The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-01-29
News Items.

Carrie Clark, aged 10, was drowned
while skating on Fox River, two miles
above Elgin, Ill.,, Thursday evening. The
body was recovered.
The furniture manufactory OF, H. E.
Nickerson & Co., in Atchison, Kansas.
burned Thursday night. Loss $4,000 !,
insured for $4,000.
The safe In the Dodge County Treas
urer's Office at Juneau was broken open
last Monday night and county funds to the
amount of nearly 500 taken therefrom.
-Whelan. convicted of the murder of
D 'Arcy Mc4ee, has been sent to Ottawa.
"A fire at Detroit. Saturday evening,
destroyed the Olympic Theater. Loss
$50, 200.
The Central Pacific track is now four
hundred and ninety-fve miles east of Sac
ramento
An increased demand for farms and
town property in Iowa, owing to great ad-
ditions to the population, is announced.
One John Dewitt has accomplished the
feat of walking one thousand miles in one
thousand hours, at Chicago.
Thirty three whites and twenty ma
lives WCIS HdSSdCICO d6 l. OfOtty NCW
Zealand, some time since, by the Maoris
jacob Conrad was killed and boy
named George Rhinehardt severely hurt by
boiler explosion at Newark, on the 3d.
1t is stated that the attempt to repeal the
civil tenure-of Office act, by the Retrench-
ment Committee in Congress, will hardly
succeed.
An old lady named Regia Salaverdra
died lately in New Mexico, aged l30 years,
having been, perhaps, before her death the
oldest living person in America:
Secretary Seward has sent to the Sen
ate the correspondence concerning the pros
posed purchase of the Danish West India
islands. The price originally asked was
$25, 100000.
A treaty with Great Britain has been
sent to the Senate for ratification, provid-
ing for referring the San Juan boundary
question to the President of the Swiss Con>
federation for arbitration.
Mrs. Aaron Goodman, of Little Chute,
Wis, gave birth to triplets, two boys and
girl, recently.
Mr. Seward has lately been arranging
his affairs for an extended tour of travel,
which he proposes beginning on the ex>
piration of his term of office. The journey
will be across the continent to California
and thence through the republics of South
America.
The steamboat LeClaire No. Q sunk
in the Ohio River Saturday. The 2assen-
gers were all saved. The cargo is almost
an entire loss.
Gen. Grant reviewed the Baltimore
Fire Department, on Saturday. After
giving reception at Barnun' S Hotel, he
returned to Washington.
A Mrs. Chas. Leferts, of Brooklyn,
recently eloped with one Jared e. Tomin
son, CT Chicago, taking with her SAC, 900 in
money and jewelry.
-Cespedes, the leader of the rebellion
in Cuba has issued a proclamation declar.
ing the abolition of slavery to be one of the
first objects of the revolution.
-Joh Dixon, of the town of Tyrone,
Dunn county, Wis. lost an eye on the l7tb,
under the following circumstances He
had heated an iron to a white heat and
drawn it from the fire. Upon striking the
iron a spark flew into his eye, striking it
exactly on the pupil, which caused the eye
to burst.
Annie Kane, negro woman, while
drinking in saloon on the corner of Main
| and Gayoso streets, Memphis, on the 22d
was shot in the head and instantly killed
bv the accidental discharge Of pistol lying
on the shelf, which was cooked. 1t is sup
posed that the jar of replacing the bottles
caused it to be discharged.
AT Dandy, Illinois, % miles from
Chicago, on Thursday evening, Hannah
Waidman, a wealthy farmers handsome
daughter of sixteen, was instantly killed by
throwing herself under moving train on
the Northwestern Railroad. Her parents
refusal to let her marry young ueighbol
impelled the suicide.
The State Department has received
dispatches from General Mcmahon, the
American Minister to Paraguay, describing
his reception by President Lopez, and the
surrender of Messrs. Bliss and Masterma1
to the United States.
The latest style of the water veloei
the shape of cigars. They are connected
wheel. This Is moved 10y pedals like the
rider sits on saddle just behind the wheel
and easily drives his machine at the rate
of six or eight knots an hour.
"A drover who had sold a lot ofcattle ir
st. Louis, was halted near St. Clair, ILL.,, or
the Dist, by two men, who demanded $500
The drover bad several thousand dollars ir
his possession, which he was forced to tax,
from his pocket in order to obtain the sun
asked for, but the robbers said tina
was all they wanted, and let him retain
the rest.
Our naturalization tire ty with Eng
land provides that natives of either countr.
who are naturalized as citizens of the othe
shall be recognized as SUCH Those al
ready naturalized are to have two years at
ter the treaty goes into effect, to renounc
their naturalization, A like treaty ha
been effected with Belgium.
The citizens of Jackson and Clarl
counties, Wis, arc agitating the question
of building wooden railroad from Blacl
River Fails to Town 90 in Clark county
There is a road in Canada built of wood Ian,
tie same contractor offers to build the roa,
to Clark county for sl500 mile. TIL
wooden rails will last six years, if a create
speed than eight miles an hour is not mad
lover them.