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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

In church in South Tyrol, Eng, a panic
occurred ON the 18th through a woman
fainting, and eight persons were crushed 10
death and many injured.
In the Mersey forty vessels were fog
bound on the 18th. and English railway
trains were badly demoralized on account
of the dense fog. Numerous fatalities had
occurred
In Montreal movement was started on
the 18th to have the Legislature pass law
at it's next session declaring the knights Of
Labor an illegal organization.
SEVERAL Government officials, military
officers and teachers were arrested in Sofia
on the 18th on a charge Of conspiring
against Prince Ferdinand.
SCARLET FEVER among the northern Indi-
an tribes in British Columbia had on the
18Th caused the death Of large number of
children.
VAST quantities of gold were found in
Richardson's hills, Hastings County, Ont,
on the 18Th.
On the 18th the Brittania, of the French
line of steamers was supposed to have
foundered with nine hundred souls on
board
BURGLARS on the 18th made haul of
$50, 900 by breaking into the residence of
Henry R. Grenfell, one of the directors of
the Bank of England.
On the 10th Mr.. Parnell said that such
discussions existed in the Government
party that crisis might occur at any time
in the next session over English questions
He urged the Parnellites to facilitate Gov
ernment business and avoid the charge Of
obstruction
in speech on the 10Th Jeffrey McColl, a
member of the Nova Scotia Legislature, adj
vocated the immediate abolition of local
legislatures and the annexation OF Nova
Scotia to the United States.
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ICY WINDS.

A Furious Blizzard Sweeps Over the
MISUNDERSTANDING Children Caught in
the Storm - Maii-Carriers Thought to
Have Perished.
CHICAGO, Jan 13-The Signal Service
officer said last night that the weather
would be from Is to 20 degrees colder by
10 o'clock tonight in Illinois, Indiana and
Michigan
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 13.-Railroad men
agree that the storm which ragged yesterday
was quite the worst ever known in the
Northwest for their business 1t extends
from the Rocky Mountains to Lake Mich
igan, but it's worst effects are felt in Dakota
and Minnesota. Everywhere it has been
accompanied by high wind which drifts the
snow badly. and in Northern Dakota, with
below-zero temperature, it assumes the
character of genuine blizzard
Aspecial from Huron, D. T., says: @The
wind is blowing fifty miles an hour The
air is SO full of snow that one is unable to
see fifty feet at any time. Some
unthinkIng teachers dismissed young
school children, some of whom have
to 60 four or five blocks across the open
land Five or SIX children got lost. Whistles
were blown and bells rung The people
turned out and took long ropes aid
walked fifteen or twenty abreast back
and forth over the ground. All but
one, child named Johnson, aged 10,
have been found. AS the mercury is 10 be-
low there is little hope Of finding the
child alive. A number of farmers
started home as soon as the storm
began, and there are grave fears
for their safety. Business men who
attempted to go home lost their way at the
street crossings Bismarck reports that
children started for school and We're forced
to turn back by the fury of the storm.
Minot, d. T., reports the storm rag
ing there for twenty-fonr hours,
and the temperature 10 below. AL
railway travel is suspended. James
town, D. T., reports no trains moving ON
the main line of the Northern Pacific.
Groton, D. T., reports the wind blowing a
gale, the mercury 20 below, and impossi-
bility to see more than two rods. A Web
ster d. To special says: Several mail
carriers are believed to be caught in the
blizzard and have perhaps persisted The
temperature is % degrees below"
HASTINGS Mich, Jan. 13-William H.
Jewell, a prominent farmer of Assyria
township, and for several terms register Of
deeds of Barry County, was found yester-
day morning in the woodshed Of the court
house at Hastings, with his legs frozen
solid to the knees and his arms frozen to
the elbows He had been drinking heavily
and will die
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LATER

IT was estimated on the 18th that the
deaths from the blizzard in Minnesota and
Dakota would reach two hundred. Thirty
one children were missing in Turner County,
D. T.
JOHN MADDEN, the fourteenth victim of
the recent Bradford railway disaster, died
in Haverhill, Mass, on the 18th.
CHARLES T. YOUNG, of Detroit, cashier of
the Michigan Carbon works. was on the
18th alleged to be q defaulter to the
amount of $4,000
THE United States commissary building
at Fort Mckinney, Wy. T., was burned on
the 18th. Loss, 800, 600; no insurance
A PAssENGER train was thrown from che
track by broken rail on the 18th near
Coatesville Ia, and thirteen persons were
seriously injured =
SEVEN frame houses at Mt Carmel, Pa.
We're burned on the 18th, and three men
persisted in the flames
ADvICEs of the 18th say the American ship
John T. Berry, from Philadelphia for Hiogo,
was burned at sea, and eleven of the crew
persisted.
No MOVEMENT looking to a settlement of
the Reading railroad strike was visible on
the 18th. The company maintained an I'M
broken silence as to its policy or intentions.
THE President on the 18th transmitted
the Pacific railroad reports to Congress-
with message strongly condemning the
management of the lines.
NEARLY two thousand bakers and restau-
rant walters in San Francisco struck on the
18th for higher wages The proprietors
had agreed to employ no union men in the
future.
A MYSTERIOUS box sent to Judge Woods,
of the Federal Court at Indianapolis who is
trying the tally sheet forgers, was exam
ined on the 18th and found to be an in
fernal machine capable of blowing a man
to pieces
REPORTS of the 18th from the West and
Northwest indicated an immense loss OF
live stock by the late blizzard
BOTH houses of the Iowa Legislature bal
loted for United States Senator at Des
Moines on the 18th, Senator Wilson receiv-
ing So out of 80 votes cast in the House,
and 80 out of Al in the Senate
E. G. WALTHALL was on the 18th re-
elected United States Senator by the Mis-.
sissippi Legislature.
The wholesale grocery of Beaupre, Keogh
4 Davis, at St. Paul, was burned on the
lTtb. Loss. 100000.
IN the United States Senate on the 18th
bill was passed Forbid ng the requirement
OF tribal property by'white men who marry
lndian women. Bills were reported favora-
bly, to increase to $72 per month the PEN
sion for total helplessness; to increase to
$50 per month the pension for total deaf
ness and to reimburse the depositors in the
freedmen's Bank In the House S. s. Cox
was chosen to preside during the illness of
Speaker Carlisle. The bill to provide for
the issue of circulating notes to National
bank associations was taken up, but filibus-
tering tactics prevented any action or any
other business during the session.
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THE EAST.

The cotton mill of Rumpf Bros, at
Philadelphia, was burned ON the 18th
Loss, $4,000
The death of Rev. DR. A. s Patton, editor
and owner of the Baptist Weekly, occurred
at Brooklyn, n Y, on the 18th, at the age
of sixty three years,
On the 18th two persons wounded in the
recent railway accident near Haverhill.
Mass, died, making twelve victims. Two
other sufferers were not expected to re-
cover.
The fishing sehooners William Parsons
and Peter ID. Smith, of Gloucester, Mass,
each carrying crews of twelve men, were
on the 18th given up as lost Five widows
and nineteen children are left
CHARLES BOURBON, the swim Her who sold
tickets to the extent of $50, 900 in Mexico
year ago for a Patti season of concerts,
was caught in New York on the 18th
The New York City Knights of Labor met
on the 18th and denounced Powderly's
management. also his Executive Board
The Pittsburgh W.ndow-Glass Workers
Association reported on the 18th that the
industry had increased seventy-fve per
cent in eight years
SAMUEL BOYER and his brother Stephen
and Joseph Kollep young married men,
While out driving at Sharon, Pa, on the
18th were struck by train of cars and
killed.
AT Oswego, n Y, bob-sled holding ten
persons dashed into farmers team on the
10th, and three men were killed and seven
others badly injured
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WEST AND SOUTH,

AT Selma, Ala, three persons died ON the
18th and two children were at the point of
death, in consequence of having eaten pol-
soned hog meat
LOUISA EVANS, six years old, of Flemings-
burg, Ky, was tried on the 18th on q
charge of lunacy and ordered to the insane
asylum. The case is without a parallel on
account of her age.
On the 18Th Henry Schmidt, the second
man to die at the hands Of the hangman in
Iowa in the last twenty years, was hanged
at West Union for the murder of Lucretia
Peek.
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed the Martin
and Schiller blocks at Sioux City, Ia Loss
100000
SEVERAL casualties were reported from
Omaha on the 18th of people being lost in
the recent storm and perishing in the cold
In Dakota several persons also lost their
lives from the cold
oN the 18th thirteen business places, in
Guiding bank and newspaper office, at
Paw Paw, Mich, We're destroyed by fire
Two stock trains arrived as St Joseph,
Mo-, on the 18th, with every animal frozen
to death.
In Laurens County, Ky, Henry Buney
(colored) was taken from Jail on the 18th
and lynched. He was accused of robbery.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, several wholesale
business houses Were DIES Troyed by fire on
the 18Th, causing loss of 81 10000
The discovery of an attempts to wreck an
express train on the Grand Trunk road was
made on the 18th near Valparaiso, Ind, be-
fore any damage was done
AT the Louisiana Democratic State con-
vention at Baton Rouge on the 18th Francis
l. Nichols was nominated for Governor.
HE great storm from the Northwest
which swept over the entire country was
followed on the 14th and 10th by the
severest weather experienced since the
memorable winter of 1864. The area OF
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
FROM WASHINGTON.

THERE were 312 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18Th. against 256 the previous seven
days
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended ON the 18th aggregated $685.
463, 1872, against 1868, $50, 403 the pre-
yious week AS compared with the COR
responding week of 1887 the increase
amounted to o. per cent
The conference in Washington of leading
wool raisers ended on the 18th with the
adoption Of resolutions advocating return
to the tariff of 1867, and corresponding
readjustment of the wool and worsted
rates
The House Committee on Elections de-
cided on the 18th not to reopen the con-
tested election case of Thoebe VS. Carlisle,
and ME Carlisle's seat, both as member
and Speaker of the House, will not be dis
turbed
The Secretary of the Treasury transmit
ted to Congress on the 10Th an estimate of
$3.50 572 to cover the deficiency in appro-
priations for the next fiscal year.
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HUMOROUS.

"A man who sets out to study 81
woman's disposition can generally
learn great deal, but the price of tn.
ition is apt to be high.
"A man can go back on relations,
And it will not disturb the worlds plan,
But, ali, it's different matter
When relations go back on the man.
lid Bits.
AT the theater-Wife- "What are
you going out for?" Husband-"To
see a man" After the theater, at
home-Husband- What are you look
ing under the bed for?" Wife-"To
see a man" Critic.
Say, somebody amt put no fare
in der box" said the driver, opening
the door. ooh, that's chestnut" re-
piled one of the passengers. Eyes,
an I'm ringin' der bell for it" said
She driver, jingling the bell.
"A mother was urging her son 10
purchase an overcoat, and he was i'll
sisting that he could not afford one.
"Very we'll, then," said she, "you will
get pneumonia, see if you don't"
NO." said he, 81 won't get that.
either; can't afford any thing new.'
N Y. Sun.
Omaha Lawycr-"Well, wouldn't
want to be Gar. The paper says
the Emperor of Russia was frightened
half out of his wits recently by seeing
commercial drummer with a sample
case under his arm edging up 10
him." Omaha Merchant-''Well, we'll!
/ didn't know the Gar ever kept
store. "-OmGbG World.
-Wife-'John, it's time to get up
and build a fire." John-"Thank
you, my dear, for reminding me, but
I've turned over new leaf. I've
sworn off from building fires" As
John picks himself up from the floor
he sullenly mutters: "These New
Years swear-offs never do amount Ia
any thing anyway. "-Peoria Irass-
script.
"A certain mistress of a household
manages to extract little merriment
along with much misery from her sun-
dry cooks of various nationalities.
"Any thing wanted to-day, Kathar-
ine?" she asked one morning of tho
divinity of the kitchen, a tall Nova
Scotian fond of using long words.
Eyes, ma am, if you would please to
investigate in new ladle for me to
stir the soup with when l set it on the
back of the range to shipper. "-Har-
per's Bazaar.
"A young lady who from her accent
owed her origin to the Emerald Isle,
walked to one of the money order win
dews in the post-office yesterday and,
laying down twenty dollars, asked that
they be sent to her sister in Belfast,
Ireland. "Ah," asked the clerk, '.you
have made mistake. Go to the for
eign window. This is the domestic.
shade mistake, have II" was the tii-
umphant reioiner. swell. now. that's
when 1 lave you out in the cold.
Shure, and I'm domistic meself. -
Philadelphia CaH.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The late Stephen NJ. Bucking-
ham left $4,000 to Trinity College,
Hartford, Conn.
Lord Tennyson receives an in
come of from $50, 600 to $25, 900 year
from the sale of his books.
Henry Merrill, a Vermont boy,
has just been appointed by the
Chinese Government to act as chief
commissioner of customs at Ceres at
a salary of $4,000.
Less than forty years ago Daniel
Manning was type-setter in an All
bany office, steady but not swift at his
work. He read much and could de-
cipher almost any manuscript.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has
been for some years engaged in close
study of the life and work of st.
Augustine, with the purpose in view
of writing a book upon him and his
mother. Monica.
"A Boston man who read Mr.. De-
pew's and Mark Twain's speeches at
the Forefather's dinner in that city, de-
nounces them both as ''witless twaddie,
and very low comedy, not above the
level of a good minstrel performance.
"A young lady who was formerly
one of the Wells College girls. says:
Mrs. Cleveland was the greatest favor
lite | ever knew, for when mending day
came every girl in the college would
gladly have darned her stockings"
Could good will or PHILANTHROPY go
beyond this?
Prof. Langley, the astronomer,
who has just been elected Secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, is one of
the lions of Washington society. Heis
much sought after for dinner parties.
His bright eyes and enthusiastic man
ner contradict the signs of old age seen
in his gray hairs. -4Irper Bazar.
There is colored citizen named
j. T. Shufton in Orlando, GA, who is
a graduate of Howard University in
both literary and law branches. After
he graduated he was admitted to prac-
tice in the United States Circuit Court
and the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia. He is also a graduate in
medicine.
The first lines Andrew Carnegie
wrote for print appeared in the New
York Tribune, and for them Horace
Greeley wrote him a letter of thanks.
Mr.. Carnegie has great many photo
graphs of his recent coaching trip in
England, the most of which were taken
by Mrs. Carnegie, who is as good a
photographer as she is a musician
Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the
philanthopist, never goes to the thea
ter, and has read but two novels
"Jane Eyre" and the Scarlet Let
ter" Her tastes are perfectly simple.
She has great liking for bread, milk
and apples. 1t is doubtful if society
has ever heard of her; but she is the
only woman who has the freedom OF
the floor of the House, right which
even the Presidents wife does not
have.
Washington Is a great book-buy-
ing center. In a bookstore in that
city one afternoon recently the follow
ing well-known persons were gathered
at the same moment: Mrs. Cleveland,
Justices Gray, Matthews and Harlan
several members Of the Chinese Lega,
ton, Secretaries Bayard and Whitney
Congressman French and West and
Senators Stockbridge and Edmunds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

VALUABLE ANIMALS CREMATED
Many Prize Pets Consumed by the De-
struction by Fire of Poultry and Dog
Show at Columbus, O.-Grief of the

Many Prize Pets Consumed by the De-
struction by Fire of Poultry and Dog
Show at Columbus, O.-Grief of the
Owners.
COLUMBUS, O., JAN 13.-The Fourteenth
Regiment Armory, frame structure on
Spring street, was burned at 6 o'clock
yesterday morning The fire caught from
the building There were LOCO
rounds of ammunition in the build
ing. The cartridges exploded, the
bullets flying in all directions making
it dangerous for men to work. Pete Ball
fcolored) was struck in the head with q
bullet, but his injury is not serious Three
hundred stands of rifles and the uniforms
of all the men of the regiment were de-
stroyed, as well as the equipment and
paraphernalia, except the tents The
officers lost much of their goods. Adju-
tant-General Axline estimates the loss to
the State at over SIS, 900.
The Ohio Poultry, Pigeon, Kennel and
Pet Stock Association opened their second
annual exhibition at the armory Tuesday.
There We're displays from nearly every
State east of the Mississippi The value
$4,000. All the poultry and lpig-
Gun StoCh, stuu u6pIly al lho 0oSS
were consumed The famous Gordon
setter Royal Duke, owned by Walter Ham,
NETT, of Philadelphia, valued at $4,000,
broke his chain and got out badly singed
The only other dogs saved were the cham
pion English setter, Paul Gladstone of
Pittsburgh, value $4,000, and two Irish
dents of Columbus, which had been taken
home the night before Among the dogs
burned were Patti NJ, prize pointer slut
of Cleveland, which has taken prizes at all
the KENNEL shows and valued at 81 600
In all over 800 dogs of different
breeds were lost, composing the finest
display ever made in Ohio Sir Charles,
said to be the finest specimen of
the St Bernard in America, owned
by II. l. Goodman, Chicago, valued
at So, 500, and the whole of the Alta ken
mel, Toledo, o., composed of St Bernards,
were all burned There were between 600
and 800 entries in poultry, carrier pigeons,
etc., from many States, and all were burned
There is great distress among the dog
fanciers over the losses. A. l. Boggs, of
Mount Washington, lost four dogs and es-
Inmates his loss at $4,000 B.
F. Lewis, Philadelphia, estimates his
loss at poU,UUU lie IOSG GWenUy-e gnu uOgS
Among the noted dogs lost are Sir Charles,
St Bernard; Montrose, St Bernard; Key
stone and Lady Rock, English settlers; Sam
Rays Boy, English setter, DR.. J. A. Hartman;
Latrobe, Pa Bruce Irish setter, H. Roberts,
Morrison, N. Y; Mac Irish setter, D. L
Carmichael, Chicago. There were 800 dogs
lost, many of them being only a grade less
in value than the above. The owners Gre
ated great sympathy by crying over their
losses as if they had lost dear friend.
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BURNED OUT.
Senator ingalls, Loses His Home at Atchi-
son, Kan, by Fire.


ATCHIsoN, Kan, Jan. 13.-The elegant
residence of Senator Ingalls,, ON South
Third street, with all it's contents,
library and ALL was entirely de-
stroyed by fire at 5 o'clock yester-
day morning The loss can not fall short
of So, 600, on which there is partial
insurance.
WASHINGTON, Jan Ex-senator Ingalls,
received a dispatch from Atchison, Kan :,
yesterday morning saying that his resi-
dence at that place had been destroyed by
fire, and he feels very much broken up by
it. The place was purchased by him twenty
years ago, and by small and successive i'm
provements and additions has become one
of the largest, most comfortable and beauti-
full homes in the State of Kansas His
library was perhaps the largest and most
valuable west of the Mississippi river, and
was especially rich in political literature.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

In lieu Of death by electricity as a
substitute for hanging Frenchman has
written to Governor Hill, of New York,
proffering a chair in which the con-
demned man is to sit and have his
spinal column instantly broken. 1t is
claimed that hundred persons per
day can be executed in this manner,
and the inventor describes the process
rs beautiful.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

THERE isa girl in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington who can pick
counterfeit bill out of pile contain
ing $40, 100000 There is prize for
some man. Think of being able
to sleep O nights without the haunting
fear hanging like sword of Bunker
Hill over your head that there may be
a counterfeit bill in your $40, 900, 900.
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The Charlotte (Mich.l RenaLhH,

The Charlotte (Mich.) Republican
says: John Snyder, the famous per-
petual walker of Indiana, is dead, but
his teachings go on in the object of
sheep on Dan Miller's farm in Carmel.
Three months ago this sheep was one
of the finest and attest in his flock.
Since that time it has been emulating
Snyder's example by walking inces-
sanity, not stopping to rest and only
for a moment at time to partake of
bite of food. The sheep, whose case
is, to say the least, remarkable, has
been reduced to mere skin and bones.
and evidently can not live great
whiIe.''
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

FRANCIS MURPHY has some good
ideas ON other subjects as we'll as on
temperance. In late lecture he said:
"Ihere is one great trouble among the
young men OF the present day-they are
ashamed to take off their coats and
get down to hard work They want to
be genteel; they want to get rich right
away. The browning glory of man.
hood is labor"
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LATE details of the Chinese floods

LATE details of the Chinese floods
m Ike the story one of the most terri
bic in history. What was beautiful,
populous district of 10000 square miles
is now 4 rolling sea. AT least $780,
600 people are homeless and absolutely
destitute of tho barest necessities of
life, while it is thought that the loss
OF life will reach 10000. Every thing
in the way of figures is as yet, how
ever pare speculation, with the
chances of total mortality far greater
than the present estimate. Court and
business circles in Pekin are doing all in
human power TO cope with the disaster.
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The Georgians marry and give in
marriage, but seem to have little idea
of tho eternal fitness of things. A
clergyman of that State has united III
couples and has received in fees but
80, and that came from one man. The
other ITO bridegrooms failed to liqui-
1.,to