The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-10-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Oct. 20,

HOME.
The Lavonia wen the Yacht race on
Thursday last.
The hills about Corinne, Utah, are COW
cred with snow.
January, 1872.
Thomas Ewing, who is reported TO be seri-
ously i'll.
The agents of the Anchor line of steam
ers have been instructed to pay $4,000 to
the Chicago fund.
Five stores and three dwellings were de-
stroyed by fire at Brownsburg, Ind. Loss
$40, 00O-insurance $1,000.
An injunction has been granted against
the living Fire Insurance Company, and
NJ. j. Crow is appointed receiver.
The Warsaw, \. Y. Manufacturing Com
pany's establishment was burnt on Thurs
day evening. Loss $25, 000-insurance
small.
Bandmann, the actor, has gwen the pro-
ceeds of his benefit on Thursday, $3.50,
to the Chicago sufferers.
4 New Orleans telegram says Hall &
Comack's bond-box, containing about $780,
600 worth of securities, was stolen from q
wagon.
Two men were buried by the caving in
of a we'll sixty feet deep at Putnam, Conn,
but We're dug out alive in about four hours
\ monument in honor of the late Gen.
D. D. Bidwell, killed in the battle of Cedar
Greek, Va, was dedicated at Forrest Lawn
Cemetery, Buffalo, on Thursday.
James Hayes, "a Chicago refugee, was
killed in Memphis, on Thursday evening
in a stone yard on Washington street,
where he was working, by falling on fly
wheel
Intense excitement prevails at Winncpes
or account of the recent gold discovery at
Lake Shabondawin. Specimens of dust,
nuggets and quartz have been brought to
Winnipeg, and hundreds were rushing to
the new gold fields. Lake Shabondawin is
a short distance from Silver Islet.
A load of Union torpedoes exploded III
New Orleans on Thursday morning, killing
the driver instantly The drivers leg was
blown several hundred feet. Windows in
the vicinity were schattered by the concus-
sion.
\ fire in Syracuse, n. Y, destroyed
school building No. I, the largest in
the city. Loss $4,000. A colored girl
thirteen years old, has been arrested on
suspicion of having fired the building.
Gen. Curley, one of the leaders of the
late Fenian .tasco at Manitoba, arrived in
ST. Paul on Wednesday, and was immedi-
atty arrested. Gen. Curlcy, like ONeill
who was arrested at the same place. Mon
day, declared that the Fenian raid was nc
raid at all, but merely a colonization
! scheme, and the colony could have sue.
cessfulIy resisted Col. Wheaton, if 50 dis
posed.
! Despite the revolutionary troubles ant
the reports of planters and spectators tc
/ the contrary, the sugar crop in Cuba this
season promises to be a very large one
Labor has been plenty in all departments
except that of the west, where Nalmaseda
went to arrange matters, and it is estimat
ed that from fifteen to forty per cent. more
acreage is under cane this year than last
The Chicago Tribune publishes the aft
! davit of the man and his wife in whose
barn the great fire originated, to the etfec
! that they did not milk the cows after dark
by the light of a kerosene lamp; that they
| had been to bed some time when the fire
| of one of the neighbors of these people
WIZ says lit uiSCONcltu tie ire Ill TIE lbll
| of the barn and gave the alarm, and that
he went into the house and found the own.
ers asleep. This would indicate that the
fire must have been set by some scoundre
who was intent on plumber.
John Gulvin, of Decatur, was Thursday
helping to get safe out Of the ruins OF
South Water street, near the Union De
on the 'siuewinK, chen IL isf,Frto pack OF
| them. This man came along and asked
what was the matter with the safe, ana
one of them said it had slipped off the roll
| ers and gone back on them lie sand
" Get out of way" and seizng on it like
Samson, lifted it up, walked to the Wagon
with it, ten or twelve feet, and threw it or
the wagon. He caught it on the bottom
| edges, raised 1t up with the force levered
| against his breast, and walked off with it
| The proprietor said it weighed 2,464
! pounds. The man then offered to bet $500
that be could lift and carry 1900 pounds
lie is about five feet ten or eleven inches
high, weighs, perhaps, 900 pounds, built
like Hercules, and about 80 years old
lie was boss bricklayer in Macon.