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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22
HUMOROUS.

=" There's falling off in the popu-
lation," observed the Brooklyn police
man" 'since this bridge was erected"
-Loa0eu Citizen.
There's nothing new under the
sun, but we presume man would find
considerable novelty in going over that
luminary. It'd Bits.
Jones" Hello, Smith! Got home
again?'' Smith, suppose SO. I
don't look as if | were out of town, do
I?"-L0UeU Citizen.
Those striking walters in London
are not carrying every thing before
them, as they did before they struck.
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
=" That is what l call border war;
fare!" is Spriggin's exclamation when
ever he assaults steak in Mrs. Cold
teas mealery.-RGmbler.
Scene, front door. Time, twelve
o'clock Sunday night. She Say,
George, when are you coming again?"
He-'O, I'll be here Monday night"
She-''Say, George, can't you como
before Monday?"-Lye.
Young Wife (who is trying hare; to
be practical-''I see eggs are firmer,
according to the market reports"
Husband-"'Yes, my love-" Wife
''That means that they are hard-boiled,
doesn't it?'-BOStoR Budget.
"A lady entered a drug store and
asked for a bottle of James En-
perience." The clerk informed her
that Jane hadn't bottled her experience
yet, but they could furnish her with
James Expectorant. "-Ne0o Age.
"A Cloverda,e farmer who hires
Indian help, asked Indian Bill what
had become of Indian jim. Jim
sick, ".was the answer. whats the
matter?" asked the farmer 'Oh that
- American disease, nomoney."
Further examination found Jim suf-
fering from pneumonia. San Francis
co AHa.
Ills any one waiting on you," in
CURED the polite salesman of a West
vile maiden. "Well, | can't hardly
tell, )" she blushingly replied. Some
times l think there is and then again L
amt certain, but Wills so sort of fun
ny, you know" and then she blushed
again and asked to look at some lace
collars. Haren NeaCS.
Il am just disguised with that
young lawyer who called last night"
''What has he been doing now?" ale
tried to kiss me, and told him to be-
have himself or would call for assist
ance." "And he kissed you, never
theless?" mo, he didn't make an
other attempt-the miserable donkey.
He is one of the strangest men l ever
saw. "-GernGn joke.
Mrs. Ramsbothan abroad. This
estimable lady. who has been going
through the cure at Mont Dore, was
describing the system to friend, and
wishing to explain that she first visited
the bath and afterward took her glass
of mineral water at the spring, she
said: "My dear, the treatment is very
simple; you take your bath first and
then you drink the water afterward."
Her friend was Mortified. Punch.
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BLOWING GREAT GUNS.
Chicago and Other Points in the North.
west Visited by Terrific Wind-Storm-
Twenty-Five Houses Wrecked and Sew
eral Lives Lost at Buffalo, n. Y.

Chicago and Other Points In the North.
west Visited by a Terrific Wind-Storm-
Twenty-Five Houses Wrecked and Sew
eral Lives Lost at Buffalo, n. Y.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. ia terrific gale,
accompanied by rain, set in here yesterday
afternoon and continued with increasing
fury. At midnight the wind was blowing
siXty-ave miles per hour. "The island,''
inhabited by squatters, is flooded, and
the waters pour in huge waves over it.
Twenty five houses have been destroyed and
over 100 persons are homeless People are
moving their household effects to the main
land. Officers were sent to the rescue of
the family of Charles Lambert. Lambert
was saved, but his wife and daughter were
drowned. Several others are reported
missing. The Easements of all the houses
on Canal street are flooded, the inmates
taking refuge in the upper floors. The
roof of the Western Transportation House
was blown Off Michigan street is flooded
seven hundred feet from the dock. Ohio
street is completely flooded. All the lun1-
Der yards on the island are wrecked. The
damage to shipping is very great. Barges
are floating over Evans dock, and a num-
Der are reported smashed. At eight o'clock
last evening the rear wall of the new Music
Hall went down with a crash. No one was
injured.
CHICAGO, Oct 15-The storm which Wis
tied this city yesterday started in Canada
Tuesday morning. 1t reached here by way
of Omaha, Neb., and Davenport, Ia, in
creasing in fierceness all the time and do
ing great damage en- route This city was
entirely cut off from Geographic communi-
cation for hours. In the surrounding coun-
try, where the wind had clean sweep,
great damage was done to property.
Coming from the southwest the wind
tore through Humboldt, Douglas and Gar
field parks with the fury of a hurricane.
Young saplings were torn up by the roots
and sent whirhng through the air, while
limbs were torn from the larger trees
Small wooden houses on the prairie were
unroofed or blown down, and near Garfield
Park two small structures were blown
down.
Dispatches from Streator, Odell, Lock
port, Peoria, Henry and other points in
Illinois; Fort Wayne, Peru, Logansport
and Monroeville in Indiana; Adrian, Mich;
Clinton, Ia. and Racine, Wis, report great
damage to property
KANKAKEE, Ill, Oct. 15.-The water
works tower, made of boiler-iron, 1875 feet
high and twenty feet across, was blown
down by the wind yesterday morning. The
tower was completed only last week, and
cost $4,000.
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have been set by Mrs. Provost, ssno had
threatened to burn the town unless the
saloons stopped selling liquor to her hus-
band.
HENRY ZIGLER nearly killed his wife with
Il revolver at hotel in indianapolis, Ind,
on the 17th, and then slew himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
THERE was terrible suffering on the 18th
among the survivors of the food at abine
Pass and Johnson's Bayou, in Texas.
On the 10Th homing pigeon was released
at Wichita Kan, and reached Wheeling,
w. Va, on the 18th. covering the airline
distance of 200 miles in 50 hours Al min
utes.
TIE doors of the last saloon in Atlanta
were closed on the 18th because OF a de-
cisioD by the Supreme Court of Georgia
that the passage of Proh1bitory law can
celed every license.
FLAKES were on the 18th devastating
the swamps and forest to the westward
of Akron, O.
AT the Union Stock Yards in Chicago
the strike came to an end on the 18th, the
seventeen thousand strikers deciding to
return to the ten-hour day plan, as de-
manded by their employers.
AT the assembling of the National CON
yention of distillers and liquor dealers in
Chicago on the 18th nearly four hundred
delegates were present.
THE discovery was made on the 18th
that r. M. Doll, confidential book-keeper
of Weller & Co., of Cincinnati, had stolen
100000 by means of fraudulent warehouse
receipts.
On the 18th bed of rock salt sixty feet
thick was found underlying the town of
Wellington, Kan.
THE National Brotherhood of Railway
Brakemen met in third annual convention
at San Antonio, Tex, on the 1StA with four
hundred delegates from every State and
Territory in the Union. The annual re-
port takes strong ground in favor of arbi-
tration, instead of strikes in the settle
ment Of disputes with railway companies.
IN Chicago on the 18th the first of series
of seven baseball games for the champion
ship of the world was played by the Chicago
League club and the st. Louis Brown
Stockings, the former winning by score
of 6 TO O.
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LATER.

JOHN f. DUKEMIER, book keeper for Bur-
DELL Young & ingalls,, clothing dealers at
Boston, fed to Canada on the 10Th, leav-
ing his accounts $4,000 short.
AT Troy, N. Y, on the 10th Converse,
Collins, Merrill & Co.'s dry-goods house
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50 900.
FOREST and swamp fires were raging on
the 10Th in various parts of New Jersey,
doing immense damage.
Four young men were drowned on the
18th at st. Louis by the capsizing of
boat.
THERE were twenty deaths from cholera
and fifty-four new cases in Austro-
Hungary on the 10TH
The Vermont Legislature on the 18th
reelected George F. Edmunds United
States Senator by vote of 22S to So.
A FREIGHT train on the Burlington road
was thrown from the track by cow on
the 18th near Fairfield, Neb., and six men
were killed and sixteen others seriously
injured.
Mr.. HOLMES and his two sons were
drowned on the 10Th at Blue Rapids Kan,
by the upsetting of boat.
ABOUT fifteen hundred employees Of
hosiery mills at Kensington, Pa, struck
on the 18th against new wage list pro-
posed by the mill owners
THE general assembly of Knights of La
Dor, in session at Richmond Va, raised
the salary of Grand Master Powderly on
the 10th to five thousand dollars per an
mum.
FOREST fire which for ten days had
been devastating the Turtle mountains in
Dakota was on the 18th estimated to have
consumed timber worth 81, 900, 600
SEVERAL volcanoes in the Republic Of
Ecuador were in a state Of unusual activi-
ty on the 18th, causing much damage.
NEAR Pacific, No., Constant Dephfiander,
a demented young man, fatally shot his
mother and himself on the 10Th.
In the second baseball game on the
! 18th in Chicago for the worlds champion
ship the st, Louis club defeated the Chica-
go'S by a score of u to 0.
TIE business portion of La Grange,
Chicago suburb, was destroyed by fire on
the 10Th.
SECRETARY MANNING attended the Cabi-
net meeting on the 10Th for the first time
since he was taken sick in May last
THE following Congressional nomina-
tions were made on the 18th: Democrats
New York Second district, Felix Camp
bell (renominated) Fourth, P P. Malone;
Fifth, A. NJ. Bliss (renomin atedf: Eighth,
I. N. Campbell (renominated) Ninth, S.
S. Cox; Tenth, F. B. Spinola; Eleventh,
T. A. Merriam (renominated) Twelfth,
W. B. Cochran; Fifteenth, E. L. Viele;
Twenty-sixth, j. W. Downs; Connecticut,
First district, R. j. Vance. Republican,
New York, Seventh district, John D. Law
son.
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THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
POwderly Reelected Grand Master Work
man at the Richmond Convention.

Powderly Reelected Grand Master Work
man at the Richmond Convention.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 14.-As the result of
a secret caucus, the Knights of Labor in
convention Wednesday, reconsidered the
work of the previous day, and fixed the
term Of Office at two years. The plan of
the caucus to elect officers was also carried
out. T. V. Powderly was reelected General
Master Workman, and Mr.. Griffith General
Foreman. Secretary Turner was chosen
Treasurer, and Charles H. Litchman, of
Massachusetts, was made Secretary. After
an informal ballot for members of the Ex-
ecutive Board, in which Hayes led Barry,
adjournment was voted.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 15.-The Knights of
Labor General Assembly elected these
members of the General Executive Board
yesterday: Thomas B. Barry, John w.
Hayes, William H. Bailey, A. A. Carleton,
T. B. Mcclure and Ira H. Aylesworth.
Yesterday, the General Assembly having
voted to appropriate money for the pur-
pose, the Executive Board decided to devote
$4,000 to assist loc1ed-out cotton workers
at Augusta, Ga, tanners and curriers' at
Salem and Peabody, Mass, and plumbers
in New York City, 5000 in each Of the
cases and to send further sums if needed.
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SUNK IN A FOG.

Two Steamers Collide on Lake Michigan
One Of Them Sinks in Fourteen FathOms
of Water-Five of Her Grew Missing and
Presumably Drowned.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. ia special
from Sheboygan to the ESening Wisconsin,,
says: ''The steambarge Selah Chamber
lain, Of Cleveland, collided with the steam
er John Pridgeon, Jr., Wednesday night,
between eight and nine o'clock, when about
three miles northeast Of this place, and
sunk in forty-two feet Of water. Five men
are missing and are supposed to have gone
down with the Chamberlain.
The Chamberlain left Milwaukee Wednes.
day afternoon and was bound for Esca
naba for iron. She had the schooner Fay
cite Brown in tow. The Pridgeon arrived
here yesterday morning.
Captain Greenley, Of the lost steam.
barge Selah Chamberlain, says the Cham
berlain was struck on the port bow
and was cut down to below the water
line. She Immediately began to sink, and
Captain Greenley ordered the boats low
cred. The five men who were lost jumped
into one of the boats, when the davits
broke, and they were dumped into the lake
and drowned. The Chamberlain lies about
three miles east of Sheboygan Point.
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TIE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.

For the seven days ended on the 18th
the business failures in the United States
and Canada numbered 179, against 49,
the previous seven days.
THE exchanges at twenty six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 10Th aggregated
81, 106 937, so against S1174 3l4, 758 the pre-
vious week AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1885, the increase
amounts to ia per cent.
TIE report of the Postmaster-General
shows an increase of 1852 post-office3 in
the past year, the whole number being
1854
ESTIMATES on the 10Th gave this year
cotton crop at G, 292, 7O3 bales.
DURING the week ended on the 10th the
number of standard silver dollars issued
from the minis was SCI, 904; same week
last year, 1,029, $50.
THE cash in the treasury at the COM
mencement of business on the 18Th was
S513, COS 31S.
IT was denied on the 18th by the chief of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
that there were counterfeits of the ten
dollar certificates in circulation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22

New York, Oct. 19.-Dr Fowler, whose
house on West Fortieth street was robbed
and partly burned by Bernard Kelly, his
servant, some time ago, has found secreted
in the house number of letters show
ing that Kelly belonged to a gang
of clerks and servants who sys-
tematicaily robbed their employers
and were permitted by Kelly to make Dr.
Fowler's house their headquarters. Men
and women were admitted at night and
caroused until morning DR.. Fowler says
that many of the letters found are from
trusted employees of leading business houses
in the city. Kelly is serving term of III.
prisonment for arson and theft
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FACTS ABOUT PENSIONS.

Synopsis of the Annual Report of Commits
sioner BlaciS-What 1t Costs the Repub-
lie to Be Grateful to Her Savors.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-The Commissioner
of Pensions has just issued his annual re-
port, which shows that at the close of the
fiscal year there were 365, 1888 pensioners,
classified as follows: Two hundred and
siXty-fve thousand eight hundred and fifty
four army invalids, S0,163 army widows,
minor children, and dependent relatives,
1858 navy invalids, 1873 navy widows,
minor children, and dependent rela-
tives, 1,539 survivors of the War Of 1912,
and 1897 widows of those who served
in that war, showing diminution
in survivors during the year of l ,406 and of
widows 3,S15. There were added to the rolls
during the year 40, 857 new pensioners, and
1923 whose pensions had been previously
dropped were restored to the rolls, MAX
ing an aggregate of 1905 pensioners
added during the year. During the
same period 22,099 pensioners were
dropped from the rolls for various causes,
leaving a net increase to the rolls of 20,659.
The average value Of each pension at the
close of the year is shown to be 1922, gain
of average annual value over last year of
$11.S8. The aggregate annual value of all
PCho1Ollo - .tOC,OSt3 OIL llSlCctoO VI 1fAC
value for the year Of S6,617,0H The amount
paid for pensions during the year was $685.
797, S31, a decrease over the previous year Of
81, 135, 456, a difference due to the difference
in amounts of "arrearages" paid. The differ
ence between the amount paid and the an
nual value is due to first payments, includ-
ing ''accrued' and arrears" The amount
paid to 37,SS7 new pensioners during the
year upon first payment was S22, 137, 054,
and there remained in the hands of the
several pension-agents 5,526 Of this class
unpaid at the close of business June 80, on
which there was due S2,S79,9 39.
According to General Blacks report
there are 2,647 counties in the United
States, and pensions are paid in all of them
but 116. Of these rs non-pension counties
40 are in Texas, % in Georgia, 0 in the
Indian Territory, each in Utah
and Dakota, each in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, in Florida, 3 in Arkansas, 2 each
in Alabama, Minnesota, Montana, Neva-
da and North Carolina, and one each in Cal
ifornia, Colorado Idaho, Tennessee, Virgin
la and Wisconsin. Seven hundred and sew
enty-one pensioners live in Canada, 80
in Germany, $50 in Great Britain, and 80
in Switzerland. OF the large number of
pensioned Swedes and Norwegians who
served in the Federal army during
the war for the suppression of the rebel
lion, mainly in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota regiments, only are paid in
Norway and but Is in Sweden. In France,
q pensioners are paid; Austria-Hungary,
II; Italy, 70; Holland, 10; Australia, TO- and
Spain, 10.
It can not be said that the Republic is I'M
grateful to its ex-soldiers and sailors, con-
sidering the fact that the total sum paid for
pensions since 1861 amounts to $S0S, 624,-
S11.57.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22

BADEAU in his recollections of Grant
tells of two attempts to take the life of
General Grant by wrecking the train
on which he was traveling-once when
he was returning from North Carolina
after the surrender of Johnston to
Sherman, and the second time in Indi-
ana shortly after the war. In the first
instance little damage was done, but
in the last the cars were wrecked and
thrown down steep embankment. In
both cases Grant was travelling by spe-
cial train. In neither were the details
OF the murderous attempt made public.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22

THE only pall-bearers at the funeral
of Salmon P. Chase, thirteen years
ago, who are alive are Whitelaw Reid,
editor of the New York 7T16une, and
Hiram Barney, of New York. They
were present at the memorial services
in Cincinnati the other day, when the
remains of the great iurist were placed
in Springrove Cemetery.
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Iowa Temperance Women,

Sioux CITY, la, Oct. 15.-The Women's
Christian Temperance Union convention of
Iowa elected yesterday these officers:
President, j. Ellen Foster; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. NJ J. Aldrich; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. Anna L. Mohin; Treasurer,
NJ. ]. Davenport. Delegates to the Ma
tional convention Were elected.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22

NEAR Newark, N. j., workmen re-
Gently unearthed a strong box contain
ing thirty thousand dollars of cancelled
bonds of Kearney township, N. j.
Ten years ago the town treasurer had
been accused of stealing twenty-five
thousand dollars, but he solemnly
averred that he redeemed the bonds,
which had then been stolen from his
office. The discovery clears up the
mystery
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The KNIGHTS.

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 16.-In the Knights
OF Labor convention yesterday t. G.
+. Schlieber, of Massachusetts,, and J. NJ
Broughton, OF Raleigh, N. c., were elected
members of the General Cooperative Board.
David +. Gibson, of Hamilton, Ont, was
elected Canadian supply agent. This COM
pleted the full corps of general officers
and their installation Immediately fol-
lowed.
The next general assembly of the knights
OF Labor will be held two years from now
ut minneapolis, MINI, the decision having
been reached yesterday afternoon after
tedious debate.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22

The recent death of Senator Austin
S. Pike, of New Hampshire, increases
the neurological list of the Forty-ninth
Congress to four. Two members have
by this means been removed from each
branch-Senators John +. Miller, of
California, and Pike, and Representa-
tives Joseph Rankin. of Wisconsin, and
Michael Hahn, of Louisiana All were
Republicans except Rankin.
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A POOR girl employed as u kitchen
servant in Toronto has just fallen
heiress to the largest cotton plantation
in Tunica County, Miss. A rumor has
been going the rounds for some time
past that Canadian servant girls on the
average receive three dollars month.
The heiress has raised the average con-
sluerably.
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THE LAST RITES.
Re-Int erment of the Remains of the Late
Chief-Justice Chase.

CINCINNATI, Oct. l5.-The special train
bearing the remains of Chief-Justice Sal
mon P. Chase and the committee and 9TH
ers to attend the ceremonies here, arrived
yesterday morning at nine o'clock over the
Cincinnati, Washington 81 Baltimore rail
road The party was met at the
depot by committee appointed to escort
the remains to Music Hail.
When the remains arrived at Music Hall,
where an immense audience had assembled,
fitting tribute to the memory of the depart
ed jurist were made by Ex-Governor
Hoadley, Justice Stanley Matthews and
Senator Voorhees, The remains were then
taken to Spring Grove cemetery, where
they were inferred by the side Of his wife.
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THREE trustworthy Gentlemen, who
occupied a sail-boat, report that at
1890 O'Clock the other day, when half
way between Westport and Southport,
Conn, they saw huge sea serpent,
seventy-tivo to one hundred feet of the
body of which was exposed, while the
monster carried its head five feet out
of the water.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22

PROF. WILLIAMS says in regard to
the projected paper-rail works at st.
Petersburg, that the rails can be made
at one-third the cost of steel rails, and
that they are very durable, the paper
being condensed by great pressure,
Being lighter than metal they can be
carried and laid at far less cost. They
are to be made in greater lengths than
ordinary rails, and the oscillation and
consequent wear and tear of rolling
stock will be proportionately dimin-
ished. The success or failure of the
project is question of durability
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MONTICELLO, ILL.,, Oct. 15.-Wednesday
night about one O'Clock nearly 200 disguised
men overpowered the sheriff and broke into
the jail and took the,efrom Henry Wildman,
the wife-murderer, and hanged him to a
small shade tree near the jail. After hang
ing him they then shot him eleven times to
make sure Of their work The mob was
well organized. They left his body hang
ing, and it was not cut down until about six
O'Clock, after the arrival Of the coroner.
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THEODORE Triton and Mrs. Billiard,
whose father left her fortune made
out of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup" are often seen in Paris riding
together, and are handsome couple.
Mrs. Tilton is in Protestant convent
at Newark. N. j.
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THIS is about the season of the year
when the busy housewife proceeds to
load the house with odors of spices
and boiling fruit and tomatoes, and
sits down at night to cry because she
allowed the catsup to stick to her best
preserve kettle and burn off the glaz-
inU
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In its October report of the grain
crops of this country the United States
Department of Agriculture estimates
that the years aggregate yield of wheat
will be about 444, 100000 bushels, be-
ing an increase of about 100,0OO,000
over last year; that the total corn crop
will be about 1850, 900, 900 bushels; the
oat crop about 600,000,0O0 bushels;
the barley crop over 5O,000,000 bush
els, and the rye crop over $4,000, 600
bushels. The promise of buckwheat
is for a crop slightly under the aver
aop
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22

AN exchange remarks: ''The Chinese
claim to have discovered the art of
sneezing and to have practiced it two
thousand years before any other nation
caught on" America, however, has
perfected. the sneeze with the hay-fcver
attachment.