The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-10-16

and Morets streets, about forty small
buildings. Loss, S5U.G00.
The directors .of the Union National
Bank. of St. Louis, have decided to go
into liquidation. The assets are said to
largely exceed the liabilities. and nobody
will lose anything. The cause of the ac-
ton is the stringeney of currency.
In New York. on Wednesday. the
Government obtained verdict of S25. 900
10 an action against Oscar King ami
| bondsmen. to secure the payment OF an
internal revenue tax of that amount.
Gen Mcclellan and family sailed for
Europe on Wednesday.
jeff Davis, who has been extremely i'll
| at the Gault House, in Louisville. for
some weeks, has recovered sufficiently to
drive out. He talks OF going to Europe
for his health this winter.
The following state ticket has been
nominated By the Liberals Of New York ;
Secretary of State, Diedrich Willers !;
Comptroller, n K. Hopkins: Attorney
General, D. Pratt; Treasurer. Thomas
II. Raines; Canal Commissioner, james
Jackson Enginneer, Syiyanus II. Sweet;
State Prison Inspector, ". Il. Plait.
Brigham Young has been reelected
President of the Church Of Latter day
SAINTS without dissent.
Snow fell on Tuesday in the Wasatch
Mountains
An Immense quantity OF bonds and
bullion is locked up in Salt Lake City,
| causing lack of currency.
At Crosse Point. ten miles north Of
| Chicago, on Tuesday night fire destroy
| ed the barn of John Henniss. together
with four COWS, two horses, and large
amount of grain and hay.
/ 4 fire at Grand Haven, on Wednes-
| day, destroyed the Rice House. The de-
| pot of the Detroit and Milwaukee Rail-
way had narrow escape.
An overland mail coach near Reddlng,
| California, was robbed on Friday by four
men. They got Wells Il Fargo's box,
| containing nearly 81 1000, and about
| $4,000 from the passengers. The robbers
escaped. 4 sheriff S posse is in pursuit.
Three deaths from yellow fever at
Montgomery, Ala, on Friday, last week.
A recount of the votes of San Francis
co for Treasurer, gives Hubert, Demo
crat, majority of SO votes over Bauer,
who was supposed to have been elected
a capsized schooner was picked up On
| Friday, near Fort Warren, Boston, and
| the body of woman found lashed to the
wreck 1t is supposed that all hands
perished
Telegrams from the weather observers
at Key West and Punta Rassa, Fla, say
that a very destructive cyclone swert
| over those stations on the 9th inst. At
Key West the wind reached a velocity Of
eighty miles per hour, and at Pun;a Ras-
sa ninety. At the latter the sea rose
| fourteen feet above noontide level, over
| flowing the land and washing away all
movable things The few inhabitants
of Punta Rassa were deprived of drink
ing water.
Santauta and Big Tree. the Kiowa
chiefs, have been released Oh condition
that their tribes cease their raids into
Texas
The corn crop in Illinois has suffered
but little damage by the recent frosts
Eight persons have been arrested IN
Boston on charge of circulating obscene
literature, and all but one have been
locked up in default of bail.
The fifth anniversary of Cuban indie
pendence vas celebrated in New Y ork on
Friday.
The journeymen tailors of Baltimore
are preparing for general strike.
The Cincinnati Banks. Co Monday. re-
sumed currency payments, with decidedly
satisfactory results, and general rejoicing
| among business men.
Eighteen Iowa savings banks have re-
ported to the State Auditor under re-
cent call, and twelve are yet to be heard
from. Those reported are all right.
A gentleman in St. Louis from North
ern Mexico, has developed grand scheme
for conquest and annexation OF Northern
Mexico to the United States.
N g oF
kansas met at Little Rock on Monday:
Samuel w. Williams was elected Grand
High Priest, and j. A Stoneton 1. l.
G. NJ. of the council of H. and 5. Nj.
The Evangelical Alliance was hospita-
bly, received at Philadelphia, Monday
night, and welcoming address made by
Henry Ward Beechef.
In Nashville, on Monday. r. NJ. Rich
ards. proprietor o the Academy of Music,
was shot aud killed by James Hagan.
and refused to marry her.
DIR. Downey, of Brooklyn, has com
menced libel sui. againt the New York
Tribune for $4,000. The article charged
that Downey, who was clerk to the
Health Board, was iE the habit Of ap-
propriating money to his own purposes.
The ship Isle. of Skye, was abandoned
by her crew and burned on the Atlantic
ocean during a recent hurricane.
A dispatch from New York asserts
that ex-Gov. Hoffman will probably be
nominated for Congress to succeed James
Brooks.
According to present advices the
amount of outstanding legal tender notes
is 1859, ,066.SS9.
A new dwelling house of John Phelps,
in course of erection at Pittsburgh, was
burned early Monday morning. Loss,
$50, 900; insurance, $4,000.
The President has caused an order to
to be issued from the War Department
giving full pardon to all deserters who
may return to duty on or before the lst
of January rext, and who may serve
faithfully during the remainder Of their
term of enlistment.
Coolbaugh's Union National Bank Of
Chicago has resumed business, the Comp
troller of the Currency having notified
the directors that they were free 10 re
sumo, as the vote of liquidation adopted
bv the bank was illegal, some OF the stock
having been voted by proxy, whereas the
law required in such cases that the voting
shall be by stockholders in person.
Two Thousand three hundred emigrants
arrived in New York on Monday.
The imports at New York last week
were 81 PIG, ,7O7, of which $5.l28,5s5
were merchandise, and s2,09l, III dry
goods.
Geo. A, Clark, son of ex- Mayor Clark,
of New York, cashier of the agent of the
Union Pacific Railroad here, is missing,
with $4,000 sold for tickets last month.
He hitherto bore an irreproaehable char
aoter, and it is supposed he has been
specializing in stocks.
The steamer Missouri, from Liverpool
for New Orleans was wrecked October l,
off the Bahamas. Tie passengers and
crew were all saved,
The National Bank Examiner feports
the loss to the Merchants National
Bank, al Lowell. by the defalcation OF
the cashier, at 63.70l, with a possible
liability Of S37. 900 more.
The body Of man named John Dekil
was found near Terre Haute. Saturday,
shot through the head. 1t seems he was
murdered for money a month ago.
The Cincinnati Clearing House Asso-
citation, Saturday afternoon, passed a
resolution that all the banks of the city
resume full currency payment on Monday
next,