The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-05

cure the necessary bail bonds of S., 1000 to
keep the peace and not engage in hight
within the limits of Philadelphia County, he
was locked up.
Hon. John Cessna has been nominated for
| Congress by the Republicans OF the Six
teenth Pennsylvania District.
The New York Liberal Republican and
Democratic State Conventions met at SYRIA
cuse on the 4th, organized, appointed Con
ference Committees, and adjourned to the
5th.
Charles Sumner sailed for Europe from
Boston, on the Sd.
A Burlington (Vt.) dispatch of the 4th
says the news from the State election indi-
Gated that the Republican majority would be
about 26. 900.
recent dispatch from Rhode Island states
the belief that more lives were lost by the
wreck of the steamer Metis than have been
repo rted, and that when the wreck shall be
raised several more odies will be discovered.
1t seems from the Investigation of the Gov
eminent Inspectors that the Captain and
Engineer were aware of the extent OF the
injuries received by the vessel five minutes
after the collision occurred, while the pas
sengers were kept in ignorance OF the danger
| that menaced them for more than half an
hour; that the life-preserving apparatus, in
stead of being in the most convenient place,
was slowed in an out-of the-way place, and
that the steerage passengers did not have
adequate means of egress from their quar-
tiers in case of accident.
The Reed House, at Erie, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 4th.
Loss, $1,000 Cause, the explosion of a
kerosene lamp in a servants room.
The Liberal Republicans and Democrats of
New Y ork in State Convention at Syracuse,
on the 5th, nominated the following ticket
For Governor, Francis Herman; for Lieu
tenant Governor, Chauncey M. Depew
State Prison Inspector, E. G. Brooks; Canal
| Commissioner, John +. Hubbard. Hon. s.
| s. Cox was nominated for Congressman-at-
| Large.
The Democrats of the Fifth Pennsylvania
Congressional District have nominated Sim
ington Phillips. E. Joy Morris is the nomi
nee of the Democrats and Liberals in the
Second Pennsylvania District.
General Dix has written letter to W. A
Wheeler, Chairman of the New York Repub-
lican State Convention, accepting the nomi
nation for Governor.
A Rutland (Vt.) dispatch of the 9th says
returns from 2O2 towns give Converse IRE
publican for Governor) 49, 25, and Gardiner
! (Opposition) IA, 6OS-a Republican majority
of %, 615. The Republican majority for tine
entire State would probably be 24,OOO OF
10000. There were 80 towns yet to be heard
| from.
The West.
| A st. Paul telegram of the 31st ult. saws
Mrs. Charlotte Lamb had been arrested al
| Trimbelle, Pierce County, Wis, and placed
in the Ellsworth Jail, charged with poison.
| ing five persons at different times-her hus-
band, son, daughter, and two neighbors
William Sweigert, the man arrested for
| the murder of Higgins, near Chicago, has
made a full confession of the crime, claim
ing, as an incentive to the murder, that Hig-
gins had refused to pay him for work, and
had, also, on two or three occasions, in
suited his (Sweigert's) wife.
The Chicago Board of Trade has adopted
very stringent rules compelling parties to
deposit margins on contracts based on the
shipping value of the property. It is
thought the new regulations will tend to
prevent such disasters resulted from the
recent wheat " corner" in that city. The
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce has also
. adopted similar rules.
Nettie Cline, Amanda L. Stevenson and
Cauathine Dutro- widows of las R. Cline,
Judge Stevenson and Thomas E. Dutro, who
were murdered by mob in Cass County,
Mo-, some months ago, for the alleged issue
of fraudulent county bonds, have brought
suit against Sheriff Bryant and some thirty
five other citizens of Cass County for the
murder of their husbands.
Recent dispatches from General Pope's
headquarters deny a report of an Indian raid
on Government train between Carson CITY
and Fort Lyon.
The Liberals and Democrats of the Third
Minnesota District have nominated George
L. Becker for Congress.
Congressional nominations on the 4th
Republicau-G. W. Hazleton, renominated,
Second Wisconsin District. Democratic
and Liberal-Dr. Calvin Truesdale, Sixth Hi
nois District; w. E. Lefingwell, Second
Iowa; J. F. Stoneman. Third Iowa; A. T.
Lusch, Fourth Iowa.
The Missouri Republican State Convention
met at st. Louis on the 4th and effected a
permanent organization, and adjourned to
the 5th.
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition was
formally opened on the 4th
collision occurred between two passen.
! ger trains on the Lake Erie Division of the
Baltimore q Ohio Railroad, near Indepen.
| dence, Ohio, on the 5th, resulting in the
death of five persons and the wounding OF
twenty-eight. One of the trains was full OF
excursionists returning from the Ohio State
Fair at Mansfield. Four of the killed were
Beach Harris, Louisville, O.; Jas. Shields
Hunts Station, O.; Chewelsworth Scott
Mount Vernon, O.; Geo. Blyn, Indepen
| dence, o.
The Wyoming Territorial election has re-
suited in the success of William R. Steele
Democrat, for Congressional Delegate
over VIM. T. Jones, who sought re-elec
| ton.
| The Kansas Republican State Convention
| at Topeka on the 4th, nominated Fol
Governor, S. A. Osborne, of Leavenworth
eutenant-Governor, E. s. Slower; Secretary
of State, w. FL. Smallwood; Chief-Justic
Judge Kingman; Auditor, Webb Miller
| Treasurer, ]. 81. Hays; Attorney General, C.
L. Williams. Resolutions were adopted in
dorsing General Grant and the Philadelphis
| platform.
The recent Minnesota Democratic and
Liberal Conventions nominated Albert
Scheffer, of st. Paul, for State Auditor, and
James F. George, of Rochester, for Clerk OF
the Supreme Court.
| A San Francisco telegram of the 4th says