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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
TWO BANKS WRECKED.
Richmond j. Lane, Their President, HELD
for Fraudulent Practices.

Richmond j. Lane, Their President, Held
for Fraudulent Practices.
BOSTON, July 2.-Richmond j. Lane
president of the Abingdon National Bank
and the Rockland Savings Bank, who
was arrested in Portland late Wednes
day night while on his way to Can
ada, was arraigned before the United
States commissioners court in this
city yesterday morning. Bank Elk
aminer Gatchell testified IN regard to the
wrecking OF the Abingdon Bank that the ex-
animation of the banks affairs had not
been completed, but that the funds fraud
lently obtained would probably amount
to $135, 600. Of this sum $40, 900 is rep
resented bynotes in different names to COW
er drafts on the redemption agent of the
bank, and about $4,000 represents over
drafts. Counsel for Lane explained that
his client had gone to Portland on bust
ness for the bank. The district attorney
said the Government claimed that Lane
had got large sums or notes on which the
names, other than Lanes. were straw
names. He asked that bail be fixed al
$4,000. Commissioner Hallett fixed the
bail at $4,000, and the case was con
tin1ed to July u.
Mr.. Lane has for years been the foremost
man i'll his community, the most unlim.
tied trust being placed in him by the peo
pie OF Rockland. Abingdon, Hanover and
neighborlng towns. For four years
he has been trustee of the es
tate of Washington Reed, which
was appraised at 100000 when he
took charge of it. He was treasurer of the
church of which he was a member. He is
accused of hypotheca ting large blocks OF
the securities of the Reed estate and with
having raised money on notes signed by
himself as treasurer of the church.
The Abingdon National Bank stopped
payment Yesterday morning
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

The public-debt statement for June is as
follows; Total debt (including INTEREST,"
81, 769, 500, 740; less cash items available for
reduction of debt, and reserve bills for re-
demption of United States notes ($305, 212,-
247), 81, 464, 1927 ,493; cash in treasury, SIS
1911, 100; debt, less amount in treasury. ST.
3S9, 1858 Decrease during June, S9,O61,-
S97. Decrease since June 80, 1885, S105,-
S02,260.
THE bill restoring Fitz John Porter to
the army, and the bill for public build
ing at Des Moines, Ia, have been signed
by the President
THERE were 5, 1876 business failures for
the first six months of this year with $50
$4,000 liabilities, against 004 failures for
the corresponding period of 1885, and liza
bilities amounting to $74, 722 900.
IT is reported that seventeen thousand
men throughout the country have joined
league in support of law and order and
in opposition to strikes and boycotts
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has nominated
John G. Shields, of Michigan, to be Chief
Justice of Arizona. Shields name was
sent to the Senate for the same position
some months ago, but was rejected.
THE Pension Office during the fiscal year
just closed issued 81, 422 pension certif-
Gates.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggregated 81,
003, 6S4 4S0, against 1916, 772, 156 the previous
week. AS compared with the correspond
ing week of 1885, the rease amounted to
1873 per cent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

In Beshiktash, a suburb of Constantine
pie, sixty houses were burned recently.
DETECTIVE BUTLER, of Pinkerton's Bos-
ton Agency, who is making Investigations
in connection with the numerous counter
feitS which have been made on the Domin-
ion Governments notes for the past two
years, arrived in Ottawa, Can, on the 1st.
He said that from what he could learn over
half million dollars of these counterfeits,
in twos, fives, tens and twenties had been
put in circulation in Canada and the United
States.
A FIRE destroyed Watson's spinning mills
near London on the I'd, causing loss of
$500000. One thousand persons were
thrown out of employment.
AT Fiume, Hungary, four deaths from
cholera occurred on the I'd and six at Duna-
Foldvar.
In Hungary, the Temes and Bega rivers,
had again risen on the I'd, flooding the sur
rounding country. Two villages had been
destroyed by the floods.
In Southern Japan cholera was on the I'd
spreading with great rapidity and deadli-
ness.
Mr.. GLADSTONE and Mr.. Parnell in the
English Parliamentary elections on the I'd
were both reelected.
IT is stated that Parnell is escorted
everywhere in his campaign by body
guard of friends-all stalwart young Irish
men. He receives letters daily threaten
ing assassination.
IN recent storms in the Atlantic eight
French torpedo-boats were lost and fifty
persons were drowned.
THE American fishing schooners George
w. Cushing and c. B. Harrington, both of
Portland, Me-, were captured by the Cana
dian cruiser Terror on the Sd and taken to
Shelburne.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
WEST AND Sourk.

THE Iowa Greenbackers, in State con-
vention at Des Moines on the LIST, resolved
to fuse with the Democrats. Daniel Camp
bell was nominated for State Treasurer
and William Theophilus for Supreme
Court Clerk.
JENKINS WRIGHT (colored) was hanged
ON the ID at Hampton, S. c., for killing his
wife and throwing her body into the fire
and Frank CASTOR (colored) was executed
at Salisbury, s. c., for criminal assault
upon white woman.
THREE men were fatally burned by an
explosion of natural gas on the I'd in a
mine at Pauls Station, o.
THE death of Lyman Mckay, aged one
hundred and two years, occurred near
Winston, S. c., on the I'd. He was a
veteran of four wars.
THE house of citizen, of Elliott County,
KY, the church which he attended and the
dwellings of some of his neighbors were
burned by moonshiners because he OPP
posed unlicensed whisky. A party went
cunning for the incendiaries on the I'd and
killed two of them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
PERSONAL. AND LITERARY.


~-Salvini, the actor, is worth $780,
600, over one-third of which he made
in this country. He lives in the most
economical manner in his Italian
home.
Queen Victoria is the oldest reign
ing sovereign in Europe with two exc
ceptions, Emperor William, who is in
his ninetieth year, and King Christian.
of Denmark, who has entered his six
ty-ninth.
Robert Benton Seeley, of London,
who died the other day at the advanced
age of eighty-nine years, was common
ly called the father of the publishing
trade" He began that business sixty
years ago.
The London Times gravely in%
formed its readers that ''.he late Sir
John Pearson, like several other mod4
ern judges, was the son of 81 country
clergyman, Rev. John Norman Pear
son, of Tunbridge Wells"
Thomas Brown, aged ninety-sixs
living away up in the Adirondacks,
New York, raises his feeble voice to
claim that he is the only person now
living who has talked with George
Washington. Thomas was young
ster of five summers at the time.-N.
Y. Sun.
The infant King of Spain enjoys
the almost unique distinction of having
been born monarch. There is no
other like instances in the history of
Spain nor of England. In France there
has been one such incident, in the case
of John l., in 1916.
Mime. Modieska, the great actress,
is a very remarkable woman. She
speaks and writes fluently French, Ger
man, Italian, Russian, Hungarian and
English; paints and carveS, and is an
accomplished musician, playing on sew
eral instruments. Chicago Journal.
The only man who has represent
ed three States in the United States
was the late General James Shields,
| who was Senator from Illinois, after
ward from Minnesota and subsequent
ly from Missouri Matthew Lyon was
the only man who has been elected a
Representative to Congress from three
States-hrst in Vermont second in
Kentucky and third in Arkansas. He
died August ], 1882, before taking his
seat as Representative from the latter
State. M Y. Tribune. J
I Thomas j. Perkins, of Tallahas-
see, Fla, is a man of regular habits.
He has lived in that one town forty-nine
years; been in one business thirty-four
years; occupied one office, desk and
chair thirty-four years; worn one watch
thirty-six years; been superintendent
of one Sunday-school forty years; sub
scribed to one paper forty-two years;
been a member and trustee, and kept
the records of one church forty-four
years; lived in one house forty-fiye and
with one wife forty-six years. Chicago
Herald.
AT recent meeting of the Chau-
tauqua circle Fred Cook read an essay
on ''Whittier," in which he stated that
one authority gave 1907 as the year of
the poets birth and another gave 1909.
In order to decide the matter he wrote
to Nh Whittier, and received the fol-
lowing answer: "DANvERs, Mass, 5,
20, 86.-DeGr Friend: can not say
positively from my personal knowledge
when / was born, but my mother told
me it was on the 18th of December,
1907, and she was very truthful wom-
an. l am truly your friend,
j. G.. WHITTIER"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
HUMOROUS.

-'Those who use our goods are very
much attached to them," is what
porous plaster company advertises.
Phil0deLphiG Herald.
-"What would a woman do without
looking-glass?" is asked. Use an
others. You can't stick woman as
easy as that. Chicago Ledger.
Little Neck CLANS were invented
by Rhode Island man who didn't
want the darned things stretching
themselves into other States.-FGU
RiUe7 AdUOcate.
"A student who answered the ques-
ton: "How is power applied to this
machine?'' by saying sit is turned by
crank was ordered to "just step
forward and illustrate.
-"Wa-al, dern this thing, anyway.
The Teller at the store told me it was
music stool, but I've been twisting the
dern thing every which way fur an
hour, and not gol darned bit of
music kin get out O. it nohow. y
Chicago Rambler.
Dinner Table.-Little Mile to her
father, who has given her the smallest
piece of pie on the plate-"Papa, why
is my piece of pie ike Europe?" Papa,
thoughtfulIy- don't know-why is
itP" Mile" because tits the smallest
of the grand divisions. IN T. Tete-
gram.
Discovery in Natural History.-A
little girl from the city was on her first
visit to the country. While ridingnea
Clifton Springs she saw a lot of cat'g
tails near the road. ''Oh auntie," she
exclaimed, 81 never knew before tina
sausages grew on sticksn'-HarpeT'
BdzGr.
The Boy and the Pin
How dear TO my heart is the school a
And how remember, so distant and dim,
That red.headed Bill and the pin that
And carefully put on the bench under him
And how recall the surprise of the master
When Bill gave yell and sprang up froL
So high that his bullet head busted the pls
Above, and the scholars all set up din!
That active boy, Billy! That high-leapiu
Biilyi
That Ioud-shouting Billy that sat on pin.
-WaShtngtO7a Posi-.
The Sunday-school hymn, 81 wa
a wandering sheep, 1 did not love th'
fold," has been translated into Ar
menian, and the children of school in
Constantinople are fond of singing i
for travellers who look in upon them.
The teacher, an Armenian, who knew
but very little English, was not aware
that it was a translation from that
language, so, when an American Wis
L Al
singing, he betook himself to the die
tionary. and emerged, after a long
search, with the information that the
first line of the hymn meant 81 was
misled mutton. "-Harper'S BazGr.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
LATER.

IHE hot wave was general throughout
! the East on the 9th, the msrcury register
ing 80 degrees in the shade at New York
City; at Hanover, N. H., 96 in the shade,
which is unusually high in that region;
at Franklin Falls, 1912 on four consecutive
days, tho hottest remembered; at Boston,
SO; at Albany, N. Y, 81, the highest for
twelve years, ani at Scranton, Pa, 80 de-
grees.
AT Apalachicola, Fla, fierce gale few
days ago wrecked houses and leveled trees,
causing loss of $4,000. Six persons were
drowned in the bay.
THE Italian cholera returns on the 9th
were as follows: Brindisi, II new cases, z
deaths; Francavilla and Fontana, 8? cases,
30 deaths; Latiano, Sc cases, Is deaths.
THE thermometer in Chicago on the 9th
registered 95 degrees in the shade, and four
persons were sun-Struck. At Cheboygan,
Mich, the mercury touched 107, tho highest
point ever experienced there, and at Des
Moines, Ia, the mercury indicated 104 de-
grees, the highest point since the signal
station was established there.
The Republicans of the Sixth Illinois
district on the 9th renominated R. R. Hit
for Congressman, and the Republicans Of
the Sixth Iowa district nominated John A.
Donnell.
FOREST fires were raging on the 9th be-
tween Marquette and st. Ignace, Mich.
| Thirty thousand cords of wood belonging
| to the Vulcan Furnace Company had been
| destroyed.
IN the British elections, up to three
O'Clock on the afternoon of the 9Th, the
| Tories had made a net gain of thirteen
seats, and had elected Isl candidates, the
Unioaists had elected Al, the Gladstonians
| So and the Parnellites 81.
THE Connecticut Prohibitionists will
| hold State convention on the 2Sth inst.
at Hartford to nominate a Governor and
| other State officers.
| Mrs. ARNOLD, who lives near New Hol-
| land, o., celebrated her Tooth birthday on
the 9th. She has two sisters living, aged
respectively 105 and 112 years.
THERE were four suicides and six acct
! dental deaths in Chicago on the 9th.
In the United States Senate on the 9th a
very large number of petitions were pre-
sented by various Senators praying for the
! passage of the bill FORGETTING railroad land
/ grants. A bill was introduced by Mr.
Cockren to regulate the pay of army and
navy officers who refuse or neglect to pro-
| vide for their families. A communication
was received from tho President appoint
| ing Fitz John Porter to be Colonel in the
Army of the United States, the commission
to date from May IA, 1861 The River and
| Harbor bill was further discussed In the
| House the General Deficiency Appropria.
/ ton bill was further considered Twenty
vetoes of private pension bills were re-
| ceived from the President.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
A SENTENCE of thirty days in jail was

SENTENCE of thirty days in jail was
passed upon 7. F. Collins, the ringleader
in the switchmen's strike at Chicago, on
tne I'd, for contempt of court. Trains were
moved on the Lake Shore road without
molestation, but under guard.
In Virginia heavy rains had on the ID
eau ed floods. The lower portion of Rich
mond was submerged and residents wero
moving out Washouts and destruction of
bridges and trestles had caused suspen-
sion of travel on several railroads
IN the vicinity of Steele, D. T., wind,
hail and rain-storm on the 4th did much
damage to farm buildings and crops. The
Presbyterian Church at Steele was de-
strcyed.
From Pierre D. T., hot wind was re-
ported on the 5th, which drove the in
habitants into the cellars. The tempera-
ture rosa to 105 degrees.
THE streets were damaged and base
ments flooded at New Orleans on the 4th
by heavy rains. Two colored children
were drowned by falling into cutters.
AT the close of the week ended on the Sd
the standing of the Acknowledged base
ball clubs was as follows: Detroit, games
won, 81; lost, 9. Chicago, won, 80; lost,
IL. New York, won, 80; lost, IA. Philadel-
phia, won, Is; lost 49, Boston, won, II;
lost, 80. st. Louis, won, II; lost, 81 Kan
sas City, won, g.; lost, 49, Washington, wc,:.
8; lost, 81
THE murderer of w. W. Wise, Dock
Bishop, was hanged on the Sd at Pittsboro,
Miss.
EDWARD L. PALMER and J. D. Conner
were killed by freight trains and Fred
Kellisn was drowned at Indianapolis, Ind,
on the 5th
SERIOUS injuries were sustained by over
dozen persons by fireworks in Chicago
on the 9Th, and two young men were
drowned in the lake.
THE death of George W. Porter, publisher
of the Journal of Commerce, at Baltimore,
Md, occurred suddenly of heart-disease on
the 5th.
THE drought in the Northwest had caused
serious damage to crops on the 4th
UP to the Sd in the Anarchist trial at
Chicago only seven jurors had been So
cured.
In the counties of Nottoway, Lunenburg,
Amelia and Dinwiddie, in Virginia floods
ou tue fUu Hdu UOno great damage 10 WneaG
and oats, and the loss to farmers would be
thousands of dollars.
A DEADLY drug was used on the Sd at An
thony, Kan, by mistake, in making lemon
ade for picnic, and over fifty persons
were poisoned, several of them fatally
AT an early hour on the morning of the
5th, fire in the Benton House at Chicago
fatally burned two persons and DESTROYED
property valued at nearly $50, 900.
The death of Chief Poundmaker, a prom
inent figure in the uprising of half-breeds
and Indians in Northwest Territory year
ago, occurred on the 5th
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
A Humane Amendment to a Cruel Law
of the State of New York.

Humane Amendment to a Cruel Law
of the State of New York.
New York has not for many years
been disgraced by the existence of a
law authorizing imprisonment for debt
pure and simple, but it has been within
the discretion of the courts to punish
alleged fraudulent debtors by an I'M
limited term of Imprisonment. A bill
was passed by the last Legislature of
that State, which, by the approval of
the Governor, has just become a law,
limiting Imprisonment for debt in civil
actions to period of six months. The
effect of this humane amendment to
the old statute will be to set at liberty
large number of imprisoned debtors
throughout the State, who have been
incarcerated for varying periods.
The cases of some OF these poor
Debtors are such as to appeal strongly
to the sense of justice and humanity,
and the wonder is that the undue kse-
verify of the law was not long since
abated. The case of Augustine R. Nc
Donald, who Pas been lying in Ludlow
street Jail, New York City, for more
than eight years past, is one of this
kind. 1t appears that in 1873 McDon-
aid received an award from the Gov
eminent of 100000 for cotton de-
stroyed by the Federal troops during
the war of the rebellion. To Sc
cure this result he had expended
among the lawyers and lobbyists
of Washington about half the award,
and, with what remained, had gone to
New York City and embarked in Il sue
cessful brokerage business. Soon
afterward he was arrested for nom
payment of a Judgment of $4,000 in
favor of firm of Washington lobby
lists, whom he had never employed and
never had heard of until confronted by
the Judgment, which had been OBJ
tanned by default and without any
notice to him. Being unable to furnish
bail, he was thrust into jail, where he
would doubtless have remained until
his death but for the timely passage of
the law referred to. AS it is, he goes
out of prison broken-down old man
of sixty, to be dependent for the rest OF
his life upon the charity of relatives.
1t seems strange indeed that case of
such hardship should, for so long a
time, have passed unnoticed, yet it is
said that he appealed to the courts
time and again for trial of the case
on its merits, but without success. At
last the matter came to the notice of
some humane gentleman, who used it
with good effect in procuring an
amendment of the law.
New York is one among the few
States that have adhered to the old
idea of imprisoning men who could not
pay their debts, and it is an agreeable
thing to note this last change which
robs the law of much of the old-time
harshness and cruelty.-Cbicogo Jour
nal.
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A Labor Meeting Broken Up.

New YORK, July 2.-Polce Captain Nc
Cullough put a stop to the big labor meet
ing at Cooper Union Hall last night and
elected General Master Workman Powder
y and the leaders of District Assembly is.
The meeting was called so that Empire
Protective Association of Car Drivers and
Conductors might hold conference with
Mr. Powderly in relation to the pending
strike OF the Third avenue employees. Cap
tain Mccullough said that his general
orders were to put d stop to meetings OF
Communists, Anarchistsand laboring men.
and that he didn't propose to make any
exception because Of Mr.. Powderly's pres
encc.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
THE VETO SUSTAINED.
The House Refuses to Re-Enact the De
MOines River Bill.

MOines River Bill.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The Speaker laid
before the House yesterday message from
the Senate announcing that that body had
passed over the Presidents veto tho bill to
quiet the title of settlers on the Des Moines
river lands Mr.. Payson, of Illinois, pre-
sented reasons why the bill should be
passed over the Presidents veto, which he
said was based on total misapprehension
of the facts of the case and of the end
sought to be accomplished by the meas
ure
The House declined to pass the bill by
vote of 81 nays and 1CG yeas, not the
requisite twc-thirds. The following Demo
Gratis voted in the affirmative:
Allen (Miss.), Barksdale, Barry, Bland,
Burnes, Bynum. Caldwell. Campbell (O.l
Carleton, Cobb, Grain, Culberson, Ds mel,
Docker, Eldridge, Fisher. Frederick, Ged les
Hatch, Henley, Holman, Jones TEX,
kleiner, Laffoon, Lanham. Ls,gler,
Lowery, Matson, Maybury, Mills, Nor
gan, Murphy, Neal Neece, Sayres, Skinner,
Stewart (Iex.l Stone (Mo.), Tarsney, Taulhee.
J. NJ. Taylor CEenn), Tillman Townshend Van
Eaton, Warner (O.l, Weaver Ua) Wellborn,
wilkins, Winans, Wise, Wolford and Worth
ingron
The Republicans voting in the negati 70
were:
Davenport johnson, Kelcham, Willard,
Ranney and SAWYER.