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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE Pension Commissioners report on
the ed for the fiscal year ended June SO
last show that there were 365, 1888 names on
the pension-rolls, including 1889 survivors
Of the war of 1912. The amount of money
disbursed during the past year was $685.
797, S3l. There were nine thousand soldiers
in the poor-houses throughout the coun-
try, thirteen per cent. of whom were pen
sioners.
DURING the month of August last exports
from the United States amounted to SOL
161, 1913; impor for August, SIS, 676, 1872
THE reports of negotiations between
Great Britain and the United States for a
new Canadian treaty were denied on the
oath by Washington officials
IN the United States and Canada the
business failures for the seven days ended
on the oath numbered 49, against 1856 the
previous seven days.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
1915 G13, 345, against 1884 1874, 449 the previous
week. AS compared with the correspond
ing week of 1885, the increase amounts to
30.5 per cent.
DURING the week ended on the 18th the
issue of standard silver dollars from the
minis was S72, 99S, against 664, 493 during
the corresponding period of last ear
TIE acting Secretary of State, Mr.. Null
drow, on the 9th decided that where a
court of one State having jurisdiction rem
ders a judgment that that judgment is
binding on the courts of every other State.
A CALL was issued on the 9th by the act
ing Secretary of the Treasury for $4,000,
00J in three per cent. bonds, interest to
cease November /.
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THE EAST.

HE Union Veterans convened in fifth
annual meeting at Trenton, N. j., on the
23d. Twenty-three States were repre-
sented B. B. Manchester, of Providence,
r. l., was elected Commander in Chief for
the ensuing year.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
in the following districts on the 23d: Re-
publicans - New Jersey, First George
Hires (renominated); Connecticut, First,
j. r. Buck (renominated); Pennsylvania,
First, H. II. Bingham; Second, Charles
O'Neill; Fourth, w. d. Kelley; Fifth, A.
G. Harmer (all renomnated) Prohibit
tionist-New York. Seventh, ]. F. Storey
THE death of Ri REV. j. F. Shanahan,
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Harrisburg, Pa, occurred at his residence
on the 24th.
The centennial anniversary of the inde
pendence of the Masonic Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania was celebrated by its mem
bers at Philadelphia on the Oath.
On the Goth General Booth, of the Sal
walton army, Mrs. Largtry. the actress,
and Justin Mccarthy Parnell's lieutenant,
arrived in New York from Europe.
WHILE crossing the track on the 26th
Benjamin Gardner, his wife and his sons
wife were killed by the cars at Poquonock
Conn, and their horse was also killed.
WoRKMEN in enlarging cellar on the
25th at Mahanoy City, Pa, found an earth
en- jar containing $35 900 in gold The
widow who owns the residence took the
money.
IN the Federal court at Buffalo four
cigarmakers from Binghampton were on
the 25th held in $1,000 each for an attempt
to boycott non-union factories.
The 2Sth OF October has been decided
upon for the Inauguration of the Bartholdi
statue at New York City.
Mrs. OLIVE G. CLARKE, of Springfield,
Mass, on the 18th celebrated her one
hundred and first birthday. She was in
good health and had good control of her
various faculties. Her mother died at the
age of one hundred and three years
On the 9th Ex-President Arthur arrived
in New York from New London, Conn,
and save for the natural fatigue of the
journey he was feeling as we'll as usual.
THE death of Colonel c. G. Greene, for
merly editor of the Boston Post, occurred
on the 9th at Boston, at the age of eighty
three years.
In the house of Mrs. Flanagan, in Pitts
burgh, Pa, lamp exploded on the 9th,
fatally burning her daughter Sadie aged
eight years, and her eight-months-o old
babe
THE presidents of four great race courses
in America, at meeting in New York on
the 9th, expressed q unanimous opinion
that the betting ring attached to horse
racing must be put down.
THE Democrats of the Seventh Pennsyl-
vania district on the 9th nominated A. D.
Marley for Congressman.
The engineer and conductor of the ex-
cursion tram recently in collision at Silver
Creek, N. Y, by which a number of lives
were lost were on the 9th indicted for
manslauphter
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LATER.

ADvIcEs of the 2Sth give particulars of q
three days rain in Southwestern Texas,
the rain gauge Indicating fall of TWEEN ty-
six inches. Two hundred houses were
wrecked at Brownsville, rendering three
hundred persons homeless, while across the
river, in Matamoras, three hundred dwell
ings were leveled and thirty blocks Of the
city flooded. The people in both cities
were in great distress. Whole sections Of
Texas were submerged, and the loss to
property was very heavy.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake were felt
at Charleston, S. c., on the 18th, the earth
quivering so violently as to shake buildings
and send people into the streets.
FOURTEEN deaths from cholera and TWEEN
ty-six new cases we're reported in Italy on
the 2Sth. In Austria there were fourteen
deaths and ferty-two new cases.
THE Connecticut Democrats met at New
Haven on the 2Sth and nominated Edward
S. Cleveland of Hartford, for Governor
The platform declares for well-regulated
liquor license law; denounces the importa-
ton of pauper labor from foreign coun-
tries, and indorses thu Presidents Admin
lstration.
THE tide at New York rose higher on the
28th than had been known, with two ex
ceptions, in the memory of the Oldest river
men. Many cellars were flooded,
New JERSEY Democrats met in State con-
vention at Trenton on the 2Sth and nomi-
mated r. L. Greene, of Elizabeth for Gov
ernor The platform Endorses the Nation
al Administration: demands the exclusion
of pauper and convict labor, and declares
that the interest-bearing debt of the coun-
try should be reduced.
THE Governors of Nebraska and Colorado
on the 2sth issued proclamations estab-
fishing quarantine against all Illinois cat
tie on account of pleurc-pneumonia.
REPORTS were received on the 2Sth at
Ottawa, Dat, from the Grow Greek
agency, in Northwest Territory, that the
Blood Indians were on the war-path, and
had already killed one hundred white
people assd burned many houses.
SEVERE wInd-storm on the 2sth at
Hughesville, Pa, wrecked houses and de-
stroyed the fruit crop.
The following Congressional nomina.
tions were made on tho 18th: Republicans
Kentucky, Fourth district, John ".
Ar"is, 1enHeSSse, LlgHtH usSlficI, - w.
Hawkins; South Carolina, Seven j
district, Robert Srnells trenominated);
Minnesota, Third district, b. b. Her
bert; New York, Twenty-third dis
trict, James S. Sherman; Pennsylvania,
Twenty-fourth district, O. L. jackson
Democrats--lllinois, First district Edgar
Terhune; Ninth, NJ. 81. Peters; Kentucky,
Third district, John Shea and John E. Hal
sell; Ohio Tenth district, Frank Hurd
Prohibitionist- Illinois, Tenth district
Daniel McCulloch.
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In Southwestern Wisconsin hog cholera
was raging with fearful effect on the 9th.
The standing of the National League
baseball clubs at tae close Of the week
ended on the 18th was as follows: Chicago,
games won, 81; lost, %. Detroit won. 7s;
lost, 80. New York, won, 65; lost, Al.
Philadelphia, won, So; lost, Al. Boston,
won, 40; lost, 81. st. Louis, won, Al: lost,
60. Kansas City, won, 30; lost, 70. Wash.
ington, won, q: lost, So.
NEVADA Republicans met at Carson on
the 18th and nominated G.. C. Stevenson for
Governor and S. D. Edwards for Judge Of
the Supreme Court.
DEMOCRATS made Congressional nomina-
tions as follows on the 18th: Louisiana,
Third district, E. J. Gay; Pennsylvania,
Twelfth district John Lynch. In the
Tenth Missouri district the Labor party
nominated IL. J. Ratchford
In the forests of the Yellowstone Ma
18th which was destroying immense tracts
of timber.
On the 25th terrific thunderstorm ac-
companied by severe floods broke over
Reed City, Mich, causing over S10)O00
damage A child was killed by falling
tree struck by the lightning.
In portions of Wisconsin apple and cher
ry trees were on the 18th in their second
bloom for the season.
On the 9Th Governor Rusk, of Wiscon-
sin, issued quarantine proclamation
against the importation of Illinois cattle.
AT five P. NJ on the 27th several earth
quake shocks were experienced at Charles
ton, Summerville, Savannah, Augusta and
other Southern points. No damage was
done.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 9th as follows: Republicans Ten
nessee, Tenth district Zach Taylor ire
nominated); Louisiana, Second district,
Andrew Hero Democrat - Michigan,
Eleventh district, John Powers. Labor
Illinois, First district Henry Sheldon;
Second D. F. Gleason; Third, B. w. Good
hue; Fourth, S. J. Hawkins.
A STRIKE ON the 9th closed fourteen of
the sixteen box factories in Chicago, about
seven hundred employees going out.
On the 9th Pauline Nelson, domestic
at Indianapolis, Ind, received message
from Germany announcing that she had
fallen heir to $3.50, 900, bequeathed by an
uncle.
IT was believed that "Uncle Benz q
well-known colored man, who was buried
on the 9th at Alton, ILL.,, Was lis years OF
age.
A FIRE destroyed thirty buildings in the
business portion of Deland, Fla, on the
9th. Loss, $4,000.
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WEST AND SouTH.

CHARLES RooME, of New York, was
elected Most Eminent Grand Master at the
Grand Encampment of Knights Templar
at ST. Louis on the 3d.
WIoGINs' prophecy of earthquake disas-
ters had on the ed paralyzed with fright
the negroes of Galveston and other Texas
cities, the women especially believing that
the worst would happen
DURING hail-storm on the Esd at Madi-
son, Wis, stones fell six inches in circum-
ference, breaking ten thousand panes of
glass, and denuding trees of leaves and
twigs. In few instances iron roofs were
riddled.
MALCOLM LOGAN his wife, three children
and an adopted child were murdered in
Crawford County, Mo-, on the 3d.. 1t
was supposed a person who sought to rob
Mr.. Logan OF $500 he had recently re-
ceived committed the crime.
WITH the present funds the relief COM
mittee at Charleston, S. c., on the 24th re-
ported itself able to furnish food and shell
ter to the needy, but said that many houses
must be repaired, if at all, by public aid
Government engineers reported damage
of $4,000 900 sustained by the six hundred
buildings already inspected.
THE president treasurer and secretary
of the Raw Life Insurance Company of
Kansas City, Kan, absconded on the oath,
with considerable of other peoples money.
IN the Fifth Illinois district on the oath
the Prohibitionists nominated Charles
Wharton for Congress man, and the Demo
Gratis of the Eleventh Texas district renom-
mated S. W. T. Lanham.
AT Corpus Christi, Tex, on the oath the
wind blew sixty miles an hour, and the
rise of the tide flooded the lower portion
of the city. &
f. s. HUMPHREYS was executed on the
oath at Milledgeville, Ga, for the murder
of his niece and sister-in-law.
COLUMBUS, O., was selected as the per-
manent headquarters of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at their meet
ing in Boston on the oath.
OFFICERS arrested four members of the
late Board Of Public Works of Cincinnati
on the Gath on charges of embezzIing sums
ranging from $4,000 70 so, 900.
TIE Wabash valley in Indiana was on
the 9th swept by heavy storm, creating
freshetS which washed out railway tracks
and bridges, delaying traffic.
LoUIsIANA's orange crop was on the cath
said to be a complete failure, ON account
of last winters freeze, Nine years of pro-
pitious weather would be required to fully
restore the bearing capacity of the Ctrees.
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Arrival in America of General William
Booth, Chief of the Sal
walton Army-Aa Inspection of the Or
ganization to BE Made-Arrangements
for His Trip Through the Country
Sketch of His Life.
New York, Sept. 27.-General Booth,
the COMMANDMENTS Chief OF the Salvation
Army, arrived in this city yesterday by
the Aurania. He was met at the pier by
several soldiers OF the New York and
Brooklyn corps, who greeted him with a
chorus of haIlelujahs, and escorted him
at once to the house OF Morris j. Smith,
No. 26 Fourth place, Brooklyn,
The General is a tall, heavily-built man,
with thick, iron-gray hair and full beard,
which fallsin thick ma rs a foot long over
his chest. His nose is very prominent and
massive and very red. The eyebrows are
bushy, and the features rugged but kindly.
He said of his prospective movements that
he would start for Toronto, where there ia
to be reception by the Salvation Army
Tuesday night. He will hold one meeting
in Toronto, and go thence upon tour
through Prince Edward Island, New Bruins.
wick Nova Scotia and Quebec, and will
finish his Canadian campaign at Hamil-
ton. From there he will go to Chicago
where he will hold four meetings. and then
make a rapid trip through Illinois, Kan
sas, Ohio, and the Lehigh valley in Penn
sylvania. He will then return to New York
and hold four meetings in this city and
Brooklyn i'll large halls.
IRev. William Booth, General of tine Sal
walton Army, was born in Nottingham April
TO- 1929. and educated at a private school. He
studied theology with Rev. William Cooke, d.
D., and became minister of the Methodist
New Communion in 1850, butresigned in 1861
and began his work as an evangelist. In
July, 1866, he started tie Christian Mission
in the East End of London for the benefit
OF the poor mountaineering people of that
section. TO this mission, when it had become
a large organization formed upon military
lines, he gave the name of the Salvation
Army" This was in 1878. The new organiza-
ton soon became widely known, and grew with
such rapidty that it was necessary to estab-
lsh stations in the United States, Franco,
Australia, India and other countries. The
whole establishment is directly under the
control of General Booth. The az Cru, the
official gazette of the Salvation Army was
starred as weekly in 1880. but is now issued
twice a week. It's circulation has reached
the enormous number of 400, 900, and reprints
are issued in other countries. General Booth
is wealthy, and lives in good style in London
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

REPORTS received on the 23d from Zanzi-
bar state that the King of Uganda had
foully murdered all the English and
French converts, and the missionaries
were in great peril and had implored as
sistance.
AT Fiume, Austria, an Italian brig load
ed with benzine was set on fire by light
ming on the 9th, and eight men persisted in
the flames.
In coal-mine near schalke, Germany,
an explosion of fire-damp on the Gath
killed forty-five person and injured sixteen
others.
THE schooner Mary Ann while in the
Bay OF st. John was cut in two by the
schooner Summerset and four persons
were drowned.
FIRE which originated in the whole
sale liquor-house of Davidson & Hay, at
Toronto, Ont, on the Oath, destroyed prop
erty valued at $150,0)0.
THE British Parliament was prorogued
by Queen Victoria ON the 25th until No.
vember IL.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt at
Constantinople and at Smyrna on the 25th
Slight damage was done.
THIRTY deaths and sixty-eight new cases
of cholera were reported throughout Italy
on the 25th.
IN Scotland few days ago six persons,
including three Glasgow magistrates, were
suffocated while viewing a monster blast
at the Lochfyneside quarries.
THE English astronomer, Richard A.
Proctor, characterizss Prof. Virgins, the
Canadian weather prophet, as "a halted
ucated and wholly unscientific man." and
says that Virgins predictions are entire
ly unreliable.
In Italy twenty-five new cases and eight
deaths from cholera occurred on the 9th.
In Austria there were forty-seven new
cases and sixteen deaths.
CHINA advices of the 9th state that the
Catholic seminary in that country had
been burned and one thousand native
Catholic adherents placed in manacles
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PENSION OFFICE STATISTICS.
A Few Figures from the annual Report
of Commissioner EIack.

a row EISurS from TIC Annual Ie5pOrt
of Commissioner EIack.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-FrOm Commits.
sioner OF Pensions Blacks report for the
fiscal year ended June 80, it appears that
on that date there were 365,7S pension
ers on the rolls, composed of 265, 854
army invalids, S0,162 army widows,
minor children and dependent rela-
tives, 1858 navy invalids, 1877 navy
widows. etc.; 1889 survivors of the
war OF 1912, loss during the year OF
], 406; 10. 397 widows OF soldiers of the
war of 1912, a loss during the year oil
3,S15. There were 40, 857 new pensioners
added to the roll during the year; 2,229
were restored; 22. 0S9 names were dropped
on account of death, lemarriage frauds,
ETC., leaving a net increase of 20, $50 names.
The annual average value of each pension
was $122.23, a gain OF $11.S8 over the
average value OF the preceding year. The
aggregate annual value was $44, 708, 027..
Al, an increase of $6,617, 041.51. The
amount paid for pensions during the year
was sos, 1877, S31.61. Since 1861 sci, 102
invalid claims have been filed, 348, 799
claims of widows and dependents, and 49,.
S34 for pensions on account of service.
During the same period there have been
dHONeu Oh btle ufSG-cidSB OOZ, Ill claims,
of the second class 229, 435 and of all
other classes COLTS, making the total
allowed since 1881 621 754. 1t will thus
be seen that nearly one-half of all the pen
sioners whose names have been placed
upon the rolls have died. or their pensions
have ceased by reason OF arrival at age,
remarriage, etc. The commissioner claims
that the speeial-examination division
saved. the Government over $4,000, 900.
during the year.
An attached table shows that there are
in the United States in the poorhouse
about 5000 soldiers, of whom Is per
cent. are pensioners and So per cent. nom
pensioners; the oldest soldier receiving
public support is 103 years OF age;
the mean age is 81 years; 48 per cent OF all
the soldiers receiving support were native
born; 81 per cent. foreign born; 45 per
cent. married men; 81 per cent. I'M
married, and 10 per cent. blind or
insane. From January 1. 1861, until
December 81, 1885, L, 1857 private pension
acts have been approved. Since that date
GA such acts have been approved and
certificates issued in nearly every case.
The amount OF expenditures for station
cry, printing and binding has been dimin-
ished by S13,683 for the last year, and
1905, 1862 of the expense appropriation for
the office has been covered back into the
treasury.
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Washington lrving's Debt.

A letter has been received at the Of
fee of the Register of the Treasury
from an old lady residing at Kittan-
ming, Pa. She wrote that she had OBJ
served that Washington Irving was
represented as debtor to the Govern
ment in the sum of three cents, left
over from his occupancy OF the post Of
Minister to Spain in 1645. She repre-
sented herself as a relative of Irving
and inclosed ten cents, saying she
wanted the account closed up, as she
was certain Mr.. Irving could not have
been aware of it. She said she hoped
the remaining seven cents would be
sufficient to pay the accumulated inter-
est on the three cents Indebtedness
since 1848. In conclusion she wrote:
.And furthermore. honored sir, Iwish
you to understand that Mr.. Irving was
q scrupulousiy honest man." The Of
iiciaIs formally closed the account, &C.
knowledged the receipt Of the three
cents, and returned seven cents change,
informing the lady that the Government
did not want any interest. - Washington
Letter.
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To Inaugurate the Bartholdi Statue.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-The invitations
to such citizens of France as may be re-
quested to attend the inaugural ceremo-
mics of the Bartholdi statue on October %
will be extended in the name and by the
direction of the American committee
under whose control the pedestal
has been erected. They will be presented
in France through United States Minister
McLane. The President will give the com.
mittee all the aid possible to make the in.
auguration impressive and successful, but
will keep within the law as passed by Con.
2 ress, which makes no mention OF invita-
lions toany one and no appropriation fol-
such expenditure.
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National Banks and the Called Bonds.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.-Several national
banks have notified the Treasury Depart
ment OF their withdrawal from the system
because of the calling in of the three
per cent. bonds which formed the basis of
their circulation, and others are trying
to have their called bonds retained
as a basis for circulation, preferring to
forego interest rather than risk buying
four and four and one-haii per cents at the
present high premium. In many cases
banks whose bonds nave been called are
deferring their replacement, apparently
expecting decision allowing these bonds
to remain.
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Anti Chinese Leaders Acquitted.

SEATTLE, w. T., Sept. 28.-The jury in
the case of Rochester, MCMILLAN, Bulgar,
Metcalf, Kidd and Winscott. who were ac-
cused of being the leaders in the anti
Chinese riot here last February. returned a.
verdict OF not guilty last evening" after
having been out three hours and half
The defendants were tried in the United
States Court, under what is commonly
known as the "Ku-Klux law" the prose-
cution being conducted bv United States
Attorney White. The trial. which has been
in progress for more than three weeks, ex-
cited intense interest.
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THERE is useful young woman in
Walworth, N. Y, and half the young
farmers in that locality have turned
their eyes in her direction. She teaches
school five days in a week for ten dol
lars a week, helps her mother do the
housework, and takes care of three
horses and two cows on the farm. Dur
ing the summer she had exclusive care
OF the garden, painted the house and
papered two rooms in it, and found
time TO correspond for two weekly pa
pers. This winter she will take up
course of studies.
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JUDGE HOMER, of Nebraska, has
been sued for $4,000 damages by an
cx-eonvict named Williams. The lat
ter killed father and son in Kearney
County eleven years ago, and Homer
was his counsel. A sentence of ten
years imprisonment was imposed in
Buffalo County, whore Williams did
not wish to be tried, desiring change
of Venue.
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Killed at a Crossing.

PROVIDENCE R. l., Sept 27-About
eleven o'clock yesterday morninga shock
ing accident occurred on the New York.
Providence & Boston railroad, at
the village of Poquonnoc, Conn. Benja-
min Gardiner farmer, his wife and the
wife of their son James, while on their re-
turn from church in a wagon were struck
by west-bound express train going at
the rate of fifty miles an hour. The horse
was killed and the wagon broken into
kindling wood. The two ladies were
killed, and Gardiner received fatal injuries.
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CURIosTTIEs being scarce, a Phila-
delphia dime museum hires man to
drop from the roof of its building to
the ground, distance of more than
one hundred feet. Vast crowds assem-
bic and complete the performance by
dropping into the museum to see the
other wonders.
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A QUANTITY of white huckleberries
was taken into Norwich, Coun., recent
ly by farmer of that region. They
are said to grow in only two places in
Connecticut, round hillock in BIG
swamp in Salem, and a similar place
at Spring Hill, in Windham County.