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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The late John Landon Sibley, IL
brarian of Harvard, courted his sweet
heart twenty years before he married
her.
-For thirteen years the names of the
Fort Wayne postmasters have begun
Win n--Kamm, Keil and Kaough.-
Indianapolis Journal.
The ex-King Regent of Portugal
left his German-American widow-a
Boston-born woman, by the way-a
fortune of 100000.
DIR. Schliemann, the famous eN-
plorer of ancient Troy, who resides in
the city of Athens, has two children,
and their names are Andromache and
Agamemnon.
M. Louis Pasteur, the discoverer of
the remedy against rabies, is not a ply
stefan, but chemist. He is native of
Dole, in the Department of Jura,
France, and is in his sixtieth year.
The Misses Drexel-three OF them
Inherited twelve million dollars from
their. father, the Philadelphia banker.
They pay rent for and largely contrib
ute to the support of three hundred and
twenty families. This does not COM
pass the full measure of their benefac-
tions.-Phitadelphia Press.
Mrs. John Sherwood, Mrs. Burton
Harrison, Mrs. James B. Potter. Mr..
Paul Dana, Mr.. Poultney Bigelow, Hon.
w. W. Astor and Mr.. CORTLAND Palmer
are, according to New York CORE.
spondent of provincial paper, 1.-THE.
leading literary lights of New York
fashionable society"
In all the gossip about the Wander
bits high praise is accorded the oldest
son, Cornelius. He is said to be a
scholarly, serious-minded man, of cul-
tivated tastes and religious character,
who is seldom "before the public" but,
when he is mentioned, is invariably
spoken of respectfully.-M Y. Tribune
The late Mrs. Fillmore's library at
Buffalo has in it a scrap-book made by
Mrs. Fillmore with much painstaling.
The covers, of green Russian leather,
contain all the newspaper articles that
she could find to clip, telling of the
last illness and death of her husband,
the President of the United States. Mr..
Fillmore's right arm was palsied while
he held his razor in his hand in the act
of shaving. -Bm6ato Express.
Mr. Clemens MARK Twain), it
seems, is becoming offended because of
the vast number of congratulations
which shower upon him because he has
attained his fiftieth birthday. 81 do
not see what 1 have DONE" he says,
"to have SO many enemies. l have
never congratulated person on being
fifty years of age. 1t is true I have
shot atpeople in the dark when have
had something unusual against them,
but / have drawn the line there"
Peter Donahue, who died recently
in San Francisco, was worth $4,000
000 He begun life as blacksmith,
and was never ashamed of his humble
calling. When he came to build q
$25, 900 tomb or vault in Calvary Gene
terry. he placed upon the front huge
bronze medallion, representing in bas-
relief a tremendous arm. with heavy
hammer in the fist, and underneath it
the words: Labor Omnia Vincit,"
while over it was the single name,
"Donahue His daughter is the wife
of Baron Won Schroeder, of Germany,
and lives in Stuttgart Connecticut
Catholic.
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HUMOROUS.

"A fashion-paper says that women
are going to wear their hair the same
as they did three centuries ago. That
was, if we recollect, ON their heads
LOa0eH Citizen.
-Jack-"Grandm have you good
teeth?' Grandma-"No, dear; unfor-
tunately have not Jack-"Then
I'll give you my walnuts to keep till
come back. "-BoStOp Beacon.
=" Button parties" are becoming
popular in the West. We don't know
whence they derive their name, unless
it is because they're almost sure to
come off.-Shoe and Leather Reporter.
-Celluloid nest-eggs are replacing
the old-fashioned china articles. One
of these days some enterprising hen
will be Matching out lot of sweat
proof collars. Burlington Free Press.
Some one advertises in Philadcl-
phia paper for ga young man to play
piano-white or colored." We never
saw a white piano, but it seems there is
such breed in the market:@NoTYiS-
torn Herald.
The following is the copy of a bill
posted on the wall of q country village:
"a lecture on total abstinence will be
delivered in the open air, and collec-
ton will be made at the door to defray
expenses. IN. Y. Ledger.
-"Oh, motheri Mrs. October is go
ing to give party" "Wellr' "And
we are to all wear different kinds OF
roses and things" "Well!" "And j
b e1f1aa - tElNnllf71
'And you are to tell our dairyman to
bring some tomorrow" - Chicago
Ledger.
Mr.. Jobbleswizzle came in to sup
per, morose and sullen, and when Mrs.
j. twitted him ON some of his short
comings he snapped ont: eff there's
anything in this world do like to see
It's fool" "Ah love-" she answered
tenderly, "do you? Ny hand-glass is
right on my dressing-case and you
have my permission to use it just as
you wish. / do so love to have my
husband enjoy himself" - Merchant
Traveller
Mrs. Singsong, entertaining Baron
Won Stoopid, of Berlin, at dinner, re-
called him with funny story she had
read in the newspaper which, unfort-
unately, he had heard before at
somebody's else dinner. "Ah, ah!'' he
| laughed-tbinking to observe the fash
ionable club expression in this country
governing Joe Millers-''Ah, ali!
Meeses Singson, dot ish-yat you cali
him.? a doughnuds, aind idg'' The
titled foreigner meant chestnut. -
~ Y HAL.
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A Gallant Attorney-eeneraI.

The question whether woman is a
person has just come up in Minnesota,
this time in connection with cemeteries.
BY the statutes "any number of per-
sons not less than seven" may form a.
cemetery association. At meeting
lately held in Kasson, Mimi, to form
such an association, woman's name
was proposed as one of the Trustees.
A doubt was raised whether women
were legally persons and it was de-
cided to exclude women until the next
annual meeting, by which time legal
advice could be obtained. Mrs. II. III.
White, one Of the excluded, wrote to
the Attorney-General at ST. Paul. ask
ing his legal opinion as to whether she
was person. The Attorney General
promptly replied that che xas and that
the opposition could have NO ground 70
stand upon, "unless those who hold
that women are not persons should con-
tend that they were angels and hence
would meyer require burial. - WonlGs's
J0isrnn[.
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Unhappy Ireland.

LONDON, Jan. 16.-eThe Earl of Car
narvon, Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland, de-
clares that Parliament viii not help to re-
ieve the dreadful distress prevailing
among the inhabitants of Achill and
Eagle Island. Lord Carnarvon adds
that his sole reliance for aifordiDg
relief to the starving people is
the limited means at his disposal OF
sending the poor unfortunates to the work
house. He, however, hopes that private
contributions fer the relief of the sufferers
will enable the poor people to remain in
their homes instead OF being compelled to
seek shelter in the already much over
crowded warehouses.
LONDON, Jan. lean Irish High Sheriff
has written to the Times that pending the
discussion of politics by Parliament fam
inc is approaching ireland, and with it viii
come acts of lawlessness. Violent men, he
says, determined not to starve, viii seize
the necessaries OF life even t the risk OF do
ing bodily harm to others.
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'ol-r several persons also persisted by the

Col, several persons also persisted by the
storm.
AT Findlay, o., gas vein yielding two
million cubic feet per day was developed
on the 10Th.
REPORTS on the 10Th stated that Mr. Pat
tison, the late city treasurer of Indianauo
lis, was defaulter for S112,372
NEAR Leaky, Tex. gold mine Welding
from $50 to $500 per ton was discovered on
the 10Th and thirteen claims had been
staked off,
AcoLoRED woman named Marie Angus
tine died on the 10th at New Orleans, aged
one hundred and twenty five years.
AT Fort Keogh spirit thermometers on
the 10Th indicated temperature of forty
eight degrees below zero.
Ok the 18th the seven days type-setting
contest in Chicago for the championship
came to an end, Barnes, of New York, win
ming by score of 80, 2251l ems, McCann, the
former champion. setting 37,s0515 ems.
During the contest Mccain set 2,150 in one
hour and Barnes 1908 ems thus beating all
previous records for an hours work
THE sudden death of DR.. Thomas W.
Keene, member from Danville, occurred in
the Virginia House of Delegates on the
afternoon of the 18th. He was about sixty
five years of age.
THE noted evangelist, Dwight L. Moody,
commenced an eight days revival service
in Chicago on the 17th
A MOE on the 18th at Vincennes, Ind,
lynched Holly Epps (colored) who muir
dered his employer, Farmer Dobson, in
Greene County, recently.
EIGHT clubs will compose the National
Base Ball League next season, as follows:
st. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and Cincinnati,
in the West, and New York, Philadelphia,
Washington and Boston in the East
FRANCIS MURPHY, the great temperance
advocate, held two meetings at Youngs-
town, O., on the nth, and over one thousand
men signed the pledge.
The winter wheat plant in Illinois, Ohio,
Michigan, Kentucky Missouri, Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia was reported
on the 18th as well protected by snow, and
the recent blizzard had not, so far as
known, affected the crop.
THE home and six children of Emanuel
Johnson, residing in Columbia County,
Ark, we're burned the other night.
Ell PAso Tex merchants have presented
memorial to Congress complaining of
smuggling on the Mexican border.
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THE EAST.

In the New York Assembly on the 18th
the bill incorporating the Grant Monument
Association was passed, which empowers it
to hold 100000 worth of property free of
taxation.
THE four Newark IN. j. children who
were sent to Paris for treatment by NJ.
Pasteur for hydrophobia, reached home on
the 18th in safety and good health
JULIA A. Brown, a bark from Perth Am
boy, N. j., with a crew of ten men, was lost
on the 18th.
On the 18th the military guard at Cen
eral Grants tomb in New York was re-
moved. The city police will hereafter have
charge of Riverside Park and the tomb.
REPORTS to BrddStreet's on the 18th from
leading business places throughout the
country announced general trading as
quiet, but speedy Improvement was ex-
pected.
In New York City over nine hundred
cigar-makers were on strike on the 18th
for higher wages
JOHN CoNLoN'S residence at Wallingford,
Conn, was burned on the 10th, and Mrs.
Conlon persisted in the flames.
w. e. PLUMBER & Sons starch and barrel
factory at Buffalo, N. Y, was burned ON
the 10th, causing loss of $250,0OO. Six fire.
men were buried in the ruins, and were
probably fatally injured.
The boiler of the steam-tug Modoc ex-
ploded the other day at Pittsburgh, Pa,
killing three men.
AT Tarentum, Pa, five members of fam
lily had up to the 18th died of trichiniasis,
and three others were beyond recovery.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt at
Manchester, N. H., on the 18th.
TWENTY-FIVE hundred employees of the
Singer Sewing-Machine Company, at
Elizabeth N. j., resumed work on the 18th
after three weeks of enforced idleness.
THE death of Mrs. Anna Maria Greene,
daughter-in-law of General Nathaniel
Greene, of Revolutionary fame, occurred
at Middleton, R. l., on the 18th, at the age
of 102 years months and 9 DAYS.
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A HOOSIER MOB.
1t Deals out Summary Justice to Epps,
the ColOred Murderer of Farmer Dob
SOMA Lynching Zee at Vincennes, Ind.


1t Deals out Summary Justice to Epps.
the Colored Murderer of Farmer Dob
SOMA Lynching Bee at Vincennes, Ind.
VINcENNEs, Ind. Jan. 10, 800 a. M
Holly Epps, colored, who was brought
here on Friday to escape the justice melted
out by Judge Lynchs court in Greene
County, where he murdered his employer,
Farmer Dobson, and attempted to outs
rage the farmers wife, was taken from the
County Jail here this morning at 100
O'Clock and hanged in the yard of the Court
House. An attempt was made on Friday
night By the vigilantes OF Greene County
to gain admission to the Jail, which failed,
the jail door being strong enough to battle
the mob. AT one o'clock this morning the
watchful reporter. who had stationed him
sell in physicians Office opposite the jail,
heard 9 deep, full-toned call at the outer
door of the Sheriff's residence, which
is surrounded by a high iron fence
Apparently reply was made from
within. The deep voice then demanded
admission, and the tone was calculated to
stir weak nerves. The parley was Short
and in half a minute the leader commanded
Ready, boys, take carwithin, strike" and
the wooden door was shattered by one blow
from heavy sledge. The mob, which was
small in numbers, not over fifty men in ALL
left one man at the gate of the high iron
fence, and one at each side of the entrance
to the jail. The others with sledges and
cold chisels attacked the ponderous lock
upon the steel door. In fifteen minutes the
door gave way and two of the mob entered
the Jail and in moment led Epps out
through the corridor, the mob falling into
line behind. They took the poor wretch
mumbling prayers and trying to sing as he
went, into the courtyard. The rope, which
had been adjusted about his neck
was thrown over the lower limb OF
a shade tree. "Heave away said the
deep voice, and in ten minutes the life of the
brute was extinct
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Three important general orders were
issued recently by Adjutant-General Chap
man. The first reduces the maxiuam of
the Wisconsin National Guard, which until
now was 8, 757 men, to 2,430, reduction of
over one-third. The maximum of 101 for
companies is cut down to s..
The second order preScribes a uniform for
the guard. This is to be the same as that
prescribed for enlisted men of the same
grade, in the United States army, with the
exception that the button will be the Wis
consin State pattern as now worn.
The third order prescribes that official and
membership badges of the Grand Army
of the Republic "Sons of Veterans" the
Military Order of the Loyal LEGION the
Society of the Cincinnati,n the regularly
authorized badges of societies of the sew
eral armies of United States volunteers,
and of army corps, divisions, brigades and
regiments, indicating actual service in the
field, are authorized to be worn by those en-
titled to them, upon the left breast of the
uniform coat, the top of the ribbons on a
line above the arm-pit.
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TIE NEWS
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLlxth CONGRESS.

ALLAN OON0 6E0S.
THURSDAY, JAN IA petition was pre-
sented in the Senate from commercial
travellers for relief from burdensome local
taxation. Bills were introduced to amend
the pension laws; appropriating $40, 900 for
a monument in Washington to James Mad
ison, and to fix the rate of postage on
fourth-class matter at two cents for each
ounce or fractional part thereof The sill
yer question was discussed. Adjourned to
the 18th. In the House long discussion
took place on the Presidential Succession
bill. 1t was resolved to hold Friday night
sessions for the consideration of pension
bills.
FRIDAY, Jan. 1.-THE Senate was not
in session. In the House the Presiden-
tial-Succession bill was passed, precisely
as it came from the Senate, by vote of
1873 to II. This bill provides that in case of
the death, removal, resignation or inabili-
ty to serve of both the President and Vice
President the Office shall devolve upon the
Secretary of State, and then upon the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, Secretary of War,
Attorney General, Postmaster General,
Secretary of the Navy or Secretary of the
Interior, in the order named, should further
vacancy occur. A rule forbidding the sale
of spirituous liquors in the House res
taurant was adopted. Adjourned to the
18th.
MONDAY, Jan. 18.--In the Senate the
Judiciary Salary bill, giving United States
Judges $4,000 a year, and prohibiting
them from appointing their relatives to
Office in their courts, was passed. Mr..
Cullom submitted bill regulating inter-
State commerce, which provides for the
appointment of five commissioners Mr..
Frye offered resolution to provide for
commission to settle the fisheries question.
Mr.. Voorhees, introduced bill
for the admission of Montana into
the Union. In the House bills were
introduced: To pension Mrs. Meikle-
ham, the only surviving granddaughter of
Thomas Jefferson; to confer on Lieutenant
Greedy the rank of Colonel; for the admis-
sion of Montana as a State; to reduce the
fee for money orders for sums not exceed
ing five dollars; granting pensions to the
survivors of the Mexican and Indian wars,
and to worthy applicants of the late war
and their widows or minor children who
are unable under existing laws to furnish
the evidence required to connect their dis
ability with the service.
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THE PosTMAsTERs.
Preparations Making for the National
Convention in Chicago Next Month
Objects of the Gathering.

New York, Jan. 1.-THE Executive Con.
rnttee representing the Postmasters' Ma
tional Convention to be held in Chicago
February Is has been in this city some
DAYS comforting with publishers in relation
to the interests of the convention. The
chairman was seen and some information
was obtained regarding the wishes OF the
postmasters. He said: ''This move on the
part of the postmasters is not made in
a spirit OF INSTRUMENTATION, but
is simply an appeal to Con-
gress for the enactment of GER
tam laws granting them fair and just
compensation for the labors they perform.
All persons; Congressman or department
officers are fully convinced that the post
masters Of the third and fourth class are
the hardest worked officials in the employ
OF the Government in proportion to the
salary they receive. All persons with whom
our committee has come in contact feel an
interest in the success of the pres
ent movement There are some 81 900
postmasters of the two classes referred to,
forty thousand of them belonging to the
lower grade. The third-cass postmasters
want the Government to pay their expenses
for rent, light and fuel, the same as it does
for offices OF the first and second grades.
The fourth class postmasters want the law
fixing their incomes so amended that they
may receive the first 500 received for
stamps sold instead of the first $500, as
at present Then their commissions can
remain as they are. The postmasters Of
both grades want the law SO framed that
they will receive the entire revenue from
their rental of boxes, instead Of dividing
with the Government. They feel that ii
they invest their own money in the pur-
chase of new and attractive outfits for the
patrons OF their offices they ought to re-
ceive the entire benefit from the outlay"
Has this move any political signifi-
cancel"
None in the world. 1t is entirely nom
partisan movement. We do not propose
to permit any discordant element to creep
into our councils Postmaster-Ge General
Villas is most heartily in favor OF the con-
vention, and thinks great good will come
from it. So does First Assistant Post
master-General Stevenson. We saw Cen
eral Villas and had quite pleasant
talk with him. We also saw Senator's Con-
ger Wilson, Logan, and others, and they
all gave us their cordial godspeed. There
viii be delegates from every State in the
Union. Our committee has sent out 10O,-
900 circulars to postmasters to newspa-
pers, to Congressman and to the public.
We are determined to convert the public to
our cauSen
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an EARTHQUAKE.

AmatitIan, City of Guatemala. Visited
by One Hundred and Thirty-0ne Shocks
in One Day-Many Buildings Wrecked,
but No Loss of Life Reported.
New York, Jan. 15.-Mail advices from
ing: At two o'clock on the morning of De-
celnber Is the Spanish city of Amatitlan,
in Guatemala, a town of 5000 inhab-
itants, situated twenty five miles
south OF Guatemala City, was awak-
ened by frequent shocks of earth-
quake, which continued all day. At 5:22
p. m. very heavy shock was felt, and at
$40 p. m. a still heavier one, which threw
down many walls and houses already fis-
sured by the early shocks. People were
thrown off their feet, and the air was filed
with dust from the fallen houses. Shock
followed upon shock, and the frightened
people rushed to the large plaza in
front of the Church of San Juan and
dragged the image OF their guardian
saint outside the trembling walls
of the ,Hurch and erected temporary
shrine in tn middle of the square, before
which all pr lstrated themselves. One hun
dred and thirty -one shocks were felt the first
day, the movement being principally from
east to west eighty-one of which occurred
between four and 5:36 O'Clock p. m. The
second day was nearly as bad and shocks
continued for some days subsequently.
Amattlan was destroyed by earthquakes in
1880, which lasted FROM April Il to May 3.
In 1886 it was overfiowed by the rising of the
waters of the lake, and again in October,
1852, the water gushed up in the middle of
the streets Eight days aIterward, when the
waters had subsidized, dead fish were found
everywhere, the water became unfit TO drink,
and many persons died OF fevers. 1t was
again destroyed by earthquakes in 1852. Lake
Amat1tlan is supposed TO be the crater of an
extinct volcano. An adjacent volcano. until
recently quiet, seems to be seeking q new
outlet through a hill lying back of the in
active volcano of Pecayo. The volcanoes of
Fuego, in Guatemala, and GZalca, in Saliva
dor, not far away, which have long served as
the safety-valyeS of these restless regions
seem to have become stopped up, causing
say that there was precisely similar occur
renee before their last great earthquake in
1873.
VOLCANIC MOVEMENTS IN ECUADOR.
GUAYAoUIL, Jan 15.-There have been
slight shocks of earthquakes, accompanied
by loud rumblings and showers of earth
and ashes at different places in Ecuador
during the last few days, and it is supposed
that the volcano OF Cotopaixi is in erup-
ton. The real state of the mountain is
unknown, owing to the interruption of the
Government telegraphs. Slight shocks OF
earthquake have also been felt.
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Caught Mapping.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Jan. 15.-Some time
ago a number of convicts employed in the
mines at Coal Hill escaped by tunneling
their way out. A number of officers, in the
hope of obtaining the reward for theft
capture, went in pursuit of the prisoners,
following several of them off toward In
dian Territory. To their great surprise, an
old farmer made his appearance at the
camp Wednesday, and called for the cap
tain" He gave his name as James John
son. and had six of the refugees in tow, all
standing in a row with their hands on
each others shoulders. He told how
he had heard OF the escape
and believed that on account of the intense
ly cold weather the men would seek shell
ter instead of travelling, and decided to I'M
dertake their capture. lie located ten of
them and Wednesday night when they were
sleeping in a hay-stack, captured their
guard and five OF his companions. The re-
mainder escaped, but ne believes he knows
their location. He told the officer that
when he left he would soon return with
more of the convicts, and would then take
the reward for all he obtained. The old
pioneer who made the capture was armed
with q double-barrel shotgun, one OF the
barrels being worthless. lie did not fire
shot in his capture.
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Corn and Hogs.

CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-The Times publishes
reports from nearly five hundred points as
to the crop of corn and hogs in the North
west and Southwest. 1t appears that the
yield ofcorn has been over-estimated and its
quality ranked tool high. Ohio and Indiana
farmers have sold more freely than those
In other States. The hog cholera has made
its appearance in every State of the corn
belt, forcing hogs upon the market much
more rapidly than is usual, and it is prob
able that the receipts at the chief packing
points for the remainder Of the season win
be less than last year.