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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
THE N. W. c. T. Y. AND LABOR.

A Proposed Combination of Forces Which
Bids Fair to Do World of Good for
the Cause.
The address of the National Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union sent
out from Chicago to the labor organi-
cations is worthy of the atten.
ton and careful study of all
working-men. The Union is an earn.
est and efficient worker in the field of
reform. 1t is composed wholly of
women, and its efforts have been di.
rected largely towards creating sem
timent among the sex against
the liquor traffic. While this is
the main it is not the only pur-
pose of the organization. 1t makes
war upon intemperance in all its forms
and endearorS to educate women up to
better and nobler ideas of home and
the family. The good it has accomp-
lshed already is incalculable and the
future promises it broadening field
OF usefulness.
The latest move of the Union is an
offer to cooperate with the Knights of
Labor and other trade organizations in
elevating labor. 1t does not propose
to accomplish this, however, by con-
solidating with the labor unions and so
making them more formidable in num-
bers only. 1t seeks to improve the
working-man' condition by making
him purer, more happy and more
useful man. To this end the Union
asks the labor organizations to aid it in
checking intemperance in the use of
intOXicants, in extending a knowledge
of hygiene, of healthful food, of home
economics and of the laws OF health
among the men and women who labor
for their daily bread. These are the
lines along which the Christian Tenn
perance women of the land will gladly
cooperate with the labor unions in
their effort to elevate the working-man.
1t is to be hoped that this proffer of so
strong and so efficient reinforcement
in the battle for labor will not be ig-
nored by the trade-unions. The great
est obstacle in the path of the working
man has been his own disregard of the
laws of health and economy. Against
this barrier of ignorance reformers
have dashed in vain and philanthro-
psts have made but little Roadway.
Until it is broken down and the work.
ing-man is taught the necessity for OBJ
serving the laws of health, of economy
and Temperance there can be no real
elevation of the working classes.--Phtl-
GleLpbid Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
Forty People Injured by Flame from a
Gas Well at Kokomo, Ind,

LoGANsPoRT, Ind, Dec. 1S.-Kokomo, in
the adjoining county of Howard, is turned
into hospital, forty inhabitants b sing in
beds of suffering from injuries received
from an explosion of gas this afternoon. The
second well sunk came upon gas yesterday
morning, and an immense volume shot up
To facilitate work a frame bull ling was
built over the pipe. The flame was extln-
guished, and while an appliance was being
attached to the top Of the pipe the excited
populace crowded into the small building,
which rapidly filled with the escaping gas,
which became ignited from some source
and the air for rods around was one burst
of fame. The small building was torn to
pieces and forty people injured, thirteen
being terribly burned, and it is stated tina
anumber of these can not live.
Among those in precarioUs condition are:
Dolph Pickett, laborer; Marion Price, tele-
graph operator; Ira Lane, laborer; ]. L.
Loop, Representatives elect; Blake Ream
grocer; Milo Mauddin, printer; Walter
Hackett, machinist; Fred George, farmer;
George Stewart, plasterer; George Brown,
carpenter; David Frasee, carpenter, and
Lewis Leeds, railroad man. Seventeen
others are less severely injured The fame
from the well is fifty feet high, and can be
seen Illuminating the heavens.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

On the charge of conspiracy and fraud
William OBrien editor of United Ireland,
and John Dillon, Matthew Harris and Da-
vid Sheehy, members of Parliament, were,
arrested on the 10th in the town of Tough
rea, County Galway.
COLONEL HIGHLAND, with a body Of Brit
ish troops, pursued seven hundred Dakoits
recently and killed two hundred of them.
Many others were made prisoners.
AT Genoa, Italy, a boat was swamped on
the 18th and nine men were drowned.
IN the north of Spain heavy snow storms
with high wind were reported on the 18th.
The wreckage of steamers was being
washed ashore. At NORM church was
unroofed and five persons were killed.
On the 18th the Harbor Commission of
Montreal abandoned for the season
the project of keeping the St Lawrence
river open to navigation.
In Montreal fire few days ago, origin
ating in Nordheimer's piano warerooms,
destroyed block valued at $4,000.
ADvICEs of the 18th from Vienna state
that an avalanche killed band of seven
teen smugglers who were in hiding near
Vincennes.
THE anti-rent campaign at Dublin was
formally proclaimed on the 18th. The
funds of the league had been transferred to
France, and rent moneys deposited with
trustees would be secreted.
THE French Geographical Society was
assured by d. Lesseps on the 18th that the
Panama car2l would be open for traffic in
1889, without the locks.
THE steamer Llanelly, sailing from Liv-
erpool, foundered on the Goth at Holyhead,
and twelve persons were drowned
A oil
on the Goth killed thirteen persons and thir-
ty others were injured.
THE German Reichstag has passed bill
exempting clergymen from military serv-
ice.
IN County Tipperary, Ireland, family of
eight persons were asphyxiated on the
Doth. Five children were dead when
found, and the parents and other child
could not survive.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
XLlxth CONGRESS.
Second Session,

second SESSION.
THURSDAY, Dec. is. - In the Senate
bill was introduced proposing an amend
ment to the constitution in relation to the
election of United States Senators. A bill
was passed granting a pension to the step
mother of soldier-yeas, 80; nays, 8. A
resolution was adopted providing for the
extension of foreign trade without reduc-
ing the prices Of American labor. The
Tenure-of- Office bill was discussed. In the
House the Senate bill for the allotment of
land in severalty to Indians, upon whom
are to be conferred the rights of citizenship
was passed. The measure does not affect
the tribes in Indian Territory. The Urgency
Deficiency bill for public printing (s107, 000)
was also passed, and the Sundry-Civil bill
was further discussed in committee of the
whole. The Committee on Military Affairs
reported the completion of the Army APP
preparation BILL The total appropriation
is s23, 557, 23S.
FRIDAY, Dec I'm the Senate bills
were passed to repeal the Tenure-of-
Office act, to retire and recon trade dol
lars, and to extend the free-delivery sys-
tenn of the Post-Office Department. A bill
was introduced to provide for the reduc-
ton of interest on the bonded debt of the
OAACCu OGdCCo' AuJOuTtlSu W Iut 0UCu. LII
the House the Sundry- Civil Appropriation
bill was passed. A resolution was intro
duced authorizing the President to appoint
commission to take testimony in relation
to the losses and injuries inflicted since
December 81, 1885, by British authorities,
upon citizens Of the United States engaged
in the fisheries on the northeast coast of
British North America At the evening
niUhtann
SATURDAY, Dec. 18.-The Senate was not
in session. In the House Mr.. Morrison's
motion to take up the bill for reduction
OF tariff duties was rejected, the vote
standing ayes AS, nays l54. Six Republic
ans voted in the affirmative and twenty-six
Democrats voted in the negative.
MONDAY, Dec 20. In the Senate petit
tions were presented in favor of the re-
duction of the tax on oleomargarine. Bills
were passed: For the relief of Bessie S.
Gilmore to redeem three United States
bonds stolen from her and afterward de-
stroyed by the thief; for the relief of the
survivors of the exploring steamer jean
nette and the widows and children of those
who persisted. A bill was introduced to al
low soldiers and sailors who have lost both
arms an increased pension In the
houSe ulllS were Introduced: 10 apprOprl-
ate 100000 for the erection of monu-
ment to negro soldiers and sailors who lost
their lives in the rebellion; to forbid the
sale of liquors within the limits of any
Soldiers Home; to punish the passing of
Confederate money; and to repeal all du-
ties on sugar and molasses imported in
American vessels. A resolution was intro
duced instructing the Committee on Ways
and Means to report bill repeating the in
ternal revenue laws
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
GONE TC. THE soTToM.

Wreck of q Whaling Vessel OF San Fran
cico-A Score nd Half of Lives Lost
wenty>Eive of Those Drowned Said to
Have Been Intoxicated at the Time OF
the Disaster.
SAN Francisco, Dec 1S.--Tho whaling
bark Atlantic left here Thursday afternoon
for cruise in the South Pacific and was
wrecked early yesterday morning a mile
and half below the Cliff House. The cap
tain-Thomas B. Warren-and ten others
were saved. 1t is supposed that from
twenty-seven to thirty-one lives were lost.
The customs records show that she carried
crew of forty-two, but the captain insists
that the crew numbered but thirty-eight
The captain says that when they put to
sea there was heavy swell and the cur
rents were so strong that they could not get
out of the swell. Both anchors were let go,
but the bark dragged, and we went ashore
at 1880 a. m. The men were being washed
off during all this time by immense waves
which dashed over the vessel. The bark
went to pieces in an hour and half after
she struck. There was a very heavy fog
and it was pitch dark. Two boats were
lowered, but were capsized before getting
two lengths from the ship. The first boat
contained e. H. Doty, first mate, Anton
Perry, third mate, and four or five of the
crew. In the second boat were the cap
tain, Second Mate King and five men.
These and three others succeeded in get
ting ashore.
The captain made his way to the life
saving station, few hundred yards away,
and gave the alarm. Apparatus was in :
mediately got out, but owing to the dark
ness and the fog it was so11e time before
the wreck could be located. A line was
then shot over her, but it proved of no
service, as it became entangled in floating
Wreckage and the vessel shortly went to
pieces
Only one body has thus far been recov-
cred. 1t is rumored that a large portion
of the crew was intoxicated, and that
twenty-five were sleeping off the effects of
liquor when the vessel struck, and thus
met their death. The two men of the life
saving crew who patrol the beach all the
time were at the farther end of
their beats, and knew nothing of the
wreck until an hour after the We ssel
struck. Major T. J. Blakeney, superin-
tendent of the life-saving crew i'll this dis
trict, has made a thorough investigation,
and is unable to discover any incompe-
tency or lack of vigilance. Major Blakeney
says the wreckage from the vessel is so
rotten that slight blow will break any of
it. He thinks the matter should be investi-
gated, and pronounces it "a cold-blooded
murder"
The vessel was owned by J. & W. R.
Wing, Of New Bedford, Mass, and was
built in 1851.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT Kokomo, Ind, q natural gas explosion
on the 18th injured thirty-fv persons,
twelve of whom were in serious condition.
The other day Factor Jones and Dick
Bullock, two negroes charged with murder,
were ridd ed with bullets by lynchers, in
the Indian Territory.
The Legislature of South Carolina has
passed bill making it conspiracy, punish
able by fine and Imprisonment, to interfere
between employer and employee in any con-
tract, whether written or verbal The
farmers were very bitter against the
Knights of Labor organizers who were
endeavoring to enroll the colored people in
the State.
On the 18th Gratiot Washburne, aged
thirty-seven years, son of Elhu B. Wash
burne, of Chicago, dropped dead in the Gait
House at Louisville, Ky.
NEAR San Francisco on the 18th the
whaling bark Atlantic was driven ashore
and knocked to pieces, and twenty-five of
her crew were lost
HUGH MCCAsLIN, ninety-two years of
age, residing near Donnellson, Ill, was
suffering from an attack of whooping-
cough on the nth. Ninety-one years ago
he was afflicted with the same disease.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
THE EAST.

THE death of Major Nathaniel f. Hurd,
an officer in the war of 1912, occurred on
the 10Th at his home in Montclaire, n j.
WILLIAM REID, who embeZzled SEQ, 977
from the South Boston street railroad, while
treasurer, was on the 18th sentenced to
State prison for seven years.
In the northwestern section of Shenan-
doah, Pa, four acres settled two to four
feet on the 18th, partially wrecking fifty
dwellings and causing the widest alarm
among the people The financial loss was
So, 900.
THE death of Chairman j. d. Warren, of
the Republican State Committee of New
York, occurred on the 18th at his home in
Buffalo, at the age of sixty-three years.
In a fit of anger a f w days ago, Chris
tian F. Schau, tailor, of Erie, Pa, killed
his eldest daughter and fatally wounded
the next younger. He then attempted his
own life, and fired upon the officer who
arrested him.
A DENIAL is made of the story about the
challenge given the st. Louis Browns by
the New York baseball club to play seven
games for $40, 600
WHEN exposed III their criminal rela-
tons on the 18th at Penn Van, N. Y, Dorr
M. Hamlin fatally shot himself and Miss
Murel Alderman.
THE famous trotting-horse breeder and
trainer, Alden Goldsmith, died on the Goth,
at Walnut Grove Farm, Blooming Grove,
N. ", aged siXty-six years.
REV. SILAs WIGGIN, aged seventy five
years, of Sutton, VT, committed suicide
by hanging on tho Goth. No cause was
known.
THE failure is announced of Walter B.
Duffy, president of the Rochester On. W
Distilling Company, his liabilities aggre-
eating $3.50, 900.
TREASURER O'REuLY, of the Irish Ma
tional League in America, on the Goth
sent $4,000 by cable TO Treasurer Kenny,
of the Irish National League.
OK the Goth A. j. McQuade, one of the
Doodle aldermen of New York, was fined
s., 600 and sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment.
On the Goth the widow of the late Gener.
al George B. Mcclellan received a check
for $4,000 from the publishers of the rem
iniscences of her husband.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
COERCION BEGAN.

The Policy of the British Government Put
Into Practice at National Land League
Meeting - Dillon, O'Brien and Other
Leaders Arrested.
DUBLIN, Dec 11-William O'Brien, editor
of United Ireland and John Dillon, Matthew
Harris and David Shelby, members of Par
lament, were arrested yesterday in the
town OF Loughrea, County Galway,
charged with conspiracy to defraud. An
immense Nationalist meeting was being
held. Father Cunningham presided, and
the gentlemen named were on the plat
form. A large contingent of Lord Clan
ricarle's tenants were present. Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien addressed the meeting
and then opened Nationalist rent Offices.
Hundreds of tenants came forward and
paid their rents. Suddenly the police raid
ed the offices. Inspector Davies seized
about s460 in money, and documents
and books, and arrested Mr.. Dillon.
1t is alleged that Mr.. Dillon was rough
ly treated by the inspector. The po-
lice proceeded upstairs and took pos
session of more money and documents.
They then arrested Mr.. OBrien and after
wards Messrs Harris and Shelby. The
prisoners were taken before a magistrate
and remanded for week, under bonds of
GOO each Dillon has obtained q cross
summons against Inspector Davies for as
sault.
Mr.. Thomas Mayne, Parnellite men,
Der of Parliament for Middle Upper
airy, who, in the capacity OF trustee
under the "plan of campaign" is re-
ceiving from Wexford County tenants
the reduced rents refused by the landlords
and their agents, has been served with no
tice by the agent of the Brooklyn estates
that if he makes any other use of the mon.
eys so deposited with him than to return
them to the tenants the law viii be applied
to him.
United ireland says that Mr. John Dillon's
line of conduct will not be changed by the
Governments sentence ordering him to
furnish a bond, with two surieties, for his
ttgood behavior in the future"
LONDON, Dec. 17.-The Standard says tho
arrest of Messrs. Dillon, O'Brien, Harris
and Shelby and others at Loughrea yester-
day marks the beginning of death strug-
gle between the National League and the
law. The Nationalist imagine that Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach will shrink from fill
ing the prisons with Irish priests and mem
bers of Parliament, and it is the duty of
the Minister to show those crafty schemers
that they have miscalculated both their
own strength and that of the Government.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
LATER.

SECRET-sERvICE officers on the 21st made
i public an attempt to float counterfeit
|, twenty-dollar silver certificates by the
| Miles Ogle gang, with headquarters at Gin
| cinnati.
TWENTY EIGHT residences and two bust
ness houses were destroyed by fire at Gal
! weston, Tex. on the 21st. Loss, 100000; in
! surance, SIS, 800.
| JUDGE SLOAN, of Milwaukee, on the 21st
| sentenced Paul Grottkau, the Anarchist, to
thirty days in Jail for the publication of
| poem rejecting upon the court.
HEAVY snow-storms in Central Germany
had on the 21st blockaded the railroads.
WILLIAM MUssELs, who murdered Dam
| lei Christman and attempted to burn his
wife alive, was taken from jail at Eaton,
| o., on the evening of the 21st and hanged
| TO the electric-light tower.
THE building at Philadelphia occupied by
John NJ. Marts & Co. and Kneedler, Pat
terson & Co., was destroyed by fire on the
| 2lst, entailing loss of $190,O00.
AT indianapolis on the 21st United States
| Commissioner Van Buren, sentenced Samuel
| E. Perkins to ninety days Imprisonment
| for contempt in refusing to testify in the
election fraud cases.
| EVERY business house in Victoria, Ark,
was set on fire by incendiaries on the 21st
and destroyed. Total loss, $4,000.
THE clearinghouse of V. e. Hush & Co.,
of Minneapolis, MIMI, closed its doors on
| the 21st because of Endorsements for $780,
| coo or more for the owners of the Puritan
| iron mines.
d. NJ. ToMLIN and Burk Colvin, bankers
/ at Akron, Col, and also propretors of
| banks at Benkelman, Col, and at Cam
| bridge, Neb., failed on the 2lst with heavy
| liabilities.
DISPATCHES of the 21st from Arkansas
report that colored people from South
|, Carolina were arriving in large numbers,
| and all of them readily found employment.
/ SNEAK-THIEvEs on the 2lst purloined
| from the First National Bank of Milwaukee
5000 in tive-dollar bills. There was no clue
| to the thieves.
| p. A. STALENA, an embarrassed shoe
dealer at Creston, Ia, took arsenic on the
2lst and fell dead in snow-bank.
| BILLS were passed in the United States
Senate on the 21st making an appropriation
! to supply deficiencies for the public print
| ing and to fix the charge for passports at
| one dollar. A petition was presented from
| sixty ministers of the Nebraska Conference
| in favor of the Chinese Indemnity bill Mr.
| Wilson (la.) spoke at length in favor of the
| Interstate Commerce bill, after which &C
| ton was postponed until after the holiday
| recess. A resolution for holiday recess
from December % to January was agreed
| to. In the House tho Senate amendments
| to the Urgent Deficiency bill were con-
| Cured in. The Army Appropriation bill
was passed and the Pension Appropriation
bill CSC, 254,5)o) was reported. A resolu-
ton providing for holiday recess from
December % to January was adopted.
The Senate bill for the relief of the JEAN
nette Survivors was concur cd in.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24

Mrs. SUSANNA WARREN, born slave at
st. Augustine, Fla, in 100, died in Indian
Territory on the 18th. She leaves a daugh-
ter aged ninety-seven years.
a HIGHwAYMAN in Chicago on the 10Th
robbed policeman of his watch, while on
duty in front of a saloon, knocking him
down and then making his eaeape.
OK the 18th a valuable deposit mala-
chite was found on the Marietta & North.
Georgia railroad three hundred miles from;
Marietta, Ga. The mineral has heretofore
been found only in Siberia and Switzer-
land
From October 80 to the 18th inst the num-
Der of hogs slaughtered by Chicago pack
ers was $1,000, against 1,464, 900 for the
corresponding period last year.
THE death of Frederic w. Pitkin, ex-Gov-
ernor of Colorado, occurred On the evening
Of the 18th at Pueblo, of consumption.
OK account of the floods in South Caro-
lima early in the year many colored people
in Chester County were on the 18th in
want, and appeals have been made for as
sistance.
AT the dedication Of the new Bohemian
Catholic Church at Baltimore, Nd, on the
10Th Cardinal Gibbons, in speaking to the
congregation, said they owed duty to
their adopted country, and in serving it
they served God. He spoke of the relations
between employer and the employed, say
ing their interests were mutual He warned
them to avoid engaging in any thing that
might lead to anarchy, but by industry and
thrift to make for themselves name and
standing among their fellow citizens.
MRS ELIZABETH GIsT, living near West
minister, Nd, was burned to death on the
10Th while saving her two children from a
burning building.
In the region Of Summerville, S. c.,
subteraneous detonations continued on the
Goth.
]. T. PERRY, mayor of Greenville, Ala,
was fined fifty dollars and costs on the Goth,
for assaulting r. S. Shelves, a temperance
lecturer.
AT Bunker Hill, Ind, James Adams, fif-
teen years DID, was fatally shot on the Goth
by companion named Ora Curtis, who
was fooling with pistol which he thought
was empty.
GEORGE KADEs, an old man of Cleve-
land, o., was sentenced on the Goth to thir-
teen years imprisonment for killing his
step-daughter because she refused to rise
from bed when called.
THE report that prices in window-glass
had been advanced ten per cent. was de-
MED on the Goth by the secretary of the
Western WindowGlass Manufacturers
Association.
MONROE BROTHERS & Co., of Cleveland,
O., extensive lumber dealers, made an as
signment on the Goth, with liabilities of
$274, 900.
PEACOCK BROTHERS, of Colorado City,
Col, extensive cattle dealers, failed on the
o0th for S2nn 900
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24
Death of the Mother of an III-Fated
EamiIv.

SALEM III, Dec. l8.-Mrs. Sarah Bless
ing, the mother of the ill-fated Blessing
family, died in this city yesterday, aged
eighty-two years. She was the mother of
five sons, all but one of whom, and also a
daughter, came to tragic deaths. William
committed suicide, John was blown up on
a steamboat, Charles was killed in rail-
road accident, Ira was killed by an elevator
at st. Louis, and the daughter was muir
dered. The surviving son, Henry, who was
the principal actor in the Blessing tragedy
at st. Louis, was acquitted in trial last
April
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-24

KANSAS CRY, No., Dec. 1S.-A local
newspaper has an interview with the
representative of Colorado capitalists in
terested with New York, Chicago and st.
Louis men in a scheme to buy or lease for
long term of years the Cherokee strip
IN the Indian Territory, containing 6,000,-
900 acres, and open it to settlement. The
price mentioned is three dollars an acre.
The scheme also includes the acquisition of
5000, 900 acres in No Mans Land, extend
ing to Mexico, claimed by Cherokees. 1t
is asserted that $4,000 has been spent al
ready in looking up the records of the In
terror Department and negotiating with the
ndiaps.