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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
MICHIGAN.

Christopher Bulow, of East Jordan, was
fined recently for leaving his team stand
ing out all night while he spent his time in
saloons. He then asked saloonists not to
sell him any more drink, but he got drunk
IN spite of his request, lay out of doors all
night, and froze both feet SO badly that am
putation would probably be necessary
Iawas bay, at distance of about four
miles from the shore, is covered with fish
saanties Some trout are caught weighing
thlrty-fiye pounds
That forty-two carloads of corn have
been shipped into Jonesville since Novem-
Der l is a remarkably pertinent commen-
tary on that crop in Hillsdale County last
year. 1t isn't more than once in one hun
dfed years that SO rich an agricultural coun-
ty as Hills 1ale has to import anything to
feed its stock
BENJAMIN Giddings a farmer of Oak
wood. was found dead in his barn few
days ago. A revolver in his hand lead to
the theory of suicide.
Michael Engelman, aged ffty-six years,
one of the most prominent business men of
Michigan, died recently at Manistee.
The State Supreme Court the other day
decided the Palms will case at Detroit, re-
yersing the decision of the court below.
The result is that the children will receive
the income of the estate, upward of $780,
000 yearly, and the grandchildren will get
the estate, which is valued at ST., 900, 900.
Monroe Hoffman was killed while cross
ing the railroad track near Holland recent
" His team was also struck by the loco.
motive and ground to pieces by the cars
Samuel Marshall, of Gilead, Branch Couu-
ty, is eighty three years old, but can see
Without glasses to thread the finest needle.
and has not had sick day in thirty years.
lie now WORKS by the month, and receives
wages that compare favorably with those
OF younger men.
The annual report of fire, inland and
marine insurance business of Michigan for
1887 gives the total amount of premiums
received by purely Michigan companies at
$277, $50; losses incurred, $146, S03; pre-
m1ums OF all other companies, So, III, 953;
losses, 81, 1913, $50; total surplus of all COM
panies $S6, 140,047.
The sixth annual convention of the State
Veterinary Medical Association was held re-
Gently at Battle Creek, and officers were
elected as follows: Benjamin c. McBeth,
Battle Creek, President; H. FL Clement
Coldwater, First Vice-President; H. T. Stew
art Kalamazoo, Second Vice-President; W.
Dean, Marshall, Third Vice-President; E. W.
Bartram, Paw Paw, Secretary; W. Jopling,
Owasso. Treasurer
The State Supreme Court has declared
fraudulent and null and void the promis-
sorry notes given by thousands of farmers
in the State to agents selling Bohemian
oats This is important to many duped
people.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

The value of rare American coins is
rs follows: The half-dollar of 1852.
representing Liberty seated, is worth
$l.75. Among silver dollars the 1858
dollar representing Liberty seated, is
worth SIS. The dollar of 1928 has a
flying eagle on the reverse side, and is
worth SIS. So is the same coin of
1889 Both are in circulation. The
20-cent piece of 1877 is worth 81. so, and
of 1878, 81 25, They are rarely seen.
The valuable dimes and half-dimes
were all coined before 1916. The sill
yer Scent piece Of 1873, with the
large STAR brings 60 cents.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
DAKOTA.

Deadwood papers claim that real estate is
looking up wonderfully in that locality.
man lost in the recent blizzard near
Montrose ran against barbed wire fence,
which he followed, and it brought him to a
farmhouse.
The defunct Jamestown Board of Trade
is to be resuscitated and clothed with
new constitution and a new name
Charles Hughes and John Brown, who
We're sentenced four years ago from LAW
renee County to life terms in the peniten-
tiary in Sioux Falls for highway robbery,
have had their sentences committed by the
Governor to five years.
Rev. A. T. Brauns, of Darlington, Baptist
pastor and missionary among the Rouma-
mans of Foster and Wells counties, is in
Roumania and Russia to secure emgrants
TO Dakota About one hundred families
have already arrived, and as many more are
coming. They are mostly Baptists, and
being prosecuted for their faith in Russia,
are easily induced to leave.
Sioux Falls has a female Unitarian
preacher
Two carloads of potatoes, corn and food
Were sent to the Kansas sufferers the other
day from Pierre.
IN enIerprlslhg photographer Is abroad
in the school districts of Yankton County
securing views of school houses and teach
ers for Illustrations of the great blizzard
Mrs Rallsbach, of Stursis had a violent
quarrel with her husband recently After
retiring she arose, went into another room,
wrote note to him, and shot herself with
a rifle. She died in twenty minutes.
The incandescent electric light system has
been put in at jamestown
redmond Newhauser, manager of Ep-
p1nger's clothing house at Jamestown
suicided at the Central Hotel the other day
by taking strychnine Financial troubles
were the cause He leaves wife.
It is the purpose Of the Territorial Super
intendent Of Public Instruction to compile
a list OF every person who persisted in Da-
kota during the fatal snow-storm of the
l25h of January last, for general distribu-
ton The work OF gathering the statistics
is being performed by county superintend-
ents of schools. The object of the publ
cation is to contradict the exaggerated re-,
ports circulated throughout the States
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE Englis Parliament convened on the
9th.
AN act was passed by the Swedish Parlia-
ment on the 9th laying an import duty on
grain, corn, peas and beans
LORD LANsDowNE accepted the position Of
Viceroy. of India on the 9th, and will leave
Canada for England in June Lord Stanley
will succeed him as Governor-General of
Canada.
VIENNA advices of the 10th say that
enormous avalanches along the line of the
Arberg railway had resulted in serious loss
of life, and traffic. on the road had been
stopped
ola during the seven days ended on the 10Th,
being nearly double the usual average in
seven days.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

In the last twenty-three years, it is
said, there have been only two colder
Januarys than the one this year.
These were January, 1875, and Jan
uary, 1883, and it was only the mild
weather of the last few days that pre-
vented January, 1888, from being the
coolest on record.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
PRONOUNCED a Conspiracy.

New YORK, Feb 3-The suit against tbs
National Benefit Society 10 recover
$4,000, the amount Of a life insur-
ance policy held by the late John
Tyler, was decided Saturday in Judge
Cullen's court at Brooklyn, the jury
finding that the society was not liable, as il
was proved that Tyler had committed sui
eide. This establishes the fact of the exist
ence.of great conspiracyt to defraud the in
surance companies out of 100000. for
which Tyler had his life insured
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

To THE delight of the officers of the
Post-Oitice Department at Washington
the special delivery system has proved
a success, Returns received from all
free delivery post-ofiices for the quar-
ter ended September 20, 1887, showed
that 217, 1926 special delivery letters
We're delivered, which was large in
crease compared with the previous
quarter For the quarter ended De-
cember 81 last the returns received
showed an increase of 1876 per cent.
over the September quarter. The best
feature of the service is that the Gov
eminent can not lose a cent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

The Toledo Blade publishes a state
ment that syndicate of New York,
Toledo, Chicago and Detroit capital
lists, representing $25, 600, 900, held a
meeting few evenings ago at Detroit
and organized a company to build
pipe line from the Northwestern Ohio
oil fields to Toledo and to erect re-
tineries so as to compete with the
Standard Oil Company, They claim
to own patents on new process of
refining and say they can place the
product on the market at a cheaper
rate. The capital stock of the new
company is said to be $40. 0OO,o 900.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
MINNESOTA.

Charles Hoag, the man who named Mime
apolis, died there the other day of dropsy
of the heart, aged eighty years.
Tom Cody, known as the cowboy plan
ist, who exhibited his skill in dime muse
ums, eloped the other night from Minneap-
oils with Nellie Saunders, colored girl,
aged fifteen years Cody, as alleged, left
his wife in destitute circumstances
The winter carnival at st Paul closed the
other night in blaze of fire. works which
showed to fine effect in the clear, snappy
atmosphere. The cascade of fire pouring
do9Ea around the great central tower of the
lce pa1ace, while showers of colored lights
mounted skyward from its battlements, was
sight long to be remembered
The Photographers Association of Amer
lea has arranged to hold its next meeting
in the Exposition building at Minneapolis
July 10 to IA inclusive
The State Republican League at it's recent
session in Minneapolis elected as president
F. e. Searls, of st. Cloud. Candidates and
platforms were not discussed, the league
voting to support the Republican candidate
for President
Articles Of incorporation of q new rail-
road to be called The Winona & Southwest
ern, have been filed at Des Moines, Ia. The
line will run from Winona to Omaha, Neb.
A deaf and dumb Indian was struck by
train near Morris the other night. and a
deer which he was carrying on his head was
thrown twenty feet, but the Indian was not
much hurt
The Empire Coffee and Spice Company of
Minneapolis failed recently. Liabilities
about $13, 600; nominal assets, $50, 200
James Funk was convicted of murder in
the first degree at Wilmar the other after
noon. The crime for which Funk must
hang was the deliberate shooting of his wife,
Sarah Funk, at the Logan House in Wllmar,
on the evening of December 5.
Rev. Dr.. Woodbury., of the Second Con-
gregational Church at Rockford H., has
accepted a call to Minneapolis.
The Wabasha Ferry Company has decided
to build a swing ferry to connect that city
with the Wisconsin shore, provided the City
Council will extend aid in the sum of
So, 900 from the bond fund voted by spe-
cial election last Octo ber
farmer living in the woods several
miles from Duluth recently reported the
discovery in the woods, several miles from
his dwelling and away from the travelled
paths, of stranded balloon He also dis
covered in the limbs of a tree the body of q
man about thirty years of age It was sup
posed he balloon was the one which went
up last spring from a Southern point and
was never heard Of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
Jennie Lind's Will.

LONDON, Feb 13.-The will of Jennie
Lind bequeaths to her grandson the cabinet
of books presented 10 her by the New York
fire companies; freehold estate pur-
chased out of $4,000 which AN Ameri-
can settled upon Ter on her
marriage was bequeathed to her hus-
band; a legacy of $4,000 Swedish crowns
was bequeathed to the University at Upsa-
Ia Sweden, for the maintenance of poor
students; the University at Land, Sweden,
receives 5000 crowns, to be applied to aid
poor students who purpose entering the
ministry Of the Protestant Church The
personal property of the dead singer il
valued at e40, $50.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

Miss GRACE WEIsER, the young
Methodist revivalist, is meeting with
success in New York. She engaged in
evangelical work five years ago last
September and since then eleven
thousand persons have been converted
as the result of her labors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

The point where the coolest temporal
ture on earth has ever been observed
has been dignified by the name of the
pole of cold. 1t is located to the east
of the River Lena, in Siberia. There,
at Verchojansk, the Russian Govern
ment has established an observatory.
The poor weather man out there re-
ported in December one year So de-
grees below zero, and January, 1885.
as much as 80 and % degrees below.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

THERE is q hotel in Arkansas where
the rooms are designated by the names
of cities and States. Here, Front,
show this gentleman to New Orleans,
take a pitcher of ice-water to Mime
sofa, see what that man in Boston
wants. and make fire in Chicago" is
a sample of what one hears in the
Office.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
The PuIImans sned.

CHICAGO, Feb 13-Andrew J. Carberry,
the Pullman car condutor, who was tried
In the criminal court last week and ac-
quilted on a charge of stealing the COM
pany's fares on his run between
New Orleans and Chicago, brought suit for
$4,000 damages yesterday in the circuit
court against the Pullman Car Company
and the American Surety Company, his
prosecutors
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

NEARLY $4,000 has been subscribed
'by Nebraska citizens in behalf of hero
1c school-teachers who protected their
young charges at terrible cost to them
selves during the late blizzard. Sew
eral of the young women are cripples
for life by reason of their heroism. 1t
is thought the fund will reach $40, 900
IN the next few DAYS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
WISCONSIN,.

Two miners at Hurley were overcome BY
gas while descending the Germania shaft
the other morning and fell to the bottom
and were Instantly killed.
The Iron Mound Cranberry Company,
which sued the Chicago ST Paul Mime
apols & Omaha Railroad Company, at
Black River Falls, for $75, 900 for damages
done to its cranberry marsh by fire, got a
verdict of $50, 600 so a few days ago
William Hughes, who is charged with kill
ing a fellow workman named Howard in
Milwaukee October 81, was handed over to
Detective Pringle in New York few days
ago, to be taken to Milwaukee.
Jackson Wright, an old colored man,
long resident of Racine. recently discov-
cred that his wife and son, from whom he
was parted in slavery days, are living in
St Louis
Carrie E. Whiteside, of California, claims
to be the owner of thirty valuable lots in
the city of Madison upon which many resi-
dences stand
At Ashland sixty million feet of timber
lies buried under snow-drifts
Three men wearing belts and revolvers
caused considerable excitement in Trem-
pealeau a few days age by raiding the
saloons ana driving out citizens. They
finally left without doing injury to any
one
The Chippewa Lumber & Boom Com
pany and Frederick Weyhauser have pur-
chased large tract of pine lumber in Ash
land County for 1904, 600
Louis Eickstein, of Milwaukee, has been
appointed assistant general passenger and
ticket agent of the Wisconsin Central and
associated lines
It was decided by the State Agricultural
Society, in session at Madison recently, that
the next State fair should be held in Mil
waukee. The most important acton taken
was the opening of the cattle department
&c the world, the competition having here
tofore been confined to the State alone
An examination of winter wheat in West
ern Wisconsin shows a small but healthy
growth, well protected by the snow, and as
the acreage sown was unusually large farm
ers are hopeful for heavy yield
prisoner en- route for Waupun the other
day in charge of Charles Revoire, sheriff of
Chippewa County, jumped from the limited
train running at the rate of thirty miles an
hour between Marshfeld and Hewitt and es-
capped
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
INDIANA WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

Government Authorizes Telegraphing
Them Daily to One Hundred Points.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 1.-The Indiana
Farmer has obtained authority from the
Signal Service Department to send out
kilograms to 100 points in Indi-
ana daily containing the weather
predictions for twenty-four hours
from O'Clock a. m. Signal weather flags
are to be displayed from 100 elevated
points, flag-staffs and poles for the benefit
of agriculture, and the telephone system is
to he used to transmit the messages to
many other points throughout the State
from the several telegraph stations receiv-
ing the messages. This important service
goes into effect early next week
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

THE San Francisco Grant Monu-
ment Committee has sent out circulars
inviting architects and sculptors to
compete for the honor of designing a
monument for General Grant to cost
$500 900
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
Loss of Life in the Blizzard.

YANKToN, D. T., Feb. II. concerning the
loss of life in the recent storm, Railroad
Commissioner n T. Smith says: AS far as
learned the following is an authentic sum-
mary of the loss of life in the recent storm:
Beadle County, 8; Bonhomme, 10; Cod
ington, 3; Jerauld, 6; Clark, 2; Edmunds,
@; Brown, s; Hand, Z; Kingsbury, 3; Lin
coin, 30; Sphinx, 4; Turner, Is; Yankton, 8;
total ia
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

CAPTAIN BALDRY, of the steam
whaler Orea, has just returned to San
Francisco from a voyage in which he
killed thirty-tive whales. the largest
catch on record. Twenty-eight of
these-all the ship could carry-were
slowed and yielded $500 barrels of
oil and $4,000 pounds of bone. The
catch was valued at $66, 800.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
EIGHTEEN deserters from the Frenc'

EIGHTEEN deserters from the French
army in Tonquin were recently drawn
up in line for execution, when the Adj
Jutant, seeing that the line was poor,
said: Cant you fellows dress better
than thatP Right dress, The unfor-
tunates Strengthened themselves with
military promptness and perfection,
and the next moment the whole eight
cen went down before the murderous
ynlloy
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

A WEALTHY Montana man has Of
Tered to give the College of Montana
at Deer Lodge, $40, 900 on the condition
that the college will raise $15, 900 and
maintain a perpetual scholarship for
deserving girls without means.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

~ 1ActC1Nii y SCtN1 NttSJ
Cover Ii or Oglesby,
and presented a petit
ton and a mass of
letters and indors9-
ments, cons ,itut;ng
probably the strong
est plea for execu-
tive clemency ever
laid before an ex-
ecutive of Illinois.
While t h e crime
committed by Mack
in, to conceal which
he perjured himself
before the grand
jury, was Of a polit-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
Indiana's Insane.

NEW YORK, Feb 13.-An indianapolis
special to the Herald says that there are
5000 insane persons confined in the county
poor-houses OF in the homes Of relatives
throughout Indiana. The last Legislature
failed to appropriate money to complete
the three insane asylums in course OF erec-
ton, and the disgraceful state Of affairs
noted is the result
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

The Grant Monument Association
has issued a circular letter inviting
artists and architects to submit de-
signs for monument or memorial
building to be erected in Riverside
Park, New York. The cost of the
structure is to not exceed $500, 900.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
Wicked Rowan EnuntY.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb 10 The Legisla-
tive committee which has been fnvestigat-
ing the condition of Kentucky's famous
Rowan County returned to Frankfort FRI
day morning. A deplorable state of affairs
was found to exist, and it is probable that
the county will either be abolished or trans.
ferreG 70 another judicial district
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

OVER three hundred and fifty thou
sand headstones have been used by the
Government in marking the graves of
the Union dead.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
An estimate of the Dat

An estimate of the gate moneys to be re-
ceived by the men who covered $50 miles
and over is as follows: Albert, 81, 800, with
81, coo extra for beating the record; Herty,
So, 600; Guerrero, $1,000; Hart, 5000;
Golden, 1920; Moore, $40; Strokel, $3.50.
and Noremac, $240; total, $11, $50.
The official report shows TINT Albert COW
cred Cpl miles and ], 800 yards in 40
hours, and that he rested 10 hours and %
minutes
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Happenings in the Northwestern
States and Territories.
ILLINOIS.

The cholera is epidemic among the hogs
near Lena, Stephenson County, and large
numbers were dying. One farmer had lost
ffty-two hogs
The remains of Dr. Frank Wetzel, of Chi
cago, were cremated the other day at Pitts
burgb. Pa.
Henry Tierney, seventy year-old miser
living at Lincoln, was found dead in his bed
the other morning, leaving S25, 600 worth
of property behind him.
Benjamin Tinkha1n, for fifty-two years a
prominent resident of Warren County and
for seventy years a member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, died suddenly few
days ago.
Frank Flowers was arrested at Princeton
recently for fatally shooting Spring Valley
saloonkeeper in quarrel over game of
billiards
All hopes of good yield of peaches next
year in Central Illinois are said to be at
an enl Fruit men who have carefully ex-
amined the buds declare that they are all
winter killed, and that the crop the coming
season will be extremely light
Allen Thurman, of Atwood, Kan, and
Miss Amanda Hunt, Of Columbus, O., were
married at Galesburg the other day The
couple had never before met, and had mere
ly correspondent and changed photographs.
W. E. Westbrook, who murdered Joseph
Gross, at Blue Mound, has been sentenced
to be hanged on March 80
The twenty third annual meeting of the
Illinois Press Association was held recently
at Bloomington.
Bird W. Price, a well-known resident of
Laomi, hanged himself in his barn recently.
Engineer William Cobb, of Taffee's wagon
shop, at Fairfield, was killed recently by a
boiler explosion.
The St Louis & Springfield Railroad Com
pany, to construct line from Mt. Olive
to East St Louis, was Incorporated at
Springfield recently; capital stock, 81
100000.
An accommodation train on the Jackson
vile & Southwestern road was derailed
near Athens the other night. and the ca
boose rolled down an embankment, all of
the eight passengers being more or less in
Jured
The Tiskilwa bank burglars Fan Burnes
and Jimmie Wilson, Were brought from
Clinton, Ia, to Tiskilwa the other day on a
.requisition from Governor Oglssby.
The will of Nicholas H Ridgely, banker.
of Springfield, provides that his estate, val
ued at over So, 000,0 900, shall remain intact
for twenty years, the revenue to be equally
divided among the heirs meantime
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
Text of the Treaties Between Italy, A
tria and GERMANY.

tria and Germany.
VIENNA, Feb 13-The Neue Freie Presse
publishes the text Of the triple-alliance
treaties The terms of the compact were
as follows:
In the event Of an attack by France against
Italy or by Russia against Austria, the Cabinet
at Rome and Vienna will maintain friendly reu-
trality. Austria will support Italy's interests
in the Mediterranean, and promote no enter
prise in the Balkans without q previous agree
ment with Italy. The Italo-German treaty I'M
poses mutual support against France il case of
attack, and an additional convention provides
that if Austria or Germany is attacked by
France or Russia, Italy will be obliged to air
the country attacked with all forces.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17

THE Omaha Republican, speaking of
trusts, says: "There are altogether
too many trusts. The only trust that
ought to be encouraged is, Trust in
God and keep Your powder drY.'"