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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-09-28
BAFFIED ROBBERS.

They Attempt to Rob Train in Texas
and Meet with Warm Reception-Two
of Their Number Wounded-An Unfort-
innate Mistake.
SCHULENBURG, Tex, Sept PA passen-
ger train on the Southern Pacific was
stopped near HARDWOOD Saturday night by
masked men who compelled the engineer,
at the point of a revolver, to uncouple his
engine from the passenger coaches and
pull out of the way. Conductor E. e.
Shackelford was compelled to assist in
uncoupling the engine. In the express car
was u s. Marshal John T. Rankin, with
Deputy Van Wiper and Detective Jay G..
Kelly, of the Southern Pacific service.
Other officers were on the train, the COM
pany having been warned of the attack,
and all east-bound trains having been
guarded since last Wednesday. The rob-
bers were soon on the mail car "Jump
in and rifle the mail bags" commanded
the leader of the gang. Two men took en-
gineer Tony to the open door of the car,
and as soon as his head was seen Bud
West one of the guards, taking him
for one of the robbers, fired one barrel
of his shotgun. Tony fell back with an
ugly wound in his face, and a number of
buckshot in the left shoulder. The bandits
then tried to make Fireman Grocer act as
a decoy, but when West sighted the fire.
man he discharged the other barrel of his
gun at him, fortunately without effect
The bandits then returned Vests fire, and
regular skirmish ensued, over fifty shots
being exchanged. The baf1ed robbers
finally withdrew, carrying two of their
number, who had been wounded, with
them. There were ten men in the gang.
They will be pursued by the officers, who
have blood hounds with them.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches
FIFTrETH CONGRESS-.


THURSDAY, Sept. 20.--In the Senate the
Agricultural Department bill was dis
cussed and the resolution to retain for a
time the Chinese Exclusion bill was
tabled. In the House the delay in sending
to the President the Chinese bill caused
a loni. discussion. A bill was reported to
suspend the operation Of the timber land
laws.
FRIDAY, Sept. 81. = 1.-THE bill to create
a Department of Agriculture was passed
in tbs Senate. The conference report
on the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill was presented and agreed to- AID
journed to the oath. In the House the
feature of the proceedings was the passage
of the measure to suspend the operation OF
the Ps5-emption, Timber Culture and Des-
ert L.nd laws. At the evening session
thirt: two private pension bills were
passeJ. and the House adjourned to the
oath.
MOI DAT, Sept "a. In the Senate a
bill WIS passed allowing any person who
has abandoned or relinquished home
stead entry before the expiration of the
requisite six months to make another en-
try not exceeding a quarter section of
land. Bills were introduced to prohibit
the immigration of Chinese laborers, and
offering q reward of 100000 to any one
who shall discover the cause, remedy and
treatment of yellow fever. The Deficiency
Appropriation bill was passed. In the
House bills were introduced to establish a
camp for yellow fever refugees; to pre-
vent aliens from being employed on public
works, and to increase the pensions of
those who have lost limb.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-09-28
RIOT IN CANADA.

Unpaid italian Laborers on the Line of a
New Railway Take Possession of and
Threaten the Destruction of a Village
Battle Ensues, in Which Five Persons
Are Killed and Many More Injured.
MONTREAL, Can, Sept. 26.-News has
reached the city of a serious riot In the
County Compton, in eastern townships.
Shirley & Corbett, contractors On section
of the Hereford branch railway, drew a
check for s25, 600 from the railway company
on account of construction on Saturday
last and left the country with the pro-
ceeds. Over 700 Italian laborers were left
unpaid, and Tuesday morning they took
possession of the village of Sawyerville
and threatened to destroy it unless they
were paid. The Italians began pillag-
ing the houses and late at night
had conflict with party of
Hungarians and citizens who represented
the cause of the railway company. One
Italian and four Hungarians were killed
and between thirty and forty injured. The
Fifty eighth Battalion has left Sher-
brooke by special train for the scene of
the trouble
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-09-28
HUMOROUS.

AT the horticultural show-"This
is a tobacco plant my dear" I'm
deed! how very interesting! But don't
see any cigars on it,
bravo, my child, you were born
actress" Eyes, sir. My birth was
encored." ''What do you mean?'' "I'm
twin" IN Y Truth.
Mustard comes in at duty of six
cents a pound. 1t will receive honor
able mention when mustard out, &C
cording to it's strength and services
Ieras Sytings. s.t
Old Lady-"Pray, Mr.. Jones, what
does your friend, Colonel Murphy, do
for a living?" Jones-"He's got mon
ey." Old Lady-.'Ah, that's plenty to
do. y Washington Critic.
old Gentleman (to boy behind the
bat)-'Haven't you got a mask,
little boy?" Boy-"Yes, sir.' Old
Gentleman -'' why don't you wear
itP" Boy-"My big sisters wearin' it
day."-Epocb.
The papers make a good deal of fun
of {. chiropodist who wants a pension
for removing corns from soldiers feet.
Undoubtedly the chiropodist regards
himself as the corn-curing hero of the
war. Boston Transcript.
-Edwin-.' Dearest, your cruel
father kicked me down the steps last
night" Angelina" Do not COM
plain, darling; submit to fate. Just
think how lucky you are. Surprising
1 lived on the third floor" -1own
Topics.
Conductor" Heavens, Nose! why
do you want to hang yourself?" Sui
cidal Porter" Hain't ] got huff to
make emmy man hang h'se'f? Thar's
twenty-fo' paris OBJ shoes in dis kyar,
and nineteen am russell leather, while
de res am owned by wimmen. Fare
well, vain world; Use gwine home. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
An agricultural paper says:
"When flies are bad, wash the horse
all over lightly with weak solution
of carbolic acid We should think
it would be better plan to wash the
bad flies all over with a solution of
carbolic acid. 1t might take longer to
catch 'em, but it would require less
acid. -Norristo' y Herald.
Little Margaret for two or three
nights refused to say her prayers.
One night her papa covered his face
with his hands and said: ''It makes
papa feel sick to think Margaret won't
say her prayers. Papa feel sickP"
Eyes, dear" Papa better take
casser oil" The subject of prayers
was no longer discussed that night.
Mr. Shentpershent Cat hotel table,
summer resort) "Mein gracious!
Isaac, you little WOOL! Vat vor you
ask for bret?" Little Isaac-'1 want
bret NIT my meat, ladder Mr..
Shentpershent-".S hust hear dat He
wants bret ven bret sell for only Eve
cents a loaf, an he CANT eat kavar
ter off loaf, an pay five tollars day
at dis hotel. Here, Isaac, eat dis
bottle off olives. Dey cost Won tollar
bottle. ~ Cartoon.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

e. P. Roe wrote the last chapter
of miss Lou" on the day of his
death.
Howard Seeley, the Texas writer,
makes use of a human skull for an ink
stand.
-Carlyle's present popularity in
England is estimated by the fact that
during six months 10000 volumes of
cheap shilling edition of his works
have been sold.
John Tod, a Scotchman who has
just published in Edinburg book en-
titled Bits About America" says
that American women have great pow
er of expressing what they mean.
The most expert stenographer in
the country is said to be Mrs. Barrows,
wife of the editor of the Christian Reg
ister. She is able to take" Carl
Schurz's speeches without difficulty.
Alexandra Dumas is one of the
few wealthy authors in the world. He
has magnificent house in Paris filled
with art treasures. Near Dieppe he
owns a beautiful chalet covered with
ivy and decorated on the inside with
handsome furniture and rare paint
ings. Dumas is sixty-four years of
age, but strong and vigorous.
Mrs. DR.. B. H. Badley's Life of
Queen Victoria has already had three
thousand copies sold, and another edi-
ticn is ordered. The author has re-
ceived the thanks of Queen Victoria
for a copy of the work, and il has
been adopted as a textbook in the
yernacular schools of the American
Methodist mission in Oudh and Rohil-
cund.
Prof. Edward A. Freeman says:
'Anglo-Saxon' is such very foolish
word that never use it. / see no
reason why the two branches of the
English folk should be called in the
nineteenth century by an Anticipated
description used-for particular rea-
son-in characters of the tenth and
eleventh centuries and hardly any,
where else"
Miss Agnata Ramsey, who recent
ly married the master of Trinity and
received as a wedding present from the
learned bridegroom elegantly-bound
volumes of Plato, Sophocles and Dante,
was not above exhibiting worthy fem
inlne desire to have pretty wedding
She wore lace said to have been Car
dinal Wolsey's, and also diamonds and
pearls. She had a page and eight
bridesmaids, and these fair ones wore
Cambridge-blue sashes and carried
bouquets of pink roses and mignOn-
cite. Each one also received tw
books of poetry from the bridegroom.
james Trimble, lineal descendant
of Daniel Defoe, the author of Robin
son Crusoe," died at his country place
in Cecil County, Md. He possessed,
among other mementoes of the great
traveller, two chairs used by Daniel
Defoe in his study when he was writ
ing the story of "Crusoe." One OF
them he gave to the Delaware Histori-
cal Society many years ago. The 9TH
er he bequeathed to the Pennsylvania
Historical Society. Mr.. Trimble was
born in Pennsylvania. He was lead
ing member of the Society of Friends,
noted botanist and an astronomer,
having a large private observatory and
telescopes at his country home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-09-28
FROM WAsHINcroN.

In session at Washington on the Goth,
the American Surgical Association elected
DIR. D. w. Cheever, of Boston, as presi-
dent.
On the 21st the President appointed
Walter G. Newberry postmaster of Chi
cago, vice S. Corning Judd, removed
THERE were 22S business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 2lst, against 217 the previous seven
days.
OFFICIAL information was received by
the President on the 2lst of the refusal of
the Chinese Government to ratify the
amended treaty.
THE exchange at twenty six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
Ing the week ended ON the 22d aggregated
81, 113 797, 755, against S9SS, $50 593, the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the corre-
spending week of 1887 the increase amount
ed to 1874 per cent.
In the United States the visible supply
of wheat and corn on the 24th was, re-
spectively, BLOB, 175 and 1890, 600 bushels,
corn having increased 1,357,755 bushels
since last report, while wheat decreased
367, 046 bushels.
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WEST AND SOuTH.

THE total salmon pack In Alaska the
past season was seven thousand cases.
The winter was setting in at Silver Bow
basin, and mining operations had been
suspended A free gold deposit, fifteen
feet in width, had been developed at
Berner bay.
I. THE following were on the 10th named
for Congressman: Michigan, Fourth dis
trict, q. l.. Yaples (Dem). Wisconsin,
Sixth district. q. B. Clark Rep.). Illinois,
Third district c. G. Davis (Pro). Mis-
souri,, Eighth district F. G.. Medringhaus
(Rep); Fourteenth, Moses Whybark
fRep.). Nebraska, First district w. J..
Cornell (Rep).
DR.. EDWARD G. DYER, of Burlington,
Wis, father of exhibited States District
Judge Charles K. Dyer, departed this life
on the 21st at the age of eighty-two years.
He was prominent in the early political
history of the Territory and State of Wis
consin. and was member of the State
Legislature in 1S57-5S
The President on the 21st nominated
General Parkhurst, of Michigan. to be
Minister to Belgium to succeed Lambert
Tree. who had been transferred to ST.
Petersburg.
THE Sovereign Grand Lodge of the hide
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in annual
session at Los Angeles, CAL. on the 21st
decided to hold its next years session at
Columbus, o.
Two BALTIMORE & Ohio freight trains
collided near Belleville, o., on the 21st,
through an operators carelessness, doing
damage to the amount of $4,000
WHILE cutting corn with mower on the
21st Henry Bauer, of Center, Wis, fell in
front of the knife, was cut on the leg, and
bled to death.
MAMMOTH SPRINGS, Fulton County, Ark,
was visited by a cyclone on the 2lst which
did considerable damage to crops. Several
people were injured
AT Kansas City, Mo-, Mrs. William B.
Murphy was found dead on her husbands
grave on the 2lst having committed sui
eide.
THERE were lis new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, during the
twenty-four hours ended on the 21st and
IA deaths. Total cases to date, 1,52S; total
deaths, 1856
LEWIS DAVIS, confined for six months in
jail on the charge OF numbering David
Miller, at Cuba, Mo-, was taken from the
prison on the 2ad by mob and hanged.
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ALMOST every village in Mississippi had
on the 23d established shotgun quaran-
tine against yellow fever refugees.
For the week ended on the 22i the per.
centage of the base ball clubs in the Ma
tional League was as follows: New
York, .629; Chicago, $50; Detroit, 545;
Boston, .525; Philadelphia, .521; Pittsburgh.
.4S2; Indianapolis, 1866; Washington, 1854
American Association: st Louis 1856;
Brooklyn, .631; Philadelphia, .612; Cincin-
natl, sol; Cleveland, AIS: Baltimore. .40l;
Louisville, .355; Kansas City, $50. West
ern Association: Des Moines, 1858; st
Paul, .647; Kansas City, .591; Omaha, .57l:
Milwaukee, 1853; Sioux City, 800; Chicago
.373; Davenport. .2S3.
SEVEN whites and ten negroes were
whipped for various crimes in the Jail al
Wilmington, Del, on the 22d. One man go
forty lashes, nine others ten, and three
others five lashes.
FIRE destroyed the stables of the Con
solidated Street Car Company at Colum
bus, O., on the 23d, and thirty-five horses
persisted in the flames
T. E. BURTON was nominated for Con
gress on the 22d by the Republicans Of the
Twenty first district of Ohio.
UP to noon on the 23d the total number
of deaths from yellow fever at jackson
vile, Fla, was 212, and the total number
of cases 1873 The city of Memphis, Tenn,
and the adjoining country was panic
stricken, and all who could get away wert
leaving for the North.
AT st. Louis on the 22d the switchmen's
convention adopted resolutions asking al
railways in the United States to observe
the Sabbath
THE National Labor party has postponed
its National convention until October s, al
Chicago
By the upsetting of boat four sailors
were drowned on the 23d at Gibson's land
ing, Miss.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, while fooling with 6
gun on the oath at Princeton, Ind, acct
dentally shot his little sister fatally.
OWING to the yellow fever scare the run
ming Of trains on the Alabama and Missis
sippi had been abandoned on the oath, the
whole region was panic stricken, and the
people along the Vicksburg & Shreveport
road seemed to be one vast mob.
AT crossing near Versailles, KY, Mrs
Eva Gately, wealthy widow, and her two
children were killed by train on the Oath
They were out riding and the team became
unmanageable.
AN armed mob on the oath took posses
sion of Rio Grande City on the Texas Dor
der because of the killing of Mexican by
a custom officer.
On the oath Anton Cerny. Chicago
iron molder, shot and fatally wounded his
wife and then blew out his own brains. He
had been out of work for long time anG
had become Respondent.
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A BIG OIL DEA,
The Tidewater Pipeline Company So
cures Control of Property Valued at


The Tidewater Pipeline Company So
cures Control of Property Valued at
About $2,OOO,O0O.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26.--The most inn
portant oil deal that has been made for
some time has just been consummated,
and will cause sensation in oil circles
Philadelphia is particularly interested, as
the deal means the withdrawal of the
Tidewater Pipeline Company's business
headquarters from this city and the trans
fer of S2000,000 industry to
New York. The firm of Lom-
bard & Ayres have sold their old
refining plant to the Ocean Oil Company,
of this city, and the Chester Oil Company,
of Philadelphia. The refinery is situated
at Bayonne, N. j., and the sale includes
the property known as Shooters Island.
The considerat on can not be definitely
ascertained, but d conservative estimate
places it at figures not under s2,000000. 1t
is said to be the intention of the Tidewater
Pipe Line, which company controls the
Chester and Ocean, to place the three re-
ineries under one management, with the
main Office in New York.
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HE WILL BE FREED.
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons Rec
ommends the Release of Milton Weston
STORY of the Cause of His Incarcera-

STORY OF the Cause OF His 1ncarcera-
ton.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept s6-The Board
of Pardons has pardoned Milton Weston,
the Chicago millionaire who was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment for helping to
kill man in fight over some land four
years ago.
In giving their reasons for the pardon
the board reviews the case, going into
many details of the trial. There was moth
ing in the evidence to controyert the allie
cation of Weston that in all he did
he believed he was conforming to the
strict letter of the law in his efforts
to maintain what he believed to be his
rights It was diff1cult says the board, to
see wherein Weston was more guilty than
others who were present and concerned
with him. Weston's pardon was strongly
recommended by many prominent people,
all of whom declared he was law abiding
and peaceable citizen.
In concluding it's reasons for the pardon
the board, after stating that over IA 600
citizens of Allegheny County, Pa, had
asked for the pardon, says the punishment
already suffered by Weston is sufficient to
satisfy the demand of Justice and to fully
vindicate the law.
weston was tried and convicted In the court
of oyer and terminer Of Allegheny County,
June term, in 1884, for manslaughter. On Jan
uary 26, 1886, he was sentenced to pay fine Of
six cents, costs of prosecution, and undergo i'm
prisonment in the Western Peniteniary
for five years. This case has its or
igin in a dispute between Milton Wes-
ton, the defendant, and Obediah Hay
maker for the possession of piece OF land sit
uated near Murrysville, in Westmoreland
County. This contest for the possession of
the land eliminated on the goth of No
vember, 1885, in personal encounter
of the forces representing the oppos-
ing interests AS result of this encounter
Obediah Haymaker was killed. 1t is not al
legged that Weston inflicted the wound
which caused Haymaker's death, but he
was convicted of voluntary manslaughter
as being present. aiding and abetting
one Bower and others, then in his en-
ploy, in their acts In June, 1884, Milton
Weston. Henry Remaley, William Johnston,
Archibald Blakeley and others were indicted
for murder On the 18th of February, 1884,
Weston was granted a separate trial. and sub
sequent to these proceedings Henry Remaley
A. BIakeley and Bower were tried. Bower
was convicted; Remaley and Blakeley acquit-
ted, and no steps have been taken to try the
other named defendants.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-09-28
THE East

On the Goth the United Labor State con-
vention in session at New York indorsed
the nomination of Warner Miller, the Re-
publican candidate for Governor, and then
nominated j. FL. Blakeny for Lieutenant
Governor.
THE Baldwin locomotive works at Phila-
delphia on the 10th contracted to build
fifty locomotive engines for the railroads
of the Argentine Republic.
In broad daylight on the Goth Henry f.
Harding stole S11, 900 from two banks in
New York, but he was finally captured
and the money recovered.
The death of William Warren, the vet
eran American actor, occurred at his home
in Boston on the 21st, at the age of seven
ty-six years.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations on the 21st:
Richard Crowley by the Republicans Of
the Thirty-third New York district and
p. s. Connel by the Republicans of the
First Nebraska district
A PAY-CAR of the Lake Shore road was
entered by unknown men at Buffalo on the
night Of the Goth, who administered ether
to the occupants, and decamped with $40,-
600.
The famous PAGER Johnston went half
mile in one minute and half second on
the Fleetwood Park track, at Philadelphia,
on the 21st beating all previous records for
that distance.
The arrest of James E. Bedell, clerk of
New York law firm, was made in that
city on the 21st on the charge of swindling
clients of the firm out of about $500, 600
Jan address was issued on the ed by the
National Democratic Committee to the
voters of the United States, in which they
ask the Democrats to labor for the success
OF the National ticket, and appeal to one
and all to contribute toward the expenses
of the campaign.
MEYER GoLDsTEIN, clerk employed by
a New York auction firm, was on the 22d
arrested for obtaining $780, 600 from his en-
ployers by forgery and embezzlement
A FIRE on the 22d destroyed the brewery
of Henry Elias in New York, containing
thirty thousand barrels of beer. Loss,
$500,
On the oath John Walters drank two
quarts of whisky on a wager at Wilkes
barre, Pa, and then dropped dead
On the oath Robert Garrett. the famous
railway magnate, was declared to be hope
lessly insane. He was prisoner in the
old Miller mansion at Ringwood, N. j.
In New York on the gath the discovery
was made that the Wagner Palace Car
Company had been robbed by its conduc-
tors of a sum said to aggregate $4,000
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A Sad Affair.


PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 24.-Martin
Grouse, accompanied by his wife, and car
rying his infant son in his arms, was walk
ing on the track of the Pennsylvania rail-
road near Ben Venue station. Before il
was observed an accommodation train
backed down upon them Grouse pushed
his wife to one side and just before he was
struck and ground to a shapeless pulp by
the locomotive tossed his child into ditch
at the side of the track, where it was
found uninjured. The griet of the wife
was terrible to witness.
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JAMES JAMES, a negro of Santa
Rosa, Mex, is said to be the Oldest man
living. 1t is claimed that he was born
near Dorchester, S. c., III 1852. He was
with his master in the Revolutionary
war, was forty years old when Wash
ington was elected President, went to
Texas when one hundred and one
years old, moved into Mexico FIVE years
later. and now at the ripe old age of
one hundred and thirty six lives in a
little hut, to which he is confined by
rheumatism, and is supported by con-
tributi9us from the citizens of Santa
Rosa.
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AN Albany IN. W paper tells this
story of Union veteran who fought at
Gettysburg. Before entering the action
he took his canteen from his shoulder
and hid it in crevice in the rock
Then came that fiery hail of shot and
she'll that swep: down regiments like
fields Of wheat before the reaper. At
the close of the battle the soldier for
got all about his canteen, nor did it ever
occur to him again until he visited the
field at the late reunion. Then ii
flashed through his mind, and after a
few minutes search he found it where
he had left II on The momentous day.
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three chilaren uurned to Death.

MoEcToN, N. B.. Sept. 24-Calvin Du
Binson and his wife, who live in a settle
meDt called Catamount, in Kent County,
went to call ON a neghbor, leaving their
three children in the house. They had
gone but short distance when they NO
ticed the house in flames, but arrived too
late to save their children, all of whom
nerished