The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-08
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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TUESDAY, March 30.-Nearly 100 600
people met in Hyde Park, london, on the 10Th
teexpress sympathy with and demand justice
for the Tichborne Claimant The French
-Goyernnent has .-denied to the Due de
Moptpensier passport to Spain on the
asssround that in giving it the Government
. p would establish a precedent by which ex-
"a eucen Isabella might return TO Spain, which
was undesirable. In the case of Mrs. Mi
nor, Of Missouri who claimed the right to
--'- vote under the Fourteenth Amendment the
United States Supreme Court has decided that
the Constitution Of the United States does
not confer the right of suffrage upon
anyone and that the Constitutions of
the several States which commit that
trust TO men alone are not necessarily.
void. Ths,asVrt is unanimous in this Iecis
ion, which was delivered by the Chief Iustico
....Unlted States Treasurer Spinner has re
signed his office, and the Pres dent has an
FSF pointed As ms successor 10 hn c. New Cashier
OF the flfst National Pank Of Indianapolis
...'seEerai Gays ago article appeared in
49, the NnicdSo inns characterizng a Grand
jury ~ Tue - trninal Court Of Chicago, which
nau lou four indictments against Mr..
store, ;, the editor for libel, as a disrcputable
codtemptible and dishonest body. Because
Of these suicLures Judge Williams issued an
s. orderthat Mr.. Storey should show cause why
le should not be punished for contempt
sFahe hearing occurred on the 29th, and
resulted in Mr.. Storey being sentenced to
- ten Gays confinement in the County Jail.
$50 About eleven o'clock on the evening Of that
- day writ Of sbtperssdeds was issued by Judge
MeAllister, of the Supreme Court, under
which Mr.. Storey was held in the sum of
$3.50 to await the action of he Sunrama
Court. ia" Lick, the San francisco
z millionaire, has filed in the Recorders
Office of that city a revocation of the trust
deed executed last July conveying his prop
ssI erty 10 trustees for various benevolent pur-
- poses. He confirms the acts hereto
fore performed by the trustees Sew
eral witnesses testified in the Beecber
suit on the Goth as to the whereabouts of the
defendant on the 3D. Sd and 4th Of juno,
1913. Mr. Turner and son testified that Mr..
Beecher arrived at his farm at Peekskin on
the afternoon Of the ID early enough to take
dinner. Two telegraph operators testified to
dhe sending Of telegram on the morning of
that day announcing Mr.. Beecher's in
tended visit TO Peekskil. Another witness
swOre he saw Mr.. B. there at that time
Thomas j. Tilney, lawyer, swore that he was
married in Brooklyn on the evening Of June 3
by Mr.. Bcecher. Frederick 4. Putnam testified
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- New Haven Railroad on June T. 1878.
n John Winslow and Stephen D. White,
members of the Plymouth Church
Investigating Committee, and H. B.
Ciailln, testified as to the statements made by
Mr.. Tilton regarding the evidence against
Mr.. Beecher, concerning Mr.. Tracy's connec-
tion with the case, and to the settlement
Of The difficulty between Mr. Tilton and Mr.
Bowen, most of which was corroboratory of
fprrfa tl,o
defense.
WEDNESDAY, March 31.-The French
y : Government has issued decree prohibiting
the importation Of American potatoes. The
object is stated to be to secure France
against the introduction of the Colorado
beetle. =. The Rhode Island Prohibitionists
+ have renCmnated the present Governor and
LieutenantGovenor The remainder of the
ticket is made up from the Republican State
ticket. According to the detailed accounts
the recent cyclone which passed over portions
of Georgia and South Carolina was the most
destructive ever experienced in the United
States. The number killed in Georgia will
not fall below 800 and the wounded reach
1900. The casualties in South Carolina are
reported to be equally as great. The
bursting of a kerosene lamp recently set
on fire TIE house of farmer named Colson,
twenty-five miles from Wadena, Mimi,
anu tiit IdIlCs spread SO rapidly that in
moment the nght-clothes of the father moth
cr and five children on fire. Mr.. Colson
succeeded in escaping from the building with
ais family, when they all dragged them
selves to the nearest neighbor's, mile dis
tant, barefooed and naked, leaving tracks
Of their progress the snow all the
way. The father and two children have
since died of their injuries and it is thought
thc mother and remaining cannot Ion q
survive. The Ohio Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 30th At ST. Louis,
r. e son the Goth, in the case of A. G..
Buell., charged with hbeling ex-senator
Chandler of Michigan, in the Detroit Free
Press, u year ago, and which case was ap-
pcaled by the Government from the
United States District to the United States
Circuit Court, March Q, Judge Dillon, of the
latter court, rendered a decision affirming
that Of the lower court and Mr.. Buell. was
discharged. Mr.. Clafn continued his evil
denee on the 3oth, his testimony relating
chiefly 10 the tripartite agreement which
witness stated Mr.. Tilton fully agreed
10, and both Mr.. Tilton and Mr.. Moul-
q ton agreed to the award OF the ~arbi-
tration $4,000 by Bowen to Tilton)
and TO the condition that all the papers
relatingto the scandal should be burned On
the cross-examination witness said the arbi-
traitors never considered the truth or untruth
of the stories in the papers relating to the
scandal, nor did they discuss them. Charles
Storrs gave similar testimony to that of Mr..
Claiin relating to the tripartite agreement. He
also stated that in January 1871 Mr. Tilton had
s. told him that Mrs. T. had accused Mr.. Beech
or Of improper proposals. After the publica-
tOn,of the Woodruff scandal Mr.. 7. had said
to witness that it contained great many lies
about Mrs. I. and Mr. Beecher and that moth
ing criminal had occurred, Two other wit
Iesses were examined relative to Mr.. Beech
sSsers visit TO Peekskll onthe afternoon of June
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THURSDAY, April IA Paris paper
ann6aiiees the intended ahdcation of the En-
peror Of Brazil in favor of his oldest daughter,
the Countess d'Eu.. .The yellow fever is said
10 be epidemic at Havana. A telegram has
been received in Washington FROM the Gov
- ernoes Of Texas calling upon the President
for prote ction against Mexican robbers
LIT is reported from Kew West Fla,
that yellow fever has greatly increased
there within a fortnight, and all the naval
vessels are quarantined .. Gen Sheridan has
issued general order in relation TO the policy
Of the Government in reference to the Black
Hills region. The order covers recent letter
from the Department OF the Interior to the
Secretary of War. in which it is stated that
competent geologist will be sent to explore
that region, and if it be found that the pre-
cfous metals exist in large quantities effort:
4, wiz be made to extingush the Indian
g title guaranteed by the treaty of 1865
Negotiations have already commenced
to this end, but the presence of tres
passers in that section is likely to en-
danger their success and the Int
rior Department therefore calls upon The
War Department TO remove interlopers anc
furnish military escort for the ge