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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-09
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DISHONEST OFFICIALS.

Serious Charges Against Prominent Mem
bers of the City Government OF East ST,
Louis.
EAST ST.. LOUIS, Ill.,, April "A thunder
bolt struck East ST. Louis yesterday in the
shape of indictments against nearly all of
the prominent city officials and politicians,
charging them with corrupt and criminal
acts. Ever since the mysterious assassina-
ton of ex-Mayor John B. Bowman in No
vember last Thomas Furlong, chief Of the
Gould system secret service, has been at
work getting evidence against city officials,
two or three of whom it is claimed, were
accessories to the murder. A year ago
last summer the city safe was broken into
and robbed of sum OF money variously
estimated at from $4,000 to 100000 A
professional safe blower, named Clarke "a sa-
loon-keeper-Pat Eagan-and Lieutenant
of-Police Duffy were arrested Clarke
turned States evidence, and Eagan and
Duffy were sent to the penitentiary for two
years, but before they vent they made a
confession to Furlong duplicating two or
more city officials in the robbery.
few days before the murder of ex-May-
or Bowman, who was known to be inimical
to the city government a rumor was cir
culated that he had ascertained the true
history of the safe robbery and would soon
make disclosures that would startle the
community. He was assassinated and the
disclosures were not made.
Furlong was urged to take up the case,
and has slowly but surely worked it up to
denodement. His first card was played
about six weeks ago when all the gambling
houses were rsided. By means of the ar
rest of the keepers, whom, it is said. had
been paying the city officials $1,000
month for protection, important evidence
was secured which resulted in the indict-
ment OF the city treasurer, city attorney,
school treasurer, chief OF police, city clerk,
county recorder an ex-mayor, a number
of aldermen and ex-aldermen, and many
politicians ON charges OF malfeasance in
office, bribery, illegal voting and per-
hitting the same. The next startling de-
velopment promised is the arrest of the
Bowman murderer.
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WEST AND snllru

On the ID nearly twelve hundred com
mercial travellers were included in the
dense THONG which assembled at the noon
prayer-meeting at Farwell Hall, in Chica-
go, to hsar special sermon by Rev. Sam
Jones. At the Casino Rink in the evening
over eight thousand people gathered to
hear the evangelist, and many hundreds
were unable to gain admittance.
The death of Judge Baxter, of the United
States Court occurred on the I'd at Hot
Springs Ark, at the age of sixtv-seven
years. He was appointed to Office by Presi-
dent Hayes in 1877.
LIEUTENANT FAIsoN, with fifty eight
Apache prisoners, including chihuahua,
Kutne, Josona and Mana, the worst lead
ers next to Geronimo, arrived at Fort Bowie
A. T., on the ID.
IT was confessed by DR.. W. H. Boyd, in
Jail at Camden, Ark. on the Sd that he had
eleven wives living in various portions of
the country.
KEY WEST (Fla,) merchants on the Sd is
sued an appeal to the benevolent citizens
of the United States for subscriptions in
aid of those left destitute by the recent
coniagration there.
MEssRs. SAM JONES and Sam Small, the
Georgia evangelists, brought their five
weeks revival services in Chicago to
close on the 4th., In the afternoon nearly
nine thousand people succeeded in getting
into the rink, several thousand being una
BILE to reach the doors. In the evening the
building was jammed. At half-past six
O'Clock the doors were closed, and it was
estimated that ten thousand people were
turned away. In an interview Mr.. Jones
estimated the number Of conversions dur.
ing the meetings at twenty-fv hcndred,
aud thought that in influence and results
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FROM WASHINGTON.

I'VE public-debt statement for March
is as follows: Total debt Gncluding inter-
est, l,S04 SOB, 1853; less cash items availa-
BILE for reduction Of debt, and reserve bills
for redemption OF United States notes
($310 230, 1881, 81, 494, $40, 335; cash in treas
ury, 1881, 099; debt, less amount in treas
ury, $1,417, 1872, 2S5; decrease during March,
$l40S7 8S4; decrease since June 30, 1885,
$76, 946 400.
SECRETARY ENDIooTT on the LIST received
dispatch from General Crook confirming
the reports of the surrender and suisse
quent escape of Geronimo and part of his
band
REPUBLICAN Senators held a caucus in
Washington on the I'd, at which majority
expressed themselves in favor Of open ex-
ecutive sessions.
DURING the seven days ended on the I'd
there were 200 failures in the United States
reported to BradStreeps against 1911 in the
preceding seven days.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD was assigned by the
War Department on the I'd to the division
Of the Atlantic, General Terry to the divis-
ion OF the Missouri General Howard to the
division of the Pacific, General Crook to
the department Of the Platte and General
Miles to the department of Arizona.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States DUR
ing the week ended on the Sd aggregated
$916, 7SS,074, against $945, 7S5,75O the previ-
GUS week. As compared with the CORE
spending week of 1885, the increase
amounts to 42.0 per cent
CALEB w. WEST, of Kentucky, has been
nominated by the President to be Governor
of Utah
DURING the week ended on the Sd the is
sue of standard silver dollars from the
minis was 395627. The issue during the
corresponding period of last year was 49,
49S.
On the 9th William Trenholm was con-
firmed as Comptroller of the Currency.
THERE was a marked improvement in
Secretary Manning's condition reported by
DR.. Hamilton on the 5th. His recovery,
however, would be matter of considera-
BILE time.
THE United States Government since
March 4, 1879, has erected 329 public build
ings al various places, the total cost being
$94, 460,0l4
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THE EAST.

The discovery was made on the LIST that
q brownback five dollar counterfeit, pur-
porting to be issued by the Central Nation
al Bank of Norwalk, Conn, was in circula-
ton. 1t gave the charter number as 4O4,
while the genuine charter number is 2, 342.
AT Berlin, Vt, and at Lancaster N. H.,
high water on the LIST was doing great dam
age toproperty.
STREET-cAR men in Pittsburgh, Pa, re,
sumed work on the I'd, compromise be.
tween the men and the companies having
been agreed upon.
THE arrest of three more New York CITY
aldermen was made on the I'd for bribery
in connection with the Broadway railroad
franchise.
A REAL-EsTATE agent Of Buffalo, N Y,
named B. B. Crandall, committed suicide
on the I'd by leaping into the Niagcra river
above the falls.
HARVEY MCMuRRAY. aged eight fatally
stabbed Thomas Bolan, aged twelve, at
Pittsburgh, Pa, few days ago
AT Greenfield, Pa, Mrs. Julia O'Hearn
was fatally shot on the 9Th by her little
SON, who Yves playing with gun.
II Central New York all the broom fac
tories closed down on the 9Th, owing to the
heavy stock on hand
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DURING the progress of the recent labor
riots the arrests made in Belgium mum.
bered about $500. Order has been restored.
THE weight of snow caused the roof of a
theater at Heromal, Japan, to fall in re-
Gently, $50 persons being killed and many
others injured
PRINCE ALEXANDER positively refuses
Russia's demand to submit to the Powers
st. Petersburg dispatch of the LIST stated
that Russia had definitely decided to oc-
cupy Bulgaria.
By mutual agreement carpenter at
Belleville, France, choked his mistress to
death on the LIST and then shot himself
dead.
The bill allowing women who pay taxes
to vote, passed by the New Brunswick
Legislature, has become law.
sON the 3D. four members of the Gladstone
Cabinet refused to assent to any home-rule
measure giving Ireland control of the Gus
toms and threatened to resign if such a
measure was insisted upon.
WITHIN twenty miles Of Montreal, Can,
all the country was inundated on the Sd,
and farmers houses and barns, with their
horses and cattle, had been swept away.
Never before had the water risen so high
and caused SO much damage.
DURING the recent rioting in Belgium
the total number of rioters killed was
twenty-six.
A FIRE at spring fair recently in Ger
man town on the banks of the Rhine de-
stroyed fifty tents belonging to showmen,
cremating large number of horses, mon
keys, sheep and goats.
The Right-Honorable William E. Forster,
who was Chief Secretary for ireland under
the previous Gladstone Ministry, expired
in London on the 9Th after long illness
He was sixty eight years of age
The trouble between Greece and Turkey
was on the 9TH said to be rapidly growing.
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a TICKLISH JOB.


Novel Reasons Presented to the Governor
of Indiana for the Communication of q
Wife-Murderer's Death Sentence.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April ga petition
signed by 500 personsswas yesterday pre-
sented to the Governor, praying the com
mutation to life imprisonment of the SEN
tence of Robert Phillips, the uxoricide
who is sentenced to hang next Thursday
The petition II based upon a set of
facts which combine to make curious and
interesting case. When Phillips killed his
young wife he cut his own throat, and this
wound has never healed. Having severed
the windpipe a silver tube was inserted in
his throat, and if removed he would die of
strangulation. As he is a very small man
the probabilities are that hianeck would not
be broken by the fall and the tube pre-
venting strangDlation, he would have to
hang until death resulted from sheer
physical exhaustion, unless, owing to his
throat wound, decapitation should follow
from the fall. The petitioners declare that
an exhibition such as may take place at
the hanging viii be an outra ge upon civil
ization and simply barbarous.
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the work exceeded the great work dole ir
Cincinnati. An estimate places the mum
Der of people who have attended the sery-
ices at 100000.
THREE negro children persisted on the 3D.
in a burning farmhouse near Plano. Tex,
during the absence of their parents.
HEAVY storms. throughout the United
States during the last ten days of the pres
ent month the severest to rage in the Mis-
sissippi basin April % or 26, were predlcted
onthe Sd by Prof. Foster, the Iowa weather
prophet
The foods in the South were gradually
subsiding on the Sd, but much damage was
still being done at various places.
BLOODY collision between the authori-
ties and strikers occurred On the Sd upon
an attempt being made to start a freight
train on the Missouri Pacific railroad at
Fort Worth, Tex. Several men were killed
and quite a number wounded. Eight com
panies of Kansas militia took charge of the
freight-y ards at Parsons, and assisted in
making up trains. At East st. Louis and
other points work has been partially re-
suned. At ST. Louis the committee of the
Knights decided thatth strike should go on.
EIGHT HUNDRED employees of the E. P.
Ellis machine-shops at Milwaukee were in
formed on the Sd that work would be per-
manently stopped should an attempt be
made to enforce the eight hour law.
By fire in the Planters House at st.
Louis four servant girls lost their lives on
the morning of the Sd.
| IT was stated by Secretary Turner, of the
rairr ,fc3 IL
the struggle with the Missouri Pacific had
just begun, and would be fought to the last
ditch. Trains were moved freely at st.
Louis, but strike of switch engineers at
East st. Louis placed an embargo on traffic
AT Parsons, Kan, seven Knights were ar
rested and trains were being moved by the
aid of the military; but at Kansas City,
Mo-. state of quietude was reported Gov
ernor Ireland was at Fort Worth, Tex, and
maintained that traffic should be resumed
at all hazards.
GREAT damage was still being done on
the 9Th by the foods in the South At Sell
ma Ala, reports of large loss of life and
damage to plantations continued to come
in. Near Albany, Ca, the loss of live
stock was great and four persons had been
drowned.
UNKNOWN persons robbed the post-office
at Attica, Ind. on the 5th of $500 in
money and stamps.
In st. CLAIR County, H., oil the coal
mines wero closed on the 5th owing to the
railroad strike, and one thousand miners
were idle.
IsADoRE SEIDENBAUM, aged eighteen,
early on the morning of the 9Th shot and
killed Annie Rosenstein, fifteen years OF
age, at Milwaukee, because she refused to
love him, and then committed suicide.
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RUIN IN THE SOUTH.

Continued Reports of the Loss of Life and
PROPERTY by the Recent Floods-Valua-
BILE Canadian Lands Laid Waste, Crops
Ruined and Live Stock Swept Away.
CINCINNATI, April 5.-Late accounts from
the inundated districts in the South show
that the swollen streams in Alabama, Ten
nessee and Georgia are rapidly receding,
but many cases OF loss Of life and great
damage to property are being reported
hourly. In and about Selma, Ala, The de-
struction of property has been i'm
mense, and many negroes and poor
people have persisted. The entire eastern
portion Of that city is under water, includ-
ing the railroad depots and shops, the gas
works, foundries, factories, and 800 dwell
ings More than 800 persons were picked
from housetops and trees Saturday by
the relief steamers. 1t will be two
weeks before the city can be lighted by
gas. The town OF Cahala, near Selma, is
wholly under water. In the flooded region
around Montgomery the situation is de-
plorable. Farmers have lost all their live
stock, corn and cotton-seed and in some
places starvation is threatened.
MONTREAL, Can, April 5.-The foods in
the Province OF Quebec, Can, have caused
a greater amount of damage than for half
q century past The fine valley of the
Chateaugay, near this city, has been en-
tirely laid waste and horses, cattle, houses
and barns swept away, while the crops
are almost ruined.
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AT AN END.
The Work of Rev. Jones and Small in Chi
cagO Comes to a Close-An Enormous
Attendance at the Last Meeting.

The work of Rev. Jones and Small III Chi
cagO Comes to Close-An Enormous
Attendance at the Last Meeting.
CHICAGO, April Sam Jones preached
last night his last sermon in the
Casino rink Careful estimates place the
number in attendance at 5000, while
those unable to obtain an entrance
to the building are estimated at
10000. Mr.. Jones preached upon the way
to heaven and the comforts and beauties
that adorn it. He described it as a way OF
light, of good things, OF happiness, way
that seemed short, because the journey was
made in good company. After the sermon
he took DR.. Scudder's hand and led him to
the front OF the rostrum, saying:
| want to take the hand of Dr. Scudder,
one of your noble preachers, and want his
hand to represent yours. | want every one
of you to consider your hand in mine. |
want to thank you all from the depths of
my soul for your kindness and considera-
ton for me-
DR.. Scudder placed his arm around Mr..
Jones neck and asked the blessings of God
to accompany him on his way and to
prosper him in his work. The great audi
ence applauded vigorously. Hall an hour
was spent with about hundred penitents
in the inquiry-room
The executive committee has paid to Mr..
Jones so, 900 and to Mr.. Small the same
amount. The voluntary contributions
will add to these sums about 81, 600
apiece. The committee had intended to
pay the larger share to Mr.. Jones, but the
latter objected and insisted that Mr.. Small
had worked as hard aus he had and was en-
titled to as much pay.
Mr.. Jones estimates the number OF con-
versions during their stay in this city at
$500, and thinks the influence and results
exceed the great WORK done in Cincinnati.
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LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, April 5.-Prof. Eos
ter, meteorological OF the State of Iowa,
makes the following predictions: Great
storms viii pass over the United States in
rapid succession. during the last ten days Of
April, and all shipping interests, especially
in the Northern States, should prepare to
protect theirpropert heavy rains, high
winds, floods, sleet, snow and extreme
changes of the weather on land, and from
dangerous gales on the lakes and Atlantic
coast The heaviest of these storms will
be over the Mississippi basin about April
% or 26; west OF that. earlier. and east,
later. Mr.. Foster was the author OF the
prediction that great storms would pass
over the lakes and Northwestern States
February 25 and 26, and the storm OF last
week which he predicted the week before
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A LEARNED physician informs us
that 3 sure cure for congestive head
ache is ''epistaxis. We viii save you
the trouble of looking into the diction-
airy to find out what ''epistaxis' means
by informing you that it means moth
ing more nor less than nose bleed. No
learned physician is ever guilty of call
ing a thing by the name it is known by
if he can possibly find another name
for it in his Latin lexicon.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
xLIxth CONGRESS.

THURSDAY, April 1.-The Senate passed
the bill appropriating $4,000 for a
monument to Abraham Lincoln to be
erected at Washington. The Wilson bill
making the penalty for circulating obscene
or immoral books through the mails fine
OF not less than 500 nor more than 5000,
or Imprisonment ct hard labor for not less
than one year nor more than ten wears, or
both, at the discretion of the court, was ia
vorabiy reported, and the bills for the adj
mission of Washington and Montana Ter
ritories were discussed. In the House the
time was consumed in discussion of the
bill for industrial arbitration.
FRIDAY, April 2-The Senate was not
devoted to discussing the Industrial Arbi-
tration bill. AT the evening session thirty
five pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY, April 3--The Senate was not
in session. In the House O'Neilrs Labor
Arbitration bill was passed by vote of
l95 to %, with an amendment providing
that not over 1000 shall be paid out of the
treasury to defray the expenses of any sim
gle arbitration. The Silver Coinage bill
was further discussed
MONDAY, April 5-In the Senate the
time was occupied in discussing the Army
bill. In the House the bill granting a
pension of eight dollars per month to
soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war
was passed by vote of 1853 to 6s. Bills
were introduced: By Mr. Henderson, to
reduce letter postage to one and a half
cents per ounce and the price of postal
cards to one-half cent; by Mr.. O'Hara,
for the appointment of committee to in
vestigate the alleged homicides at Carroll
ton, Miss. by Mr.. O'Neill, to legalize the
incorporation of National trades unions;
by Mr. Warner, to better secure the stabil-
ity of the paper currency; by Mr.. Dingley,
requesting the President to furnish the
House with any Information in his posses
sion relative to the exclusion of American
fishing vessels from Canadian ports.
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CHICAGO, April 2.-Henry T. Wright. the
ex-assistant postmaster of Racine, who was
brought out OF the Chester penitentiary
Wednesday on writ OF habeas corpus,
had hearing before Judge Gresham yes
terday and wasdscharged. He had been ar
raigned on INFO NATION and pleaded guilty
to embezzling s412 from money-order
funds. He was sentenced to FIVE years i'm
prisonnent, and began his term October
], 1883. He brought his application for
release undsr the decision in the Mackin
case, in which it was held that prosecutions
BY Information in cases OF this Kind wers
irregular.
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persisted IN THE FLAMES.
a Fire Breaks Out at Night In the
Planters House in st. Louis-The Pecun-
larry Damage Slight, but Four Servant
Girls Are Burned to Death.

a Fire Breaks Out at Night In the
Planters House in st. Louis-The Pecun-
larry Damage Slight, but Four Servant
Girls Are Burned to Death.
ST. LOUIS April Sat $50 Saturday
morning fire was discovered in the rear
portion OF the Planters House, corner OF
Fourth and Pine streets. Upon arrival of
the fire apparatus it was found that the
laundry-room, as well as the drying
room, OF the hotel was in flames and
burning fercelv.
at about 500 the last spark was ex-
tinguished, and but for complete drench-
ing the main portion Of the hotel suffered
little
After the guests had been awakened and
ali was thought to be safe, the firemen, in
making their rounds through the building,
made three horrible discoveries. On the
fourth floor in the north hall they
came across the bodies of two women,
stumbling over them as they made their
way through the smoke. They were
conveyed to the diningroom- floor, where
DIR. C. F. Renoines was called and
made every effort to resascitate them, but
it was a hopeless task, and after working
with the aid of several OF the firemen for
almost hall All hour, he pronounced them
dead. As all the guests had been account
ed for, it was certain that they wore serv-
ant girls.
Up in room 246 another pitable scene
was witnessed. Here the third unfortu-
nate, who proved to be Mary Cooney, an
other employee of the linen department, had
been taken, upon being picked up in the
hall. She was found lying with her head
near the west door at the extreme end of
the hail. On her being conveyed to the
room there was just the slightest indica-
ton that life was not extinct, but after
one-half hours hard work by the physician
and fireman she was pronounced dead.
The body of another girl who died from
suffocation was found later, making four
deaths in all. A patrol wagon was sent
for and the bodies were taken to the
morgue.
The coroner 8 jury yesterday afternoon
rendered verdict on the death of the four
servant girls who lost their lives in the
fire. No special blame is attached to the
management OF the hotel, but the jury
find that the room in which they slept was
small and number OF narrow halls would
have to be reached before an exit could be
reached.
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sam Jones to the ..prummers.r

CHICAGO, April 3.-The noon meeting at
Farwell Hall yesterday was attended by
not less than 5000 persons and hundreds
we're unable to gain admittance. II was
the occasion Of a talk to commercial tray
elers by Rev. Sam Jones. There were
present about 900 drummers. Mr..
Jones referred to them as angels OF com
merce. and said that their army Of 300,-
600 members in the United States was a
tremendous power for good or evil in
business. He advised them to Danish bot
tied Bourbon and cards from their grips"
AMI fill the void with Bibles.