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


have been wounded ina recent battle and
to be on his way back to the City of Mex
leo. Juarez has given orders that in case
Maximillian is captured, he shall receive
honorable treatment and be escorted to
any part on the coast he may select for
embarkation.
Rio Janero adyices to the 10Th ult.,
show that the war in South America is
progressing, without any decisive advan-
tage being gained. The Brazilian army
is being recruited by the enlistment of
slaves. A battle was fought at Carupaity
on the I'd Of February. in which the
allies We're defeated. In the meantime
the proposal of mediation by this country
is regarded with more favor than at first
| The Cresco Iowa. Times says: On the
8th instant, as a. d. Wright was sitting
at table at his home engaged in writing
his wife came up behind him, placed her
hand on his forehead, and slightly pulling
his head back, emptied cup of sulnhur-
ic acid in his face Jealousy is supposed
to be the impelling motive that led to
the commission of the deed, though it is
not known that there was-any foundation
/ to it. psd s9i2 t
at Junction City City. Kansas, on the
9th inst, man named William Moore,
while seated at the breakfast table with
his wife and children, drew revolver
revolver aud shot his wife dead. In
about two hours afterEshooting his wife,
I he obtained pillow, laid his wife's head
upon it, laid down on the floor beside
I her, land deliberately shot himself through
the head with the revolver and lied in a
| few minutes. -
Two horse thieves, William Nof, Of
, Lexington, Ky, and James Crosby, of
Cape Girardeau, Mo-. were captured for
stealing horses in Fremont county, Iowa,
few days since, and taken to McCis-
sack ) Grove. 4 Apublic meeting was cal
led, and after delberation, they were or
dercd to chose between death by hanging
or shooting. They choose the latter, and
accordingly they were shot by twelve
men with reyolvers. Oyer two hundred
horses belonging to farmers have been
stolen from that county. @
Bryan Tyson, the man whom the Post
office Department uses to enable it to
dodge the test oath law in.the South, has
lately received another lot of contracts.
He has now obtained fifty-four. He takes
all the oaths himself. and then lets the
contracts out to ali rebels who will take
them al FIVE per cent off of the contract
price. Mr Tyson draws the money and
turns ever 80 per cent. to his southern
creditors 1t is reported that Postmas-
| Genera? Randall holds that the Supreme
Court decision will Justify his action.
The commission OF % cents per day for
rations of enlisted men who have been
prisoners Of war. is now being paid at
the oiiice of the comnissary general Of
prisoners in Washington, and quite a
large number Of cases have been dispos-
ed of already A statement was made
short time ago in reference to the an
nouneement of these payments, in which
it was said that the communication was due
to officers who had been prisoners of war
This is mistake. None are entitled but
soldiers, sailors and marines.
THE LATEST.
A new guano island, 800 miles from the
coast of Chill has been discovered.
LONDON, April %. Evening. Peace
between France and Prussia is almost de-
SPARED of. The warlike aspect of affairs
has caused considerable alarm.
The Austrian mission is vacant, Mr..
Motley having been informed that his re-
sgnation was accepted before the passage
Of the tenure of Office act. A successor
will soon be appointed.
Letters from the Liberal camp at Que
rctaro, Mexico, say that General Diaz
has shot six general officers and sixty-one
Of lower grade who were captured at
Puebla, ii is alleged, in retaliation for the
October decree.
An election for delegates to Constitu-
tional Convention took place in New York
on Tuesday. The Tribune of yesterday
estimates the majority for the republican
ticket throughout the state at 20, 900. If
the first, eleventh and fourteenth have
gone democratic, as we have reason to
expect, the convention will stand 81 re-
publicans to 63 democrats.
Paris, April 23-Marshal McMahon
has arrived in Paris from Algeria, whence
he has been called by the Emperor of the
French Furloughs have been ended
and officers ordered to drill the reserves.
Berlin, April o4-The official Presse
to-day editorially says regarding the pro-
position submitted by the great powers:
This government did not find it neces-
sary to appeal to the French for the pro-
lection of her rights, and she will not
leave Luxembourg.
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