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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

1t Passes the Senate by Vote of 80 to IL
and Is Sent to the President-ATr. Cleve
lands Veto Iessages--Demands of the
knights of Labor.
WASHINGTON, June 26.-The Senate re-
sumed consideration of the Fitz John Por-
ter bill yesterday, and after a long debate
passed it by vote of 30 to II.
The vote was as follows:
Yeas-Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Brown,
Butler Gail, Cameron, Cockren, Coke, Col
Jones tArk.l, Jones New, Mcpherson
Maxey, Mitchell (Ore.>, Pugh, Ransom. Rid
dleberger, Sewell, Vance. Vest VOORHEES,,
Walthall, Whitthorne and Wilson tMd.l-3j.
Nays-Senators Aidrich. Allison, Conger,
Cullom, Evarts, Frye, Hale Harrison, Haw-
ley, Ingalls,. Logan, Henderson. Palmer Saw
yer, Spooner. Teller and Wilson dahl.
A number of pairs were announced Sem
ator Plumb was paired with Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama
The bill having already passed the House
and not having been amended by the Sen
ate now goes to the President.
1.-THE bill authorizes the President by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate to
appoint General Porter to the position of
Colonel in the army of the same grade and
rank held by him at the time of dismissal,
and authorizes the President to place General
Porter on tae retired list as of that grade;
General Porter however, to receive no com
pensatlon or allowance prior 10 his appoint.
ment under the act
BUSY EXECUTIVE.
WASHINGTON June 26.- The President
passed upon lis pension bills Thursday
after giving each case thorough personal
examination. Thirty bills were vetoed and
eighty-elght approved. The veto messages,
covering fifty pages OF closely written FOOLS
cap, were written by the President himself
1t is said that Mr.. Cleveland has written
with his own hand every message that has
been issued from the White House during
his administration.
DEMANDS OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
WASHINGTON, June 26.-The committee
appointed by the last convention of the
Knights of Labor to watch legislation at
Congress has written to Messrs. Car
Isle, Randall and Morrison asking for
the passage by Congress of bills repeal
ing Timber-Culture, Pre- Emption and
Desert-Land acts, adjusting railroad and
other land grants, FORGETTING all railroad
land grants the conditions of which have
not been strictly complied with, organic
ing the Territory of Oklahoma, opening a
portion of the great Sioux reservation to
settlement, prohibiting aliens from holding
land in the United States. making Presiden.
tial and Congressional election days Holt
days. Furnishing bribery, directing the
disbursement of at least 5000, 100000
treasury surplus, and substituting treas.
ury notes for bank notes retired.
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ThE EAsr.


1T has been decided by the New York
Court of Appeals that licensed places of
amusement in New York City can not sell
ales,l wines or spiritueus liquors, etc. on
any part of their premises, even under a
license issued by the excise commissioners.
THE explosion of q gasoline stove set fire
to the clothes of Mrs. Mark Sheldon, of
Cory Pa, on the 18th, and she was burned
to death
THE four-mile boat-race on the 26th at
New London, Conn, between the Columbia
and Harvard crews, was won by Column
bia; time 21;334.
ROBERT HIGHLANDS and wife, aged sixty
and fifty years respectively, of Milton,
Pa. were instantly kille,i by newspaper
train on the 9th while driving to church.
By pouring kerosene into the stove the
residence of Tudor Russell, near Joyland,
Pa, was set on fire on the 26sh and Mrs
Russell and two children were suffocated.
WILLIAM B. BRIoKEL has been nomi-
mated tor Congressman in the Second
district and Thomas H. Rabe in the
Twenty-third district by Pennsylvania
Prohibitionists.
PREsIDENT PORTER, of Yale College, at
New Haven, Conn, in his farewell sermon
to the students on the 27th, discussed the
growing tendency to abandon the Chris
tian religion In colleges for what he
termed secular theory, based on science
and culture, and protested against it.
Mrs. L. G. FARMER and her daughter, Will.
lam Brayton and the two children of C. VI.
Girsch were drowned in the bay at Provi-
dence, r l., on the 2Tth by the capsizing of
n sail-boat
IN fire at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 2Sth
Elizabeth Halves, her two daughters and
two sons were probably fatally suffocated
by smoke.
IT was decided by the trustees of Yale
College, at New Haven, Conn, on the 18th
to hereafter admit only men 10 the school.
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THE NEWS.
ompiled from Late Dispatches.
xLrxth CONGRESS-

ELIHth CONGHESSs
THURSDAY, June 24--In the Senate bills
were passed repeating the Presumption
and Timber Culture laws, and fixing the
salaries of the United States district judges
at five thousand dollars year The Fitz
John Porter bill was presented. In the
House the time was occupied in discussing
the Sundry Civil-Service bill The Com
mittee on Rules informally settled upon
July Is as the day of final adjournment.
FRIDAY, June Pin ths Senate, after
long debate, the Fitz John Porter bill.
which had previously passed the House,
was adopted by vote of 30 to H. The
bill authorizes the President, by and with
the advice and consent Of the Senate,
TO appoint General Porter to the position
of Colonelin the army of the same grade
and rank held by him at the time of
dismissal, and authorizes the Presi-
dent to place General Porter on the retired
list as of that grade; he, however, to re-
eeive no compensation or allowance prior
to his appointment under the act The bill
to allow for the adjustment of land grants
mado by Congress TO aid in the construc-
ton of railroads within the State of Kan
sas and for the forfeiture of unearned
lands was reported. Adjourned to the 28th.
In the House the various veto messages
transmitted by the President were consid-
cred, and called forth spirited debate.
Tho Sundry Civil bill was further dis
cussed.
SATURDAY June 26-Ths Senate was not
in session. In the House the time was oes
cupied in further considering the Sundry
Civil bill.
MONDAY, June 2S. I'm the Senate
bill was passed granting pension of 500
a month to the widow of the late Gen
eral Stannard, of Vermont. The Legis-
lative, River and Harbor and Pension
Appropriation bills were reported.
The Presidents veto of the Des Moines
River Land bill was discussed. In the
House bills were introduced: By Mr. King,
appropriating $780, 900 for the relief of suf-
ferers by recent storms in Northern Louis
lana; by Mr.. Randall, to reduce and equal
lze duties on imports, to reduce internal
revenue taxes, and to modify the laws in
relation to the collection of the revenue:
(the bill reduces the revenue 1887, 6G5.)
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was
further considered
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THE ExILED PRINCES.
Great Excitement in Paris Over Comte d
Pars' Manifesto-The Expulsion Bill.

Great Excitement in Paris Over Comic de
Pars' Manifesto-The Expulsion Bill.
PARIS, June 26.-There is great excite
ment throughout the city over the
expulsion of the Princes. The manifesto
OF the Comte de Paris protesting against
his expulsion has been printed in pamphlet
form and thousands of copies have been
sold in the streets. The document seems
to greatly impress those who have read it
with the injustice OF the GoYernment's
course.
The bill under which the Princes were ex-
PEELED is as follows:
Article 1. The territory of the French
Republic is, and remains, interdicted to the
heads of families which have reigned over
France and to their dGect heirs in the or
der or primogeniture.
art. 2. The Government is authorized
to expel by special decree the other mem
bers of these families
art. 3. Whoever shall, in violation of
this Introduction, be found in France, in
Algeria, or in the colonies shall be pun
ished by Imprisonment of from two to
five years. At the expiration of his pun
ishment he shall be reconducted to the
frontier.
"Art. 4. The members of princely families
authorized to remain temporarily upon
the territory of the republic shall be ex-
GUIDED from all public functions
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The swltehmen,s strike in ohioago.

CHICAGO, June 26.-The Lake Shore road
brought carload of Toledo switchmen
to Chicago, and yesterday morning they
were taken to the Root street crossing to
commence duty. Thirty policemen OF the
town OF Lake were on hand. Finally
operations on the road were sus-
pended during the day. When the
officers OF the road ATTEMPTED to
move freight train it was uncouplcd
and deraiIed by the strikers. Passen-
gers arriving in Chicago last evening re-
port the tracks OF the Lake Shore and
Rock Island roads blockaded at Fifty.
fifth street. The solicitor of the Lake
Shore road has secured temporary injunc-
tons against the strikers, and Judge
Gresham will be asked to make orders for
enforcement by the United States Marshal.
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LATER.

The President on the Goth signed the bill
legalizing. the rporation of trades
unions and thu bill granting the franking
privilege to Mrs. Grant.
The business portion of Alturas, Cal.
was swept away by fire on the Goth.
THE resignation of William Z. Smith,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury was
announced on the Goth. Governor Hugh
s. Thompson, of South Carolina. was Sc
lected by the President as his successor.
The two little daughters of William Mil
Ter, of Sherman, Tex, were burned to
death in q fire which destroyed their home
few nights ago.
LAKE SHORE freight-trains were moved
to and from Chicago on the Goth without
molestation from the strikers.
EDWARD WILLIAMS (colored) was lynched
on the Goth at Gainesville, Tex, for crimi-
nally assaulting Mrs. Cook, a white woman.
AT Bloomington, H., on the 29th the flu
neral of the late Judge David Davis took
place. The attendance was very large and
numbered many distinguished people.
JONES & LoUGHLIN's nail-factory at
Pittsburgh, Pa, resumed operations on the
NEBRASKA Republicans will meet in State
convention at Lincoln September 80.
The Democrats of the Second New
Hampshire Congressional district on the
29th nominated John H George, of Con-
cord, for Congressman.
BIZ the upsetting of a yacht on the Goth
at Boston four young men were drowned.
They all leave wives and families.
In fiye-mile race on the Goth at Wilkes
barre, Pa, John s, Prince, on his wheel,
defeated the pacing mare Miss Brady by
three yards in 1917.
TIE Prohibitionists of the Fourteenth
New York Congressional district on the
goth nominated Jesse Fl. Griffin, of York
town, for Congressman.
PAUL JUSTICE and his wife, who kept
grocery near Memphis, Tenn, were MUIR
dered on the 29th by burglars.
THE United States Senate on the 29th
passed, over the Presidents veto, by
vote of "a to Is, the bill to quiet titles OF
settlers on the Des Moines river lands A
resolution was adopted appointing Gener-
al William j. SeweH, OF New Jersey, Cen
eral M. l. McMahon, of New York, and
Captain John L. Mitchell, of Wisconsin, as
managers of the National homes for dis
abled soldiers. Mr.. Beck introduced bill
to authorize the General to APP
point and remove postmasters of the third
class-now appointed and removed by the
President. The bill making appropriations
Tor the legislative. executive and judicial
expenses of the Government was discussed.
In the House reports were submitted on the
Army Appropriation, the General Deficien-
cy and the Agricultural Appropriation
bills, and the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill was further considered.
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THE AENNEPIN CANAL.

The Scheme Endorsed by the River and
Harbor Committee-An Appropriation
Recommendations the Canal Is to BE
Constructed.
WASHINGTON, june 25.-The Senate Com
merce Committee has nearly completed the
River and Harbor bill. Items in the House
bill have been increased So, Asa, 2T5 and
Others have been decreased $615, 500,
making net Increase OF 1857, IT'S; the
total appropriation by the Senate bill,
SIS, 049, 575.
The provisions for the Michigan and the
Hennepin canals, after many amendments,
stand as follows:
THE grant of the Illinois and Michigan
canal its rights of way, and all its appur-
tenances and right, title and interest which
the State of Illinois may have in any real
estate heretofore cedad to the State of llli-
nois by the United States for canal pur-
poses, made to the United States by an act
of the General Assembly of the State of
Illinois, approved April IS, 1892 be and is
hereby accepted on the terms and condi-
tions specified in said act of the General
Assembly of the State of Illinois.
For the construction of canal from
the Illinois river at or Lear the town of
Hennepin, in the State OF Illinois, to the
Mississippi river at the mouth IF Rock riv-
er. or between it and the city of Rock Isl-
and, in said State, together with such feed
eI's and other works as may be necessary
to supply said works with water, $500, 00J.
Said canal and branch canal or feeder shall
be known as the Illinois and Mississip.
pl river canal, and shall be con-
structed on such route as may be de-
termined by the Secretary of War. Pro-
vided, that it shall be the duty of the Sec
rotary of War. in order to secure tho right
of way for such canal and feeders, to ac-
quire the title to such lands as may be
necessary by agreement purchase, or vol
untary conveyance from the owners, If it
can be done on reasonable terms; but if
that shall be found impracticable, then the
Secretary of War shall apply to any term of
the Circuit or District court of the United
States for the Northern district of Illinois
TO be held thereafter, at any general or
special term held in said district, and in
the name Of the United States, institute,
and carry on proceedings to condemn sue b
lands as may be necessary for right of
way, as aforesaid and in such proceed.
ings said court shall be governed by
the laws of the State of Illinois,
SO far as the same may be applicable
to the subject of condemning private prop
erty for public use. Provided, further,
that said canal shall be eighty feet wide at
the water line, and seven feet deep, with a
capacity for vessels of at least %! tons
burden, with guard gates, waste wiers,
locks, lock-houses, basins, bridges and all
other erections and fixtures that may be
necessary for safe and convenient naviga-
tion of said canal and branch as specified
in said survey
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a DESPERATE CONFLICT.

A Hand-to- Hand Fight with Stones and
Clubs Between Excursionists and Po-
landers at Fairport, o.
!, CLEVELAND, o., June 2S-A terrible
fight occurred yesterday afternoon at
Fairport about thirty miles east of here
on the lake shore. An excursion party
of about 300 men, women and chill
dren visited the place. A dozen or
more men who had been drink
ing on the boat entered q saloon on
their arrival at Fairport, and soon sue
ceeded in starting a quarrel, which ended
in all the windows of the saloon being
broken by the excursionists. Stones were
then hurled through the windows of a
large tenement house occupied by
Polanders. The latter, to the number
OF fifteen or twenty, armed them
selves with clubs and moved ON the
cxcursionists. In the fight which
ensued several Clevelanders were cut
and bruised, and one Pole, named Michael
Peeler, was struck in the temple by a stone
He fell unconscious to the ground, and
was carried away by his companions. The
Poles chased the men, women and children
distance OF 300 yards to the boat, over
railroad tracks and ore piles, but just as
the pursuing party reached the dock the
boat moved away, thus preventing further
blOodshed
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member OF the Constitutional convention:
IN 1862 President Lincoln appointed him
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States, which place he resigned
in 1877, having been elected United States
Senator. After the death of President
Garfield Judge Davis was chosen President
of the Senate, in which position ne was
virtually Vice-President eof the United
States. He retired from political life in
1883 An estate of over two million dol
lars is left to his widow and son and
daughter.
DURING quarrel on the 2sth at Eagle
Bend, Miss, Lee Brown (colored) killed two
white men and wounded negro.
The arrest of over fifty of the striking
switchmen on the Lake Shore road at Chi
cago was made ON the 18th for melting
riot
Ar the close of the week ended on the
26th the standing of the National League
baseball clubs was as follows: Detroit
(games won), 81; Chicago, 81; New York.
IS; Philadelphia, 81; Boston. IA; ST Louis,
Il; Kansas City, 8; Washington Z.
ALEXANDER Miller, an aged and
wealthy farmer, and his vito were killed
by a fast train while attempting to drive
across the track at Lafayette, Ind, on the
10Th.
CRoPs and buildings were greatly dam
aged by hail-storm on the 2sth in Grand
Forks and Walsh counties, D. T. The loss
was estimated at S500.003
THE sale of tobacco at Danyills, Va, dur
ing the past year aggregated $4l, 900 900.
IT was ascertained on the 2Sth that Miss
Frances A. Whipple, the Adrian (Mlch.l
milliner who disappeared recently. COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the Mag
ara whirlpool because of business troubles
The horse of James Turner ran away on
the 28thnear Winchester, o., and Mrs. Tur-
ner was instantly killed and Mr. Turner was
fatally injured.
THROUGHOUT Washington Territory cleo
tions were held on the 18th under the Lo-
cal Option law, resulting in heavy MAORI
ties against prohibition.
WITHOUT any known cause twenty-five
passenger conductors on the Lake Shore
81 Michigan Southern railroad and its
branches between Buffalo and Chicago
were discharged on the 2Sth.
WITH the assistance of heavy guard of
armed men freightrtrains were moved on
the Lake Shore railroad at Chicago on the
18th. The striking switchmen refrained
from interfering.
In Hancock County, Ia, terrific hail
storm on the 18th proved very destructive
to the crops.
NEAR Shelbyville, Ind, on the 2Sth Mrs.
Ira Chapman and Mrs. William Lantz
were thrown from buggy by runaway
horse, and both ladies were fatally in
iured,
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Driven 10 Death by q Mob.

Mourn VERNON, KY. June 29-On Fri
day night, June IL, party of masked
men took a farmer named Joe Ramsey
and his wife from their bed and brutally
logged them, giving notice to leave within
ten days. Ramsey tried to sell what prop
erty he had but could not. He
disappeared soon after, and last evening
his decaying body was found hanging to
tree in the woods. 1t is supposed that
he committed suicide on account OF the
threats of the midnight mob. The whip
ping OF Ramsey and his wife is only one OF
the many midnight outrages that have re-
Gently been committed in the county
Thomas Hays has been arrested charged
with being one of the mob.
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The Public Debt.

WASHINGTON, June 29.--The deb: state.
ment to be issued to mark the end of the
year viii show the interest bearing debt OF
the Government to be about as follows:
Three per cent. bonds, payable at
the option of the Government,
S150.000, 900; AZ per cent. bonds, pay
able five years hence, $3.50, 900. 900;
4 per cent. bonds, payable twenty one
years hence, $4,000 900. Then
there is over $500, 900, 600 of debt that
bears no interest. OF this $3.50, 900, 600
is the legal-tender notes, or commonly
sI75, 900, 900 Of gold and silver GER certif,
Gates. The public debt was at it's highest
figure in 1866. Then the debt, less cash
in the treasury, was 50, ZIG, 900, 600. The
annual interest charge that year was about
$3.50, 900, 600, or nearly four times what
it is to-day
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A Mystery Solved.

ADRIAN, Mich, June 29.-The mystery
attending the disappearance of Miss
Frances A. Whipple has been solved.
Sheriff Whitmore, who left for Niagara
Falls, telegraphed yesterday afternoon
that it was undoubtedly she who jumped
to her death in the whirlpool on Wednes-
day last. He SAYS the identity is unmis.
taxable. Her parasol has been found and
her photograph recognized Further evi,
dence would be accumulated and every pos
sible effort made to recover the remains.
She was naturally bright and ambitious.
Size lad OF late been melancholy. and her
death was certainly sought in a fit Of de-
mentia.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

A Jury at Parsons, Kan, on the 25th de-
clared four men who participated in the
late Southwestern railroad strike guilty of
conspiracy, and the court sentenced them
to pay 500 fine and costs each and serve
thirty days imprisonment
H. N. VAN SIcKLEN of Chicago, won the
ten-mile bicycle race for the national
championship, at Detroit on the 25th, in
35:37
The death of Judge David Davis occurred
at his home in Bloomington, Ill.,, at six
o'clock on the morning Of the 26th. Mr.
Davis was born in Cecil County. Nd.
March o. 1915, and in 1886 became resi-
dent of Bloomington. In 1911 he was a
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DEATH. OF DAVID DAVIS.

The Venerable Statesman Passes Peace
fully Away at His Home in Blo0ning-
ton, Hl.-Sketch of His Busy Career.
BLOOMINGTON, H., June 2S.--Ex-Vice-
President Davis died at six o'clock Satur-
day morning. His death was painless and
he was surrounded by his family. During
the early part of Friday evening he
appeared to be failing, and it
was felt certain that he could not
live through the night. Ateleven O'Clock he
revived somewhat and was given milk and
stimuIants in small quantities. The effect
was for the worse, however, for he at once
relapsed into a comatose condition. his
pulse becoming very feeble. During the
succeeding three hours he failed gradually,
his respiration growing noticeably weaker,
until the end CT ne.
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The word graduate has come to
have different meaning of late years.
il used to be applied exclusively at the
end of the college course, and then it
was employed to signify the terminal
ton of the school studies. Now chill
dren are said to graduate from their
several classes, and it win not be long
before little tots will graduate from the
kindergarten. 1t will then only re-
main to speak of babies graduating
from their cradles. So our noble En-
glish language improves day after day.
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A New Weapon Against the Boycott.

BINGHAMProN, N. T., June 25.-John H.
Damn, John Doyle, Edward Barnes and
George Saulspaugh, cigar makers, were
arrested yesterday under the Fed
eral laws. for boycotting Fred j. Hill,
a cigar manufactures. 1t is claimed
that Hill, by paying his internal-revenue
tax, thereby acquired the right under the
intcrnalrevenue laws to manufacture
cigars, right secured by the laws OF the
United States within the intent and mean
ing OF Section 5, 50S under which the ac-
ton is brought. This section provides that
II two or more persons .'conspire to injure,
cypress, threaten or intimidate any cit
izen of the United States in the free exer-
else or enjoyment of any right or privilege
secured to him BY the constitution or laws
of the United States" they are subject to
an extremh penalty of $4,000 and ten
years imprisonment.
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A Mailbag stolen and RIaed.

ANN ARBoH, Mich, June rs. The
through-mail pouch to Ann Arbor from
the East which arrived late at night and
was locked in the bagga ge-room till morn
ing was stolen Saturday night and rifed
of its contents. The open mailbag and the
scattered letters were found in neigh.
boring field. Drafts to the amount OF
81, 600 were left with themail as not being
available, while as much more in cash is
believed to have been taken. The amount
taken was SO large because at this time of
year the university students are receiving
their last installments from home. An in
yestigation is in progress.