The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-22
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed lren ielesrams Of Accompanying Dates.

TUESDAY, April 13.-The Humane So
eiety Of Boulogne has voted its gold medal
to Paul Boyton =. The Bessemer steamer
constructed to overcome the motion of the
sea has made satisfactory trip from Graves
Aend 10 Calais. Several warrants have
been. issued for the arrest of clerks
the POstoffice Department at Wash
ington implicated In the recently -dseov
cred frauds in that department. J.J. Kinds,
the contractor implicated, has given
bail. Two clerks who confessed their
participation in the frauds are held as
witnesses against persons who persist
IN denying their guilt 80. Treasurer
Spinner on the 18th received an
autograph letter from the President accept
ing his resignation as Treasurer OF the United
States and expressing for him warm senti-
ments Of regard, personally, and high ap-
Treciation ofhis probity, patriotism and official
Integrity. -. Chief Grain Inspector Harper,
o. Chicago, has been suspended from office by
GOV. Bcveridge because of certain alleged
discrepancies in his fiscal accounts. He has,
b. advice Of bis bondsmen and lawyer, re-
fused 20 yield up his books and assets A
Salt Lake dispatch states that the trial Of
John ID. Lee and w. II. Dame for con-
nection with the Mountain Meadow massacre
viii not take place the present term sf
court. They have been srraigned and
pleaded not guilty, their counsel asking for
immediate trial, but the prosecution was not
ready. The United States District Court at
Detroit, has sentenced Daniel Pratt, con-
victed of writing obscene matter on postal
cards, to the State Prison for two
end half years. The late Legis-
lature of Illinois passed and the Gov
=. ernor approved Of law making women
eligible to appointment as Notaries- Public ...
At the recent annual Mormon Church Con-
ference at Salt Lake Brigham Young was
reelected prophet, seer, revelator and
President. In his direct examination
on the 18th Mr.. Beecher denied in
detail each and every state ement con-
tanned in Mrs. Moulton's testimony
that referred to any admission or confession
on his part of the crime with which he is
charged. He said he never had any CONVEX
sation with that witness in which the alleged
crime the subject of discussion; she
never advised him to make a confession to
the church, and he never made threat to her
of suicide.
WEDNESDAY, April 14.-Advices re-
ceived in New York from South America
report that the Jesuit College at Buenos
J-Ayres has been burned by mob
headed by Spanish priest. Several
of the priests were wounded, three of them
fatally. The cholera has appeared in the
province of Dude, India ... Mr.. Beechers
direct examination was concluded on the
18th, the witness making a broad and
emphatic denial of ever having CON-
mitted, or proposed to commit, the crime
charged against him. Mr.. Fullerton then be-
gan the cross-eXamination. The condition
OF affairs in the mining regions of Pennsyl-
yania is said to be improving, and it is thought
that the strike is about over. The national
Industrial Congress met in indianapolis on
the 18th, twenty eight delegates being in at
tendance. Katie Hess, seventeeB year
old girl living about eight miles north of Kir-
by, Ohio, a few evenings ago hurried up the
fire in the cook-stove by pouring kerosene oil
upon it, when the inevitable explosion fol-
lowed, and she was so badly burned that she
died in about two hours. The building
and contents were entirely destroyed IA
young man named Fred Brandenburgh,
aged about eighteen years, was found DIVING
from starvation and exhaustion under a pile
of lumber, in San Francisco, on the morning
of the 18th. He stated before his death that
he crawlcd under the lumber nine DAYS before
Other lumber was piled around, stopping
his egrcss.
THURSDAY, April 15.-The Turks are
reported to have murdered nearly 300 Chris
tians in Roumelia and Bulgaria during the
last three months. -. The Carlists have lately
surprised Port Aspe, near Santander, and
carried off 200 prisoners and four pieces
of artillery. All the clerks in the Post
office Department implicated in the recent
mail contract frauds arc said to have
been dismissed by the Postmaster-G Gen
eral....A Wnkesbarre (Pa) dispatch
says the miners of the Lehigh Il Wilkesbarre
Company, of whom 10000 are idle, are fully
determined not to resume work unless their
demand for an advance of 10 per cent. is
granted. No outrages have been committed
by these men. Business is badly Frustrated
throughout the valley on account of
81 the long-eontinued strike The In
dustrial Congress in session at In
dianapolis has adopted a declaration of prin-
ciples, and has also unanimously passed res
olutions condcmning the lockout of the
men employed in the mining regions of
Pennsylvania, "by combination of six
e monster coal-mining and carrying corpora
tions, because unwilling to accept a reduc-
lion of so or 40 per cent of their wages,
for which reduction there is no real iustifica-
tion," and requesting all Orgarized bodies of
workingmen throughout the country to for
ward to the treasurer of the congress as gen
erous financial assistance as their eircum-
stances VIII permit, to be applied to the relief
OF victims of the alleged conspiracy on
the part of said companies -. The Lou
isiana Legislature met at noon on
the 18th, and was, says a New Orleans dis
patch of that date, the most orderly for many
years. The Conservative members were
sworn In. A resolution was adopted in the
House referring the claims of those who are
included in the award to the Committee on
Elections. Both parties seemed to accept the
award without opposition. Gov. Kellogg's
message was long aid elaborate
FRIDAY, April l6.-Tnere was a long
and exciting debate in the British House of
Commons on the 18th over Il petition praying
for the dismissal from the bench of those
e. Judges who sat in the Tichborne trials, on
i. the ground of partiality and corruption, and
fur the impeachment OF the Speaker
Of the House of Commons for SINH
lar reasons. On motion of the Premier the
petition was rejected. -. William j. Sharkey,
the convicted murderer who, some months
ago, escaped from the New York Tombs
prison, has been arrested in Cuba, and is in
irons at Havana, awaiting passage to New York
The Postofiice Department in Washington
Is said to be in receipt of information that
parties who have secured contracts for large
number of mail routes in the Western States
are Systematically offering to sublet them,
thereby assuming in effect the position of
m-l-route brokers. -. Owing to the ILL.,
- ness Of Mr.. Fullerton the Beech
er trial was, on the morning of the
10th, postponed until the 10Th. 80 The Tooth
anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for
the Abolition OF Slavery was held in Phila-
delphia on the l4th.. "A foot and half of
snow fell throughout New England on the
l4tf, obstructing the railroads The
Louisiana House of Representatives has
by a vote of 50 to Is accepted the Con-
gressional award according TO the terms of
the Wheeler compromise as q basis of set
tlement, ard the members unscated by this
award have retired. resolution has been
adopted-S9 rs Democrats and a Repub-
licans) to is rs Democrats and Republi-
ns-declaring that, without approving, the