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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31
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DARING ROBBERY.

Exploit of Three Men at Minneapolis-A
Street Full of People Cowed While They
Rob q Jewelry Store and Make Their
Escape.
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Dec 23.-About nine
O'Clock last evening three men drove up in
front of the large jewelry store of j. R.
Elliott, corner of Nicollett avenue and
Third street. Two of the men jumped
from their sleigh, while the third
held the horses. One of the men
carried heavy stick of wood, with which
he smashed the large plate-glass show-win-
dow, in which were trays Of diamonds,
watches and jewelry, hurriedly seized
all the availables and threw them into the
sleigh, while his accomplices kept the
crowds OF people that sWarmed the streets
at bay with cooked revolvers. Before any
thing could be done to apprehend them both
men had jumped into the sleigh and drove
rapidly up the street, the driver wildly
lashing the horses and the robbers
standing with revolvers pointed at
the crowd. They secured between
$4,000 and $1,000 worth of dia-
monds and watches. For boldness and
daring this excels the James brothers ex-
ploits The streets were unusually
crowded, ard scores of people were look
ing at the display in Elliott's window al
the time of the robbery. Several police
men were within half block of the scene,
but could not get there in time to appre-
bend the thieves. A posse of men has
started after them with fast horses, and
the telephone and telegraph have been
utilized to notify all outlets of the city to
be on the lookout for them.
New York, Dec. 23.-The jewelry store
of William Jones, on Monticello avenue,
was robbed of 5000 worth of rings, ETC.,
last night by two men, one of whom held a
revolver on Jones and his wife while the
other snatched two trays from the case,
and the two men ran out and escaped.
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TIE EAST.

AT Buffalo, N. Y, H'pinkeye" was pre-
vailing on the ed, and eighty-seven street
car horses were sick.
In fit of jealousy on the 23d William
Warner shot and killed a young married
woman named Mary Lynch, near Newton
Conn, and then killed himself
THE statement was made by a mechanic
who arrived at Oswego, N. Y, on the 23d
from Panama, where he was at work fol-
the canal company, that employees were be
ing buried daily by the hundreds, and that
at the burying ground long trench was
dug, and the bodies were dumped in and
covered with two or three feet of earth.
THE other day Pliny Nickerson, one Of
Boston's foremost merchants and an extern.
sive ship-owner, failed for 100000
AT New Rochelle, N. Y, Captain Peter
L. Lefevre, superintendent of the Savan
nah line of steamers, and his wife, were
suffocated by coal-gas on the Gath in theil
home
On the Goth Rev. S. H Keller, aged
eighty-siX years, fell dead in the Congrega-
tional Church at Somerville, N. j. He had
been in the ministry since 1929.
A FIRE on the 9th destroyed the new
Temple Theater at Philadelphia, which
cost William NJ. Singerly 100000 Tive
fire-men were killed by falling walls.
IN New York on the 9th w. K. Soutter
an lnsolvent banker was indicted on the
9th for grand larceny, in misappropriat
ing the estate of his grandfather in the
amount of $4,000.
The death of Ashbel H. Barney, one O.
the founders of the express business, oc
CURED on the 9th in New York.
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children and herself on the evening Of the
18th. She had been subject TO fits of in
sanity.
THE Dean Wooden Company mills, at
Newark, Del, were destroyed by fire on
the 25th. Loss, $500, 900.
THE bicycle race at Minneapolis closed on
the 18th, Schock having ridden LAOS miles
in 142 hours. The best previous record was
] ,405 miles in IA hours.
Mrs. SARAH VICTOR, convicted in Cleve-
land, O., twenty years ago of poisoning
her brother to get his hfe-insurance, and
who has spent nineteen years in solitary
confinement, was pardoned by Governor
Foraker on the 25th. Mrs. Victor always
claimed that she was innocent.
THE Wmnebago Indians in the vicinity
of Black River Falls, Wis, were on the
25th in destitute circumstances for lack of
their annuity from the Government.
THE failure is announced of the N. C..
Thompson Manufacturing Company OF
Rockford, ILL.,, for 100000.
THROUGHOUT Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Indiana there were heavy snow-storms
on the 26th
On the 26th Frank Weigman, the oldest
man in the State of Ohio, died at the home
Of his daughter in Cincinnati, aged 105
years and two months.
GOVERNOR ALGER presented nearly six
hundred newsboys in Detroit with new
suits of clothes on Christmas Day. In
Chicago six hundred newsboys and news
girls were furnished dinner by Mrs. Wal
lace from funds left by her deceased son.
THE death of John Moffat, one of the
best-known temperance workers in the
country, occurred at st. Louis on the 18th,
at the age of fifty-eight years.
Mrs. JOSHUA DEAN, residing near Clin-
ton, Ind, was shot dead ON the 9th by the
accidental discharge of pistol in the
hands of her son, Albert Dean, who had
come from Illinois to visit her.
THE thermometer in portions of Illinois
marked ~ degrees below zero on the morn
ing of the 9th, in Iowa % below, in Wis
consin 30 below and in Minnesota 80 below
On the 9th Fred Wittrock, alias Jim
Cummings, Tom Weaver. a laundryman,
Ed Kinney, coal dealer, W. w. Haight, an
ex-express messenger, all of Chicago, and
Oscar Cook, Kansas City cooper, were
under arrest in Chicago for the robbery of
an Adams Express car October 25 last, near
st. Louis. With the men $1,000 was recov-
cred, leaving $4,000 yet missing.
SECRETARY LAMAR, of the Interior De-
partment, was married at Macon, Ga, on
the afternoon of the 27th, to Mrs. Holt, of
that city.
Two OF the principal glass works of Bal
timore suspended operations on the 9th,
insisting that their employees must with
draw from the trade league
IN San Francisco a riot took place on the
27th, the drivers and conductors being
driven from the street-cars and property
wrecked by the strikers. The police, in
trying to stop the lawlessn ess, were at
tackled with stones.
THE Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner
on the 9th secured judgments aggregating
1882, 500 against thirty-eight insurance COM
nanies for violation of the State laws.
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LATER.

II was decided on the 2Sth that the re-
mains of General Logan would be inferred
in cemetery at Washington until a final
burial-pace could be determined upon.
The General died poor, aud while it was
clear that liberal pension would be
granted to Mrs. Logan, several leading
men throughout the country had already
subscribed $4,000 for her relief.
Dr. PArTEN, an aged dentist, was burned
to death in his home at Ellsworth, Me-, on
the 25th.
THE steamers r. S. Hayes and City of
Natchez, with four barges, were burned to
the waters edge on the 2Sth at Cairo, Ill.
The losses aggregated 500, 600
THE Prohibitionists of the Eighth Wis
consin Congressional district on the 2Slh
nominated Hugh Price for the short term
and Peter Truax for the long term in Con-
gress.
Mrs. JOHN BURKE, of Scranton, Pa, fell
down stairs on the 2Sth with lighted
lamp in her hand, and, the lamp exploding,
she was burned to death.
JOHN ELoA, JR., charged with the murder
OF John Lavalle, was taken out of Jail at
Arcadia, La, on the 18th and hanged to a
tree.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the
2Sth issued a call for S10,0O000o of three per
cent. bonds. The call will mature Feb
ruary l, 1887
THE meeting of the British Parliament
has been postponed until February.
CHOLERA was on the 2Sth officially de-
clared to be extinct in Hungary, the total
number of cases in Pesth being 966, of
which 400 were fatal.
AT Angus, Ia, on the 2Sth the boiler in
the Armstrong mine exploded, killing three
men and fatally wounding another.
Mrs. HENDERSON, of Middletown, o.,
while handling pistol on the 18th acct
dentally shot and killed her five-year- old
daughter.
The elections in Ontario on the 2Sth re-
suited in the return to power of the Liber-
ais, who will have an increased majority
in the Legislature.
WILLIAM KIMMEL, ex-member of Con-
gress and prominent Marylander. died
at Baltimore on the 2Sth, aged seventy -four
years
THE pinkeye was spreading among
horses at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th, and
many deaths had occurred.
LEWIS d. HAYES, for six years one Of the
editorial writers of the Indianapolis Jour
nal, died in that city on the 2Sth. aged
Gnlrty-Seyen years.
THE will of the late John O. A. Williams,
filed at Boston on the 2Sth, bequeaths $780,
900 to Harvard University
Helms brewery at st. Louis was de-
stroyed by fire ON the 2Sth two men per-
lshlng in the flames
WITTRocK, the leader of the gang who
robbed the express car near st. Louis last
October, and who was arrested recently in
Chicago, made confession on the 18th,
and large share Of the plumber was re-
covered in his mothers barn at Leaven-
worth, Kan.
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A SHINING MARK.
Deaths Latest Claim Upon Ameri-
cas- Galaxy Of Great Men.
DEMISE OF SENATOR JOHN A. LOGAN.
The End Somewhat Suddsn-The Devoted
Wife Frustrated = Messages CT Con-
dolence - Talk of His Successor
Sketch of His Career.
GENERAL LOGAN PASSES AWAY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. o. General Logan
died yesterday afternoon at three minutes
before three o'clock. Death came gently,
and he slowly faded away. There was no
pain, no struggle, l4o death-bed scene. The
vital fame burned itself out. The Gen
erals illness was of a fortnight's duration.
1t began with rheumatism IL the right
wrist, painful but not dangerous,
and the less likely to excite solici-
tude because it was not unusual Dr.
Baxter, of the army, attended him, and he
grew better. He went out took cold, and
had relapse. His nervous system became
completely Frustrated. The rheumatism be
came rheumatic fever, and this brought on
cerebral congestion, which was the INNS
ate cause of death.
The approach of dissolution was plainly
foreseen at noon. There were present in
the room when death came Mrs. Logan,
her daughter, Mrs. Tucker and Major Tuck
er, and the only son, Manning Logan, Gen
eral Sheridan, General Beale, Senator Gull
lom and daughter, General Henderson, of
Illinois, Representative Dumas, DE-. Pow
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Severe snow-Storms.

LONDON, Dec. 28.-One of the severest
snowstorms that ever visited the county
passed over England yesterday Railroad
trains were blocked and telegraph wires
borne down by the storm in many places.
The snow was accompanied by hurricanes
on the southern and eastern coasts, and re-
ports of numerous wrecks are slowly ar.
irving. There has been much damage
to life. and property. Several railway ac-
cidents are reported and some hair-breadth
escapes from falling telegraph poles.
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larges the classes of persons to be entitled
to the benefits of the Pension law so as to
include all who may have been disabled
while actually engaged in the service of
the United States, whether they were mus
tered in or not. 1t also grants pension
to all female nurses in the late war who
shall have arrived at the age of fifty
years, and are without the means of COM
Portable support 1t provides that there
shall be two classes of pensionable disahili-
ties-viz., specific and non-specifc. Nom
specific disability is defined as one the
nature and degree of which can not be de-
termined without the aid of evidence or of
medical examination. The pensionable
disabilities are graded from one to
twenty, according to the degree of injury
incurred. The rate of pension for
minor children is increased from
81 to S. per month. The Pension Office is
required to give every claimant ten days.
notice Of the time and place of any special
examination into the merits of his claim, or
of any inquiry by letter to the postmaster
or neighbors of the claimant concerning his
disability or credlbility, or the credibility
of his witnesses. The Pension Office is
deharred from receiving information I'M
der agreement to conceal the source Or
subject-matter from the applicant 1t
is made unlawful to reject claim upon
evidence secured by secret investigation
or because the records of the War or Navy
Dep; ,rtment fail to show the existence of
disease, wound or injury. 1t is also made
unlawful to reduce a pension or strike the
name of pensioner from the rolls with
out giving thirty days. notice to the per-
son affected. When claimant who is
entitled to arrears of pension dies before
the claim is adjudicated the widow, minor
children and dependent relatives shall be
entitled to the pensions The bill also COR
reefs what are held to be imperfections in
minor matters of the present pension laws
"Such further sum as may be necessary to
pay the pensions granted under the provis-
ions of this act" is appropriated in addition
to the $75,OO0,G0O appropriated by the last
Pension hill
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IT certainly does take "all sorts OF
people to make world" One woman
wrote not long ago to Mr.. Corcoran,
the Washington philanthropist, that,
although her husband was worth fifty
thousand dollars, she wanted to be in
dependent of him, and wanted Cor
eoran to send her enough money SO
that she could live upon the interest,
Another lady wanted six thousand dol
lars to be used in European travel.
Another wanted pink silk dress for 8
ball, and another wanted barrel OF
salt pork.
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a PRETENTIoUs swindler, represent
ing himself as scientist, who borrows
books, money and specimens, which he
never returns, and arranges dates for
lectures, which are never given, has
been victimizing people throughout the
country for four years. He represents
himself as Captain Clarence Z. Dalton,
the famous geologist and writer, who
is more than anxious that the swindler
should receive his just deserts.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31

ALL the postal cards in use are made
Mt Castleton, N. Y, and about $50, O00,-
600 were used in 1886. The cost for
the contract term of four years will be
about $7S0,000. Postal cards were first
issued in 1874. Nearly 400, 1000, 600 were
used in 1888, but the depression in bust
ness and the reduction of letter postage
cut down the demand for them, The
present condition of the business inter-
ests of the country justifies the expec-
tation of an unusually large demand for
postal cards during the coming year.
The cards cost about forty-six cents a
thousand.
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GuM-CHEwING girls, take notice! A
Morristown IN. j. maiden has lost all
control of her jaw through this per-
nicious habit. A physician whom she
consulted said that she had worn out
the muscle that acts as a hinge, and
she would be obliged to resort to an
operation to make it taut again.
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A Big Strike.

READING, Pa Dec. 28.-Owing to the
strike OF the Philadelphia & Reading coal
handlers at Port Richmond, but three coal
trains passed through Reading yesterday
with coal for furnaces and retail dealers,
while usually from 1900 to 1000 ears pass
through daily to Port Richmond. The crews
OF all through coal trains from Palo Alto to
Port Richmond have been sent home, and
all loaded coal cars for Port Richmond have
been side-traeked along the line. All coal
shipments are practically at standstill
and trade is paralyzed. If this continues
the mines will have to shut down, and 49,
600 miners will be thrown out of employ
ment at the beginning Of the new year.
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THE Madison Square Garden, in New
York, has been sold to a syndicate of
prominent citizens for the purpose of
building what is to be known as q
paldis d'induStrie. The price paid was
$1,000,000. The structure will be an
elegant one, modelled on the institution
of the same name in Paris. 1t will be
a permanent exhibition of pictures,
statuary and artistic furniture. All
ARTICLES for general use and ornamental
ton will be exhibited and sold There
will also be a concert hall and theater,
and roof-garden will probably add to
the attractions.
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SNOW BOUND.


Cities in Germany Cut Off from Outside
Communication by Blockaded Rail
waXs.
BERLIN, Dec. 23.-The heavy snow-storm
which is still raging over a large part of
Germany has caused a complete suspen-
sion of railway traffic with Saxony, Ba-
aria and Thuringia, and partial suspen-
sion of communication with Silesia, Posen,
Frankfort, Mainz, Worms and Strasburg
(Alsace). The leading railway lines
are being cleared by troops. The in
cessant downfall of snow makes the work
very difficult Dresden has received no
mail from Leips-c or Chemnitz for two
days. A postal service by mems of sledges
has been arranged between Dresden and
Leipsic. A dispatch from Cassel says that
the storm is raging without abatement over
Central Germany, and that no co nmunica-
ton has been had with Berlin since Monday.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31

Few people know that by Congress
sional action in 1862 and 1868 medals
were authorized awarded for military
gallantry. Acknowledgement Drum has
just compiled list of the honor men.
Probably, for service in the civil war
and in Indian service, about one thou
sand men have received these medals.
The most common ground of award
was the capture of the enemy's flag.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31

THE viii of Ann Vain Ryerss, of
Philadelphia, leaves $4,000 in trust to
the Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals to found an infrmary
for sick animals. Requests are also
made of $4,000 to the home for aged
colored persons, $4,000 to suffering In
dams, $4,000 to the freedmen of the
South and West. $1,000 10 the Indian
seminary at Carlisle, Pa, and $4,000
to various institutions. A codicil says
that should the testator's step-son, Rob
ert Vain Ryerss, meet with serious
business losses, then the will is to be
void and the property given to him.
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Now THAT a health crank has dis
covered that eating potatoes fills the
body with starch and produces catarrh,
the Chicago Journal says it will be in
order for some other crank to discover
that eating good beefsteak ruins the di-
gestive organs, debilitates the system
and causes premature death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31

JOHN D. MILES has bought for syn
dictate, for 100000, a tract of land in
Mexico one hundred and sixty miles
long and six miles wide, extending
from Paso del Norte down the Rio
Grande. A monster cattle ranch will
be established on the tract.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31

The celebrated shop called the Bon
Marche, in Paris, has "band" or or
chestra composed of $50 of the men
and women connected with the estab-
lishment. The other evening, writes a
correspondent, they gave a concert in
the huge halls of the store, and eminent
artists like NJ. Faure, of the grand
opera, were among the singers. There
were no less than seven thousand peo-
pie in the audience.
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TIE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLlXth CONGRESS.
Second session.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. p. In the Senate
Mr.. Blair reported bill to amend the laws
relating to pensions. A resolution by Mr..
Dawes to inquire into and report what
specific reductions can be made in the Gus
toms duties and internal taxes that will re-
duce taxes to the necessary anu economical
expenses of the Government without i'm
pairing the prosperity of home industries
or the compensation of home labor was
adopted. Adjourned to January 4. In the
House Mr.. Warner reported bill requir-
ing all Immigrant railroad companies to
construct, maintain and operate telegraph
lines. After discussion of the Oklahoma
bill the House adjourned until January 4.
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mn THE heirs of the late Mrs. A. T.
Stewart have decided to sell the entire
contents of her Fifth avenue mansion
in New York, and the great collection
of paintings, statuary, silverware and
bric-a-brac will be disposed of at auc-
4ion
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BRooKLYNs Grand Army looked
after the needy ones on Christmas.
Five hundred veterans families were
given material for good dinner. Out
of Kings County's war quota of thirty
thousand but about three thousand are
now living there.
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THE New York State Dairymen's
Association passed resolutions at a re-
cent meeting thanking State and Ma
tional officers who had aided in secur-
ing and enforcing the anti-oleomar-
garine law, and requesting Congress to
increase the tax to ten cents pound.
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An Imprisoned st. Louis Embezzler Par.
doned by President Cleveland.

ST.. Louis, Dec 23.-Obey E. Owens, the
receiving Teller of the Third National Bank
of this city, who in 1882 embezzled about
100000 of the funds OF that bank, and who
has been serving sentence in the Chester,
H., penitentiary for that crime, was
pardoued Tuesday by the President.
Owens has served about one-half of the
term OF five years to which he was SEN
fenced The ground of pardon is
the reputability of his family and
the fact that he has been pretty well pun
ished already, and that his conduct in the
penitentiary has been most exemplary.
Two sisters of Mr.. Owens have been in
Washington making most persistent and
heartrending appeals to the Attorney-Gen
eral in their brothers. behalf, and he finally
advised the issue OF the pardon
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The Treasury Department has de-
cided that Canadian postal-cards i'm
ported into the United States are du-
table at the rate of twenty-five per
cent. ad valorem as printed matter not
specially provided for.
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IT is feared that the inauspicious
opening of winter will shorten next
years crop of weather predictions. An
exchange thinks it would be sad to
have this new and most promising in
dustry nipped in the bud, as it were.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31

Cardinal Mezzofante, or, as Plus
*. used to style him, the living mira
Gle of Pentecost, has at last been ex-
celled in linguistic achievement by one
Signor Marcantonia. Canini, of Ven
ice, who, on undoubted authority, can
speak fuently ninety-t cree languages.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31

Nowadays people nod; they used to
bow. That is to say, in the hurry and
contempt for forms which this genera
ton rather affects there is disposition
to do away with ceremoniousness.
There is a quick recognition ard rush
ing on to attend to business, which
seems to show more greed than gra-
ciousness. Boston Record.
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BUFFALO BILL" gave his Indians a
Christmas feast of stewed dog at Mad
ison Square Garden, New York. This
is the daintiest dish that can be set be-
fore an Indian.
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FARMERS on the Pacific coast were
recently busily engaged in blowing.

EXACTLY one hundred and fifty lives
have been lost SO far in the construc-
ton of the new Croton aqueduct, near
New York City.
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AN attempt is beng made in Brook
Ign, N. Y, to furnish hot and sub
stantial meals to the poor at a uniform
price of one cent during the winter.
Ladies are engineering the project.
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A SWEEPING MEASURE.

Senator Blair Introduces 3 Bill Making
Radical Changes in the Pension LAWS
a synopsis of Its Provisions.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23-At the request of
the Union Veteran Army of the Republic