The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-10
NEWS.

THE President will shortly return to
Washington for the winter.
THE rumor that Spain would cede
Porto Rico to Germany is strongly denied.
Steele, Democrat, has been reelected
delegate to Congress from Wyoming Ter
ritory.
MolLRATH, ex-auditor of the state of
Minnesota, las been proven defaulter
| to the tune of 100000.
A NUMBER Of Swedish laborers are in
camp on the hills back Of Grand Haven
in starving condition.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to shat down
the Pennsylvania oil refneries for 80
days, in order to establish better prices.
The Lodi Valley News nominates Sen,
ator Howe for President in 1875, and
Hon David Atwood for governor in
1875.
A BRUTE in New York was arrested
Tuesday for selling his daughter, Is
years old, to the keeper of house Of i'll
| fame.
For THE first time in many years, Tues
day all Geographic communication was
interrupted with Europe, as neither the
English nor the French cables worked.
| The work of laying the new direct ca
BILE from the Irish to the American coast
has commenced, and nearly 400 miles
have been paid out.
A GIRL named Phoebe Fields was re-
peatedly outraged by four young roughs,
IN a cemetery near Boone, Iowa. on
Friday evening, and now lies at the point
Of death.
A New York dentist has sued Miss
Agnes Ethel, the actress. for $1O25, for
filing four teeth. Great Caesar! What
would that man charge for filing the en-
tire six sets of shark
THE yellow fever has already appeared
at several OF the Gulf ports, and the sec
rotary Of the treasury has issued circui-
ar directing the qurantining Of all infect
ed ports.
AT A Mass meeting of the citizens of
Maury County, Tenn, held at Columbia
resolutions were adopted deEouncing in
strong terms the lawless outrages recent
ly committed in that State.
CHAs. JOHNSON, a retired business
man, had his pocket picked of $l5, 900 in
United States and RAILROAD bonds. while
viewing the menagcrle Ia Central Park,
n. I. On Sunday.
JOHN CLINE fell into the shaft Of
coal mine 200 feet deep, at La Sale Cen
tire, H., on Saturday, but at the deuth
of 40 feet managed to grasp the iron Ca
BILE of the car, and thus saved his life.
MoKoLUMNE HILL, which was totally
destroyed by fire Sept. 4th, is the CAPT
tai and most important city of Calaveras
county, California. and Is located about
sixty miles southeast of Sacramento. It
has population of about 500.
The buildings of the New Haven
Wheel Company, Conn, we're. burned
Monday night. There were 5 buildings
DESTROYED, with very heavy stock, and
$50 hands are thrown out of EN- ployment.
The loss is estimated. from 1886, 900 to
$5UO,OO0.
A DEMOCRATIC conve ntion, national
In It's character, is proposed for the lur-
pose of disavowing any sympathy for the
perpetrators of outrages on the negroes |
at the south. When party finds it
necessary to disavow sympathy with muir,
derers, it confesses to reputation that
is not beyond reproach.
A LONDON dispatch says members of !
the Austrian Polar Expedition, tor whose
safety fears were felt, have been heard
from. They were shipwrecked and took
to sleighs, in which they succeeded. after
long journey, 10 reaching the Norwe-
gian island of Wardoe. They penetrated |
to the SD degree Of north latitude.
A STATEMENT is published that the |
German house at Leipsic, which is pub
fishing translation of the first volume of |
Beecher's Life of Christ" has discon-
tinued the publication, and offers for
sale at actual cost all on hand, in conse-
quence of the disreputable disclosures