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

Counterfeit $50 notes on the Market
National Bank of New York city are in
circulation.
"A bill to be introduced in the British
Parliament legalizing the sale of all cere-
ais by weight.
General Quesada and staff, of the
Cuban army, passed through Savannah,
Georgia, on Saturday.
One thousand men have been en-
gagged to commence work at the Brooklyn
maynard this week.
The Duke of Richmond has accepted
the leadership of the Tory party in the
British House Of Lords.
Several fremen were injured by the
explosion of the steam engine Howard,
at Boston, Tuesday night.
An old man named John Holden
killed himself by taking dose of lini-
ment, surprising it to be some other
medicine.
THE schooner Benjimin Butler was
run down and sunk off Watch Hill,
Rhode Island, Thursday night, and four
hYes lost.
-Vanderpool, tried at Manistee,
Mich, for the murder Of Hubert Field,
| has been convicted Of murder in the first
decree and sentenced to solitary conhne
| ment for life.
! Senator Turner is preparing speech
in favor of reducing letter los age to
one cent.
Washington birthday was compli-
| mented with salute of twenty one guns
from the flag ship Of the Spanish admin |
at Havana.
A Silver mine Of unparalleled rich
ness is said to have been discovered in
Greyson county Kentucky.
Tho steamer Mississippi sunk at
Waterproof, Miss. on The 28th. The
passengers were all saved, but the boat
and cargo ar astotal loss
Two more members of Congress
John I. Deweese, of North Carolina and
Jacob S. Golladay, of Kentucky, fol-
owing the example Of Whittemore, have
resigned their seats 10 avoid being expell-
ed for traincking in cadetships.
Patrick j. Meehan, editor Of the
IRISH An7ettcan, was shot and badly
wounded by James keenan,, at New
York, on the 28th ult. The affair grew
out of rapture between the O'Neil
branch of Fenians and the Senate of the
Brotherhood
The British steamer Bombay, due
at Y okohama on the oath of January,
when about fifteen miles from that port,
collded with the American corvette
Oneida. The latter sunk in a short time,
| with loss of one hundred and twenty
lives. The Bombay was uninjured.
"A letter received from London says
thai the capital for laying the cable from
England or Wales to New York has been
promised, and the company fully organ
lied. Contracts will be made immed-
lately for manufacturing the cable, and
the Great Eastern will be secured for
laying it next year.
The funeral of the Hon. Arson
BuTlingame took place at St Petersburg
on the 18th ult. The English, French
and American ambassadors acted as pail
bearers.
The submarine cable from Bombay
to the mouth of the Red Sea. has been
successfully laid by the Great Eastern
and England is now in direct Geographic
communication with her Indian colonies.
As pretext to raise the pres of COAL
the dealers in the article are circulating
the report that the miners in the Lacka-
wona and Sehuykill districts are about to
quit work IN consequence Of the reduc-
ton of wages.
i he Republicans of Louiyille nom
mated w. II, Granger, a prominent
merchant, for Mayor. Asthere are three
inder endent Democ attic candidates in
the field, the Republicans will doubtless
elect their ticket if the provisions Of the
fifteenth amendment are enforced.
The admirers of Gen. Butler in
Washington on Saturday held meeting,
at which resolutions were adopted<thank-
ing him for his services to the country
One of the speakers announced that the
meeting was preliminary move to elect
Butler to the Presidency.
The friends of Spain consider the
arrival of Quesada and his staff in the
United States an Indication Of the break
ing up of the revolution The Cubans
in New York city say that Quesada
comes to secure the recognition Of Cuba,
and is fully authorized by Cespedes to
make negotiations.
A fearful accident occurred on the
Mississippi Central Railroad on Saturday
by which over twenty persons lost their
lives, and large number were wounded
The occasion of the accident was the
breaking through of trestle some forty
feet high over ravine near Oxiord
Mississippi. The wounded were taken to
Oxford, where they were taken care Of
Several of them Will die.
On Saturday the trial ofthe member
Of the Lydia Thompson Burlesque
Troupe, who committed the assault on
the proprietor Of the Chicago Times,
took place, and three Of the parties were
fined one hundred dollars and costs, and
two ten dollars each. A subsequent ar
rest Of the same parties on charge of
riot resulted in their being compelled TO
give bonds in the sum of five hundred
dollars each for their appearance at the
Recorders Court. After the Blondes
had given the required bonds, Storey
sued out another warrant against Hen
derson, charging with assault and at
tempt to kill. The Sheriff served the
writ Sunday morning, and Henderson
was required to furnish $500 bonds. In
the afternoon tie troupe started for
Detroit. Storey. not yet satisfied, OBJ
tanned a cGpiGs for the arrest of Hender
son on civil suit. but the latter gentle
man succeeded in making his escape.
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