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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
THE EAST

The Legislature of New Jersey, despite
the Governors veto decided on the Sth to
make local option and high license State
law
REPUBLICANS of Massachusetts will meet
| in State convention in Boston on April %
to elect delegates to the National conven-
ton.
AFIRE destroyed Duden & Co. IS lace fac
tory in New York City ON the 9Th, causing a
loss of 100000
FLAMES destroyed Reilly's leather factory
and twelve houses at Newark, N. j., on tine
9th. Loss, 100000
The six-day -four hours a day. bicycle
race ended at Philadelphia on the 10th,
the record being broken by Croker, who
covered 1853 miles
AT Shamokin, Pa, Knights of Labor
assembly surrendered its charter ON the
10th and declared the strike off They
were all railroaders
On the 10th Cartwright won the seventy
TWO hour walking match in Boston, with
3Y6 miles, beating the American record
AT Sco N. Y, train jumped the track
on the 18th, killing one person and wound
ing twelve others, four of them fatally.
HENRY BERGH, of New York, founder and
president of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals. died on thu 18th,
aged sxty-tive years. In 1866 Mr. Bergh
organized the society with which his name
has since been identified, and to the protec-
tion of dumb animals be devoted all his
time and great part of very considera-
bic fortune, and he had the satisfaction OF
seeing the society grow to be a most i'm
portant institution with branches in almost
every State in the Union
On the 18th the heaviest snow-storm of
the year prevailed aG New York, large drifts
forming, which caused suspension of all
trains, street cars and ferries. The storm
was general in the State, and also severe in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut and
points South.
A COLLISION of trains on the 10Th near
Huntington, Pa, killed three employees and
c9used a loss to the Pennsylvania road of
S75, 600
THE Legislature of the State of New York
for the first time in it's history was on the
10Th forced to adjourn because there was
not quorum present on account of the
great snow-storm.
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TEE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
FrFTIETH CONGRESS.

THURSDAY, March SIN the Senate bills
were placed On the calendar to provide
for joint celebration at Washington by
the sixteen American republics in honor
OF the centennial of the parent republic
the United States; for an Indian industrial
school in Michigan; applying the Eight
hour law to letter carriers A petition was
presented from thirty-three States and Ter
ritories, containing over one hundred thou
sand signatures, against the admission Of
Utah as State so long as its people are un-
der the control of the Mormon prizes thood
The bill granting pensions to ex-soldiers
and sailors who are unable to perform man
nal labor and to the dependent relatives of
deceased soldiers and sailors was passed by
a vote of a yeas to Is nays. In the House
bill was introduced to regulate the CLASH
fication, compensation and allowance of
postmasters. The bill to establish postal
telegraph was reported favorably, and the
measure to enable the people to select their
postmasters was reported adversely
FRIDAY March 9-The Senate was not
in session. In the House the Omnibus
war-claim bill was passed-yeas, 100; nays,
100 At the evening session thirty-four
pension bills were passed, including the one
increasing the pension of the widow of
General Robers Anderson, the hero of Fort
Sumter, to 800 month
SATURDAY, March 10-There was no SEES
sion. In the House bills were passed to
restore to the public domain part Of the
Uintah Indian reservation in Utah. and
prescribing fine and imprisonment for the
unlawful cutting of timber on Indian reser-
vations The Dependent Pension bill was
received from the Senate and referred to
the Committee on Invalid Pensions
MONDAY, March I'm the Senate re-
titions were presented protesting against
the reduction of the duty on lumber and
salt and from leading wool manufacturers
and growers asking legislation to protect
the wool interests A bill was reported
favorably authorizing the appointment and
retirement Of Arthur Pleasanton, Major of
cavalry. In the House bills were intro
duced directing the Committee ON Agri-
calbure to inquire into the expediency of
prohibiting the sale of compounds as pure
lard; the Randall bill relating to tariff and
internal revenue; to encourage National
exposition of the colored race, and provid-
ing for commission to investigate trusts
and for repeal of the protective tariff on all
industries belonging to trusts,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
WHAT A BEETLE DID.
How an Imprisoned Natural Historian
Recained His Liberty.

ReSaIned Ills Liberty.
In the year 1898 young man of about
thirty sought refuge in the neighborhood
of Bordeaux. Threatened with transporta-
ton by the Republican party, on account of
his royalist proclivitie5, he fed to the coun-
try, where he devoted himself with ardor
to the pursuit of his favorite science-en-
tomology. One day, having ventured too
near the town, he fell into the hands of
troop of fanatical patriots" who seized
him and conveyed him to prison. Six hours
after he was sentenced to death, for he had
publicly confessed who he was, and the
following morning was fixed for his execu-
ton. While partaking of his last meal he
carried on lively conversation with his
jailer, who, among other things, eXpatiated
upon the character and the habits Of the
presiding judge, saying that the latter en-
ployed all his leisure time in roaming about
the country in search of beetles and but
terfies AT this the captive prickod
up his ears, and, quick as thought, he took
rare beetle cut of a small collection which
he had been allowed to keep, and while the
jailer went on talking he pinned it, with
pretense Of secrecy, to the bottom OF
cork, which he afterwards stuck in the
mouth of bottle of spirits. The jailer no.
ticed the operation without saying any
thing, and, suspecting danger, he took the
bottle and the beetle straight to the presi-
dent of the court, and reported the circum-
stance. No sooner had the latter espied
the rare beetle than he FASTENED to the pris
on cell, where soon afterwards, lost to all
around them, the two entomologists be-
came absorbed in a prolonged conversation
on scientific topics, after which they parted
as the best friends. That beetle had saved
the prisoners life. He received from the
president pecuniary assistance, letter. OF
recommendation and the best testimonials
as to his Republican sentiments. The lib
Grated man was none other than Latreille.
the celebrated natural historian. -Ma's'sig.
folfj0sSs xlszES
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LATER,

The great storm in the East continued I'M
a5ated on the 18Th, and resumption of rail-
road travel was impossible. From Albany, N
Y, on the north, to Washington. d. c., on
the south, the storm was pronounced the
worst ever experienced. Trains were
stalled along the various lines, and t
would be several days before ths roads
could be opened. In New York City all
business was stopped, no trains of any kind
Were running, and several persons had
persisted from exposure. In Philadelphia
the storm was the worst in over thirty Yeas
and business was suspended A number of
vessels and tugs sunk as the breakwater at
Lewes, De-. land twenty five lives were lost
1t was believed the loss of life along the
coast would be terrible stock train was
stalled near. Schenectady, n Y, and the
cattle were frozen to death.
Rev. J. N. BUNCH, of Nevada, Mo-, was
fatally shot by robbers ON the 18th and
robbed of 81, 140 and a valuable watch
THERE was no change in the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy strike on the 18Th.
Several OF the railroads were hauling Bur-
lington cars in the regular course of bust
ness and anticipated no trouble with the
engineers.
A FISHING sloop was wrecked on the 18th
at Lowestoft. Eng, and nine persons were
drowned
The large factory of the Buckeye Buggy
Company at Columbus O., was burned on
the 18th, causing a loss of $15O,OO0
ADvIcEs of the 18th report extensive
floods in Austro-Hungary. Bridges had
been swept away and large areas converted
into lakes Several. WILLIS GEES were sub
merged and a large number of persons had
been drowned.
The villsge OF Townsend, suburb of Bal
timore, Md, was partly destroyed by fire
on the 18th.
The Wisconsin Press Association met in
annual session at Milwaukee on the 18th.
TERRIFIC snow-storm ragged on the 18th
in Canada and in Montreal and Quebec
business was practically suspended
HE large dairy barn belonging to B. B.
Ingraham, near Flora, Ill, was consumed
by fire on the 18th, and thirty-five fine
| milch cows p erished in the flames
The Prohibitionsts of the First Kansas
district on the 18th nominated Rev. II,
Shumaker for Congress
The market place at Cabin Hungary, was
destroyed by fire on the 18th, and many
persons persisted in the flames .
In the United States Senate on the 18th
almost the entire session was devoted to
| speeches of Senators Colquitt and Dolph on
the Presidents message. A resolution was
adopted for special committee to investi-
gate the condition of the civil service in all
branches of the Government In the House
the bill providing that the first session Of
the Fifty-frst Congress shall begin on
March 4, 1889, was reported adversely.
Other bills were reported to discontinue
the coinage of one dollar and three dollar
gold pieces, and the omnibus. bill for the
admission into the Union OF Dakota, Mon
tana, Washington and New Mexico
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The Strike.

CHICAGO, March 12-The Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy striking engineers are
resting on their oars awaiting Judge Ores
HAMS decision in the injunction proceed
ngs against the Wabash road. rumor
that Receiver McNulta, of the latter road,
had revoked the order to handle Burlington
cars could not be confirmed Little danger
now exists of the strike spreading. The
attitude of President Martin Hughitt, Of
the Northwestern; General Man ger St
John, of The Rock Island, and Gen.
eral McNulta, receiver of tie Wa
bash, has saved any very considerable
extens. on of the trouble. These roads are
The chef Western competitors of the Bur
lngton Company and they are more than
disposed 10 keep hands Off
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WEST AND SOUTH.

The Democrats of Virginia will meet in
Richmond on May 10th to select delegates
10 the National convention at St Louis.
In the Chicago Burlington & Quincy
strike the outlook was more peaceful on
the 9Th, and the probability of general
strike On all the Western roads decreased
The burlington officials made application
to Judge Gresham for injunctions restrain
ing the Wabash road from further refusing
to receive or deliver Burlington freight and
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and its officers from issuing orders to en-
gineers and firemen TO refuse TO haul Bur-
lington freight
CHARLES RICHTER shot and killed Louisa
Schmitt ON the Sth at Evansville, Ind,
because she had rejected his addresses, and
then killed himself
In Clark County, Ga, a political quarrel
on the Sth between Sheriff George W..
Allen and ex-Sheriff DAVIS Carter, resulted
in u murder and suicide. Allen shot Carter
dead and then killed himself
CHARLES PARKHURsT, aged twelve years,
while fooling with gun on the Sth near
Attica, Kan, shot and killed Charles Slep-
Ply and fatally wounded George Sloppy.
DEMOCRATS of Indiana will hold their
State convention in Indianapolis April %
to elect delegates to the National conven-
ton.
ONE of the buildings of the Williamson
County (Tenn.) poor-house was burned on
the Sth, and William Johnson and Dora
Shannon (coloredl, both insane, persisted in
the flames
On the Sth the Mississippi Legislature adj
journed sine die.
FIRE on the 9th at Harrisburg, Ill, de-
stroyed eleven business houses and five
dwellings
The Methodist University building at
Mitchell, d. T., was burned on the 95b, and
out of forty inmates ten were badly in
jured, one having died. while others were
thought to be fatally hurt
FIVE men and four women committed sui
eide in Chicago during the seven days end
ed on the 9th, and three other persons fail
ed in their attempts to take their lives.
IN the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
strike there was no change on the 9th. In
Judge Gresham's court in Chicago action
on the petition of the Burlington Company
for an order compelling the Wabash road
to transport end deliver cars rendered BY
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Gladstone Surely Com ing.

LONDON, March 12-It can be stated upon
absolute and direct authority that provid-
Ing his health will permit, RI Hoa. Will
ian Glads. one will pay a visit to the
United States next fall He viii be accom-
panied by his son Herbert and
Sir Lyon Playfair, but it is hardly
probable that Mrs Gladstone, VINO
holds sea voyages in mortal hoHor, will be
induced TO form one Of the party. The
sit viii be entirely private one, and the
ex- premier's physicians, two of whom &C
cording to present plans will accompany
him, will see to it thai all invitations to
barq@ets, formal receptions, etc, will be
declined on the plea OF advanced age and
the necessity Tor an utter avoidance OF ex-
element
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lam, renewng conversation which he
had had with him within the last few dsvs
He spoke in clear voice about the
political situation ana military a.
engagements of Germany He men,
toned that the reforms he had carried
out in the army had been copied in
France He talked about Russia and ex-
pressed a strong opinion that Germany
would not become involved in war with
that country He spoke in the most friend.
~ terms of the Austro-G German relations,
but it is not certain whether he was con-
sc;ous or wandering.
During the last thirty-six hours the En-
peror was drcwsy, delirious and conscious
alternately, starting at times excitedly to
make remarks relative to family or politI-
cal matters. Once he mistook Prince
Bismarck for the Crown Prince and, taking
lis hand, pleaded that he would always be
kind to tie Gar. He afterward recog-
nized Prince Bismarck and expressed in
broken sentences his satisfaction with the
Austro- German alliance About O'Clock
in the morning he talked SO much that
the Grand Duchess of Baden said that
he would tire himself The Emperor
replied: Il have no time to be tired
Prince William stood at the foot of the bed
During the last moments the Emperor did
not suffer. His face wore q tranquil, al
most smiling, expression A few minutes
before his death the Emperor exclaimed
Fritz, dear Fritz!'
BERLIN. March 10.-The Chancellor has
received the following telegram from En-
peror Ere derrick:
"SAN RENO, March 9-At this moment of
deepest sorrow at the decease Of the Emperor
and King my beloved father, must express
my thanks to you and to- the Minister of State
for the devotion and loyalty with which you all
served him. I rely upon the assistance of you
all in the arduous charge which has devolved
upon me. Leave here tomorrow.
FREDERICK
The Emperor has also forwarded the fol-
lowing ordinance to the ministers of States
on the subject of public mourning:
"With regard to the public mourning which
has heretofore been customary, we will not
order any provision, but will rather leave to
every German to determine how he will give
expression to his affection at the death of such
a monarch, and how long he will deem it ap-
propriate to restrict participation in public en-
tertainment,.'
The new King was proclaimed Frederick
Ill He signs Frederick" without refer
ence to Emperor or King.
WASHINGTON March 10-A telegram was
received at the Department of State yes
terday morning from Minister Pendleton
at Berlin announcing the death of Emperor
William yesterday morning A copy of the
dispatch received by the German Charge
d'Affairs from Prince Bismarck was sent to
the Secretary of State. The Secretary OF
State yesterday afternoon sent the follow
ing cable message to Minister Pendleton:
nIsr ArorrN ON CsvA INN,
March, 10, 16S8.-Pendletoa, Berlin: The Presi-
dent desires you to make known through the
foreign office that the death of the illustrious
and venerable Emperor of Germany has deeply
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feebler, finally sinking to a whisper. At
5 p. m. he was SO weak that the mem
bers of the family. Prince Bismarck and
Count Won Moltke, and the servants of the
household gathered around the bed
The Emperor, supported by the doctors,
held the hand of his wife ON one side
and his daughters hand on the other
Prince William stood alone at the head of
the couch Chaplain Koegel spoke u few
words of consolation, to which the Emperor
whispered occasional responses
The Emperor interrupted the Chaplain as
he subsequently read from the Bible with
the words: That's right" AMI sGood 4
When the Duchess of Baden asked him If
he had heard the words of the clergyman
he said sTesn After the Emperor
had partaken of little food he seemed
gery taIkativs and spoke with Prince Will
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the Burlington was postponed until the
18th In Omaha Judge Dundy Egued an
order enjoining the Union Pacific Railroad
Company and it's engineers frora refusing
to perform their duties under the Inter
State Commerce law and enjoining the en-
gineers from organizing or combining to
direct any strike.
AT Emmettsburg, Ia, the veterinary
stable of Dr. Hayes was burned on the 9th,
and several valuable horses were lost.
On the 9th the Illinois League of Repub-
lican clubs was organized at Spring field,
with William ". Tracy, of that city, as
president
FIVE Italian counterfeitsrs were captured
on the 9th at Norfolk, Va. They had flooded
the city with silver counterfeit dollars
MACY WARNER was hanged on the 9th at
Jeffersonville, Ind, for the murder, april
10, 1887. of Frank Harris
A NEGRO named Tom Roof, who assaulted
Mrs. Morrison in Trenton, Ga. was taken
from jail ON the 10th and 1ynched by a
mob of women.
On the 10Th Mrs Henrietta Smell, of Chi
cago, widow of Amos J. Smell, the muir
dered millionaire offered a reward of S10,-
900 for the arrest of William B. Tascott,
the supposed murderer.
A HAIL-sToRM on the 10Th along the Mis-
sissippi coast caused ruin to the vegetables,
growing fruit etc.
IT looked on the 10th as if the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy strike. was nearing an
end, and rumors were current that the
strikers We're anxious to return to work.
The fact that the Bro .herhood was unable
to control competing roads had been disas-
trous
The Legislature of Utah adjourned sine die
on the 10th. All the old bills designed to
protect the polyga mists and aid them in
fighting the United States laws heretofore
passed and vetoed by Governor Murray
were again passed at this session and vetoed
by Governor West
RUDOLPH HEILER's wife and child were
suffocated by natural gas on the 18th at
Finlay, o.
THE Chicago Burlington & Quincy rail
way strike as regards the prospects of it's
extension to other roads was in allegiance
on the 18th pending Judge Gresham's de-
cision in the Wabash case. The arguments
had been concluded and the case taken I'M
der advisement
The Legislature of Wyoming adjourned
sine die on the II h.
MORMON elders who had been making con-
verts in small districts of Botacourt Coun.
ty, Va, were notified on the 18th to leave
OF be lynched
NEAR Mason City, Ia, the family of H. l.
Brown, nine in all, were taken violently
sick az supper on the 18th, and Mr. Brown
and one child had died How their food
was poisoned had not been discovered
A FIRE destroyed the works of the Grand
Detour Plow Company at Dixon, Ill, on
the 18th. causing loss of over 300, 600
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

| BERLIN official d spatches say that En-.
peror William, of Germany, died at $50
| o'clock on the morning of the 9th He
| passed away with his hand clasping the
| hand of his wife. During the last hours OF
his life he suffered little or no pain. The
Crown Prince Frederick William at once be-
came King of Prussia and Emperor of Ger
many, under the name of Frederick Ill
ADvIcEs of the 9th from London say that
the British bark Lanoma, with a cargo of
wool, was wrecked near Weymouth. and
the captain and his crew of eleven man
were drowned
CHARLES MITCHELL and John I. Sullivan
on the 10th fought THIRTY -nine rounds, last
ing three hours and eleven mimi es and
ending in a draw, near Chantilly, France.
Both men were arrested and locked up in
jail by the authorities.
The silver wedding of the Prince and
Princess of Wales was celebrated in London
on the 1Osh.
PARTICULARS on the 10th of the earth
quake in China in December last say that
fifteen thousand lives were lost
AN order was issued by the Government
of Denmark on the 10th forbidding the i'm
portation Of American bacon and steam
lard and other undressed pork products.
HE British bark Tasmania, EN- route
from London to San Francisco, coilided re-
Gently with the steamer City Of Corinth,
and twenty-eight lives were lost
DISPATCHES of the 10Th say that the re-
cent Yellow river inundation in China
drowned over one hundred thousand people,
and the number left destitute was one mill
ion eigh5 hundred thousand
On the north shore of Lake Superior a
terrific blizzard ragged on the 18th, and trains
on the Canadian Pacific were completely
blockaded.
FREDERICK Ill was ON the 18th formally
proclaimed Emperor of Germany, and he
issued proclamation to the people in
which he declared that the policy of the
dead ruler should be continued.
FORTUNE of three hundred million
marks in cash was left by the late Emperor
William, of Germany.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

THOMAS ]. POTTER, aged forty-aight
years. general manager of the Union Pacific
road, died on the 9th in Washington
The House Committee on Military Affairs
on the 9th determined to recommend FOR
passage the Cutcheon bill, appropriating
81, 475 600 for the public defense
THERE were 1915 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th, against 202 the previous seven
days
REPRE- SENTATIVE RANDALL completed his
Tariff Revision bill on the 10Th. The esti-
mated reduction of revenue from all
sources by this bill is $95, 100000, of
which $40, 600, 900 is in internal taxes
alone. - I. n. y,
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IT pays man to go happily about
his work. Two years ago a man
named Bernard was singing at his
carpenter bench in Paris when NJ.
Hartmann, the music publisher,
CHANGED to be passing. NJ. Hartmann
stopped and learned that the singer
knew nothing of music, but he had a
beautiful voice, and M. Hartmann sent
him to the best schools. That poor
carpenter is now NJ. Bernard, the
favorite French tenor at the Paris
opera-housc, and is making more
money in week than he could saw
out of pine boards in year.
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A COFFEE merchant in Copenhagen,
OF large means, proposes to fit out an
expedition for the exploration of the
interior regions of Greenland Nobody
knows any thing about that country
for any great distance from the coast,
and if the expedition should succeed in
sIedging and snowshoeing itself into the
bowels of that frozen land and then
out again the result would doubtless
be interesting.
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A. BRONSON ALCoTT, who died recent
ly in Boston at the age of lightweight
years, was one of the organizers of the
Transcendental Club, that coterie of
elect minds comprising Charming,
Hawthorne, Ripley, Emerson, Miss
Peabody, Theodore Parker and Mar
garet Fuller, and later became the
founder and leading light of the famous
Concord School of Philosophy. His
friendships were as broad and wide as
his ideas. Thoreau and John Brown
were among them, and his powerful
personality won the reverence of all
brilliant minds he came in contact with.