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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
A GOOD MAN GOES WRONG,

After Holding the State Treasurershir
of Ke"tucky for Twenty Years, Honest
Dick Tate" AbSconds, anu Examination
Proves Him Defau1ier III a Large
Sum-Isig Reward Offered for His Ar
rest.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 21--James w.
Tate, Honest Cd Dick Tate, as he was
usually called, Treasurer of the Sta,e of
Kentucky, is a defauiter and a fugitive, and
someth ng more than $3.50, 900 and less
than $500, 900 of tue States money is also
missing.
The intelligence has created O profound
sensation throughout Kentucky. MI Tate
was most popular man. He was ten times
nominated and elected State Treasurer by
the largest majorities on the ticket
Yesterday t e Governor sent an eff ;ial
notification to The Legislature, which is
now in session.
reso ution Off ring o reward of So, 900
for the arrest OF the desaulter was offered
by the Legislature yesterd ~ afternoon. In
1858 there was a similar dedication in
this State. Dick Page was treasurer, and
he got away with $500, 900
Mr.. Herndon, of this city, who was at one
time teller of bank at Frankfort, says that
Tate's defalcation will involve parties and
State officials OF high standing. He says
that it was the Gus ON OF many of the
State officials to go to Tate and get
him to cash notes tor them, promising to
pay them as soon as their vouchers were
due. When they secured their vouchers,
however, they would defer payment and
the good-natured Treasurer, failing to push
these claims accumulated a mass of such
securities as by this time must be simply
appalling. It is said that memoranda in
the Treasurer's office shows loan of $685.
600 to the Yeoman Company and another
of 800, 600 to a certain whisky trust
The Auditor has for some time past been
pressing Tate for a settlement, winch ought
to have been made in January On Thurs
day morning Tate left for Louisville On
Saturday the Auditor wired Louisville and
leaned that Tate had gone to Cincinnati
on Friday morning. Since then no trace of
the missing man has been found, and it is
believed that he has gone either to Canada
or Mexico
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
THE EAST.

ON the 10th the snow-blockade in New
York City was broken, and the steam and
street railways were once more running
One of the incidents of the blockade was
the building of immense bontires in the
middle of snow-drifts Store-k keepers lib
orally contributed boxes, and the big heaps
OF snow were thus melted away
In was thought ON the ] 9th that twenty
persons persisted in Essex County. N. r..
during the recent storm At New Haven,
Conn, seven persons persisted and there
were over twenty deaths in towns adjacent
TO New Haven, while hundreds of people
suffered from frost bites
OVER two thousand employees of Mcclure
Co., coke operators at Scottdale Pa,
struck on the 10Th because the firm refused
to grant the demands of the men for a di-
vision of the work
IN Philadelphia on the 10Th fire DESTROYED
property valued at S340, 900
IT was reported on the 10th that great
damage was done to the oyster fleet in the
Chesapeake bay by the recent storm. Over
one hundred vessels We're wrecked and
about thirty people drowned Inundation
of the lowlands of Maryland, Delaware and
Virginia peninsula also caused great loss
The Republicans of Rhode Island met in
State convention on the 10th at Providence
and nominated Royal G. Taft, of Providence.
for Governor The platform adopted favors
protection to home labor and home indus
try, and reduction of the internal-revenue
taxation
NEAR Binghamton, N Y, passenger
train fell down thirtyfoot embankment
on the 10th, and the cars caught fire and
were consumed. One man persisted in the
flames, half-dozen persons iweIs probably
fatally hurt and many others We're wounded.
ESTIMATES on the 10Th were to the effect
that thirty persons lost their lives in the re-
cent blizzard in New York City,
On the 18th Richard Mason and wife,
living near Ithaca n Y, were murdered by
a farm hand named Robert Barber ana their
house was subsequently fired Barber was
under arrest
THE South African comet was on the
18th visible at the Warner Observatory at
Rochester, N Y, for the first time
A DISCHARGED bartender at Bridgeport,
Conn, visited his former work-place on the
18th, fired five shots from q revolver and
fatally wounded three men.
The Vermont Democrats will hold their
State convention in Montpelier May 10 for
the nomination of State officers and the
election of four delegates to St Louis
1HE death of Ex-Governor Fairbanks, of
Vermont, who was visiting III New York, oc-
CURED at the Fifth Avenue Hotel ON the
lIth he was siNty-eig years of age.
On the 18Th Frank Hopkins, aged sixty
years, and Mrs Emeline Whitney, his house
keeper, aged seventy years. were found
dead near their home in Putnam, Conn.
They persisted in the recent storm.
The Democrats nominated State ticket
at Providence, R. l., on the 10Th, with John
W. Davis for Governor The platform in
dorses Mr.. Cleveland's Administration:
demands the reduction of taxation on nee
essaries, and the placing of raw materials
on the free list especially wool, lumber and
coal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

HE most sensational result of the
revival in progress at Parkersburg,
W. Va, is the conversion of Hon.
c. T. Caldwell, an avowed infidel
who has been named the Tngsr-
sol OF the West Virginia bar. His con.
version is so thorough that he has de-
cided to abandon his lucrative prac-
tioe and enter the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
MICHIGAN.


Recent adyices say that the freezing and
thawing of the past few days have had an
injurious effect on Michigan wheat.
Earl Cowing was drowned recently by
breaking through the ice at Brockway, and
his father, who was in poor health, has
gone insane with grief.
Station Agent Williams. of the 500 line
at Hermansville. absconded recently with
quite large amount of the company's
money
1t is said that the Michigan Adventists are
fully persuaded thai the world will come
TO an end during the c6rniSs g.,s.sl.s<. Snd
are making their preparations accordingly
The house of William Slocum, at Port
Huron, was visited by officers recently who
captured counterfeiter's outfit for max
ing bogus twenty fve-cent pieces. A
quantity of the bogus coin was found in the
place. and S!ocrm and his wife were placed
under arrest.
Lorenzo Sawyer and Mrs Huldah Skin
ner, who were married at Chelsea few
days ago, were each seventy years old.
The Jackson State prison contains 772
convicts.
Hon. Alexander Cameron and wife cale-
brated their golden wedding at Kalamazoo
the other day. MIR. Cameron went to Kala-
mazoo County in 1888, and has always
been prominent citizen.
Mrs William Norris, of Port Huron, while
ripping up an old dress few days ago let
the sc ssors slip, putting out her right eye.
A charge of conspiracy to murder Dr. J.
f. Todd, of Glare, was recently preferred
against DR.. John Lansing, also of Glare,
who was placed under ST, 800 bail.
August Balske, his wife and three chill
dren, of Detroit, were poisoned from Or nix
ing butter milk a few days ago, and the
mother and two children would probably
die
Mrs. Pamela A. Sawyer died the other
night at the residence Of her daughter, Mrs
L. G. Chaplin, in Kalamazoo, aged ninety
eight years.
Ed Preston a well-known Detroit crook
was recently sentenced to the Jackson
penitentiary for twenty-five years for par
ticipating in the robbery of Captain Ira
Holt
George Haddock, g retired merchant of
Battle Creek, was led, by intense neuralgia
pains, to attempt suicide The other day by
Gus ting his throat with pair of shears.
Peter Carr, fireman, scaled the walls
with a fifteen-foot hook-Iadder, from Win
dow to window and took man down
from the fifth story of the Union mills fire
in Detroit the other evening. 1t was re-
markable feat
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
PreSbyterian Union.

PHILADELPHIA, Mirch 16-The proceed
figs of the special committees of the
Northern and Southern Presbyterian
churches, for the purpose of effecting
reunion of the two bodies, has been
made public. The questions settled
are those relating to doctrine, church
boards and negro COMMITMENTS, but
the matter of political dellverances has not
yet been arranged, but is in fir way of
settlement The decision touching the COL
ored people is that they shall have sep
arate existence. 1t is believed that the re-
union viii be effected in May in this city
at the centennial celebration of the estab-
lishment of Presbyterianism in America.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
MINNESOTA.

The State Board of Regents decided to es-
tablish a school of agriculture in connec-
ton with the State University.
man named Emil Richenberger, resi-
dent of Wabasha, died very suddenly while
at work in the woods a short distance south
of here the other afternoon.
Thomas D. skiles, one of the best-known
business men of Minneapolis, died at his
home in that city few days ago
Frank Carroliton, an escaped convict
from Minnesota, was found working in
Chicago barter-shop recently and turned
over 10 the Minnesota authorities
Retail merchants in st Paul are said to
Internationally agitated over the proposed
movement of the Clerks Association to
bring suit against those who open their
places of bus ness on Sunday. The revised
statutes OF 1878 expressly provide that all
persons who transact business ON the first
day of the week shall be fined not less than
two dollars for each offenge.
Fifty pounds of dynamite exploded at the
great rock cut in Duluth the other after
noon, shaking buildings as much as dozen
blocks distant, but causing no fatalities.
One lady was cut by broken glass.
A fast mail is to be established over the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST Paul road from
st Paul to Chicago.
A fire in Gustave Heineman's dry-goods
and notion store in st. Paul the other night
did damage to the amount OF $50, 900;
fully insured.
Citizens League. having for its object
the suppress on of the liquor traffic, has
been organized at Winnebago City with
fifty members, all prominent citizens.
Thomas KetchIic,z, young man, was
found dead the 9th L day near Spruce Hill,
Douglas County. He was out hunt ng, and
it was supposed that his gun was accident
ally discharged.
The association at Crookston for the set
Element of the upper Mississippi valley
started the first lo5 of settlers few days
ago
Willie WEIGH, Willie Brennan and Joseph
Tichm n, Minneapolis lads, were convicted
of grand larceny the other day ana sent to
the reform school for three years.
The blockade of the Northwestern rail-
road at Lake Benton was raised the other
day, and through passenger traffic was re-
sumed for the first tine for nine DAYS
Parties having occasion to dg into the
ground found it frozen fully eight feet
deep.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

The champion sneak-thief has been
operating in Baltimore, In looking
about him he cast his eye on-well, on
little object in the shape of disused
saw-mill, full of old machinery. He
went to teamster represented him
self as an insurance agent, and said
he had come to dispose Of the ma
chinery in 1.-The old shanty." Pursuant
to lnstru ctions the teamster carted the
stuff to junk dealer, who paid $500
cash to the thief for it. The recipient
of the greenbacks invited the teamster
TO dinner, and then excused himself
and left for the West.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
THE BOYCOTT RAISED.
Virtual Abandonment of the Brotherhood
Plan to Hold Back Burlington Freight
The Iowa Central Strik Ike Of.

Virtual ADanuOnmcnt Oh the fSfOtncrnOOu
Plan to Hold Back Burlington Freight
The Iowa Central Strike OFF.
CHICAGO, March 2I-The boycott on
Burlington freight, which was the great
stroke relied upon by the engineers to win
their demands, was virtually abandoned
yesterday, and it is only a question of few
days when no Western road will be found
refusing an interchange of traffic Chief
Arthur admitted this fact last night to
a reporter. He said that the boycott
would be lifted gradually and the strike
confined exclusively to the Burlington
road. In spite of the clearest evidences of
defeat staring them in the face, the rank
and file of the burlington strikers APP
pear to be still hopeful. and say they will
fight it out on the same line if it takes all
summer" The Missouri Pacific officials
wired the Burlington Company yesterday
that they were ready and willing to haul
20" freight The Central Iowa strikers
also backed down yesterday and are hand
ling 80" freight
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

. A PAPER at Clarendon. Ala, tells of
two brothers who married two sisters
and who live in the same house with
their line children. Of the thirteen
persons not one uses coifee;y tobacco,
snutfor whisky, and the paper offers
to bet that there is not another family
of that much virtue in the State. Nor
Is that the worst of it. Nobody has of
Tered 10 take the bet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
LATER.


The only visible sign remaining on the
Goth of the great Burlington strike was the
retention of their headquarters in Chicago
by the Brotherhood The contest itself was
declared to be over, despite the rumors of
a combination CT switchmen and brakemen
to help the engineers and firemen. The
boycott on Burlington freight, which was
the great stroke relied upon by the engi-
neers to win their demands, had been COM
pletely raised.
THE Democrats of the Nineteenth Illinois
district on the Goth renominated R. W.
Townshend for Congressman.
The discovery was made on the goth that
James W. Tate, Treasurer OF Kentucky
since 1867, was q defaulter to the extent Of
5000 600. He had left for parts unknown.
The West Virginia Democratic State con-
vention will be held at Huntington August
16 to nominate State ticket
In the Sherman and Gainesville districts
In Texas from four to twelve inches of
snow fell on the Goth, and the mercury
dropped from ~ to 81
The President on the Goth nominated
Strother M. Ssockslager, of Indiana, to be
Commissioner OF the General Land Office,
and Thomas J. Anderson, of Iowa, to be
Assistant Commissioner.
MELTING snow had on the ooh caused
great floods in Russia, and the damage
would be great
STORM, ice and high water damages were
reported from various points in the West
on the Doth. In portions of Dakota ant
Minnesota the heaviest snowfall of the
winter prevailed, and in Western Kansas
and Nebraska heavy storms of sleet and
snow had damaged fruit and lives ock
THE post-offica at Radford ILL.,, was
burned on the 20th all the funds and sup
plies being lost
THE Commercial National Bank of Du-
buque, Ia., suspended payment on the 20th.
The loss to the stockholders would ts
$500, 900, but it was said depositors would
lose nothing.
TIE total exports from this country of
dairy products for the ten months ended
February %, 1887, were SIS, 342, 04O. while
the exports of the corresponding period in
1888 wsre $40, rs, III.
MINNESOTA Republicans will meet in st.
Paul May Is to elect delegates to the Ma
tional convention in Chicago.
BILLS were reported in the United States
Senate on the 10Th to encourage the hold
ing of a National industrial exposition of
the colored race in the United States in
1883. ana provo ng tnat pens ons pe rateu
according to the rank held at the date Of
discharge The Finance Committee made a
favorable report on the bill to wipe out the
charges against the States for the loan of
1886 1t amounts to between 800, 600, 900
and $50, 900, 900. In the House bills wei e
introduced to protect free labor and the
industries in which it is employed from the
injurious effects of convict labor; to estab-
lish department of labor, and to provide
for the issue of legal-tender Treasury notes
in lieu of notes estimated to be lost OF de-
stroyed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
Does Not Want a Pension.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 16-Mrs. Hen
bricks, the widow of the late Vice-Presi-
dent, complains that she has been gross y
misrepresented in recent interview cred
iting her with censuring the Democratic
party iecause it had not procured a pension
for her She says: 1 never at any
time fet or expressed myself in terms COM
planning that the widows of Generals Lo-
gan and Black should receive pensions
am rejoiced to know that those ladies are
likely TO receive pensions. 1t is a great
mistake that / ever alluded to a pension
for myself l have thorght and so ex-
pressed myself, that the Government
should give me the salary that would have
been due my husband
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

If the dumb animals of America
could speak and write they would be
quite certain to hold mighty conven-
ton and pass resolutions relative to
the recent death of Henry Bergh. To
their protection against the cruelties
of human brutes he devoted lifetime
and the greater portion of his worldly
wealth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

+ MICHAEL DUTY, ninety-tive years of
age, walked into GAINESVILLE, o., the
s0thcr day from his home four miles
Down the river to have his pension
voucher executed. Mr.. Duty is a vet
oran of the war of 1872, the only one
in the Columbus agency, and one of q
few in the United States. The vet
eran is said to be as stalwart as a man
Of. fifty, his hearing is perfect, and he
never wears glasses except when writ
ing, although he says he does not
need them even then. He has
lived in his present home for many
years
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

AMONG the attractions at Youngs-
town Pa.) waX-work exhibition was a
figure of the Princess Marguerite, of
Italy. The exhibition closed the other
night when it was divulged that the
Princess was not wax, but real flesh
and blood maiden who had thus dur
ing the show demonstrated beyond all
question her ability to pose gracefully,
hold her tongue and keep her mouth
shut Some young men who had
doubted the waXenticity of the
figure and backed their opinion with
money carried off large sums in
bots
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

A FRIEND of the Garfields. living in
Cleveland, denies emphatically the re-
cent rumor that Mrs. James A. Gar
held was soon TO marry wealthy
Cleveland landowner. asserting that
there was no possibility, near or re-
mote, of Mrs. Garfield marrying any
one.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

MATTHEW ARNOLD has been telling
English audiences that one of the
things which displeased him while
doing the States was American town
nomenclature, and Griggsville, "
"Briggsville and the like set his
teeth on edge.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

1WENTY-FIyE years ago in March
General Grant was made Commander
in Chief of the armies of the United
States. AT that time the United States
army was one of the greatest, if not
the greatest, the world has ever seen,
numbering upward of two million men.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
Says He Kilied Smell.

SALTWATER, MINI, March 19.-Convict
Carlin, who esc ped from the Minnesota
penitentiary last fall with the notorious
L2nders and who was recently captured in
Chicago and brought back, now.announces
himself as the murderer of Amos J. Smell,
the Chicago million ire, presumably with
the notion that he may lie pardoned here
SO as to stand trial for the murder at Chi
cago
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

SIR DONALD SMITH, the millionaire
pioneer OF the Hudson Bay Company,
gave his daughter, lately married in
Montreal, check for $4,000, 900. The
groom was Dir. }, B. Howard, ayoung
physician of moderate means.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
WEST AND SOUTH,

WHILE insane ON the 10Th John Dean, of
Belleville, O., retired farmer, seventy
years old and worth $50, 900, killed his
wife and then committed suicide
HE strike of the engineers on the Santa
re system was spreading rapidly ON the
loth, It's effect having extended to points
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

HE story comes from an Illinois
town that boy there has two big
Cochin China ROSTERS which he has
broke so that he can drive them
double to small sled or wagon. The
last boy that got into the newspapers
for doing this lived in Maine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

The Empire of Germany, consisting
of twenty-six different States, the
chief Of which is Prussia, has q total
population of 49, S55, 7O4, according to
census taken in 1885. The terrific
rial area of the empire is 211, 1876 square
milan
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
Winter Wheat.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-According to a
summary of crop news recently compiled
the outlook for win er wheat is not favor
able Fields in OHIO, Iowa and Southern
Michigan have been bare of snow in al
ternately freezing and thawing weather,
and in those States the average condition
is very low Kansas, Wisconsin, Missouri
and Illinois show the best prospects
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

AN exchange gets at popular weak
ness in this manner: think twice be-
fore you believe every evil story that
you hear, and think twenty times be-
fore you repeat it, especially if it is
about WOMAN
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

SOME one who has been looking up
the records of 2,619 female graduates
of American colleges says that 998 are
married, 949 are teachers, 1873 are in
other occupations, and $50 are not en-
gagged in rcmunerative work.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

THIS is gr8 year for John Haight,
of Haight County, Md. He will be So
ON the 9Th day of the 9Th month of
1888.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
- -
a Whole FAM " Poisoned

LOUISVILLE. Ky. March 19.-Samuel VIII
son, his wife and four children, living near
Calhoun, KY, were killed Friday by eating
meat VIII Oh had been poisoned for wolves
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

One of the singers at public con-
cert in Reading, Pa, was alady seven
ty-three yoats old. The musical critic
said she had fine voice.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

THE Canadian Government has de-
termined to grant no further aid to i'm
migrants
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

Mr.. CARLISLE is now in his third
term as Speaker and when he has
completed it Kentucky will have had
the Speakership twenty-three years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

-Yuet Sing, a New York China
man, engaged in the importation of
tea, recently received consignment
of a few pounds Of the very best.
which cost him about six dollars an
ounce.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

A New YORK man at his death left
TO his son-in-law receipts for all the
bills he had paid for him and nothing
more.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23

ALL railroad clerks leaving Kansas
City are now supplied with arms and
ammunition.