The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-08-08
The WoSf.

The Utah Democratic Territorial COnven-
ton met on the 27th, and nominated, as Del
egate to Congress, George o. Cannon. The
Cincinnati platform was indorsed.
Early on the morning of the 9th, a mob
of three hundred persons took from Jail, in
Warrensburg, Mo-, John Sharp, who muir
dered John Erskine few days before, and
hung him. The Sheriff resisted the mob,
but they attacked the Jail, front and rear,
preached the wall ad took the prisoner. He
confessed the murder. His body was de-
livered to his family, consisting of wife
and three children.
By a lamp explosion in Cleveland on the
evening of the 2Sth, three Germans, Mr.. and
Mrs. Koepka and Mrs. Lestz were severely
burned. Mrs. Koepka was so badly injured
that her life was despaired of.
By the explosion of a raft-tug on the
Mississippi, near North McGregor Iowa,
on the 30th ult., six persons were killed and
four badly scalded and otherwise injured.
A Democratic State Convention has been
called in Oregon, to elect delegates to the
Louisville Ant-Greeley National Convention.
By an accident on the Kansas Pacific Rail
road on the 30th ult., one hundred miles
west of Brockville, Kansas, five emigrant
passengers were killed, and several employees
injured. A bridge had been destroyed by a
water-spout, and the train, running at full
speed, was precipitated into the river.
The wife of Simon Golf took chloroform at
Sterling, ILL.,, on the Goth ult., in order to
have tooth extracted. She died instantly
while in the act of inhalation, and the Cor
oner's jury eslonerated the dentist.
The First National Bank of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, was recently robbed of $4,000.
Daniel Ford is the Republican nominee for
Congress in the Sixteenth Ohio District.
The Iowa Grand Lodge of Good Templars
will hold their nineteenth annual session in
Des Moines, August 9th, and their reunion
the preceding evening.
The application for an injunction to re-
strain Mr.. Cheney from officiating as minis
ter of Christ Church, Chicago, has been de-
MED by the Circuit Court.
A little daughter of Lawrence Dempsey,
living near Amboy, ILL.,, in lighting fire
with kerosene, was burned to death.
Jay A. Hubbell, of Houghton, is the Re-
publican candidate for Congress in the Ninth
Michigan District.
The Michigan Republican State Convention
met at Lansing, on the 31st ult., and nomi-
mated: For Governor, John J. Bagley; Lieu
tenant Governor, Henry III. Holt; Secretary
of State, Daniel Striker, renominated; Treas
urer, V. P. Collins, renominated; Auditor
General, William Humphrey, renominated;
Commissioner of Land Office, Leverett FL.
Clapp; Attorney General, Byron D. Ball; Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction, Daniel B.
Briggs.
Col. A. G. Matthews, of Pike County, is the
Republican candidate for Congress from the
Eleventh Illinois District. General J. A.
Garfield has been renomin ated by the Repub-
licans of the Nineteenth Ohio District, and
Charles Foster by the Republicans of the
Tenth Ohio District.
Dubuque Qowa) dispatch of the 31st
ult. says of the twenty-five persons on board
the James Malburn at the time of the ex-
plosion near McGregor on the 3Oth, eight
were numbered among the killed or missing.
The Coroner's inquest on the body of Charles
Young, one of the victims, resulted in a YER
Dict to the effect that defective fiue was
the cause Of the accident, and censuring the
Government Inspector for accepting the
boats register, instead of nsing the proper
instrument Oh making the test.
The Iowa Democratic and Liberal Repub-
Gcan State Conventions met at Des Moines
on the LIST. Separate organizations were eff
fected, and Committees OF Conference were
appointed, and the following ticket was
agreed upon and ratified by the two conven-
tions: For Secretary of State, DIR. E. A.
Guilbert, of Dubuque; for Treasurer, N. j.
Rholfz, of Scott; for Auditor, G. P. Cassidy,
of Pottawatomie; for Attorney General, A.
G. Case, of Floyd; tor Register of the Land
Office, Captain j. Butler, also of Page. An
Electoral ticket was agreed upon.
The Wisconsin Democratic State Central
Committee met at Milwaukee on the LIST and
made up an Electoral ticket.
Congressional nomination were made on
the 1st as follows: Republican-Eighth
Iowa District, j. W. McDill; Tenth Illinois,
W. II. Ray; Eighth Michigan, n. B. Bradley
Third Ohio, L. B. Gunckel. Democratic
Ninth Indiana, j. Enos Neff.
The motion for new trial in the case OF
Mrs. Glenn, the Indiana murderess, has been
overruled, and the prisoner again sentenced
to the penitentiary for life. The Court de
cided to allow her respite of forty days in
Jail before being removed to the State
Prison.
A Salt Lake dispatch of the I'd says the
Ute Indians belonging to the White River