The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-28
NEWS.

VAsoUEz, the California bandit, is to
be hanged be the 18th of March.
The people of Tibet salute each other
by putting out their tongues and scratch
ING the lett ear.
FoR her reading at Elizabeth q. J. J
last week, Miss Cushman received Ss446,
or about four dollars minute.
A sister of Anna Dickinson Is in the
lecture field. She spoke at Scranton,
Pa, Tuesday evening.
A HEAVY earthquake shock was expe-
rienced in Bulle' Plumas and Sierra
counties, California, Sunday morning.
[ SAID Happy New Year to the judge,
SAYS rufian In Charivari. ''And did
he give younothing?' ''Yes-fve years. "
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is in favor of
self-government for women, OF the want
of which the other Elizabeth IS frlg ht-
full example.
THEY tell of a judge in Washington
who is so small he never takes bath
without the fear of being drawn through
the waste pipe.
AS result of the Presidential sugges-
ton for the restoration of the tax on
tea and coffee, the Congressional mail
bags are filled with protests.
FREDERICK SEWARD is attracting much
attention in the New, York Legislature by
his speeches, which are delivered with a
finished grace Of manner.
Two Shsrpers from the vicinity of
Manitowoc were arrested Wednesday for
swindlirg Mr.. Stephen and Mr.. Kennedy
out of their teams.
Mrs. WIZ. STEELE. of Arkansas, Pepin
county, met with quite singular acct
dent recently. While hopping the
floor she slipped in some manner and
fell, breaking four of her ribs.
SEVENTEEN skunks were taken out Of
one hole, eight out of another, and
eleven out of another, in the town of
Grand Chute, Outagamle county, re-
Gently.
AT Fort Garry about 1000 gallons of
coal oil from the United States, the
property of Winnipeg merchants, has
been confiscated, having failed to stand
the test required by law.
THE Congregational Church Society
of Appleton will try the free pew system
for the coming year, relying upon free
contributions for the support of their
pastor and other expenses.
IT is a nice thing to see a chance to
edge in awful profanity properly. Per-
kins, not Eli, of the Cincinnati Times, is
the one to remark that Bulwer M. Helf-
man, who was arrested In Kansas City
for having two wives, must be a Hoffman.
The ice in the Ohio River, at Cincin-
natl, gave way on Sunday, carrying away
q fleet of coal barges owned by Mr.. Dag
gett, each of which was laden with s.
600 bushels of coal. Three were sunk.
Two empty barges were also sunk.
THE Waushara Argus says s'The
lawyers took 81 200 of the 81, 600 left by
legacy to our neighbors j. X. and G. "
Jones, leaving them about $500 each.
How much better is to be q lawyer than
to have rich relatives p
THE English steamer Mongol, of the
London, New York and China Steam
ship Company, lost on the Ninepins,
twenty miles from Hong Kong. The
captain and wife, first and fourth officers
and second and third engineers, were
lost.
BISHOP elect Leighton Coleman
preached at Fond du Lac on Sunday.
In the town of Buchanan, Outagamie
county, on Tuesday last, a young man
named Duit, while, chopping in the
woods, was struck by falling tree and
literally crushed to death.
THE Green Bay Gazette states that
during Friday night the mill owned by
n. G. Foster, at Oswego, was totally
destroyed by fire. The loss is placed in
the neighborhood of $4,000. There
was an INSURANCE. of $1,000 on the prop
erty.
THE man from whom Miss Grace
Plummer, of Newark, n. j., got S., 1000
for ''hugging her on the SOFA for six
teen months, was an undertaken, and
her friends congratulate her on robbing
graveyard.
A SAD accident occurred at the
Green Bay Junction, at Merrillon, last
Thursday. T. Bacon, brakeman, was
walking along ahead Eof the locomotive
in order to couple, when his foot caught
in the frog. Before he could get it loose
the locomotive was upon him. smashing
his leg to a Jelly up to his thigh. DIR.
II. 3. Cole, of this place, was immedia-
tely telegraphed for. He went up and
anputated his leg and made the sufferer
as comfortable as possible next morn
ing the poor fellow died Mr.. Bacon
was a young man of steady habits. He
leaves q wife at Grand Rapids and one
child to mourn his untime,y death.
THE following fish story is told by
the Kewaunee Enterprise in its last