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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
IOWA.

IOWA.
Forty-nine young men and two young
women were graduated by the Keokuk Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons at it's
forty seventh annual commencement a
few days ago.
Coffman a wealthy farmer, was acquitted
of the charge of murder recently at Avoca
Coffman shot and killed J. K Main in a
fight in July, 1885. The verdict of not
guilty was on the ground OF self-defense.
The first indication Of the enforcement
of a pTohibitory law in Burlington took
place the other day by the destruction of
the stock of liquors of John George Goetz,
seized in accordance with the instructions
of the Supreme Court Goetz had permit
from the 30 nd of Supervisors to sell for
lawful purposes, but was convicted of MAIN
tanning q nuisance.
There are but two points in Iowa where
one would be fifteen miles distant from
some railroad
Ii has been discovered at Council Bluffs
that there is on Harrison street a nice piece
of ground with no known legal claimant.
IL is said the city will take possession and
make it the location of aschool-building
John W1leford died at Mt Pleasant re-
Gently from drinking chemical cider, VIII CHI
is sold in some of the towns as substitute
for whisky
DR.. Hattie Allen, of Waterloo, has been
chosen to fill the position of assistant pro-
fessor of medicine in the University of
Michigan. She is the first woman ever
chosen to position of that nature in q
Western university.
Otto Schroeder fourteen-year- old lad,
crawled under barn at Belle Plaine re-
Gently to shoot dog, but his gun being ac-
cidentally discharged killed himself in
stantiy.
Oskaloosa has formed u stock company
which will spend from $4, 600 to $4,000
in the erection of a coal palace. 1t is ex-
pected to have it finished by the middle of
August, when the fair commences
AT the annual commencement in Iowa
City recently of the State University twen-
ty dental and eleven homeopathic students
graduated. In the medical department for
ty candidates were admitted to practice.
Mrs. Samuel Merrill, wife of Ex-Governor
Merrill, died recently at Riverside Cal
The contract for building an extension of
the Chicago, Milwaukee 81 st. Paul from
Chamberlain to the Black II Ills has been let
to Major Allen, OF Mason City.
The Supreme Court recently filed an
opinion reversing the decision of the Polk
County court in the case of the State VS.
Ward. The court holds in this case that
liquors brough5 into the State to be sold
unlawfully are subject to seizure at all
times, and anywhere, even when in possess
sion Of person holding permit to sell.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
"BERLIN March y, 1887


Erio Road at SciO, n. Y.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, March ia serious
accident occurred at Scio, on the Erie rail-
road, Sunday morning, At a crossing
twenty rods east of the depot the forward
drivers of the engine left the track, the
train grazing the brick water tank at the
end of the station platform. The train
rushed past the station, carrying away
the west half of the platform and
striking the wooden water tank at the west
end, which brought the train to a stop.
The track was very slippery, and the air.
brakes failed to check the train. The only
cause that could be given for the accident
was a depression of one of the rails at
joint, due to the softening of the ground by
the thaw. Five persons were badly hurt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
The st. Lpu.s Sangerbund.

ST LOUIS, March 13.-The managers of
the Sangerbund have made the following
selections of soloists for the coming fesai-
val: Mrs Lilli Kalisch, soprano;
Mrs. Anna Lanhow, contralto: Max Alvary,
first tenor; Paul Kalisch, second tenor;
Ernst Fischer, bass; Emile Hagar, baritone;
Miss Adele Aus der Oae, piano accompanist.
The chorus will consis5 of 8, 500 voices,
representing more than 100 societies from
eighteen States, under the direction Of
Prof Egmont Froliche of St Louis
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16

JAMES ALBERT, the winner of the
six-days' walking match in New York
City, made speech in which he ex-
pressed the belief that total abb
stinence from intoxicating drinks was
the prime factor in his success. The
New York Sun says: His bit of
oratory made good Temperance APP
peal.n
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Probably no less than $500. 900 will be
expended this winter by Marinette mill men
in improving their mills.
MICHIGAN.


The First III E. Church at Charlotte was
partially destroyed by fire few afternoons
| ago
The consolidation of the Toledo, Ann Ar
| Dor & North Michigan and the Toledo, Ann
| Arbor Il Cadillac railways was effected re-
| Gently. The former company will control
| the lines
Coal has been discovered on the farm of
| Charles Cushman, who lives four miles
northeast of Marshall 1t was found in
| drilling a well, at depth of one hundred
| feet
| T. A. Chapman, an insurance agent from
Lansing, killed himself with morphine in
hotel at Jackson few days ago. No cause
was known.
| The Manistee Salt Lumber Company Of
| Manistee made an assignme nt the other
morning The liabilities were figured at
| 1864, 0S6 and the assets at 81, 260,64L
| The Supreme Court has decided two
points of the new State Liquor law uncon-
| stitutionaL One was the provision extend
ing the Detroit police control 10 the town
ships adjoining Detroit, and the second
was the provision authorizing the arrest of
liquor-law breakers wishout process
Charles T. Foster Post, G. A r., Of Lam
sing, is spending 5000 at the Philadelphia
mint in having bronze souvenir medal
made for each delegate to the coming March
State encampment of the Grand Army,
which will be held at Lansing
During 1887 railroads in Michigan earned
$50, S19, 600, an increase over 1886 of
SO, 33S, 057
The Battle Creek and Bay City Railroad
Company was organized at Alpha recently
with A. W. Wright, President; s. O. Fisher,
Vice. Presidents; S s. Hubert, Secretary; W.
H. Tarsey, Treasurer. The general offices
will be at Battle Creek
A fire damaged the Union Touring mills
of Faxon, Williams & Faxon, at Detroit, the
| other night to the amount of $4,000;
fully insured.
The Grand river broke into the Star coal
mine near Jackson few mornings ago,
filing it with water The break was a Sc
rious one. and it would be impossible to work
the properly again this winter
Explorations for natural gas are to be
made at Charlotte.
William Johnston, prominent druggist
of Detroit, was drowned at Amherstburg
Ont, in the Detroit river a few days ago
by the upsetting of boat
Helena Fisher, of Detroit, has sued the
Grand Trunk railway for $50, 900 for the
loss of her husbands life
Harris & Shepards brick hardware store
in Linden was burned the other day. Loss
ST, 600; insurance, 50, 600
David Henning, the Michigan apple
king" began his career as a journeyman
cooper. He is the most distinguished man
in his line in the world, and frequently
buys and distributes as many as 1875 900
barrels OF apples in season.
The burglar who recently entered the
Kalamazoo female seminary and in the
struggle with plucky young woman had a
button torn off his coat, has been identified
and arrested by means Of the missing but
ton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16

Two Trains the "L" Road in New
York Come Together - An Engineer
TX He'd.
NEW YORK, March 13.-At 7:10 O'clock
yesterday morning two trains on the Third
Avenue E evated road collided at
Seventy-siXth street station. One train
WIS at the station unloading and
taking on passengers with which it
was already overcrowded. Owing to
snow on the track, the train was
unable to start After it had been stand
ing about twenty minutes, to the horror of
all, train came rushing down the incline
from Seventy fourth street and dashed into
the rear car. The engineer of the rear train
was killed and a number of passengers
Sn1.inl1clxr min 1-aI
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
THE NORTHWEST.
Brief Mention Of News Of General
interest.
ILLINOIS.


Caruther's store in GRANVILLE WIS burned
the her morning. Loss, $4,000.
Pork-packing statistics in Chicago show
decrease of 245, $50 hogs from year ago.
H enry and Edward Donkin. aged fifteen
and seven respectively, while skating near
Pelkin recently broke through the ice.
Henry was drowned and Edward was re-
suscitated on y after two hours hard work.
Nine buildings at Vienna, occupied asres-
licences, grocery stores, restaurants, and
the Office of the johnson County Journal
were burned the other morning. The fire
was the work of an fncendiary. Loss, So
0O0
The people in the vicinity of Records
Corner Yermilion County, are highly elated
over the discovery of a six-foot vein of
coal at a depth of 40 feet, with foot of
black slate OVERLAPPING the same. The dis
covery was made on the farm of Jacob
Glenn.
Christ Launer, Adams express agent and
A. y. U. W, lodge tire; surer at Olney, hung
himself the other afternoon, shortage of
about $500 in his accounts with each ac-
counting for the act He was about fifty
years OF age and was prominent mer-
chant
Aonzo Hendron, life convict sent from
Coles County in 1874, for murder, has been
released from Joliet, his sentence having
been commuted. The Governor has also
committed the sentence of Solomon Barger,
a coored murderer sentenced for life from
Hamilton County in 1874
Mrs Emily Abbey, seventy-six years of
age was granted seven dollars week ali
mony in Chicago few days ago pending
H. - e Ia
from Russell Abbey, who is eighty-one
years old. Infdelity and cruelty was the
charge.
Policeman Stefin, of Chicago, resigned
recently. He had drawn SIS, 900 in lot
terry and invested it in a saloon.
The Carlinville Bank was opened Mt Car
linville the other day, with Sylvester Hoblit
president and A. L. Hoblit cashier
DR.. John w. Stone, preacher and ply
stefan OF Springerton, was recently arrested
charged with the murder of cochran Bal
lard in March, 1864 Stone protests his in
nocence.
The Inter Ocean Rapid Transit Railroad
Company, capital So, 800, 900, was incorpo
rated at Springfield the other day to build
elevated lines on the West Side, Chicago
The Superintendent of Public Instruction
has issued q circular which states that the
exam nation of the country schools in work
for the Safe fair exhibit will occur March
20 and 80
At boat house on the Saline river, ten
miles from ShIwneetown, Hester Annie
Deweese shot and instantly killed Mrs. Ella
MlliEin a few days ago Mrs Millikin's
husband had deserted her for M SIS Deweese
and when she went after him met the fate
mentioned.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
PloW-Works Burned.

DIXON, Ill, March l3.-The works Of tho
Grand Detour Plow Company were burned
Monday night The loss Ia ever &1uo, 600
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
The Presidents Physical Condition.

WASHINGTON, March Is. - The Herald
Dem gives prominence to this: We hear
that recently the President desired to in
sure his life for $4,000, that negotiations
were begun with the agent of leading
New York company, but that the medical
examiner, after making his investigation,
reported against taking the risk, so the
agent was compelled to decline to write
a policy. No particulars about the causes
why SO good an advertisement for an in
surance company was foregone have yet
leaked out, but the incident has been the
the occasion of much speculation"
Mrs. Ellen Topper, an entomologist of
continental reputation, died at Ell Paso,
Tex, Monday.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16

CITY MISSIONARY FREAs, of Trenton,
n. j.. who has been at work among
the poor and unfortunates in that city
for the last ten years, in his report for
1887, says: 81 still find the liquor
traffic the fruitful cause of most of the
evils in our midst and the chief him
drance to the improvement to the NOR
ais of the people and the greatest
drawback to the prosperity of our
city.''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
A Valuable ContriYance.

Mrs. E. P. Bailey, wife of the editor of the
Utica Observer has invented a continuance for
the convenience and comfort of the sick which
is very highly spoken of in the hospitals where
it has been tried. Two iron sockets attached
firmly to the sides of a bedstead by screws, and
into these are fitted short poles, and between
the poles is suspended horizontal bar. also
fitted into clamps and adjustable to any height
above the patient lying tn e bed. From this
bar hang pair of strong straps with grips, and
these can be moved from right to left at will
BY grasping these straps the sick man can utilize
the strength of his arms to lift himself up, to
change his position, to turn over, and to allow
the bedding to be changed. There are variety
of attachments to the invention which extend
its usefulness indefinitely. One is a rest for the
leg, in which a broken limb can be placed while
it is being dressed. 1t is only necessary to
unscrew the sockets attached to the bedstead
and change their location to utilize this. An
other is small table for medicines. book
anything patient wants, within immediate
reach. Another is a curtain rod. likely to be
especially serviceable in hospital wards to avoid
draught to shut out the light, or to afford a
degree privacy.
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A Gorgeous Hall.

Great harrington (fass.) Letter.
Work the Hopkins-Sear1es mansion at
Great harrington has almost entirely ceased
and will not be resumed until Mr.. and Mrs.
fSearles return from Europe in the spring. At
present only half a dozen men, employees of
the work until it shut down, are engaged in put
ting up some finished work. which had been
made at their headquarters in Worcester Mass
The organ which has been ordered for the
mushroom at Kellogg Terrace will be put in
position this winter. 1t will contain 900 pipes
and be the finest organ in the country. The
builder is j. E. Treat. of Boston. Ten men have
been employed for many months in making the
case, which is now being erected in the music
room. 1t is to be of old English oak and will
stand thirty-eight feet high The lumber for
the case is reported to have cost $12, 900, and
the case when finished will have cost S25 000
The cost of the entire organ has not yet been
made public.
The MUSHROOM will be one of the grandest
rooms of the kind in the United States. The
ceiling is fifty feet from the floor, and the depth
of the room is sixty feet; the outer end is semi
circular in FORM and here the organ will be
placed extending out into the room one third
of the length of the room. At the opposite end
IS gallery overlooking the ROOM approached
from the second floor of the house. Old Eng
lish oak is to be the finish of this room. The
corLice is to be of Mexican onyx, behind which
will be several hundred single candle-power
electric lamps; shining through the onyx they
will give a beautiful softsned light. The cell
ing is to be paneled in stucco. each panel to con-
tain oil painting. Clusters of electric lights
distri buted throughout the room will aid those
in the cornice in adding to the brilliancy of the
illumination of the room.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Last Week.. Fr.,vhr srov.men.

Ahst weeks Freight MovsmenG
The train records show an unusually heavy
car movement for the first week in the year.
While it falls s57 cars below the movement in the
week ending Dec. 81 1887, it win be noticed that
In the week ending Jan. there were 1,697
more loaded cars received and forwarded at In
dianapolis that in the corresponding week In
1887. and 1912 more than in the corresponding
week in 1886. The increase. il will be noticed,
is largely with the east-and-west lines, the L 81
St. L., the vandalia, the c.. L. st.
l. g. C. and the Bee-line all doing heavy
business at the present time. East bound there
has been some increase the past week in export
shipments, and quite increase in shipments
of corn TO interior New York and New England.
Then there is quite a respectable TONNAGE OF cot.
ton and lumber going forward. West-bound
there is sharp falling off in business, the
Decline and the c., st. l.. 81 P. last week
bringing west 756 fe wer loaded cars than in the
first week of December, 1887. The tonnage of
anthracite coal and coke coming west is not
heavy thirty days ago, and the shipments of
railway supplies and merchandise are lighter
past. 1t 10 quiet times with north-and south
roads, 6s well, the local business having
decreased considerably This will improve, how
ever, from this time on. The movement of In-
diana coal still forms important feature of
the local business handled: then lumber from
the forests Of Indiana is coming on to this
ket in immense quantities, such az wagon ma
terial, stave timber and heading The live
stock movement, both through and local, is at a
low ebb bat this well, will improve after
few days. This is one of the branches of freight
shipments which thu holidays demoralize. An
improvement in export traffic is looked for
after this week Shipments of furniture and
lounges from this point are unusually large
most of the freight going to points in the South
west and to the Pacific coast. Below is given
the number of received and forwarded at
this point in the week ending Jan l. 1883 as
compared with the movement the corresponding
weeks of 1887 and 1885,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
in this wise. A bridg. had been washed

in this wise. A bridge had been washed
out, and the master bridge builder was
doing his best to get temporary structure mp
to seriously delay trains. There were
some twenty men at work placing a timber in
position, and one of the number deliberately
stopped TO light his pipe, the other men, during
the time. being obliged to stand still until he
was ready to help the heavy timber.
Bronah, with round OATH discharged the man,
and issued order that any empioye who
smoked when on duty would be discharged
VIM. r. McKeen last week commenced his
twenty-frst year as president of the Terre
Haute & Indianapolis Railroad Company. In
commenting his election the Terre Haute
Mail OF Saturday last says the Vandalia is back
In the old hands again. Notwithstanding the
efforts of the e., 81. & D. folks in the courts to
prevent it, the old board Of homo directors, with
one exception, was reinsta,ied. In commenting
on Mr.. McKeens defense, the Mail says: ''The
answer filed by him was a complete refutation
of all the rumors that had been set afloat It IS
shown that all the stories of the manipulation
of the stock OF others to his profit were
based on idle. il not malicious. rumor, and that
instead OF bargaining with Ives in secret TO the
detriment of the Cincinnati Hamilton Day
ton company. the officers and q majority OF the
directors OF that company were present and
sanctioned all that was done. The truth seems
to be that the c., III. & D. set are not even as
honorable as Ives. When he was on top they
were at his beck and call, and did as he did.
When he failed they undertook to despoil him
OF whatever he had. and, as in this Vandalia
suit, set that he was a rascal, wholly ignoring
the fact that il he had practicec any rasc atty
they had been in il with him."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
ONIONS TO FRY.
How John Jocob Aston the Fourth Earned
Good Spanking.

New York Letter.
When John Jacob Astor the fourth, the long
legged stripping who attained his majority the
other day, urchin his mother one even
ing was having a swell party at the house. AT
an early stage in the proceedings the maternal
mandate went forth: Now, Johnnie, up
stairs and stay there. This is no place for you.
Your turn will come by and by and then you
will have good time of your own" John was
outwardly calm but inwardly seething he
tenderly embraced the authoress of his being and
repaired upward. A half hour later found him
sliding down the balustrade his way to the
basement Here lay basket of onions. 1t
was but the work of an instant to- bring forth
the trusty jackknife. Ten minutes later vari-
Gus chunks and layers of the savory esculent
were frying in their own fat amid the hot-air
pipes that led to the parlors.
Whew! What on earth! And where2 Deli
cate self-control marked the demeanor of
those who ''smelt something" Then came sud
den leave-takings. discounted hostess
merged into wrathy mistress and servants
went with dismay into the frutless hunt for the
smell. Search high and low was unavailing
The house smelt to heaven, while young Johnny
held his robust little stomach with both hands,
like a young cholera victim, though his trouble
was laughter. He got spanking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
The Care of meadows.

Prof. Cook. in New England Farmer.
Shalr the meadows be op-dressed2 If dry,
assuredly no. If moist they may. under few
conditions, be profitably top-dressed, but it
should always be borne in mind that the prin-
cipal of the top-dressing is not as fer
tilizer, but mulch and that much the same
effect would be produced if pond mud muck
put A farmer gets much better re-
turn for the manure used when the land is
plowed and reseeded than when the same
fertilizers help on the growth of different kinds
of grasses. Plaster of potash fertilizers pro-
mote the growth of clover; potash and lime,
that of white clover; farm yard manure that of
the true grasses, rather than clover or weeds;
ammonia compounds. that of grass with much
leaf; mineral manures, that of clover, and min
eral manureS with ammonia, that of true grasses
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09


Threshing corn running the stalks and all
through a machine) will greatly enhance the
value of the fodder. But the question has risen
whether or not the corn fodder cut so fine as a
machine would cut it, will not heat. The prac-
tice Of threshing corn has been adopted by a
number of farmers this season, and naturally
they speak highly of the fodder. For sheep or
other animals the value of fodder is in
creased by cutting, or tearing to pieces One
Iowa farmer is reported to have threshed more
than 1000 bushels out of the shock He saws
that the fodder is torn into shreds, and although
the corn is somewhat broken, it is clean. In
is lighter than in threshing oats. There is
no doubt that the method will be generally
adopted, and it is possible and probable that ma
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
Effect of Drinks on the Throat.


Tea, coffee and cocoa are three admissible
drinks, but none in excess. For the voice cocoa
is the most beneficial 1t should never be made
TOO strong, and those cocoas are the best that
have been deprived of their OIL cup of thin
cocoa Just warm is more to be recommended
betwee the exertions of singing than any alco-
hollc beverage Tea must not be3taken too
strong For when it had been drawn too long,
for tea then becomes acid and has bad infu-
ence upon the mucous membrane of the throat
There Is always dry sensation after having
taken a cup OF tea that has been allowed to
draw too long. vocalist had better do with
out sugar in tea and only take milk with it.