The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-15
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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TUESDAY, April 6.-Wilson, McLay &
Co, metal merchants, London, England, have
suspended, owing, it is stated, to difficulties
arising from their American contracts for
rails Their liabilities are estimated at &L,-
o000oo :. President Grant is reported
as having recently stated, in rela-
ton to the lately-reported outrages
OF bands of Mexieans in Texas, that
he could see no reason for apprehension Of
war between the two countries, but OF course
no one could tell what might be in the
future. Nothing however, would be done by
this Government TO provoke such a result
-. Mr. Beecher's direct examination was con-
tinued on the 5th. He reiterated his emphatic
denial of being the author Of the letter Of
contrition, or Of its expressions as reported
by Mr.. Moulton. He also denied the several
asseverations of both Messrs. Tilton and
Moulton that he had ever confessed even a
minor ofense in connection with Mrs. TiltOn.
Ingegard to the celebrated interview sworn
to hy Mr.. Tilton having occurred between
the witness and Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton, at which
Che paternity of one of Mr. Tilton's children
was IN question, Mr.. Beecher denied that any
such interview ever occurred, and pronounced
the story a "monstrous and absolute false
hooG 3. The latest returns from the election
inconnecticut indicate that Chas. R. Ingersoll
Dem is reelected Governor by about 1900
majority. The Congressman elected are:
First District, Geo. NJ. Landers, Dem; Second
Jgmes Phelps, DEM; Third, II. H. Stark
weather, Rep; Fourth, Wm- II. Barnum,
Dem State Legislature Democratic. P.
T. Barnum has been elected Mayor
OF Bridgeport. "A Yankton Cd. IT, dis
patch the 4th announces the ar
rival there of two men, named
Owens, direct from the Black Hills, bringing
with them several nuggets and particles Of
gold which they took out with an ak. Be-
coming satisfied that gold existed in paying
Quantities they left four of their number and
returned for provisions and tools -. A twelve
year-old boy, son of Jacob Welker, OF st.
Paris, Ohio, was recently fatally burned
by the explosion of a coal-oil can while he
was attempting to hurry up fire by
pouring oil upon it,. The case OF George
Q. Cannon, for polygamy, has been ap-
pealed by the prosecution to the Ter
ritorial Supreme Court, and bonds of
5000 given for his appearance. .Ac-
cording to a Detroit dispatch of the 5th
the Republican State ticket for Supreme
Court Judge and Regents of the State Uni
versity of Michigan had been elected by from
10000 to 1900 majority. -. The election in
Cincinnati has resulted in the success Of the
Democratic municipal ticket by majorities
ranging from 1000 to 5000, johnson, for
Mayor, receiving the heaviest vote.
"WEDNESDAY, April THE Rome cor
respondent of the Paris journal des Debdts
writes to that paper that the Pope will take
up his residence in the United States if it
should become impossible for him to remain
in Rome, and it was with view to such posi-
BILE emergency that Archbishop McCloskey was
elevated to the Cardinalate. :. The Governor
of New York has pardoned James w. Inger-
soil, sentenced in 1919 to five years imprison-
ment for forgery in the second degree. He
was tried in connection with the Tweed case
-. In his testimony on the 9th Mr.. Beecher
continued his denials OF the evidence of
Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, and gave his ex-
PLANTATION Of the letters which had passed be-
tween himself and Mrs. Tilton, denying that
tney i'~i any hidden meaning which would
warrant the construction put upon them by
the prosecution, and claiming that they re-
lated chiefly to Mrs. Tilton's domestic troubles
and the defendants sympathy for her her
pastor and friend. Unusually cold weather,
with light fall of snow, occurred in the
central portion of California on the 5th.
AT the recent election in Wisconsin
Edward G. Ryan was chosen Chief Justice
OF the Supreme Court without opposition.
THURSDAY, April S.-The bill to enable
Parliament has been refused second reading
in the British House of Commons by a vote
of 152 to 1S7. The Premier voted with the
minority. The Court of Claims at Wash
ington has recently decided that the power
vested in the President to pardon
crimes does not authorize him to restore
forfeited or eopiiseated property. :. Wash
lngton dispatches report the discovery of
numerous frauds upon the Postoffice Depart
ment in connection with mail-route bids. 1t
seems that some of the clerks of the depart
ment have been in the habit of informing
professional contractors of the lowest bids
after the time for receiving proposals had
expired, and then, by means of counter
feits OF official stamps, of substituting later
bids. 1t is said the department has lost moth
ing by these transactions, the substituted bids
being in all cases lower than those regularly
made....At :he recent election in Rhode
Island there were three candidates for
Governor and Lieutenant-Goyernor, and the
vote was so divided between them that no
choice resulted The remainder of the Re-
publican -tieket.for State officers is elected
by between 1000 and 1900. The candi-
dates for Governor were Henry L;ppitt, regu-
lar Republican; Rowland Hazard, independ-
ent Republicanand dProhibitionist, and Charles
K. Cutler, Democrat The choice for Gov
ernor will depend upon the complexion of
the Assembly, and will be between Hazard
and Lippitt. New York dispatches an
nounce general reduction in passenger rates
from the East to Western points g.. Addition
al strikes in the Pennsylvania mining regions
are reported. Such serious disturbances have
occurred in some sections that the troops have
been called on TO assist in putting down any
further outbreaks that may take place 80. p
7. Barnum, the great Snowman, has been
elected Mayorsof Bridgeport, Conn. John
Robinson, the wen known circus man, was
defsafed on the same day for the same office
in Cincinr sti. The municipal election in
st. Louis on the 9th resulted in the
@ u the C3nQlQate
(Barret0 for Mayor by plurality of
about 200. The balance of the Democratic
ticket was also elected, the majorities rang-
ing from 657 to. 5, 79s....A quantity of giant
powder stored in a frame building in San
Francisco exploded on the 7th, blowing up
number Of adjoining buildings and causing
the complete destruction of a bonded ware
house in the vicinity, the walls of which were
crushed in and the ruins set ON fire. Several
lives are reported lost
FRIDAY, April 9.-The German Gov
ernment has announced its intention to pros
ecIte the German subscribers to the Carlist
fund, on the ground that they were foment-
ing rebellion with a friendly power. /. :.
Alarming rumors prevailed in Berlin,
vienna Paris and Rome, which q
Berlin Ministerial journal says portend
war against Germany. -. All of the pro-
fcssors OF the Madrid SPAIN University who
protested against the recent reactionary edu-
cational laws have been arrested and expa-
triated. The lockout of iron-wor'1ers at
Pittsburgh, Pa, which had continued since
last fall, virtually ended OF the 7th, in favor of
the workingmen. Count Marefaschi arrived
in New York on the 7th from Europe, and
has made official announcement to Arch
bishop ~McCloskey that the Pope had
been pleased to confer on him the title and el-
evate him to the rank of Cardinal In his
direct examination on the Sth Mr. Beecher