The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-11-06
HON 4 NEWS.

night. destroyed large portion of the
business part of the town. Loss $2OI,
600
The colored laborers on the levee ant
at the coal yards in New Orleans are or
strike for 81 per day. They were
receiving SO.
The workiDgmen of Boston will give a
reception and banquet to Joseph Arch
in Faneuil Hall next Wednesday, Wen
dell Phillips is expected to preside.
John Sinclair. a man los years old
was Killed at Fort Wayne Wednesday
afternoon. being struck by the Chicago
fast train, while he was attempting to
cross the track.
A FIRE in Boston Wednesday night,
burned out number of firms in the
drug and chemical trade, causing an ag-
gregate loss of $75, 1000; nearly all COW
cred by insurance.
A fire in Freehold, N. j., destroyed
the post Office and several large stores.
Judge Emmons. at Memphis, has ren
dered decision involving lite policies is
sued to persons In the South before the
war, which lapsed payment ofpremiums,
and holds that the company is discharged
from ITS obligations, in law and equity.
The New York. New Haven and II art
ford Railroad Company, have reduced
the hours of their mechanics from ten to
eight hours per day, making a cores
ponding reduction of 20 per cent. The
Hartford, Providence and Washkiil Rail
road, it is understood, will make the
same reductions
Attorney General Williams has re-
ceiyed report from the u. S. Marshal
D. Chiltree, of the Eastern District of
Texas, giving detailed account of a
serious hostile feeling between a party of
desperadoes, led by one James Roan, and
the colored people on the line of the Gal
weston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
Railroad
Gen. Philip st. George Cooke. COM
manding the Department of the Lakes,
has been placed on the retired list. and
Lieut. Col. Geo. Cooke, of the Depart
ment of Arizona, has been appointed
Brigadier General The Departments of
the Lakes and the East have been abol-
ished. The command is now the Mill
tary Division of the Atlantic. commanded
by Gen. Hancock.
The third trial of Stokes, for the mur
der of James Fisk, jr., resulted in ver-
diet by the jury of manslughter Il the
third degree. Judge Davis sentenced
Stokes to four years imprisonment in
the State Prison, at hard labor.
A dispatch from North Platte. Neb
says the Modoc Indians arrived there on
Wednesday, in charge of a detachment
of troops, closely guarded. They are not
yet allowed to 90 out of the cars The
officers say they have preserved dogged
silence during the entire trip. The in
tention is to place them in stockade on
an island in the Platte River, near Fort
Mcpherson.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 31.-The steam
ship Caledonia, Captain Pearce, cleared
to dav by j II Ashbridge for Liverpool,
with 5335 bales of cotton aud 5000 slaves,
the heaviest outward cargo of the season
Perrie Berlin. Frank Carlo. and Bool-
delniz. sentenced to the penitentiary for
theft, escaped from the parish prison by
throwing pepper in the turkeys eyes.
BELFAST, Me, Oct 31.-John i. Cor
don. to day. pleaded not guilty to an in
dictment charging him with the murder
of his brother wife, at Thorndyke, on
the 10th of June last. The trial begins
November 10.
Rowing bands of Sioux. having re-
Gently cruelty raided on the Pawnees and
other friendly tribes, the matter has
been made the subject of consultation be
tween the Interior and War Depart
ments, and orders have been given by
the latter that all Sioux found off the
reservation, with hostile intent, will be
punished.
Orders were issued Friday for the re-
moval of the Modocs, who are now at Ft.
Mcpherson, to a permanent location with
the Quapows on the Neosho River, in
the extreme northeastern corner of the
Indian Territory.
Richardson denies emphatically the
rumor that he has resigned. He has re
Gently taken house in Washington, and
expects to make considerable of stay al
the capital President Grant stated to
the Associated Press agent tonight that
he did not desire Richardson to resign,
and made no such request as stated.
Richardson has been deluged with tele
grams from all parts Of the country to-
day, inquiring as to the truth of the ru.
NOR.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct 31.-Mr
Dent, father of Mrs. Grant, is lying dan
gerously i'll, and there are no prospects
of his recovery.
Bills will be introduced early in the
session re-establishing, in restricted
form, the franking privilege. 1t is
claimed that the increased receipts of the
P0stofice Department, on account of the
abolition Of the privilege, is mora thar
counterbalanced by the increased expen
ditures of the other departments.
Last Saturday, at the Washington
House in this city, the Ute chief used in
sulting language to q 6ne-looking young
sqaw who ccompanied the Crow chief
The latter, on learning this. was in the
act of attacking the insulting Ute with
his knife, and the Ute at once drew hii
knife also, and bloody work would have
ensued had not the agent of the tribes in
terfered. A policeman vas called IN, and
remained until the parties quieted down
somewhat, but it was understood thai
the Crow chief means to fight it out just
as soon as they get back to their old
haunss In the Western wilds-
The estimates for the legislative branch
of the Government have all been prepar
ed, and show an increase oyer those Of
any previous year. This is accounted fol
by the fact that the pay of member.
and senators now is more than hereto
fore The estimates for salaries for th.
fiscal year ending June go, 1879, ar,
| 1856, 600, and for the pay of officers apo
employees of the Senate, Sl44, 900; fol
contingent expenses, Sl99, 900; salariel
| OF members oc tie house. 50. 4G0, 900
salaries of officers and employees, $2S,
| 600; expenses, $267, 600. Another
cause of the increase is that the number
of members of the House now is 292, in
stead of 242, as under the old apportion
ment.
| SAN Francisco, Cal, Oct. Sl.-Won
| derfully rich Developments are reported
at the Belmont Mine. Nevada. The yielt
is reported $500 per ton. The mine il
| opeE to public inspection.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. Oct. 3I.-40t
workmen were discharged from the navy
yard to-day.
The yellow fever is disappearing from
Texan towrs.
Iowa has l,sls oranges of Patrons o
Husbandry
The Age establishment, the only Dcmo
cratic paper in Philadelphia, is adver
tised for sale.
The Constitutional Convention o
Pennsylvania, will submit its labors t,
the people, for vote, December 2.
Inquiry among the manufacturing con
Germs, at Hartford. Cohn. show tha
there will be no general discharge of la
| borers.
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