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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
XLIXth CONGRESS.

ALLAN SOtN1hEo0
THURSDAY, March 1.-THE debate in the
Senate on the right of the Senate to papers
on file in the departments was continued
by Senator Wilson, Of Iowa. Senator
Hawley reported adversely the Vance bill
for repeal of the Civil-Service law Sen
ator Jones New spoke in favor of an I'M
limited coinage of silver TIE bill for the
forfeiture of part of the lands granted to
the State of Iowa to aid in the construction
OF railroads was debated. In the House Mr.
Long presented petition from Methodist
ministers Of Boston denouncing the grievous
outrages perpetrated upon the Chinese in
Wyoming and Washington Territories and
in the States of Oregon and California.
The Indian Appropriation bill was further
considered
FRIDAY, March 12-The debate in the
Senate on the right of the Senate to
have papers and information relating to
suspensions from Office was resumed, Mr..
Kenna (W Va.) speaking in defense of the
Administration. A bill was passed to for
felt the Sioux City & Pacific railroad land
grant in Iowa, except that portion claimed
by the Milwaukee e. ST. Paul road.
In the House a resolution was of
fered by Mr.. Weaver that the rules be so
amended that it shall require at least two
members to object to the consideration of
bill, lit now being in the power of an
idiot, insane man or crank to prevent the
consideration of any measure" Objected
to as disrespectful. A bill granting pen
sion of $4,000 per annum to the widow OF
General Hancock was favorably reported.
AT the evening session forty-6ve pension
bills were passed.
MONDAY, March 15.-In the Senate the
bill increasing the pensions of widows
and relatives of deceased soldiers from
eight dollars to twelve dollars month was
discussed. Mr.. ingalls, presented joint
resolution, proposing constitutional
amendment providing that the 30th of
April shall be the day for the beginning of
the successive administrations of the Gov
eminent hereafter, instead of the 4th OF
March. The death of Congressman Hahn
was announced, and the Senate adjourned
as mark of respect to his memory. In the
House no business was transacted, out of
respect to the memory of the late Repre-
sentative Hahn, of Louisiana.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

Southwest The great strike was sfill on,
with no signs of yielding on either side
An incendiary fire on tho 18th destroyed
the house OF refuge near Toledo, o. a mag
nifcent institution. which cost $4,000.
A Rock ISLAND & Pacific express train.
which started westward from Joliet about
one O'Clock ON the morning of the 18th, fell
into the hands of masked robbers. Be.
tween Joliet and Morris veteran express
messenger named Kellogg Nichols, of Chi
cago, was shot and pounded to death, and
his safe was robbed of about $25, 600 in
money and jewelry. A reward of $4,000
has been offered for the capture of the muir,
derers
MISSOURI PACIFIC railroad officials on the
18th made several unsuccessful attempts to.
run freight trains out of st. Louis, and late
in the afternoon they applied to the State
Circuit Court for injunctions to restrain
leading strikers from entering on the prop
erty of the road. At Sedalia, Mo-, ten
prominent Knights of Labor were arrested
on State warrants for disabling an engine.
AT Chicago on the 18th immense audi
ences gathered to hear the evangelists,
Messrs. Jones and Small, and thousands
were unable to gain admittance.
On the 18th six-day bicycle race closed
at Minneapolis Mimi, Schock, of Chicago,
making 1909 miles, giving him the worlds
championship, the previous best score being
1,007 miles.
IN linseed-oil mill at Toledo, O., an ex-
plosion occurred on the 18th which threw
many citizens from their beds and caused
$780, coo fire.
IN Cincinnati police court on the 18th
Henry Bleisten said that a communistic
order of riflemen existed in that city, and
there were five hundred similar orders in
the United States.
In an interview on the 18th in Florida
Jay Gould stated that the labor outbreak
in the Southwest originated on road be-
yond his control, and in the hands of the
Federal courts. He thought that the
Knights were beginning to see that they
were making war on the general public
There was no material change in the situa-
ton.
FIRsT-cLAss limited tickets were being
sold by the Pacific roads on the 18th from
Chicago to San Francisco or Los Angeles
for S34.50, with rebate of IS at the west
ern terminus.
THE wages of the employees of the mining
companies in the Menominee mich iron
range were on the 18th voluntarily adj
vanced
AT Canton, O., peculiar influenza, re-
semblng epizootic was raging on the 18th.
More than three thousand persons, one
third of them being school children, were
confined to their beds nv the malady
Ex-Governor WILLIAM IRWIN, of Cali
fornia, expired at San Francisco on the
18th, aged fifty -nine years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
THE FAST

A NEW oil we'll said to be good for one
thousand barrels daily was struck on the
18th near Washington, Pa, causing great
excitement in the county
FRANK MURGATRoYD of Philadelphia,
was taken with violent fit of sneezing
while in bed on the 18th, and died before a
physician arrived.
FIVE victims of the Uniondale (Pa)
mine explosions had up to the 18th died.
and three others were still in danger.
A MIDDLE-AGED unknown man walked
into Niagara river on the 18th, about a
quarter of a mile above the Horseshoe
falls and was swept away.
In the New York billiard match between
Schaefer and Vignaux the former made q
run on the 18th of $50 points, beating all
precious records.
JOSEPH GALcE's residence, near Pittston,
Pa, was destroyed by fire on the 18th, and
his two children, aged four and six years,
persisted in the flames.
A PROCESS is reported to have been dis
covered at Pittsburgh which renders explo-
sions of natural gas impossible while all
the heating qualities are retained.
BY colliding with schooner the steamer
Oregon, with eight hundred passengers on
board, was wrecked off Fire Island, twenty
I've miles from New York, on the 14th, and
sank a few hours thereafter. All on
board were saved. The vessel was valued
at 81, $4,000.
THE billiard match between Jacob
Schaefer, of Chicago, and Maurice Wig
naux, of Paris, for the worlds champion
ship, terminated in New York on the 18th
in victory for Schaefer, he scoring 5000
points to his opponents ISIS.
ZELNo P. GORDON, eighty-two years of
age, the oldest telegrapher in the United
States, died at Castle, n Y, on the 18th.
SIX THOUSAND persons were on the 18th
out of employment owing to the strike at
the knitting mills in Cohoes, N Y.
UPON investigation it was shown on the
18th that the inmates of the Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Erie, Pa, had been shame
fully treated.
For nearly month past ex-President
Arthur has been confined to his bed in
New York with a severe cold. but he was
rapidly improving on the 18th.
THE Democrats of Rhode Island on the
18th nominated Amasa Sprague for Gov
ernOr
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

THE glorious climate of California
and the recuperative power of her citi-
zens make combination hard to beat.
Both the climate and the power are re-
sponSible for the fact that little four
year-old Dan Murphy, who was shot
through the lungs on New Years Day.
is now playing around the street as
well as ever. The shooting was acct
dental, and the ball, which was from a
forty-two-calber revolver, struck the
boy in the breast, little above the
heart, and came out under the left
shoulder blade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

The Cincinnati Price Current pub
fishes the result of its special investiga-
tions in regard to the area and present
condition of the winter wheat in the
Mississippi Valley. The general re-
suits for acreage, as compared with a
year ago, are: Ohio, Indiana, Michigan
and Kentucky, 100; Kansas, 50; Illinois
and Missouri, 90-total about 961 per
cent. The inference drawn from the
reports of condition is: Tennessee and
Michigan, 90; Missouri and Indiana, "a;
Ohio and Kentucky, 90; Kansas, 90,
and Illinois, 81.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
starved to Death.

SHELBYvILLE, Ind, March 16.-The re-
cent death ofAlbert j. Gorgas, clerk of the
Shelby County circuit court. it is now
learned, was caused from starvation. Some
time ago his health began to fail, and he
became imbued with the idea that he could
cure himself by dieting. Accordingly he be-
gan to diminish his food, but this did not
seem to afford any relief, and he then to-
tally desisted from eating any thing From
the time he began his fast until his death,
a period of forty-two days, not particle
of food passed down his throat, and he
died literally of starvation, resisting all
efforts to give him nourishment, which was
furnished him during the last days by
enema
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
Indiana,s Revenue.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 1o.-The
State Treasurer has issued circularletters to
county treasurers asking them to send in all
the money in their possession coming to the
State at once instead OF waiting until the
May settlement it being necessary TO thus
anticipate the revenues to meet current
and coming expenses. The deputy treas
urer says that the State revenues. now ex-
coed its usual expenses about $50, 900 each
year, and unless the coming Legislature
makes unusual appropria tons the State
should be able to pay off its entire indebt-
edness, 81, 6S5, 900, from its savings from
year to year without extra taxaticn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

IT would seem from the statistics
that the United States is gaining in
sobriety. The internal revenue re-
ports of 1885 show a diminution of
nine million dollars in the revenue re-
ceived for spirits since 1884, and that
the number of persons engaged in man
ufacturing spirits has steadily dimin-
ished every year since 1883.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

AN extraordinary case of boycotting
isreported from a town near Greenbor-
Ough, Ga, where a certain cigar deal
er has beautiful and winsome daugh-
ter A young man of the place paid
her attentions and won her affections,
but the old man objected, and forbade
theyoung man his house. But, nothing
dismayed, the young man organized a
club of sympathizerS, and they have
boycotted the old mans business--re-
fusing to buy cigars of him unless the
barricade be raised. At last accounts
the old man was growing weakened.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

WHEN the recent snow-storm in
Maine was at its worst, one of the Sc
lectmen of Limington was told that a
neighbor needed medical attention at
once. He sent messenger on foot,
the roads being impossible for teams,
to the nearest doctor, three miles dis
tant, telling him to stop atall the farm
houses on the way and ask the inhab-
itants to turn out and break roads for
the doctor. And they did. The mes
senger started about three o'clock in
the morning, and the doctor was able
to drive to the patient before noon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
Faroring Chinese Claims.

WASHINGTON, March 15.-The House
Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday
talked over the recent correspondence from
the Secretary of State relative to indemni-
Tying the Chinese for losses at the riot at
Rock Springs, Wy. T. The committee is in
clined to take the same view of this
question as presented by Secretary Bay
ard, and a bill viii probably be shortly
agreed upon and reported making the
necessary appropriations asked for by the
Chinese Government. The amount OF this
indemnity is 100000 This action OF the
committee will doubtless lead to the fling
9i other claims.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

SOCIETY has started upon its TO-,
day rest, and fathers and mothers,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, can take
occasion to be introduced and get ac-
quainted with their sons and daugh-
tiers. There are plenty of parents in
Chicago who know good deal more
of the President of the United States or
the Queen of England than they do of
their own boys and girls.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

THE United States Supreme Court
has decided, by vote of five to four,
that the property of corporations can
not be exempted from State taxation
by Legislative authority, the majority
of the court taking the ground that a
previously existing Legislature can not
bind in this regard the action of sue
ceeding legislative bodies. This is the
PRONUNCIATION of an important princi-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
Killed by Exp1oding Boilers.

CLARION, Pa, March 16.-Shortly before
noon yesterday the boiler used at Hicks
coal shaft on the Pittsburgh & Western
railroad exploded. William Banes, en-
gineer, and Joseph Elsener, fiat trimmer,
were buried in the debris. Elsener died in
short time. Banes was terribly scalded
and his skull fractured. He can not re-
cover.
At Limetown, Pa. the boiler of the
pulnping-boat at HiIldale coal works ex-
ploded yesterday morning, fatally scalding
William Fare the engineer. The boat was
badly damaged
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
Riot at Toronto.

TORONTO, Can, March Blowing to a
renewal of obstructive tactics, all the
street cars in the city were withdrawn be-
tween three and four O'Clock yesterday
afternoon. About 2:3o O'Clock the police
had hot work in clearing Yonge street of
the crowds congregated there They
charged on the crowd repeatedly,
using their batons most effectively.
The crowd retaliated by throwing bricks,
sticks and stones. The police succeeded
after half-hour's hard work in dispensing
the mob, who, however, congregated around
the street-car stables. The police again
appeared, and, after a severe struggle, dis
persed the crowd. Then there was COM
parative quiet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

REV. SAMUEL RAMSEY WILSON. aged
Sixty-eight, died at Louisville, KY, a
few days ago. He was one of the most
conspicuous figures of the Presbyterian
Church, being the leader of the split
which caused the establishment of the
Southern branch Of that church.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

THE man who gets hurt on Brooklyn
bridge has splendid chance for liti-
cation. He can sue both BROOKLYN
and New York. Mr. Walsh was walk
ing under the bridge when a plank fell
and smashed the bones of his foot. Mr..
Walsh has sued both cities for ten thou
sand dollars damages and the Judge
holds that each city is equally respon-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

THREE MILLION dollars is what
each session of Congress costs the coun-
try. The Somervile Journal wonders
sometimes whether it would not be
cheaper to divide the three millions
equally among the Congressman on
condition that they shall stay at home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
Fortifying Halifax.

BosToN, March ia special from Hall
fax to the advertiser states that on ac-
count of the recent opening of the Canadian
Pacific railroad and The early prospective
establishment of Englands military route
to India via Canada, the British Govern
ment will create an arsenal here
and make Halifax Britains greatest naval
station in the new world The most i'm
pregnable circle OF Notifications now
guarding the harbor will be supplemented
by several large forts. The dock-yard,
which occupies one third of the water front
OF the city, is to be re-established on its old
time basis, and a second British regiment
has been ordered to the garrison.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

IT usuallyis goose, but this time it
is a turkey gobbler that has been dug
out of a snow-bank, where he had been
buried for thirty-eight days. This
was in Bryant, Kan, and the turkey
is doing well.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

TWELVE THOUSAND heads of families
have filed upon homesteads in the
Garden City land district, in Kansas,
that it will have to be on their land
within six weeks or it will be open for
contest.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

LIEUTENANT GENERAL PHILIP H.
SHERIDAN was fifty-live years of age a
few days ago. With the exception of
General Miles he is the youngest gem
eral officer in the regular army.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

SEVERAL travelling dramatic and con-
cert companies have gone to wreck and
ruin in Dakota this season--and that,
too, without the aid of either blizzard
or the cyclone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

The second volume of General
Grants Personal Memoirs " will not
be delivered to subscribers until April.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

PERHAPS, now that Edison is mar
ried, he will be able to invent good
reason for being out late nights.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
II rs pleasant to know that almond
trees are blooming in California.

IT is reported that the Prince of
Wales has in contemplation a visit to
Canada and the United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
WEST AND SuuTH.

No NOTABLE change occurred on the 18th
in the relations between striking knights
] of Labor and railroad managers in the
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-20
Geo. Nj. Scott & Co

| Among the leading mercantile houses
OF Utah Territory which have grown up
to foremost position by strict regard
for purely legitimate business principles
the house of Geo. M. Scott & Co. ranks
among the first. The recent incorpora-
ton of the institution was found neces-
sary in order to keep apace with the tre-
mendous growth OF the business which,
as it extended, required more and better
facilities for efficiently conducting and
looking after the interests of the large
trade. In thus organizing, Mr.. Scott
brought into active service for his house
the ability as well as the capital of sew
eral capable and reputable gentlemen.
whose efforts have already greatly con-
tributed to the prosperity of the business.
The house to-day is undoubtedly the
biggest, best equipped and most com
pletely stocked institution in that line be-
tween the Missouri river and Pacific
Coast, and is prepared to meet the wants
OF the trade throughout the Territories as
well as OF the immediate public. In
hardware, iron, steel, miners supplies.
mill findings, stoves, tinware, sheet iron
and the like, everything is kept in stock,
and under the excellent facilities the
house enjoys, are sold at the lowest con-
slstent figures. Their premises on Main
street contain q variety and quantity of
goods in their particular line from
which anyone may get what he wants |
and all he wants. -'
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-20
".ACROSS THE CONTINENT
Not a Scene from The Drama, Hut
- an Occurrence of Yesterday. M


The passengers on the Union Pacific
west-bound train yesterday witnessed
the sensational reality of what is por-
trayed in the telegraph scene in Oliver
Doud Byron's play of "Across the Con-
tinent," The train had arrived at point
just thirteen miles west of Granger and
fifteen miles east of Carter station, when.
without the slightest intimation of such a
calamity, the steam chest of the engine
was blown completely off, leaving the en-
CINE as well as the train in a perfectly
helpless predicament There was no
telegraph station nearer than Granger or
Carter station, and the passengers were
not long in realizing the helplessness of
their situation s5
The prospects Of long and dreary de-
lay on the desolate spot was all at once
dlsslpated by the opportune action of
Conductor j. McManis, who had charge
OF the train. He electrified the passen-
gers with establishment by taking out
a private telegraph instrument, cutting
the wire at the nearest pole, and after the
necessary adjustment, the glad message
to Evanston for relief engine was sent
ticking over the line within very short
time after the catastrophe occurred. A
switch engine was on the ground in about |
two hours afterwards, and with this the
train was pushed on to Carter station and |
a regular engine attached. The train
then proceeded on its way, arriving at |
Ogden only one hour late The passen- |
gers were enthusiastic over their praise
OF Conductor McManis, whose opportune
action saved them from most disagree
able wait
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-20
Before Judge FOREMAN To-Day.

Judge Foreman disposed OF the follow.
ing law and motion cases this morning in
the court chambers
John w. Enright ct al. VS.. Richard
Grant ct al; demurrer to complaint
overruled, exception taken and ten davs
allowed to answer.
Cornelius Hunt VS.. Stephen Foster
motion to dismiss, appeal allowed, and
dismissal ordered.
Mrs. Kate Murtila VS.. Edward f. Their
lott ct al. motion to dismiss, suit argued
and submitted.
James w. Cochrane vs. David Dun
combe; motion of defendant to be per-
mltted to file amended answer argued by
Judge Hoge for defendant and S. w.
Darke for plaintiff; motion sustained and
answer filed, and ten days allowed to
answer cross-comp!aint. re
Thomas w. Beaver VS.. Mary S. Beaver:
default entered and decree of divorce
granted. .l. rs.
+. Sells VS.. George +. Adkins ct al. :.
defendant allowed to file amended notice
and statement on motion for new trial
without prejudice to rights of plaintiff.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-20
A Utah Mining Machinery DepOt.

The Utah and Montana MACHINERY
Company was the first institution OF the
kind to recognize in Salt Lake CITY a
great centre and supply point for the
mining districts Through the Rocky
Mountain regions. The object of the
company was and still is to provide, at an
accessibly near position to the mining
premises, all the facilities for QUILTING
and equipping mining plants which are
found in New York and other eastern
cities. In this they have been eminentlv
successful, and have been able to fur
nlsh all the Various paraphernalia OF min
ing machinery at rs low if not at lower
figures than the same could be laid down
here for from the East. Nor have they
confined their trade to that of the mining
necessities. Everything pertaining to
boilers, engines iron pipes and fittings ETC..
is Kept in stock, and specially made of
the celebrated Westinghouse engine and
knowles steam pumps. Anybody living
at distance should send for descriptive
and illustrated circulars, while those who
are near at hand will find it to their adj
vantage to call and inspect the stock at
the company's warerooms in the Union
Block, Main street.