The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-04-25
OUR CHICAGO LETTER.

ed new phase, that of complication
with the issues of the charter election to
come of next week.
PoLIoE, ETC.
The total cost of our Police Department
during the fiscal year ending March slst.
has been $24I, l611O. The Fire Depart
ment during the same time has cost
s237, 395. 81, and the Health Department
SOS, 652. 95. A special policeman has
been appointed to take charge of and
protect Scandinavian emigrants arriving
in this city. A detective officer yesterday
took Mary Branigan, the child murderess,
to a photograph gallery and got picture
of her, to hang in the Rogue's Gallery at
Headquarters. She seemed perfectly In
different to the operation, if indeed not
quite pleased with the intention. There
is nothing whatever in the woman's de
neanor to sustainsin the slightest degree
the theory of the woman insanity, which
her counsel will probably advance to save
hen
THE WAREHOUSE BILL.
The Board of Trade held special
meeting last evening to take action con-
corning the Warehouse Bill passed by
the LATE General Assembly. G. B. Good
year presided and onlya spare attendance
was obtained. 1t was resolved as follows:
"That hereafter all sales of grain in store
BY grade, shall be considered filed by the
delivery of grain Of the specified grade
in any warehouse receiving by railroad
or canal, unless special warehouses are
designated at the time of sale, and that
in all such deliveries the buyer shall be
entitled to three days storage, without
extra receipts" 1t was further resolved
that the Board of Directors should APP
point committee of three to take legal
advice on the subject of the said ware
house bill, as to the rights of the various
parties and under it, &c.-said committee
to report to the full Board on the even
ing of the 18th inst.
DIVORCES
Two divorces We're granted yesterday
and three more applied for. Rather
light business in that line.
HYDRoPHoBIA.
Quite number of persons in and about
Chicago have lately been bitten by rabid
lo,x, a,1 r,r q wool, ~, two on 1oralaOt-
ing war of determination has been carried
on against all dogs, which it was deemed
either were mad or might become so.
Then the excitement died out and the
CANNES once more roamed abroad in Sc
curity. But yesterday one of the brutes
violated the confidence reposed in him.
He went mad, inflicted frightful wound
on the arm of g little girl named Rodgers,
and escaped from a crowd who were on
the war path after him and as far as known
Is still at large.
SUICIDE.
Jane II. Mitchell, a married woman,
thirty years of age, poisoned herself yes
terday by taking arsneic. Gradually our
authorities are beginning to recognize the
necessity for law against the sale of
poisons and stringent enforcement, and
coroner juries, III every case of suicide
by poison, are now directing attention to
this matter Something should be done
to put stop to this mode of suicide
Selfslaughter by ''cold pizen' is no longer
from this worldly stage; it rarely posses
ses any dramatic features to commend 1t !;
the artistic effect of cramping, squlrm-
ing plunge into eternity is far from good,
and last but not least, it is very painful
way of dying Suicide may be said to
be generally injudicious, but suicide 10y
poison is exceedingly i'll advised. A poor
German. Franz Trompcke or Trompeck,
or some other outlandish name tried it on
the other day. Well meaning people got
hold OF him at sufficiently early stage
of his agony to encourage them to use the
additional torture of the stomach pun >.
OF course he died, and pump
ed, it would have have been wonder il
he had MT.
MANSLAUGHTER
Geo. III. Scofeld, the young man who
about the middle of February last sho'
and killed Edward s. Wilson in "a ban
room broil, yesterday, before Judge VIII
liams, plead guilty to the charge of man
slaughter, and was sentenced to the pen
etentiary for FIVE years at hard labor, one
day of each year7to be spent in solitary
confinement.
LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
Chicago has been peculiarly fortunate
In having among her leading merchant
and business men, those who have hae
the talent to appreciate and the enter
prise to cater to the wants of civilized
and highly educated community, thereb.
developing with unprecedented rapidlt,
our position as a rival of the oldest cite
of the East. One of these men, to whom
Chicago owes so much, is Mr.. u. 5
Baldwin, whose establishment Nos. IL!
to l29 Monroe street has long been known
as the leading stand for rare, valuable
and good books, newspapers, &c.. in tn,
city. He has recently obtained, through
his agents in England, eight tons of old
rare books, purchased at sales of ricl
private libaries in England. Their vari
ETY. and value is immense. Mr.. Baldwi,
is well known throughout the country a
the proprietor and publisher of tn
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