The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-02-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Rev. Samuel Cook, the Oldest Calyinis-
tic Baptist clergyman in New Hampshire,
lied in Concord, on Friday, aged 81.
4 Halifax dispatch says the steamship
New York experienced terrible weather on
the voyage from Bremen. Her boats were
carried away, and her bridge broken.
Captain Won Emster was knocked about
. on the deck, and badly cut in the face
One of the sailors fell from aloft to the
deck and was killed.
\ party of Indians recently came into
Silver City and drove off large number
OF cattle; also set fire to an outhousc b.-
longing to tir. Bremen, the owner of the
! cattle, and his man cook was burned in
TIE house.
4 WOODEN mill owned by the Moons, at
Pcter>boro y. H., caught fire by sponta-
neous combustion Friday afternoon, and
was wholly destroyed. An operative
named Mrs. Ellen Upton was burned to
death. The mill and stock were insured
Por $4,000
\ terrible accident occurred at a mill at
Elkhorn Greek, about twelve miles north
of Sterling, Illinois, on Monday last. \
large quantity of grain was stored in the
hl'Gt4 l''tIl VI tilC iBlti ol tlt udN udlnCl
IA high wind rocked the tmbers on which
the grain rested TO the ground, and the
entire lot was prec. .pitated to the floor
below. Four persons were blrneI by the
stove, which spread the fire around.
Three escaped. but DR.. W. X. Palmer WAS
caught by the timber IN such Il manner as
to hol him fast, anl was roa tel alive.
\ Touring mill was destroyed by fire
near Sterling, ILL.,, on Tuesday Of last week
| Loss 33.Guo-insurance Sl1, 900.
Mrs. Horace Greeley has recovered from
her supposed incurabe complaint, and
will soon return to America.
Com. Vanderbilt Is reported ILL.,
| The widow of Admiral Farragut leads
the New York Ladies Association to pro-
mote the health an! comfort Of the sick in
hospital.
The deficiency bill aPpropriates $1,000
| gOo.
The Union Square Banl, Of New York
pays dividend Of fifty per cent.
! Greedy New Workers charged the Rus
! sian fleet so per day for wharfage during
/ is stay IN that harbpr. The le-a! fee is
/ only s26
The French police have information
! which leads them to believe that $4,000
rifles and thirty cannon, with large stores
| of ammunition, are concealed in Paris. An
active search is being made in all parts Of
| the city.
The Emperor and Empress Of Brazil are
now in Madrid
The revolt Of the native troops in the
Philippine Islands has been suppressed.
| The surviving mutineers were tried by a
court-martlal, and eleven suffered death.
! Ihe leaders Of the revolt have been exc
cutcd.
Prince Frederick Charles has gone on a
visit to Egypt
1t is announced that the Pope ntcnGs
| to denounce the Concordat SO far as ii
relates to AI,ace and Lorraine.
Accounts Of fearful weather ON the Mex
lean coast is received. The English bark
pamilco, from Liverpool, which arrived on
the 9TH at Vera Cruz, dragged her anchor
during the gale, and the vessel was lost
! Twelve OF the crew were drowned
Ocott a printer of Dos Moines sus
pected of the murder of +. ". Shrig, al
davenport, two years ago, processes hi>
ability to prove that lie was at work At tho
time, and up to an hour later than thG
murder was committed.
\ candid old bachelor SAYS: "Aftcr al
{; wOman'S heart is the sweatest thing in
the world; it Il perfect honcycDmb-fuil
Of sells"
At general meeting of the Anglo
American Telegraph Company, a reduction
of the present tolls on dispatches was ii
vorably considered. \ proposal for til,
laying Of a fourth cable was we'll received
Four inches of SHOW fell in Central Hi
nois on Friday.
The first of the riot murder cases q
Los Angeles has resulted in a verdict o
not guilty, the District Attorney Stain.
that he had only Chinese testimony t.
offer, which was not reliable. The defence
introduced no witnesses.
The postofice was consumed in the con
hagration ut Maryville, H., on Thursday
evening. The furniture, letters, stamps
and a considerable sum of money, wer,
burned.
II. johnson, employed on wood saw
. ing machine, was killed at Mazomanie
Dane county, Thursday evening, by tht
explosion of the tiy-whccl, pieces striking
him in the head and chest, killing him al
most instantly. lie leaves wife AMI 70 u
children.
\ Cincinnati telegram states that thu
shooting of James Trimhle a few day.
since by the guard of the Adams Express
, Company was the termination Of series
, of robberies Of their cars of thousands o
: dollars worth of jewelry. Through hi
confession, a greater proportion Of the
goods have been recovered.
. VIM. NJ. Tweed has been elected Presi
, dent of the Americas Club.
There is fair prospect of the construc
ton of an underground railway IN New
e York city.
/. 1t is reported that Archbishop McCIos
key succeeds to the Primateship vacate'
by the death Of Spaliing, and BishoI
Lynch, of South Carolina, is to be Arch
bishop of New York.
: A forged check for $500 purporting L
5 be drawn by Nourse L Brooks on tn
e Fourth National Bank of New York
: passed through the Clearing House o.
. Friday
' Smallpox has made its appearance i
: the orphan asvlums Of New York city.
f Seven persons were Plungei into III