The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-02-25
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Ceraenssa from 1elenans Of Accompanying Dates

buding no French statesman willing to under
take the formation of new Cabinet during
tho pendency Of these bills, requested the cd
Cabinet TO continue until some one can be
found. "A telegram from Singapore reports
a revolt Of Chinese prisoners in the Jail there
which was not repressed until sixty seven
persons had been killed, including sixteen
wardens Great Britain has recognized
the new King of Spain. 80. The
Secretary OF War has directed that
the recent general order providing for fur
nishing supplies to grasshopper sufferers in
the West shall be carried out with the ut
most dispatch. b.. The Pacific Mail Directors
have approved the action of Rufus Hatch
in ordering the institution of suits
against those parties alleged to have
received subsidy money. About thirty
persons will be involved. The Kansas Leg
isiature has passed IN to loan destitute
counties in the State S95, 900 for six years,
without interest. Hon. ". L. Dunlap, the
rweD known agricultural and horticultural
writer over the signature of Rural" died
recently at his home in Champaign, H., aged
about sixty years. .s-.-r
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17.-John Mitchell
has been returned TO the British Parliament
from Tipperary without opposition, and DR..
kenealy, the counsel for the Tichborne
claimant, has been elected from stoke-on-
Trent by 1000 majority. .... The Connecticut
Democratic State Convention renominated,
by acclamation, the old ticket, headed
by Gov. Charles r. Ingersoll. The resolutions
adopted favor hard money and oppose Federal
Executive interference in the States of Lou
= AL, n
Federal taxation at a time when the industry
OF the country is so greatly depressed.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Mellott, of McConnells-
burg, Pa, went away from home on a visit
on the 10th, leaving three children locked in
the house. On theh return few hours after
ward they found the bones of the children in
the ruins Of the house, which had burned
down during their absence -. The National
Grange adjourned on the 10th, after instruct
ing the Executive Committee TO make
arrangements for holding the next ses-
son at Chicago, providing the expense TO
the eGrange does not exceed the expense Of
meeting In st. Louis. Among other resolu-
lions adopted was one indorsing and recon-.
mending the resolutions adopted at the At
lanta Agricultural Congress last May, which
resolutions ask for the construction by the
National Government of system of water
ways so that unrestricted channels of trade
shall be opened, and not only brought the
entire length of the Mississippi but connect
ing that great river with the Atlantic Ocean
hs way OF the lakes by the Ohio, Kanawha
and James. and by the Tennessee and Savan-
nah Rivers.
THURSDAY, Feb. 19.-A young la
boring man committed suicide in Wash
ington on the nth by jumping from
the dome Of the Capitol. He fell over $50
feet and was instantly killed. In the
Beecher trial. on the 10th, Mr.. Tll.on left
the witness stand temporarily to give
place to a witness named Catherine Cary,
formerly a nurse in the PLAINTIFF f mily, who
had been subpHnaed by the prosecution
and was in waiting 10 give her evidence She
testified to having seen Mr.. Beecher go into
Mrs. Titon's bedroom on several occasions,
and to having seen the latter sitting on
the lap Of the former in the back par
Tor. After this evidence was given Mr..
Tilton resumed the witness stand On the
17th, just at the close of the proceedings for
the day, one of the jurors was taken suddenly
sick and was sent home in charge OF two
court ofiicers....A war having broken out
between the Baltimore Il Ohio and the Penn.
sylyania Railroad Companies the former has
made great reduction in passenger
fares between the East and West. .. The
Illinois State Board of Agriculture has
located the State Fair for the next two years
at Ottawa. Miss Doyle, a young lady of
indianapolis, was fatally burned on the 10th,
while pouring eoal-o over a sluggish fire.
At West Jefferson, Ohio, on the l7th, small
child of William Stratton upset a coal oil
lamp. Mrs. s. picked up the lamp, when il
> exploded in her hand, and she was fatally
burned. F..-- ....-
FRIDAY, Feb. 10.-The English Parlia-
ment has adopted resolution declaring John
Mitchell, the newly elected member from
Tipperary, ineligible on the ground that he is
q convicted felon - The President has
Issued a proclamation. convening the
Senate in extraordinary session on the
5th of March, to act upon such
communications as may be made to it On the
part of the Executive. The Democratic
members OF Congress from the South and
Southwest have issued an address to the
people of the South, which concludes with
an appeal to them "for continued for
bearance and hopeful reliance upon
the virtue and the sense of justice of the
American people for the ultimate vindication
of our rights, the protection of our liberties,
and the safety of our republican form of
p government" -. The West Virginia Legisla-
tltre has elected Allen I. Caperton (Demoerat)
TO the United States Senate.
SATURDAY, Feb 20.-A match factory
at Gottenburg, Sweden, crowded with work
ing people, was burned on the 18th and fifty.
one lives are reported lCst....A fire in Port
au Prince, Hayti, on the night of the l1tll
burned two-thirds Of the city, involving loss
of Property valued ut g., ,0o0, 900, and render
ing 400 families homeless. The fire is thought
TO hare originated froL, the explosion of a
barrel of kerosene :. The examination OF
Mr.. Tilton was concluded ON the 18th,
and four other witnesses were called
to the stand-Geo. A. Bell, ex-Dea-
con OF Plymouth Church; Joseph II. Rich.
ards, brother of Mrs. Tiltou; Mr.
Braisher and Mr.. Robinson, Mr.. Moulton's
= business partner. Mrs. F. d. Moulten was
on the witness stand on the 10TH. The
testimony Of these witnesses mainly cor.
roborated and in some respects added to the
testimony OF Messrs M0ulton and Tilton
whose evidence was n reiteration in detail OF
their previously-published statements :.
ConSressman-elee William s. King, of Min
nesota, has written lengthy letter to III,
Legislature of his State in relation to the join
resolutions passed by that body calling OF
him 10 appear before the Congressional Com
mittee and explain his connection with tn,
Pacific Mal subsidy business or to resigr
as Representative. He characterizes the reso
. luton as very extraordinary and pronounces
false the charge that he had accepted
money as consideration for his ser
vices in behalf of the Subsidy bill
and emphatically asserts, as he says hs
stated under oath two years ago. that ht
never accepted nor received dollar in con
sideration of such service, aud that not ont
dollar of the money received by him was eve
intended or applied TO influence a vote OF
such bill. The Minnesota Legislature ha
elected 5. j. Il. Mcmillan (Republican, an,
Chief-Iustiee of2,he State Supreme Court u
succeed Mr. Ramsey in the United State
Senate The successful ballot was: Nc Mil
an, So; f.ochren Dem J, 6l. On the 18th
negro WAS admitted into the senior class o
theSBoys' Hgh School in New Orleans. Twen
ty out Of twenty two in the class left tn,
school Immediately. No disturbance.
MONDAY, Feb. 90 Spain has agreed
10 pay So ,ose indemnity for the virginius al