The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-10-03
The West.

Helena, Montana, had it's first snow storm
| of the season on the 22d.
| movement has been inaugurated in Chi
| cago for the erection of million dollar
opera house. The building will be one of
the finest of the kind in America.
| Horace Greeley arrived at Indianapolis on
the Esd, and was met at the depot by alarge
crowd of people.
During a recent severe thunder storm,
several persons were struck by lightning
and killed near Milwaukee, among them a
girl at Palmyra, a young man at Hebron,
and two men in the town Of Greenfield.
Congressional nominations were made on
the Oath by the Republicans in the First,
Second and Third Illinois Districts. The
candidates are respectively Messrs. j. B.
| Rice, j. D. Ward and c. B. Farwel1.
Another unprovoked and brutal murder
occurred in Chicago on the night of the 23d,
the victim being young man named James
McWilliams, compositor in the Daily Times.
He was shot, it would seem, without any
provocation, by young man named Thomas
| Cullin, who was drunk at the time. Cullir
was arrested and committed for trial.
The official vote of Montana for Delegate
! to Congress is Aaginnis, Democrat, 4,515;
Cleggett, Republican, 4,196.
| e.,
| Dubuque, while trying to enforce the civil
| rights bill in the case of a colored guest who
put up there, by compelling the girls to wait
on him at the public table, had to discharge
them all, they refusing to fulfill his COM
mands.
A dispatch from Mcdowell Arizona, dated
on the 9th of September, says the diamond
| excitement had subsidized.
! The Illinois Supreme Court has granted a
supersedeas in the case of Rafferty,, recently
committed and sentenced to be hung in Chi
cago for the murder of policeman.
Judge Brease is reported to have written a
| letter to a friend in Joliet to the effect that
his nomination for Governor. of Illinois by
the State Straight-Democratic Committee
was without his knowledge or consent, and
that he would not accept.
The Rev. Peter Cartwright died at his resi-
dence near Pleasant Plains, ILL.,, on the 25th,
! in his SSth year.
The Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, at
| Newburg, Ohio, was burned ON the 25th.
There were about six hundred inmates in the
building at the time of the fire, nearly all of
whom were believed to be safe, and several
of them were at large. Miss Walker, seam
| stress of the institution, was roasted alive,
| almost in reach of friends, who could render
| her no assistance, on account of the heat
and want of the proper facilities. A boy, name
unknown, had a leg broken, and was other
wise injured. He would probably die. Sew
e-al others were badly burned, and it was
| believed that three or four were lying in the
debris, which was fifteen feet deep, and it
would require time to get the bodies out, if
| there were any. The loss would approx
mate to $780, 00 There is said to have been
| no insurance.
The Democrats and Liberal Republicans
! of the Sixth Wisconsin District have
nominated Myron P. Lindley for Congress.
! L. B. Otis in the First, G. 81. Harrison in the
Second, and J. V. LIE Moyne in the Third
| Illinois Districts ere the Democratic and
/ Liberal Republican candidates for Congress.
| The recent severe storms have done much
| damage in many sections of the West. A
Dubuque Qowa) dispatch of the 18th re-
ports extensive damage north and west of
| that city. In the town of Monona T. irteen
houses and freight depot were blown
/ down.
In view of the recent numerous murders