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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
A MOTHERS AWFUL DEED.

A New York Woman Deliberately Admin
listers Poison to Her Three Little Chill
dren-Two Dead and the o her Dying.
New YORK, Msrch 26 Mrs Minnie Lieb-
kuchner entered police st ,tion early Sat-
urday morning and told the sergeant in
charge that she had poisoned three of her
children because she loved them and
they were gong to be taken away
from her. The police went to her
house at once and found her horrible
story to be true. Two children lay dead,
crefully covered with bed-clothes, while
the third was writhing in agony. AS
soon as possible the child was taken
to hospital, the mother witnessing his
departure with perfect composure. She
Was at once placed under arrest, and then
told most extraordinary story of her ex-
perence She was the second wife of a
once wealthy brewer in this city, but who
afterw ard failed and died a very poor man,
and she was obliged to work for
a living. The Bloomingdale Aid Society
had taken charge Of her chi. dren, and on
last Tuesday she received a letter from
the society in which it was an
nounced that homes in the West
had been secured for her children,
and that they must lie ready to start
on Saturday,. This letter plunged her into
excessive grief, and she at once decided TO
kill her children rather than part with them.
She bought a quantity of rough on rats"
and put it inpo the children's tea She
related with wonderful composure how the
boys had been tortured until death ended
their sufferings, and how she had sat by
the dead bodies for more than twelve
hours The woman was at once examined
by physicians as to her sanity, and pro-
nounced sane
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
FOREIGN INTEILICENCr-

MYINGGAN, an important military post in
Upper Burmah, was recently DESTROYED by
an incendiary fire, and fifteen thousand
people were reported TO be homeless
A COLLISION between freight train and a
snow pillow on the 22d near Gravenhurst,
Can killed seven men and seriously wound
ed five others
THIRTY-N1NE villages were DESTROYED by
the recent floods in Hungary, and the en-
tire county OF Bekes would resemble lake
until the summer was far advanced. Great
distress prevailed among the Inhabitants
REPORTS on the 23d OF the recent theater
fire at Oporto, Portugal, say over one hum
dred and twenty persons persisted in the
flames.
In six days match at London between
bicyclists and cowboys mounted on mus
tangs, ended ON the Oath, the former won,
making 500 miles to SOL
In the annual race between the Oxford
and Cambridge crews on the Thames on the
24th, the latter was an easy winner
In the flooded districts of Hungary thou
sands of persons were dying of starvation
on the Goth
COUNTERFEIT United States two-dollar
bills in large numbers were in circulation
in Toronto on the Goth.
BERLIN dispatches of the Goth say that
forty villages had been inund tied, and that
ten Thousand people had lost every thing
they possessed by the floods In the Vistula
river and its branches
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
TIE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches
FIFTIETH CONGRESS,


THURSDAY, March 22 Bills were passed
in the Senate to prevent obstruction of
navigable waters and to protect public
works against urespass or injury; for COM
| mission on the alcoholic liquor traffic; au-
thorizing the President to arrange con-
ference in 1889 between the United States
and Mexico, Central and South America
Hayti, San Domingo and Brazil to adyo-
cate arbitration; reducing the postage on
Seeds cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, ETC., to
one cent per four ounces, and the
Urgent Deficiency bill, which appro-
PIRATES $6, $40, 500 In the House bills
were passed extending the protection of
the United States laws over United States
officials; providing in all civil and criminal
trials in circuit and district courts that the
judges shall charge the jury in writing if so
required by either party; providing that
judgments and DEGREES of United States
courts rendered within any State shall be
liens on property as judgments and DEGREES
OF the courts of that State, and the Urgent
Deficiency bill
FRIDAY March % In the Senate the
announcement of Chief-Jus Waite's
oeatn was made as soon as the members
met and on motion of Senator Edmunds a
committee was appointed to take such ac-
ton of respect as may be expedient AS
further mark of respect the Senate adj
journed to the Goth. In the House resolu
tlons OF respect to the memory of the Chief
Justice were adopted, and without transact
ing any business an adjournment was taken.
MONDAY, March 26-In the Senate O.
bill was introduced for the admission of
Montana as q State. A bill was reported
declaring it to be The sense of the Senate
That new States should be admitted into
the Union only on the basis of equality
with the existing States. Petitions We're
presented from the Iowa Patrons Of Hus-
bandry asking that agricultural products
be equally protected with manufactured
articles; that foreign immigration be re-
stricted so as to keep out all paupers and
criminals, and for the protection of wool
and cotton goods. The HOUSE b.ll to pro-
vide for the purchase of United States
bonds by the Secretary of the Treas
ury was further considered In the
House bills were introduced for a per
manent board of arbitration between
the United States and Great Britain and
France; to equalize the salaries of post
masters at Presidential post-ofices; for the
organization of the Territory of Alaska:
to amend the Naturalization law so as to
require would-be citizens to make oath that
they are not polygam SITS, Anarchists or
Communists, and to amend the Interstate
Commerce law so as to prevent a railroad
from bringing into State articles which
the roads within the same State are not per-
mitted to transport
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THE EAST.

ON the ga three boys, sons OF George
Walker, Robert Wood and Edward McCully.
were drowned in the Delaware river near
Chester, Pa, by the capsizing of a boat.
| A CYCLONE on the 22d near Fulton, N. Y,
wrecked several houses and did other dam
age. No lives were lost, but several per-
sons were injured
A FLOOD at Millburg, Mass, necessitated a
removal Of prisoners from the Jail on the
22d, where the water was six feet deep
Some of the citizens had narrow escapes in
! getting out of their houses The central
| portion Of the town of Uxbridge was also
flooded.
The Legislature of Rhode Island adjourned
sine die ON the 23d
HENRY BERGH, of New York, nephew of
the lately deceased founder of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
was unanimously elected president of that
society on the 23d
The discovery was made on the 23d that
H. F. Royce, the treasurer Of a savings
bank in Willimantic, Conn, had appropri-
ated the funds to the amount of $3.50, 600.
JOSEPH W. DRExEL, head of the we'll
known banking family, died in New York
on the 25th, aged fifty years
NEW YORK Republicans will hold Their
State convention in Buffalo May 16 to elect
delegates to the National convention.
THE death of John T. Hoffman, Governor
of New York from 1868 to 1872, occurred
in Wiesbaden, Germany, On the Oath, at the
age of sixty years.
| COMMODORE ROBERT B. HITCHCOCK, United
| States Navy, died on the 24gh in New York
City, aged eighty-tive years.
A FIRE destroyed the Central Theater in
| Philadelphia on the 24th. Loss, 800, 600
| RATHER than see her three little children
starve or be taken in charge by her late
| husbands relatives Mrs Lebkuchner, a
widow in New York City, gave them poison
a few days ago with fatal effects.
| SYLVIA DUBOIS, a negress. who was one
hundred and twenty-five years old, was
among the victims of the recent blizzard
in New Jersey
HE Misses Margaret and Annie OReilly
(sistersl were struck by train on the Oath
and killed at Waterford, R. l.
CHARLES F. STAIN made confession on
the Goth at Augusta, Me-, to the feet that
Messenger, who was killed at Norfolk. Mass
in 1874, was murdered by Stains father,
Oliver Cromwell and Rufus Goldsmith. the
trio taking away 81, 500 belonging to their
| i'm
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NEW MEN AT WORK.

The Burlington Officials Rapidly Filling
the Positions Vacated by the Striking
Switchmen - Precautions Against Vio-
1ence.
CHICAGO, March 8-The company had
about forty new switchmen in the Chicago
yards yesterday. OF these fourteen were
freight engineers brought in from Aurora,
who proved competent switchmen Fifteen
of the number were non-union switchmen
hired during the day from among numer-
GUS applicants Six switch engines were
kept at work during the day, whereas the
usual number is eighteen or twenty. Nine
ty-sx cars of freight were made up inlo
trains and sent West.
gang of twenty switchmen was put to
work late yesterday afternoon in the 20"
yards at Western avenue. They said they
were from Reading. Pa, and were portion
of a crowd of sixty more that arrived Mon
day night from the East They said the en-
tire party had been hired by the 20" COM
pany, and that they were distributed be-
tween Chicago and Aurora yesterday.
The striking switchmen, it is charged,
threw stones at a train which arrived Mon
day evening, and it was feared that they
would resCr, to still further violence
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
DAKOTA.

Three carloads of emigrants from Iowa
Falls and Parkersburg Ia, arrived in
Sioux Falls by the Central road the other
day to locate in that region. They report
ed a hundred other families preparing to
follow soon.
D. Wayne and William Reed, of Clark,
have organized National bank to do bust
ness in Watertown.
1t is said that there is every prospect that
the TIN industry in the Black FL lis will de-
velop into something entitled to rank along
side the gold output Dean Carpenter, of
the school of mines, has, after more than a
years experience, concluded that the
cheapness with which the ore may be
mined and reduced guarantees results,
which will astound even the mast sanguine
friends of the industry.
In the United States Court at Bismarck
the other day John Quinn pleaded guilty to
selling liquor to Indians at the Standing
Rock Agency and was sentenced To sixty
five days hard labor in the Sioux Falls penf-
tentiary.
The steam pump for the college well at
Bookings arrived recently, and has been
SO arranged as to throw water into all the
buildings.
A party of surveyors passed over to the
Sioux reservation and camped on the Bad
river recently The new line will be run
from FL Pierre to Deadwood as the Chicago
Il Northwestern, but the line surveyed on
the Sioux reservation is supposed to be the
Illinois Central corps.
While arguing case in court at Erie, Pa !,
the other day l. s. Norton, of Bismarck,
formerly of Erie, became violently insane,
and later threatened the lives of his wife
and child He would be placed in private
asylum.
Thomas Houska, of Yankton, stone
mason, took his own life the other day
His inability to quit drinking liquor caused
him to commit the act
The passing of the Sioux Reservation bill
has induced the Northwestern Stage &
Transportation Company to put on line
be ween Pierre and the Black Hills The
rivers open.
A. Fl. Barton, young and popular at
torney, died at the residence of Judge Trip
in Yankton few days ago. The remains
were taken to Mime
Fannie Millett. aged thirteen years. the
daughter of John Millett, farmer living
near Bismark. died lately under sus-
picious circumstances On exhuming the
body. which had been buried in field, it
was found TO be covered with bruises made
by whip The grl had been beaten to
death The father dsnisd tsas ha bad anns
IL
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LATER.

AT the session in Washington on the 9th
of the International Council of Women Miss
Clara Barton, president of the American
National Red cross Society, outlined the
origin, purposes and work of the society,
Miss Frances Z. Willard described the work
and aims of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, Harriet E. Morris read a pa
per on missionary work, and Amelia s.
Quinton described the work and objects of
the Woman's Indian Association. The en-
tire expenses of the council are paid by
Susan B. Anthony.
A DEFICIT of nearly $4,000 N the ac-
counts of the treasurer of Prince George
County, Md, was reported on the 9th
THE house of Thomas Ball, postmaster at
Orillia, Can, was destroyed by fire on the
9th and his three young children persisted
In the fl mes
THE State National Bank of Raleigh, n
c., was, closed on the 9th, and the direc-
tors said that President Cross and Cashier
White had fed with nearly 100000 be-
longing TO the bank.
DISPATCHES of the 9th say that near
Matanzas, Cuba, the crops on three extern
sive es ates had been destroyed by fire
THE Committee on Rivers and Harbors
in the Ma cional House on the 9th COM
pleted the River and Harbor bill. It makes
an aggregate appropriation of $I9, 432, 7S3,
which is the largest bill of the kind ever
brought in.
NASHUA. N. H., had two distinct earth
quake shocks early on the morning of the
9th, which shook houses and awakened
sleeping persons
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WILLIAM Dor
sHEIMER, the publisher of the New York
Star, died on the 9th at Savannah, Ga,
aged fifty-six years
THE Burlington Railway Company was on
the 9th rapidly filing the places vacated
by the striking switchmen, and the direc-
tors of the company declared that it was
their determination, regardless of conse-
quences to firmly resist any attempt to
take the m management of the road from the
hands of its owners
THE Republicans of the Eighth Ohio dis
triet on the 27th nominated General Robert
P Kennedy for Congress
A BILL was introduced in the United States
Senate on the 9th to establish the boun-
Diary line between Northern Minnesota and
the Canadian prov A bill was re-
ported tavorably granting 800 per annum
to each State for each soldier or sailor who
is an inmate of soldiers home maintained
by the State The bill to give prefsren
to disabled Conf sderate soldiers as between
men who had been disloyal in appoint
ments to civil Office was discussed In the
House bills We're reported to provide for
ascertaining the feasibility of constructing
gulf and lakes waterway; to adjust the
claims of States for expenses incurred in
defense of the United States; for the cleo
ton of Senators by the legal voters Of the
States; to amend the Civil Service act and
fixing the salaries of the Judges of the
United States courts The Military Academy
Appropriation biz was passed,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

NATURE occasionally seems to take
day or two off just to show man what
a puny creature he is, after all. Forty
eight hours of storm paralyzed traffic
over wide section in the East, and
left great cities helpless in the grasp
OF the mighty force. Grand as are
the triumphs of human genius over
the forces of nature, she can easily
convince man of his ittleness when
she takes notion to exercise her la
tent power
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

FIRE MARSHAL WHITCoNIB, of Bos-
ton, recently made test for the pur-
pose of learning whether rats could
start a fire by gnawing matches. Three
rats were placed in wire cage con-
tanning bunch of matches. The first
night four fires were set by the rats,
and others were caused during the fol-
lowing days. Examination of the
matches showed that only the phos-
phorus ends We're gnawed. and that
some of them We're carried some dis
lance from the original bunch. He Is
certain that ares have hsen caused by
gass gnaWing matches.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
CHIEF-JUSTICE WAITE.
Death Of the Head of the Highest
Tribunal in the Land.
The Eminent Jurist Passes Away at
Washington After a Brief Illness
Tokens of Respect-Congress
Adjourns-His Life.

CALLED TO HIGHER COURT.
WASHINGTON, March 24-Chief Justice
Waite, of the United States Supreme Court,
died at his residence in this city at $40
oc ock yesterday morning
The Chief Justice was in his usual
health, though exhausted by his recent
severe labors, until Saturday night, when
on returning from Senator Hearsl's
where, with his daughter, he attended
reception, he complained of chill
This feeling passed off during the night,
but he remained in bed throughout Sun
day and until it was time to go to the
court on Monday. Suffering then from
vague indispos ition, he did not read the
opinion in the telephone case, but sat
Through its reading and then returned to
his home. He was wakeful Monday night
and on Tuesday morning symptoms of
acute bronchitis appeared, accompanied by
insomnia and great restlessness. His con-
dition Tuesday was not alarming, but on
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
WEST AND S0IITH.

The death of Mrs. Jeanette Loewenberg,
aged one hundred years and nine months
and six days, occurred in Chicago on the
odd
INVESTIGATION of The treatment of Arkan-
sas convicts in the Coal Hill mines revealed
on the 22d brutalities even more horrible
than at first reported Warden Scott
whipped seventy-tive men in one night
till all were bleeding. the men had gone
without shoes all winter and one had been
murdered
PRoHlBITIoNIsTs of West Virginia will
meet az Parkersburg July Is to nominate a
State ticket aud elect Delegates to their
National convention at indianapolis.
THE strike OF the engineers on the Bur.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

LATE reports from China place the
number of lives lost in the great floods
along the 1ehow river at not less than
1900, C0o.1 Ii this slaughter had taken
p lace in any European country or in
America it would have been the great
est sensation of the age. but as it is,
few people know or care any thing
about the matter The poets ideal of
the universal recognition of the broth
erhood Of man is still so far from being
realized that only powerful imagina-
ton and a robust faith can picture
such condition of things as actually
existing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

THE public is prepared to believe in
almost any invention, actual or pro-
spective, of an electric character. Prof.
Elisha Gray announces that he has
just completed what he calls telauto-
graph, which name substantially
means autograph writing at distance
Prof Gray is confident that his inven-
ton can be made to work over a cir
cult of hundreds of miles and take
the place OF the noisy "hello" method
OF communication. Perhaps the ene-
mics of the Bell Telephone Company
can now see way opening to securea
satisfactory revenge.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

The eight hundred and seventy
fourth hero of the six hundred who
made the celebrated charge at Bala-
klava has just died at Buffalo, N. Y.
But Notwithstanding, an exchange be-
ieves the number of deceased colored
servants who at one time served in
George Washington's family at Mount
Vernon still leads the procession OF
gloritied statistics. The supply of
Balaklava heroes and of Washington
nurses, like that of furniture which
came over in the Mayhower, is mex
haustible.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

WASHINGTON, March 24-There was q
huge sensation in the House Commit
tee On Agriculture yesterday W. G.
Bartle, a st Louis pork-packer, testi-
fed that hogs which were affected
with hog cholera were cut up and
packed in slaughter houses He had often
done it himself, and had no doubt every
pork-packer of the country had done so. He
did not know that any harm ever came of it.
At any rate, there was no use denying or at
tempting TO conceal the fact His testimo-
ny created great sensation, and the COM
mittsemen are making vigorous efforts to
suppress it, as they fear its effects on for
eign soHntriaa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

A GEORGIA woman with an extraor-
binary procivity for infanticide has
just been tried ana convicted. In a
rough way it is stated that in the past
ten years she has destroyed cover half
dozen" of her offspring, some being
burned IN her fireplace, others buried
alive and others cut up and concealed
Herlast child was strangled and thrown
into an old well.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
MINNESOTA.

| The assignee of S. a. baker, of Minneap-
oils, recently filed schedule of assets and
liabilities, placing the former at 5000, OOC
and the latter at $3.50 900. Last summer
Baker fed to Canada to avoid arresJ fol-
nbezzlement
st. Louis County has voted to bond Itself
for the construction of county roads. Com
missioner Mckinley says $4,000 Of the
amount bonded can be spent this year, and
that in addition to taxes w IL make about
$50. 900 to be used for country highways
Louise Montague, who became famous as
Forep 1uge's $40, 900 beauty. is now living
quiet life in St Paul Har husband is C.
E. Wilson. well-known restaurateur.
Rev. Sneldon Jackson, of Sitka, Alaska,
who was reported to have been drowned in
the Slzirna river, Alaska, was in St Paul a
few days ago. The Rev. Mr.. Sheldon re-
ferred to was an English missionary
A receiver was asked for recently for the
ernnory pusiness of T. S. Rice of Minneap-
OILS. Rice was said to have absconded,
leaving. liabilities of 414 OOO
A German farmer named John LANCER. at
Holding, refused to send his twelve-year-
old daughter 10 school and furnish her with
proper books and clothing for that purpose.
The school board brought suit against him
and he was found gui ty and fined fifteen
dollars and COSTS and was also ordered to
comply with the school laws, which he
promised to do
At Sank Center few days ago Rogan's
academy was destroyed by fire. Loss.
$40, 900; Insurance, $4,000.
1t is reported from Duluth that McGari-
gle, the escaped Chicago boodler, was in
that city few days ago, where he was seen
by Board of Trade and newspaper men
The St Mary's convent at Winona has
been sold for use as public hospital; con-
sideration, $3S, 900.
The storm which ragged the other night
through portions Of Minnesota was one Of
the severest that has been experienced
this winter. It consisted Of a cold wave of
unusual severity, accompanied with a
heavy and cutting wind, which in many
places was rendered worse by binding
SHOWS storms
The capital stock of the Northfield Cream
cry Company of $4,000 has been raised
and the articles of incorporation have been
drawn up. A. ". Norton is president of the
board of directors.
While John Keely, of Waseca, was lead
ing an unruly bull recently the animal ran
away. The rope was fastened around
Keely's hand so securely it could not be
disengaged He was dragged about the
yard, his head battered and bruised, and it
was feared his skull was broken
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

IT is said that at least six varieties
OF American birds have become totally
extinct during the last ten years. But
the English sparrow is still here, and
is likely to stay until it monopolizes
the whole field.
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Death of Ex-Govsrnor Hoffman.

ALBANY N Y, March 26.-A cablegram
from member of the family announcing
the death of Ex-Governor John I. Hoffman
of heart disease Saturday morn ng at Wies-
baden, Germany, has beer received John
T. Hoffman was born January 10. 1928, at
Sing Sing, N. Y He graduated from Union
College when only Is years of age and
three years later he was admitted to the
bar In 1854 he joined the Tammany Hall
organization in New York and soon became
a prominent leader in politics. Since 1870
tie Governor has spent q great portion OF
his time abroad
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

born at Lyons, Wayne County, N, Y, in
1882 He went to school as boy at Phil.
lips Academy, Andover; graduated from
Harvard College He practiced law in New
York, and was the United States District
Attorney for the Northern district of New
York in 1867. He was elected l. eutenant-
Governor for the term 1S74-1s He was
Representative in New York in the Forty
eighth and Forty ninth Congresses For
some time past he has been editor of the
New York Star, a strong Administration