The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-01-02

Hamilton MurfeH which took aboard eli
of the Danmarks passengers and crew,
and proceeded safely to the Azores; the
Danmark being found abandoned in the
meantime, caused profound grief and
mourning throughout Christendom Tor a
fortnight.
sg-Meredith Stanley an athlete jumped from
the high bridge on the Cincinnati Southern
Road into the Kentucky River, the distance
being 285 feet; the bridge with one excep-
tion is the highest in the world.
QA-The Minnesota Legislature passed q law
making it a LnisdeneanOr for any newspa-
per to print anything more about the hang
ing of criminals than the mere announce
ment
SO-Steancship Gaelic arrives at San Francisco,
from China and Japan, making the fastest
time recorded-from Hong Kong, Zl72
days, and from NOkohama, Ii days Ii hours
Is minutes.
S1-Appalling loss of life in the Conennaugh Val
ley, Pennsylvania, caused by the breaking
OF the dam on the South Fork of the Cone
maugh River.
7-President Harrison ISSUED an order to the
army to dispense with the Sunday drill
and inspection of arms.
9-Jacob Walker and Frank Davy, young men
residing at Niagara Falls, while boating
above the falls, were drawn into the rap
ids and swept over the Horseshoe fall /;
~Pd" Walker, uncle of Jacob, committed
suicide two years before by lying down in
his boat and going over the American fall
G0-First wheat of the season arrived at
Baltimore, from Virginia, and sold at $150
q bushel.. :. In latitude 49, longitude 1927
the French steamship La Burgogne passed
the largest iceberg ever reported-esd-
matted TO be 100 feet high by 975 feet long.
Ex-Governor LOWRY, of Mississippi, expressed
the opinion that tine New Orleans and
Northwestern Railway laid itself liable to
forfeiture of it's charter by it's action in
conveying Sullivan and Kilrain, with
other participants to a prize-fght.
26-The ocean steamer Columbia made the rum
from The Needles to Sandy H3S1 (3,100
miles, in days 81 hours 81 minutes, tine
best time record over that course.
a7-ChicagO experienced a remarkable rain
storm; dn four hours more than four
inches of rain fell.
l-Grand national monument in honor of the
PILGRIMS dedicated at Plymouth Mass. :;
sons and daughters of Plymouth and
visitors from far and near were present in
large numbers
l4-Ex-Judge David S. Terry, OF California,
killed by Deputy Marshal David Maggie at
LathNOp, Cal, while Maggie protecting
Judge Stephen j.. Edeld fronn assault at
the hands of Henry.
E5-The high court of the Ancient Order OF
ForeSters, i'm session at Minneapolis,
voted to sever all connection with the
high court of England; tine differences
arose over the admins sion OF cOlored men
to the order, the English high court i'm
sisbing upon it and the Americans OBJ
1ecting.
22-Mrs Maybrick, an American woman who
was to have been hanged at Liverpool,
England, for the murder of her husband,
had her sentence committed to penal
cord with public sentiment Mr.. Lincoln,
the UNITED States Minister, and many
members of the American colony in LON
don signed petition fog the repriewe of
Mrs. MaybTick
Ae-Four tramps, arrested at Moberly, Mo for
vagr&ncy were sold at public uctiom
two went to farmers at 50 q head and one
was bid an for IS cents tine three to serve
their purchasers for four months.
26-Steamship City of Paris made the trip from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook ightship, N
j., in days a9 hours Is minutes
Sl-During the three months ending at date
there were exported to England 80, 900
heado cattle, 40 0OC 600 pounds of fresh
beef, and "a, 600, 900 pounds Of canned beef.
SEPTEMBER.
S-Empress AugustA, of GERMANY reported to
have joined the Catholic Church
1.-THE largest bar of gold ever cast was turned
out at the Helena (Montana) assay office;
it weighs 500 pounds and is worth over
500, 600.
5-Slight damage to corn crop reported from
frost at various points in Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska. Iowa, and Minnesota.
10-Another of London's fallen women found
butchered by a mysterious assassin, MAX
ing the twelfth tragedy of this character
in the Whitechapel district
27-First consignment OF Chicago cattle arrived
at Mainz, Germany.
OCTOBER.
1-During the year, up to date 3, Ill miles of
new railroads were built in the United
States.
S-A wife-beater was given thirteen lashes at
the public whipping post in Baltimore
the fifth whipping since the passage of the
law in 1882.
11-A1tell a three-year- old horse trotted mile
in 2: u at Terre Haute, and was thereupon
purchased for sos, 900.
NOVEMBER.
Irwin stars added TO the national constella-
ton by the admission of North and South
Dakota TO the grand sisterhood of Sta&s
6-M. S. Cakes, of Decatur, Ala, died of hydro
phobia from dog bite received seventeen
years ago.
H-One more State-Montana- formally admit
ted to the Union by proclamation of the
President.
n-Washington, g.the fourth star of Columbia's
new constella ion became State of the
Union.
15-Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, deposed and
a republican form of government estab-
Hshed; the old Emperor was ordered to
leave Brazil, and will be allowed certain
amount to live on in Europe; he sailed for
Lisbon.
26-John Chama, of Pottstown, Pa, cursed his
Creator, and fell paralyzed and stricken
dumb.
So-In the matter of Moore and other Mormon
applicants for citizenship at Salt Lake
City, Utah, Judge Anderson rendered q |
sweeping decision that Mormons who have |
passed the endowment house cannot be- |
come citizens neither can foreigners who |
are merely members of the church.
DECEMBER.
S-Alton Bay, N. H., startled by earthquake |
shocks crockery and glassware broken in |
many houses; bell on steamer Mount |
Washington, in the middle of the bay
rung by the disturbance.
11-Commemoration Of the Inauguration of |
George Washington 6Est President Of the |