The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-26

: Inter-Solonial Railway, now undor cor
: struction there, for considerable dis
tance, destroying the store=house, shar
: lies and other inffammable matter in il
, progress The loss, chiefly to raiiwa
contractors, is heavy.
Very destructive brush fires are ragin
throughoutthe country north and north
j | east OF Toronto. Reports from Aurora
Fenton Falls and Other towns. GOVERN.
D a stretch of over sixty miles, state tha
Y thousands of acres of timber, togethe
with the crops, fences, farm houses
a barns, etc. are being swept away
. Vegetation is suffering greatly, owing to
!, the dry ness of the season.
, Joseph Barnes, a brakeman. was kill
8 ed by the cars, near Webster, Ohio, OF
| SATURDAY.
t Two deaths from yellow fever are re-
: ported on the brig Tubalcain, while on 8
r trID from Matamaras for New York.
r Ihe hrst case of genuine Asiatic chol
era IN Washington, occurred Saturday
) the victim being colored woman.
Two men robbed the house of Mr.
O'Donnell at Sidney Station, Neb, Fri
day, and shot Mrs O'Donnell. The
robbers were pursued, and both killed.
The New Orleans Picayune, has beer
muleted of 81. 500 in a libel suit. Two
OF the Jerors afterwards admitted that
they had been bribed
/ DIR. y. H. White business manager
OF the Davenport Gazette and president
OF The Northwestern Associated Press,
died very suddenly at bis residence ir
Davenport. Iowa, of apoplexy.
An exciting little fghtoccurred on Fri
day, at Chillicothe. Mo. between the
clslzens and an organized band of des
peradoes, who attempted to rob the Peo-
pie Savings Bank. One of the desper-
ADDE'S was killed, aud two citizens slight
ly wounded.
The next trial of Edward s. Stokes
will take place in October.
Fourteen deaths from disease classed
as cholera occurred at Cincinnati on Sat
urday.
A witness in the Polaris investigation
| testified that Buddington said that
Halls death had lifted a great load
from his heart
A tornado passed over Chicago, Sunday
| evening, blowing down derricks, tearing
up wooden sidewalks, unroofing barns,
outhouses, etc. The most serious single
loss was the unrooEng and partial de-
molitlon of st. Anejan's Church (Swe
dish), on Chicago avenue, near Sedgwick
street. The church was not finished,
and the windows on the south side, from
which direction the storm came. were not
In. Loss estimated at $1,000. Two
pleasure yachts, one having fourteen and
the other nine persons on board, were
capsized during the storm off Lincoln
Park. They were fortunately near shore
and all were saved.
A aolte prOsequi has been entered by
the United States District Attorney in
the. case OF the fourteen women indicted
with Miss Anthony for illegal voting.
-Four cases of yellow fever are reported
in Brooklyn
The steamer Tigress will sail on the 4th
or 5th of July. on her cruise to search
for the Polaris
The Huron Salt and Lumber Co. Is
works at Salisbury. near Bay City. were
entirely destroyed by fire at midnia ht,
Saturday. together with 1900 barrels oi
salt and million and half feet of lum.
Der. Loss 1925, 5,0OO-amount of insur-
snce unknown. The property was owned
by Smith and Co., of Chicago. excepting
the lumber, which was owned by Detroit
parties.
The American Hotel and Phelps House,
at Morris, Livingstone county, n. Y,
were destroyed by an incendiary fire on
Sunday. Loss ,OOO-partially insur-
i ed.
A FIRE at Petaluma, CAL, on Sunday,
destroyed the American Hotel, saloon
and stable. Loss $75. 900.
Charles Harkness & Co.'S lard oil and
candle factory, in Cincinnati, was burned
on Sunday. Loss $IOO, 0OO-insurance
+! $4,000.
The fire at Pottsville, Pa. on Friday,
destroyed thirty four houses Loss
$12O, 900; insurance $3O,0OO.
An extensive fire has ragged in the
woods twelve miles from Pottsville, Pa,
for several days past. On Saturday the
| flames made terrific shot over the Ma.
honing Mountain aud fell on Gilberton
DESTROYING twenty-five houses belongin Q
to the Hickory Coal Company, and turn.
ing over thirty families out without shell
ter. The fire spread with such rapidity
that the occupants could not save theiI
furniture. Loss estimated at $50 900.
| In New York. on Saturday, the entire
family of Hon. John j. Blair was pros
trated with mysterious illness. bat ow
ing to the administration of promp
remedies. are now out of danger.
The Government revenue tug Jesmine
was seriously csippled in New York har
Dor on Saturday, by collision with the
steamer Harlem.
Another illicit whisky distiIlery wa.
yacht Nancy. of Green Point, was rur
down Sunday evening by a Roosevelt
street ferryboat. Four of her crew were
rescued, but two men were drowned.
-Four more bodies have been recovered
from the Atlantic wreck.
The mortality from cholera in Nash
vile. on Sunday was SO, against s.
Saturday.
A fire at Milton, Canada, on Saturda,
night, destroyed Peacock's Hotel anee
stables. Two men were burned to death
The fire in the vicinity of Gilberts
town, Pa, Sunday night, continued t,
spread, but has left the railway, anl
: gone into the mountains, where 1ittl
damage can be done, the coal breaker
being lower down the valley.
Carrie, the daughter of Robert Ever
son, OF Plymouth, Mich, was killed OF
Saturday by the explosion of kerosene
with which she was urging fire. He
father, in endeavoring to save the girl
was burned fatally, and the mother wa
severely injured and Will probably los
her arm.
FrAk Roberts and Elijah Montgom
cry quarrelled over game of cards in ,
Cincinnati saloon. Elijah fracturet
Frankie ekuH, and escaped
Five deaths from cholera were report
ed at the Cincinnati health Office OF
i. Monday. Advices from Portsmouth
state that on the same day negro deck
hand on the steamer Potomac died @
cholera
The foundry of G. P. Simons & Bros.
: in Cambridge, Ohio, was destroyed b
fire on Monday. Loss $31 200.
Evansville, Ind, reports about thi1
teen cases of cholera in the last tw
: weeks.
A cage fell at the Eureka Company
mine, Nevada, Monday, distance @
: 200 feet. Its two occupants were killed
Eight interments from cholera q
9 Memphis on Monday. The weather wa
hot and dry, and the disease is rapid
, abating.
The steamer Telegraph sunk in th
q Ohio, near Portsmouth, but was subse
9 quently raised, and went ON her way re
= joicing.
A tobacco warehouse in North Covine
, ton KY, containing 500 hhds of tobacco
was burned Monday. Loss $50, 600.
t Nashville had 81 deaths from choler
> ON Monday, against 50 on Sunday. O
these 20 were colored.