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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
WEST AND SOUTH,

THE Salt and Lumber Company at Man.
istee, Mich, failed on the LIST for ST, OOO,-
900. The assets were said to be over that
amount
The entire business portion of Suffers
Creek, CAL, was burned out on the LIST
The Utah Legislature on the LIST adopted
q memorial protesting against Colorado
Utes being transferred to Utah.
DEMOCRATS of Iowa will hold their State
convention at Dubuque on the I'd of May to
elect delegates to the National convention
LAURA LANEL and Alice Pearce, aged re-
specively about eighteen years, were ar
rested on The I'd for forgery at Marion, Ind
ALL the railways in the upper peninsular
of Michigan were blockaded on the 81 by
one of the severest snow-storms ever
known there
Mrs. FRANK BROWN and her babe were
fatally burned on the I'd at Clinton, Ia, by
their clothing taking fire from an exploded
kerosene lamp.
A CYCLONE swept over Newton, Kan, on
the I'd, many buildings being DESTROYED or
partly wrecked. man was killed and two
women severely wounded The financial
loss was placed at $50, 600 Great damage
was also done in the surrounding country.
POSTMASTER MCLEOD, of Palmyra, Mo.
recently found seven hundred dollars short
in his accounts, committed suicide on the
I'd.
a BILL was passed in the Ohio House on
the I'd to close saloons on Sunday through
out the State by q vote of 20 to 20.
IN Hampton, Va, a fire on the I'd de-
stroyed the house of Thomas Jones (col-
ored), and two small children persisted in
the flames
POSTAL clerks 1t Spokane Falls, D. T.,
went on strike on the Sd, and the post
office was closed.
On the Sd the nanss stock Of Barnes
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
MRS. LANGTRY's TROUBLES.
On the Heels of the News of the De atl
of Her Father, The Jersey Lily Is Mad

On the Heels of the News of the De ath
of Her Father, The Jersey Lily Is Made
Defendant in Several Suits at Law.
CHICAGO March All of Mrs. Langtrys
scenery, costumes, and furniture at Nc
Vicker's Theater were attached at noon
yesterday upon Miss Nadage Doree's $500
suit for salary due on contract Papers are
also out awaiting service in a suit by James
Creighton, jsweler in Edinburg, Scot
land, for $24L63 worth of jewelry sup
piled to Mrs Langtry when she was playing
in the shadow of Holyrood Castle. but never
paid for
CHICAGO, March 2.-Mrs Langtry, the
noted English beauty and actress, was
Frustrated Wednesday by the receipt of a
cablegram announcing the death of her
father, MI. LIE Breton, dean of Jersey. The
dean was greatly respected, not only in
Jersey but in England, where he was well
known. He was 70 years of age, and bis
death was fastened by a severe operation
performed upon him to relieve lingering
illness Mrs. Langtry, on receiving the sad
news at once cancelled her engagement at
McVicker's Theater.
Mrs. Langtry is in trouble with J. Fl. Nc
Wicker, who has sued her for $4,000 for
breach of contract
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

Brothers, at Detroit, Mich, was destroyed
by fire, and also the two five-story brick
buildings they occupied Total loss $780,
600
NEAR Onancock, Va, quantity of gold
and silver was found on the Sd which had
been buried there during the Revolutionary
war
ROGERS & Matters winery and distillery,
near Fresno, Cal, was burned on the Sd
Loss, ST. 600
MARTIN DURAN was ham ed on the Sd at
Prescott, A. T., for the murder of woman
On the Sd Adam Suits, who lives hall a
mile west of Carlos City, Ind, celebrated
the one hundredth anniversary of his birth.
MEXICAN soldiers at Piedres Negras
crossed over the line to Eagle Pass, Tex,
on the 4th. and endeavored to kidnap a
deserter, lut in the fracas which took
place three of the Mexicans were killed
Nor saloon was open on the 4th at
Kansas City. The Law and Order League
brought about this result
HARRY MILLER, Of Hampton, Ga, reported
killed in the rebellion, returned to his home
on the Sd to find his wife married to an
other
A FIRE at Milwaukee on the Sd, which
started in the candy factory of Fernecke
Brothers, destroyed property TO the value
of 100000.
On the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
road the strike of engineers was practically
unchanged on the 4th. The trains were
moving with some regularity, and several
freights were put in motion. The idea Yves
gaining ground that the strike would ex-
tend to many other roads. on the ground
that they had been extending aid to the
Burlington
A PREMATURE explosion of dynamite on
the 9TH in mine at Ishpeming, Mich, in
stantly killed five men-John Williams.
Alfred Lucas, Eric Madison, Charles Rusk
and William Gerdle.
j. B. SNYDER was arrested in Colbert,
Tex, on the 81 for robbng United States
mails He had drafts amounting to $146-
$50 and numerous money orders
AT Goldthwaite, Tex, nineteen business
houses were destroyed by fire on the 9TH.
On the 9th Rev. j. A. Asbury, prominent
Methodist minister, while officiating at
funeral in Petersburg, Ind, fell dead in his
pulpit Of heart disease
On the Cincinnati Southern road pas
senger train was wrecked on the 9Th at
Oakdale, Tenn, and four persons were
killed
AT Columbus. O., steube. the tally-sheet
conspirator, who assaulted Prosecuting
Attorney Huling, was sentenced on the 9Th
to four months in jail and to pay fine of
twenty-five dollars
The Legislature Of Virginia adjourned
sine de on the 9Th.
The town of Deep Creek, Va, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 9Th.
No MATERIAL change was reported on the
9TH in the strike on the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy road, and from the stand
point of the Brotherhood there seemed to
be but little encouragement of speedy
discontinuance of hostilities and peace
able adjustment of the vital questions at
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
WISCONSIN,.

According to the reports of the Milwau-
kee brewers to the collector their employees
drank on the premises in 1887 ID, O21 bar
rels OF beer, representing 6,50O.OOO
glasses, and, at So barrel, cash value of
$1O4, 1OS.
| A Wisconsin paper says: There are thirty
towns of nine hundred population and I'M
der in Northern Wisconsin where no relig-
ious services are held"
John Woods, of Poynett, who had no
money to pay his fare, was put off Mil
waukee Il Northern train near Green Bay
few days ago, and falling under the car
his leg was taken off at the ankle
Abel Willard, of Neenah, at the age of
eighty light years, is just cutting third
set of teeth.
An Illinois man recently left his pocket
book containing one thousand dollars under
his pillow in GAINESVILLE hotel 1t was
found by chambermaid who returned it to
its owner.
Robert Lindwarm, of Milwaukee. sat
down on a railway track recently, having q
whisky bottle for company. He had taken
the pledge and broken it, but will never
break it again
About two hundred men who took up
lands in Ashland County covered by the
Omaha grant have been elected from their
holdings
Gustav Dorsch, a clerk in the Milwaukee
postofice, and son of the supervisor from
the Second ward. dropped dead the other
morning while at breakfast in restaurant.
The law enacted by the last Legislature
permitting drunkards to be sentenced to
the Inebriate Asylum was recently declared
invalid by the State Supreme Court, on the
ground that the statute virtually makes
drunkenness crime.
Ida Herman, convicted of enticing a
young girl into an immoral place insMilwau-
kee, was denied a new trial a few DAYS ago
and sentenced to year in the bridewelL
This was the first sentence under the law
passed last winter making it penal offense
to allow girl under twenty-one years of
age to remain in house of evil resort
whether willingly or not
John Stemdel, a farmer at Rockville,
Marathon County, was Instantly killed the
other day by a runaway team, he being
thrown from his sleigh, He was about
thrty-fve years old, and leaves Q large
family,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

FRoMrecent statistics it appears that
the Parisians throw away annually
more than three hundred thousand tons
of material which is picked up by the
chiffoniers and sold by them for up
wards of twenty-five million francs per
annum The daily commerce of the
chitfoniers amounts to more than sew
enty thousand francs, which is shared
by forty thousand men, whose occupa-
ton consists in wandering about the
streets at night with lantern in hand
and bod on their backs, and picking
Rll kinds Of scraps out of the dust bias
end tho cutters,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

JACOB HALLENBERGER, molder.
working in stove foundry in Phila-
dalphia, was burned in an explosion
seventeen weeks ago and the other day
he died, starved to death. 1t was
found that in the explosion he had
swallowed some of the molten iron and
it had formed a structure of the esoph-
agus, which had closed the passage to
the stomach.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

EVEN the clearest water Is perfectly
Opaque from certain point of view.
This may be discovered by raising a
glass of water little above the level of
the eye and attempting to see an OBJ
ject held Just over the surface of the
water. The latter appears just like a
FURNISHED mirror, and the eye can see
nothing beyond it. A glass of whisky,
If raised to level of the mouth an in
definite number of times, will prevent
the eyes from seeing an object, no mat
ter where it is held.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
A GREAT FAILURE,
The Manistee Salt and Lumber Company
Assigns to E. Golden Filler.

The Manistee Salt and Lumber Company
Assigns to e. Golden Filler.
DETROIT, Mich, March 2-The Manistee
Salt and Lumber Company made an assign
ment yesterday morning to e. Golden
Filler for the benefit of creditors
The assets are $I,SS0,O00 and the
liabilities 1864 900. The liabilities are
composed mostly of floating indebtedness to
banks Hon. G. J. Ramsdell, one of the
executors, who is thoroughly familiar with
the affairs of the company and of
the late Michael Engelmann, it's presi-
dent, says every dollar will be paid. de-
mand for 500, 900 spot cash by creditor
precipitated the assignment The COM
pany is very large concern, with val
liable plant, consisting of pine lands lum-
Der, railroads saw-mills and salt blocks,
with very complete parapherna!ia
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

AN elderly lady living with her
daughter in New York has remark.
able record. Her name is Mrs. Flor
ence Schlamm. She is just past 1O2
years of age. Her youngest child was
born when she was 50 years old, She
has three great-great-grandchildren
and her grandfather it is said, died at
the age of l20. These are only few
OF the odd facts about the old lady.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

IT has been estimated by Prof Kirch-
hof, of Halle, that the language most
spoken on the globe, for the last thou
sand years at least is Chinese, for it is
without doubt the only one which is
talked by over four hundred millions of
the human race. The next language
mostir use, but a very great distance be-
hind Chinese, is Hindus5ani, spoken by
over one hundred millions. Then fol-
low English Spoken by about one hun
dred millions), Russian Cover seventy
millions), German (over fifty-seven
millions), and Spanish (over forty
seven millionSl.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
A Whole Family Dead.

LANEsBoRo. MINI, March ga singula ar
series of deaths from natural causes has
occurred in Amherst township, this county,
in the family of Jacob Vaught January z
Andrew, his son, a man Of so, died; a
daughter, Mrs John Turner, followed In a
fortnight; on Sunday last the father, Jacob,
died; on Tuesday night of last week MS
brother Nicbo as followed, and Saturday
night his aged widow passed away. All
live1 in the same neighborhood, and were
well known and ree pected
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

A TEXAS paper makes the state.
ment that man left Waxahachie re.
Gently driving yoke of oxen; that
one of them died from being over.
heated, and that while he tarried by
the waysido to skin the amin al bliz-
zard came and froze the other OK to
death. -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

Mr.. CoRCoRAN, the Washington
banker who died recently, was a great
friend and admirer of Daniel Webster.
The great statesman had borrowed
sums ofmoney from time to time, which
in the aggregate amounted TO several
thousand dollars, without any idea how
he was ever to repay the money. MIR.
Corcoran, however closed the account
in his own way. The day after Mr.. Web
ster's speech on the Missouri compro-
mise he sent to Mrs. Webster pack
age containing all the evidences
of her husbands Indebtedness to
him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
DAKOTA.


The Yankton ladies give weight socials
at which each gentleman has the privilege
OF selecting his lady, causing her to be
weighed, paying at the rate of one-quarter
cent per pound. and then going with her
to supper.
The latest figures of the loss of life by the
storm of January II are as follows Aurora
County, 5 deaths; Brown, 1; Bon Homme,
10; Brule, 1; Beadle, 8; Clark, 4; David
son, l.; Day, L; Douglas, Q; Faulk, 5; Han
son, /; Hyde. 2; Hand. 6; Hutchinson, g.;
Jerauld. 2; Kingsbury, l; Lake, l.; Lincoln,
6; McCook, 1; Minnehaha Z; Sphinx, d;
Sanborn, 4; Turner, 8; Yankton, g. Total,
1O5
There are ninety-seven artesian wells in
Dakota. extending i'll line from Yankton
to Grafton. They have cost from So, 900 to
So, 600 each, and range in depth from 52S
to /, $50
Corn large quantities is being marketed
at Yankton, the reigning price being TWEEN
ty cents per bushel
NJ O. Poulson, of Watertown, was harness.
ing his horse recently when the animal
caught him by his lip and nearly tore it off
surgical operation was necessary to save
1t is said that Belle Cora Fellows. of
Pierre, will soon marry Chaska, full
blooded Indian
Adam Gerder's place at Pierre was raided
the other day by prohibitionists search
warrant was issued and Gerder's whisky
was seized
Deputy United States Marshal Charles A.
Gray was taken to Fargo few days ago
from Minot and lodged in jail He was
charged with receiving money from parties
for whom he had warrants of arrest and al
lowing them to escape.
Fire broke out the other afternoon in the
grocery store of M E. Pollard, at Dell Rap
ids. caused by lamp explosion. There was
no water and the fire was put out with
chunks of snow
At the hotel in Central City there died re-
Gently Edward Little, one of the pioneers
of the Black Hills He was among the first
to locate in Deadwood in 1875, and his life
has been passed in prospecting and mining
He was one of the original locaters of the
Iron Hill mine Not possessing sufficient
means to deyelop the property, the Iron
Hill company was formed, Little retaining
a block of the stock When the price went
to seven dollars share he refused to part
with his four thousand shares, and the
stock was found upon his person after his
death The market value In new City
osnt&
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
An Aged Murderer.

HUDSON, N. Y, March Oscar F. Beck.
with was hanged at the courthouse in this
city at 1905 o'clock yesterday morning for
the murder of Simon Vandercock at Austen
litz on January 10. 1882 He was sentenced
to death six times, had two trials, and his
case was reviewed by the Supreme Court
and the Court of Appeals Governor Hill
was urged to pardon him, but refused TO
commute the sentence. BeckWith was 70
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

D. Il. LOCKE, who died in Toledo the
other day worth 81, 500, 600, set the type
for the first edition of his Nasty letters
published in indianapolis in 1868.
The book was yellow-covered
pamphlet of one hundred pages, and
brought the author between 500 and
5000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

1T doesn't do to tlife with book
agent. A presumptuous horse in
Michigan undertook to run away with
one tho other day and dropped dead
before he got half q mile.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

A THICK coating of flowers of sulphur
over the affected limb for one night is
said to cure the sciatica. The skin
should be thoroughly cleansed first.
The remedy is simple enough to war
rant trial.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
Killed Her Four Children.

KEY WEST, Fla. March IA dispatch
from Baracoa, eighty miles from Havana,
states that mother murdered her four
children in cold blood She chopped OFF
the heads of two of them with a Ratchet,
and the other two she held in tub of
water until drowned, and then cut them
up She said when arrested and taken to
jail that the devil tempted her TO the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

WHILE receiving congratulations on
her sixtieth birthday the other evening
Mrs. Ann Summerville, of Charleston,
w. Va, fell dead. The shock so af-
tected her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Comp
ton, that she expired in few minutes
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

A JUDGE in Colorado recently de-
cided that man is in duty bound to
tell his wife where he spends his even
ings when he is away from home. 1t
would save many man trouble if he
would do just that without any order
of court
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
Enn. s1o,r.v Discharge d.

SPRINGFIELD, No., March lin the Christ
ian County court at Ozark Saturday the
States Attorney called up the cases against
Mrs Emma Molloy. She was charged with
accessory before and after the fact of the
murder of Mrs Graham, and with access
sorry to the fact of bigany. The prosecu-
ton stated that it would be Impossible TO
secure conviction in either case and he
asked that they be nolled An order to this
effect was entered, and thus the famous
Graham murder case is forever wiped OFF
of the public court records
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
Death of an Indiana Pioneer.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March samuel Nor
rison, an Indiana surveyor and pioneer,
died here Thursday on his Goth birthday.
His first recorded achievement was map
of Indiana, published in 1916; the one he
was proudest of was map of Vicksburg
sent to General Grant, in which he claimed
he originated the plan of the capture
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
Robbed of Her TPeSses.

READING, Pa. March 2-An unknown
man assailed Mrs. William j. Miller in her
cottage in this city. threw her to the floor,
and, while she was unconscious from fright,
cut off her hair close 10 the scalp and de-
camped with his prize. Mrs Miler's tresses
were of beautiful brown color, and
twenty-three inches in length,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

HE last new language into which
the "Pilgrim's Progress has been
translated is that of the Fantis ON the
G0g1 Coast
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

THERE are in the Sunday-schools of
the Christian world 16, 447, $50 scholars
and l,552, 1877 teachers, making grand
total of 49, 400, 900.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

A BROOKLYN woman has completed
a crazy quilt with 24,781 pieces in 1T.
Her husband is said to button his sus-
penders with horseshoe nail.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

FRANCIS MURPHY recently Joined the
Butler street NJ. E. Church of Pitts
,burgh. Pa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09


THERE are 172 known species of
creatures that are blind. This does not
include lovers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

TEE Western Union Company
handled 45, 977, $40 telegraph messages
last wear.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

A CUSTOMS inspector found three
thousand dollars worth of diamonds
in a cake of soap carried by an in
nocent-looking smuggler the other
dav
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

A PARIS paper has discovered that
the people of est Louis, Dakota"
are dying of a disease called 1.-THE
blizzards,si
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

BEssEMER's steel patents have
brought him $95, 385, 900 in royalties.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

The grand encampment, I O. O F., at its
recent session in Waupaca elected Richard
Hoe, of Jefferson, Grand Patriarch.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

James q. Leary, who tuilt the big taft
that got lost on the Atlantic, ia ct work On
bigger osaa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE says
that her literary work is finished.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09

Evangelist Moody Ia holaing revival eergs
Ices In Hastings, Neh
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-24
THE TENNESSEE INDIAN d
RAILROAD

Wsrk OF construction is buin &
rapidly pushed on tins tennessee
INDIAN sad east vt this city on the
50 miles bet y cen here aui the Te Ne
nessee river.
Ch. N.P Stalndker, whose
headquarters are in TIN. city, has
four corps Of engineers along the
line
Ihe following cpAtrA1ters have
entered upon their work: J. 5. Nc
TiEhe & CO. and Flynn 4 Cook, Of
Menphis; Jno. l.. Wisdom & Co..
Britain, Pierce 6 Co., L. L, aud
G. J. iisuser and r. ID. I: Law
renee, OF Jask,On. Finley Il Clay =
On, VI Tupelo; McGIWan 3 BroWnr
of Holly SPRING.; l.. Wright B Co.
Of Oxford; N. G. and d. H, Pitts d
Co, of Scottsvills, Va. Division
Engineer VIM. A. HnnkIns, who
has just completed the anal location
of the line 10 Nash vile. has rSturn-
cd with his party to DecaturV,'le TO
locate the bridge site AMI nix the
crossing of the tennessee river
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-24
ANIMAL LONGEVITY.

The elepn tnt live, IOJ ye IT. An uP ward;
rhinpceros. -; camel, 100; lion, - 10 20;
tiger, leopard. jaguar and uyrn, ia con-
tinement), about IS; beaver, ,, .ieer, 20,
wolf, 20; fox, I4to Il; llama, Is. cha
tnois, Is, monkey ami UabOOA Is 70 lSi
hare ), squire. !; rabbit 7; swins -, -.ag
under so, horse 30; A. 80; -u<~p under
To- COW 20; ok 80; sS..n, pArr At al raven
200; eagle IOOi goose 50, hen and pigeon
10 to is; hawk 80 to 20. crane ~; blac k
bird 10 TO II; peacock 20; lighting ale Is.
skylark 10 to 30; eel 10; tOrtois. 100 to
2oOi whale (estim ATE y, 1000; queen bees
1--we years. arones 4 month~; worker
bees mSnths.