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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
A Vile Conspiracy Discovered.

LONDON, Oct. 9.-The Chronicles CORE
spondent in Paris says he has just heard
from Vienna the details Of a startling An
archist plot to destroy Vienna and to assas-
sinate Emperor Francis Joseph. The con-
spiratOrs, whose plans were frustrated By
the authorities, had intended to carry
out the plot October 4. Various timber
stores were to be set fire to throughout the
city, and during the confusion public build
ings were to be blown up with dynamite.
The police seized immense quantities. Of
bombs and other explosives in different parts
of the city, especially near the imperial resi-
dence at Schonbrunn and beneath the
bridge leading to the palace, which the En-
peror crosses daily.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

Washington, won, 26: lost, 81. This result
gives the championship to the Chicago club
for another year.
THE Greenbackers of the Sixteenth lii
no1s district on the 9th nominated A. N.
emit Democrats of the Second Illinois dis
trict nominated John ]. Curran
EARLY on the morning of the 9th three
shocks of earthquake occurred at Charles
ton, S. c., and one at Augusta, Ca, but no
damage was caused at either place.
JUDGE GARY, in the criminal court at Chi
cago on the 9th, sentenced seven of the An
archists to suffer death on December 3, and
Oscar Neebe to be imprisoned for fifteen
years at Joliet
IT was announced on the 9th that N. M.
Neeld, a member of the Chicago firm of j.
c. Ferguson & Co., packers, had absconded
with nearly 100000
AT Detroit ON the 9th the brewers locked
out fire hundred employees, and resolved to
submit to no dictation from trades unions
THE championship of the American AS
ISOLATION was won by the St Louis base
ball club on the 9th.
AT Cincinnati on the 10th tenement
house was burned, and Margaret Link,
aged sixty years. and her daughter,
aged thirteen years, persisted in the flames.
THE husband of Josie Martel, an
actress, in fit of jealousy killed himself
and wife in theater at S.. Louis on the
10th.
WHILE engaged in quarrel at Mount
Pleasant, Tex, on the 9th, John Dollard
and James Reed were killed
A PROCLAMATION issued by Governor
Gray, of Indiana, on the 18th prohibits the
importation of cattle from Chicago into
Indiana.
"BoBBY" ADAMS, an expert burglar, the
principal in the $4,000 stamp robbery at
Minneapolis was arrested in Chicago on
the r1lth and turned over to the United
States authorities.
SINCE the verdict in the cases of the Chi
cago Anarchists several of the jurors had
received threatening letters, and other at
tempts had been made to terrorize them
In the Fifth Kentucky district on the
18th A. G. Caruth Dem.) was nominated
for Congress, and in the Fourth district J.
6. Belden (Rep.).
AN official communication received by
Governor Gray, of Indiana, on the 18th
from the Third Auditor of the Treasury
states that in the settlement of war claims
with that State the Government had been
defrauded out of $4,000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.


PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 7th par
doned the three Mormon Bishops, who were
eighteen months ago sentenced to three
years imprisonment at Detroit, Mich, for
unlawful cohabitation, on the ground that
the sentence was illegal.
BUSINESS failures occurring throughout
the United States during the seven DAYS
ended on the Sth numbered POI, against POS
in the preceding seven days. The total in
the United States this year to date is
7,749, against 1854 last year.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated ST.
ia, 3l4 756, against s., 055, 246, go the pre-
vious week. As compared with the cores
ponding week of 1885, the decrease
amounts to 253 per cent
In a proclamation issued by General
Miles on the 9th he declares the Indian
campaign at an end and congratulates
the troops
IT was shown by the Land Office report
on the 9th that during the year %, 124, 56S
acres of public lands had been disposed of,
which was an increase of 1,129,050 acres
over the previous year.
FRIENDS Of the late Chief-Justice Salmon
P. Chase, who died in May, 1873, had his
remains exhumed on the 18th at Washing
ton, and placed in a new casket, prepara-
tory to their removal and final interment
at Cincinnati.
THERE were /, 1913 cases on the docket up
on the converting of the United States Su-
preme Court on the 18th.
DURING the week ended on the 9th the
minis coined 934,SS3 silver dollars; during
the same period of last year, 1,O64,744.
The wheat yield in the United States
for the year 1886 would, it was estimated
by the Department of Agriculture on the
11th exceed that of 1885 by 100, 900, 600
bushels The total oat crop was estimated
at over 6O0O0O,OOO bushels, and the total
corn crop at !, 65OOOO,OOO bushels.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
A BIG 6EFALc CATION.

The Manager of a Chicago Packing
House Ruins His Father-in-Law, and
Swindles Four Banks by Means of a
Commercial Confidence Game-His De-
falcation Amounts to About 100000
He Skips to Canada.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-THE firm of j. G..
Ferguson IL Co., packers, went to smash
Saturday; one Of the partners having fled
after wasting in unsuccessful speculations
100000 borrowed from various Chicago and
Eastern banks on fraudulent warehouse
receipts. Notifications were given by
]. G. Ferguson & Co. to close out
their trades on the board Saturday,
and over 100000 bushels of wheat
and large quantity of pork are said to
have been sold by different parties to pro-
tect themselves. Later in the morning
runor was current that N. NJ. Need, the
managing partner, had left the city and
gone to Canada. The failure, especially
the alleged fight Of Mr.. Neeld, caused much
surprise.
The firm had been in business in Chicago
for several years. The members came
from Indianapolis, where ]. G. Ferguson &
Co. was established for twenty years. The
house got into financial trouble there owing
to Neeld's action, but came out of it with
Aull CICuI1 w lOoClA duu d CStplGt1 SSUIIl1dbSO
at 100000. 1t bought house at the stock
yards, and engaged in packing and foreign
shipping, selling on the markets here the
product it did not send abroad. 1t did con-
sentative business, and was well regarded
by every body. Mr.. Neeld, as stated, man.
aged the business He was heavy specu-
lator and had been wrong on the markets
for over a year. To make trades he had to
have money, and to get it deposited ware
meats with banks from which he borrowed.
If there was any property back of these re-
ceipts it can not be found, and the banks
hold as security only small pieces of paper.
So far as con be ascertained the firm has
little or nothing left. There are mortgages
for $4,000 ON their pacling-house and ma
chinery-$10,0 on account of purchase
money and $4,000 loaned by Mrs. J. G.
Ferguson-the equity not being large. The
liabilities foot up 1885,, 1000. The principal
creditors are:
Corn Exchange Bank of New York. -. 100000
First National, Chicago. ................. $4,000
Bank of British North America. ......... 75,OOO
Continental, Chicago ..................... $4,000
Metropolitan, Chicago. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Brokers. ....................... 10000
Besides the banks, which are the princi-
pal sufferers, many brokers on the board
who did the trading for the firm lose
amounts varying from 81, 900 to 5000.
Neeld is the son-in-law of the man he has
ruined by his speculations, and his wife is
supposed to have accompanied him when
he left the city,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

The common way of detecting a
twenty-cent piece from a quarter of a
dollar is by the milling on the edge,
The first thing done is to run the finger
around the edge, and if milled it is at
once taken for a quarter. This is not
always a safe way, as many twenty-cent
pieces have been purposely milled to
deceive. The safest way, and the one
that few know, is to observe the eagle
on the back, On the quarter piece
the eagle is looking over its right
wing, and on the twenty-cent piece
over the left wing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

The Lewiston (Me.) Journal says:
An old Waterville citizen remembers
that in 1925 the church-goers of that
town, male and female, used to walk
barefoot to church on Sunday, carrying
their shoes and stockings in their hands,
and to sit down and put them on just be
fore going into the Westinghouse. The
same custom was practiced in many
Maine towns in those days. A stern
economy was observed by the men and
women who laid the foundation of
Names prosperity, This is why we are
not obliged to go barefoot now"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Arrest of an Expert safe-Blower.

CHICAGO, Oct 12-"Bobbyn Adams, one
of the best professional safe-blowers of
the country, was arrested by Detectives
Marks and Granger from description in
the rogues' gallery. He was found in
low haunt on West Washington street His
arrest completes the work of the police in
the Minneapolis post-ofice robbery, during
which $4,000 worth of postage stamps were
stolen. About $1,000 worth OF the property
was recovered. Adams did the s.scientific''
part OF the work and induced T. J. Finnu-
cane, who is still in the county Jail, to dis
pose of a portion of the plumber Adams
preliminary examination will occur before
Commissioner Hoyne tomorrow,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

A VETERAN steamship engineer says
that it would be pertinent TO discuss
the question how to make the running
of the fastest steamships already built
pay before wasting too much energy
on how 70 build faster ones. If it were
possible to cross the Atlantic in four
days he thinks the novelty of the thing
would soon wear of, and that the in
creased danger, together with the high
price that must be charged for passage,
would make such line unpopular
and bankrupt the company that tried
to run it,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
AN HONORABLE LIFE CLOSED.

Hon. Jesse L. Williams, a WelI-Known
Railway and Canal Builder, Passes Away
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Fort WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 11.-Hon. Jesse
L. Williams, who died at his home in this
city at noon Saturday in his eightieth year,
was known as the father of the canal
system in Ohio and Indiana. He
was appointed by President Lin
coin Government director of the
Union Pacific railway, and was the only
Government director retained by Presi-
dents johnson and Grant 1t was from his
reports and estimates of construction that
the credit-mobilier scheme was first
brought to the attention of Congress.
He served the State of Indiana in
many high capacities and always
occupied high place in the esti-
nation of the National and State Govern
ments. He leaves property valued at up
ward of 81, 100000, largely lands in Dakota,
Michigan and Indiana, and stocks in various
banks and railroads. He was director of
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne Il Chicago
railway, which road he surveyed and located.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

The ice-cream, strawberry festival
and "Is-this-hOt-enough-for-y jokes
have been packed away for the winter,
and the church festival oyster, the icy
sidewalk and the Observation-Disclosures
witticisms are being taken out of cam
phor and given an airing preparatory
TO a season of hard service.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

A NUMBER of people think they have
discovered sure preventives of earth
quakes, but, in our opinion, the only
reliable method to avoid earthquake
shocks is TO have all buildings sus-
pended few inches from the ground
by means of balloons This will also
prevent damp and moldy cellars.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

JAY GoULD's son George, recently
married, is in many respects remark
able young man. In addition to being
heir to over s6o,O0O,00O, heis stenog-
rapher, can operate the telegraph sue
cessfully, and is good book-keeper.
He says if necessity should arse he
could earn living by becoming a re-
porter on daily paper. 1t is refresh
ing when young man WHO'S born with
a silver spoon in his mouth is willingto
do this drudgery work in order to ac-
quire capital sufficient to maintain him
in the absence of inherited wealth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
The Late Chief-Justice Chase.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-There will be no
services here in connection with the re-
moval of the remains of the late Chief-Jus-
tice Chase to Cincinnati. Rev. John Hall,
of New York, is expected to go with the
funeral train, which leaves here Wednes-
day over the Baltimore & Ohio, and conduct
the religious ceremonies at Cincinnati.
Governor Hoadly will deliver the memorial
address. At meeting of colored citizens
here it was resolved to ask colored peo-
pie all over the country to set apart Oc-
tOber IA, the day the funeral is to take place,
as @ Chief-Justice Chase daY.n
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

THE people of this country have long
been familiar with the features of
George Washington, but not many of
them are acquainted with the face of
Martha Washington, his wife. The
new one-dollar silver certificates now
going into circulation bear her like
ness, with which a great many persons
will be glad to become acquainted.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
The Anchoria Is Safe.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Oct. 1.-THE Anchor
line steamer Anchoria, which has been so
long overdue, is lying under canvas with
her main shaft broken about seventy miles
off Cape Spear, bearing east-southeast. Her
passengers and crew are all well. The
steamer Miranda has been set to render aid
to the disabled vessel. The news Of her
safety was brought in by the hfe-boat of
the Anchoria, which left the steamer Fri
day under the command of the first officer.
and arrived at port YESTERDAY afternoon
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

A TAR pool has been formed, and
the price of that article advanced. A
commission has been appointed, with
power to destroy tar when the market
is overstocked, a sum equal to the cost
price of the surplus tar to be paid to
the contractor in whose possession it
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

A CALL has been issued for meeting
of Southern newspaper women at
Greensboro, N. c., on November 3,
for the purpose of organizing South
ern Woman's Press Association. The
Southern Woman prints q list of over
fifty women who are connected with
Southern newspapers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Thirsting for Revenge.

CHICAGO, Oct. IA crowd of Anarchists
on Sunday met Gottfried Waller, who
turned informer during the late trial of
Spies, Parsons, and the other condemned
men, giving valuable evidence against
them, and chased him for several blocks.
He fired twice into the crowd, but without
effect, and finally found a refuge
in police station. Several of his pursuers
have been arrested. Juror Cole says that
he is in constant receipt of threats against
his life, and that the members of his fami-
~, from his wife to his youngest child, are
continually menaced by men who sympa-
thize with the convicted Anarchists
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

The dangerous caving of the banks
of the Mississippi river above New
Orleans, at Plaquemlne, continues to
excite great fears. Four acres of
ground in front of the place have gone
into the river, and the water, where
lately stood houses, is deep enough to
float the largest vessels.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Two ladies got in a borse.car and

Two ladies got in a horse.car and
TWO young men sat near. One man
gave his seat at once to the elderly
lady; the other kept his place. His
friend asked him, Disgusting it, how.
ever, in German, why he did not give
his place b the young lady. He an.
swered in the same language: "Be.
cause she is not pretty enough" But
after little reflection, he rose and sur.
rendered his seat. The lady took it,
and thanked HMM German!-M Y
I7depende1t.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

In Jersey City, N. j., an unhappy
reporter who was whipped three times
in one day by as many different per-
sons for single item, has gone before
the grand jury in the hope of getting
satisfaction, though it is feared that
the other people nearly exhausted the
supply of that article.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

PROF. WILEY, the chemist of the Ag-
ricultural Department at Washington,
who has charge of the sugar-making
experiments at Fort Scott, says that he
has met with complete success in ex-
tracing saccharine matter from sor-
phnm.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Terrible Accident.

CHICAGO, Oct. 11.-By the falling of the
iron roof of the ladle repair shop of the
North Chicago Rolling Mills, at South Chi
cago, Sunday morning, two men were in
stantly killed, eight badly injured, and it is
possible that three more are under the
debris.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Interest i'm George,s CANVASS.

LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE progress of the
contest for the mayoralty in New York is
watched both here and on the continent
with more attention than has ever been be-
slowed upon similar issue. The Pail INaH
Gazette, referring to the candidacy Of Mr.
George in the interest of the laborin9
classes, says that his election to the chief
magistracy of the city of New York would
infuse new life into the vanguard of eco
nomic reformers all over the world. The
public interest manifested in the coming
election partakes, however, more of curios-
ity in the result than biased leaning to-
ward any particular side.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Basel BALL.

Chicago Wins the National League Cham
pionship While st. Louis Takes the As.
ISOLATION Cake.
The season of the National Baseball
League practically closed on Saturday, al
though some postponed games may be
played to-day Monday. The result OF
these, however, will not effect the record,
which will stand as follows:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Death of Ex-senator YuIee, of Florida.

New YORK, Oct. n.-Ex-Senator Yulee,
of Florida, died in this city yesterday. He
was born in st. Thomas, West Indies, in
1911. He came to Florida in 1924, and rep
resented that territory in Congress for
term. He was United States Senator from
Florida from 1915 to 1851 and from 1855 to
1860, retiring to join the Confederacy, in
which he became prominent. He has since
the war been interested in railroads and
agriculture
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Minister Cox Returns.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-United States Min
lister Cox arrived with his wife from
Europe yesterday in the French steamer
La Champagne. He said this afternoon
that he had not come back to be a candi-
date for mayor, as had been reported, but
that he would be willing to go to Congress
again from his old district.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

THE Rhode Island Supreme Court
has dismissed the bill brought before it
in which it was sought to establish
that the prohibitory amendment re-
Gently voted upon in that State did not
receive the requisite three-ffths ma
ioritv
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
"A Chicago, newsnaner tells ~

Chlcago newspaper tells OF a
young Hoosier who, to show his expert
ness on typewriter, wrote a love.
letter with it. 1t was fatal mistake.
The girls brother was a printer and
she could set type. She went to her
brother s office and set up in cold type:
"Dear Sir: | am not to be wooed by
machinery. | inclose your ring. Please
return my letters. Respectfully, -
-" She worked that off on proof
press and mailed it to the youth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

JUST think of twenty-six inches of
rain falling at Brownsville, Tex, in
twenty-four hours, while the wind was
blowing at the rate of one hundred
miles an hour
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

A CINCINNATI man has got himself
into trouble by advertising in the
papers that he stood ready to prove
an alibi for any arrested party at short
notice and on very reasonable terms.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
THE volcanic eruption in New Zea-
land has been followed by breaking
up of the drought in Australia.

THIS country consumed eighty-one
and a quarter tons of quinlne last year.
and there were earthquakes just the
same.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
Good Crops.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-In the October re-
port of the grain crops of this country, the
United States Department of Agriculture
estimates that the years aggregate yield
of wheat will be about 444 ,0O0, 900 bushels,
being an increase of about 100,O00,0O0 over
last year; that the total corn crop will be
about 1,650,0O0,000 bushels; the oat crop
about 6OOOOO,OOO bushels; the barley crop
over 100000 bushels, and the rye crop
over $4,000, 900 bushels.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

The latest device in umbrellas ia
unique. 1t is a patent window, to be
placed in the cloth so that the traveller
can see ahead and avoid disastrous col
isions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

In the American Association the season
closed Sunday, the st. Louis club for the
second time winning the pennant. The
record of games lost and won is as follows:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15

The annual session Of this conferences
was held recently at Black River Falls.
The report of the statistical secretary
showed that there are now 11,705 church
members in this conference, an increase OF
ee3; 1,024 probationers; $4,000 Sunday
school children; 225 churches. valued at
SS5, 900; paid for missionary purposes dur
ing the year, 81 29i. The following Pre-
siding Elders were appointed: Eau Claire
district, Rev. j. Tresidder; Hudson district,
Rev. II. W. Bushnell; La Crosse district,
Rev. NJ. B. Balch; Platteville district, Rev.
B. Wheeler; Madison district, Rev. E. L.
Eaton; Portage district, Rev. W. R. Irish.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-17
A Concert to MIR. Nelson.

Mr.. Alfred Nelson, who is equally
well known as the possessor of a sweet
tenor voice and trio of babies recently
presented him by his wife, will be the
recipient of a complimentary concert at
the Social Hall one week from to-mor-
row,eyening. The committee is made up
of Messrs. c. S. Burton. Spencer Claw
son, j. F. Wells, II. G. Whitney, j. D.
Spencer, LIT. Willard Young, William
Dougall, II. NJ. Wells, B. S. Young and
several other gentlemen. A very Select
programme is being arranged, among
those who will appear beng Miss Edith
Clawson, Miss Louie Wells, Mr.. Spen-
Ger, Mr.. Wells, Professor Krouse and
Mr.. Young, Mrs. Lena Wells and Mrs.
1t. Willard Young. Others will be an
nounced during the week.