The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-03-14

:. The question whether Polo shall be re
I. ceived as Spanish Minister is unsettled
e The State Department does not look upo
!. this designation with the lea.t favor, an
In the present delicate condition of affair
: between the United States and Spain
Q Polo's presence viii, it is feared, be onl,
. 20 increase the complication Of the situs
f ton.
t On Saturday, - freight train was run
nlrg esst over the Toledo, Wabash 4 West
crn Eailroal,and when near Mercdo.ia, some
straw, which had been left on the floor ot
freight car, loaded with twenty large
mules, ignited by a spark from a locomo,
; tive. The flames ascending from the burn.
! ing straw set FIRE to the hair of the animals.
The hair was al consumed, and the skin
OF the mules burned almost to crisp.
" hen the train reached Meredosia, it was
stopped, and upon examination thirteen Of
the mules were found already dead, and the
balance must die. The car was bat slight
Iy burned The loss of the twenty mule.
viii reach $1,000.
captain Lahrerpush, the veteran English
officer and opium consumer, was treated by
his friends in New York. on Saturday, to
his usual birthday breakfast. He is now
IO7.
The death is announced of the last sur
wing son of the poet Burns, Colonel
illIam Nlcoi Burns, at the age of So
lie was five years old when his father died.
Though not brilliant man, lie was an
efficient army officer in the East India
Company. lie leaves no children.
An Omaha dispatch states that the melt
| ing snow in the mountains has caused nu-
merous wash-outs along the Pacific Rail
road.
One hundred and eighteen deaths from
smallpox in Philadelphia last week.
The monitor Mahopac was damaged by
fire at the Norfolk navy yard on Saturday.
| VIM. M'Garrahan has commenced
new suit in the Third District Court of
California, against the New Idra Quick
silver Mining Company, claiming the Pa
noche land grant, the mine aud S5,000,OOo
damages.
A theatre, to be called the Mcguire
Opera House, will soon be erected adion-
ing the Sherman House, Chicago, which
viii hold l,400 people, the cost of which
will be about $4,000.
Stanley Fl. Fleetwood, prominent
business man of Chicago for eighteen years,
died in that city on Saturday evening.
! Rev. f ward S. Sullivan, rector of the
Trinity Episcopal Church, in Chicago, is
soon to depart for Europe to solicit funds
with which to enable his parishioners to
rebuild their place of worship.
| A rumor has reached Wilmington, n. c.,
that Bosa Strong, one of the Robson coun-
| ty outlaws, wss killed Saturday night, and
| a posseofoficers havegone to secures trong's
| body, and thereby secure the large rewards
A Wilmington, N. e rrt,.
of Henry Berry Lovery. Several parties
are organizing for the capture of the gang.
Arrests for ku-kluxism were commenced
in Marion county, S. c., last week, and
much excitement consequently exists
throughout the county.
A ssventy-fvs thousand dollars cenaa-
grafton occurred at Lincoln, H., On Thurs
day evening last. Thubey's jswelry store,
Brewer HAll, and Houston's block we're
| burned.
Mrs Jane Madden has recovered $4,000
| against the Staten Island Ferry Company,
| for the death Of her husband by tie West
field explosion last June.
Early Friday morning three negroes
broke into the house Of an old man of SO
years, named James Mcneil, near Shelby
| City, Boyle county, KY. and brutally muir
dered him, splitting his head open with an
IA. and otaboiug him IN several places. The
object of the murderers was plunder, but
in this they have failed. Two Of them are
under arrest.
| A horrible murder was committed ak
miles northeast of Dayton, Ohio, on Friday
night. A woman named Mary Marquard,
thirty five years of age and three children,
aged respectively six and eight years and
six months, were, it is supposed, killed by
the husband, Leonard Marquard, who Is
now in jail. The wife was found in bed,
naked apparently strangled. The children
,uere found some distance from the house,
parently drowned and afterwards removed
from the water. The infants head was
crushed.