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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
The Commissioner of Agriculture Makes
Another Report.

The Commissioner of Agriculture Makes
Another Report.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The Commissioner
of Agriculture has just issued the third of q
series Of reports on authorizations of food,
drinks and drugs This report treats of
authorizations of fermented alcoholic bever-
ages, malt liquors, wine and cider The
chemist and analyst by whom the report
is made concludes that beer is gen.
orally adulterated with acid poisonous
and injurious to health, OF thirty-three
samples of beer analysed, six American
beers contained salicylic acid, of which
two were bottle beers, samples of Milwau-
kee beer, two from St Louis, one from
Alexandria, Va, and one from Philadelphia,
which latter was also soured In Philadel-
phia beer only were hop substitutes
found Of beers brewed in Washington
one contained sulphite and one car
Donate of soda; the lattler article was also
found in Alexandria beer One foreign
beer contained salicyic acid The use Of
glucose and sugar in malt authorizations is
condemned as injurious to health. The
preserving agents used by brewers are still
more severely condemned as means OF put
ting bad beer on the market Wines and
cider are also reported to be extensively
adulterated.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
FIRE IN A NAVY YARD.
Uncle Sam Loses 100000 Worth Of
Property.


NEW YORK, JAN 6.-Fire broke out at /
o'clock this morning at the Brooklyn
navy yard in the Navigation build
ing, which stood in the center of
the grounds, away from the other build
ings. At a. m. the fire was under con-
troll. At first the naval authorities refused
all assistance from the city fire depart
ment, but the flames gained such Roadway
that the fire department was called in. The
building was completely Quilted The total
loss will be about 100000 The
building was three-story and attic brick
and was occupied by the navigation, con-
structfon and equirment bureaus and also
for storage purposes. The building was 800
feet by rs. The officials of the depart
ments mentioned lose all the contents Of
their offices, including valuable naval and
military maps plans and designs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
DEFEAT FOR A MONOPOLY.

A Dubuque Judge Renders Decision
Against the Vvashburn- Moen Barb Wire
Company.
DUBUQUE, Ia, Jan. 6.-Judge Shivas, of
the United States District Court here, has
rendered. decision against what are known
as the GIidden barb-wire patents,
under which the Washburn-Moen Company
has exacted vast royalties from manufactur
ers and laid heavy taxes upon farmers using
barb-wire fences The defendants in the
suit proved that the original barb-wire
fence was invented as long ago as 1859, or
fifteen years prior to the issue of the Gid
den patents. The case will be appealed to
the United States Supreme Court.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
DEATH OF BoNAMY PRICE.
The WeIi-Known Professor of PoIitics
ccI .att e

The Weli-Known Professor of Political
Economy Expires at the Age of 80.
LONDON, Jan. 9.-The death is announced
of Bonamy Price. N. A., professor Of polit-
ical economy in Oxford University. He was
80 years old.
prof Bonamy Price was born in Guernsey
May %, 1907. He graduated from Worcester
College, Oxford in 1929. He was appointed
assistant master at Rugby in 1890 and pro-
fessor OF political economy at Oxford Uni
versity in 1865 which chair he has since
held Prof. Price has been prolific writer on
political economy. He is the author Of ''The
Anglo-Catholic Theory" 1.-THE Principles Of
Currency OF Currency and Banking and
Practical Political Economy besides numer-
Gus articles in reviews and magazinesl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

TIE indictment charging criminal
carelessness and manslaughter upon
the conductor of passenger train in
connection with q recent railway dis
aster near Kouts, Ind, in which q
number of persons were killed, was re-
Gently quashed at Valparaiso, the
court holding that the Indictment was
defective in that it did not charge evil
intent, and that mere omission OF duty
was not punishable
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

THIS is leap year, but timid bache-
lofs need not jump at the conclusion
that susceptible maidens are going to
fall over each other in mad race to
take advantage of leap years privi-
lege. None but the brave deserve the
fair, and mono but the brave usually
win the fair Cut this out and paste it
i'll your hat, young man.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

FEW men can bear lightly the bur-
den of ninety-nine years. Colonel
George Leonard Perkins Gagged ninety
nine), treasurer of the Norwich &
Worcester railroad, and whose home
is in the quaint old city of Norwich,
Conn, is perhaps the oldest gentle
man regularly attending to business
in the United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

The frequency of attempts to wreck
passenger trains, says the ST. Paul
Globe, by placing Instructions on the
track is bringing out good deal OF
comment as to the inadequacy of pun
ishment for this species of villainy.
The first railroad horror of this kind
OF any magnitude will be sure to lead
TO popular demand for severe pen
alties. A great many people advocate
capital punishment for would be train
wrcckers, and some day there may be
such crystallization of sentiment as
to secure the passage of such law.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

The Interstate Commerce Com.
mission has decided that railroads
which act as express companies are
subject to the operations of the Inter
State Commerce act and that indie
pendent express companies which EN-
ploy the service of. trains, messengers,
coaches, steamboats, and do not
operate wholly by railroad, are not
distinctly within the provision of the
law. The matter is left to the action
of Congress.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

Two MEN in Norwich, Conn, have
had u match at cribbage together
nearly every day since January l, 1882,
playing in that time nearly fifteen
thousand games. One of them is now
twenty games ahead of the other, and
at no time has either had the advan.
tage by more than fifty games.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
Big Deal in Lumber.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Jan 6.-The Itasca
Lumber Company has sold to s. K. Martin
& Co. it's entire stocs Of lumber, including
100000 feet of lumber, 5000, 600
shingles and 100000 lath The exact
price is not known, but it is understood to
be not much short of $12 the thousand
The lumber will be dressed at the De Soto
planning mill and shipped, some of it to Chi
cago, but the greater part of it to Omaha
This is the biggest trade ever made here.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
WEST AND SOUTH,

The house OF AUNT Kitty pendergast,
over ninety years of age, was destroyed by
fire on the 9th in Dubuque, Ia, and she
persisted in the flames
AT Oakland, CAL, Nathan B. Sutton was
hanged on the 9th for the murder Of Alex
ander MARITIME, a ranchman, in September,
1886
A FIRE destroyed the Union railway depot
at Atchison, Kan, on the 9th. Loss, 1925,
600; insurance, $500
In Northern Michigan snow fell to the
depth of two feet on level ON the ith.
TKE snisit tharnoo,pateg registared 90 de-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

IT is reported from India that MIR.
Rea, of the Madras Archaeological Sur
vey, has recently excavated some
ancient burial-places at Dadampatti,
Paravai and other places in the Presi-
dency and investigated the cromlechs
near Codaikanaul. He has obtained a
considerable collection of ancient pot
terry, and in some of the tombs found a
large number of bones and a complete
human skull The latter had been
filled up and inclosed in soft clay, so
that its characteristics are perfectly
preserved. He also brought away a
small specimen of apyriform tomb.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

IT is noteworthy that immigration
from Great Britain during the year
1887 was considerably larger than that
of the previous year. Then it was 12O,.
600; now it is 1000. England and
Wales send 10000 of the number, to
lreland's Il, 900 and Scotland's 10000
In fact Great Britain leads every
other country in the number of people
who have left the Old World to make
homes in America. The cause of this
is largely due to the increased volume
of want in all parts of the empire,
and the people must leave home or
starve.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

ONE of our editorial friends talks
right out in this manner: "Never
Judge by appearances. A shabby coat
may contain an editor, while a man
wearing u heightened plug hat and
sporting dude cane may be a delin-
auent subscriherN
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

The railway mileage of the United
States at the commencement of 1887
was stated to be 1877, $50 miles. The
extensions during the year increased
it to $50, 710 miles. This is q wonder.
full record, which gives impressive evi-
dence of the enterprise and prosperity
OF the people of this great Republic.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
WISCONSIN.

A recent fire at ST. Croix Falls consumed
A. W. Barkley's dry-goods store and two
other buildings. Loss $4,000; insurance,
$4,000,
The annual meeting of the Wisconsin
Department, G. A, R., opens in Milwaukee
on the third Wednesday in February.
All reports from the Gogebic iron range
point to a speedy revival of business in the
iron-producing regions Many OF the mines
that have been shut down for several
months are commencing work again
Hog-cholera is still committing ravages
in Grant County, and in Glen Haven town
ship the loss has been especially heavy.
A carload of beans for use in logging
camps has been received at Green Bay di-
rect from California The freight bill was
$500
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Art
and Letters convened at Madison the other
evening. Prof. W. F. Allen, of Madison, was
elected president for three years
The Wisconsin Commercial Travellers AS
sociation held its first annual meeting in
Madison recently. r D. Montgomery was
elected president.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, one of the pioneer
settlers of Southern Wisconsin, died at
Hazel Green the other night, aged eighty
years
The Menominee River Brewing Company
of Wisconsin, and a company OF the same
name in Michigan. have consolidated as the
Menominee River Brewing Company, with
headquarters at Merrill The capital is
81 800. 900.
A. number of nuggets of copper were
found recently in Freedom, Outagamie
County, in boring a we'll 1t was thought
that the metal existed there in paying
quantities
The receipts of the Milwaukee rost-office
during 1887 for stamps, postal-cards and
envelopes were 1885, 1874. 60, against
$263, SIG. So during the previous year.
The residence of Mayor G H Williams, of
Baraboo, was completely destroyed by fire
recently, together with its contents Loss,
81, GOO; insurance, So, 600
An unknown man entered the Eau Claire
meat market at Washburn the other morn
ing, and while one of the proprietors was
changing a bill for him Knocked him sense
less and riied the safe. securing between
$500 and 5000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

The New York City elevated and
surface railroads carried last year
1858, 558, 1913 passengers, for which they
received in scent fares upward of ST.
600, The profits, after paying all
expenses, were about $4,000, 900.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
Indiana Pension AGENCY.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. Cat the State
Pension Agency here the number of PEN
soners increased to SO, G81 in December
a net gain of 2S6. The quarterly disb1rse-
ment from the agency amounts 81, go, 600
This is the third agency in the numerical
strength of its roster in the country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
The Iron and Steel Product.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6-General Manager
James III. Swank, of the American Iron and
Steel Association, reviews the business Of
last year. He says last years production
was the largest in the country's history.
The pig-iron product was $3.50, GOO tons.
Notwithstanding the decline in prices he
thinks the outlook for the present year is
good.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
American Silver in Canada.

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. Cit is rulnored that
the Canadian Government may more rig
idly enforce the duty. Of 20 per cent on
American silver brought into Canada, on
account of the recent Internal Revenue
Commissioners decision that Canadian
bank notes, used in circulation by Amer
lean banks, are liable to tax of 10 pei
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
a Hard Winter in Austria.

VIENNA, Jan. 6-This has SO far been ons
of the severest winters ON record here.
Cases of death from the effects of exposure
are reported daily. The water supply is
beginning to fail The ice in the Danube
has reached Vienna. The Platten-See is
frozen over for the first time in many
ypGrs
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

STRYCITNINE is said to be an eff
caciou3 remedy for sea-sickness. A
good strong dose of it taken just be-
fore the ship leaves port will also act
with certainty as q preYentiYe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

DURING the past seven years more
than two hundred thousand acres in
England have gone out of cultivation.
1t means a loss of G3O0, 100000 to the
land owners and farmers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
Five Persons Burned in a Texas Hotel.

SHERMAN, Tex, Jan 9-The Southern
Hotel and two private residences adjoining
it were destroyed by FIRE Saturday. The
guests in the hotel had narrow escapes,
and the following persons were injured: A.
A Leard, proprietor; Lee Rollins, Mrs.
Leard. Lon Lowe, fireman; al Meredith,
fireman. Loss about 500, coo; insurance,
S. 900.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

| KAUKAUNA, Wis, Jan. 6-Robert Wal
lace, paper-maker employed in the
/! Badger paper mill of this city, was caught
| in the cogs of shaft Wednesday night and
! SO badly injured that he died,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
s
The Grain Production,

WASHINGTON, Jan 9-For the season O.
1887 the total production of corn in the
United States was 1,456, 600. 900 bushels,
value 1910, 600, 900; of wheat 456, 900, 900
bushels. value 5000, 600, 900; of oats $780,
QUO, 900 bushels, value $500, 900, 600.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

DURING the last few months very
large beds of marble have been de-
veloped in Georgia, much of which is
green marble or verd-antique. 1t is
found underlying soap-stone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

AN Indiana judge has decided that
telephone companies are compelled to
put in instruments for private use at
the statutory rental of three dollars per
month.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

DIR. GATLING's new police gun, a
seventy-eight FOUNDER, is warranted to
kill thousand rioters in five minutes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

WILLIAM AIKEN, of Columbia, S. c.,
has married Widow Watson. He is
one hundred and three and she is
thirty-three.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

ACCORDING to Treasury reports
there are 100000 silver dollars in
circulation-three apiece for every
body.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

JAMES PATTERSON, who died re-
Gently at Oakland, CAL, was the man
who gave President Garfield his first
employment as driver on the canal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13

BISHOP WHIPPLE says that "as long
as the Indian has an alms-house to go
to, so long will he be pauper."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
News Items from Various States
and Territories.
ILLINOIS,.

ILLINOIS.
T Michael Sauer, aged seventy three years,
since 1916 an undertaken and furniture
manufacturer of Galena, died the other
night Of cancer Of the throat, caused by ex-
cessive smoking.
Thomas Helston, prominent business
man of Hillsboro. aged seyenty-years, was
found dead in his bed the other day
During 1887 there were IL, 1853 marriage
licenses Issued in Chicago, and the
coroner held 1,409 inquests The MUIR
ders for the year averaged one for each
week The deaths were 15, 400 The num-
Der of fires reported was 2,559, and the
total loss was 81, 94f, $685. The receipts
for licenses of all kinds aggregated g.
PSI ,90S, of which the saloons paid 81
972, 021. The real-estate transfers aggre-
gated $40, 751, 025, and over seventeen
miles of new buildings were erected at q
cost Of over $40, 100000.
Mrs ]. R. Thompson, a well-known tenn
perance worker died at Cairo the other
day, aged eighty years.
The State Teachers Association at It's re-
cent session in Springfield elected A f.
Nightengale, of Lake View, as president
The little daughter of George W. Robbins,
ly while playing with the fire while her
mother was out in the yard.
0. D. Sackett, for years member Of th e
State Board of Equalization, died the other
morning at his home in Paxton.
Fire early the other morning destroyed the
general store of c. W. Pavey & Sons, Mount
Vernon, one of the owners of the building.
Mr. James A. White, perishing in the flames
Peoria distillers paid $16,0O0,OO0 reve-
nue. taxes last year.
A decision was recently rendered in Chi
cago by Judge Waterman to the effect that
the State Board of Health has no power to
revoke the certificate of a practicing ply
sician merely because he advertises in the
newspapers.
Apost-ofice has been established at Edge
water, Cook County.
Dr. James Montgomery, one of the Oldest
and best-known physicians in Central Illi-
| nois, died at Bloomington the other morn
ing of blood-poisoning, being the fifth ply
stefan who had died in that city within four
months.
Two farmer boys, Frank and Gere Moore,
living south of Hume. Edgar County, were
frozen to death recently while hunting
Mrs John McNellis died at Morris the
other morning. aged seventy three years.
Her gifts to churches and to charity, when
her husband and herself were worth $780,
900, amounted to many thousands of dol
lars. She died comparatively poor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
DAKOTA.

Real estate transfer in Sioux Falls the
past year amounted to over $3, 600, 0G0
Rev. Melancthen Hoyt, aged eighty years,
pioneer in the Ep ;scopal ministry of the
Northwest for several years pastor of the
Yankton church and Dean of Dakota, died
near Yankton few days.
| The saloons of Huron have been closed
| up
! The fourteen skeletons said to have been
found in an Indians hut in Dakota have
dwindled to one Indians corpse found in a
| beaver-hole
Deadwood talks of raising the liquor IL
cense of that city to 81, 900 per year.
Bishop Walker, of Dakota, denies the
story that he will soon marry Mrs Kate
Noel, daughter of Judge Wakeman The
Bishop says that it is against the tenets Of
the Episcopal church TO ever solemnize
marriage with divorced person.
Three railroads are surveyed to Dead
wood and asking the right OF way through
| the gulch.
The Mandan Bachelors Club, seventy five
members, has opened a correspondence
with Colonel Pat DOMAIN with a view to hav-
ing about seventy-five young ladies emil
CRATE to that part of the Territory.
Rutel & Adler, extensive furniture deal
ers at Huron, closed the other day. Liabili-
ties, $12, 900 to $40, 900; assets sufficient
to cover all claims
Alexander Mckay, young colored man
who arrived in Sioux Falls from Michigan a
short time ago and has been working on a
farm near there, was married few days
ago to young white woman named Smith,
who was school-teacher in Michigan.
The gas works at Sioux Falls, which were
partially destroyed by an explosion in Oc-
tober, were again blown up the other day,
causing loss of $15, 900.
B. S. Holland, of Bachelors Grove, was
frozen to death in the recent severe storm
He had gone to Louisiana two miles distant,
to procure medicine for his sick wife, and
was lost when returning on foot
Proteau, the first white settler Of Dakota.
was found frozen to death recently near
Fort Bennett He was ninety-three years
old; had acted as scout and interpreter for
Generals Custer, Harney. Sibley and Sully,
and as an evidence thereof bore some
twenty arrow points in his body, and was
buried with ceremony by the Indians.
Lawrence Kelley, contractor of the
Northern Pacific railroad, committed sui
eide in his room at the Wentworth House
the other night at Deadwood by taking poi.
son.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
IOWA.

The Iowa travelling men, in session at
Davenport recently, had a parade, the pro
cession being two miles long. The mer-
curry was II degrees below zero, yet the
brave drummers marched in straw hats and
linen busters.
At Des Moines the other morning Will
lam S., the seventeen-year- old son of State
Treasurer Twombley, received fatal injuries
at the toboggan slide.
Patrick O'Brien, an Iowa contractor, was
found freezing in a doorway at Cincinnati,
O., few nights ago. He had been drinking,
and ON his person was found So, 900 in
money and sP6, 900 in checks.
- The auth critics of Council Bluffs have
ordered all gamblers to leave the city under
pain of prosecution.
The question of dancing was sprung upon
the State Teachers, Association at its re-
sent session in the form of a resolution
consuming the dancing at the reception the
night before After a stormy debate the res
olution was withdrawn.
"A coal mine has been discovered near
Akron. The coal is in immense quantities
and of excellent quality.
/. The barn and feed stable connected with
the Geneva House at Rock Rapids was
two mules, one cow and twenty hogs per-
ished in the building.
Miss Lizzie Nagle, daughter Of one of Du-
buque's oldest citizens, left for Baltim ore
the other night to enter the Convento of Car
melite nuns in that city.
Dora Erwin, wife of q one-legged clog
dancer at Sioux City, died recently She
was the daughter Of Mrs Dora Byers, of
Chicago, a wealthy lady, and was disowned
when she left home to go upon the stage
William Wilson, a farmer living near Des
Moines, whose mind had become disor
dered, burned himself to death recently by
getting into the haymow of his barn and set
ting it on fire.
A mail car, with twenty-five pouches of
mail and other contents, was burned at
Waverly the other night.
All the gambling houses at Sioux City
have been closed by the authorities
George w. Snyder, pioneer physician,
expired at his residence in Burlington the
other day, aged eighty-four years.
Several loaded cartridges left by I'M
known parties in Main street, Council
Bluffs, a few days ago were exploded by
passing vehicles Two balls crashed through
the windows of harness shop, causing
great CONSERVATION among the occupants,
but no one was injured.
William A. Dowell, g well-known young
man of Burlington, shot himself through
the head the other night with suicidal in
tent
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
ADULTERATEo FOOD AND DRINK.

"Hon. j. @. c. Lamar, Secretary of the In
terror, Washington"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-04-07
ReneWs Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay Co.,
Iowa, tells the following remarkable story,
the truth Of which is vouched for by the res.
idents Of the town: 81 am 70 years old,
have been troubled with kidney complaint
and lameness for many years; could not dress
myself without help. Now / am free from
all pain and soreness, and am able to do all
my own housework | owe my thanks tc
Electric Bitters for having renewed my youth,
and removed completely all disease and
pain" Try bottle, only SO cents, at J. A.
Bonham's.