendments to the
Electoral-Count bill were non-concurred in
and conference was ordered. There was
an extended debate on the Tenure-of- Office
law. In the House the time was occupied
principally in discussing the Sundry- Civil
Appropriation bill, but no action was taken.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17
FIERCE BLAZE IN BUFFALO.
Several Large Business Places Burning
Loss Estimated at 100000.

Several Large Business Places Burning
Loss Estimated at 100000.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec 8, $3.50 a. NAT
2:3O O'Clock this morning fire started in the
large confectionery establishment of Sibley
& HOLLYWOOD, at the corner of Wells and
Seneca streets. The fire quickly spread
to adjacent buildings, and the Brozel
House, Campbell & Reynolds boot and
shoe store and the Michigan stove works,
Swift & Stambachs proprietors, were soon
burning tiercely. A high wind prevails,
and burning sparks are flying for several
blocks. There was great excitement at the
Brozel House, the guests leaving in their
night-clothes. Several small stores on the
opposite side of the street from which the
fire started are burning. The walls of
Sibley & Holmwood's fell at 3:05. 1t is re-
ported several frernen are buried under
them. The Brozel House will be total
loss. All the guests escaped. The fire has
reached Shermans, JeWett & Co.'s largo
stove warehouse. The loss is now estimated
at S50O,0O0
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

THf palmistry craze is making trou-
bic IN New York. At a seance given
recently by tyro in the art, young
lady was told that her "life line' was
broken at very critical point, and
that it was certain she would not live
three months, The result is that the
young lady has taken to her bed ill
with worriment CredulouS and sus-
ceptible young girls had better let
palmistry alone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

The oppressor's wrong, the proud
mans contumely and the pangs of de-
spised love are among the reasons al
legged by Hamlet as justifying man in
committing suicide. The pangs of
hunger and the dread of penal servi.
tude are in modern times even moro
frequent motives. 1t was left for a
Manchester lEng.) man TO invent a
new reason and to take strychnine be-
cause his wife had never given him
any thing on his birthday! Had it
only been penny cigar" he wrote.
pathetically, Il would have priced it. =
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

THERE is in Louisiana statute for
bidding the manufacture or sale of
adulterated molasses, and the Sugar
planters Association of that State has
taken steps to procure its vigorous en-
forcement so that the mixing process
shall not be carried on in the State. If
the practice is continued elsewhere, an
effort viii probably be made to get "a
Nat onal law enacted which will either
prohibit the mixing or else put tax on
glucose or on the sophisticated arti-
Gle, as was done with oleomarga-
rine
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

THE delegates sent by the States and
Territories to devise plans for an APP
propriate celebration of the centennial
of the PRONUNCIATION of the federation
constitution, which will take place in
September next, met at Philadelphia
recently. John A. Kasson, of Iowa,
was chosen chairman. The following
plan was agreed upon; An Grafton and
poem commemorative of the signing
of the constitution; military display;
an industrial procession, and mem
Orial commemorative of the constitu-
ton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

THE report OF the Commissioner of
Patents upon the business of the
Patent Office for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1886, shows: Applications
Tor patents received, ETC., 40,678;
patents granted, including reissues and
designs, etc, 25,619 The receipts of
the Office for the year ended June 80,
1886, were 81, 2O5, 1890.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

In Campbell County, D. T., at the
recent election, some of the voters did
mot like either of the candidates for
district attorney, and as prominent
citizen possessed a very intelligent
pointer dog, they voted for the dog.
That popular animal only lacked three
votes of being elected.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17
DEADLY COAL GAS.
A Family of Three in Chicago Suburb
Asphyxiated.

CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-Mrs. Mcclure, her
daughter and son, living at the corner Of
Myrtle and Fullerton avenues, Maplewood,
were asphyxiated by coal gas Saturday
night. A neighbor found the three dead in
their home yesterday noon. Mrs. Mcclure
appeared to have fallen senseless while
trying to get out to the open air Her
daughter was lying lifeless across chair a
few feet from her bed. The son was on his
knees before the door, with his hand
raised, and evidently had become uncOn-
scious while searching for the knob Of the
door, hich, opened, would have given
them fresh air. The mother and daughter
had retired early, it is supposed, leaving
the son to look after the stoves. The cover
of one Of them was found to be off, when
the room was searched yesterday, and it is
thought that the young man after putting
in the coal had forgotten to replace the lid.
The gas mad thus escaped, and all the doors
and windows being tightly closed had
quickly filed the rooms.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

REV HOWARD CROSBY presided at a
meeting in New York the other night
which had for its object the establish
ment of cof'ee-houses, modelled after
the London plan, as counter attrac-
ton to the saloon. Figures were pre-
scented showing the financial success of
similar projects, and the enterprise
will soon be inaugurated.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

The board gives the following reasons for
the non-acceptance by the United States of the
eession of the canal under the conditions of the
existing act: % The canal should not be en-
larged upon the whole of the present line. It
would be judicious TO abandon the greater por-
ton of it. 20 The act does not provide for the
cession of that portion CT the Illinois river i'm
provement now owned by the State, and which
forms an essential part OF the through line. 81
The act is not sufficiently definite as to the OBJ
legations which the United States would assume
in accepting the transfer of the canal.
AT the same time the board is Of the opinion
that the water route of which the canal forms a
part should be constructed by the general Gov
eminent, and that acceptance should promptly
follow proposition to transfer it, under condi-
tions so modified as to remove the objections
stated. Should the cession be accepted, under
its present conditions, the work of charging the
canal to the dimensions OF the Hennepin canal
would be about s., 100000, with an annual cost
of maintenance and ordinary repairs of about
$1,000
The waterway known as the Illinois and
Michigan canal extends IRON the south branch
Of the Chicago river at Bridgeport across the
Mud Lake divide and down the valleys of the
Desplaines and the Illinois rivers to the level
of the Henry pool at LaSalle. ninety-seven
miles from Chicago and 1888 feet below the
level of Lake Michigan. This canal is six feet
deep, sixty feet wide at the water-surface, with
locks eighteen feet by 40 feet.
The Hennepin canal as projected begins in
the Henry pool, twelve miles west of La Sale
rising POS feet to the summit in eighteen miles;
at the twenty-sixth mile navigable feeder
thirty-seYen miles long reaches to the
Rock river at Dixon. From the feeder
junction the Marais dOsier line extends
northwest to the Mississippi above the Rock
Island rapids, near Albany. Tho descent
from the summit is seventy five feet
and the distance sixty-four miles
from the Illinois. The Rock Island leaves the
main line near Green river crossing, leading
west to Rock river. which is followed by slack
water to near the mouth. The descent is 101 feet
and the distance seventy seven miles from the
Illinois. This line, from the point Of divergence
from the main line, is shown'as a separate pro-
file beneath the other
The canal is to be feet deep and 50 feet
wide, with locks 80 feet by 10 feet. 1t is pro-
posed to accept the Illinois & Michigan canal
from the State of Illinois with view ultimate
~ to enlargement to same dimensions. The
following gives the principal elements of the
route from the lakes TO the Mississippi via the
Marais dOsier route: Length, 173 miles; lock-
age, 423 feet; cost FEEDER 1884, 1880; cost main
line, 81, 147, $50; Illinois & Michigan canal en-
largement, S2,29S 9l9.15. The Rock Island line
is ten miles longer, with twenty-six feet greater
lockage
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, of the United
States Supreme Court, reached his
seventeen birthday recently and is
now eligible for retirement upon a
pension of &c. year. He is still
vigorous, however, with no apparent
intention of retiring, and aspirants to
his toga may have many years to wait.
Justices Field, Miller and Bradley are
also eligible to retirement upon full
pay, but none has expressed a desire
TO leave the bench.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17
HIS LAST SLEEP.
A Buffalo Man While Lying at Rest IL
Bed Is Killed by His Wife.


Bed Is Killed by His Wife.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec S.-A deliberate
and cold-blooded murder was committed
in this city at an early hour yesterday
morning. At about eight o'clock boy
rushed into the police station and
stated that man had been shot by his
wife in the rooms occupied by Emil
Penseyres and his wife in the Miller
Block. Officers Immediately proceeded to
the place. They were met by the woman,
who appeared to be in high state of ex-
citement. She said her husband was in a
bedroom. A cloth had been nailed over the
window. In the bed lay the body of Emil
Penseyres. A bullet had penetrated his
heart The shooting occurred at about a.
M, according to the best reports, and the
man was evidently lying asleep in bed
when the murderess fired the fatal shot.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17
The Question of Statehood.

MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Dec. 8.-A special
to the Evening Journal from Watertown,
D. T., gives an interview with Governor
Mellette, of South Dakota, as to the meet
ing of the State Legislature at Huron, De-
cember Is. He says the Legislature will
strive to secure statehood by all honorable
means. 1t will submit the amendment to
the people repeating the law which pre-
vents the State officers from exercising
official functions, after which they will
give notice that the Territorial Govern
ment will cease and the State Governments
begin,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

COUNT DE LEssEPs thinks that man
ought to live hundred years. There
are a good many other things that he
ought to have and do, but somehow
they fail to materialize.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

THE wife of General Hazen will spend
the winter abroad-probably in Italy.
When he has to get up this winter and
make the fires he will appreciate why
he and his billiards. are unpopular.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

THE Postmaster-Gene statement
OF the first years use of the Specialize
livery system shows profit to the de-
partment of $2709158, or two cents
apiece on 1854, 897 letters, which is
sufficiently encouraging, it appears, to
warrant the continuance of the service.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

THE year 1886 seems destined to 90
into history as the great strike year.
The Commissioner of Labor Statistics
for New York reports that up to the
present time he has received informa-
ton of 1000 strikes in that State. His
last annual report made mention of
but 222, although there were some not
reported. The record of other States
would probably show a similar remark
able increase in the number of strikes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

THE new two dollar silver certificates
are all ready for distribution. They are
just twice as attractive as the one-dol-
lar certificates, in the opinion of thrifty
critics.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

DURING the present year there have
been seven embezzlements in Boston,
which aggregated 81, 233, 400. That of
William Gray, Jr., reached the sum of
$500 900.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

LAW officers of the crown at Dublin
have rendered an opinion that indict-
yments can rest against all persons con-
iSpiring to defraud landlords of rent
,Huo
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont,
seyenty-six years old, is the oldest man
in the Senate. Payne, of Ohio, is
seven months younger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

The last session of Congress was
nine months long. The present one
will be only three months.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

LIEUTENANT GREELY has been made
an assistant to General Hazen, who is
in ill-health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17

Mgr Capel proposes to bring suits for
damages against the San Francisco Aygoaaut
and certain Eastern papers for the ISLANDERS
circulated with regard to him
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-17
TIE FINANCES.

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-The annual report OF
Hon. Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treas
ury, is heavy document of nearly twenty four
thousand words. The main features OF the re-
port are as follows.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-18
LORILLARD'S PROPOSED LEG
ACY TAX.

few wealthy men appear to have
reached the conclusion that individual
accumulation of great fortunes, to be in :
creased by each successive generation
and handed down from father to son, is
matter Of public concern and appre-
hension, not to say calamity. Mr..
Pierre Lorlllard, the wealthy tobacconlst
of New York, has theory on this subject
and has suggested a remedy. which is
Attracting considerable c0aments chiefly
because " is rich mans theory. Mr..
Lorillard's remedy is "legacY tax"
contemplating the imposition OF tax OF
10 per cent. per annum on all legacies in
excess Of 100000. This plan, he says,
would render impossible the building up
of large fortunes like those enjoyed by
the Astors, Vanderbilts, and few other
families in this country. The PROPOSE
ton Is too outrageous for consideration,
and fortunately there is no need to worry
about how accumulated wealth shall be
scattered and got rid Of. We have no
law OF primogeniture and entail in the
United States, and are not likely to have
Until we do have such q system the
people VINO inherit money may be de-
pended on TO scatter it. With the Am.
erlcan mania for change and speculation,
money is constantly changing hands OF
going into new channels OF investment II
is about three generations from
shirt sleeves TO shirt sleeves in this coun.
try, and the grand. children of the million.
aire of to-day may be hewers Of wood and
drawers Of water flfty years from now.
Here and there thrifty, saving characters.
tics may display themselves through sew
eral generations Of a particular family, and
so there viii always be few very rich
families, as there have been In every age of
the world, even when man was gong
through the primitive, pastoral ages. But
the children Of the rich will distribute the
wealth without laws to force them to do
so, An income tax on large fortunes OF
reasonable nature, would be Just, but II
would not be just to tax the large fortunes
out of existence, even were such policy
necessary, and 1t is not. The Lorillards
OF ntty years hence are liable to be as
poor as anybody in the land. The rich
men Of to-day were, as rule, the sons OF
poor men. The rich men, of the next cen.
fury will not be the sons Of rich men.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-18

IN the instruction to correspondents
the Kllleen Banner Is so exceedingly sc-
commodsting that the marvel Is one small
paper can carry all the news. Nothing
can be more liberal than this: "In writ
ing to the Banner you needn't waste pa
per trying to comply with the rule about
writing only on one side. That rule was
intended for big dallies, where copy has
to be divided among several printers.
The Banner has only one printer so you
can write or allsldes and then cross-plow
II II you wish"