The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-27

| Seventy first, and representatives from
other regiments, and some 5000 citizens
stood in the streets in drenching rain
storm to witness the procession. No one
was allowed in the church save the militia,
police and relatives of the families Of the
deceased. The scene was impressive. No
disturbance whatever on the route of the
procession.
During fire in New York city on the
18th, barrel of benzine exploded, severe
| ly burning thirteen men.
A Washington dispatch Of the 18th says:
"Thc President has directed the Attorney
General, on the representation of the Sub
Ku-Klux Committee, to rigidly enforce the
bill passed for the suppression Of outrages
in the South, especially In North Carroll
ma. Additional assistant attorneys will
be appointed, and the law strictly enforced
everywhere in the South. Another tele-
gram says: Attorney General Akerman
finds that he cannot depend upon his Dis
trict Attorneys at the South to prosecute
Ku-klux cases as he wants them prose
cuted, and he has therefore appointed
Assistant District Attorneys in North Car
olins, and will follow them up by appoint
merts in other States"
The umpire of the Mexican Claims
| Commission has decided that the Mexican
Government is responsible for the prop
erty of American citizens destroyed during
the French invasion. He also decided
| that American citizens doing business in
Mexico are entitled to indemnity, not being
Mexican citizens. The Commissioners
have decided that the Miramon and Su-
looga Governments in Mexico, during 1858
and 1859, were not lawful governments,
and also that the American Government
is not responsible for depredations COM
mitted by Confederate troops on Mexican
| citizens.
The work of deepening the Illinois s
Michigan Canal has been completed, and
the dams and other obstructions were re-
moved on the 10Th, and the wat r from
Lake Michigan commenced flowing
through the channel of the Chicago River
into the Canal, and thence into the Illinois
River. This, it is thought, will serve TO
purify the river at Chicago, and thus ia
vorsbly affect the health and comfort of
residents there.
Thomas Lincoln (better known by the
name of Tad" which his father gave
him when child), the youngest son of
ex President Lincoln, died in Chicago, on
the morning of the 18th, after several
weeks illness He was over eighteen
years of age His remains were taken to
Springfield, and placed in the tomb beside
those of his father.
Up to the 18th seventy games of base
ball had been played for the championship
of the United States Of them the Chi
cago Club have played Is, winning IL;
the Athletics IA, winning 9; the Boston
Is, winning 10; the Mutuals 16, winning
81 the Haymskers IA. winning 7; the
Olympics 20, winning II +; the Kekiongas
13, winning 4; the Cleveland 49, winning
5; the Rockford Is, winning 4.
1t is reported that Santanta and Big
Tree, Kiowa Chiefs. who were captured at
Fort Lii when General Sherman was
there, and sent to Austin, Tex, attempted
to escape from prison, and actually released
themselves from their shackles by gnawing
the flesh from their hands and feet, but
were discovered and shot dead. The peo-
pie of the Texas border were very uneasy
lest there should be general outbreak of
the reserve Indians on the settlements,
to take vengeance for the death of the
| Chiefs.
General Parker has resigned the posi-
ton of Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
and his resignation has been accepted by
the President. He resigns because of the
authority exercised by the Indian Com
missioners over all affairs of the office,
| thus " "dvesting the Indian Bureau of its
original importance, duties and other re
spoasibilities
The grand Jury has found indictments
against Hiram g. Ramsdell and z. White,
of the New York Tribune, and Joseph A.
Kirby, of the Western Union Telegraph
Office, charged with willfully and unlaw-
fully refusing to testify On certain points
before a special committee of the Senate
of the United Sta es concerning the pre-
mature publication of the treaty Of Wash
ington.
A Washington telegram of the 18th
says: "The subscriptions to the new loan
to date amount to &67,054 600 The sub
scriptions to-day reached $21 800. The
bonds already issued on the above sub
scriptions amount to $61, 6O5 500"
%nI
Armstrong, agent for the Indians of New
Mexico; Henry A Eastman, Re gistrar Of
the Land Office at Prescott, Arizona; H
Latham, of Arizona, Commission 10 the
Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia.
A New York dispatch Of the 18th gives
the following as the nationality of the
killed and wounded in the recent riot in
that city: Ireland, &c; unknown, 40;
United States, IL England, 7; Germany,
6; Africa, 2; Australia, 1 {; Canada, l. To
tai, 1874 The Total number of deaths WAS
49,
j. w. Deloenthal has been appointed
Postmaster at Warrenton, Mo.
Patrick Burns, who was sentenced to be
hanged at ST Louis, Mo, for murder, had
his sentence commuted to ten years in the
peni en,iary. He was brought before the
St Louis Criminal Court ON the 10Th, and
declined to accept the Communication, but
preferred to be hanged.
Gov. Yarmouth, of Louisiana, arrive d at
New Orleans on the 18th, and at once took
charge of the Executive Office.
| The Grand Jury at Baltimore have found
indictments against Mrs. Elizabeth G.
Whar oon, widow of Major H. w. Whar-
ton, on the charge of having caused the
death of General Ketchum, recently, by
mixing poison in drink while he was visit
ing her residence, and also of having, in
similar manner, attempted to poison Mr..
Van Ness. friend Of her family, SIsDi
cions are said to exist that Mrs. Wharton
also caused the death of her husband, her
husbands brother and his daughter, and
her own son, all Of whom we're taken i'll