The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
THE EAST.

MAGGIE, the seyenteen-year-old daughter
of James Beading, a coal miner at Banks
vile, Pa, aWoke on the 18th from an alleged
trance lasting for twenty-six months, with
only two lucid intervals during the time.
THE Vermont Legislature has passed a
law requiring all hotels and restaurants
using oleomargarine for butter to put up
large signs notifying the public of the fact.
AT Pittsburgh on the 18th there was or
gained National Encampment of the
Union Veteran Legion, George B. Chal-
mers, of Pittsburgh, being chosen National
Commander.
On the evening Of the 18th Joseph Nan
gle, Jr., young actor playing at the Royal
Museum in Albany, n. Y, fell dead on the
stage.
On the 18th three masked men broke into
the house Of Matthew G.. McKeever, at
Oakland, Pa, and after an hours fight, in
which Mr. McKeever's sisters, Margaret
and Jane, were terribly injured, carried off
a bucket containing nearly $4,000.
IN Pennsylvania tornado on the 18th
leveled houses and barns at Chambers
burg Lock Haven and Wilkesbarre The
Catholic Church at Kingston and the
Methodist Church at Parsons were
wrecked. Five persons were reported
killed.
THREE sleepers of an express train were
crushed by the fall Of mass Of earth and
rocks in the outskirts of Pittsburgh on the
18th. Eight persons were seriously injured
and as many more received bruises.
In Connecticut on the 18th storm de-
stroyed number of largo tobacco sheds
which contained the years crop, and the
loss was heavy. Many buildings were I'M
rooted at Hartford ana New Haven, and
chimneys, trees and fences were blown
down. A tug and twelve barges, manned
by about thirty persons, were reported to
have sunk off Milford.
AT five o'clock on the morning Of the
18th ex-President Chester Allan Arthur
died at his residence in New York City, of
Bright's disease. His death was unexpect-
ed, and created great surprise and sorrow.
Mr.. Arthur was born in Fairfield, VT, Oc-
tober 5, 1880, graduated from Union Col
lege at Schenectady, N Y, in 1919, and
soon afterward was admitted TO the bar in
New York City His wife was the daugh.
ter of Lieutenant Herndon, of the navy,
and she died in 1880, the same year that her
husband was elected Vice President. Upon
the death of President Garfield. September
10, 1881, Mr.. Arthur became President.
BY the breaking of an axle on the 10Th
twenty cars of a freight-train were wrecked
near Ashley, Pa. William Amman, Will
lam Rogers and Patrick Farrell were fatal
ly injured
BY the explosion of filter in salt house
atSyracuse, N. Y, on the 10Th two men
were instantly killed and third was IA
tally injured.
THE Pittsburgh coke operators on the
10Th declined to grant the demands of their
employees. A gigantic strike was threat
ened.
THE Hotel Bellevue, ten cottages and
other buildings at Cape May Point, N. j.,
were consumed by an incendiary blaze on
the Goth.
In a mine explosion on the Goth near
Pittsburgh, Pa, four men were fat lily in
jured.
THE death of Charles Francis Adams,
Sr., who was a son Of President John
Quincy Adams, occurred at his home in
Boston, Mass, on the 21st at the age of
seventy nine years. He was elected to
Congress in 1858, and was Minister to Great
Britain from 1861 to 1855
THE death of John Arnot, Jr., member of
Congress from the Eighteenth New York
district, occurred at Elmira on the Goth
A LEADER in society circles at Erie, Pa,
Mrs. Mary H, Barnhurst, committed sui
eide on the Goth by shooting. Iii health was
the supposed cause.