The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-04-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

Sev mas turned lnlQEmcr IOF Tue CrOWn.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has been
travelling through the extreme South
David Ryan has been rejected as re-
ceiver of the Land Office at Menasha.
The book house of W. B. Keen of
Chicago was burned on Friday night
Loss $15O,OOQ Insured for $1OO,0C
A cable dispatch from Luxemburg
says that the people of that Duchy are
generally opposed to toannexation to France
Both houses of the Wisconsin Assem-
bly, adjourned sine die at II O. clock on the
10th inst.
It is reported that on the ed instsnt
the Liberals of Mexico commenced bonn
harding the city of Vera Cruz.
The conservatives Of Memphis have re-
qnested the colored voters to send dele
gates to the State Convention at Cieve-
land
The Liberals have entirely surrounded
Vera Cruz, and its speedy capitulation is
regarded as certain.
The schooner Rose Dousman went to
pieces off New Buffalo, Mich, on Wed
nesday night, and three of her crew were
drowned.
The residence of Mr. Rhodes, of To-
ledo, Iowa, was entered by burglars on
the 9Th inst, and 81, 200 in money aud
bonds stolen.
Hon. Aaron Harding was nominated for
Governor of Kentucky by the Union
Democratic Convention, which met on the
l lth inst.
A man named Payne, in attempting to
break into vacant house near Dunleith,
Iowa, recently, severed an artery in his
arm with piece of glass and bled to
death. Good
The Missouri river is open from St.
Joseph to Council Bluffs and Omaha
The Hannibal and St. Joseph packets
are now running regularly.
A British iron-clad steamer has sailed
from Liverpool; her supposed destina-
ton is Cadiz, in connection with the claim
against Spain.
The management Of the National Sol
diers' Asylum met at Washington on
Friday A committe was appointed to
receive proposals for the Soldiers Home
at Milwaukee.
Thad Stevens has written a letter to
Secretary Seward, warmly approving the
ratification of the Russian cession treaty,
and congratulating him on the vote by
which it was confirmed by the Senate.
| The New York Ladies' Relief Commits
sion has received dispatch from San
Francisco stating that 100000 in gold
| will be Immediately forwarded for the
destitute in the South.
The Republican State Convention of
| New York instructed the delegates at
large to the constitutional convention to
vote for impartial suffrage.
! Correspondence to the St Louis DEM
ocrat from the Plains, state that there is
every Indication Of bloody Indian war,
in which many tribes will be allied dagainst
the whites.
Officer Clarke and little son of Thom
as Cough, Of Chicago, were bitten by a
mad dog. at Chicago On Wednesday,
No fatal result is anticipated iii either
case.
a fire at Cincinnati on Thursday de.
stroyed the large distillery of Foote Nash
& CO., and injured several Of the adjoin
ing buildings The loss is over 800, 900
The Ohio legislature has appropriated
S5, 900 towards a monument for Gen
! McPherson, at Clyde, Ohio. The cop
perhead members voted against it,
i 1t is thought that Gen. Sheridan vii
remove Throckmorton, the disloyal Gov
ernor of Texas, unless orders to the con-
trary are received from Washington.
A cable dispatch states that Bismarck
addressed letter to Napoleon, demand
ing his reasons for arming and insisting
upon an immediate cessation of Warlikt
preparations.
The Prussian garrison at the fortres.
of Rastadt, in Baden, is being strength
ened, and preparations are being activel,
made for the transportation Of troops
j P. I. Barnum, in retaliation for the at
tacks of the New York Herald upon hin
during the late canvass in Connecticut
has ordered number of wax-figures, re
presenting various scenes in the life O
James Gordon Bennett, which he intends
exhibiting.
The election sfor'' and ''against" call
ing new State Constitutional Conven
ton in Maryland resulted in favor Of ths
conventionists, which is virtually a rebe
victory, the object being to repeal the reb
: ell disfranchisement
The largest paper mill in the world il
about to go into operation ct Greenville
Conn. It will turn out thirty thou
, sand pounds of printing paper per day
and is expected to produce decline il
price. s
/; AN attempt was made on Thursday
evening, in White County, Tennessee, te
assassinate Captain Stewart. of the State
Guard. He was called out of his house
by squad of men and fred on. He hae
been threatened with assassination if h.
did not desist from recruiting the Guard
Mr.. Samuel Adams has just arrived
q l. L ~
Secretary of War report of private
J | exploration of the Colorado river. HI
has ascended it eight hundred and TWEEN