The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-09-25
HOME NEWS.

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HOME NEWS.
The building of the bridge across the
Missouri River, at Atchison, Kansas, was
commenced Tuesday.
A run on the German Savings Bank,
at Leavenw orth, Kan. exhausted It's avail
able funds, and its doors were closed.
A regular line of packets has been es-
tablished between Liverpool and Brazos
de Santiago, Texas.
S. j. Tilden, Of New York, at present
sojourning in Vienna, has written letter
to Johu Kelly, resigning the Chairman
ship of the State Central Democratic
Committee Of New York
On Tuesday afternoon, Prof. King, ac-
companied by four newspaper correspon-
dents, made balloon ascension at Buffa-
10. The party expect to make the longest
inland voyage ever made, providing the
weather will admit.
The Rio Grande has overfowed its
banks, and the upper country is inundat-
ed. There is an almost unbroken sheet
OF water from Brownsville to the Gulf.
The corn crop is destroyed. The Rio
Grande and Point Isabel Railroad track
is washed away for over six miles.
From report just issued it appears
the American Bible Society consists of
1,125 life directors and 4,20O life mem
bers. The receipts for the last fiscal year
were S737,S3l, of which $40, 7S9 remain
unexpended. During the fifty seven
years of its existence it has published
90. .9S2, PIP volumes in thirty seven dia-
lects and languages.
A special from Fort Garry says tGor-
don Gordon, who fled from Fort Garry
for the Rocky Mountains, some weeks
ago, has been captured 500 miles west
by Manitoba detective, and His Lord
ship now finds himself behind the bars
in Winnipeg"
Bloomfield & Moore paper warehouse
in Philadelphia was Aamaged by fire to
| the extent of $40, QUO on Thursday cve-
ming.
A railway collision occurred near Co.
lumbia, S. c., Wednesday, smashing
both engines, killing two men, and I'M ur
ing three others.
James English, William Spikes, alias
Henry Davis, John Radford and Geo.
Harrington, were arrested Tuesday eve
ming on board canal boat, in New Y York,
while counterfeiting three and five cent
pieces. 4 large quantity ofspurious coin
moulds, &c, were captured. English
and Spikes have each served five years
in Sing Sing prison for counterfeltlng.
| Steamer Tuscorora sailed from Victoria
Wednesday for Cape Flattery, to COM
mence soundings for the cable to Japan.
| A railroad war, consisting of tearing
up each others track, is going on In
| 10 hot n Co nd
the Boston, Maine and Grand Trunk
Roads.
The Mississippi Democratic Conven>
ton, on Wednesday. resolved that it was
inexpedient to nominate State ticket,
and will probably endorse the Alcorn
movement.
A fire at Manistee, Mich, "Wednesday
afternoon, destroyed the business places
of Gardner and Bixly, jewellers Russell
Bros, harness dealers Jas. Comerhill
harness dealer 2. johnson, shoemaker
VIM. Baer, tailor; j. Burdick, barber.
Insurance $l2, 900.
A misplaced switch threw the New
York express train, on the Great Western
Railway, from the track at Stony Greek
Canada, Wednesday morning. The engine
was overturned, and the driver and fire
man badly injured. Two baggage cars
| and one coach were burned The bagg
age was saved.
A check forger secured Sc, 500 in Louis
vile, on Tuesday.
A convention of life insurance compa
nies is in session in Boston.
The Grand Lodge of /. O. O. T. a
Baltimore has donated the balance of the
Southern relief fund remaining at hanc
for the relief of the Shreveport sufferers
Fred. Douglass delivered one of the
ablest speeches Of his life to an audience
of 6,OOO or 1000 at the fair grounds oi
the colored people al Nashville, Thurs
day
The results of the survey of eastern
Arizona are perfectly wonderful. A coun
try is discovered with magnificent parks,
streams and woods far exceeding any in
Colorado.
Henry Weis, of Minneola, beats them
all on wheat thus far. He has this sea-
son raised and threshed from forty acres
of land two thousand one hundred bushels
of the Fife variety. This. it will be seen,
is yield of thirty five bushels to the
| acre.
VIM. NJ. Evarts made strong argu,
ment for the defence in the Credit Mo-
bilier suits at Hartford, Thursday, in
which he said that this suit is brought
under authority of the fourth section of
the appropriation act, passed by an ex-
piring Congress, agitated with its own
reputation.
Among the noticeable freight leaving
Omaha Wednesday for the east, were
fifteen car loads of bullion weighing over
10000 pounds. and three cars of Cali
fornia salmon.
Tho Soorataru IF tb,a Navv 4
ed telegran from Consul Mulberg, an
nouneiug that the Polaris party was at
| Dundee, and all well. The Juniata left
| United States Consul had hired fast
steamer for forty-eight hours. to catch
her, intending to go himself in the
steamer.
The estimates of the War Department
will be finished in few days, and sent to
the Treasury department. They will be
about the same as last year, excepting
an additional appropriation of 81, ,50O.-
| 600 for new and improved armament for
seacoast fortifcatlons. which will be sub
mitted to the consideration of Congress
by the Secretary of War; Congress has
for some years past made appropriations
for the improvement of our seacoast for
tifeations, but nothing has been done
thus far toward furnishing them with i'm
proved modern armament.
Eight years ago, Rachel Ford, of Chari-
ton. Iowa. then child, jumped the rope
some two hundred times. bringing on an
Illness from which she never recovered,
and died after years of great suffering, on
the 5th Of September
The hearing in the Credit Mobilier
ca ses. at Hartford, CT. Is cIosed for the