The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-10-05
Gleanings from the Nails.


every time the FIRE department is called out.
The French Charge d 4ifaires at the
italian capital is dead.
A strike has been commenced by the
iourneymen tanners and locksmlths in
Brussels. !.
Rumors are current that the Emperor
Francis Joseph is about to abdicate the
throne of Austria.
Thurman Green, woman, and little
girl, were killed BY IN express train near
Adams, \. T., or Friday.
The Boil worm las destroyed the cotton
maturing this month in the cane brake
region of Alabama.
William Remmes and Henry Miller were
drowned BY the upsetting of boat in
New York harbor few days ago.
The appointment Of NJ. Staempai, BY
the Swiss government, as member Of the
Board of Arbitration under the treaty of
Washington, is confirmed.
Lesser Chamanower, Polish Jew of
Tamotschan, died recently aged IL years,
and left two brothers still living, respective
" aged 100 and ll2.
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himself in the HUDSON river, has been re-
covered.
A young man named G. Washington
Conkling, only nineteen years Of age, Is
under arrest at Ccntreport, L. l., on the
charge of bigamy.
A confagration at st. Johns, y. B., on
the north side of King Square, destroyed
over thirty buildings, including four
churches and several stores.
A collision is reported on the Hudson
I RSer eo 59a ffu Retwesn ndh lRSfna &s
damaged, but no person hurt.
The Duchesse du Plcssis d Arcmcev,
noted during the First Empire, and promi-
nent during the reign Of Louis Philippe,
has Just died at Nitry-le-Francaise in her
Tooth year.
A fire at Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday,
destroyed half square Of buildings, On
Walnut street, including the Singer Sewing
Machine agency, and several other business
places.
A half-brced Indian named Leonard
Rogers, murdered beautiful but fallen
woman named Hattie Lewis, at New Lon
don, Conn, the other day and, then shot
himself
Il ren,ontre is reported from Jefferson,
Georgia, IN which q colored man named
Pierce shot and killed two men, one Of
them a white man named Coleman. Pierce
was afterward hung by the Ku- klux.
Capt. George Brown, Of the L. S. reve-
nue. steamer Michigan, is to be married on
the 4th of next month"; to Miss Kate
Morris, the beautiful and accomplished
daughter Of Mr.. John D. Morris of Indian
apolis.
Onions weighing a pound apiece are
raised in Colorado They have a delicious
taste, and their odor is ike the breath Of
Arabia the Blcst It is expected that IA
great business will be done in exporting
these wonderful onions eastward.
Pamphlets have been issued by the CaSh-
olic bishops Of Switzerland upon the dog
MI CT Papal InfalIibility. The bishops
adopted by the Ecumcnical Council upon
the infalibility Of the Pope the supreme
head of the Church.
Unofficial returns from thirty-two corln-
ties, In Nebraska give COP majority for the
adoption of the new constitution. Nine
teen counties are vet to be heard from,
which will probably materially change
these figures. The opponents Of the docu-
ment are still confident of its defeat as are
its friends of its adoption.
At Wakefield, Va, September 18th, "
freight train ran over negro boy, com
pletely severing one of his legs and horri-
bly, managing the other. The boy had
been tied on the track with ropes by his
step-father 10 be whipped, and while the
man was in the woods gathering switches
the train passed over the boy, who was
l. IL -, l., e.
haye taken steps to punish the brutal step
father.
Gov. Potts, Of Montana, writes that he
has organized force of two hundred vol
unteers for the protection of settlers In the
Gallatin valley, who now feel no apprehen-
sion of further Indian raids this year. I'M
less Sitting Bull declares war on the North
ern Pacific railroad surveyors. Five thous-
and Sante Sioux are now campcd on the
Milk River, near Fort Browning, refusing
positively to return to their agency, are be-
ing fed with supplies intended for other
tribes.
Mr.. Edward NJ Curtis, a commission
merchant, doing business at No. Dear
born street, Chicago, left his boarding
house on the evening Of August 2Sth to
visit South Bend, Ind, and St. Joseph,
Mich. and has not since been heard from
1t is feared that he has met with foul play.
as he expected to return IN a few days and
his affairs are all IN satisfactory conli-
ton lie was % years oh, about feet
s inches high, Slim, hal dark curly hair,
moustache and light side whisker>. and
wore suit of light gray clothes. Detec-
tives are looking up the case, and a reward
is offered for information.
The Nassau Hero1d of September lG
has n dispatch from Port an Prince, giving
the following account of an outrage on Il
British war vessel. in Haytien waters. by
Spaniards: The commander of the Span
ish man-of-war, Churruca. fred upon the
British sloop +. Reckwith, which had on
beard as passengers Captain Gomez, who
was on his way to Nassau to take charge
Of the llavticn corvette Mont Gr-aui~ i
number Of armed men, with carhincs board
cd the BeCkwith and attempted t. fire on
the crow, but We're prevented This pro-
cecding caused the Bcckwith to return TO
port Commander Gomez has requested
his government TO send man-of-war to OBJ
tain satisfaction for the insult offered him.
The English flag, however. has been insult
cd as well as ours. and it remains to he
seen whether such man rs the British
Consul at st. John will put up quietly
with the affront or not The only apology
that was offered was this: 9 The Spanish
vessel first raised the English flag AMI fred
salute of twenty-one guns, and then the
iaytien flag, with salute Of seventeen
guns
Enthu,iasrn tor Washburne.
From all accounts il would seem that
the Democrats could not 10 a better THING
than to keep Gen. NaShburne upon the
stump continually till the seventh Of No