The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-05-20

THEY claim to have grasshoppers III
| Shawano County.
leg half an inch thick formed at Mad
ison, on Sunday.
TIE recent rise in Black river will
bring down nearly all of the logs.
| PARTIES are continually arriving at
! CHEYENNE. who intend going TO the Black
Hills as soon as the government per
mits
AT Dwight, H., Sunday morning,
people had to break the ice in the open
air troughs before their cattle and horses
! could drink.
NEARLY 200 sturgeon, weighing from
/ 25 to go pounds, were caught as Oshkosh
on Sunday. Anglers have had g great
| time.
GEN. W. W. ROBINSON, formerly Col
onel OF the Sixth Wisconsin, is IN Wis
consin. He has been appointed Consul
to Madagascar.
BEssLdER's swinging saloon steamer
has been thrown up as d wretched fail
ure. The crossing Of the Channel must
ever remain a sick transit.
The Troy Press announces new style
of stationery, the Beecher note-paper,
with a ragged edge. Whatever the writer
puts upon it will mean something else.
THE residence of Claus Tiediens, OF
New HoIstein, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday last Cause OF the fire I'M
known. Loss nearly covered by insur-
ance.
A STEAM scow, owned by Fisher & Bro.
and loaded with stone, SINK in the lock
at Menasha, Wis, on Saturday. The
| hands, who were asleep below deck, mar
rowly escaped drowning.
A PARTY of Black Hills adventurers,
consisting of forty-two men and six
wagons, has been captured by detach-
ment of troops and taken to Fort
randall as prisoners, to be held until
instructions are received concerning their
treatment.
SUNDAY night two mercantile travellers
leaving Chicago on the 10 o'clock train
over the Burlington and Quincy Railroad
were knocked from the platform Of the
cars by two roughs as the train was leav-
ing the city. They found themselves in
the hands of a half dozen thieves, and
were robbed of everything they had.
AT Grand Blanc. on the Flint and
Pere Marquette Railway, Thursday eve
ming, freight train was standing on the
track, and lady sixty years old, named
Boyden, attempted to cross between two
cars, when the train started, and run
ming over her crushed her to a Jelly.
THE papers and documents relating to
the whiskey frauds have been turned
over to Commissioner Pratt and Solici-
+o, Wilson, ooaptr boua c,Ih-
mitted further damaging statements
against the whiskey ring. It is expected
that important revenue changes will soon
be made in the West.
THE charter of the steamer John Sher-
man to ply between Sheboygan and
Ludington, is made for five years, at
$500 per day. She is TO make q round
trip daily. The w. r. Clinton will
probably take the Sherman S place on the
Saginaw and Alpena route. The Sher-
man Will leave for Lake Michigan next
Sunday.
On Monday the wegians of Maids
on celebrated the si1ty-frst anniversa-
ry of the independence of Norway by an
immense picnic. Over 500 were present.
Early in the forenoon large procession
went through the streets, led by the
Lake City band, to the lake shore.
They then rode over Lake Monona in
the new steamer just built on that lake.
A PARTY of unknown men rode up to
the house of Ben Ivens, colored man
living on the farm of John Canton, five
miles from Lexington, Mo-, about s
o'clock Friday night, called him out and
riddled him with buckshot, killing him
instantly. No cause is known for the act.
Ivensh had the reputation of being a quiet,
peaceable man.
THE enormous whisky frauds have not
been without their tragic features. For
the purpose of guarding against the pos
sibility of detection by the revenue Off
GERS, st. Louis distillery firm construc-
ed a secret vat, unknown to their work
men, one of whom fell in and was drown
ed. OF course the funeral, like the cause
of death, was private.
THE Kentucky Republican State
Convention was held in Louisville last
week and was notable for the large
attendance and the perfect harmony of
| its proceedings. Gen. John M. Harlan,
gallant soldier, and a citizen of great
popularity and recognized ability, was
the nominee for Governor.
/ THERE is man in Paris with great
| project. He proposes to light that city
/ withssone lamp. He wants a big lamp,
and wants tosUspend tat a proper height
| by means of a balloon. His argument is
that all Paris can be lighted on that plan
/ as well as an opera-house. The author
| tiles have prejudice against this plan,
because he boards in a lunatic asylum.
ASSURANCE is given by the North Ger
man Gazette that at no time since the
war have the relations between France
and Germany been more friendly and
satisfactory than they now are. There
is an evident desire in both countries to
allay and remove all apprehensions OF
war, and for the present TO contribute as
much as possible to the conditions nee
essary for the peace Of Europe.
RUMoRs from San Francisco indicate
that the United States Government is