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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
FLOODS IN CANADA,
Much Property Damaged and Several
Lives Lost by the Humiliation In Mon
treal and Vicinity.

Much Property Damaged and Several
Lives Lost by the Inundation In Mon
treal and Vicinity.
MONTREAL, Cam. April 2O.-The fo0d
now appears to be slowly abating, but the
water is still twenty eight feet above the
summer level, three feet higher than
it has ever reached before. Every
store is inundated and every street
in the lower part OF the city
has the appearance of canal. In Point
st. Charles and Guffentown every house
has from four to eight ieet OF water IN it.
This is the poor quarter and the misery
and suffering are appalling. In st. Gabriel
houses are collapsing the foundations
being undermined. The river is run
ming over the country through
the city by way of Chaboillez
square from the Lachine rapids, and
huge pieces of ice are being carried through
the streets. Two suicides have occurred;
one man, Doyle, had his house swept away
and lost all he had. He hung himself in a
barn. Several deaths from fear and one
or two drowning accidents are reported
The view one gets as he Stands 6ii.a high
point OF observation is striking. From
Mount Royal, away to the southwest
across the river, the village OF La Prairie
is seen, apparently completely surrounded
by water. All down the south shore of the
riverto ST. Lambert the houses stand with
the water all around them. The river front
OF st. Lambert can not be distinguished
for the ice, which is piled up to the very
doors of the houses facing the river On
this side of the river, from the foot OF the
rapids down to Hockelaga, the river seems
to be over the banks All oi Point Sit.
Charles appears to be under water.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
WEST AND souTH.

CHARLES GARDENER (coloredl was ex-
ecuted at Newcastle, Del, on the 16Sh for a
criminal assault on Mrs. Ella F. Gardner
REPORTS of the 10th state that the outlook
at East St Louis was moro favorable to
the railroads than at any other time since
the strike began. A large number of trains
were running.
THE St. Louis grand jury on the 10th in
dicted Martin Irons and other leading
Knights of Labor, besides a telegraph
operator, on charge of conspiring to tap
the wires on the Missouri Pacific road and
secure messages passing between Messrs.
Gould and Hoxie.
TWENTY THREE of the victims of the re-
cent cyclone were buried at st. Cloud,
Mimi, on the 10th, and at Sank Rapids
twelve were inferred
ALL the saloons in Des Moines, Ia, were
closed on the 18th as result of the new
liquor law.
FURTHER advices of the 18th give the
number of killed and wounded by the re-
cent cyclone in Minnesota as follows At
St Cloud killed, 81; injured, SO. At
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
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THE PAYNE INQUIRY.
The Committee of the Ohio Legislature
to Investigate the Charges of Bribery
in the Election of Senator Payne Makes
Its Report.


The Committee of the Ohio Legis1attiAt
to Investigate the Charges of Bribery
in the Election of Senator Payne Makes
Its Report.
COLUMBUS, O., April id.-THe legislative
committee appointed to investigate
charges of bribery in electing Senator
Payne in January. 1884, reported last
evening. The majority report, signed
by three Republicans. is long, and is accom-
panied by 500 pages 81 evidence, tie iii
portant points of which are cited to show
that while none of the members of the
present General Assembly have been con
clusively impeached, case has been made
as to the corrupt methods, and the testi
mony fully iqstifies that it be certified at
once to the United States Senate for action
by that body in considering Senator
Payne's right to his seat.
The majority report is somewhat sensa.
tional and has caused great stir, espe.
cially the evidence OF Hale, who told of en-.
tering j. Huntington's room uneeremo'
taeusly and finding stacks of bills=more
fn6ney piled up than he ever saw in The
bank of which he is director. Huntington
has been regarded as the purser of the al
legged Payne fund.
The minority report, signed bS two Dem.
ocratic members is devoted to arguments
to impeach the most damaging witnesses
and, while admitting that there have been
many newspaper rumors and much testi-
mony of q general nature as to corruption
and bribery. that there is no direct evi.
denee, and that the connecting link is out
in every case, SO that they hold that such
evidence should not be certified to the
United States Senate to blacken the char
acter OF any man.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23

AT Montreal 1922 families, embracing
$4,000 persons were driven from their
homes by the flood, which was rec.ding on
the Goth. Some of the streets that were
covered by water had not previously
been inundated for sixty years. The losses
would be Ear greater than on any previous
occasion.
THE grand jury in New York City on tho
goth indicted thirteen men on the charge of
boycotting and annoying Mrs. Gray, who
keeps a bakery.
Mrs. DoLLINGER and her mother were
burned to death I'M prairie fire on the goth
at Lyons d. T.
SIXTY pupils in the South Boston Mass.
public schools struck on the Doth for sim
gle session, and stoned one of the teachers.
Shots were fired at sentries in the East
st, Louis railway yards or the GOTH The
soldiers returned the compliment, but it
was not known that any body was hurt.
The Congressional Special Labor Com
mittee held its first session at Washington
on the Goth, and had Mr.. Powderly on the
stand, who stated the grievances of the
knights of Labor; declared that nothing
of violent nature was ever counSeled by
that organization, and thought be should
soon be able to suggest legislative remedies
for existing evils.
The street-car strike in New York City
came to an end on the both except on two
branches of the Third Avenue line
THE village of East Lee, Mass, was III
undated at six O'Clock on the morning of
the goth by the giving away of q dam at
Mountain lake. Eleven persons were
drowned. and several factories were
wrecked, including two paper-mills.
AN open switch wrecked freight train
near Harmarville Pa, on the 10Th, and
three men were fatally injured.
MUNICIPAL elections took place in many
Illinois towns on the 10th, aud in the ma
jority of cases where the contest was be-
tween license and no license the former was
victorious.
GREAT forest fires were prevailing on the
Goth in the mountains near Tamaqua, Pa,
and the air was dense with smoke
The Secretary of the Treasury on the
Goth issued a call for three per cent. bonds
TO the amount of s10,00O,O00, maturing
June l.
SENATOR LOGAN reintroduced his bill in
the United States Senate on the 10Th to in
crease the efficiency of the army. Mr.
Butler introduced bill authorizing the
President to retire certain army officers.
In the House bills were introduced By
Mr Storm, to give honorably- discharged
soldiers, the preference in public appoint
ments; by Mr.. Collins, to fix the salaries Of
the United States District Judges at SIS, COO;
by Mr.. Wellborn, to create the office OF As
tC111r So
Mr. ODonnell, to provide for the study in
certain schools Of the effects of alcohol Oh
the human system. The River ard Hsrbor
bill was further considered.
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Sank Rapids, killed. IS; injured, 100 At
RIce's Station and vicinity, killed, Is; in.
jured, SO. Total number killed. IA In
jured, 213 The property loss was about
100000.
The two daughters of James Marabla
were burned to death By an explosion cs
an oil can a few days ago at Charles City,
Va.
DISTINCT conversation by telephone was
carried on successfully between Chicago
and Cleveland on the 18th
AT st. Louis several more Knights of
Labor were indicted on the 18th for OBJ
structing railway travel. All the roads
were running trains as usual.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Corr
pany came to settlement with its Chicago
switchmen on the 18th, and traffic was re-
sumed.
JOHN DoUTHETT and wife were burned to
death in their farmhouse near Xenia, o.,
on the 18th. So suspicious were the cir
cumstances that Charles Morris (colored)
was arrested for firing the building and
robbing the aged couple.
AT Nicholasville, KY, the sheriff on the
18th executed a lad named Robert Smith
who had killed his step-father, James Sea-
SHREVEPORT, La, was visited by wind,
rain and hail-storm accompanied by fear
full bursts of lightning on the 18th. The
damage in the city was slight, but trees
were stripped Of foliage and vegetables
and other growing crops scattered in every
direction. Hail-stones covered the ground
TO depth of from four to twelve inches.
" fla 81
Smith, a veteran Western Journalist, one
of the owners Of the State Register at Spring
field ILL.,, died, aged fifty mine years.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR at st. Louis on the
10Th called upon the butcher firm which
supplies Mr. Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific
road, with meat, and requested them to de-
sist on pain of being boy cotted. The de-
mand was rejected.
A MOB on the 10th at Anthony Kan,
took from Jail the Weaver brothers, i'm
prisoned at that place for the murder of
Adel Shearer, and shot them to DEATH
In the McDonough school at Algiers OPP
posite New Orleans the white and colored
pupils struck on the 10Th for less hours of
study, and the services of police were re-
quired to preserve order.
IN the Ohio Legislature bill was intro
duced on the 10Th to punish boycotters and
to prevent union strikers from interfering
with persons who desired to work
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N. c., was swept
by a tornado on the 18th. Houses and 9th
or buildings were swept away, large trees
were torn up by the roots and the wake
of the storm for miles presented scene
of devastation and ruin. Considerable
stock was killed and many persons were
injured
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
TAKING A WALK.

New Workers Exhibit Their Abilities
Pedestsians-A Strike Causes Cessation
of Stroet-Car Travel in Gotham on All
Lines But Two--A Riot in Which Many
Persons Are Pounded by the Police
A Compromise Effected.
New York, April 20.-Twenty of the
twenty-five car lines OF this city were tied
up snug and fast yesterday, SO far as the
general public was concerned. One car
was run over the Dry Dock line, another
over the Fourth avenue line, and two cars
managed to make one round trip each on
the Third avenue lire. Twelve thousand
street-car employees of all grades, earning
S26, $40 per day, are idle.
The lines involved are the Second, Third,
Fourth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. Broad
way Belt Isins, Avenue c; Dry Dock East
Broadway and Battery Blocker street
and Fulton ferry, Central cross town,
Chambers street and Grand street ferry
Christopher and Tenth streets. Forty-sec-
ond street, Manhattanviile and ST. Nicho-
las avenue, Forty second street and Grand
street ferry, Houston street, West street
and Pavonia ferry, Thirty-fourth street,
Twenty third street cross-to#n, and Forty
Second street cross town.
At four O'Clock in the afternoon Presi-
dent Lyons, OF the Third avenue road, de-
clded to run as many cars as possible from
the depot at Sixty-fifth street. A large
force Of police was sent from the Central
office to protect the cars on their way
downtown. The first car had scarcely
proceeded two blocks when it was sur
rounded by q crowd OF men and women.
Near SiXtieth street two men ran from the
sidewalk and attempted to cut the
traces. The police in charge of the car
knocked the men down with their clubs
and another section dispersed the crowd on
the sidewalk. When the second car came
from the depot it was also attacked by
crowd OF zoe men. After a lively skirmish
the police succeeded in driving the rioters
off. Near Fifty-seventh street the car was
again at acked with bricks and stones.
Inspector Steers, who was in charge,
ordered the police to drive the crowd away.
Again. the clubs were vigorously used.
The crowd fled, leaving the police masters
OF the position and the cars proceeded on
their way down town without any further
trouble. Between twenty and thirty of the
rioters were badly dubbed about the head,
and two policemen were seriously injured
by bricks and stones. Seven OF the rioters
were arrested and locked up in the Fifty
ninth street police station.
Railroad Commissioner O'Donnell had a
consultation with Lawyer Lauterback,
representing the Third Avenue road and
the officers OF the Empire Protective Asso-
citation last night. 1t broke up late. Com.
missioner 0'Donnell was assured by both
parties that a compromise might be eff
fected which would allow all the roads ex-
cept the Third Avenue to resume opera
tions to-day.
A later dispatch says that the compfo-
mise was Effected the executive committee
of the Empire Association agreeing to re-
lease all the surface lines except the Third
Avenue system this morning. The com
missioner promised to decide today wheth-
er the Third Avenue Company had forfeit
ed it's charter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
TEE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Diapatche;
xllxth CONGRESS.


THURSDAY, April 15-In the Senate Mr..
Logan spoke in support of the move
rnent for open executive sessions. The
Pension bill and the Interstate Commerce
bill were further considered. Bills were
reported to establish sub-treasury at
Louisville and to organize the Territory of
Oklahoma. In the House bills were re-
ported: BY Nj Singleton, to accept
from the Vanderbilt heirs and Mrs. Grant
certain objects Of art presented by foreign
Governments to General Grant; by Mr.
Caldwell, Senate bill to fix the day for
the meeting Of electors of President and
Vice President and to regulate the count
ing of the votes; by Mr.. Hill, for the or
ganization of the Territory OK Okiahoma /;
by Mr.. Cobb, repeating the presumption,
timber culture and desert land-laws. The
River and Harbor bill was further dis
cussed.
FRIDAY, April IS In the Senate the
Interstate Commerce and Indian Depre-
daton bills were further considered.
The latter bill appropriates s50O0,0O0 to
compensate citizens for losses suffered by
them through Indian depredations. In the
House Senate bill was passed for the es
tablishmentof two additional land districts
in Nebraska Several bills on the private
calendar were considered, and at the even
ing session forty-five pension bills were
passed.
SATURDAY, April IT, The Senate was
not in session. In the House bill was
passed to authorize the establishment of
export tobacco manufactures and to al
low them drawbacks on imported ma
terials There was spirited debate on
the bill to appropriate $150,000 for the re-
lief of sufferers by the overflow of rivers in
Alabama, but no action was taken thereon.
MONDAY, April 19-In the Senate Mr..
Cullom introduced a bill to increase the
pension for total disability to seventy
two dollars per month. A favorable
report was made on measure for the
erection of fire-proof hall of records in
Washington. An adverse report was sub
mitted on the bill to grant full pay for life
to all Federal judges who may become
seventy years of age or resign after
thirty years service. In the House bills
were introduced: By Mr. Breckenridge,
appropriating $4,000 for a military explo-
ration of the Territory of Alaska; by Mr..
Grain, to establish a sub-treasury at Gal
weston; also to provide for the distribution
of the proceeds of the sale of the public
lands among the States and Territories for
educational purposes. Bills were passed to
extend the postal immediate-delivery sys-
tenn, and providing for the sale of the
Cherokee reservation in the State of Kan
sas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
THE FAST

The Governor of Pennsylvania, because
of alleged Encouragement of soldiers
orphans schools in that State, on the 10th
demanded the resignation of the State
Superintendent of Schools and summarily
removed other officials implicated in the
scandal.
j. E. ROBINSON, defaalter to the extent
of $4,000, caused the suspension of the
First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y, on
the 10Th.
1T was considered certain on the 18th
that it was the schooner Charles H. Morse,
of Bath, Me-, which ran into and sunk the
steamer Oregon recently off Fire Island,
N, Y. The crew of nine men On the
schooner all persisted.
THE death of Stephen N. Clifford, for
twenty-nine years clerk of the Massachu-
sets State Senate, occurred at Duxbury,
Mass, ON the 18th.
On June the Maine Republicans will.
meet in State Convention at Lewiston
In the foundry of Singer, Nimick & Co.,
at Pittsburgh, one thousand pounds of
molten steel were accidentally scattered
among fifty or more persons on the 18th,
twenty of whom were severely burned
AFTER being totally blind for twenty-five
years Miss Louisa Mann, of Plainfeld, N.
j., suddenly regained her sight on the 17th
She ascribed her cure to faith.
EVERY surface road in New York CITY,
with the exception of the Eighth and Ninth
avenue lines, was on the 10Th tied up by a
strike, caused by renewed trouble on the
Third avenue line. One car was DESTROYED
by bricks while attempting to run, and the
police charged upon the rioters, injuring
seventy persons.
THE United Presbyterian Ministerial AS.
ISOLATION of Philadelphia on the 10Th
adopted denunciatory resolutions against
the boycott.
On the 10Th the attempt to secure the
bodies of the twenty-six miners buried
several months ago in mine at Nanti-
coke, Pa, was abandoned, it having beea
discovered that the fatal cavern was full
of Water
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23

THE Black Hills Cd. To Times re-
cords the conviction of Sioux Indian
in an American court for an attempt to
murder another Indian in Indian Ter
ritory, the trial having been held under
the provisions of law passed at the
last session of Congress which was in
tended to supersede the old tribal au-
thority, under which crime was very
lightly punished, This was said to be
the first case under the new policy,
and the Indian had gone to the peni-
Tertiary.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
STILL RAGING.
The Conf1a grafton in the City of Stry MOI
Yet NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hundred Persons
Known to Have Fallen Victims:

The Conf1agration in the City of Stry MOI
Yet Extinguished-~One Hundred Persons
known to Have FALLEN victims.
VIENNA, April 20.-The fire at Stry is
still raging, and the mayor OF the town has
telegraphed to Lemberg asking that troops
be sent with appliances to extinguish it.
The charred bodies of many OF the victims
have been dug from the ruins. The money
loss is estimated st several million fi0rins.
Thousands Of the inhabitants are bank
rupt.
The latest estimates of the fatalities at
Stry are placed at 100, including fifty chill
dren supposed to have been burned to
death in schoolhouse. When the fire
commenced the bulk of the inhabitants
were absent at . fete, and on their return
they were so completely dazed by the
calamity that the confagration was 81
lowed to proceed unchecked.
When the fire at Stry had reached it's
height the prisons were opened and four
teen OF the unfortunate inmates were found
burned to death. In the suburbs of the
town all was confusion. The peasants
looted houses and shops after conflicts
with their owners, some OF whom, in their
despair, committed suicide The gale was
so severe that sparks were carried three
miles and set fire to a number oil huts OF
cupied by the peasantfy. The Emperor
has given 81, 500 for the relief of the suf-
ferers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
An Outbreak of Cbolera.

ROME, April 17.-ChoIera has been ru-
mored for some days past to be at Brin-
dist. Information is to the effect that
there have been sixty-two undoubted cases.
with several deaths, of which three are I'M
doubtedly from Asiatic cholera. There are
also some cases in the country Immediate
" around Brindisi, but it is difficult to
get at the precise facts on account OF the
reticence of the local authorities.
PARIS, April 1.-THE development OF
cholera at Brindlsi causes a'armin France,
particularly along the Italian frontier.
Precautions OF the most stringent kind are
being instituted to prevent the scourge
from invading France.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23

PROF. LEWIS SWIFT, in letter to
the Rochester IN. W Democrat says:
"Barnard's comet the day of its great
est brightness MAY 24) viii be about
twenty degrees north towards the
north starr from the Pleiades or seven
stars, Fabry's comet, April 80, viii be
some four degrees from east of the
place where Barnard's viii be when
brightest q month later. 1t will be a
unique if not an altogether unheard of
spectacle of two bright comets in the
same quarter of tho heavens being
almost simultaneously visible"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
Parts of Montreal Flooded.

MONTREAL, Can, April 1.-THE ice was
gorged in the river yesterday morning,
forming dam below the city, and the
water rose five feet in as many minutes,
flooding the low-lying localities Of the
city and doing immense damage. On the
south side OF the river the Grand Trunk
shops and all the mills along the canal are
flooded and closed down. The ice has
broken into the Grand Trunk grain ele-
vator and carried away the track leadih 9
thereto. On COMMISSIONS street it is
piled up thirty and forty feet high, and
has been forced into some OF the stores
near Jacques Cartier square.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23

The Salt Lake Tribune says that sin
the past eighteen months there have
been in Utah four convictions for
polygamy and eighty-seven for uni.tw-
full cohabitation. The number of lien
nnder indictment is probably much
larger than of those convicted, about
all of whom are either out of the coltn.
try or else in hiding near their homes. +"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23

The tornado season of 1886 has COM
menced early, and if the recent fatality
at St Cloud, Sank Rapids and Rice's
Station, in Minnesota, is any indication
it will be eas destructive to life and
property as that of 1884 Last year
there were but Ill lives lost by the tor
nadoes, which did not occur to any ex-
tent until August and September. In
1884, however, there were CTS lives lost
from this sein February and March,
while in 1883 there were 500 lost, the
worst storms being in April and May
all Of which goes to show that lorna
does are not essentially hot-weathor
products.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23

A SOCIETY has been formed by young
Ladies in Hartford, Conn, branches OF
which would do good everywhere. 1t
is called the Tongue Guard" and
each member is pledged to pay PEN
ny into the treasury every time she
says any thing against another poison.
The money thus raised is used for char
liable purposes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
A Great Catch of Seals.

HALIFAX, N. S., April 2O.-Advices from
St. Johns, n. F., report the arrival
there OF the sailing steamers Leopard,
with 10, 500 seals; Kite with IL, 900; Wolf,
with 1880; Ranger, with 22, 300; Auro-
ra, almostclean; Polynia, with II 600: Arc
tie,with II, 900; Falcon, with % 900: Wal
rus, with 5000, Esquimaux, with $500
Terra Nova, with 5000, and one sailing
vessel with 100. The steamers Green.
land and Vanguard have arrived at
Harbor Grace, the former with Is, 600
and the latter with 5000. Several schoon-
ers have also made large catches on the
Newfoundland coast,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23

The profits of business at Niagara
Falls seems to have been something
enormous. On the Canada side they
are having lawsuit over the matter
of compensation. Davis, who owned
the museum on the Canada side, testi-
fled that for the last five years the
profits had been SIS, Sl5, Ga yearly, The
Table Rock property had brought in
$12,O77 a year.