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Big Mandatory Burned.

CHICAGO, May 16.-The immense candle
and glycerine mandatory of the Dearborn
Manufacturing company was completely
destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon,
The loss will amount to 100000. The
works are situated near the corner of Bon.
field street, near the south branch of the
river. Six thousand boxes of candles, ST.
900 pounds of manufactured glycerine, and
an equal quantity of unrefned glycerine
was destroyed, together with about 1900
barrels of oil
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
Panic III Pennsylvania School During a
Thunder Storm.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, May ia violent
rain-storm, accompanied by thunder and
lightning, visited this section of the State
yesterday. In the country districts great
damage is reported in the shape of
barns and outbuildings being demol-
ished and fruit trees uprooted.) At
Parsons large school-bouse was struck by
lightning, all the window lights were de-
molished and other damage done. Many
of the smaller pupils were caught in the
crush which followed, and quite number
were seriously hurt. At Murray's mine
the lightning went down the shaft and
knocked six boys and a mule down, demol-
ishing cars and tearing up the track.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
Smash-Up on the Fort Worth g. Denve

TRINIDAD, Col, May 16.-Reports have
reached here of an accident on the Fort
Worth & Denver road between Clayton, N.
M, and Clarendon, Tex. A waterspout
broke and washed out a portion of the
road. Into the great hole a passenger train
plunged. The coaches were piled up on
the engine. Sam Bush, the fireman, was
killed and Engineer Calapriest was buried
beneath the wrecked engine and terribly
mutilated. None of the passengers were
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

The grave of General William Henry
Harrison. the ninth President of the
United States, is on beautiful natural
mound near his old residence at North
Bend, on the banks of the Ohio, fifteen
miles below Cincinnati. No monu-
ment marks the spot, and the grave
for years has remained neglected.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
Millions in Gold Bars.

New YORK, May 1.-THE officials in
charge of the assay Office state that the
amount of gold bars on hand there is larger
than ever before in the history of the
country To-day there is over $50, 900, 900 in
gold bars in the Office, against s57, 100000 a
year ago, and s15, 1000, 600 in August, 1886.
Besides the gold bars on hand the assay
office has gold coin amounting to S15, OOO, 600
in the sub Treasury
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

OTTO HEGNER, the new piano prod
ICY, over whom London is going into
raptures, is said by careful critics to
tie gaining the hearty appreciation of
professional pianists, He looks
younger than his alleged eleven years.
and is pretty boy, with curly black
hair aud intelligent face.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
The E.ceIsior Geyser in ERUPTION.

FARGO, D. T., May 16.-Infornation has
been received from Yellowstone Park that
the Excelsior Geyser is in a state of erup-
ton, and that the Fire Hole river is greatly
swollen by the volume of water discharged
from it. The water ascends in solid col
urnn 800 feet high, carrying huge powders
with it. This is the biggest eruption OF the
Excelsior since 1880. 1t is conceded to be
the most powerful geyser in existence.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

HE presence of sewer gas in room
may be detected by the following
method: Unglazed paper is saturated
with solution of acetate of lead in
rain-water one ounce of lead salt be-
ing dissolved in eight ounces of the
liquid. Allow the paper to partially
dry and then expose ID in the room
which is suspected of containing the
deleterious gas. Any considerable
quantity of the gas turns the paper
black.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

The largest verdict of damages for
personal injuries ever awarded and
sustained in Illinois was in the case of
Isaac Holland, Rock Island con-
ductor who was permanently disabled
by collision with an Eastern Illinois
frcighs train. The original verdict
against the Eastern Illinois was $685.
00H and as this has been sustained by
the Supreme Court the Judgment. with
interests and costs. amounting to $780,
coo has been paid by the railroad COM
panY.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
Buried Treasure Unearthed

HICKORY, Pa, May 16.-Lee Mackey,
while blowing on c. s. Maxwelfs farm,
near Buffalo, found pot containing 5000
in gold coin buried under fiat rock.
Mackey resigned his job Immediately, and
has gone to his home in Green County to
enjoy his good fortune. The money is sup
posed to have been buried by Robert Dry
den, miser who many years ago occupied
a cabin near the place where the gold was
found
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
Fearful Accident i'm Russia.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 16.-A heavy
freight train and crowded passenger train
on the Moscow & Koorsk railway collided
Sunday night The wreck was frightful,
both trains being piled up in confused
heap 1t took hours to clear away the
wreck. Eleven dead bodies were taken
out and thirty persons injured, many
fatally. ~ @
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

SENATOR REAGAN, of Texas, has
bought house in Washington. This
makes forty-four Senators out of sew
enty-six who own the houses in which
they live. In 1860 only four Senators
kept house and not one lived in house
Of his own.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

SETH KINMAN, q veteran scout, has
presented every President from Buch-
anan to Arthur with chair made by
himself from the horns and hide of
elk and deer he has slain. Mr.. Kin
man is now making one of these chairs
for President Cleveland.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

ALL the horrors of state of siege
are being experienced by the inhab-
itants of the island of Cuba. Under
the proclamation of Captain General
Marin the military are superior to all
law, an4 innocent persons have been
shot by the troops, while large numbers
have been imprisoned on the mere sus-
picion of completely in she bandit out
RACES. Planters of the interior dis
tricts were fleeing to Havana and
Matanzasto save their lives. Appeals
had been made to Spain TO restore to
the people their constitutional rights
and privileges.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

A CURIOUS coincidence illustrating
tho great gain in time by reason of
overland shipment from the Pacific
coast has occurred in Baltimore. On
the same day there arrived steamer
with cargo of straw-matting from
Hong Kong by way of London and a
train of cars from Vancouver also load
ed with straw-matting. The steamer
left Hong Kong February 5, while
the cargo brought part of the way by
rail left the same port March 25
There was difference of forty-eight
days in favor of the transcontinental
route.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
FROM WASHINGTON.

THERE were 1872 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 1856 the previous seven
days.
THE Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections on the 18th decided that Senator
Turpie, of Indiana, was entitled to his seat
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended ON the 18th aggregated
$975, $780, 1884, against ST. 106, S6S, 800 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1887 the decrease
amounted to 19 per cent
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
Killed hv His Horsa.

HARRoDsBuRG, KY, May 14-Robert
Teater, 81 years old, living at Nevada, this
county, was thrown from his horse yester-
day morning. The horse then kicked him
in the head, crushing his skull.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
KiIIed by a Blow of the Fist.

DANBURY, Conn. May 15.-Frank Burns,
worthless character, was killed here early
yesterday morning by John McNif, a
saloon keeper. Burns had some beer bot
ties in his possession that McNiI supposed
belonged to him. In struggle fer their
possession McNiff struck Burns On the head
with his fist, from the effects of which he
died two hours later McNiff was arrested
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

Mrs QUINCY A. SHAW, of Boston, q
daughter of Louis Agassiz, has for
eight years supported free kinder
gartens in the poorest quarters of
Boston and Cambridge, at a personal
EXPENSE of $50. 600
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

GENERAL SHERMAN lives. with his
wife and daughter, at the Fifth Az
cnue Hotel, New York. The General
is now in his sixty-ninth year, yet few
men of forty have more vitality or en-
Joy life moro thoroughly than this
veteran of the war.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
A PLAYFUL CYCLONE.
1t Carries Away House and Leaves the
Family Sitting on the Floor,

LITTLE Rock, Ark, May 16.-A destruct-
i've cyclone passed over Baxter County,
| this State, Sunday. The farms of Mr..
Helvy and Mr.. Wells were swept clean
and almost every thing on them destroyed.
The house Of H. Love was badly dam
aged. The dwelling of R. P. King was
lifted up and blown away, leaving the
family sitting on the. ground floor. Mrs.
King was severely injured. At Lone Rock
the store and blacksmith-sho were blown
to pieces |. A. Landruth's saw-mill and
two dwellings were destroyed. The dam
age to farmers is heavy, but no lives are
reported lost. The storm crossed the White
river at Matteyrs Knob and did great dam
age there
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

The Railway Commissioners of
Massachusetts say the car stove must
go, and they give railway companies
until next winter TO make their
changes upon all lines running
through that State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
LATER,

NEW YORK Democrats held their State
convention in New York City on the 18th
and selected as delegates-at-larg to ST
Louis Alfred c. Chaplin, of Brooklyn; Ed
win Cooper, of New York; George G. Rains,
of Rochester; Roswell P. Flower, of New
York. The resolutions declare for tariff
reform on the basis of the Presidents an
nual message, sard instruct for the renomi-
nation of President Cleveland.
A CYCLONE in Baxter County, Ark,
wrecked many dwellings and destroyed
crops on the 18th, causing heavy losses to
farmers No lives were reported lost,
The Republicans Of Nebraska convened
at Omaha on the 18th and elected as dele
gates atlarge to the National convention
John M. Thurston, Patrick Egan, George
W. Heist and r. A. Norval The delegates
are uninstructed, but favor Blaine.
In railroad accident on the 18th in Rus
sia eleven persons were killed and thirty
injured.
On the 14th the Missouri Republicans
met at Sedalia and chose the following del
egates-at-large to the National convention !:
Chauncey I. Filley, Congressman William
Warner, Colonel D. P. Dyer and Joseph
Pelham.
THE American Women's Baptist Home
Mission Society held it's eleventh annual
meeting at Washington on the 18th.
THE Illinois Prohibitionists met at
Springfield on the 18th and selected Miss
Frances E. Willard, James Lamont, Hale
johnson and J. B. Hobbs as delegates-at
large to the National convention.
A FIRE on the 18th in Chicago destroyed
the candle and glycerine works Of the
Dearborn Manufacturing Company. Loss,
S115,0Oo
THE Republican State convention at
Pueblo, Col, on the 18th elected FL. R. VOL
colt, William A. Hamill J. w. Wingate, G.
N. Donaldson, John II. Henderson and Ir
wing Howbert as delegates to the National
convention. They go uninstructed.
The Louisiana Legislature convened al
Baton Rouge on the 18th. Two United
States Senators will be elected during the
session.
NOMINATIONS for Congress were made as
follows on the 18th: Illinois, Eighth dis
| trict, G. A. Hill Rep9; Ohio, Third dis
trict, George w. Houk (Dem.); Seven
teenth district, John D. Taylor (Rep.).
IT was estimated on the 18th that the
food losses in the Sny and Indian Grove
levee districts at Quincy, ILL, and Hannibal
| No., would aggregate 81, 000,000
| HEAVY frosts were reported in Illinois
Iowa, Indiana and Michigan on the 18th.
The United States Senate on the 15tf
passed the House bill to limit the work o.
| letter-carriers to eight hours a day. a
| joint resolution was introduced to allow the
District of Columbia representation in both
| Houses of Congress. The bill to establish .
department of labor and the Pension APP
| Preparation bill were considered In the
House Messrs. Butter'vorth (O.), Hender
| son GILL; and Seym our (Mich.) spoke
against the Tariff bill, and Mr.. BuckaIew
(Pa.) supported it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

IT is the opinion of Chief-Justice
Gait, of Canada, that telegram from
an American officer is not sufficient
authority upon which to arrest Grim
inal under the Extradition act
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

Two CoNvICTs, a man and woman,
confined in the Georgia penitentiary
for murder, met and fell in love in
prison. Now both have been pardoned
and have become man and wife.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

A LAWSUIT in Tennessee has re-
vealed the fact that whisky "war-
ranted to be ten years old y can be
made, barreled and branded in a
couple of days.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

CANADA proposes to make loan of
$25, 900, 900 for the purpose of paying
off the floating debt of the Dominion
and tor carrying on the public works
authorized by Parliament
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
paelrinp-Honse Burned.

HURON, D. T., May 16.-The Dakota
Packing & Provision Company's packing
house at this point was burned yesterday
morning. Loss, $4,000; covered by in
surance. G
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
A Town Burned,

san FRANCISCO, May 15.-The entire bust
ness part of GoIdendale, the county seat Of
Kliclzitat County, W. T., was burned Sum-
day, causing a loss Of S20O,000. Nearly all
the population was away at picnic in .hs
woods
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18

THERE are only eight towns in the
United States the names of which be-
gin with x. Seven of these are Xenias,
and the other is Xenophon.
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Give Them A Chance

4 + n
That ID to SAY, yonr lungs. Also
all your breathing machinery, Very
wonderful machinery It is, Not only
the larger ar passages, but the thous-
ands oil little tubes and cavities lead
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When these are clogged and chok-
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there, your lungs cannot half do their
work. And what they do, they can-
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Call it cold, cough, Group, pneu-
monia. catarrh, consumption or any
of the family of throat and nose and
head and lung Instructions, all are
bad. All ought to be got rid OF
There is.just one sure way to get rid
of them. That is TO take Boschee's
German Syrup. which any druggist
will sell you at rs cents a bottle,
Even if everything else has failed you,
you may depend upon this for GER
an l, COW.
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Mr.. W H. Morgan, merchant, Lake City,
Fla, was taken with q severe Cold, attended
with distressing Cough and running into
Consumption in its first stages. He tried
many so-called popular cough remedies and
steadily grew worse. Was reduced In flesh,
had difficulty in breathing and was unable
to sleep. Finally tried Or Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption and found immed-
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bottles found himself well and has had no re-
aurn ofthe disease. No other remedy can
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There are now more than two hun
ired thousand bird-skins IN the Nat
pral History Museum at South Ken
sipgton, London. The latest addi-
tion is the great collection of birds
made BY the late Marquis Of Tweed
dale, the gift Of his nephew, Captain
Wardlaw Ramsay, who has also Civ.
en- to the museum the Tweeddale Ii.
brarv, comprising nearly three thous-
and volumes Of pathological works,
many of which are extremely rare
N. Y. Ledger.
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The English Board of Trade has
made report in which it alleges
that the number Of paupers in the
country are only "a. I to the 1000,
while in 1870 there were 40 to the
1000, and that the total number has
fallen from 100000 to cor Zoo, while
the population has increased by s.
100000. Tn london, IL lis alleged,
there are now only 81 paupers to
1,e00 inhabitants.
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If you have lost your pocketbook

| If you have lost your pocketbook,
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Why do you hesitate to join the
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ReRews Her Youth.

Mfs PHOEBE Chesley, Peterson, Clay Co.,
Ipwa, tells the following remarkable story,
thetruth ofwhirh IS youched for by the resi-
dents OF the 10 wn ! ~ au a3 years old, have
been troubled with kidney complaint and
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There are forty thousand different
symbols, each representing a word,
in the Chinese language, and tele-
gtaph operators in the empire find
lifea burden. The operator sending
even a brief message by telegraph is
obliged to make use Of a complicated
system of numerals which the rcceiv-
er' must YEARLY translate into Chi
nose --s-
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Mexican War Veteran.

The wonderful efficacy of Swift's Specific as a
remedy and cure for rheumatism and all blood dis
cases. has never had more conspicuous illustration
than this affords. The candid unsolicited and
emphatic testimony given by the venerable gentle-
mannsustbe accepted as convincing and conclusive
The writer is prominent citizen of Mississippi Tho
gentleman to whom Mr.. Martin REFERS and to whom
he is indebted for the advice TO which he owes his
final relief from years of suffering is Mr. King for
many years the popular night clerk of the Lawrence
House, at Jackson.
10GfN JACKSON Mss, April 90 ISL.
THE. SWIFT Specific CoaI5ASg, Atlanta, Ga, Y II
Gertiemen-I have been an invalid pensioner for
forty years. having contracted pulmonary and other
diseases in the Mexican War, but not till the LIST OF
March, 1875 did feel any symptoms of rheumatism.
On that day was suddenly stricken with that dis
ease in both hips and ankles. For twenty days
walked on crutehes, Then the pain was less violent,
but shifted from joint to joint. For weeks would
the other. The, pain never left me a moment for
ISIS When was first ttaeked to October i isss
when was cured. During these eleven years OF M
from various physicians, and tried everything suP
gested by friends, but IL ever received the lea .
ternaliy, am not aware Of it. Finally, about Il =
Mo sg u rasas 6aTns Sc
other remedy, when accidentally met an old a.
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of this city. lie had once been great sufferer freq
rheumatism, and, as l supposed, had been cure
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$50 TIt's what thee'll spend, my son."
said a sage old Quaker, "not what
thee'll make which will decide wheth-
ler thee is to be rich or not"
81 John Jacob Astor used to say that
'a'Aan who wishes to be'rich and has
saved $4,000 has voa half the bat
tle- lis on the hghMay to fortune.
Not that Astor tl6Mt $40, 900 much
but he knew that 2aking and saw
ing such sup fpan acquired hab-
its Iof prudent ecobomy which would
constantly keep him advancing in
wealth. The habibhal small expenses,
which we are liable to regard as mere
tribes amount in the aggregate to
something serious. Ten cents a day
is $3.50 a year, and that is the IN
terest on a capital Of 5000; SO thai
the man who saves ten cents day
only is so much richer than he who
does not, as if he owned a life estat'
in a property worth $Ge0.--Defroi
Free Press. ia9
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Have you got Consumption, Asth-
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Consumption Surely Cured.

20 THE EDITOR Please inform your
readers that i have a positive remedy for
the above named disease. BY its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently erred. Ishall be glad to send
TWO bottles of my remedy FREE to any Of
Your readers who have consumption II
theywill send me their express and post
office address. Respectfully,
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Mr.. Phelps, the American Minister
to England, says the finest scenery
he has found in Great Britain is in
the valley Of the Dee