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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14
IN THE DOCK.

Maxwell, the Alleged Murderer OF Preller,
Brought to Trial at st. Louis Outline
of the Defense-History of this Famous
Case.
ST. LOUIS, May 1.-THE noted case OF
Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias w. III. Lennox
Maxwell, charged with the murder OF c..
Arthur Preller at the Southern Hotel in
this city on the 18th of April, 1885, was
called in tine criminal court yesterday
morning.
1t is stated the defense will consist of a
general denial of the allegations, a reliance
upon the theory of q reasonable doubt,
and denial of the statement that the
body found in the trunk was Preller's. The
whole case, of course, rests upon the
identity OF the body, and many witnesses
from all parts of the country who had met
Preller will testify on this point
THE story of the crime has been read by
nearly every one. On the morning of April
IA, 1885 the body of Charles Arthur Preller,
of London England, was found badly de-
composed in trunk in room IA of the
Southern Hotel The room was the one that
had been occupied by Maxwell. Every cir
cumstance seemed to point to the muir
der of Preller by Maxwell. Preller disap-
peared Sunday, April 5, and Monday Max
well was spending money freely, although
he had none before, and at six O'Clock that
evening he paid his bill and left, say
ing that his friend Preller had gone
into the country for a few days. All
these and many other facts fastening
suspicion on Maxwell, he was followed
to San Francisco, whittier he had
gone under the name of Hugh M. Brooks
and Theodore Cecil d'Auguer, a French
colonel, and thence to New Zealand, where
he was after many formalities captured
and brought back. He was two days out
on The ocean before the pursuit began.
After his return Maxwell admitted that he
was Hugh NJ Brooks, but made no admis-
sion of his guilt. He has been in Jail now
nine months
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WEST AND SOUTH.

IMMENSE damage was done to crops on
the 9th by terrific storms in portions of
Kansas and Missouri.
THE Southern Baptist convention was
held at Montgomery, Ala, on the 18th, and
the fifth general conference of the colored
NJ. E. Church assembled at Augusta, Ca
SEVERAL more Anarchists were captured
by the Chicago police on the 7th. There
was no material change in the labor stu
alton, and but few disorderly acts were
reported.
THE recent hail and transforms did vast
damage throughout Southern Missouri and
Kansas, The loss in the vicinity of Spring
field, Mo-, was estimated at 500, 900.
AT Henning, Tenn, thirteen houses
were destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the 9TH.
WHILE preparing supper Mrs John Duck,
aged eighty years, was burned to death on
the 9TH at Edna, No., her clothes catching
fire from the stove.
On the corner of Paulina and Eighteenth
streets, Chicago, the figure of policeman
in full uniform was found hanging to a
telegraph pole on the 18th. The fund for
the relief of the families of the killed and
wounded policemen had reached over
$4,000
The eight-hour movement in Chicago
seemed to have lost its momentum on the
9th and reaction in favor of the employ
ers had apparently begun.
The freight handlers at Chicago ended
their strike on the Sth, and they would i'm
mediately apply for unemployment.
THE fifth policeman died in Chicago on
the 9th from wounds received in the recent
Socialistic riot, and several Others were
in critical condition.
THE residence of Frank Benoit, near
Jackson, Mimi, was burned few days
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FROM WASHINGTON.

The death of Lieutenant II. J. Hunt Jr,
U. S. N, who was connected with tho Jean
nette and Greedy arctic expeditions, oc-
Cured on the 9th at Washington.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
the business failures occurring throughout
the country numbered for the United States
1877 and for Canada or q total of 1872, as
compared with total of 207 the previous
seven days.
In tho United States during April the fire
losses aggregated $4,000, 0O0-$5O0,0 900 more
than the average loss for that month in
eleven years
1T was shown by dispatches received on
the 9TH that in the principal cities through
out the country 1926 coo persons Joined in
the recent demand for an eight-hour day,
that the employers yielded to 10000 and
175,000 struck, and that 5000 of the latter
accomplished their purpose.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the Sth aggregated
1904, 933, 40, against $771, 9S7,707 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the cor
responding week of 1885, the increase
amounts to 1919 per cent
IT was reported by the National Depart
ment of Agriculture on the 10th that during
April wheat advanced two points in condi-
ton, the general average reaching ninety
five per cent In May last year the aver
age was seventy.
DURING the week ended on the Sth the
issue of standard silver dollars from the
minis was $377, 975. The issue during the
corresponding period of last year was
$263,99
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT Venice and Vicenza, Italy, cases OF
cholera were reported on the 9Th
IT is stated that Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island de-
sire to withdraw from the Canadian Fed
Grafton.
| IT is the reported intention of Greece to
defend its territory against all advances by
foreign soldiers.
TWELVE new cases of cholera and four
deaths were reported at Venice, five cases
and two deaths at Vicenza, and sixteen
cases and six deaths at Bari during the
twenty-four hours ended on the eth.
VERY cold weather was being experienced
in Hungary on the 18th and the railways
were blockaded by snow.
BECAUSE of the refusal of the street-car
company Of Toronto to employ Knights of
Labor all the conductors and drivers struck
on the Sth.
THE five Powers notified Greece ON the
Sth that its ports would be blockaded by
their squadrons.
HUNDREDS of persons were reported on
the Sth to be dying of starvation ON the
Cape de Verde Islands.
RECENT reports give accounts of fire in
Honolulu, April IS, which burned over
sixty acres, rendering eight thousand per-
sons homeless, and causing a loss of
| 81 1000
AT Hull, Quebec, fire on the 9th extend
ing over ten acres of ground, destroyed
buildings valued at $3.50 900, including the
post-office.
ITALIAN advices of the 9th report fifteen
| new cases of cholera and five deaths from
Brindisi and nine new cases and three
deaths from Venice.
| PREMIER GLADSTONE, in a lengthy speech
in the British House of Commons on the
| 10th, moved the second reading of the Irish
Home-Rule bill. Lord Harrington followed
| in opposition, but no action was taken.
| PREMIER DELYANNIs was charged by the
King of Greece with being responsible for
the troubles existing, whereupon the Min
| istry resigned on the 10th.
| UNDER the direction of Bismarck advices
of the 10th say that the driving out of the
Poles from Prussia had begun.
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THE EAST.

THERE were no indications of speedy
settlement of the labor troubles in New
York on the 9th.
STRIKE was inaugurated ON the 9th by
one thousand miners along the Panhandle
road in Pennsylvania, and four hundred
of Rend's men, for an advance in wages
BUSINESS at Pittsburgh was reported on
the 18th as paralyzed by the labor troubles.
Orders were being countermanded, con-
tracts broken, and manufacturers refused
to buy stock.
THE general trade situation throughout
the country as indicated by special tele-
grams to Bradstreet's on the 18th was very
unfavorable, owing, in a large degree, to
the numerous strikes and the determination
of manufacturers not to yield.
In a public telephone test made between
Cleveland and New York City on the 9th,
the singing of Miss Emma Abbott in the
former city was plainly heard in the lat
ter.
IN New York City the piano makers and
sugar-refiners decided on the 9th to end
their strike and return to work at the old
prices and old hours.
NORMAN IoUNsBERRY, aged seventy
eight, living on farm near Oswego, N.
Y, killed his young wife, aged sixteen
and one of his nephews and shot himself
dead on the 10th. He left a letter declar-
ing himself insane,
THE failure of the R. L. Spencer Novelty
Company, of Wallingford, Conn, occurred
on the 10th for $150,000.
AS result of a strike of bakers at Pitts
burgh on the 10th bread famine prevailed,
as the few establishments in operation
could only supply their regular customers.
ALDERMAN JAEHNE was placed on trial on
the 10th at New York for accepting bride
of $4,000.
c. f. WoERIsHoFFER, noted Wall street
operator, died suddenly of apoplexy at
New York on the 10th.
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Compiled from Late Dispatches,
xLIxth CONGRESS.


THURSDAY, May Gin the Senate the
Interstate Commerce bill was further
considered, and bill was reported favor
ably making eight-hours p days work for
letter carriers. In the House the River and
Harbor bill tappropriatiIg about $4,000
000) was passed by a vote of 143 to 1O2. A
joint resolution contemplating constitu-
tional amendment providing for female
suffrage was reported adversely. The bill
TO create department of agriculture and
labor was discussed.
FRIDAY, May I'm the Senate Mr..
Logan introduced bill embodying inn
portant amendments to the Mexican PEN
sion BILL In the House private bills were
discussed, and at the evening session fifty
five pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY, May 6.-The Senate was not
in session In the House the Military
Academy Appropriation bill and bill
authorizing the Kansas City and Gulf
road to lay its tracks through Indian Terri
tory were passed. The Army Appropria-
ton bill was further considered and two
pension bills were returned by the Presi-
dent with his veto.
MONDAY, May 10. In the Senate the
Interstate Commerce bill was further
considered. Mr.. Frye introduced bill to
limit the commercial privileges of vessels
belonging to foreign countries which re-
strict the privileges of American ships. A
joint resolution from the Ohio Legislature
was presented asking Congress to pension
ex-soldiers who were confined in Confeder-
9 prisons In the House bills were in
troduced: BY Mr. Dingley, to limit the
commercial privileges of vessels of foreign
countries in the ports of the United States
to such purposes as are accorded to Amer
lean vessels in the ports of such foreign
countries; by Mr. Beach, to amend the
rules so as to subject to fine of 500 every
member who is absent during call of the
House. District of Columbia matters &C.
cupied the remainder of the session.
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BURNED OUT.
Great CONGREGATIONS in Honolulu and in
Hull, Can, Render Thousands of Persons
HOmeleSS

Great CONGREGATIONS in Honolulu and in
Hull, Can, Render Thousands of Persons
Homeless.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. - Adyiees re-
ceived by the steamer Alameda from Hon
olulu give an account of disastrous
conHagration which occurred there
April IL. The fire started in
cook-house in the Chinese quarter,
where Cinnamon starting fire in %
stove carelessly set fire to the walls OF the
building. The fire soon got beyond COW
troll. The fire department was inadequate
and efforts were directed toward staying
the fires pl ogress by blowing up buildings.
1t was not until eight entire squares,
comprising sixty acres OF the most
thiclly populated portion OF the Chinese
quarter had been destroyed, tina the fires
advance was staid. About 5000 people,
mostly Chinese are left homeless. The
loss is estimated at 81 800, 900; insurance,
$230,000. Only two lives were lost-a
native woman and an unknown perscu
whose charred remains were found. The
King visited the scene of the confiagratiOn
and greatly encouraged the men, often as
sisting with his own hands.
HULL, Can, MAY 10.-Fire broke out at
an early hour Saturday morning in Alder
man Landry's bakery, and spreading rap
idly soon DESTROYED allthe houses on Lake
and Duke streets and on Main street as far
as Pontin's stone block at the corner OF
Main and Slide streets, whore 1T was
checked. The area covered by the fire Is
about ten acres, and $50 families were
burned out. Loss $3.50, 900.
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LATER.

A CYCLONE on the 18th at Kansas City,
Mo-, caused the loss of twenty-nine lives,
twelve of whom were school-children, in
jured twenty other persons, and destroyed
many thousand dollars worth of property.
The courthouse and many other buildings
were wrecked.
HERR JOHANN MOST, the notorious Social
list and dynamiter, was arrested in New
York on the 18th, in house af ill-repute.
He was found under bed.
f The superintendent of the assay office at
Helena reports that Montana last year pro-
duced $23,000,000 in precious metals, the
amount of gold being $5,000,000.
THE switchmen on the various railroads
in Indianapolis struck on the 18th because
the Vandalia road discharged a Knight of
Labor and hired a non-union man in his
place.
THREE soldiers were drowned in the Vel
lowstone river few nights ago near Fort
Keogh, M. T., by the upsetting of a skiff
A TORNADO on the 18th at Leavenworth,
Kan, partially wrecked the Morse school
and the new market house, dangerously
wounding man and killing three horses.
The railroad bridges at Easton and Fair
mount were washed away.
ABOUT four thousand sewing girls in Chi
cago were idle on the 18th, the employers
refusing to open their shops until existing
differences were settled. Nearly all the
furniture manufactures were also closed,
and in the southwestern lumber district
dealers did not expect to resume opera
tionsfor several days
VIOLENT wind and rain-storm passed
over Evansville, Ind, on the 18th, wrecking
the African Baptist Church and q number
of other buildings. Stores were unroofed
and trees and chimneys blown down.
Up to the 18th the fatalities of the recent
Anarchist attack in Chicago were five
policemen and seven other persons. 1t was
believed that in addition to these several
Anarchists were killed, but that their
bodies were secretly disposed of by their
friends.
The cholera returns from Italy on the
18th were: Bari thirty-fve new cases,
fourteen deaths; Venice, eight new cases,
seven deaths; Brindisi, three new cases.
AT Nortonville, Kan, a cyclone on the
18th destroyed over twenty buildings and
badly damaged several others No lives
were lost.
The United States Senate ON the 18th,
in discussing the Interstate Commerce
bill, tabled an amendment to fine and inn
prison men who conspire to interfere with
the running of trains. In the House a bill
was passed for the appointment of three
commissioners to settle Spanish and Next
can land claims in the State of Colorado
and the Territories of New Mexico and Ar
iona. Up to date $40 bills and III joint
resolutions have been introduced in the
House, and 500 have been passed.
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ago, and his three young children persisted

ago, and his three young children persisted
in the flames.
A GASOLINE explosion at St Louis killed
four men few days ago.
GENERAL MILES made statement on tie
9th that vigorous campaign would be
carried on against the Apaches until every
hostile had been killed
GEORGE You've (colored) was hanged
on the Sth at Galveston, Tex, for wife muir
der.
WHILE attempting to drive across the
Fort Wayne track at Inwood, Ind, on the
9th John Wymer, his wife and two daugh-
ters were instantly killed by an engine.
IN the Ohio Senate the Republican mem
bers on the 8th, by viva voce vote, de-
clared vacant the seats of the absent Gin
cinnati Democrats and seated the four
Republican claimants from Hamilton
County
OVER one hundred Chicago firms of
metal manufacturers, employing twenty
five thousand men, organized an associa-
ton on the Sth for mutual protection and
united action. r. I. Crane was elected
president.
WAYNE COUNTY, Ind, was swept by a
tornado the other night, every thing in its
track being destroyed. One woman and
two men were reported killed.
UP to the 10th eight of the Chicago riot
ers had died from drinking poisonous con-
coctions in the drug store they wrecked at
the corner of Eighteenth street and Center
avenue, and there were indications that
four others would soon be added to the list
Ar Chicago the strikes on all the rail-
roads came to an end on the 10th, the men
generally returning to work. In other
branches of business some trouble still ex-
listed, but the prospects for a general re-
sumption of trade were good.
THE death of a MIR. Kline, his wife, three
children and Mrs. Kline's brother, Mr.
Cox, occurred by drowning in the river at
Maquire's Ferry, Kan, on the 10th, by the
upsetting of boat.
THE trial of Hugh M. Brooks, alias Max
well, was on the 10th commenced in St.
Louis for the murder of c. A. Preller,
whose body was found in a trunk at the
Southern Hotel a year ago.
The strike of employees in Milwaukee,
Detroit, ST. Louis, indianapolis and Gin
cinnati was nearing an end on the 10th,
and many of the old hands were returning
to work.
Chicago on the 10th, Cancelled the lease of a
building on Fifth avenue occupied by the
Socialistic Publishing Society.
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ANNlHlLATE led.
An Entire Family Killed by an Express
Train Near Fort Wayne, Ind.

An ny an ASAHiOno
Train Near Fort Wayne, Ind.
FoRT WAYNE, Ind, May 10.-As the day
express on the Fort Wayne road which
left Chicago at 3:15 yesterday AFTERNOONS
was passing the little station OF InwCod,
six miles from Plymouth, last evening, it
dashed into a wagon occupied by John
Wymer his wife and his two
young daughters, wrecking the We
hicle and mangling it's occupants
so badly that their injuries resulted
in death. Wymer, who is a young farmer
living near Inwood, left homein the wagon,
accompanied by his family, to visit friends,
and on his return started to cross the
track at six O'Clock just as the train
dashed up. The engine struck the team
directly in front OF the wagon bed, fatally
injuring the horses and killing Wymer
and the elder of the children instantly.
His wife and the other child escaped imme-
date death, but died shortly afterward in
great agony. The bodies were horribly
mutnated by the engine, the eldest child's
head being comfetely severed from the
trunk, while Symer's remains were
almost unacceptable.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14

A PETITION has been sent from In
dianapolis to Senator Sherman, asking
Congress to appropriate sufficient
funds to erect monument above the
grave of General w. H. Harrison, near
North Bend, on the Ohio river
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A Monster Petition.

WASHINGTON, May 11.-Reppesentative
Morrow, of California, has received from the
Knights of Labor of California petition
over two thousand feetlong and containing
the names ofover fifty thousand PERSONS in
Guiding every State. county and municipal
officer and Knight of Labor in California,
and every male adult in many counties of
the State, praying for action on the part
of Congress, either by appropriate legisla-
ton or by a change in the present treaty
with China, to forever prohibit the further
immigra SION of Chinese to the United
States.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 10.-At 5:45 o'clock
Sunday morning $50, 900 worth of prop
erty in coal barges was sunk in the Mo-
nongahela riyer between dam No. / and
the Point bridge. The cause OF the dis
aster was the sudden rise in the river.
A fuel fat which had broken fromits moor
ings came drifting rapidly down the swiftly
running stream. just below the dam it
struck against feet of twelve bargcs.
The entire tow started down the river. Be-
fore the runaways had gone far they en-
countered twenty-three other barges. Only
eleven OF the thirty-cight barges were
saved
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14

A NUMBER of wealthy gentlemen of
Springfield, O., with Ross Mitchell, the
millionaire manufacturer, at the head,
have organized company for the pur-
pose of building in Central Kansas a
new city, to become the metropolis
and capital of the State. The town is
TO be on the Union Pacific railroad,
two hundred and eighteen miles from
Kansas City, and will bear the name
of Kanapolis. Over four thousand lots
have been sold.
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ANOTHER comet has been discovered

ANOTHER comet has been discovered
by an industrious sky-gazer, which
calls to mind the observation of the
French epieure to La Place, the great
astronomer; 1.-THE real benefactor of
his race is the person who discovers or
invents new dish. We already have
more comets and planets than we have
anY use for. =
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Two New York imitation English
men thought it good joke to 90
through the streets early in the morn
ing tipping over ash-barrels, just as
they do in London, you know. Justice
Duffy remarked when they were
brought before him that such London
fashions were too expensive in a city
which paid two million dollars yearly
for cleaning streets, and fined tho two
Anglo-maniacs five dollars and costs
each. N y Tribune.
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Grseoe without a Cabinet.

ATHENS, May 11-All the Ministers have
resigned. The Official Journal approves
the Ministerial action, and says it believes
it is for the best interests of Greece. The
King met the Cabinet at noon, and ac-
copied their designations. The King i'm
mediately sent for NJ. Rikakis, and COM
missioned him to form new Ministry.
NJ Delyannis, the Premier. before pre-
senting the resignation OF the Ministry sent
a circular note to the foreign embassies te
the effect that Greece had never conten-
plated hostility to the Powers.
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The California papers speak of their
numerous Eastern visitors as "cut-
rate tourists people who spend very
little and talk very much" The Chi
cago Tribune says the Eastern people
went to California to see the country,
and not to buy it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14

The Brooklyn bridge has proved a
serious competitor to the ferries. The
Union Ferry Company shows that its
receipts have fallen off from two mill
ion dollars per annum to eight hundred
thousand dollars, and with the APP
proach of mild weather the company
is obliged to discharge sixty Of its
hands.-N. Y. Sun.
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In eight counties in Nebraska fax
has been extensively sown as an ex-
perlmental crop, to take the-place of
wheat A large increase in the space
given to corn is reported from twenty
counties
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14

HUMAN nature is pretty much the
same everywhere. The same scenes
and incidents that greeted Sam Jones
and Sam Small at Chicago are now be-
ing repeated at the meetings of the
cVSmgelists in Baltimore,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14

THE first session of the third annual
meeting Of the American Historical
Association was held in Washington a
few days ago President George Ban
croft, the eminent American historian,
delivered the address of welcome,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14

A GENIUS from the Wooden Nutmeg
State has invented a clock in which
there is money drawer. Money can
be deposited at any time, but can only
be renewed during one day in a
month, Another notion is in screwing
the clock to its shelf so that it can only
be removed when the drawer is open.
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The Queen at Liverpool,

LIVERPOOL, May 1.-THE Queen has ar
rived here for the purpose of personally
opening the Liverpool International Ex-
hibition. The ceremony took place at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. This is the
second time that her Majesty has visited
Liverpool during her reign, her other visit
having been made in 1851, when she was
accompanied by the Prince Consort.