The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-12

| aged 10 years, 1OOnSnly aIIelhP1eu 10 hurry
up the fire by pouring kerosene oil upon it
from can containing nearly gallon of the
| fluid. An explosion followed, and the girl
was fearfully burned, and died in few
| hours.
General James Craig, Liberal Democratic
nominee for Congress in the Ninth Missouri
| District has declined the nomination. The
General, in his letter of declination, assigns
as his reason for this course, the dissatisfac-
ton growing out of the large rep1 esentation
accorded to the Liberals, through whom his
nomination was effected.
General Sheridan telegraphs from Duluth,
Mimi, that the Yellowstone Expedition,
started out by the Northern Pacific Railroad
managers, is a failure, the engineers refusing
to proceed further than the mountains of
the Yellowstone Valley, fearing an attack
by Indians.
The Fat Mems Convention met at Putin
Bay, Ohio, on the 10th.
Philetus Sawyer has been renominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Sixth
Wisconsin District.
W. b. NJ. Pussy, nominated by the Lib
erals of the Eighth Iowa Congressional
District, has declined, alleging his inability
to leave his business as the reason there
for
CHRISTOPHER IuC LauIueTeT VI
Policeman O'Meara, in Chicago, has been
tried and found guilty of murder in the first
degree, the jury deciding that he shall suffer
death by hanging.
In the case of the woman, Mrs. Charlotte
Lamb, who was recently arrested in the
town of Trimbelle, Wis, on suspicion of
having murdered her husband, two children
and four other persons, by poison, the trial
has been set for November at Ellsworth,
Wis. 1t appears that an examination of the
stomachs of four of the victims revealed
quantities of strychnine. Quantities of
arsenic and strychnine were also found in
her house after her arrest.
The stock Of grain in Chicago elevators on
the 10th. as per official figures, was SIG, O29
bushels of wheat, 4, 19O,735 bushels of corn,
S47 ,226 bushels of oats, 102, 6O2 bushels of
rye, and 27S, O95 bushels of barley, making
total of 6,034, 6S7 bushels, against $4,000
bushels the previous week, showing an in
crease of 21S, 1888 bushels.
One of the men summoned for juror in
the Fair trial, pending in San Francisco,
stated to the Court that he had been ap-
preached by person who offered him 81 900
if he would secure place on the jury and
vote for the acquittal of the accused. The
accused party was under arrest to answer to
the charge of contempt.
Colonel Gilmore, the nominee for Lieuten-
ant-Govemor, on the Liberal Democratic
ticket in Missouri, being ineligible, under
the State Constitution, not having been in
the State long enough, has withdrawn, and
Charles P. johnson, Liberal, of St. Louis,
has been placed on the ticket in his stead.
Congressional nominations on the 18th:
Republican-General J. M. Rusk, Seventh
Wisconsin District; Henry Baetz, Fifth Wis
consin. Liberal and Democratic-Samuel
P. Ely, Ninth Michigan.
The Cincinnati Exposition was visited by
over 10000 persons on the 18th.
Affairs in Alaska are said to be in a
very unsatisfactory condition. The Indians
are lawless, and, outside of Sitka and
vicinity, life and property are constantly in
danger.
The Kansas Liberal Republican and Dem
ecratic State Conventions, at Topeka on the
18th, agreed upon the following State ticket:
For Governor, J. 81. Walker; Lieutenant
Governor, John Walruff Treasurer, G. H.
Pratt; Secretary of State, j. F. Waskey; At
torney- General, R. P. Wagner; Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, j. d. Sawyer;
Chief Justice, Fl @ McComas; Members of
Congress, s. A. Briggs, w. Fl. LaughliH and
General Robert Mitchell.
Congressional nominations on the 18th:
Republican-Colonel JEFF. Seavy, Fifth Mis-
souri, District; S. Burdet, Seventh Missouri
Liberal and Democratic-J. E. Duncombe,
Ninth Iowa; s. A. Riggs, W. R. Laughlin,
and General Robert Mitchell, Kansas.
Over 10000 persons visited the Iowa State
Fair grounds at Cedar Rapids on the 18th
the fourth day of the Fair.
The raoapt Convention in Chi
cago unanimously adopted a report of the
Committee on Education, recommending the
establishment and support of diocesan and
local schools.
Chaffe Republican, has been reelected
Delegate to Congress from Colorado by
about 1,50O majority.
The Rev. Samuel J. Browne, who, last
July, shot boy for robbing his garden, died,
a few days ago, at his residence near Cincin-
nati aged SIS.
By the explosion of foundry boiler in
Cincinnati on the 18th, three persons were
killed and nine badly injured
few evenings ago, in Scott County, Ind,
an eight-year- old boy named LOTUS became
angry at little girl seven years old, a
daughter of Jerry Chandler, and, taking up
shotgun, fired the contents into her stom-
ach. The gun was loaded with slugs. The
girl fingered till morning, when she died
The Democrats and Liberals of the Second
Wisconsin District have nominated General
George B. Smith for Congress.
A reunion of several regiments of Ohio
Volunteer Infantry was held at Tiffin, Ohio,
on the 18th, and was well attended. The
next reunion will be held at Sandus9y, on
the 9th of September, 1878.
The South.
Parties from Pope County, Arkansas, re-
port that on the 7th a civil officer and posse,
who had a writ for that purpose, attempted
to arrest Deputy Sheriff Williamson, charged
with firing at and attempting to kill Harry
Payster, at Dover, at the time the latter shot
and killed County Clerk Hickox. William
son refused to be arrested, and was shot and
| MORALLY wounded. On the night of the Sth,
| at about twelve O'Clock, a squad of Sheriff
Dodson's militia entered Russellville and set
| fire to the Tribune office.
| A recent Goldsboro Is. c. dispatch saws
| the cotton crop in that section has sustained
! serious injury.
Ex-Governor Perry has been nominated
for Congress by the Conservatives of the
Fourth South Carolina District.
The Republican State Convention, of Della
ware was held on the 18th, and an Electora
ticket was chosen.
The peace reunion at Louisville on the