The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-17
THE NEWS.

| In the Assembly on the 10th, the
| female suffrage amendment was lost,
ayes 81; noes 4S.
Merchants in Nashville, Tenn, are
paying out silver change.
The n. Y. legislature is considering
a new charter for the city of New York.
General Alcorn was inaugurated Gov
ernor of Mississippi on Thursday.
| The Illinois River bridge at Peoria
was formally opened to the public on
the | lth inst
The Mechanics Bank, of ST. Louis
resumed specie payments on last Thurs
day. 1t has about $50, 600
The late Blonde riot on Wabash av-
enue, Chicago, will be Investigated by
the Grand Jury now in session in that
city. g-&- @c
The bill reducing the number of
army officers, passed the House of Rep
resentatives on the 10th.
The naval appropriation bill, now
ready to he reported, amounts to about
SIS, 500, 900.
The murderers Bonner and Boden-
burg were executed at Huntington, Pa,
on the 9th.
Col. John Wilder, editor of the
Kansas City Journal of Commerce, was
tillad on tho OH bv Toca1b hutchinson
Gen. Quesada called on President
Grant on the 9th. The interview lasted
about ten minutes.
"A band of Ku- Klux released all the
prisoners in the Charlestcn, West Va.
Jail, a few days since.
The new gold mines near San Diego
Cal, are causing much excitement, and
great rush of miners.
The County Treasurer of Butler
county, Ohio, is defaulter to the amount
of 100000. r ...
Samuel n. Pike proposes to build a
grand hotel and opera house in New
York, at cost Of two and one half mill
ions.
"A bill for the relief of the Stock
bridge and Munsee Indians in Wisconsin
was reported in the Senate on the 10th
Logan thinks his bill for the reduc-
ton Of the number of army officers will
save the government about $4,000, 900
annually.
The Rhode Island Republican State
Convention met Providence on the 10th,
and re-nominated the present state Off
GERS.
Michael Costello, the murderer of
Hugh Kcna, a Detroit policeman, has
been sentenced to solitary confinement
for life
Two freight trains collided on the
Pacific road near Franklin, Mo-. on the
9th, injuring the locomotives and smash
ing several freight cars.
The Senate has received the new
constitution Of Texas, and also notifca-
ton of the ratification of the 18th 14tb,
and 18th amendments by thai state.
The passenger-depot and freight Of
fee of the Pacific railroad, at Jefferson
City, was burned on the 10th. together
With books, Office and $4,000 worth of
property.
Public meetings held throughout
Montana Territory endorse Col Bakers
endeavors to suppress the depredations
committed by the Indians.
-Rochefort, imprisoned at Paris, is III
and his friends,who are not yet permitted
to see him, are apprehensive that his
complaint is the small pox.
Walter Brown and Henry Coulter
have signed articles to row a five mile
race for $4,000 and the championship,
at Poughkeepsie, on the 30th of June.
1t is stated that $1,000, raised in
Newark for a monument to Gen. Kear-
ney, were embezzled by Maj. Sears, the |
Treasurer, but Gen. Halstead made up |
the dedication out of his private purse. |
One Dunn, a school teacher near
Greenfield, Ind, struck one of his schol
ars, young man named Godart, on the |
head With an iron poker, on Wednesday,
from the effects Of which he died the |
same night.
Logs of ships which arrived at New
York, on 9th, show that during the last
two months, navigation has been attend |
ed with unusual perils. The heavy gales
this season have been without precedent,
and it is feared many disasters must have
occurred which have not yet been report
ed.
Gov Holden, of N. c., has declared
Alimance County, in that State, in a
state Of instruction, because Of various
outrages committed by bands Of armed
men disguised. He pledges the whole
power of the State to put stop to
them.
j. Fletcher, Tennessee Secretary Of
State, has asked Gen. Lowell to furnish
him an escort to his home in Chattanoo-
ga, to protect him against the ku-klux.
The citizens Of Nashville held meeting
and appinted delegates to take the place
Of the soldiers.
A oolored delegation from Tennessee
called upon the President on the 10th,
and asked prote ction from the outlaws o.
the state. The President said the ques
ton Of stationing troops in Kentucky
would be referred to the Secretary of