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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

Extracts from the Report of the Commits
sioner of Education Giving Statistics of
the Progress of the Schools in Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The report of the
Commissioner of Education for 1888 and
1884 has just appeared. 1t contains the
following summaries of Western school
statistics: Illinois, with over / ,069, 900
youths of legal schoolage 20 to 12), report
ed in 1SS3-S4 an enrolment of 1928, 6S1 in
the public schools and 485 625 in aver
age daily attendance, or about 60 percent
of the school population enrolled and near
ly 46 per cent. in average attendance.
There were also 1921 attending private
or church schools, which, added to the
number in public schools, would give rs
per cent. of school population under in
structlon during some portion of the year.
Nearly $4,000 public school children were
taught the average term for the State be-
ing ISL days, and 50, 16S, 1876 was expended
on them.
Michigan with about $4,000 youths
within the legal school age Is to 20), re-
ported that over 100000, or 70 per cent.
were enrolled in public schools, besides
1890 in private schools. Public schools
were taught for a term of 1872 days at q
cost of over 81, $50, 600 in school-houses
valued, with other school property,
at nearly $1LO00,000. The figures
show an increase OF more than 1900 in
the number of pupils attending public
schools, and of about q, 500 in the attend
ance of private schools; of four. days in
the average public school term throughout
the State, of about $500, 600 iii the valua-
ton of public-school property, and OF
$376, 462 in the amount expended on pub
lie schools. There was also o. slight adj
vance in the pay of teachers, the average
monthly salary of men being $1.93 more,
and that of women $1.10.
Wisconsin statistics show that of $685.
$50 youths of legal age a to 20) in 1888
"a nearly 3l7 900, or about so per cent,
were enrolled in the public schools, an in
crease for the year OF over 1000 in the
enrolment and 1862 in school popu-
lation. The reported attendance in private
schools (15,615) decreased considerably
during the year, but these statistics were
incomplete, many large cities failing to re-
port on this point. About SO per cent. of
all children between and Is years OF age
attend the public schools, an increase for
the year of 8, 466 and for two years of
1862.
Iowa reported over 621, 900 of school
age Is to 21) in 1883-84, with about 469,-
500 enrolled in the public schools and $780,
600 in average daily attendance. The
schools taught an average of 40 days, in
13, 624 buildings, valued with other school
property, at over $10,43O, 900, and about
$5,856,000 was expended during the year
for public school purposes. These figures
show an advance of per cent. in the pro-
portion of school population enrolled, and
of 6 per cent. in the proportion of school
population in average attendance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Meeting of the state Bar.

The State Bar Association heldits annual
meeting at Madison few days ago with
good attendance. The treasurer's report
showed the receipts of the year to be s2f1,
while the balance on hand was SIG. Off
GERS for the ensuing year were elected as
follows: President, Moses NJ. Strong, Min
eral Point; treasurer, J. H. Carpenter,
Madison; secr@ary, E. P Villas, Madison
Presidents to represent each of the
twelve judicial districts of the State were
also chosen. Resolutions asking to fix the
five thousand dollars were adopted. The
time of holding the annual meeting was
changed from February to the third Tues
day in june, and meeting fixed for next
June
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Rribes of a Million.

NEw YoRK, Feb. 22.-When the Senate
committee selected to inquire into the
Broadway railroad frauds resumed work
Saturday their room was densely crowded
The report circulated that two of last
years aldermen had confessed the plot by
which the road franchise was obtained had
spread rapidly, and further developments
were eagerly awaited. 1t is now believed
that no confession has been obtained, but
that nine aldermen were purchased out
right by Sharp, the price paid ranging
from $40, 900 to $1,000 per alderman
Lobbyists and men of minor influence are
reported to have received nearly $4,000
for aiding in the aldermanic purchase.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Fatal Explosion of Powder,

WINCHESTER, KY, Feb. 23.-As clerk
was in the act of Weighing some powder
in the store of Mary Wills yesterday a
man standing near the counter struck a
match to light cigar. This ignited
the powder, which exploded with terri,
BILE violence. The house was badly wrecked,
and Bird White, Thomas Martin, James
Newkirk, James Hopper, William Murray,
John Judy, James CaIrick and Buford
Smith were seriously injured. Hopper and
Murray are dying. The man who struck
the match, Mary Wills and two others
escaped unhurt.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
MRs. ELIZABETH Tu.roN.

Mrs. ELIZABETH TILToN, the wife of
Theodore Tilton, who since her separa-
ton from her husband on account of
the beecher scandal has resided with
her mother, Mrs. Morse, in Brooklyn,
has become resident of Chicago,
making her home with her daughter
Alice. She has granddaughter now
of whom she is very fond, and she ex-
poets 10 remain in Chicago. Mr.. Tilton
is in Paris, living frugally off his earn
Tugs as a lecturer in this country, and
he does not, it is said, expect to return
70 this country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Fortunes Changes.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 23.-Four years
ago S. G. WiIlmot arrived in New York
from England with $25,0o0 in his pocket.
He went to Montana and bought sheep
ranch. in one year he dropped lis money
and lost his ranch. He worked awhile herd
ing cattle and about six months ago took
a position as cook on the Northern
Pacific diaing cars. Sunday he was in
formed that his father had died in North
CUMBERLAND County, Eng, and had willed him
t25, 900 and one-third interest in a large
wine and liquor business, giving him an
income OF $50, 900 per annurn,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

GENERAL SIGEL, the newly-appoint-
cd pension agent at New York, was
visited by two Germans the other day
who insisted on receiving Government
pensions. Being asked if they were
veterans, they said they were-they
served under Won Moltke in the
Franco-German war They asserted
vehemently that he had the power, as
pension agent, to give his fellow-coun-
trymen pensions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Many Persons Hnrt.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Feb. 23.-The accom-
mediation train on the Buffalo, New York
& Philadelphia road jumped the track near
Scottsville yesterday morning. The pas
senger coach and baggage car broke from
the freight cars ahead, rolled down the
bank into a creek and took fire. OF
twenty-three passengers in the burning
coach seventeen were more or less injured,
and seven OF these narrowly escaped being
burned to death. The baggage-master
will probably die. More than twenty
trunks rolled over and over upon hin dur
ing the descent of the train
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Wholesale ISutchery.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Feb. 19.-Informa-
ton has reached this city OF a terrible
crime-the slaughter of a family OF six
people. The report circulated here is
based on private telegram, which stated
that a messenger had come to- Palarm,
Faulkner County, Ark, from a settle
ment about eight miles from the
station with the news OF the terrible TRACE
dy. The dispatch contained only the.
meager facts that six personalities,
mother and four children-had been killed
by a negro. From the men on the train
that passed Palarm Wednesday evening,
however, it was learned that posse was
being organized to go in pursuit OF some
ono who had killed the James family.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
800 -
The Woman's Suffrage Platform.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-At yesterdays
session of the Woman's Suffrage conven-
ton resolutions were adopted reaffirming
confidence in the national method of secur-
ing the ballotto women through an amend
ment to the Federal constitution; calling
on Congress to submit to the States at once
the question of the right of women to
vote; protesting against the admission to
the Union of any Territory where the elect
i've franchise is denied to women; declaring
the National Womans Suffrage Associa-
ton to be non-partisan in politics, and
protesting against the passage in its pres
emit shape of the bill now pending in Con-
gress to suppress polygamy as discrim-
mating unjustly against gentle and nom
polygamous women for crimes never COM
mitted by them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Killed Her Husband.

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 2o.-An Inquest in
the case of Peter Higgins, found dead in a
manure heap on his farm in Echo town
ship, near Central Lake, was cut short
Thursday by the confession OF Mrs. Higgins
that she and George Higgins, her hus-
bands nephew, had murdered her hus-
band. On being informed Of her
confession the nephew also confessed, stat
ing that they at first tried to choke his
uncle, but finally crushed his skull with a
hammer and that on Sunday he buried the
body in the compost heap, while Mrs. Hig-
gins kept watch to prevent interruption.
Both prisoners have been held for trial.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
A Bad Gang Broken On.

CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-Five men and three
women, comprising one of the worst gangs
OF burglars and safe-blowers that ever
worked in this city, were arrested Saturday
night by city detectives. Their names are
James Donovan, John Donovan, Charles
Proctor, Thomas Murray and big Jim,
the Scout" the women are Flora Taggett,
Murray's alleged wife, Annie Taggett, her
sister. and Della Coogan. The first of the
gang and leader, John Elliott, alias Ed
wards, was arrested over a month ago.
He pleaded guilty in the Marks burglary
case and was sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Death of John R. Cough.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19.-John B. Cough,
the eloquent temperance lecturer, died at
4:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the
residence of DR.. R. Bruce Burns, in Frank
fort, where he was taken on Monday night
when stricken with paralysis while lectur-
ing at the Frankfort Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. Cough was born in Kent, Eng, August
q, lo2s He emgrated to New York i'll early
pledge of total abstinence in 1912, and soon
became distinguished as a temperance
advocate and for his rare powers
OF oratory. He has since lectured stead
first year rs a public speaker Mr.. Cough
made 3S3 speeches, and since his first lecture
and up to the beginning of the present year
he appeared before the public 1857 times
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

JAMES II. PAINE, miser who died
recently in New York, was q grandson
of signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. While he was largely inter
ested in the Chicago Land Company,
and ranked among his relatives as a
millionaire, only three hundred dollars
was found among the rags in which he
expired
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

TWENTY years ago an obdurate IA
Their at Hartford, Conn, refused his
daughter permission to associate with
ayoung farmer, and locked her in a
dark room until she would promise to
renounce her sweetheart. Year after
year passed, and she was not allowed
10 leave the room. Recently her father
died, and, in settling the estate, the
daughters condition became known.
She is now forty years of age, her hair
is gray and she is nearly crazy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Mormon Converts In the south.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Feb. 20.-Seventy-
five Mormon converts arrived in this city
from Georgia, Alabama, North and South
Carolina and East Tennessee and left Thurs
day night for Utah. They were congre-
gated by the Mormon elders who are at
work throughout the South, and will be
followed by as many more within the next
two or three weeks. There are now three
hundred elders at work in the different
Southern States, and they claim to be meet
ing with better success in securing converts
than ever before.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
wool Grower, Convention.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20.-Arrangements for
the convention OF the wool growers of the
United States are being rushed rapidly by
Secretary Simmons, ~of the Cotton Elk
change. and his assistants. The conven-
ton viii be held on April and next.
There will be between four hundred and
iive hundred delegates from every State in
the Union from California to Maine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

IT is said that the Mexican Govern
ment is friendly toward the Mormons,
and that for this reason there have
been large land purchases by the
'Saints" for colonization purposes in
the Republic across the border.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

CARL Rosa has secured decision
from a Liverpool court to the effect
that admission to place of public
amusement can be refused to persons
who are known to have the habit of
talking during the music. This is q
bit of law that will bear transp lanting.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

On the application of counsel for Sa-
rah Althea Hill-Sharon-Terry, the Cal
ifornia Supreme Court has made an
order that Frederick w. Sharon, one
of the executors, be substituted in the
place of William Sharon, deceased, as
defendant therein, and that the action
be continued in the name OF Frederick
w. Sharon
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

GRANDMOTHER" VAN RAUsT, of
New York City, celebrated her one
hundredth birthday with a merry
party recently. She remembers when
the west side of Broadway was filled
with fields of rye.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

THE widow of Vice-President Hen
bricks deeply mourns the loss of her
husband, and can not keep the tears
from starting when he is mentioned.
She has been much annoyed by medi-
ums, protesting to have messages from
MIR. Hendricks from the spirit land.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

A BosToN lady, writing recently
from Washington, says that the basket
sleighs are unique turnouts, as they
are just like old-fashioned cradles with
wooden dashers; and one especially
noticeable had colored plumes for the
horses.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

WALLACE Ross and Fred Plaisted, of
Toronto, propose to attempt to sail
through the Niagara whirlpool in
boat next August. Captain Webb was
Canadian and had the same kind of
confidence in his nautical ability.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
THE Methodist ministers Of pb;lade,-

The Methodist ministers of Philadel-
phia claim to have discovered that sew
eral confectioners in that city are SELL
ing candy to school children which is
nothing less than rock and rye in stick
form, and that this is done in the interest
of saloon-keepers, who expect to reap
their reward when the boys have ac-
quired an appetite for strong drink.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

THE Canadian Government is gradu-
ally pardoning the half-breeds engaged
in the Northwest rebellion, and it is
expcc.eI- Kat all who are now i'm
prisoned will be freed before many
daua
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

IT is remarked by the Louisville
Cottrier-Jour1saI that "some think that
LouisvilIe's cold winters have been
brought on by the increase in the num-
Der of street-cars. Everybody knows
how cold 8 street-car isl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

Up in Greenland it is nothing to run
daily newspaper. The days are three
months long. A newspaper has just
been started there which promises to
MAKE "bear stories especially
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Orange Trees In Full bloom.

NEW York, Feb. 20.-An OcaIa fila. !
dispatch to the Times says that, instead OF
beng killed, the bearing orange trees are
even now in bloom, and prospects for tne
coming crop are as favorable as IN any
year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

THOMAS A. EDISON and others have
Incorporated a company at Albany, N.
T., to introduce his device for tele-
graphing to and from moving trains.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

REPRESENTATIVES, of German papers
i'm Ohio met at Columbus few days
ago and organized a German Press As
ISOLATION, with full set of officers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

THF.RE has been more snow this win
ter in London than for fourteen years,
and there is great distress in conse-
Quence.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

The Kentucky Senate has passed a
bill prohibiting the sale of pistols and
bowie knives.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

FLORIDA claims to have six thousand
more Northern visitors than at a cor
responding period last year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

NEW ENGLAND is sending to England
ten thousand barrels of apples week.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

The Insane Wife of Isrof. Waldo, of Yale
College. Escapes from Her Keepers
After 4 Long Search She Is Found Stand
ing at the Top of High Bluff-Fright-
ened at Pursuit, She Leaps from the Cliff
and Is Dashed to Pieces on the Rocks
I :. lr,rr,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
EDUCATION IN THE WEST.

Extracts from the Report of the Commits
sioner of Education Giving Statistics of
the Progress of the Schools in nois,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S0(@SO3gc. Corn
No. 2, 97115@3sc. Oats-No. 2, 29119930c.
Rye--No. /, 5S1l@594c. Barley-No. 2
Spring. 513Sc.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-19
The Farms of Carroll.

We have concluded the publication of the
sketches of the Farms of Carroll, which have
been continued in this journal for more than
six months past, and yet we have left unpub-
Iished many of the finest farms in the county.
We did not in the beginning, set out to sketch
them ALL That was not our purpose, but
only those that were more accessible, and
whose proprietors were willing to facilitate
our work by giving us the data necessary for
the purpose. We are greatly indebted to the
courtesy and kindness of these gentlemen for
their invaluable assistance in enabling us to
prosecute successfully this new feature in
journalism.
The object of these sketches was, in the
first place, to impart additional interest to the
columns of this journal Secondly, to bring
to public notice the advanced system of agri-
culture in Carroll county, as evinced by the
number of her highly improved and produc-
tive farms This object has been attained.
We have been gratifed at the interest they
have excited among the intelligent and pro-
gressive agriculturists in all parts of the state.
They have attracted the notice of the press
and have been the subject of fattering COM
ment, and our example has been copied by
certain journals who have announced their
intention to make and publish similar sketch
es in their respective counties. These farm
sketches have made Carroll county better
known to the state at large than she ever was
before. We have received letters from differ
ent parts of the state, asking for copies of the
paper, and expressing surprise and gratifca-
ton at the evidence thus afforded of the i'm
provement going forward is this county. One
thing has been demonstrated by the publica-
of these sketches, and although not person
ally engaged in agricultural pursuits. we re-
cord it with pride, and that is, that the yield,
per acre, has been more than doubled within
the last twenty-five years.
These sketches serve the further purpose
of rescuing from oblivion much of the local
history of the county, and we may resume
them at some future time; but, for the pres
ent, enough has been done to show that Car
roll county is entitled to take her position in
the front rank of progressive agricultural
communities, and that her intelligent and en-
terprising farmers have put her upon an ele-
waited plane which shows her to be the peer
of the most advanced, the most wealthy and
populous counties in the state. Her climate
is saubrious, her soil is productive, her in
habitants are intelligent, industrious and en-
terprising, who take hold of the pillow and
other implements of their calling with their
own hands. Her taxes are the lowest in the
state, while her schools and school houses,
her public roads and bridges, are as good, if
not better than those of the counties where
the highest tax rates are paid.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-19
Western Maryland College.

Western Maryland College, from small
beginning, now takes rank with the best IN
the state, with larger attendance of students
than any. A cut on the first page shows
the college buildings, and sketch shows
how, under many disadvantages, the college
has steadily grown to its present proportions.
On the first page also are sketches of the re-
firing and present heads of the institution,
while on our local page is report ofthe 18th
commencement.
Although, as noted above, the college now
stands at the front of Maryland higher edu-
cational institutions, it, we believe, is shortly
to achieve greater distinction and to become
the chief college in the state. 1t has taken
new life. AS President a talented, young and
energetic man succeeds one who is beginning
to feel the infrmities of age. While all re-
greet to part with DIR. Ward, who zealously
nursed the institution in its infancy and aided
its every growth, yet all who feel an interest
in the college, and in educational advance
ment in the state, must be gratiied, as DIR.
Ward has determined to retire, to see it pass
under the charge anu ulFeCtlOu vi IL bS"io'
He is a gentleman of excellent business ca
pacity, which will prove an element of sue
cess in his new position; besides, he is thor
oughly conversant with the needs of the col
lege in carrying it forward to the high rank
for which he will aim, for he was for several
years student within its walls, and for foul
years past has conducted the Westminster
Theological Seminary close by, and has beer
familiar with its affairs. He is ambitious,
too-not ambitious for self, but for onl!
the true praise that his deeds and acts entitle
him-a laudable ambition that will carry him
self higher only as the college advances il
merit and prosperity.
The ADVOCATE, always willing aud ready tt
aid any enterprise that promises good to thi
section or to the state, lends the influence o
its columns to an unusual extent this morn
ing for the purpose of aiding the Presiden
and Faculty in their resolve to increase the
colleges sphere of usefulness