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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

He was conveyed to GEORGE H PEspLEToN
the hospital at his own desire. He is para
liked on one side.
New YORK, April 21.-Minister Pendle-
toms son. Francis K. Pendleton, lawyer
of this city, has received - cable
dispatch from Wiesbaden informing
him that, while his father sustained
slight apoplectic stroke, bis condi-
ton was not at any time considered
dangerous, nor is danger feared now.
Yesterday morning he was again treasured
by cable dispatches, both from Wiesbaden
and Berlin. A Secretary of Legation at
Berlin cables: Continued improvements;
danger not feared. Your father
telegraphed me himself to-day" Min
lister Pendleton went to WiesbaGen to
visit some friends few days ago His
daughter had been stopping with him in
Berlin, but is at present visiting friends in
Italy. Mr.. Pendleton's son does not con-
slider his father s condition at all serioua
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
WEST AND SOUTH,

On the 10Th four hundred brewers at Gin
cinnati struck because of the discharge of
several union men.
In each Congressional district in Indiana
conventions We're held on the 10th for the
selection of delegates to the National Re-
publican convention, and the result was a
victory for General Harrison for President
The death of H. Dewart a prominent
Democratic politician and member of the
Thirty-tifth Congress, occurred on the 10Th
at Sunbury, Pa, at the age of sixty-eight
years.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows ON the 10th: Indiana, Fifth dis
trict George w. Cooper Dem); Sixth dis
trict, General Tom Brown (Rep); Eighth
district, James 7. Johnston tRep) Illinois,
Fifth district, Alberta. Hopkins Rep.l
The death of v Hicks, a veteran of the
war of 1872 and the Black Hawk war oc-
CURED at Roodhouse Ill, on the Goth at
the age of one hundred years He never
rode on q railroad train. and though he
could not read nor write he amasSed quite
fortune
THE West Virginia Greenback- Labor party
will meet at Charleston on the Sd of May
to nominate State ticket.
n B. LESTER was hanged at Lebanon,
Tenn, on the Goth for the murder of Lieu
tenant J. T. Lane
AT the opening of the National League
championship season of 1888 on the Goth
the games resulted as follows: Chicago, 5;
Indianapolis, 4 Pittsburgh, 5; Detroit 2.
New York, 6; Washington, O. Boston, A;
Philadelphia, 3.
EIGHT horse-t thieves were caught the
other day by an armed posse thirty miles
from Purcell, l. T., after running fight,
and strung up.
FRED Showers house at Portland, Ore.
was burned on the Goth, and Mrs Slower
and her baby were burned to death.
NEAR Labadie, Mo-, a blast explosion on
the Goth fatally injured five men,
Oh the Doth three men were burned to
death and several others We're injured by
the burning of the Bethel House in ST.
Louis
EIGHT men on the Goth surrounded the
Yesqnitas ranch near Brownsville, Tex,
and binding the men and women robbed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
LATER.

THE Georgia State Prohibition conven-
ton, known as Sam Smalps convention,
met in Atlanta on the Oath and elected
delegates to the National convention in
structed to vote for Clinton B. Fiske for
President
THREE Indians, camped near La Crescent,
Mimi, went to La Crosse on the Oath and
got drunk, and while returning they upset
their canoe and all were drowned
PRAIRIE fires in the vicinity OF Aberdeen,
D. T., were doing great damages on the
Oath. :
Four children of j. G. Waltmyer, of Ian
caster, Pa, had on the Oath died of malig-
nant ,diphtheria. three other children were
dying and the father and mother were i'll
with the disease
THE body of Bill Thompson, desperate
and horse-thief, was found near Cisco, Tex,
on the 24th, riddled with bullets.
THE Florida Republicans met in State
convention on the Oath at Palatka and
chose delegates to the National convention.
They were not instructed
ADvIcEs of the 24th say the Yaqui indians
We're at war with the Mexican Federal
forces, and near Aqua Verde desperate
fight had taken place, the troops routing
the Indians and killing seventeen and
wounding a large number The Federal
forces had one man killed and several
wounded.
JESSE GLEDDER and Frank Lincoln were
burned to death on the Oath at Butte City,
M. t., in a fire that destroyed the Centen-
NAL Hotel
AT Licking, Mo-, on the Oath James
Smalley, who had become possessed of an
insane idea that his family would go to the
poor house, though he was well off, killed
his two young children and cut his own
throat
Up to the Oath President Cleveland had
vetoed eight bills this session of Congress,
six of them being private pension bills.
The American contributions to the Ma
tional League in Ireland during the four
teen days ended on the Oath amounted to
So, COO The home branches during the
same period contributed e3S7.
The lower part of the city of Dubuque,
Ia, was flooded on the Oath by the high
water in the Mississippi.
THE Democrats of the Sixteenth district
of Illinois on the oath nominated George
W. Fithian for Congressman, and in the
Tenth district General Post Rep.) was
unanimously renominated
HERMAN PosEY feolored) was lynched OF
the Oath near Bessemer, Ala. for assault
ing little white girl
IHE United States Senate was opened by
prayer on the oath by Jewish rabbi. the
second instance of the kind in the history
of the Government The bill to provide
post-office buildings for all towns and cities
where the post office receipts exceed
S3, 900 annually was reported. Nearly the
entire session was devoted to discussing
the International Copyright and Bureau Of
Animal Industry bills In the House the
day was occupied in debating the Tariff
bill
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
TERRIBLE DISASTER.

Official Report of the Awful Destruction
Caused by the Chinese Earthquakes
Four Thousand Persons Killed and In
jured.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 23.-The
steamer City of New York, arriving yester-
day from China, brings details of an earth
quake at Yunnan. The Project of Lin An.
with Chi HENS, of Shih Ping, and Kien
Shut, under him, have Jointly reported to
the Governor of Yunnan, as follows: From
the second day of the twelfth month of the
last year till the third day of this year there
were over ten shocks of earthquake, accom-
panied with noise like thunder. Yamens
in the cities of Shin Ping and Kien Shut
We're either knocked down or split right
down, and temples likewise; in Shih
Ping eight or nine-t enths of the houses
in the south are falling down, and
half of those in the east; in the northwest
1000 being cracked or bent out of the
perpendicular; 200 people, men and wom-
en-, old and young, being crashed to death,
wounded and injured over 500. At Tung
Hang over 800 We're crushed to
death and about 700 or 500 wounded At
Nan Hang 6here were over 200 dead and
overs 400 injured At 81 Hang there are
over 200 dead and over 500 injured At
Peh Hang about loo were killed and the
same number injured In the town and
suburbs over 1000 people are either
killed or wounded, eight or nine
tenths of the houses fallen down, and the
rest cracked and leaning over At KEN
Shut in the city seven were killed and many
wounded; in the northwest suburb 800 to
400 houses were overturned, 249 people
killed and 80 or 160 wounded
In one town the Jail was overthrow and
three notorious criminals convicted of
triple murder were enabled to escape in
the general confusion. The suffering
among the people was very great, as most
Of those whose houses We're demolished
lost every thing. The Imperial Council
voted liberal aid and the Emperor is said
to be much grieved over the affair." which
is the most disastrous earthquake known
in Chinese history. The district is
mountainous and dotted with lakes, and
the heaviest shocks were felt near Yunnan
lake. The earthquake was of the linear
kind, and moved at right angles to the
mountain chains 1t is also reported that,
$50 miles away, Gu the Upper Yangtze.
land at Su Chon subsidized and became a lake.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
FROM WASHINGTON,

THERE were 1S1 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 20th against 1872 the previous
seyan days. The total failures from Jan
uary l to date were 3,543, against 3,649
in the same time last year.
The present Congress had been in session
one hundred days on the goth The House
had passed 425 bills and the Senate S3 l.
Altogether 200 bills had passed both houses
and gone to the President for his signature,
and II, 568 bills and resolutions had been
introduced-the largest number ON record.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States, the exchanges during
the week ended on the 21st aggregated
1888, 400, 264, against $685. 700, 439 the
previous week. AS compared with the cor
responding week of 1887 the decrease
amounted to 1913 per cent
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
The Ne1Y American Navy.

PHILADELPHIA, April 2I-Saturday, April
%, two large vessels will be launched from
the ship-building yards of Cramp / Sons
They 3re the gun-boat Yorktown and the
dyaamite-gun cruiser, which is nameless.
There are in the yard building the cruisers
Baltimore, Newark and Philadelphia Cramp
& Sons have performed excellent service
for the Government, and since the WI
there has not been so much activity III the
yards as there is to-day. Work is gwen to
about 2, 500 men, and the outlook seems
good for uninterrupted busin ;ss for years
10 !.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
Ocean steamers TO Rase.

;. SAN FRANCISCO, April 21--It is stated il
marine circles that there is to be raca be-
tween the Canadian Pacific steamer PaIthia
and the o. & o. steamer Gaelic on their &C.
turn trip TO Yokohama and Hong hong.
The Parthia sails from this port for VIC
toria Saturday and will probably start from
that port on her outward voyage the same
day that the Gaelic leaves here.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

THE birthplace of General Grant, at
Point Pleasant, o., is still in good re-
pair, and used as a dwelling With no
accident it viii last century yet. 1t
is somewhat queer but it is fact,
that this old homes hold on public
sentiment seems to tighten. The Gin
cinnati centennial offered big sum
for the old home and the Columbus
centennial offered $1,000 for its rent,
with q guarantee that they will re-
place it unhurt upon its foundations
when the centennial is over But the
old homestead is not on the market,
and can not be purchased.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

THE Governments lighthouse es-
tablishment has grown into immense
proportions. 1t now has under its SUI
pervision 6, 49S aids to navigation,
including 500 lighthouses, beacons
and stake-lights, "a light-ships and
], l07 beacon-lights on Western rivers.
1t has PIT fog-signals and Al whistling-
<huoys in position. There are sixteen
lighthouse districts.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

AN Indiana man who has attained
the sobriquet. of Lawsuit John, :"
having been continually engaged in
some lawsuit for the past twenty years.
has just been sentenced to year in the
penitentiary. This will give him va
cation, and plenty of time to plan new
lawsuits for the next decade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

EARTHQUAKE traces are still visible
In some parts of South Carolina. For
some time past subterranean disturb
npccs have been noticed in Newberry
County, accompanied by the noiso of
explosives and the smell of sulphur
The trouble seems to be confined to a
limited range of territory.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

A NEW type of Enoch Arden has
been found at Lockport, N, Y. Twenty
years ago John Langdon left his wife
and ran away with another woman.
Recently he and the second wife
agreed to separate and return to their
old homes. He wrote to his first
wife and she agreed to live with him
again, but when he appeared on the
scene she declined to keep her bargain,
and he shot himself.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

WE would suggest to those gentle
men who are telling us how to live a
few hundred years beyond the allotted
three score and ten that they give us
q practical demonstration of their
theories by living a few years longer
themselves.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
Inaiaua,s Fruit Crop Injured.

NEW ALBANY, Ind, April 23-The heavy
frost of Friday night, attended by the for
nation of thin ice on the lowlands. did
serious damage to peaches, pears,
cherries, plums, strawberries and rasp-
berries AS this is the center Of
the fruit-growing district CT Southern Indi-
ana, the loss will be seriously felt, financial
ly, by fruit-growers. There are shipped
daily to Chicago alone from this city dur
ing the fruit season five to six cars OF
Strawberries, besides large quantities of
peaches, plums, cherries and raspberriea
The apple buds suffered little.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
Five Men Fatally Hurt.

ST. LOUIS. April 21.-As five section men
were passing the Gerlings White-Sand
Company's works in hand-car on the St
Louis, Kansas City & Colorado road near
Labadie, Mo-, yesterday, blast exploded,
blowing an immense rock upon the hand
car All of the men were fatally hurt
later report says three have died
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

The woman suhragists made q close
shave of it in the New York Assembly.
The bill allowing women to vote at
municipal, supervisor and excise cleo
lions was defeated by vote of 81 yeas
to 55 nays. A somewhat similar bill had
already been defeated in the Senate.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

Frankfort, was strick-
en- with apoplexy.
He was taken to the
hospital at Wiesba-
EN-, where he now
lies. Later informa-
ton states that Mr..
Pendleton was strick-
en- while in a train
near Wiesbaden, to
which place he had
taken a trip from
Frankfort Thursday.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

THE Indiana White Caps, band of
masked men who have carried terror
to the hearts of many evil-doers in the
Southern part Of the State, have re-
sumod operations after brief period
of inaction. Their mission seems to
be to search out attractions of morals
and public policy such as the law
seldom takes cognizanoe of and to
apply corrective measures. Whipping
with hickory switches seems to be
their favorite mode of discipline.
Their operations cover wide
range of territory, and their visits are
swift, sudden and unexpected,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
Suit for Foreclosure.

SPRINGFIELD. Ill. April 21-The Gem
trail Trust Company OF New York and James
Cheney brought suit Friday for the fore
closure of a mortgage of 81 OH 900 on the
ST Louis, GAINESVILLE & Springfield railroad
in 1880 with 6 per cent interest
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
cUBA's DIsTREssFUL PLIGHT.
Bandits Overrunning the Country an
vi,

Bandits Overrunning the Country and
Crime Rampant.
KEY WEST, Fla, April 21.-The greatest
excitement reigns in Cuba, owing to Gen
erai Mar1n's proclamation declaring the
provinces of Havana, Matanzas, Santa
Clara and Pinar del Rio in q state of
siege General Marin says his action is
due to the enormous increase of bandits,
kidnapping, arson, etc. The Liberal press
has been suppressed. General Marin wants
it 10 appear that the leading Cubans are
preparing for war Such is not the case.
The situation is this: The bandits have full
control of the island, have burned runner
GUS plantations and are doing great dan-
aOa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
SAN DlEGO'S BIG DAM COMPLETED.
It Is the Largest in This Country and Cost
Nearly Million,

SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 2L-The compile
ton of the great Sweetwater dam and Ma
tional City water-works was formerly OBJ
served Thursday. The dam is solid ma
sonry built across Sweetwater valley in
order to form large reservoir for the pur-
pose of storing water for the dry season.
The dam is ninety feet high from the base
of the gorge, and is claimed to be by
twenty feet the highest dam in the United
States. The area of the reservoir is $50
acres The cost of the dam is 100000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
The French Constitution.

PARIS, April ga committee of eleven
members has been appointed in the French
Chamber OF Deputies to consider the sues-
ton of revising the constitution OF the
members four oppose a revision, four de-
sire immediate action, and five favor re-
vision. lu5 are disposed to side with the
Cabinet and POSTPONE action
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

The Government is to, undertake at
the Brooklyn navy-yard the construc-
ton on its own account of a frst-class
armed cruiser at a cost, including ar
mament not to exceed $4,000, 900.
The cruiser will be named the Maine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

ONLY cighty-nine of the five hun
dred and sixty prisoners received at
the Eastern Pennsylvania penitontiary
last year had trades. "Spare the
trade and spoil the child'' would not
be bad paraphrase of the old PROV
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

AT gum-chewing contest in Haru
lem, N, Y, the other day for a gold
watch Miss Lottio Grimes, who got
away with eighteen boxes, won. She
used lateral jaw motion that was
very effective.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

Miss HELEN BLANCHARD, now -
resident of Philadelphia is a Maine
girl, who has made fortune through
the invention of the simple "over-and-
over" attachment for sewing-ma-
chimes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

ONE of the most remarkable women
in Kentucky is Mrs. Sarah Moss, OF
Hopkinsville. She is in her ninety
first rear, and is the mother of sew
enteen children-twelve sons and five
daughters,-of whom ten sons and
three daughters are living. She is the
grandmother of 125 children, los OF
whom are alive. She has had 240
great-grandchildren, 210 of whom still
live; and has seventy-fiye living great
great-grandchildren, and twenty-one
dead, Mrs. Moss youngest child is T.
/. Moss, who is forty-sour years OF
age. She Is in excellent health
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

Mrs. HANCOCK s new home in Wash
ington, presented to her recently, is
said TO be worth SIS, 200, but owing to
the former owners generosity it cost
but $4,000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
A WISCONSIN Man i'm Big Luck.

OSHKOSH, Wis, April II. James Lowell,
Of this city, has inherited fortune Of
100000 by the death of his father at
Niagara Falls. Mr.. Lowell has been here
for several years, employed as clerk IN sew
eral retail stores He will soon remove with
his wife to Niagara Falls.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

AND now the oleomargarine people
complain that they are not sure of the
lard they buy for butter or for worse.
They are afraid that the scoundrels
have palmed off cotton-seed oil on
thap,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
Death of a Noted Landlord.

CHICAGO, April 3.-Mr John A Rice,
lessee and manager of the fremont House
of tits city, who has been suffering in
valid for some time past. is dead. Mr.
Rice was one of the best-known hotel
managers in the United States He was 80
years Of aga
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
The Failure RECORD.

NEW York, April -21 business failures
during the week number fer the Unit
States, TT, and for Canada IS; total, 1876;
as mpared with 222 last week. For the
corresponding week. of 1887 the total was
1919. Har's
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

THE sea-serpeft is on hand early
this year, having made his appearance,
according to reports, on the Atlantic
cnnst
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

AN Arkansas Jail guard who was
guilty of brutally maltreating an in
sane prisoner was recently fined two
hundred dollars, and as he couldn't
pay it he VENT to Jail like any common
felon. t
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
Newt yorce Gets Fourteen Years.

DENVER, Col, April 21-Newt Yorce, the
SDeer Trail terror" who was recently con-
victed at Greeley of murder in the second
degree for killing Gay Hollingsworth
while resisting arrest was yesterday sem
fenced to the penitentiary for fourteen
years
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
pENDLETON STRICKEN.

The United States Minister to Berlin At
tackled by Apoplexy-His Condition Not
Considered Dangerous.
BERLIN, April 21.-Mr. Pendleton, the
American Minister while travelling to
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

A PHILADELPHIA belle while curling
her hair recently dropped hot slate
pencil down her back and was pain
fully burned.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

SAMUEL MORRISON, who recently
died in indianapolis on his ninetieth
birthday, was the, surveyor who made
the first map of Indiana.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON has
been president of the Woman's Suf-
frage Association twenty years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27
Upon being arrested recently at Elkhorn
for deserving his wife Charles H Southwick,
OF East Delavan, dropped dead
MICHIGAN.


At TIE recent fire in Vassar thorough
bred female pointer, owned by John Loss,
had her kennel, in which were eight pup
pies, under one of the burning buildings
With mother instinct the poor thing ran
back and forth from under the burning
building, mutely appealing for help, but
none could be given, and rather than de-
sert her brood she died with them.
At Grand Rapids recently Frederick Gard
ner was given damages of Sd, 500 in the
United States Court against the Michigan
Central railway for the loss of leg by an
accident while in their employ.
George B. Forester, merchant at Mill
ington. assigned recently. Liabilities,
| So, 900; assets, $4,000
Fl. NJ. Jones, aged fifty-three years, Mas
ter Workman and organizer of the K. of L,
| died the other morning in Coldwater.
Alick Kewanda-way, an Indian, got
drunk at St Ignace the other night and fell
off the pier, bre liking his neck
William Ward, Grand Rapids lumber
man, dropped dead from heart disease re-
Gently.
Some of the citizens of Ludington are
earnestly agitating for the changing Of the
| name of the city back to its old title, "Pere
Marquette"
| John Rassin, farmer, was dragged into
a fy-wheel at the Vulcan Furnace in New
berry the other morning and torn to pieces
| Paul Maillie, at Greenville, carelessly put
| his foot against saw in Crosby's mill re-
Gently and had it sawed off
| Richard Huntley and Matt Monaghan,
| Detroit burglars, were sentenced few
days ago to twenty and twenty-five years
respectively in Jackson.
| Alexander Bettes, a farmer of Ravenna,
pleaded guilty the other day of counter
| feiting dimes and nickels and implicated
l. D. Kies, of Casanova, who was arrested
| The dam at Liberty Mills, washed out re-
Gently. Damage, 81, 400.
Hon. Arthur T. Case, aged ffty-two
years, member of the Legislature, died in
Homestead few days ago
Twelve Detroit saloon-keepers pleaded
guilty in a batch few days ago and were
| fined $25 each with costs.
Hon. George Oviatt, Republican member
of the Legislature, died in Chase few days
ago.
George Gardner, son of an Eastm awhile
farmer, was burned to death the other
night in his fathers barn. He was drunk,
and set the barn on fire.
Mrs Theresa Ihieson, who sued John
| Johns, Detroit saloon-keeper, under the
new State law which renders liquor dealers
liable for actual damag es for selling liquor
| to minors, was awarded 800 damages the
other day.