The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-02
News Items.

The French Government has ordered
20. 900 more troops to Italy.
The total indebtedness of Southern
railroads to the Government amounts to
81 1884, 500.
The schooner Squirrel was destroyed
by fire at Booth Bay. Me-, on the 10Th,
and three Of her crew lost.
A Memphis dispatch coolly announces
that about a dozen negroes were acci-
IDENTIFY (?) shot there on Christmas.
A Washington dispatch says that a
duel is on the tapis between a major gen
eral and captain of the army of the
Potomac
The total loss Of lives on the Likes dur
ing the year now closing is reported to be
2ll-an increase Of just 100 over those
of 1906
Our minister at Madrid represent,
that Spain is not only willing, but anxious:
to sell the island of Cuba to the United
States.
The report that the present force, of
the regular army is to be reduced, and
that General Grant is in favor Of a re-
duction, is contraI:ctcd
Treeps have been sent to Greenvile,
Dunopolis and Camden, Alabama, to
ouell disturbances No particulars are
given as to the nature of the disturbances
The anti-Papists of Europe ascribe to
the Empress Eugc:ie the recent sudden
csuousal of the cause Of the Pope by
the French Emperor, she being strong
Spanish Papist.
The Louisiana Convention has adopted
as the first article of the constitution the
extract from the Declaration of Indcpen-
dence commencing, 'tAll men are created
free and equal. ~
A Charleston, S. c., dispatch says
that the steamer Raleigh was burned last
Tuesday. 1t is feared that about twenty
lives are lost. The loss on the boat and
cargo is 100000.
On Monday evening there was large
meeting in Cleveland, to urge upon our
| Government the importance of affordine
protection to foreign born citizens of the
| United States sojourning abroad.
Gen. Gilien has arrived at Washing
ton, from Mississippi: being sent 10y Gen.
Ord to represent to the authorities the
necessity of affording relief to the Suf
fering poor, white as well as black, in
that State They are in .wretched con
dition, and serious consequences are ap
pretended.
Early Christmas morning, man nam
ed Peter keenan, was shot by German
brewer. named Charles Ziezel. The par
ties met on the street In front of the
American House; angry words passeo
between them, when Ziczel drew re
| volver and shot Keenan, through the
head. keenan, died about 10 O. clock th.
saae morning. Ziezel is said to hav,
been ttnder the influence of liquor. Th'
two had previously been on good term
with each other.
The fact has leaked out that Jerr,
Black wrote johnson Hancock message
Aside from the knowledge Of this, tn,
Chronicle prints two sentences by the
way of proof. the first taken from Black
ea!ogy or Justice Daniel, in 1860, as fol
lows: ''Of such character it is fit tn
dignity should be vindicated, and tn
value made known Let not the jus
man 20 to his grave unhonored, for thes
are not the times when we can lose tn
benefit of great example. The secon
from the closing part of the message;
as follows: ''Of such an act as his, a
such time, it is but fit shat the dignit
should be vindicated and the virtue pro
claimed, so that its value and example
NAV not be lost to the nation.
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