The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-24
THE NEWS.

The trial of the Brooklyn election
frauds has commenced.
The Erie-V anderblit litigation is
postponed till the 2Sth.
Herman Tubbasick was shot and in
stantly killed on the 18th in front Of his
residence in st. Louis.
The President has signed the reso-
luton giving years salary to the fami-
" of the late E. NJ. Stanton.
Not a single passenger received an
injury on the Chicago. Alton and St.
Louis Railroad during the year 1869.
Twelve colored members of the
Georgia legislature called on Vice Presi-
dent Colfax at the capitol on the 18th.
Alfred r. Pleasonton has been nom
mated collector of internal revenue for
the New York district, vice Bailey.
Theodore Nicklas was hung on the
18th at Great Valley, n. Y, for the
murder of DR.. Andrew Mead, of Ale
ghany, n Y, Ia December last.
-Four men were badly injured, one
fatally, by the explosion of blast at
Englewood n j. Engineer Col Hop
kins was one of those less seriously injur
ed.
The Subcommittee on elections in
the House. in the contested seat from
the South Louisiana District, between
Newsham (rep.) and Ryan (dem.) re-
port in favor of the former.
The Senate committees report
against the eligibility Of Gen, Ames, of
Mississippi, is based upon the assump-
ton that he was not citizen of that
state at the time Of his election,
The vote by which the bill making
certain Western cities ports OF entry was
| indefinitely postponed, was reconsidered
on the 18th, and the bill again placed on
the calendar.
Two members of the Pennsylvania
Senate, named Nagel and Lindeman, had
knock-down at Harrisburg on the 18th,
about insulting language used IN the de-
bate. Blows were freely exchanged, and
the latter came out second best.
The draperv about the alter in St.
Johns (Catholic) Church, in Albany n.
Y, accidently caught fire Oh Friday
night, producing excitement among the
congregation. Two or three ladies were
injured. The damage by fire was slight.
Captain Slocomb, Of the schooner
Saladin, from Jacmel, reports that on
the 18th in latitude IS, he saw cur
ious creature, 60 feet long and "a feet
broad across the back, bearing a resem-
blance to the so-called sea serpent.
Joshua T. Bailey, Collector of In
ternal Revenue in New York, suddenly
DISAPPEARED on Tuesday. The Deputy
Collector received letter from him
stating that he would never see him
more 1t is said that he is q defaulter to
over half a million.
An alleged cable dispatch says a
collision between the mail steamer Nor,
mandy and the steamer Mary, from the
Danube, has occurred in the Channel, of
the Guernsey coast The Normandy vas
sunk, carrying down with her the cap
tain and so persons who were drowned.
The Senate Committee on the Paci-
fc Railroad has agreed to report bill
allowing the Kansas Pacific Railroad
Company to consolidate branch of the
road from point not further east than
Ellsworth. by way Of the Arkansas and
the Rio Grande Rivers. to the Mexican
boundary.
The freight depot Of the New Jer
sew Central railroad, at Cummunipaw
n. J., was totally destroyed by fire or
the 18th, with contents, including twelve
loaded freight cars and six horses.
Henry johnson was burned to death.
Michael Quirk is missing, and another
dangerously injured. The loss will reach
$I20, 900.
The Spanish Cortes, having address,
ed an Interpolation to the government
concerning the granting of political priv
ileges TO Cuba, Gen. Prim replied that
no election for deputies to the Cortes ha5
been held in the island, the authorities
reporting the time not yet arrived and
the troubles not all ended. So it appears
on good Spanish authority that a formi-
dable rebellion does still exist in Cuba.