The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-08
VOL. XVI.-NO. 35.

FRIDAY, April IA great financial
crisis is reported in Berlin. There have been
twenty eight failures and several suicides in
consequence Of financial reverses .. The
Uruguayan Chambers have passed decree
suspending payment Of interest on the
public debt and providing for its redemption
by the issue OF new paper at a forced price.
ihe foreign representatives have protested,
and the situation is considered serious
John c. New, who is to succeed Mr.. Spinner
as Treasurer Of the United States, is said to
be hard money man. Several riots are re-
ported in different mining localities in
Pennsylvania, and in some instances
the disturbances have resulted in the
loss of life. Gov. Hartranft is taking
active measures to put a stop to the
outbreaks. Mr.. Redpath was cross examined
on the lst, and stated that in an interview he
had with Mr.. Beecher the latter did not deny
that he had given Mr.. Tilton cause for offense.
When asked if, in all his conversations with
witness, Mr.. Beecher had denied the commits
sion Of the crime with which he is char ged,
witness answered that he did not ask him
(Bcecher) about it. Mr. Beecher was the next
had conscientious scruples against swearing
on the Bible, and was sworn by the uplifted
hand. He then began his evidence, in answer
to questions By his counsel, giving a detailed
history Of his life and his acquaintance with
Messrs. Bowen, Tilton and Moulton down to
about the year 1870. His evidence for the day
closed with statement Of an interview had
by witness and his wife with Mrs. Tilton and
Mr.. Morse, at Mrs. Tilton's residence, and at
her Mrs. T.'s) request, on which occasion
Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse spoke of the
domestic difficulties in Mr.. Tilton's family,
and the result of which was that he (witness)
concided with the views of Mr.. Beecher that
a separation between Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton
would be the wisest course for them TO pur-
sue.
SATURDAY, April 3.-A Berlin dispatch
states that eighty eeclesiastics have been i'm
prisoned in Posen alone, and that Papal
delegate who had been administering the
Archbishopric of Posen since the incarcera-
ton of the incumbent has been arrested -.
Schichken, the Russian diplomatic agent
in Servia, has been appointed Minister of
Russia to the United States .. The ice at Bay
de Noquet, on the upper Michigan shore of
Lake Michigan, is said to be five feet and one
inch thick, by actual measurement. :. George
Reynolds, a Mormon, on trial at Salt
Lake City for polygamy, has been
found guilty by jury composed of both
Mormons and Mormons. A motion to
set aside the verdict for the reason that the
defendant had never been arraigned and
asked to plead, and never had the indictment
read to him, was granted, after which the
defense waived new trial, with view of
taking the case to the Supreme Court. In
the case of George Q. Cannon, on the same
charge, the defendant plead the statute of
limitation, demurrer to which was over
ruled, and the defendant was discharged -.
In his testimony on the I'd Mr.. Beecher
emphatically denied any and all charges of
either criminal conduct or intent on his part
in his relations with Mrs. Tilton at any time.
He reiterated his statements made before the
Church Investigating Committee. He fatty
the evidence of Messrs. Tilton
and Moultou with regard to the confessions
of criminal conduct they alleged he had
made. He asserted that the letter of contri-
ton which he signed was written by Mr.
der great excitement caused by his feeling
that perhaps he might have been uninten-
tionally led into doing Mr. Tilton an injustice
by listening and subscribing to the reports in
circulation against him (Tilton) at the time
of his difficulties with Mr.. Bowen. He fur
ther said that Mr.. Moulton suggested to him
(witness) that Mrs. Tilton had allowed her
affections to be alienated from her
husband and to center upon witness;
and it was this assertion on the part of Mr.
Moulton, together with the fact that Mr. NJ.
emphatically pronounced false many of the
scandaious reports afloat against Mr.. Tilton's
moral character, that led him (witness) to ex-
press himself in a contrite manner for having
contributed to Mr.. Tflton's
sorrow at that time. Witness denied
reading or having read to him on that ocea-
sion the memorandum of his remarks made
by aIr. Moulton, and which he signed at Mr..
Ms request as being the better way of show
ing to Mr.. Tilton that he (witness) entertained
no unfriendly feelings or feelings of enmity
toward him.
MONDAY, April Sit is reported that
the Carlist Gen. Saballa has had an interview
with Gen. Gampas at Olot, under flag of
truce, with the view of seeking terms for the
transfer of his allegiance from Don Carlos to
King Alphonso. One hundred and eighty
Carlst officers are said to have given in their
adhesion to the latter, and the Carlist army
has been largely thinned by assertions. IA
Washington dispatch says the Mexican
Government will soon have brought to
its attention by the Department OF State
the enormity of the otfense recently com
mitted by invading Mexicans on the Texas
border, with such demands for reparation as
will satisfy our national honor. -. Owing to
the illness OF Henry NJ. Cleveland, formerly
manager OF the Christian Union, it was nee
essary that his testimony in the Beecher
trial should be taken at his residence, and
his evidence was begun on the second. 1t
is reported that he testified that Mr.. Beecher
was in the Office of the Union on the I'd of
June, 1878, between eleven and twelve o'clock
of that day. That is the date on which Mrs.
Moulton, in her testimony, alleges Mr..
Beechcr was at her house for three or four
hours and talked of suicide, and when she
advised him to confess to Plymouth Church
According to a New Orleans dispatch ofthe
4th the Senatorial excursion to Mexico has
broken up, several of the party having de-
cided at New Orleans TO go no further,
while a few will proceed to Vera
Cruz by the regular mail steamer and
as private travellers. Adyices from Wash
ington, fear of the yellow fever and
the illness of Mrs. Morton are among
the causes alleged for change of pro-
gramme. About 1880 on the morning Of
the 4th the Chicago express train collided
with the Pacific express train on the Chicago,
Burlington Il Quincy Railroad, near Tyrone,
Iowa. Both engines and several cars were de-
molished. ii. L. Miller, conductor; G. NJ
Pickle, fireman, and W. A. Gardner, express
messenger, were instantly killed, and several
other train employees were injured, some
fatally. One passenger was reported killed
and several wounded. The accident is said
to have been caused by the telegraph operator
at Tyrone neglecting his instructions to hold
the Chicago bound train until the other train
had passed that point
THE MARKETS.
APRIL 8, 1875.
NEW YORK
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