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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-04
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

FIELD fires were reported on the 9th
from the sugar-pro ducing districts of Cuba.
Numbers of cattle had persisted on account
of the prolonged drought
EMPEROR FREDERICK, of Germany, had so
much improved in health on the 9th as to
allay the general apprehension.
A DECREE was issued by the Pope at Rome
ON the 27uh forbidding Catholics to adopt
the plan of campaign or to engage IN boy
cotting, and enioining obedience to the laws.
DANIEL HAYES and Daniel Moriarty were
hanged at Tralee. Ireland. on the 2Sth for
the murder of James Fitzmaurice. farmer,
January 81 last
MEXICAN troops had sharp fight recently
with the Yaqui Indians near Aqua Caliente,
in which thirty Indians were killed and
fifteen were captured
On the 29th the ship Smyrna was sunk
in a coils on with the steamer Motto off
the Isle of Wight and thirteen persons
were drowned.
POLICE had fight on the Both ult. with a
number of escaped prisoners at Daman-
hour, Egypt, and fifteen of the convicts
were killed and two wounded. The police
lost four men.
THERE was fire panic during a circus
performance on the 3Gth ult. at Prague,
Hungary, and six persons were killed and
many others injured.
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I. TO OPEN THE SIOUX LANDS.
President Cleveland Approves an Impol

President Cleveland Approves an Impor-
tant Bill-Rejoicing in Dakota.
= WASHINGTON, May 2.-The President has
approved the act to secure the relinquish
ment of:the Indian title to certain portions
Of the reservation of the Sioux nation of
Indians; the act ratifying an agreement
with the Gros Ventre, Piegan, Blood, Black
feet and River Crow Indians in Montana,
and the act providing for an extension of
the system Of beacon lights along the Hi
nois river. 80
PIERRE, D. T., May 2.-After five long
years of anxious watching, Pierre's fond
est hopes were realized at O'Clock yester-
day afternoon, when a telegram was re-
ceived from Delegate Clifford that the Sioux
bill had been signed by the President.
Five minutes later the streets were lined
with people, flags were. waving and bands
playing, while cheer after cheer rent the
air. Speeches were made expressing graf
itude to PresidentC leveland3 Congressman
Dawes, Clifford, Peel and others. Business
was suspended, the remainder 3of the day
being given over to holiday exercises, Last
might. cannons were being fredEand the
streets Illuminated. -.
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OUR NEW WARSHIPS,

A Distinguished Party of Excursionists
from Washington Journey 10 PhiIadeI-
phia to Lauuch a New GuD-Boat and
Dynamite Cruiser.
PHILADELPHIA, April Bottle two trains
of Pullman cars from Washington bear
ing Secretary Whitney and party arrived
at Washington street wharf few minutes
before 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon
The distinguished party numbered over
800, and Included quite anumber, of ladies'
They We're. at once taken on board the
steamer Columbia. where they were re-
ceived by the city .pfficials and prominent
citizens. A collation. was served ON board
the steamer which, meanwhile, pro-
ceeded up the river to Cramps ship-yard
The Yorktown was launched at 1906 D.
H., and was christened by Miss
Eleanor Breckenridge, daughter of Con-
gresham Breckenridge, { Kentucky. The
dynamite cruiser followed off the ways
at $40, being christened by Miss Mel
lie Cameron. daughter of Senator
Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania The
launches were unusually successful
The United States steamer Dispatch. which
lay out in the river fired saiutes as the
vessels moved off the ways into the stream,
amid the screeching of whistles, ringing of
bells and the cheers of the multitude of
spectators
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THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.

FiFTiETH CONGRESS-
THURSDAY, April 20 The Railroad Land
Forfeiture bill was considered in the Sen
ate, and joint resolution was adopted
| accepting the invitation to participate
in the Paris exposition of 1889 The
resolution appropriates $250,0O0 Adj
journed to the 30th In the House the en-
tire day and evening sessions We're de-
voted to discussing the Tariff bill.
FRIDAY, April 27-The Senate was not
in session In the House the day session
was devoted to discussing the Tariff bill,
and at the evening session seventeen pen
sion bills were passed.
SATURDAY, April 2S.-There was no ses-
sion of the Senate. In the House the time
was occupied in discussing the Tariff bill
MONDAY, April 30.-In the Senate bills
were passed providing for public build
ings at Youngstown, o., at cost of $780,
900, and at Akron, o., at cost Of S75,-
900. A bill was introduced to require the
purchase and coinage of not less than
81, 100000 worth of silver bullion a month.
The name of Hon. Melville Fuller, of Chi
cago, for Chief Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, was received from the
President also messages vetoing two pri-
vate pension bills In the House the ses-
sion was devoted to debate on the Tariff
hill
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FROM WASHINGTON,

THERE were 1913 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 27th against 181 the previous seven
days
The late General Grants sixty eighth an
niversary was COMMUNICATED on the 9th
in many places throughout the country
ARRANGEMENTS for uniform rate of
postage between the United States and
Canada of one cent per ounce on all mer-
chandise, including grain, seed, cuttings
bulbs, sc,ons and gratis, were completed on
the 9th; and one cent per two ounces of
printed matter now known as third class
matter in the domestic mails of this country
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 29th aggregated $685.
$50, 543, against 1888, 400, 264, the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the cor.
responding week of 1887 the decrease
amounted to 90 per cent
THE President on the Both ult. signed the
bill for the opening Of the great Sioux In
dian reservation.
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LATER,

. THE publie-debt statement on the 1st
showed the total debt to be S1,706, 1913, 376;
cash in treasury, S110,244,969 debt less
cash in treasury, S1,1S1, 652, S55. Decrease
during April, s9,235, 800. Decrease since
June 80, 1887, S97, res, 1881.
A PETITION to Governor Oglesby for the
pardon of Anarchists Fielden, Schwab and
Neebe was in circulation in Chicago on the
LIST.
DURING the forty-eight hours ended at
noon on the LIST nearly ten thousand immi-
grants were landed at Castle Garden, New
York
AT the California Republican convention
in Sacramento on the 1st delegates were
chosen to the National convention and a
resolution was passed expressing regret
for the refusal of James G.. Blaine to be a
candidate and reiterating confidence in his
integrity and ability.
HENRY Pope (colored) sentenced to death.
at Summerville, Ca, for an outrageous as
sault, was hanged by a mob on the 1st be-
cause the Governor granted him respite.
New HAMPSHIRE Democrats convened at
Concord on the 1st and elected delegates to
the st. Louis convention. The resolutions
adopted indorse the Administration of
President Cleveland, and recommend him
for demonstration.
The general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church began in New Y ork. on
the 1st, Bishop Bowman presiding.
THE Democrats of Wisconsin met in Mil
waukee on the 1st and chose delegates to
the National convention who indorse Pres
ident Cleveland.
AT jackson, Miss, on the LIST General
Wir Adams, the postmaster, and John
Martin, editor of the NelU MiSsissippia1,
fought duel in the street, both being
killed.
TWENTY houses were burned on the 1st
at Trenton, KY,
THE great strike of the engineers and fire.
men of the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy
railroad system, which was inaugurated
February 20, was on the 1st said to have
been officially declared lost.
Mrs. PHELENA JOHNSON, of Aurora, H.,
celebrated her 103d birthday anniversary
on the 1st She was in possession of her
full faculties.
THE Republicans made the following re-
nominations for Congress in Kansas on
the 1st. Fifth district, j. r. Anderson;
Seventh, E. r. Peters.
jim HARRIS (colored), who assaulted Mrs.
Simmons at Vicksburg, Miss, was lynched
| on the 1St
IN Pittsburgh, Pa, 500 out of 727 saloons
closed up on the 1st, when the Brooks
| Liquor law went into effect.
A BILL was introduced in the United
States Senate on the 1st appropriating
| $780, 900 for the prevention and extirpation
of yellow fever in the United States. The
| Direct Tax bill was referred to the Finance
Committee. Senator Ingalls, (Kaa) spoke
| in reply to the recent speech of Senator
Voorhees, qnd.), and bitterly assailed the
| laster's war record. In the House debate
on the Mills Tariff bill occupied the session,
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WEST AND SOIITH,


INDIANA Democrats met at Indianapolis
on the Goth and nominated CORTLAND c.
Matson for Governor, William r. Myers for
Lieutenant Governor, Thomas B. Byrnes
for Treasurer, Robert W. Miers for Secretary
of State, W. E. Niblack George Y. Howk
and Allen Collars tor Judges of the Supreme
Court and Senators Voorhees, and 1urple
and john ]. Shanklin and John H. Bass as
delegates to the National convention. The
latter were instructed to support Gray for
Vice. president The resolutions demand
reduction of the tariff, oppose prohibition
and indorse Cleveland.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on Che Goth as follows: Illinois, Seventh
district. J. T. Henderson Rep.) renominat-
ed; Ninth district, Louis E. Payson (Rep)
renominated. Kansas, Seventh district T.
w. Benson Pro).
FROST on the 26th in the vicinity of Nor
folk, Va, damaged early fruit to the extent
of $500. 900, and near Staunton frosts had
killed the pear, plum and damson crops
and greatly damaged the peach crop
A FIRE on the 26th destroyed Central
City, D. T., place of one thousand inhab-
itants Not store or shop was left stand
ing, $50 buildings were burned and fifty
families were left homeless
LOUIS STRoMANs house near Spring feld.
S, G., avas burned early on the morning OF
the Goth, and four of Stromans' children,
two boys and two girls, persisted in the
flames
Iowa Prohibitionists met at Des Moines on
the 10Th and made the following nomina-
| lions: For Secretary of State, James Mick
elwait; Treasurer, Rev. R. H. Dolliver; Au-
ditor, Malcolm Smith; Clerk of the Supreme
| Court, E. o. Sharpe The resolutions de-
clare for Total constitutional prohibition,
both State and National, and woman sui
| frage
On the Goth the City Council of Delphos,
| Kan, passed an ordinance closing ssl bill
| lard and pool-rooms This was a direct re-
suit of the womans suffrage movement
WHILE the officials of the Bank of Amigo
| Wis, were at dinner on the 26th burglars
entered the bank and took SO, 900 from the
safe
A GASOLINE explosion at Topeka. Kan, or
the 9th killed Annie Evans and six-year.
old daughter of James Mclaughlin.
On the Burlington & Missouri road pas
senger train went through a bridge on the
| 9th at Alma, Neb., killing two persons and
| injurlng seven others The mail and Elk
press cars, with their contents, wsrs
| burned
| AT a school exhibition on the 9th IL
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MONUMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
A Fitting Memorial to Its First Century
Talked OF.

PHILADELPHIA, April 80 I'm response to
call issued some time ago by Governor
Beaver, the Governors Of the thirteen
original States, except Massachusetts, or
their representatives, met in Carpenters
Hall here Saturday to consider plans for
the establishment of q fitting and lasting
memorial to commemorate the first century
of the Constitution of the United States
Resolutions were passed calling upon the
National Government and the various States
and Territories to make appropriations for
"a fund to erect q suitable National
monument commemorative of the franz
ing and adoption of the constitution
of tie United States to be erected in the
city of Philadelphia said monument to bear
the names of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence in their autographs, and
of the trainers of the constitution. 1t was
also resolved to invite ali the States and
Territories to cooperate with New York in
celebrating toe centennial of Washington's
inauguration. Those present were Gov
errors Beaver, of Pennsylvania; Saw
yer. of New Hampshire; Davis, OF
Rhode Island; Biggs. of Delaware; Green, of
New Jersey, and Jackson, Of Maryland;
Lieutenant Governors Jones, Of New York,
and Howard, of Connecticut; Rev. Thomas
A Hoyt, D. D., of Georgia; Major Charles
S. Stringfeilow, of Virginia; Julius n Carr,
Of North Carolina and ex-Secretary of State
j. n Lipscomb of South Carolina
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Disastrous Forest Fires.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May la Pot Brad
ford, tPa.) special says: Forest fires have
been raging in the Kane oil fields since Sun
day afternoon. They were started by spark
from locomotive. Seventeen rigs and
several tanks of Oil were burned on
Sunday, and number of rigs and over /,
000barrels of oil were destroyed yesterday.
Swamp Lodge, a suburb of Kane,
was completely wiped out. Carpenters
large saw-mills at the lodge were also
consumed. The. fire burned necessarily
until O'Clock last evening, when a heavy
rain checked the progress of the flames,
and it is now under control The loss. can
not be estimated, but Will be very heavy.
1t is the worst fire in tie history of the
county.
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MICHIGAN.


George Morse. merchant of Grand Rap
ids, has been sued for $40, 600 damages by
his mother for assault and battery
John Hacker, aged eighty years, insane
through religious excitement, one Of the
early settlers of Brighton, hung himself
the other evening
An explosion occurred in one of the ovens
OF the corset steel works in Jackson the
other afternoon, causing about So, 500 dam
age
Jesse 81 Farwell, of Detroit, has present
ed a frst-class school-house to North
Charlestown, N. H. his birth place.
An other victim to the wiles of Brown.
the Detroit bigamist, has been found at
Port Huron, making twenty-ote women he
is said to have married
AT Howard City the other night William
L ANGEL, a laborer, aged twenty years,
while Respondent took fatal dose of
morphine. He leaves widow.
Mrs Margaret NcAfferty, of Muskegon,
was recently arrested for bigamy
/ Ben Langner, of Jackson, aged nineteen
years. committed suicide the other after
noon because his father scolded him for
drinking beer
The Merchants National Bank of Battle
Creek was organized few days ago
s. M. Hawley, a wealthy farmer, aged
eighty years. was struck by the engine of
the Detroit & Milwaukee passenger train
| the other night near Fenton and killed.
Since last fall $11O, 600 has been spent
in Port Huron in repairing and fitting out
lake craft rs.
Governor Luce on a recent visit to the
Soldiers Home gave each OF the veterans a
new felt hat, and Governor Alger promised
to send enough straw ones to go around
when the weather became warm.
Hacknells saw-miIl and lumber yard at
Juniata were entirely destroyed by fire
recently. Loss, So, 900; no insurance.
John Roman, alderman for the Fifth ward
at Port Huron, was born in Ireland and has
| no naturalization papers. A special election
| must be held to name his successor.
The second annual convention of the
Christian Endeavor societies of the State
was held recently at Lansing.
Charles Warrington, Greenville school
boy. while playing with pitchfork the
other day hit George Cory on the temple
with a tine, which pierced the bone and
penetrated his brain. He was in critical
condition. f:55f
No. / shaft of the Calumet and Hecla
mine, which had been on fire for six
months, was reopened a few days ago, and
the indications were that the fire was en-
tirely extinguished, although the damage
to the mine could not be estimated.
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THE EAST.


On the 26th George Mcclellan Durham
was hanged in the Jail at Woodbury., N j.,
for the murder of his mother in-law in
November last
c. A. BoUTEILE was renominated for
Congress ON the Goth by the Republicans of
the Fourth district of Maine.
The Republicans of Maine met at Bangor
on the 26th and selected delegates to the
National convention who were uninstruct-
ed The platform demands protection of
American industries, a revenue sufficient
for Government demands, and praises Mr.
Blaine for his letter in answer to the free
trade manifesto of the President"
The failure of Clarke, Radcliffe & Co.,
dry-goods commission merchants at New
York, occurred on the Goth for $500, 900
Mr. AND MRS ERNEST EICHFELn, of Phila-
delphia, an aged couple, hung themselves
in their dwelling on the 26th. No cause
was known.
FIRE destroyed one-half of the town of
Goldsboro, Pa, on the 9th.
On the 9th Nelson Dingley, Jr., was re-
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the Second district of Maine
For the week ended on the 2Sth the
record of the baseball clubs in the Nation
al League was as follows: Boston (games
won), s; Chicago, 6; New York, 5; Pitts
burgh, 4; Detroit, 2; Indianapolis, 2;
Washington, l; Philadelphia, l.
The death of Seth Thomas, the well
known manufacturer of clocks, occurred
at his home in Thomaston, Conn, on the
2Sth, at the age of seventy one years.
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius and the
gun-boat Yankton, new navy vessels were
launched at Philadelphia on the 2Sth in the
presence of three hundred members of Con.
gross and many other persons.
EDWARD Showers dry-goods establish
ment in Brooklyn, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire on the 29th. Loss, $500, 600
AN express train was badly wrecked on
the 2Sth near White House, n Y, and
nineteen persons were severely injured
THE death of Allen B. Wilson, perfectol
and part inventor of the sewing machine
occurred on the Both ult. at Woo6mont
Conn, at the age of sixty-one years.
On the Both ult. the Tweedy Manufac-
turing Company's hat factory at Danbury
Conn, the largest in America, shut down
for the first time in twenty years. Eleven
hundred employees were thrown out OF
work.
In the Kane (Pa) oil fields forest fires
were raging on the Both ult., and they had
destroyed oil-tanks and saw mills and wiped
out Swamp Lodge, suburb of Kane.
A DEFALoATIoN of $780, 900 was discovered
in the National Park Bank of New York
City on the 30th ult.
THE explosion of kerosene lamp fatally
burned Mrs. Faist and her three children
in New York on the Both ult.
FROM many points in New England
freshets were reported on the Both ult., pro
duced by the rapid melting of snow in the
mountains.
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MIanY Indians Slain.

NoGALEs, 4 r., April so General Guerra,
Commander Of the first military zone of
Sonora, tele ,raphs the Governor under date
of April &c that Lieutenant Juan Quintro,
with Feder~l forces, had sharp battle with
Yaqui Indians on the Tejibampo mountains,
killing twenty-one aud wounding one, who
was taken prisoner Manuel Escobas. of ths
Federal forces, was dangerously wounded
In another dispatch, dated April "a, the
General says: " Yesterday Captain Angel
Lanes, of the Mexican home guards, over
took party of Yaqui rebels going toward
Aqua Ca ients and had fight with them,
killing seven and Capturing fourteen prison.
ers. mostly women arc, children, and Loo
of guns and ammunition.
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WISCONSIN.

Marks of violence on the head and face OF
Frank Rossnlan, of Whitewater, whose
frozen body was found in the snow near
Rhinelander the other day, left little doubt
that he was murdered the day he disap-
peared. early in February.
Uriah Dabies, a wealthy merchant OF
Columbus, whose princely gifts in behalf
of Welsh religious works have made him
known to his countrymen all over the
United States, died the other morning, aged
sixty-fye years He leaves a fortune OF
| $500, 900. babies was the founder of the
society for the support of aged Welsh min
| isters
A G.. Wright, publisher of the Milwaukee
| city directory, is confident that the canvass
| for names will show, that the city has q
population of fully two hundred thousand
people. a..
The Eau Claire Sash & Door Company's
works were burned few days ago, involv-
ing a loss of 800 000
James ]. Anderton, sixteen years old, son
of Alderman J. ]. Anderton, of Milwaukee,
was accidentally shot dead by companion
while hunting recently.
T. P. Naughton, postmaster at Mansion,
died a few days ago
The Indians fBad River reservation re-
Gently sent a petition to Commissioner At
kins asking him to forbid the employment
OF white men on their reservation
The winter wheat in Eau Claire and in
adjoining counties presents an unfavorable
appe; rance, and is estimated that TWEEN
ty-iiye per cent. of the crop has lost it's vi
tality, being smothered by the deep snow,
and is destroyed to an extent that it's re-
covery Is impossible. Many of the fields as
soon as relieved of the frost will be plowed
under and be sown with other crops.
Benjamin Ferguson, of Fox Lake, died a
few days ago. He had been prominent in
State politics, having been State Senator,
and was a candidate for Governor in 1861
About one hundred and fifty men and a
number of teams have begun to break
ground for the building of the great steel
and iron works at Superior The plant will
be built at cost of $500. 900, and when
completed will give employment to five
hundred men, mostly mechanics.
William Williams, foreman, and John
Shay, head sawyer of the C l. g. B. Co..
mill in Chippewa Falls, were drowned the
other evening while attempting to run ths
rapids in skin
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4 New Railroad in Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 2.zz-Articles of
incorporation were filed Monday with the
Secretary of State for the American Mid
land Railroad Company, the Indiana Divis-
ion of which is to extend from the Ohio to
the Illinois State line, passing through
with branches the counties Of Allen,
WhiteleX, Kosciusko, Wabash, Fulton,
Pulaski, Jasper, Newton, Cass, White, Car
roll, Benton, Upton, Warren, Stark, La
Porte, Porter and Lake. The capital stock
is $500, 900. 81,
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Seeking Pardon for Anarchists

CHICAGO, May IA petition to Governor
oglesby for the pardoning of Anarchists
Fielden, Schwab.and Neebe has been circu-
lating he. last four days among the So
cialists, Anarchists and radical laborites
!. of this city. The text of this petition
is almost. word for word the same which
was circulated "a few days before the
execution of Spies, Fischer, Parsons and
EngeL The thing has been very quietly
engineered, -. and nobody has been APP
preached with the document not believed
to be thoroughly i'm accord with radical
principles, as it was feared that the prema-
ture publication of the facts might some
how injure the cause.
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The Mexican Government has as
sumed charge of all minis in that
country, and hereafter will coin all the
money put into circulation. Hereto
fore the minis have been in the hands
ofprivate individuals or corporations to
which the Government guaranteed the
entire bullion product of the country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-04

The formal opening of the Chicago
extension of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad, which took place a
few days ago, was an event of more
than ordinary interest 1t meant the
completion of the first and only I'M
broken and continuous system under
one control from Chicago to the Pa
citic coast.
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Roscoe CoNKLING's memory was as
wonderful as his mind was strong. 1t
was his custom to carefully prepare
in writing a speech to which he at
tached Importance; and when it was
finished he could go upon the stage OF
the floor and deliver it sentence by
sentence, without the variation of a
word. He could repeat whole pages
from Shakespeare and other poets,
with perfect accuracy and without eff
fort. for hours at time.