The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-02-23
Summary of Late News.
AT HOME


JOHN L. BENNETT has been appointed
sssociatA Justice of the Supreme Court
of Arkansas.
REv. r. W CoNDIT, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church of Oswego,
for the past forty years, died suddenly
Sunday.
LIEUT.. GoeEFS6R LESLIE was inaugu-
rated Governor of kehtuckr on the 18th,
vice Governor Stevenson, reslsfed:
THE decision in the case of Pointer
VS.. Pillow, involving S13O, 600, for slaves
h6uaht by Pillow before and during the
war, aid foT. which want of consid-
Grafton was pleaded, has been affirmed
by the Supreme Court against him, the
court deciding that he is liable.
! FIRE at Princeton, H., Saturday
night, Destroyer the Republican news
paper office, the stores uf Showl &
Clark, r. Foster, Harris & Cottle, .tad
others. Total loss, $4,000; insured
AT the Illinois Valley Coal mining
Companye Shaft, three miles from La
Sale, on Friday last, q miner named
Knowles stepped into the cage for the
purpose of descending to work. BY a
r-sistake of the engineer, the cage was
raised lnstead ef lowered, and Knowles,
experimenting danger nth the pulley,
jumped for the landing FROM wtieh he
lad started, but, striking his head
against post, fell backward into the
shaft and was killed
SIXTY Thousand dollars has been sub
scribed in New York III aia of the
French sufferers.
THE East River, at New York, is again
and tholsarids sre crossing the river on
foot at that point. Tie terryboats are
unable to make their regular crossings,
and several tugboats and steamers are
stuck fast in the ice.
THE Ihssistart Postmaster at New
York died suddenly about II o'clock
Sunday night, from heart dis6aae: He
has occupied the position since 1o2I,
with the exception of an interval of
three years.
IN the case of Elizabeth r. Coffey
against tie Home Life Insurance Co.
in New York, which s,i. was brought
in the Superior Cou1t on policy of
five thousand dollars on the title of
plaintiff s husband, and which the COM
pany refuse to pay on the ground of
alleged suicide, the jury rendered
verdict for the plaintiff for the full
amount.
A Mr.. MCCLELLAND, who has been
for short time past employed as book
keeper for the Atlantic and Pacific Tel
egraph Company in Omaha, suddenly
disappeared on Friday morning last,
under peculiar circumstances.
GLNfRAy, SIcKLEs has telegraphed the
State department. That the negotiations
for mixed commission to- consider the
claims for injuries to persons and prop
erty of American citizens by Spanish
authorities during the insturectIun III
Cuba, have been concluded, and that a
messenger is on his way to Washington
with the correspondence
ABROAD.
A STEAMER foundered in the Indian
Ocean and fifty three lives were lost.
II is row stated that only ninety
eight lives were lost ON the French
transport Lecerf, wrecked off Cape la
Hague instead OF 81, $50 as at first 1e-
ported.
IT is said that the Germans have i'm
posed contributions OF million francs
on Dieppe, and twenty-five Thousand
francs on each of the adjacent villages,
all of which will be paid by the people.
The Department of the Seine is said to
have already paid twenty-five million
trancs to the Germans. Contributions