The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-05
purchasers represented themselves as Pacific
Railway contractors.
The East.


| the oath, at which a series of resolutions
was adopted approving and endorsing the
proposed action of the Louisville Conven-
ton Delegates to the latter Convention were
then chosen.
At an adjourned meeting at Philadelphia,
on the oath, of the Pennsylvania State Labor
Reform Convention, a resolution was adopt
ed that a committee of five be appointed to
confer with the Louisville Democratic Con-
vention and ask them to adopt "our'' prin-
ciples, and that they be instructed to recon-
mend Charles O'Conor as Souri, choice Tor
President.
At Canaan, N. H., on the 25th, the wife of
DIR. Asa Wheat died from chloroform admin
istered by her husband for the purpose of ex-
tracing teeth.
The Republicans of the Twenty-frst New
York District have renominated by acclama-
ton, Hon. Clinton s. Merriam, for Congress.
A fire occurred in New York city on the
Goth, in the United States bonded warehouse
of Charles Zust, No. s Washington street.
The loss, which falls principally on import
ers of liquors, amounts to about $3.50, 900.
The origin of the fire is said to have been
the explosion of kerosene lamp.
Hon. A. G. Curtin and family arrived at
New York on the 18th, from Spain.
Henry Redmond, New York gold broker,
failed on the Goth, with liabilities stated at
81 ,OOO, 900 and assets at not more than half
that sum.
The New York Republican State Committee
met in New York city on the 27th and elect
ed the following officers: Chairman, A. B.
Cornell; Secretary, j. N. Knapp; Treasurer,
Henry Clews.
| "A New York policeman was arrested on the
9th while committing burglary on his beat.
He confessed to seventeen burglaries COM
mitted by him within a few months. Another
| officer was arrested as his accomplish.
| A New York dispatch of the 9th says a
| bogus circular, dated at Headquarters of
the National Grant Club" had been sent
from that city to different parts of the coun-
try, requesting remittance of So from each
person to whom it is sent to John F. Hamil-
ton, Secretary. There is no such club there.
A locomotive and two freight cars, laden
with whisky, were smashed and the whisky
burned on the 9th, at Jersey City, by a col
lision with another train. The loss is SAL
600.
By a smash-up which occurred on the
Reading Railroad at Philadelphia on the 9th
several cars laden with oil were consumed
and an engine was destroyed. Loss nearly
$3.50, 900.
A Convention of Democratic soldiers and
sailors opposed to the Pittsburgh Convention
was held in Harrisburg, Pa, on the 2Sth.
After effecting an organization, and appoint
ing committee to issue an address to the
soldiers, the meeting adjourned to October 1.
The New York San of the 2Sth prints fac
sinailes of the letters of Stanley to Noe, and
OF Livingstone to Bennett, and they are
said to be wonderfully alike
The New Jersey Democratic State Conven-
ton has been called to meet at Trenton Sep
TENDER II.
The Massachusetts, Prohibitory Conven-
ton, held in Boston on the 28th, voted 40 to
80 aga1ng temperance State Ticket.
A Mass Convention of the Union soldiers
of Maine met in Portland on the 27th
Speeches were made, and series of resolu-
lions declaring in favor of Grant and Wilson
was adopted.
The Massachusetts, Republican State Con-
vention met at Worcester on the 2Sth. Hon.
Thomas Talbot, of Billerica, new candidate,
was nominated for Lieutenant Governor.
With this exception the old State ticket,
headed by VIM. B. Washburn, was nominal
ed. Judge E. R. Hoar, of Concord, and John
r. Forbes, of Milton, were nominated for
Electors-at-Large. Resolutions were adopted
indorsing the principles and candidates of
the Republican National Convention, and
approving of the Administration of Presi-
dent Grant.
Colonel William r. Hamilton has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats of
the Fourth New Jersey District. The Re-
publicans of the Thirteenth New York Dis
trict have renominated John H. Ketchum
for Congress.
President Grant has accepted an invita-
ton to be present at The fall fair of the New
Jersey State Agricultural Society, at Waiver
II, September II.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, was
reported on the Goth to be dangerously ill at
the residence of his son-in-law, in Brooklyn.
His physicians forbade any one but his nurse
seeing him.
The New Jersey Republicans met in State
Convention, at Trenton, the Doth, and
nominated an Electoral ticket. No State
officers are to be elected in New jersey this
year.
The Republicans of the Seventeenth Penn
sylvania District have nominated W. w.
Watson for Congress. A Williamsport dis
patch says Ex-Governor Curtin's name was
used without his knowledge or consent, he
| receiving "a votes, to IS for Watson.
Francis Moroney, young stone-cutter at
New York, is reported to have fallen heir to
an English estate worth $500, 900.
The New York Herald denies the imputa-
| tions of fraud cast upon Stanley's alleged
| discovery of Livingstone, and gives the evil
| dence of former correspondents of Living
stone, including a son of Professor Stearns,
of Amherst College, who testify to their be-
lief that the letters received from Living
stone are in that travellers handwriting, and
| not in SANKEY'S.
President Grant arrived in New York on
| the 30th ult. and left for Long Branch
The propeller Metis, from New York for
| Providence, was run into off Watch Hill, R.
l., on the morning of the sOth ult., by sail
| ing vessel, and was so badly injured as to
| immediately sink. A storm was prevailing
| at the time of the disaster. There were, in
Guiding officers and crew, one hundred and
| fifty persons on board, of whom about eighty
persisted
The West.
On the morning of the Esd an accident oc-
Cured on the Chicago, Clinton & DUBUQUE
Railroad near Pleasant Creek, caused by OBJ
structions in the shape of planks and stones,
| placed on the track by some evil disposed
| persons. Three cars were completely de-
molished The water boy, Walter H. Gates,
of Dubuque, was instantly killed pas
senger named Healy, of Maquoketa, Iowa,
was badly mangled and died in short time