The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-12-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Saturday. Dec. 8.

The directors of the New York Academy
Max Strakosch to have the use of thcil
building after the present engagement ter
inmates, because of his refusal to admit
them to the seats for which they subscribed
and paid the night of the first visit of Alex
is TO the opera except on payment of ter
dollars.
The small pox is rapidly decreasing in
New York
-Four hundred and fifty canal boats are
still frozen in on the Hudson River and
Erie Canal. Some few boats, it is thought
may be able to force their way through,
but By far the greater number, with car
goes valued at four million dollars, will
have to remain bound during the entire
| winter
Samuel J. Anderson attempted to csm-
NIT suicide in New York on Friday. An
derson was bookkeeper in the Comptrol.
| lers Office until short time after the ap-
pointment of Green. Anderson states
that previous to his discharge he furnished
! figures to the Committee of Seventy as evi-
dence of the guilt of Connolly, Tweed &
Co., and was promised compensation, but
did not receive it. lie, consequently, be-
came impoverished. To this he attributes
the attempt ON his life.
The jury in the case of the Brooklyn
election inspection, charged with ballot
stufisg and fraud, were discharged, failing
to agree. The bail of the accused is in
creased to $4,000 each, and new trial Or
dered for Thurs day next.
The Illinois House of Representatives
has passed a bill giving power to the United
| States Government to condemn land in
Chicago for public buildings. There were
only four votes against the proposition.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad, which has
been blocked by snow, is now clear from
Kansas City to Cheyenne, and the Union
| Pacific mails are coming over it from the
west. The winds and sunshine have set
/ tied the snow so that there is no further
langcr Of drifting.
\ shooting aflray occurred at Sargent S
| Bluff, Iowa, Wednesday evening, between
David Barton and William j. Miller, re-
suting in MiIler's death.
Articles Of association Of the Chicago,
Continental & Baltimore Railroad Com
rany have been f!cd. The Indiana portion
Of the proposed line will run through the
counties Of Lake, Porter, Lapport, Stark,
Marshall, Fulton, Wabash, Walls and
| Adams, distance Of l65 miles. Capital,
$4,000, 600. .-------. =. =. -ys ~uu
Means listened to arguments from repre-
scntatiyes of tobacco interests who present
ed the views of the convention just closed
| in Washington.
A Postal convention has been concluded
with Ecuador, going into effect immediate
ly; letter postage to be twenty ceuts per
half ounce.
The anniversary of the apprentice boys
at Londonderry was celebrated OF
Thursday, and passed off quietly. An
efigy of Lundy was burnt amidst th'
usual derisory demonstrations.
The betting on the result of the Itch
borne case is ten to one against the claim
ant of the property.
\ strike of telegraph operators in Lon
/, don, Manchester, Liverpool and othe
large cities has commenced.
Lima, dates to the 22d ult are received
One thousand dollars have been colleete
for the sufferers by the Chicago fire. lior
Thomas Little, American Minister, wa
: sick and had started for New York.
The steamship Nina, from New 1or
: for Cardiff has been abandoned at sc;
The crew were saved by the steamshl
, Aleppo, from Boston, and landed at Live
e pool
u The appeal Of the Communists convietc
Of the murder of Generals Lccomptc an
II Thomas and sentenced to suffer deaf
;. have been rejected By the Commission Q
= Pardous.
p Thicrs message recommends that the a
l. nual army contingent be fixed at nine'
% thousand.
" The telegraph line between Nalparl
,c and San Felipe has been completed
4 An unknown man was frozen to dea
near Breckenridge, Minnesota, on Sund
- last.
nv 4 thirtv-two thousand dollar pub
tie school building was destroyed by fire
it, Dcleyan,. H.. on Monday last
81 =. \ through train from st. Paul to
in Louis, without change, in twenty-sey
il hours, over the Burlington, Cedar Rap
tfs and Minnesota Railroad, is expected
"s the Goth of December.
n. Mr.. Leigh, of the firm of Ilurd 4 Lei!
w Toronto, Ontario, has abscoh3eJ, havl
sc committed forgeries to considera
ia ia amount. His forged paper has been FIRE
nGf discounted by brokers and others.
av Mr.. Sumner has his bill for n reduct
m of taxation and abolition of the Inter
Inc Revenue Bureau prepared. 1t PROV
= for stamp tax of IS cents per gal
ali on whiskcy. the reduction to take pl
his JuIy /, 1872. The Internal Revel
d Bureau is to be abolished September
1872. He selects the latter time beca
the that it will be exactly ten years since
red bureau first went into operation with b
ihd well at its head.
''o oe The Pennsylvania Railroad has lie;
,art the Memphis & Charleston Railroad
ing forty-fve years, guaranteeing 3 per c
ing for the first five years, and per
che thereafter The question of lease WI
ere submitted to che stockholders.
The letter from Secretary Fish, sen
MA, Congress, showing the payments