The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-05-09
NEWS sUMMARr.

NEWS SUMMART.
. Seventy thousand Germans, it is said,
have engaged passage by steam to the
United States.
Gable dispatches report . republican
insurrection in Catalonia, Spain, but give
no particulars indicating its extent
The habeas corpus case of JEFF Davis
excites deep interest in Norfolk and vicini-
ty. The authorities there are not advis-
ed what action has been taken
Irish refugees are arriving in New York
in large numbers. They report that the
Fenian movement in that country is en-
tirely abandoned.
The government was defeated on d.
vision in the English House of Commons
on the End inst, by 81 votes a later
dispatch states that the government ac-
cepted the amendment which the Liber-
ais carried.
A Memphis dispatch of the Sd instant
gives the cheerful information that no
one was murdered on the previous night,
the first time that such dearth of sensa-
tions had occurred for a week.
The Justices of the Supreme Court
met in Washington, Saturday, to finally
approve the rules of practice and proceed
ure in bankruptcy. The whole machin-
cry will be in readiness for the commence
ment of operations on the first of June.
An official dispatch to the Mexican
Minister at Washington states that Gen.
Miramon is dead, Quertaro taken, the
Imperial forces disbanded and that Maxi
milan is in concealment
The total resources of the National
banks Of Wisconsin on the lst of April
were $l1, ,23s, 773; 3;circulation, So, 555, ,265,
secured by United States bonds to the
amount of $2,s9O,25O.
Chief Justice Chase declines to pre-
side over court in Virginia for the trial
of jeff Davis, until that state has been
reorganized under the military bill. 1t
is stated that the President will liberate
Davis if he is not admitted to bail by the
courts.
The Buffalo and Erie Railroad has
adopted in its new cars the ''station indi-
cator,' whereby, after the manner of re-
volving calendars, the passenger is con-
stantly informed of the name of the
next station at which the train will stop.
The official canvass of the votes cast at
the recent election of Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, was made to-day.
The returns show that only about one
third of the voters of the State voted on
/ the subject, The result of the canvass
gives a total vote of $3.50, of which
Judge Cole received 46, S05, Judge We
therbee $3.50, scattering 1862.
From Augusta, report comes that two
United States soldiers have been hung in
Edgefeld District, South Carolina, by a
posse of citizens. No pretext is given for
the outrage. By the latest accounts an
officer of the army, with a guard, were
!
The New York Herald has a dispatch
by the Atlantic cable, dated Rio Janerio,
April 18th, which states that the Emper-
or of Brazil had issued decree decIar-
ing all slaves free, the mandate to take
effect within twenty years, and children,
slave born, hereafter are to be free from
their birth.
THELATEST.
London, May THE conference of
European governments for the settlement
of the conflicting claims of France and
Prussia in regard to the grand duchy Of
Luxemburg met in this city to-day.
1t is reported that the leading powers
hesitate to carry out the proposition for
guaranteeing the naturalization of Lux
embourg, and that the people of the
grand duchy ask for annexation to Belgi-
um.
Notwithstanding the preliminarieslook-
ing. to the preservation of peace, Fronce
and Prussia are both rapidly arming
This course is producing distrust and
;larm in financial circles, here and else
where.
The troubles growing out of the eight
hour movement in Chicago are rapidly
subsiding Some feeble attempts were
made on Monday to create disturbance,
but were speedily suppressed by the po.
lice. Work has been resumed. in large
number of manufacturing est. .abHshments
In some, the employees are working or
the old ten hour system. with no changes
in wages, while in others they are work.
ing eight hours, With twenty per cent.
reduction in pay.
The frost Monday night in St. Louis
made ice IN some localities, and it is said
that much damage has been done to veg
citation especially to early berries.
A special dispatch to the Detroit Tri-
bune. announces the opening of naviga-
ton with Lake Superior, and the arrival
III Marquette of the propellers Union
and Favorite, of Chicago.