The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-24
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A $50, 600 fire at Meriden. Connecticut
! Tuesday.
A labor Congress consisting of dele
gates from various trades unions, com
menced in Cleveland Tuesday, orc OF Its
avowed objects beiag to organize a new
! political 1.arty.
John Lakeland was arrested Tuesday.
at Piedmont, West Virginia. charged
with committing iorgeries in Washington
| city bondsss Boo
A terrible storm visited Iren,on, O.,
| Tuesday morning. Steamers On the Ohio
had to tie-up The iron and steel COM
pany' s building was struck by lightning,
ard bricks hurled from the walls Violent
! iy- A large iron bar was torn from the
hands of fireman. He was severely
| shocked
A thousand Mormons landed at New
York on Tuesday.
| The Comm issicners of the North ern
| Pacific Railroad have decided to make
| the western terminus at Tacoma, Wash
| ineton Territory.
Six new cholera cases in Columbus,
| Ohio, penitentiary.
Continued rain storms in Ohio, are
| damaging the crops which were spared
by the rains last week.
| Advices from different portions of New
| Mexico represent the crops as entirely
ruined by con inuous drought.
| Commodore VIM McGlendy, United
States Navy. but on the retired list. died
| "Wednesday morning al Baltimore, aged
| u.
A FIRE in Jefferson, Texas, on Tuesday
i d L. e
The New Mexico Republican conven-
ton on Tuesday, nominated Hon, S. B.
Elklns, leading lawyer of the territory,
as delegate to Congress.
The exercises of the Methodist CEN
tennial celebration at Philadelphia term
mated Wednesday with a grand jubilee
meeting at the Academy of Music.
Aspecial from Mount Vernon, Indiana,
| says cholera is raging fearfully at that
place. Commencing on Thursday last,
| there have been about 80 deaths.
| Policeman Thos Mills shot and killed
Jno McKinny, in New Orleans, We'd
/ nesday. Cause-prisoner knitted an off
Ger, who was endeavoring to execute a
warrant of arrest.
The Pacific mail steamer Montana,
when forty miles south of Acapulco, the
morning Of the Sth, took fire. After a
very hard fight the passengers succeeded
in getting the fire under control The
cause of the fire is supposed to be spon-
taneous combustion
j. B. Jordan and Clayton Sutton were
out deering in Smith county. Arkansas,
few days ago, when the former, and
the horse on which he was riding, Were
| shot and killed by Sutton, he taking j or
| dan horse for deer as he came through
| the bushes near him.
A heavy rain-storm at Marquette,
| Tuesday night, caused great damage to
property end flooded Easements and cell
ars. Foundation walls in some places
were broken in. The streets have been
a perfect torrent of water. a portion OF
a basement wall Of the new Masonic
Block, lately completed at cost of fifty
thousand dollars has been washed away
The track of the Marquette, Houghtor
and Ontonagon Railroad has been seri
oUsly damaged, both on the main line
and the branches running to the docks
furnaces and mines.
The Republicans of Minnesota met ir
State Convention at ST. Paul on Wednes
day. The contest was mainly on the
Governorship, the principal candidates
being Horace Austin, the present Gov
ernor, w D. Washburn, of Minneapolis
a member of the celebrated Washburr
family. Cushman K. Davis. of ST. Paul
and Thomas Armstrong. of the southern
portion of the state. The contest was
very animated Finally Austin virtually
Withdrew. and Armstrong; forces con
ccntrated on Davis, defeating Washburn
The vote on the fourth and final ba!io
stood Davis, 1856. Washburne, $50
Resolutions were adopted favoriDg chear
transportation according to the capital
investedin raj roads;th right ofresonablt
remuneration, but opposing unjust dis
ordinations and all arbitrary and i'm
proper use Of the growing power of rail
road and other corporations condemn
ing the salary and back pay grab, &c.
A State Temperance Convention met
in Jacksonville, ILL.,, on Wednesday
Resolutions were adopted calling upor
the friends of Temperance for united
action in support Of temperance laws, de
claring the thanks of the temperance
people of Illinois due to Hon. Josepf
MediH,. Mayor of Chicago, for this en-
forcemeDt of the liquor laws in that city
and thanking the Irish citizens of Chica
go for the recent action IN meeting ant
declaring themselves in favor of the en-
forcement of said laws.
The Mormon residents of Salt LAX,
City are disturbed by the announcement
that Ann Aliza Webb, the young lseven
teen) wife of Brigham Yonng, had for
ever left him, carrying off furniture ant
personal effects. Brigham will endeavo
to replevin the goods. She viii inst
tute suit for divorce and alimony in
large sum. Great revelations are ex
pected concerning the inner domestic lif
of the prophet. Mrs. Young is enjoy
|, ing the sympathy of the gentle ladies
and the polygamous Mormons are goo
, deal disturbed
All of the Indians belonging to Capt
Jacks band are now prisoners.
. The first bale of new cotton in NeI
York brought twenty-six cents per pcnrs
There are now 4.7G0 Oranges c
! Patrons of Husbandry in operation j
this country, with an aggregate member
ship of $50, 900
Late adyices from Arkansas, Iouisian
; and Texas show decided im rrovelne en-
q In the condition of the cotton crop.
Young Wise. the eronaut, was badl
burned at Philadelphia by his balloo
e catching fire.
\ Central Park is to have a statue
: Hon. Wm H. Seward.
t The trunk of Mrs Maxwell. of Sa
! Lake. was robbed of $4,000 worth
; | diamonds 10 New York.
Cholera is reported as prevalent
!, several Kentucky towns
n A dispat FROM Portland, Oregon
states the arrival ofthe,steamer Otis, an
0 reports the finding Of SIX bodies of pc
sons supposed to have perished op II
ill-fated steamer Geo. S, Wright.
Il The fact that Senator Conkiing has r.
8 Gently purchased a large and eiegaI
esadepce lot i9 Washington, is cited