The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-02-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

propose to give pgblic dinner in honor Of
/ Horace Greeley, next ST. Patricks Day.
Prof. Marsh stated at meeting in New
Haven, On Wednesday, that during his trip
to the West, lie found great number of
fossils of gigantic saurians, and winged
reptiles of twenty feet spread. In tie
b.salt!cs region, he found yast quantities
| Of three-toed fossil horses.
The excitement over the Alabama claims
/ is rapidly subsiding in London
/ The spoke factory Of Big-l & Co., and
an adjoining dwelling in St. Mary's, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire oa Wednesday.
Loss, $3g, 200.
A fast train from the west on the BAL
timore and Ohio Railway, while running
at good speed on Wednesday, ran into I.
heavy fall Of rock, sixty miles east of
Parkersburg, Va. The engine and bag
gage car were hurled down an embank-
ment, and several passenger cars were
thrown from the track. J. Dorsey, engi-
neer, was instantly killed and the fireman
severely injured. The passengers escaped
with slight injuries.
In New York, on Wednesday, an octo.
sanarian named Margaret Watson, while
inia'sins in her habit Of smoking in bel,
Sc The bed on fire anl was burned 20
Death
The ja3io.alrinsites of Jersey City, com
pri~.ns three police commissioners, tire,
ire commissioners and chief ofpolicc, were,
| On Wednesday, arrested and held to bail,
some $4,000 and some $4,000
Ex-senator Yates, of Illinois, is danger
ous!y i'll at his residence, in Jacksonville,
from hemorrhage Of the bowels.
y man named Geo. Jeffries, committed
sn;cide in Chicago, on Wednesday, by
cutting his throat
The Indiana Democratic State Conven-
ton ia called for june 18th.
\ Republican State Convention met in
Jefferson City, No, on Thursday, and ap-
pointed delegates to the National Conyen-
sion in Philadelphia.
The stockholders Of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad have ratified the lease
# that rosl to Thomas A Scott ana the
soa:hern Security Company for ninety
4ine years
IN Elgin, last week, a young man was in
s,ently killed. by the bursting Of an emery
wheel, whici! he was using. A fragment of
lie wheel struck his neck, nearly seyering
his head from the body.
John Rood, a hostler, was kicked to
death by horse at l,ondou, on Friday.
Tie Ee.lcfrout mills, in Cranston, II. l.,
owned b. Andrew Chambers, and run for
lie mnn4fart.ra Of waJding and bleaching
waste, was baraol on Saturday. Loss
33} o29-:nslarcc 10000 One oc the
hl.liings hurueI wa. about century old,
an WAS the first manucactory Of broad
doth in Amcr.ya
Max Judd, Of Cleveland, will probably
retain the chess championship Of the West.
The steamer Columbia was cut through
By iee at st. Louis, on Saturday, ana
sunk. She can be raised
The steamer john Kyle, which sunk
near Commerce, No, on Friday, was own
ed by ". +. anu u. 5. Davidson, of La
Crosse, y Wisconsin, and \. NJ. Hutchinson,
Of st. Lou!s. The John Kyle wa. built in
Cincinnati, and was valued at $lO0, 900,
and is insured in Cincinnati Offices.
Justice Sprague, of the California Sd
pleme Court, died on Saturday after long
illness.
\ coIored woman named Eliza Thomp-
son was murdered in Sacramento, CaIifor-
MIA, on Friday night last. The murderers
burned the house in which the crime was
committed.
An acre Of ground, arranged with sixteen
blasts consisting of seven hundred kegs of
powder, was exploded in Dutch Flat, Cali
fornia, on Friday, by an electrician
Bernhard Bepler, employed in Miller's
brewery, in Galena, H., fell into boiler
filled with boiling water and was scalded
to death.
Rev. Arthur Brooks, of Williamsport,
Pa, las accepted call to the ractorship
of 1t. James Church, in Chicago, recently
vacated By Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson,
d. d.
I ~,
Joa.ua|, has received from New York an
elegant sIlyar coffee urn, it being presented
TO him by the Buffalo huntinl party, com
posed OF Gems. Sheridan, Sherman, James
Gordon Bennett, Jr., l.. ". Jerome, Gen.
Sta.er, "Bufalo Bill" and others, for
the reason that he brought down the first
elk.
The Pope, it is said, has elevated Father
NeLerncy, of New York, to be Coadjutor
Bishop of Albany: Father Hendricken, of
Waterbury, Conn, to be Bishop of the
province of Rhode Island, the diocease of
Rhode Island and Connecticut to be divid-
ed, and Bishop Mcfarland to reside at
Ilartford Rev. +. Wadhams, Vicar Gen
eral of the diocese of Albany, to be Bishop
of Oglensburgh.
In the matter of VIM. A Britten against
Gen. Butler, for the recovery of money
said to have been realized by Butler on
two drafts found on the person of the
plaintiff while passing through the lines at
Natchez during the war, L. S. Judge
/ Blatchford sustained the demurrer of But
/ Ter, that the money was into the Treas
ury, and was barred by the statute of limi-
tation.
( The New York Produce Exchange has
adopted resolution, opposing the bill now
pending in the Legislature of that State,
to ccde lands TO the United States Govern
ment for the construction of ship-cansl
around Niagara Falls, on the ground that