The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-14
has given his decision that "women are

legal voters in all the States of the Union"
About six miles from Wabash, Ind, on
the afternoon of the eth, horrible muir
der was committed by Mrs. Finley, who
cut the Threats of two of her children a
boy and girl, aged respectively seven and
nine years-and beat out the brains of an
infant three months old, with a stone Her
husband died last February When ar
rested she was sitting on a pile Of wood,
| playing with the butcher knife with which
she murdered her children. She said she
had ended all of them now. The Sheriff
took her in custody.
| A Convention of the Northwestern
| Women's Convention will be held at Indi-
annapolis on the 18th and 10th of Novem-
| Der
AT Randolph Station, on the Louisville
II Nashville Railroad, on the night of the
18th, the south bound passenger train ran
into the next to the rear coach of the train
from Memphis and Nashville, as it was
running into the side track, wrecking the
last two cars. In the latter one person
was killed and seven badly injured, two of
whom died during the night-Mr Bu-
chanan, from Ashville, n, c., and DR..
James Thomas, of Rome, Ga. Mr.. Grit
! fifth, of the Nashville Uh.ion and ADoeri-
can, was also slightly injured.
| Collector Post, at Galveston, has tele-
graphed to the Treasury Department for
vessels to protect American commerce in
the Gulf of Mexico. Our Minister at
Mexico will be Immediately instructed to
| bring the attention of the Mexican Gov
eminent to the late outrages, and to de-
mand that it exert its power to bring Of
| tenders to Justice.
| The meeting of the American Pomolog-
ical and Virginia Horticultural societies,
at Richmond, closed on the evening of the
Sth. Nebraska took the first premium for
the best collection of fruits.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico,
dated August Goth, says it was reported on
good authority that Lerdo had joined
Juarez, in which case the reelection of
the latter as President was certain
The National Division of the Sons of
| Temperance, recently in session at Bos-
ton, adopted preamble aud resolution,
| by vote of 81 to 80, declaring that eve
know no distinction on account of race,
color, or former condition, but all are alike
equal before the law" and that we do not
deem it expedient to organize separate
bodies in the same territory on account of
any of the above-nsmed distinctions"
The Coroner's jury on the recent rail
road disaster at Revere, Mass, have re-
turned a verdict finding that the collision
was caused by the negligence of John S.
Rowland, conductor of the Beverly train,
upon which said persons were, and Ash
bel s. Brown, engineer of the colliding
Pullman train; that Samuel O. Lunt, de-
pot-master at Boston, was IeIniss in duty
in not transmitting the order OF the Super
intendent to the engineer of the Pullman
train to look out for trains ahead; and
that the President and Directors of the
Eastern Railroad corporation are, to q
great extent, responsible for the loss of
ife aforesaid"
The owner Of the trotting- horse "Gold-
smith Maid" which is said to have made
2 IL on the Cold Spring Course, at Mil
waukee, has accepted an offer from New
York to trot for from $4,000 to $4,000,
in the latter city.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th says:
"The Attorney General' opinion on the
powers of the Civil Service Commission
will, it is thought, virtually put an end to
that body. 1t takes away all the power
that the Commission was suppose ed to pos
sess, and, it is said, most of the members
will resign"
The Attorney General has issued in
structions to District Attorneys of the
various United States Courts which hold
full sessions to Immediately institute suits
against all Revenue Collectors who are de-
t1cient in their accounts, or have balance
charged against them.
Newton Booths Republican) majority
for Governor of California was stated on
the 9th to be about $500. His majority in
San Francisco is $500. A congratulatory
dispatch from his old friends at Terre
Haute, Ind, where his parents reside, was
sent to Mr.. Booth on the 9th.