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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE Civil-Service Commission presented
its third annual report to Congress on the
25th. The report says th at during the year
ended January 16 there were 1862 persons
examined, of whom 6, S72 were males and
$50 females. The whole number examined
since the act was passed is 17,491. OF those
examined trihe less than two-thirds sue
ceeded.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL Villas informed
the Senate on the 25th that during the first
year of the Democratic Administration
S,645 fourth-class postmasterS were re-
moved
THE illness of Secretary Manning contin-
ued on the 25th, and his physicians feared
another apoplectic attack AT best a long
period of absolute rest and consequent re-
tirement from public life would be neces-
sary,
Goth the business failures numbered for the
United States 1917 and for Canada twenty
four, total of 22l against 225 the pre-
vious seven days.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND was on the
2Sth suffering from severe cold, and was
confined to his bed. The physicians re-
ported Secretary Manning's condition as
unchanged.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 9th aggregated
S945, 7S5, $50, against 1925, 433, SO7 the previ-
GUS week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1885, the increase
amounts to 455 per cent.
The bill granting the widow of General
Hancock a yearly pension of two thousand
dollars has been signed by President Cleve-
land
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LATEg.:

A PROLONGED conference was held in
New York on the Both ult. between Mr.
Gould and his managers and Mr.. Powderly
and the leaders Of the Knights of Labor.
Mr.. Hoxie had consented to a settlement of
the railway strike by arbitration, but the
committee with whom he would confer
must be at present employees of the com
panies Mr.. Powderly telegraphed Chair
man Irons to have the strikers return to
worK as soon as possible. At East ST.
Louis mobs prevented the departure of
trains, and the aid of Illinois militia was
invoked. The rails near Parsons, Kan,
were tempered with, wrecking a freight
train, resulting in serious injury to mail
agent
SEVENTEEN buildings, with twenty eight
horses, mules and cows, were destroyed by
fire at Columbia, Mo-, a few days ago.
A CYCLONE on the 30th ult. destroyed
negro church, in which funeral services
were being held, in Bullock County, Ala,
four persons being killed and ten wounded
A BUILDING in New Orleans containing
cotton valued at 100000 was struck by
lightning and burned, with it's contents, on
the 30th ult.
Tennessee and Georgia had on the 30th ult
caused freshets which swept away num-
Der of railway bridges and flooded valua-
bic property. Railway traffic was entirely
suspended. Rain was still falling heavily
at midnight, and the loss up to that time
was estim ated at So 000,000.
THE two leaders and seven of the mob
who drove the Chinese out of Oregon City
recently were on the Both ult. indicted by
the United States grand jury at Portland.
A FIRE which broke out in the San
Carlos Theater, at Key West, Fla, early
on the morning of the 30th ult. was not ex-
tinguished until late in the afternoon, the
principal portion of the city being de-
stroyed. Fifteen or twenty persons were
injured by falling walls The financial
loss was placed at 81, 500, 010
A STEAMER collided with a bridge at New
Orleans on the 30th ult. and sank, three
men being drowned Another steamer,
which was aiding in the rescue of the crew,
exploded her boilers, four persons being
killed
BILLS were introduced in the United
States Senate on the 50th ult: By Mr.. Gull
Iona, appropriating $4,000 for the erecticn
in Washington of monument to Abra-
ham Lincoln; by Mr.. VOORHEES,, to enable
the Territory of Montana to form consti-
tuition as substitute for his bill providing
for the immediate admission. The bill es-
tablishing two additional land districts in
Nebraska was passed, and the Army bill
was further discussed In the House Mr.
Randall introduced a resolution for the in
vestigation of the Carrollton Miss mas
sacre, but Mr.. Reagan objected to its con-
sideration. The Post-office Appropriations
bill was further debated in Committee Of
the Whole.
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mostly workings men, would not receive

mostly working-men would not receive
fifty per cent.
RECENT reports from Suwanee County,
Fla, say that three negroes who recently
killed a negro boy there were pursued and
killed by four others of their race.
AFTER clipping with her step-son Mrs.
Kate Dawson, wife of a farmer living near
Indianapolis, poisoned herself with arsenic
on the 10Th, and her paramour took
morphia, dying in few hours.
THE Wabash road switchmen in ST. Louis
struck on the 26th. The strike in East St.
Louis remained in force and little freight
was handled. No extensive disturbance
was reported from any southwestern
point, and freight trains were moving
from various points. Grand Master Work
man Powderly issued circular to the
Knights of Labor, Gliding the rnen for
rushing into useless strikes and warning
them against hasty, ill-considered action.
A company of United States troops were
en- route for ST. Louis, to be on hand in
case labor riots took place.
FIRE destroyed the Argus office at Fargo,
D. T., on the 18th, causing a loss of $50, 900.
THE wholesale jewelry firm of Theodore
Kearney & Co., of Chicago, failed ON the
26th for $125,000.
A JURY at Shoals, Ind, on the 9th found
Sam Archer, the last of the notorious
'Archer gang" guilty of the murder of
Samuel Bunch, and he was condemned to
die July 0.
AT Brainerd, MINI, the great railway
shops of the Northern Pacific road were de
stroyed by fire on the 26th, the loss being
$500, 900.
OK the evening of the 2Sth Rev Sam
Jones informed Chicago audience that he
had ceased to use tobacco. Sam Small
shook off the same habit short time ago.
On the 9th General Crook and staff held
a conference in Sonora with Geronimo
and his Chiracahua hostiles The chief
begged for the lives of himself and COM
panions, but was informed that he must
surrender Internationally or fight to the
death.
NEIswANGER's livery stable in Kansas
City was burned on the 2Sth and one man
and thirty eight horses lost their lives.
The Mississippi river was free from ice
on the 2Sth from La Crosse, Wis, to tho
gulf.
In the vicinity OF PIEDMONT w. Va, tho
bituminous coal mines were on the Goth be-
ing boarded up on account of the strike,
and the owners threatened to introduce
foreign labor The stoppage of wages
amounts to $4,000 per day.
In Eastern Tennessee the severest rain
storm in years was prevailing ON the 29th.
The effect was disastrous to railroads. and
trains on five of the railroads centering at
Chattanooga were abandoned in conse-
quence of landslides
THROUGHOUT Texas cold wave was gem
eral on the Goth, with heavy snow in some
districts Thousands of sheep having been
sheared in the past two weeks, stockmen
feared heavy losses.
The bill prohibiting marriages between
first cousins was defeated by the Iowa
House on the Goth.
Four Apache chiefs, including Geronimo,
with twenty hostiles and forty-eigh.
squaws, surrendered to General Crook OH
the Goth, and were being conducted to Fort
Bowie, A. T.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A DECISION has been rendered by Justice
Butt, in London, to the effect that divorce
obtained in America from the bonds of a
marriage performed in England is invalid
in England.
REV. DR.. THOMAS r. WEIGH Consul for
the United States at Hamilton, Ont ex-
pired at Hamilton on the Goth. He was for
many years pastor of the First Presbyte-
rian Church of Little Rock, Ark.
In speech of two hours in the German
Reichstag on the 26th Bismarck warned
that body not to stand in the way of the
Nations progress.
FIVE rioters were shot dead in conflict
on the 9th with Belgian troops near Char
leroi. The strikers had done damage in
that city amounting to S2,500,000, and
threatened to destroy the gas works
Thousands of workmen were idle because
of the looting of gas factories worth s., O0O,-
600.
THE designations of Joseph Chamberlain
and g. 0. Trevely an from the British Cab
met were rendered on the 9th. 1t was said
other designations would follow
THE consent of the British Government
has been obtained to make experiments in
the cultivation of tobacco in England.
VIGOROUS measures were being used by
the Belgian Government on the Doth to
suppress the Anarchist rioters in the neigh
borhood of Charleroi.
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River and Harbor Appropriations.

WASHINGTON, March Bottle River and
Harbor bill as completed by the House
committee appropriates $15, 164, 200 to
be available on its passage. Among the
appropriations are these:
Illinois-Harbors: Chicago, 100000; Calu
met $4,000. Rivers Calumet, $4,000; lii
nois, 100000.
Indiana-Michigan City harbor, $4,000;
Wabash river, $4,000.
Observation-Disclosures: Black lake, 5000;
Charlevoix, $4,000; Cheboygan, 3d.
900; Frankfort, $1,000; Grand Haven,
$4,000; Grand Mara.s. $55,000;
Ludington, $4,000; Manistee, so
coo; Marquette, $4,000; Ontonagon, S13,0J0;
Muskegon. $l2,500; Pentwater, $4,000; Port
age lake, $4,000; Sandy Beach, $l01,0U0; St.
Joseph, $4,000; Saugatuck. 5000; South Ha.
ven, 5000; White River harbor, $4,000. r W
ers: Clinton, 5000; Detroit, $4,000; Hay
lake channel. $l1O 0)0 Saginaw, $45,UO1.
Wisconsin - Harbors: Ahnapee, $4,000;
Green Bay, 5000; Kenosha, 5000: Kewuanee
$1,000; Manitowoc, $1,000: Milwaukee bay
and harbor, $4,000; Oconto. $500; PORT
Washington, 5000; Racine $4,000: Superior
bay, $30090 Sheyb0ygan, $1,000; Sturgeon
bay $1,000. Rivers Chippewa, $4,000; Fox
$4,000; St Croix, $500.
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THE EAST


THE North Buffalo Flour Mills the Gilbert
Starch Works and other structures at Buff
falo, N. Y, were destroyed by fire on the
the Goth, entailing loss of $4,000.
To ExTINGUIsH flames ON her clothing
Mrs. Henry FRANKIE, living near Reading,
Pa, leaped into a cistern the other day.
She was drowned and her two children IA
tally burned, the house catching fire from
can of kerosene which had exploded in
the mothers hand
The discovery was made at Uniontown,
Pa, on the 18th that Captain A. C. Mutt,
who was murdered by Dukes, who in turn
was killed by his victims son, was short in
his accounts as State Treasurer S42, 500 at
the time of his death.
MASSACHUSETTS hquor-dealers formed a
political organization in Boston on the
9th.
On the 9th the five-day type-setting con-
test at Philadelphia closed. Duguid, of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, taking first prize, set
ting $1,000 ems, and exceeding all previous
records. Mccain, of the New York Herald,
took second prize and Barnes, of the World,
third.
The consent of Jay Gould was obtained
on the 18th to submit to arbitration the
troubles on the Southwestern railway syS-
tenn, and Grand Master Workman Pow
derby issued orders to the Knights of Labor
to commence work again
THE snow in Maine on the 9th averaged
from three to six feet in depth.
A STRIKE was commenced by the drivers
and conductors of nine street-car lines in
Pittsburgh on the 9th, stopping all trans
portation on those roads, but three other
lines were in full operation.
FIRE at Northampton, Mess, on the
2Sth, destroyed Maynard's hoe-shop, caus.
| ing a loss of 100000. Miss L. H. Adgate,
the book-keeper, persisted in the flames
GREAT excitement prevailed at Johns
town, N. Y, on the Goth because of dis
Twenty-one persons had died within TWEEN
ty-four hours, and two hundred people
were fatally afflicted.
JAMES ANDREW, aged fifty years, killed
Miss Elsie Williams, aged forty years, at
Oxford, Conn, on the Goth because she re-
fused to marry him, and then committed
suicide by taking poison.
IT was declared by Jay Gould on the
Goth that he had not accepted Grand Mas
ter Powderly's proposition for settlement
of the Southwestern railway strike by ar
| bitration. In consequence affairs had as
| sumed a more critical form than before.
The order to the Knights of Labor to re-
turn to work had been revoked, and the
strikers continued to oppose by violence
| the movement of freight trains.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLIxth CONGRESS.

THURSDAY, March 25.-The debate in the
Senate over the rights of that body to
official papers in cases of removal from
office was continued. Mr.. Voorhees, speak
ing against tbs resolutions demanding
papers, and Mr.. Evarts in their favor. Mr..
Frye reported bill to provide for the en-
enlargement of American shipping and
to promote postal and commercial rela-
lions with foreign countries. In the House
Mr.. Hill reported bill to provide for the
organization of the Territory of Okla
homa. The Post-office Appropriation bill
was further discussed. At the evening
session resolutions were adopted express
ing sorrow at the death of the late Repre-
sentative Rankin, of Wisconsin.
FRIDAY. March 26-The Senate adopt
ed Mr.. Edmunds' resolutions on the rela-
tions between the President and the SEN
ate in respect to removals and suspen-
sions from Office. Senator Hoar introduced
a bill providing for a method of inquiry
by National authority in cases of murder
like that of negroes recently at Carrollton,
Miss. Adjourned to the Goth. In the
House the time was occupied in consider
ing pension bills and at the evening SEES
sion forty were passed.
SATURDAY, March 27.-The Senate was
not in session. In the House the time was
devoted principally to discussing the
Silver-Coinage bill, but no action was
taken. The prayer by the chaplain at the
opening of the session called out objection
by Mr.. James IN. " to its perpetuation
in the Record.
MONDAY, March 29.-In the Senate the
time was occupied in discussing the bill
for an increase in the army. In the House
bills or resolutions were introduced: By
Mr.. Wolford, directing the Secretary of the
Interior to furnish artificial limbs to Con
federate soldiers OF sailors who lost legs OF
arms in the war; by Mr.. West, authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to take a
conveyance of the cottage at Mount
McGregor where General Grant died
by Mr.. O'Neill providing for boards
of arbitration in labor troubles; by
Mr.. Hall, to enable the people OF
Dakota to form constitution; also, to
establish the Territory of North Dakota
by Mr.. Belmont, appropriating> $147, 74S to
the Chinese Government for losses sus-
tanned by its subjects at Rock Spring, Wy.
T.; by Mr. Willis, 10 aid in the stablish-
tions were made for an investigation of
the cause of the labor troubles. Mr.. Reagan
objected to the introduction of resolution
for an investigation into the massacre of
negroes at CaTollton, Miss.
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SAM JONES QUITS TOBACCO

CHICAGO, March Boa few nights ago
Rev. Mr.. Jones announced to his audience
at the Casino Skating Rink that Mr..
Small had conquered the tobacco habit
and had emphasized his victory over it by
burning up all his stock on hand. Sunday
night in the same place at the conclusion
of his second talk to the 5000 people
present Mr.. Jones electrified his hearers by
the statement that he, too, had quit for
good-a statement which was received
with rapturous applause and loud cries of
"APen." When the applause had died
out it was renewed and another wave of
feeling broke over the building. Mr.. Jones
led up to the climax as follows:
81 feel like there is just one more thing
want to say before dismiss the audience to-
night and commence the after-servce-just
one more thing would say. believe, breth-
rem, that thirteen years ago cOnsecrated my
self to God. have been consecrated man
from that day unto this. have been conse-
Grated for the glory of God and the good Oh
humanity in the work that have been trying
to do. Down in my country | have never
been in souls way that knew of. In
hundred different instances have been notl-
fed that "a habit that you are given to is
a stumbling block to souls in this
this congregation tonight from this
day until we meet up in Heaven you can tell
this world that Sam Jones has got no habit
that is stumblng-block to anybody. [Great
applause, which was subsequently renewed,
and "Amens'l And to you, brethren there
the applause broke out afreshl | say this:
Wherever and whenever there is a fault of
mine that will lead any soul astray or that is a
stumbling-block to any one, God being my
helper, if know it that thing shall go down
forever with me. [ApplauGe.l And if there is
spot or an inch about me that is not conse-
Grated to God and humanity tonight say this
minute: Lord Almighty, it shall be Thine
from this moment till die Applause and
"Amen."l And pray God Almighty that you
will give me your prayers. lhave had fight
that none but God knows any thing about. I
have struggled Thank God, ! have the victo-
ry, and give God the glory, and ] give you
the benefit. ''Amen."l May God bless you
all. and start you tonight to give yourselves
unreservedly to God forever. For your pray
ers and for your sympathy am grateful, and
if don't do any good in Chicago, let Chicago
thank God Almighty she has done the poor,
little, pale, Southern preacher some good, the
balance of his life" [Great applause.l
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Parsons Hypothetical Case.

New YORK, March 29.-Ex-Alderman
James Pearson. who was examined so
tiercely by Mr.. Conkling last Friday in the
Broadway Surface railway investigation,
is said to be very much frightened and to
be making efforts to secure bondsmen in
case OF an emergency. He applied to a
prominent business man, and, when met
with a searching inquiry as to the facts, it
is reported that he replied
am not guilty of accepting brides. Now
suppose you were sitting in a restaurant and
your coat and hat hanging on the rack beside
YOU; suppose some person put ten $100l bills
inyour pocket. and picking up your hat you
found ten more in that. Would you ad vertise
Tor an owner, or would you say nothing about
t at all! | don't think that / should feel
owner
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THE EDMUNDS RESOLUTION,
AS Finally Adopted in the United States
Senate.

Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 27-The Edmunds
resolutions as adopted in the Senate are as
follows
ResolUed That the foregoing report of the
Comm ttee on the Judiciary be agreed to and
adopted. The vote on the adoption of this
resolution was 81 yeas to rs nays
Resolved That the Senate hereby expresses
its condemnation of the refusal of the Attor-
ney-General, under whatever influence, to
send to the Senate copies of papers called for
by its resolution of the 25th of January and
set forth in the reports of the Committee on
the Judiciary, as in violation of his official
duty and subversive of thefundamental prin-
G plesof the Government and of good admin
istration thereof [52 to 25.l
ReS0tUSd, That it is, under these circum-
stances, the duty of the Senate to refuse it's
advice and consent to proposed removals of
Officers, the documents and papers in refer
ence to the supposed official or personal mis-
conduct of whom are withheld by the Exccu-
tive or any head of department, when
deemed necessary by the Senate and called
for in considering the matter. [30 to 90. Nit
chell tOre.l, Riddleberger and Van Wyck vOt-
ing with the Democrats in the negativel
Res0tUed. That the provision of section ]. 754
OF the revised statutes, declaring that rper-
sons honorably discharged from the military
or naval service by reason of disability result
ing from wounds or sickness incurred in the
line of duty, shall be preferred for appoint
ments to civil offices: provided that they are
found to possess the business capacity neceS.
sary for the proper discharge of the duties
OF such Office" ought to be faithfully and
fully put into execution, and that to re-
move or to propose to remove any such sol
dier whose faithfulness, competency ard
character are above rcproach, and TO give
place to another who has not rendered such
service, is a violation of the spirit of the
law and of the practical gratitude the peo-
pie and Government of the United States
owe to the defenders of constitutional liberty
and the integrity of the Government. 1876 to
l-Mr. Morgan alone voting in the negative |
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Opening the Prison Dosor.

CHICAGO, March 29.-The opinion OF the
Supreme Court in the Mackin- Gallagher
eases to the effect that punishment in
the penitentiary is infamous and
can not be imposed % any case ex.
cept one begun by Indictment seems
likely to have q far-reaching retroactive
effect. An application was made before
Judge Gresham Saturday for a writ of
habeas corpus by a prisoner who has been
IN the Joliet penitentiary. He was ar
raigned under an information and SEN
fenced by Judge Blodgett to a term oil
years at hard labor. He now claims that
his commitment was illegal in view OF the
recent Supreme Court decision.
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a French city without water.

PARIS, March Bottle rise of the Seine,
due to the recent heavy snow falls, has
done great damage to the Marty Water.
works, which supply the city OF Versailles
with 100000 gallons day. The water.
works, which are set in motion by water
power, were built by Louis XIV. over an
arm OF the the Seine. near st. Ger.
main. The other arm is closed by
dam. The pressure Of the water
has burst the gate. In a quarter
OF an hour the seine rose four feet at St.
Germain three miles down stream, several
barges Icing dashed ashore and DESTROYED
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ANUMBER Of able European scien-
lists have been engaged in observing
the spots on the sun with view of as
pertaining whether they have any per-
ceptible effect upon the climate of the
earth. After comparing notes they
have come to the conclusion that as
far as they have been able to determine,
they can not say positively whether the
activity of the sun, as shown by the
spots, means decrease of the solar
heat received by the earth or the con-
trary.
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Sick Cabinet Ministers.

WASHINGTON, March Bottle Presidents
Cabinet officers seem to be in a
bad way. Secretary Manning can not
possibly recover from his illness for
several weeks yet; Attorney-General
Garland has been confined to the house
since Friday with threatened attack
of pneumonia; Secretary Lamar has a
severe cold that will keep him indoors until
Wednesday at least, and Postmaster-Gen-
eral Villas complains that the hard work OF
his office is breaking him down, and that
it will be necessary for him to take a rest
soon for the benefit OF his health. Secre-
tary Manning is said to be improving.
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The Newfoundland fishing fleet
sailed from ST. Johns few days ago.
The partial failures of the past three
years have had adepressing effect upon
the business, and the general outfit for
the fishery this year will be less than
formerly. The number of sailing yes
sells diminisheS yearly, as in competi-
ton with steamers their chances of sue
cess are small
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"PoOR CARLoTTA," the once beauti-
full Empress of Mexico, is reported as
nearing the close of her tragic career
at the old castle of Bouchot, near Brus-
sells. Happily, the tragedy which
eighteen years ago blighted her life and
darkened her reason left her no re-
membrance of the horrors through
which she had passed, and she has
dwelt since in an imaginary world of
regal magnifcence.
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Miss ADELIA SNYDER, Buffalo
blonde, who had her hair bleached to
suit her lover, sues the hairdresser for
$4,000 damages, because the process
first turned her tresses red and then
caused them to fall out, making her a
''perfect fright, and losing her an of
fer of marriage.