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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
unusual cold was general, extending from

unusual cold YVES general, extending from
the extreme nor hern line of telegraphic
communication as far south as Texas and
the gulf States Extreme suffering was re-
ported from all directions, especially in
Minnesota, Dakota, Montana AMI Nebraska
where over one hundred lives were lost.
In Kansas thousands were suffering for
want of both fuel and food In Iowa, I'LL
nois, Wisconsin and Michigan the thermom-
eter ranged from 20 to 40 degrees below
zero.
The Church of the Redeemer at Minneap-
oils was burned On the 10TH, causing loss
of $4,000
NEAL McKEAGUE, The Winnetka GILL;
butcher, who was tried for the murder of
Mr. and Mrs Wilson in 1884, was killed by
a saloon-keeper ON the 18th at Churehs
Ferry, D. T.
was called to his door on the 18th and shot
dead by some unknown persons.
On the evening of the 14th the corner
stone of the st Paul (Minn) ice-palace was
laid, with the thermometer marking 20 de-
crees below zero.
SIX children of James Baker were frozen
to death on the 18th while returning from
school at Chester, Mnn.
W. Tiilotson. of Bloomington, ILL.,, was
frozen to death in his stable on the night of
the 18th
THE death of William Fl Hicselooper, old
est Bishop of the Mormon church, occurred
at Salt Lake City on the 14th
A REVISED list of the victims Of the re-
cent blizzard shows that 1879 persons per-
ished and that 50 were still missing The
dead are distributed through the North
west as follows: In Dakota, 81; Minne-
sofa, II; Iowa, 6; Nebraska, II; Mon
tana, 2.
The thermometer marked 55 degrees be-
low zero on the 18th at Richland Center
and Chippewa Fails, Wis
In Mississippi the coolest weather of the
season prevailed ON the 10th, and the earth
was covered with sleet, snow and ice
HENRY OsTRUM, a Swede living twenty
miles from Princeton, Mimi, murdered his
wife and seven children few days ago,
and attempted to pallate his crime by say
ing he feared they would be frozen to
DEATH
DEMOCRATIC members of the Iowa Legis-
lature in caucus ON the 10th nominated T.
J. Anderson for United ates Senator
A FIRE on the 10Th des .royed the Eysning
Star Office at Kansas City Loss 5000
In the recent blizzard in Texas many cat
tie persisted and several persons were bad
ly frozen. The weather was the coolest
known in years.
In the Utah Legislature bill was intro
duced on the 10th by John NJ Young,
nephew of the late Brigham Young, to sup
press the practice of poygamy.
The Legislature OF Washington Territory
on the 10Th re-enacted the Woman Suf-
frage law, but exempted women from jury
service.
NEAR Ottumwa, Ia, two trains collided
on the 18th, wrecking both engines and
killing three men,
In the Parke County Qnd) coal mines
three men were killed on the 10th by an
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

DURING the calendar year 1887 s.
0S6, S7S gold coins were struck at the
mints of the United States, of the
value of $2S, 972, 3S3. The value of
the different gold coins struck was as
follows: Double eagles, SIS, 662, 42O;
eagles, $500, 800; half eagles. So
300, 1856; thrce-dolar pieces. SIS, $50;
quarter eagles, $15, 705; dollars, S.
543' The silver coinage for the year
was $33, Gil, 40 in standard" dollars,
81, S55 in half dollars, $2,67S in quarter
dollars and S1,573, $3.50 in dimes The
dollar coinage was the largest for any
one year in the history of the country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
"A Chicago clothing manufacturer

"A Chicago clothing manufacturer
says that he is obliged to pay particu-
lar attention to the hip-pockets which
he puts in trousers destined for the
Western trade. His Kansas and Iowa
customers demand pocket capa-
bic of holding quart flask, but for
the Far West trade the pocket is made
deep and narrow, with an unusually
strong lining, SO that pistol will fit
snugly in it,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
DAKOTA.


Thomas Murray, a Sioux City Ga. saloon
keeper, found his wife in house of ill-fame
at Sioux Falls a few evenings ago, and
after shooting her dead put bullet in his
own brain
B. s. Holland of Bachelors Grove, was
frozen to death in the recent great storm
He had gone to Larimore to procure medi-
cine for his sick wife, and when returning
on foot*he was lost in the snow and died
Judd Robinson froze to death near May
vile the other evening.
The Law-and- Order League and the sa-
loon-keepers of Sioux Falls have made ar
engagements for testing the constitutibnality
of the Local Option law, and if the constitu-
tionality of the law is established the saloon
men will Immediately close up and assist
in enforcing the law. II not the city will is
sue license as heretofore.
1t is said $3.50, COO will be spent prospect
ing for coal in Southeastern Dakota this
year.
gasoline famine is being experienced at
Watertown. 1t is said that great number
OF well DIDO families use gasoline for cook
ing purposes The poorer classes are the
most affected by the famine.
Ex-Governor Pierce has taken up his resi-
dence at Jamestown
Pierre is ready with 300, 900 when the
passage by Congress of the Sioux Reserva-
tion billpermits the Illinois Central to break
into the coveted land
Rapids City parties have sent off for lot
OF quail for the purpose of planting" them
in the country. They believe they will
withstand the rigors of the winter
At Yankton a few days ago Chief Justice
Trip decided the asylum case against the
plaintiffs, the old board, holding that the
government had the right to remove them
and to I'LL the vacancies.
John D. Lawler assumed the duties of
Territorial Treasurer the other day. Ex-
Treasurer Raymond turned over the funds
OF the treasury, amounting to nearly $780,
600. Twenty years ago Treasurer ]. I.
Gore turned over to his successor $3.50, the
amount of the funds in the treasury at that
time. This is thought to be coed show
ing for Dakota in twenty years.
Lackawanna is the name given to the
new coal fields in the Black Hills. They are
ten mics southwest of Hot Springs, and
cover n area of twelve square miles. TIE
c0al is OF q bituminous character, but there
are thin stratas of hard, bright and ex-
trenely black coal which is believed to be
anthracite II struck with a ha MINER it
breaks up into cubes, and is remarkably
clean.
u.s.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

BY the operation of the statute
which bars prosecution for murder or
manslaughter unless death occurs
within one year and one day of the as
sault, Mrs. McGeSvey, says the Chicago
Times, escapes the consequences of
having caused the death of Patrick
Duvanney. On the night of January
10, 1886, she pushed him over stair
railing and in the fall he broke his
back He lived until January IL,
1888, and Mrs. McGeever goes free.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

IN recent sermon to men only Rev.
Mr. Sturgeon, the eminent London
preacheE' gave some startling statis-
tics. He said "there are in London So
600 professional Phrynes, 600, 900 prac-
teal drunkards, 5000 public houses
and 1000 clubs for tempting young
men,"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

A WOMAN died in Alabama recently
at the age of eighty-seven years. She
was not known TO fame. Her life was
spent in the humble discharge of the
duties pertaining to plain and I'M
pretending country home. She made
pure butter, baked good bread, raised
large family of stalwart sons and
charming daughters, attended church
regularly, gave as literally as she
could to the support of the Gospel and
to all benevolent objects, was cheer
full happy and beloved by all who
knew her, and died regretted by eleven
children, and many grandchildren.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
TRICKY JOHN BULL.
The British Government Shipping Paupers
to This Country via Canada.

The British Government Shipping Paupers
to This Country via Canada.
New YORK, Jan. 13.-Michael Griffin. an
rishman from Tralee, County Kerry, his
wife and four children, applied Wednesday
night for shelter at police station Yes
terday they informed Superintendent Jack
son, of Castle Garden, that Agent French,
representing the British Government. had
furnished them with money to come to
New York via Quebec MI. Jackson says he
has long suspected that the English author
titles were sending paupers to the United
States through Canada. The family was
taken care of by the charities department..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
Electricity Preferred.

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan 1S--The commission
appointed by the New York Legislature to
discover some humane means OF capital
punishment reported yesterday. 1t rec
omends the killing of criminals by cleo
tricity. 1t also recommends that the date
of execution be kept secret from the pris-
oner
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
Work of a Runaway Engine.

DENVER, Col, Jan 13-An engine on the
Union Pacific, drawing train of ore down
the mountain toward ST Elmo, Col,
Wednesday afternoon, became unmanage-
able, the air brakes were useless, and the
train dashed down the slope for six miles
at sixty-mile rate, jumping from the track
at ST Elmo. instantly killing Engineer
James Conner and Fireman NJ Whaley, and
wrecking locomotive and cars
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
News Items from Various States
and Territories.
ILLINOIS.

The Illinois Soldiers Home is very much
crowded at present. but relief is looked for
in a few days, when several of the new cot
tages viii be finished.
The post-offices at Gray Willow and Win
tiers have been discon tinued
The Touring mill of Moenning Bros, at
Quincy, was destroyed by fire recently at
loss of 1913, 900; insurance. SIG, 900.
The office OF Deputy Surveyor of Customs
at Galena has been abolished by command
CT the Treasury Department
Rockford had $50, 900 blaze recently,
when the cooperative furniture factory
was burned to the ground
John Blackmore, one of the Oldest set
tiers in Northern Illinois, aged eighty-three
years, died the other night in Warren, 10
Daviess County, of paralysis, and Thomas
Rutledge died at Heyworth, Mclean Coun-
ty, aged eighty-two- years
Jamie Gassoway, eleven years old, son of
DR.. James NJ Gassoway, of the United
States Marine Hospital Service, stationed at
Cairo, was blown from Lake Shore train
in Western New York the other day, while
passing between two cars, and instantly
killed
The total amount of money paid for cat
tie received at the Union Stock Yards in
Chicago during 1887 was about 800, OOO,-
O0O This for cattle alone, saying nothing
OF sheep, hogs and horses.
The body of Mrs. Sarah Huffman was
found the other morning in an old hut on
the Wilkin farm, two miles north of Mar
shall. She had starved to death
The First Baptist Church of Bloomington
celebrated its fftieth anniversary the other
day.
A corn binder agent succeeded in
swindlng Mr. Lishness, of Graymont, out
OF $500 few days ago.
The total disbursements from the CHI
cago Pension Office during the past year
were So, 733, 507 "a. The number of pen.
sioners on the roll was SO, 500
Post-offices have been established at Nor
tonville, Will County, and Temple Hill, Pope
County, Ill.
Mrs. Mary Swords slipped and fell on
sidewalk in Nokomls the other night caus-
ing conclusion of the brain, which resulted
in death in few minutes.
company with 81 100000 capital has
been licensed to establish an aquarium and
fish market in Chicago.
The annual election of officers for the
Chicago Board of Trade was held recently.
and resulted in the choice of Charles L.
Hutchinson for president.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

PEN BENTON, the bigamist, arrested
Mt Atlanta recently for having five
wives, said he had registered VOW
that by the time he was twenty-five
years old he would have twenty-five
rri,,nn
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

The New York City elevated and
surface railroads carried last year
1858, 538, 1913 passengers. for which they
received in scent fares upward of ST.
oOO,000 The profits, after paying all
expenses, were about So, 900. coo.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

The Usage Indians number sixteen
hundred, have 100000 of capital
drawing five per cent. interest, res
ervation of good land and an annuity
OF $3.50 600
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

ELI BOGGs and Miss Rhoda Smith,
and Marion Greenhill and Miss Kate
Chandler, walked from Carter County,
KY, recently to Maysvillc, a distance
Of one hundred miles. to be married.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
WISCONSIN.

AS MI. Palmerlee's little children were
coming across the Trempealeau river at
Dodge few days ago five large wolves at
tackled them, tore their clothes and hurt
them quite badly before they were fright
ened away.
The Wisconsin Shoe Company's factory at
GAINESVILLE was damaged by fire to the ex-
tent of SO, 900 the other day.
G. F. Crosby, of Wausau, has been ap-
pointed municipal Judge Of Marathon Coun-
ty, vice s. H Alban, resigned
Robert Wallace, a machine tender in the
Badger Paper Mill at Kaukauna, was
caught in the gearing the other night and
killed.
R A Odell. of Whitehall, has been APP
pointed county judge of Trempeauleau
County, vice NJ. Mulligan, resigned
Council Bluffs check forger, named
Harry Winn, was recently captured in
Nebraska and brought back for trial
The GAINESVILLE Hospital Association has
been Incorporated, with a capital stock of
100000
In the woods north of Thorp few DAYS
ago E. ]. Shipman ran across two large
deer with their horns locked together, in
which position they had evidently been for
several days One was dead and the other
nearly So
William Kurns, of Durand, aged twenty
one, attempted to walk from Bayfield, to
logging camp on Cranberry river He gave
out after walking thirty miles and died
F. Y. Griffin, of Durand, has contracted to
get out a million base ball clubs for Chi
cago firm.
All the houses of ill-fame in Florence
County have been ordered closed, end the
inmates of the dens in the woods are to be
driven out of the county.
DR.. ]. N. Babcock, of the New York State
Experimental Station, has been e. 3cted
professor of agricultural chemistry il Wis
consin University.
Wolves are having things pretty much
their own way in swamp two miles north
OF Burlington. They kill more or less sheep
every day.
The general stores of FL Ripley and d.
Tryland and the saloons of s Swanson and
q. l. Nelson We're burned at Ogeman early
the other morning.
A New Jersey capitalist offers to start a
National bank at bayfield,. putting in $780,
GOO if citizens will subscribe an equal
amount,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

Miss PHOEBE w. CoUzINs, Of St.
Louis, has announced herself as a can
didate for Governor of Missouri ON the
Independent Republican ticket
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
HE following is from Harleian
MS. i'll the British museum (No. 2252):

Lordlings, all of you warn;
If the day that Christ was born
Fa'l upon q Sunday,
Then winter shall be good, I say,
But great winds aloft shall be;
The summer shall be fair and dry,
by kind skill and without loss,
Through all lands there shall be peace,
Good time for all things to be done,
But he that stealeth shall be found soon:
What child that day born may be,
A great lord he shall live to be-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

GEORGE w. RosURE. known as the
cowboy evangelist" is said to be
worth 100000, which gives him an
income of $3.50 day.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

Mrs. MARY GALLAGHER, of South
Bethlehem, Pa, is LOG years old, and
recently danced jig to the music of a
violin.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

Our of three hundred and twenty
five members of the present Congress
two hundred and sixteen are lawyers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
Death of a Noted Religious Editor.

New York, Jan. 13-Rev. DR. Alfred s.
Patton, the editor and owner of the Bep-
list Weekly. died yesterday morning at the
residence Of his son-in-law in Brooklyn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
IOWA.

Fifteen hundred head of cattle have been
dehorned in the southern part of Osceola
County during the present winter.
The infant son of William J. Walker. of
Sioux City, drank large quantity of con-
ccntrated I've recently and died soon after
wards.
About eleven acres of the leading coal
mine at Altoona, on the eastern edge of
Polk County, were flooded with four feet of
water recently, throwing one hundred men
out of work.
Daniel Nauman & Co. IS block at Waterloo
was burned the other night, causing loss
of So, 800
For many years an old lady over ninety
years of age known as Aunt Kitty Fender
CAST, lived all alone in a little shanty in an
isolated portion of Dubuque. A few nights
ago her home was burned and she persisted
in the flames.
Sioux City's annual 'possum supper, given
by a colored lady named Auntie Wooden
took place few evenings ago.
Governor Larrabee has reappointed Prof
M Stalker as State Veterinarian with the
following deputies: W. B. Miles, State Cen
ter; J. A. Campbell. Des Moines; R. M.
Nicholson, Sac City; Charles H. Flynn, De-
corah; M E. Johnson, Red Oak; G. A. Cary,
Keokuk; John Title, Ames.
The Dubuque cooperative grocery store
assigned recently The concern did fair
business, but the profits were not large
enough to keep it afioat
A singular instance of long and faithful
public service was that of the late A. D.
Maloney, of Denison, who held the Office Of
auditor of Crawford County from 1890
until his death few days ago, period of
twenty-seven years, or since the county
was organized.
1t was discovered few days ago that L
P. Hill, recently treasurer of Harrison Coun-
ty, was behind in his accounts to the ex-
tent of $4,000
The Board of Commissioners of Woodbury.
County has refused permits to three whole
sale liquor houses of Sioux City, but made a
sort of compromise which will enable them
to run until May. After that drug stores
will be the only place where liquor can be
legitimately obtained
An unsuccessful attempt was made near
Ottumwa the other night to rob the ex-
press-car of the bound train on the
Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad.
An incendiary fire at Colesburg the other
day destroyed Thomas Coles general store
and the Walker Hotel Loss, SIS, 5000; in
surance, SIS, 900.
General James Wilson died at his home in
Newton the other night aged eighty five
wears
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20

IT is said that there are three
thousand faith healers in the United
States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
There are 446 prisoners at the State PEN
itentlary, OF which number twelve are fe-
MICHIGAN.

The internal revenue receipts for the
district com prising the northern peninsula
OF Michigan for 1887 foot up $1Ol, 7I6.
against SIC. 900 in 1886
An economical Detroit merchant lighted
the gas jets one after another the other
night with single match until he burned
his fingers, and then dropped it into pile
OF cotton The result was fire and "a
damage of 81 500
Mrs. Emma Kallam, of Detroit, by mis-
take swallowed medicine prescribed as
iniment and died recently
George Rugh, of Charlotte, committed
suicide the other night with morphine. He
had been on spree for over week.
While three men were vanishing an froa
beer-vat at Detroit few days ago the var
nlsh took fire, and before the men were
rescued two OF them were fatally burned.
Fifty cords of wood were distributed
among the poor of Charlotte recently, and
Congressman Fischer gave two hundred
sacks Of flour to the poor ofsWest Bay City.
The Detroit Light Infantry Armory was
partially destroyed by fire the other even
ing. Loss, $4,000
Mrs. Fisher, living near Bay City, whose
NAsN'oNiANe L. SoOAlOuSiy ulSdppcdIoU, con-
fessed recently that he was murdered by her
paramour, Isaiah Wallace
Four OF gang of burglars and Threats
We're arrested at Detroit few days ago on
testimony Of member of the band
Simpson & Co., the leading general mer-
chant at Parma for years, failed recently.
The assets and liabilities would reach 500
600 each.
Among the marriage licenses recently is
sued at Grand Rapids was one to John A.
Patterson and Mrs Edith A Patterson, his
deceased brothers wife.
Robert Mckinney, of Jackson, was fatally
shot by Jack King in Sioux City, Ia, few
days ago
Foar thieves with wagon raided several
farms in Ecorse, Wayne County, the other
night
Since December z 6,266, 900 pounds of
copper have been shipped from Houghton
to New England and the Atlantic seaboard
". ]. McRoberts, dealer in notions at
Lansing, Mich, is financially embarrassed.
His stock is worth $14, O0O
Prof. Vaughn, before the State Board of
Health at Lansing, recentlJ announced the
satisfactory result of his attempt to pro-
duce on an animal disease similar to ty-
phoid fever, by the use of germs found in
water used by typhoid victims.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
MINNESOTA.

Inc great flour train, with its one hun
dred cars filled with the best that the Min
neapolis mills can turn out, left for the
East the other day over the $500" road in
five sections of twenty cars each half an
hour apart
Colonel Alexander Chambers, command
ing the Fourth Infantry at Fort Smelling,
died in San Antonio, Tex, recently, of pleu-
ro-pneumonia He came here for the benefit
of his health
The members of Coopers' Assembly of the
Knights of Labor at Minneapolis mourn the
absence of their receiving secretary, W. p.
Sisson, and with him all the funds of the
assembly.
Minnesota has $50 saloons against 1874
one year ago: The license revenue in 1887
was $S23O.O00.
Rev. Dr. S. G. Smith, who recently re-
tireu from the passionate of the First Meth
odist Church at st. Paul, held his first serv-
ice as the pastor Of an Independent church
recently. His plan is to establish church
where pastor and people can be on the
same plane, and where every body can
worship without regard to belief in any de-
nominational creed.
The saloon keepers of St Paul are taxed
ST. 900 for license. They are working on
scheme to consolidate the business of
liquor selling on the "trust" principle, the
brewers to furnish the capital and give en-
ployment to men now engaged in the bust
ness.
The Itasca Lumber Company of Mime
apolis recently sold it's entire stock to s. K
Martin & Co., of Chicago There were %
10000 feet OF lumber, 100000 shingles
and $780, 900 lath.
Governor McGill says that high license in
the State has proved a success.
Charles Campbell, manager of the Duluth
Gas Company, abscond ed the other day
with So, 900 of the company's funds
Herman Hearnes, of Utica, Mimi, is af-
flioted with a strange disease, under the
influence of which he has slept almost con-
tinuously for seven years.
Squatters are rushing to the Government
land recently opened in Cass County, and
fully two hundred families have taken
claims
Senator Davis has informed the Duluth
Chamber of Commerce that he will in
troduce bill to make Duluth a port of
entry.
A blast fired in sewer excavation near
the Bay View House in Duluth recently
threw out several pieces of rock, one of
which went through the roof of the Bay
View House. The rock was picked up and
as it strongly resembles iron ore it was
carefully examined by experts, who said it
was rich in iron ore.