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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
THE EAST

A FIRE destroyed the main building of
Wells College, at Aurora, n. Y, ON the 9th.
Loss, 100000
HERR MOST, testifying before the immi-
grafton investigating committee in New
York on the 9Th, said there were two
million Anarchist sympathizers in the
United States, most of whom were Ger
mans.
LIToHFIELD, Conn, suffered the loss of a
large portion of her business blocks by
fire on the 9th.
On the morning of the 10th James e..
Blaine arrived in New York. His steamer.
the City of New York, was met at quaran-
tine by thousand friends on board the
Starin, which steamer he immediately
boarded President Bartlett, of the New
York City Republican Club, in behalf of
the many clubs represented, delivered an
address of welcome, to which Mr.. Blaine
responded, and other Welcoming ad-
dresses followed. Mr. Blaine-who is de-
scribed as picture of ruddy health-was
driven to his hotel, where other addresses
awaited him. In the evening he addressed
an immense mass-meeting of worlsing-men
gathered to give him greeting. The grand
parade took place on the previous evening,
forty thousand men being in line
On the 10th Charles Henry Riedel was
hanged at Newcastle, Del, for the murder
of his wife and child in September last
JOHN M. Thomas, aged thirty years, fell
down shaft at mine in Nanticoke, Pa,
on the 18th, a distance of nine hundred
feet, and was instantly killed.
By the upsetting of boat three young
men, Charles Behan, Fred L. King and
Willie Lawrence, We're drowned in New
York harbor on the 18th.
GEORGE BRADLEY, aged twenty-three
years, OF Plainville, Conn.,, shot hisSsweet-
heart, Lille Potter, aged seventeen years,
and then shot himself No cause for the
deed was known.
Six THOUSAND fint-glass workers who
had been on strike at Pittsburgh, Pa,
since June 30, resumed work on the 18th,
their wages having been increased.
AN express and freight train were
wrecked by a washout ON the 18th on the
Erie road near Shohola, N. Y Two men
were killed and twenty persons were in
jured on the express, and the freight train
was burned, several horses owned by Lily
Langtry, valued at 100000, perishing in
the tames The baggage, mail and express
cars We're also burned.
0In New York City the convent of the
Sacred Heart was destroyed by fire on the
18th. Loss, 5000, 600, Ms
/ In Schuylkill County, Pa, barns to the
value of $40, 900 were set on fire by light.
ming and burned on the 18th
JAMES G. BLAINE left New York on the
18th for Augusta, Me- He was given a
farewell ovation and the train was met by
enthusiastic crowds all along the route. In
the evening he addressed an audience of
ten thousand persons in Boston
OK the Pittsburgh (Pa.) electric railway
a car ran away down steep grade on the
18th, the motor becoming unmanageable,
and the conductor and a female passenger
were fatally hart ss
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
JGPAN'S CALAMITY.
Further Details of the Loss of Life and
Property by the Eruption at Banda.

Further Details. of the Loss of Life and
Property by the Eruption at Banda.
San.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14.-Further ad-
vices regarding the volcanic eruptions in
Japan state that the small villages Of
Kishizawa, Akimoto and Hosono, in Hino-
kihara Mura, were covered with sand and
ashes, and the site on which they stood is
thrown into mountain. The number of
persons buried in these villages is en-
tirely unknown, but it is believed
that no one there escaped alive. The
following villages suffered the most: At
Neria, forty-ive resid ences were de-
stroyed and twelve persons killed; at
Shibuya, seventeen residences were de-
stroyed and twenty persons killed and
wounded; at Nagazaki, twenty five resi-
dences were destroyed and ninety-eight
persons killed; at Horeki, thirty seven
residences were destroyed, but no one was
killed as the people had fed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
HORRORS OF THE FEVER.
Progress of the Terrible Scourge at Jack
sonville, Fla.-Panic-stricken Residents
Leaving the City by Every Train--Au
Routes but One Closed-Fears of Negro

progress OF the Terrible Scourge at Jack
sonville, Observation-Disclosures Residents
Leaving the City by Every Train-An
Routes but One Closed-Fears of Negro
Looters-Preyentive Measures.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug 14-Only two
new cases of yellow fever are reported in
the CITY as occurring in the last twenty
four hours-B. f. Dillon, superintendent Of
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
and William Sheppard, residing on Church
street. DR. Mitchell president of the
Board Of Health, does not think Mr.. Gel
dar died of yellow fever. Deaths Monday,
j; recovered, /; under treatments 49,;
whole number of cases SO far, 25; total
deaths, f.
Fifty teams and large gangs Of men are
engaged in cleaning the streets, hauling
and burning garbage, rubbish, etc. Five
or six fruit stands and several small build
ings have been burned. Coal tar and pitch
pine fires are blazing in all parts of the
city, and chloride of lime, copperas and
otter powerful dis:nfectants have been
freely scattered about the city. 1t is esti-
mated that 10000 people have fled from the
city Business is at a standstill, the
stores keeping open only during the
middle of the day. The hotels ere all
closed. There is some talk of BURN
ing down the Grand Union Hotel,
where Mccormick, the first victim here,
was taken ill.,
The only route now open for leaving the
city is that via Atlanta This means of
exit is likely to be closed at any hour,
leaving Jacksonville practically shut in on
all sides. Business is completely para
lyzed. The Florida Savings Bank has
been forced to take advantage of the
sixty day rule with reference to the with
drawal of deposits, and no money will be
paid out at present 1t is feared that the
large number of unemployed negroes in
the city will soon begin to plumber thou
sands of deserted houses The police force
has been increased, but is still scarcely
able to protect the entire city.
The work of fumigation is still going on
over the city, and every possible means is
being used to confine the disease to its
present limits. The Conclusion theory
of killing the fever germs will be given
practical test. A battery Of five
pieces of artillery has commenced
systematic firing, which will be kept up
for several days. The business of the
Western Union Telegraph Company is seri-
ouslyj interfered with, only about one third
of the regular operators remaining in town.
The Savannah (Ga) Benevolent Assoc
citation has contributed $1,000 for the re-
lief of the distressed at jacksonville
This is the first subscription to the relief
fund.
z New ORLEANS, Aug E.-Inspectors are
placed on all incoming trains, and persons
known to be from fever-infected points
are detained at quarantine until seven days
from their leaving such points. but it Is
often difficult to enforce the precaution.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

In 1892 there were 264, 100 miles of
railroads in the world outside of the
United States, and in 1867 there were
1913, $50 miles. In 1882 there were
10S, $50 miles of railroad in the United
States, and at the middle of 1888 there
are $4,000 miles. The increase of
rail mileage here among 60,000,0O0
people is $1,000 miles, while all the
rest of the world, with 1,700, 900, 600
people, have constructed only $4,000
miles. The United States has con-
structed $4,000 miles more than all
Europe. The increase in the United
States is 40 per cent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

The sweet girl typewriter is making
her way in this world. Her latest
captive is one of the wealthiest resi-
dents of Staten Island, DR.. James G.
Clark, He is sixty-fve years of age,
but what does the sweet girl type
writer care for thatP They have gone
to Europe and will spend the honey
moon in Italy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

The Electrical Revies0 says that the
uselessness of the lightning-rod is be-
coming so generally understood that
the agents find their trade a trying
one. Fewer and fewer rods are manu-
1actured each year, and the day will
come when lightning-rod on house
Will be regarded in the same light as a
horseshoe over Il mans door.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
FOREIGN WoRKMEN COMING.

A Party of Two Hundred Skilled Artists
from England En- Route to Accept
Positions in the West.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. H.-Over 200
workmen skilled in various trades,
principally iron sand steel, passed
through this city. on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, en- route to diff
ferent Western cities, to take posi-
tions promised them previous to their
sailing from England. They arrived in
Philadelphia on the steamship Ohio. One
of their number. a man of good appear
ance, stated that he was from Shropshire
Eng. ; that he was skilled workman in iron
and steel, and that he, as well as number
OF his companions, were going to Joliet ILL.,,
to accept positions in the steel works at
that place
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Won't Tell How IT Is Done.

Il MADRID, Aug. 15-The Italian faster
Sucei, has announced his intention of short
~ beginning a season of forty days fast
ing at Barcelona, which city is now filled
with people attending the exhibition.
Succi has not yet revealed the name or
nature of the African plant upon which he
processes to depend on IS a substitute for
food, and whatever mystery has hitherto
attached to his performances is still re
tanned as one of the chief features
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

1t was one of the hobbies of Govern
or Young, of Ohio, whose death oc-
Cured recently, to keep what he called
a Black Book, (" in which he pasted
every mean thing that was ever said
about him in the newspapers. Never
theless, he was great friend of the
newspaper correspondents, among
whom he had wide acquaintance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

LAS BETWEEN bread and meat and
sweets, the average dude always takes
the cake, said a restauranteur re-
Gently in his newly-started chop-house.
81 supposed that regular lamb-chop,
mutton-chop, pork-chop, tip-top chop
house was all that Chicago required
to make second London of her, but
from the way the great masses of
young men, clerks and Office youth in
particular, pass me by to get to a
bakery counter | am convinced that
the coming man is to be made up of
sugar and spice, and not of flesh and
bones"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

DR.. MARY WALKER demanded that a
fellow passenger in Treasury Depart
ment elevator in Washington put out
his cigar He replied: "When you
take Oft trousers and put on petticoats
will put out my cigar.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Went with the Hired Man.

The mining town of Winslow has
sensation in the alleged elopement recent
ly of Miss Julia Martin, one of the hand
soonest young women of the place, with a
young man named Butcher, her fathers
hired man, with whom she had become in
fatuated while spending the vacation at
home, after an absence of year or more
at boarding-sc
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Dakota to Cleveland.

HURON, D. T., Aug 15.-W. c. Arnold,
chairman of the Executive Committee for
division and the admission of North and
South Dakota to the Union of States, has,
on behalf of the committee, forwarded a
petition signed by all classes of citizens,
irrespective of party, to President Cleve-
land, asking him to champion the State.
hood pnpamanf
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

THE perniGous effects of curdling lit
erature on the brains of the young is
we'll instanced in the case of Annie
Amends, a fifteen-year-old Newark
On. J.l girl who attempted recently
to put all her relatives to sleep with
rat poison. The girl confessed thai
after reading 'Lucretia Borgia" she
became possessed of a desire to dis
tinguish herself in homicidal way,
and so she put the dreadful stuff into
the family coffee pot. Her father,
thankful for his, escape, says he will
take such measures that her litera-
ture will be little tanner hereafter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
HarriSOn'S Letter Is Written.

New YORK, Aug. 15 = The Tribune's
Indianapolis special says General Harrison
has completed the preparation Of his letter
of acceptance, having written it during the
past four days 1t will not be made public,
however, until he returns from his recrea-
ton trip, upon which he starts some time
next week. He will probably be absent
from the city about two weeks
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

THE most interesting of the fourteen
hundred prisoners at the Ohio State
Penitentiary are nine Apaches lately
received from the San Carlos Reserva-
ton, -,rizona They are all committed
Tor murder or attempted murder. Cap
tain Jack has thirty years to serve.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

ADDISON CANMACK, whose opera
lions in Wall street, New York, have
brought him at least $4,000, 900 during
the last fifteen years, began life as a
messenger boy in the Office of New
Orleans shipping firm.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
A r yer of Oil.

CHICAGO, Aug 14-At 1910 o'clock a. M.
crude petroleum, started from Lima O.,
three weeks ago, arrived in Chicago
through the big pipe line of the National
Transit Company. The oil is now flowing
into the tanks at South Chicago at the rate
Of 5000 barrels per hour
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

The sea-serpent is said to be sum
mering in the st. Lawrence. At any
rate the farmers wonder why dead cat
tie left by the river become so soon di-
vested of flesh. Some fishermen who
saw him said he switched his tail with
a loud report.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

Mrs HENRY WARD BEECHER has
changed little since the death of her
husband, though she is seventy six
years old. She is living at a hotel in
Brooklyn. The Beecher house at
Peekskill remains unoecupied, and
Mrs. Beecher goes there only OCCASION
ally 1t is said that Mrs. Beecher de-
sired to spend the summer there, but
her sons opposed it, as they feel unable
to support so large an establishment
and the beautiful place shows signs of
neglect Mrs. Beecher's income is only
fifteen hundred dollars per year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

The late Prof. Hadley, of Yale, held
that the right way to read a novel was
to begin at the end, because as the last
chapter would probably be the best, an
estimate of the entire work could be
thus formed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Schofield in Command.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The President
has issued an order placing Major General
Schofield in command of the army, with
headquarters at Washington. General
Schofeld will also continue in command of
the Division of the Atlantic until other
changes ere made
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Failure Of a wire CLOTH House.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 13--The /. o.
Luce Manufacturing Company, engaged in
the production Of wire cloth at West Nash
vile, the new manufacturing suburb of
this city, have made an assignment. The
assets are placed at about $lS0,e0o. while
the liabilities are s120, 0n
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
si,urian SPRINGS Change Hands,

A transfer of the Silurian Spring prop
erty at Waukesha recently took place, it
going into the hands of company the
capital stock of which is 100000 The
officials of the company are Luther w. Nc
Cornell, President; W. H. Anderson, Vice.
President and Treasurer; and George f.
Hawes Secretary
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Five Barns and Five Horses Burned.

Early the other morning five large barns
were burned in La Crosse, entailing loss
of $4,000. The fire started in an unex-
planned manner in the barn of James j.
Hogan, in which five horses were burned.
Owners of the other barns were: J. W.
Losey, DR.. Ballard, B. l. Strouse and w.
W. Crosby The insurance covered the loss
except on the horses
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

WHEN Mexican editor says some
thing that the leading Government
officials don't like they lock him up.
in the City of Mexico one prison is full
OF editors, and the City of Chihuahua is
following the example.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
wreck of a Big Lumber wharf.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. l3.-John F. Smiths
lumber wharf, at the foot of Locust street,
on the west side of the Schuylkill, caved
in, precipitating 3OOO,O0O feet of lumber,
valued at $4,000, into the river. The
wharf, VIII Oh was 200 feet in length, 80
in width and built at cost Of $1,000, is a
total xvrox
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

! MAJoR-GENERAL SCHoFIELD, who
succeeds General Sheridan, was born in
Chautauqua County, N. Y, Septem-
Der 20, 1881, and graduated at West
Point July 81, 1858, in the same class
with Sheridan.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

EDWIN BooTHs only daughter, Mrs.
Grossman, is petite, with pale, sweet
face and child-like manners. She is
wholly domestic, absorbed in her hus-
band, children and father.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
A wedding Partv,s Predicament

FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 1.-THE thirty
three guests at a Hebrew wedding were
arrested for dancing on Sunday, and all of
them. including the bride and groom, had
to spend the night in the lookup, owing to
the fact that the bail commissioner was
ont of town.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
A Boy and a Rife.

A ten-year-old boy named Cross, in the
town of Rudolph, Wood County, tried to
brighten his sister, Miss Lille Cross, and
her escort, George Motion, the other day
by pointing rife at them. The rife was
loaded and Miss Cross was wounded in the
head and Mr.. Motion was wounded in the
neck by the bullet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Blaine and Morton to visit Ohio.

COLUMBUS, O., Aug. Al. B. Harris,
treasurer of the Ohio Centennial Commits
sion, who went to New York to invite
James G. Blaine to be one of the orators at
the opening of the exposition in this city
September next, telegraphs that both Mr..
Blaine and Levi P. Morton viii surely at
tend the centennial
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Buried at LanesyiIIe.

The remains of J. NJ. Burgess, who died
recently at Sheboygan, We're taken to
GAINESVILLE for burial. Mr.. Burgess was the
first Republican treasurer of Rock County;
accompanied President Lincoln on his jour-
ney from Springfield to Washington in
1861; was postmaster during Lincoln's ad-
ministration, and served as city clerk in
1878, 1879 and 1881.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Put Grape on His Door and Died.

George Ault, German seventy years
old, residing at Fort Howard, tied Grape
on the door knob of his house the other
morning. He then disappeared and was
not seen again until his body was found
floating in the river near his residence.
He had been an invalid for two years, and
was supposed to have been mentally de-
ranged. The coronor's jury found YER
dict of suicide.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

GIVE the boys trades. Only eighty
of the five hundred and sixty convicts
received last year in the Eastern penl-
tertiary of Pennsylvania had trades
when brought there.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Inmates of state Institutions.

The population of the State institutions
for July is reported by the State Board of
Supervision as follows State Hospital for
Insane, 473; Northern Hospital, SOB; in the
industrial School for Boys, 37S; in the
State Prison, Al; in the State Public
School at Sparta 10 children were placed
out in homes, leaving the population 40.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Slew HIS Young Wife and Himself.

SANTA Cruz, Cal, Aug. 13.-Zachariah
Field, aged 81, shot his young wife fatally
and then blew off the top of his head with
a Winchester rife 1t is said that his wife's
relatives had been endeavoring to induce
her to lea re him..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Burglars Get So 600.

DOVER, N. H, Aug. 15.-Linton Hasson's
jewelry store at South Berwick was burg
larized. The thieves entered a side win
dow, blew open the safe and took S3,Oo9
worth OF jewelry, watches and money
There is no cleW.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Burned to Death in His Berth.

GLEN Cove. L. l., Aug 13The steamer
Bay Ridge, plying between New York and
Sea Cliff, was destroyed by fire while iy-
ing at Glenwood dock Frank Laughlin,
the bar tender, was burned to death in his
hNrth
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
In New York State two hundred and
fifteen peope are serving life penal sem
tenceS

Mr.. HENRY WILLARD, the noted rail-
road operator and financier, is credited
with an ambition to send an exploring
expedition in seach Of the South Pole.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

1T is said Mark Twain proposes to
bring out all the funny stories and
anecdotes originally written for, but
finally not published in, General Grants
memoirs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
ADJuDeED INSANE.
Brilliant Young Clergyman Loses His
Reason Through Oyerwork

Brilliant Young Clergyman Loses His
Reason Through Overwork.
The records of the probate court al
Waukesha recently showed uthat Rev.
c. IL. Lemon had, by order of the
county judge, been committed to the
Northern Hospitel for the Insane. 1t
was only a few weeks since that Mr..
Lemon resigned his position as pastor
of St Matthias Church there, where he
had been stationed since last October, and
had been doing excellent work in the par
ish Latterly he began to exhibit signs OF
overwork, and became so nervous that he
was obliged to leave HE duties. Mr.. Lemon
is fne-looking man, about twenty
eight years old, and his future looked
brilliantly promising. His present misfor
tune awakens the deepest sa dness and re-
greet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
Married His Old Love.

T w. r Collette and Miss Nora Kalb were
secretly married at Manitowoc the other
morning by Rev. Piper, of the Germs an
Lutheran Church. Both parties resid in
Green Bay, and Miss Kalb had been in
Manitowoc for some time visiting friends.
Collette is the party to whom Miss Nc.
Gillen, of Appleton, was to have been mar
ried some two months ago, the ceremony
being prevented by the Bishop instructing
the priest not to perform the ceremony, as
Collette had a previous engagement with
Miss Kalb, to whom he is now married.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17

Not Posted. III m! h'mi" ejacu-
lated Jones while glandng over the
morning paper, 4 know I'm not well
posted in physiology, but when. il
comes to reading that man was shot
in his saloon boy MORALLY hurt in
the alley, and woman injured on
the back stairs, | may as well own ur
70 complete ignorance of those parts
Of the anatomy"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
ave must curtail expenses saio

u W Y H1IetoV Ot.I ot11I On FOrID~Ds Eto10
the husband to his sweet wife. In
deed, and / don't see how anybody
could be more saving than l am.
We've, got a family of four of our own
and two servants, and yet ] manage to
get along, my dress bills and all, with
only little over 5000 a month. y
8. And get a salary of 800 a month. y
'sWell, you must get them to raise
your salary. You have the least man
agement about you of any person
ever saw. Oh, if only were a mani"