The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-09-29
SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS.

/ "A serious conflict is reported between
the whites and blacks in Laurens county
South Carolina. In Barnwell county
Ga, a few nights since, two negroes
were murdered and white man serious
Fly injured by two negroes.
During the twenty-four hours ending
at p. m., at New Orleans, Wednesday
| there were thirteen deaths from yellow
| fever. Seven were natives of Italy, foui
from France, one England, and one Of
Illinois. -, aes
Much excitement prevails at Lau-
rens county, South Carolina, on account
of the disturbances between whites and
blacks. Both parties are armed and
| organized. Several colored men were
killed. The reform party charge that
the disturbances are part of a prearrangg-
ed plan of the secret league to create
excitement for political effect. The Res
!rpublicans Indignantly deny the charge.
At last accounts all was quiet. Rsh i, .sn
The President has made the follow.
ing appointments Jos. Il. Root, of
Kansas, Minister to Chill J. w. Taylor,
of Minnesota, Consul at 'Winnipegll; J.
p. Bardwel1, Of Ohio, Agent soeothe
Chippewa Indians ON the Mississippi !;
Seldom II. Clarke, Of Illinois, Agent OF
the Chippewa Indians on Lake Superior.
3 The general land Office has prepared
patents for reservations, amounting to
10000 acres, in Colorado, Tor the Chey+
ennes aud Araphahoes, under the treaty
of 1865. fIa
s The Utica Herald contains COM
munication from DR.. Chas L. Peters,
director of Litchlield Observatory, Of
Hamilton College, announcing the dis
covery OF another planet, the 112th
asteroid. The discovery wasImade Tues
day morning. On Wednesday morning
viz: Is deg. and % min. Of the right
assertion, and 10 deg. ID min. Of the
north defamation. yne brightness is that
Of a fixed star Of the llth magnitude.
It is named IphegeEia. The planet
discovered on the 4th-of August has been
named Ate.
An extensive fire is destroying the
Plymouth, Massachusetts, woods. About
10000 acres have been burned over.
The property of the. Empire Mining
Company, at Grass Valley, California,
including the mill, hosting and pump
ing works, storehoases, and three thou
sand cords of wood, were burned We'd
nesday. Loss, $l50, 200; insurance,
$4,000.
"A passenger O. the eastern bound
train at Laramie City, Wyoming, from
.Yonko county, California, Wednesday
attempted suicide by shooting himself m
the head. He will probably die.
s. Immense numbers Of Taxes cattle
are passing Omaha en- route east daily. /
The jury in the Massachusetts, Su-
preme Court awarded Sc, 500 damage to
e. T. Mayo and wife, in the suit for
damages for personal injuries to Mrs.
Mayo on the Boston and Maine railroad.
Seventy Chinese laborers arrived at
Belleville, n. j., from San Francisco,
and are to work on Hervey's Landing,
under contract for +hree years.
VIM. Woodruff Niles was on
Wednesday consecrated Bishop Of New
Hampshire. -
The Haymakers defeated the Pas
times at base ball at Troy, on Wednesday.
Scere, p to 7.
The several branches Of Fenianism
and the Irish National Brotherhood of
Cincinnati, consolidated on Wednesday
evening into club of the United Irish
men. Much enthusiasm prevailed.
A -year-old colt by Major Win
field, who made half a mile on Fleetwood
Course, New York, Monday, in 1:093,
sold for ST, 600.