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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-04

COLLEGE HILL TO- THE 'FRONT.'.
Small Lots.
One Acre Lots.
Two Acre Lots.
Five Acre Lots!
Land in any quantity on the Hillside and
Beyond.
This is the field for speculation.
Business lots on east Douglas and Washing
ton Avenues
Lots on North Main and South Market.
A few choice residence lots on North To-
peka ave. very cheap.
Large lot with SIX new tenement houses cor
ner of Emporla ave. and Lewis st. pay
ing good interest,
Twentylots in Perry's addition at $500 each.
Seven lots in Orme & Phillips addition at
$3.50 each.
Lots in Chautauqua add $500 each
Lots in all parts of the city
A few special bargains in residence property
Abstracts gratis to our patrons.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE families of six hundred fishermen on
the Gaspe and Bonaventure coasts are rem
dered destitute by the recent failure of the
Robin firm at Halifax
In the Prussian Landtag on the 2Sth
Prince Bismarck said that the prime reason
for the expulsion of the Poles was their dis
loyalty to Germany. The safety of the
state, and not religious prejudice, in
fuenced his course, and he would pursue it,
despite the opposition of the Reichstag.
In opening the Legislature on the 2sth the
Lieutenant of Ontario pro-
nonnced it unwise for the province to slim
ulate the immigration of labor.
THE resignation of the Salisbury Cabinet
was accepted by the Queen on the Goth ult.,
who at the same time summoned Gladstone
for consultation.
TIE execution of four members of Pol
ish revolutionary organization took place
at Warsaw on the Goth ult., and two of their
accomplices had their sentences committed
to twenty years servitude in Siberia.
THE failure of four prominent business
firms in Montreal took place on the 3Oth
ult. The assignments were attributed to the
embarrassments that arose during the
smallpox epidemic.
SUDDENLY and without the slightest
warning six buildings in London collapsed
on the Both ult., burying number of
passers by in the ruins. Five persons were
taken out dead and several others were
fatally injured.
In all the churches in Montreal special
thanksgiving services for the cessation of
the smallpox epidemic were held on the
31st ult.
UPoN arriving at Osborne on. the 1st Mr..
Gladstone received the personal command
Of the Queen to form Cabinet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
FUN AT ST PAUL.

A Gala Day in the Metropolis of the North
west on the Occasion of the Opening of
the Winter Observation-Disclosures of the
Ice Palace-An Imposing Street Parade.
81. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 2.-The winter car
nival was opened last night. The street
parade preliminary to the formal dedica-
ton OF the ice palace was the finest pageant
ever seen in the Northwest. Four thousand
uniformed members Of toboggan, snow
shoe and skating clubs were in line with
torches and transparencies. The streets
were lined with citizens and visitors
from all the principal cities in the
United States Canada and the British
Northwest. The streets along the line OF
march were exquisitely decorated with
triumphal arches at all the principal points
and were illuminated with transparencies.
The entire line of march was rendered
brilliant by the burning of colored fires.
Salvos OF artillery greeted the arrival at
the ice palace OF each club and cheers were
raised by the crowds as the procession
passed.
The palace, just completed from ice
blocks from the Mississippi and blocks fur
nished by cities and towns in the North
west, including Fargo from the Red river
and DEVILS Lake City from DEVILS lake,
Bismarck from the Missouri river Salt
water from the st. Croix, Duluth from
the st. Louis, and Duluth harbor from
White Bear lake, was splendid spec.
tacle, standing out in bold relief against
the clear, starlit sky and illuminated iron.
within by forty electric lights of varied
tints. The dedicatory exercises consisted
of formal transfer of the palace TO
the city by President Finch and a re-
transfer of it from the city by
Mayor Rice in fitting speeches and with
appropriate music.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Deatil OF Joseph Rankin.

=
The death of Joseph Rankin, of Manito-
voc, Congressman from the Fifth Wiscon-
sin district, occurred in Washington a few
days ago. His remains were taken to Man
itowoc for burial He leaves wife and
two children. "Joen Rankin, as he was
generally called, was born in Passaic, N. j.,
September %, 1888, and was consequently
fifty two years of age. He came to Wis
consin in 1854, settling first in Mishicott
He lived long at Manitowoc, and filed
various local offices at various times, and
at the outbreak of the rebellion entered
the military service and served three
years. 1t is not generally known, but a
fact nevertheless, that he was at one time
Inspector-General of the Department of the
Mississippi. He did good service, and many
tales of his army life are told by his COM
rades. Mr.. Rankin was a natural politi,
clan and an ardent Democrat He served
in the Wisconsin Assembly in the years
1860, 1871, 1872 1878, 1874, and was elected
chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee in 1877. He served in the State
Senate in 1877, 1878, 1879 and 1880, and again
in 1881 and 1882. He was elected member
of the Forty eighth Congress, and was re-
elected to the Forty-ninth. In Manitowoc
County, his home, he was very popular
with all classes without regard to politics,
everybody having kindly word for genial
HJoep
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
FROM WASHINGTON.

ACCORDING to the biennial directory OF
millers and mill furnishers there is total
of 1S,267 Touring mills in the United States
and Canada, being decrease, as compared
with 1884, of 6,6l2 The mills in the United
States number 16, S56.
UP to the 2Sth two thirds Of the 5000 bills
introduced in the House of Representatives
at Washington went to three committees,
as follows: Invalid Pensions, 1900; Claims,
1000; War Claims, 1,100.
THROUGHOUT the United States and Can
ada the business failures for the seven days
ended on the goth ult. numbered 279, as COM
pared with 800 the previous week.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 30th ult aggre-
gated 81, 006, 914659, against 1871 $3.50, 100 the
previous week. CAS- compared with the cor
responding week of 1884, the increase
amounts to 3S.2 per cent
On the morning Of the 3lst nit. the wife
OF Secretary Bayard died at Washington,
from congestion of the brain, at the age of
fifty-one years. She had been in poor
health for long time, and the recent
death of her daughter wrecked her nervous
system.
DURING the week ended on the 30th ult.
the issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis was 140,561. The issue during
the corresponding period last year was
105, 49S
The public-debt statement for January
isasfollows: Total debt (including INTEREST,",
81, S45, 923, 1856; less cash items available for
reduction of debt, and reserve bills for re-
demption of United States notes 1881 ,451,
55D, s1,514, ~, 1876; cash in Treasury, $79,-
6S9,862; debt, less amount in Treasury
81, 434, 7s2, 293 Decrease during January,
SS672, 553, Decrease since June 80, 1885, $780,
1882.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Sartoris (Nellie Grant, is liv-
ing at South Kensington, London.
General Grants memoirs have been
issued in the celebrated Tauchnitz edi-
ton of Leipzig.
There are two clergymen in Con-
gress, Messrs. Owen, of Indiana, and
Anderson, of Kansas.
Bib, Gagg, Dodd and Rigg are
monosyllabic names of four lawyers in
Gage County, Nebraska. /,
An admirer of ex-senator Conk-t
ling has sent that gentleman barrel
of chewing gum, believing it will cure
his dyspepsia.
"A Southern critic likens certain
literary lady's sonnets to 1.-THE silvery
texture of cobweb endowed with the
durability of a pearl"
George Parsons Lathrop says John
Boyle o Reilly was born physically in
Ireland, intellectually in Australia, and
POLITICALLY in Boston.
Nellie Gould, the only daughter of
jay Gould, joined the West Presby-
terrain Church in New York recently.
Mr.. Gould was present at the service
N. 7. san.
When Congressman Reed, of
Maine-now one of the leaders in Con-
gress-lived in California he was de-
scribed as ''lubberly, red-headed
school-teacher from Maine. &C Chicago
Journal.
Nh. Murfree, the father of Charles
Egbert Craddock, the novelist, is tall,
patriarchal Tennesseean, who is said
to betray by his looks the pride he
feels in his daughters success. Mrs.
Murfree is pleasant little woman,
with quiet voice and elderly appear
ance.
Colonel Thomas B. Davis, of Pied
mont, w. Va, recently declined to at
tend matrimonial matinee in Balti-
more because he chad no dress suit;
but, despite his reprehensible poverty
in this regard, he inclosed bis check
for So, 900, which doubtless suited the
bride.
Leopold, of Belgium, is one of the
most democratic of Kings. He saunters
about Brussels in the most leisurely
way, and is as familiar figure on the
Rue Rosale as President Grant used to
be on Pennsylvania avenue. He is
fully six feet tall, and has an angular
form and an awkward manner.
Colonel E. u. Judson, '.Ned Bunt-
line, is described as an elderly man,
short of stature and badly crippled by
wonds received during the war He
says that he is paid from $4,000 to
$1,000 for his stories, and that under
pressure he has produced six hundred
pages of foolscap manuscript in six
days.
-Schaefer, the billiardist, when
playing wears full evening dress. He
has a fine diamond stud in his shirt.
Vignaux also wears full dress suit.
His diamond stud is worn in his shirt.
collar. Schaefer carries his cues in
green sack and piece of chalk in one
of his vest pockets. Vignaux carries
jointed cue in a leather case.-M 7.
Mol.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
THE EAST.

THE Opera-house Block at Franklin, Pa,
1lled with stores, was burned ON the 2Sth
the loss aggregating $4,000
FIRE partially destroyed the Albany On.
" Brewing Company's brewery ON the
2sth. Loss, s15000O.
THE pens adjoining the slaughter-house
of Henry Walker, near New Brunswick, N.
j., were entered the other night by four
dogs who killed forty sheep.
A LIST has been published by the Massa-
chusetts Secretary of State of the persons
in that State whose names were legally
changed between the years 1850 and 1888.
1t comprises nearly ten thousand names.
The Reading railroad suffered loss of
nearly 81 100000 by the burning recently of
the engine-house at Mahoney Plane. Pa.
As result of the strike, coke was on the
Goth ult. becoming scarce, and furnaces in
the Pittsburgh district were closing down
for want of that article
TELEGRAMs on the goth ult. to BYadstyeet's
from a number Of large distributing centers
indicated that general business was very
quiet.
NEAR Pittsburgh an explosion at the
Banksvifle coal-mine the other morning
set fire tothe pit and cremated nine mules.
THE five-day billiard tournament in New
York ended on the 30th ult in a victory for
Schaefer, Vignaux making 2,s3S points in
five nights and Schaefer 5000.
BENJAMIN R. HrTcHcocK, founder of the
Palladium and the Journal aud Coayier, de-
parted this life at New Haven Conn, on
the 31st ult. He was born in 1906 and was
said to be the oldest printer in the United
States.
In New Hampshire fruit-growers reported
On the 31st ult. that the recent sleet-storms
throughout the State had ruined their
orchards. In Nottingham one man lost
one thousand peach trees.
THIEVES broke into the home of Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas Westbrook, at Huntington,
Pa, on the LIST during their absence, and
carried off $500 in gold. The old couple
had been saving the money for years.
On the 1sv Edison's patent system of tele
graphing to and from moving trains to sta
tions along the road was successfully test
ed on Staten Island, N. Y Dispatches
were sent and received while the train was
running thirty miles an hour
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
THE SENATE DEFiED.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Garland RefIses to
Transmit Information Asked for Con-
corning Removals from Olfice-HiS Ac-
ton Endorsed by the President.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30-The Attorney
General has sent letter to the Senate in
answer to the resolution calling for "all
documents and papers in relation to the
management and conduct of the office of
United States Attorney for the Southern
District of Alabama" in which, after ac-
knowedging the receipt of the resolution
in question, he says:
In response to said resolution, the President
of the United States directs nc to say that the
papers, which were in this department, rea.t-
ing to the fitness of j. ID. Bennett, recently
nominated to said Office, having been already
sent to the Judiciary Committee of the SEN
ate, and the papers and documents which
are mentioned in said resolution, ana still
remaining in the custody of this depart
ment, have exclusive reference to the sus-
pension by the President of George NJ. Dus-
tin, the late incumbent of the Office of Dis
trict Attorney of the United States for the
Southern District of Alabama, it is not con-
sidered that the public interests will be pro-
noted by compliance with said resolution, and
the transmission of the papers and documents
therein mentioned to the Senate in executive
session. Very respectfully,
A. I'll. GARLAND, Attorney General.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05

Neb, by the State veterinarian on the ali
CATION that they had hydrophobia.
AT Cleveland, o., Alfred Smith, a lake
sailor, killed his wife and her female COM
panion on the 3lst nit with hammer.
because of suit for divorce, and then
made vain attempt to end his days with
a razor
JACK HANL0N and John Crawley, Of
Houston, Tex, fought duel with pistols
the other day, and both were killed The
men were both lovers of the same young
lady, hence the duel
SEVEN persons who committed murder in
the Indian Territory were sentenced at Fort
Smith, Ark, ON the 30th ult to be hanged
April % next.
NEAR Stockton, Cal, che cross-legee gave
way ON the Both ult, flooding IS, 600 acres of
land, of which 1900 acres was in wheat.
The loss by the inundation was estimated
at 5000, 900.
DURING the year 1885 the iron ore mined
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the
Vermillion district Of Minnesota aggre-
gated 2,427,437 tons, against 2,51S,04S tons
the previous year.
NEAR Frisco, Col, a snow-slide on the LIST
swept away three men, burying them under
one hundred feet of snow and rock.
INTERNAL-REvENUE AGENTS on the 1st
seized twelve Illicit distilleries in Overton
County, Tenn.
INDIGNANT at the business methods of
Postmaster Waters, of Quincy, Ark, the
citizens drove him out of town on the LIST
and lodged bullets in his house.
THE recently-completed census of Ne
blaska shows All increase rof 29S, 243 in pop
ulation in five years. The value of live
stock is SS3,000,000 against $33,000,000 in
1880, and the acreage under cultivation
has doubled. The value of farms has been
increased from $105, 600 600 to $685., coo, 900.
Several business houses at Jackson, Miss,
were destroyed by fire Oh the 1st, the esti-
mated loss being 100000
A FARMER named George Keller, living
near South Bend, Ind, hanged himself in
his barn on the LIST because he had too much
money and too little education to care
for it,
REPORTS Of the LIST state that in fixing the
disputed boundary line between Texas and
Indian Territory member of the commits
sion had made the startling discovery that
by the terms of the original treaty the
Lone-Star State is entitled to one-fifth OF
the present Indian Territory.
PAYMENT was suspended by Ritzinger
Bros Bank at Indianapolis, Ind, on the
LIST, with liabilities of $500,0OO. It was
claimed that the bank would pay forty
cents on the dollar
The st. Paul (Minn.) ice carnival was
formally inaugurated on the evening of the
LIST by the opening of the ice palace the
procession of uniformed clubs comprising
five thousand persons.
FLAMES on the lst swept away almost the
entire portion of Brownwood, Tex, includ-
ing the post-office. 1t was the work Of an
incendiarY
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
TRAGEDY IN TEXAS.

Officials Undertake to Arrest n Co1ered
Man Charged with Horse-Stea1ing-A
Desperate Fight Ensues in Which the
Sought for Criminal Is Killed, and Three
Other Persons Are Shot.
DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 50.-Detective Jack
Duncan, ofDallas, dDeputy- Sheriff Seely,
of Navarro County, Lett here in buggy for
Zimmerman's yesterday to capture an al
legged negro horse-thief named Jesse Bon.
ner. Duncan carried shotgun and pistols,
and Seely pistols. They entered the front
door of one of two cabins that stood
side by side. There were in the cabin
Jesse Bonner and wife, Robert Johnson,
Henry Johnson, the mother of Henry, and
Margaret Bonner, a ive-year-old child.
Without producing warrant OF arrest or
otherwise indicating their mission, one OF
the officers yelled eli yi!' and began
shooting. So say the negroes. They also
say that there was only one weapon in the
house. a small pistol
The officers say that Bonner has been
evading arrest, and has been going armed
for eighteen months They relate that as
soon as they appeared at the door Bonner.
showed fght, and, being urged on by
the other colored men, the little twelve
by twelve Voom, lighted by a pine
torch burning on the hearth, at
once became the scene of rapid litifsg. Dur
ing tliefusillade the torch was extinguished
and the shooting was carried on by the
light of rapidly flashing weapons. Accord
ing to the statement Of the officers, as soon
as they entered Bonner seized Duncan's pis-
toll and held it up, at the same time leyeling
his weapon at his face and firing, but with
out effect. A moment later Bonner had
tripped and thrown the detective to the
floor. Seely, who stood only three feet
from Duncan shot Bonner in the right side.
Duncan, before rising, shot one of the I'M
known persons who stood over him. A
woman yelled my child is shot?" The Gr-
ing did not cease till the ammunition waa
exhausted
Duncan stated that thecfi,d was shot by
a negro. The officers claim that not only
shot-guns but pistols were used freely in the
house and from the outside. Sheriff Seely' s
coat shows four bullet-holes in it. Robert
Johnson carries five buckshot in his leg
Bonner's child received ball in her forehead
that tore away a section of the frontal
skull. negro boy received several small
shot in his body and Bonner his death
wound in his heart. The sheriff of Dallas
County has ascertained that after the kill
ing Duncan tooka breech-loading shotgun
to a saloon and requested the bar-keeper to
keep it, remarking: II guess we've made a
bad killing"
Duncan and Seeley are in custody at the
county jail, and the grand jury is now in
vestigating the tragedy The opinion pre-
walls that indictments for murder will be
returned against Duncan and Seeley. Pub
lie opinion, as expressed on the streets and
in public places, is not complimentary to
them in connection with the tragedy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
DiXlE'S LAND.

Figures Showing the Rapid Progress of
the Southern States rec 1880.
BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. 30.-The Balti-
more Manufacturers Record publishes it's
annual review OF The industrial growth of
the South and the progress made in the
development OF the manufacturing and
mining interests of that section dur
ing 1885, notwithstanding the gem
eral depression in business through
out the country. A noticeable feature
is the wide diversity of new enterprises,
which include almost every industry known
in the country. The amount OF capital, in
Guiding capital stock OF incorporated COM
panies organized during the year and in en-
larging aud rebuilding structures destroyed
by fire, aggregates $66, $4,000, divided
among the fourteen Southern States
as follows: Alabama, $7,S41 900; Ar
kansas, 81 100000; Florida, $2,1O9, 900;
Georgia, So, 500, 100; Kentucky, SIS, $780,
600; Louisiana, Sails, 500; Maryland,
$6,668, 800; Mississippi, $761, 500; North
Carolna, $3,230,000; South Carolina,
$500 Tennessee, $685. 900; Texas,
$3,232,000; Virginia, $3,314,000; West
Virginia, $12, 056,000. Total, $66,812,-
900. Summing up some STATISTICS of
the Souths progress since 1880,
the Record shows that since then
10000 miles have been added to
ler railroad mileage, the building of which,
added to the investments in old roads and
their improvements, foots up ST. 900, 600,
the actual cost OF the railroads of the South
ard their equipment, according to statistics,
being over 81, 250,0 900. against $685.
100000 in 1880. The assessed value of
property in the South has increased nearly
81 ,OOO. 600 900 since 1879.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-05
TRIPLE TRAGEDY.

Alfred Smith Foully Murders His Es-
tranged Wife and Her Lady Companion
at Cleveland, O.-The Murderer At
tempts Suicide.
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. lone of the
bloodiest tragedies ever enacted in Cleve-
land WAS discovered here yesterday morn
ing shortly after ten o'clock. The victims
were Mrs. Athaldine Smith, clairvoyant
well known in the city, and Mrs Louisa
Jane Wilson, a friend, who has been her
companion of late. Mrs. Wilson was a Wild
ow. Mrs Smith had husband, but his
brutal treatment had caused her to bring
suit for divorce, which he had asked her to
withdraw, and had threatened vengeance
because of her refusal to do so. They had
two children, O boy OF twelve and a girl OF
sixteen years. Smith called Saturday
night at the rooms occupied by his wife on
Superior street, opposite the City Hall, and
became so abusive that policeman was
called who persuaded him to retire.
Yesterday morning the absence of any
signs of life in the apartments aroused the
suspicious OF the janitress. Mounting a.
step-ladder she looked through the tran
som and saw blood upon the floor. She
called an officer who broke open the door,
sickening sight was revealed. Across the
bed which was crimson with blood lay
the bodies of Smith, his wife, and Mrs.
Wilson. The latter was at the head,
Mrs. Smith at the foot, and Smith
between them. The women we're
dead, and blood was flowing freely from an
ugly razor wound across the throat of
Smith, but he was still alive. The multi
ated features OF the women indicated that
bloody hammer on The floor was the
cruel instrument that had been used to ae-
complish their deaths. Mrs. Smith was
lying fat upon her back with barely a
fragment of clothing upon her person.
Her head rested against the wall and
her face was turned upward. Little
shreds of flesh hung from her cheeks; the
nose was broken, crushed and fattened;
the skull was crushed in and there was not
hundredth part of an inch of space on
her head that did not bear the marks of
the hammer. Mrs. Wilson's head, like
that of Mrs. Smith, was battered
in terrible manner. One eye was
entirely gouged out. The furniture in
the room WAS in confusion and gave
signs Of q life-and-death struggle. The
clothing of the women, which lay upon
chairs, was despatched with blood. There
was blood everywhere. A pool of blood
upon the bed in another room, and the
razor on the floor near by, showed that
Smiths attempt upon his life was made
there, and that afterward he placed himself
between his victims. Smith was taken to
the Huron street hospital. The hospital
physicians say that his chances for recov-
cry are excellent.