The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-10-30
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1879.
GENERAL NEWS.

BERLIN Oct. 23.-Gon. Mcdonald and
Mrs. Lamothe were married here at noon
to-day, at the residence of County Clerk
Smelling. where they have boarded the
past three months. The ceremony was
performed by County Judge Willard.
The affair was quiet, in the presence of a
score of friends from Ripor, Green Lake
and Berlin. They remain here, and will
probably spend the winter here. The
general talks Of settling in Berlin.
MADRID, Oct. 23.-The bill for the
abolition Of slavery in Cuba, to be pre-
sented to the Cortes, provides that slaves
aged 80 years and over shall become free
Immediately; those aged so in Septem-
Der, 1880; those aged 45 in 1882; those
aged forty, in 1884; those aged 80 in
1886; those aged 80 in 1888; and all 9TH
ers in 1890 From 1880, one hundred
thousand piastres will be charged on the
Cuban budget for defraying the expenses
Of emancipation. Three hundred and
fifty piastres be paid owners for each
slave. The government will, as much as
possible favor the immigration OF free
laborers.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 22.-The details of
the murder committed near Berea, o.,
and reported III these dispatches this
noon, show it to have been a cold blood
"a affair Gottlieb Noller, a farmer, was
awakened in the night by hearing foot
sleeps in the house. Before he could
arise from his bed he was shot dead
His wife awakened by the firing was shot
twice on attempting to get up, and left
for dead. An idiot son, who tried to es-
cape, was shot in the face by the muir
derer and left for dead. The latter CON-
ing to consciousness made his way to a
neighbours and gave the alarm. Suspic-
ion pointed to Lewis Noller, a son aged
y, rs the murderer. Detectives were
put on his track and he was arrested in
the Union depot in this city this after
noon as he was boarding train for Chi
cago On the way to jail the prisoner
confessed that he shot his father, mother
and brother, though he claims not to re-
member very distinctly about it. lie
says he had been drinking and conmenc-
ed firing at them without knowing what
he was doing. The prisoner and his
father have not been on good terms for
several years owing to trouble about
property. The son was employed as a
fireman on the Lake Shore road, and has
heretofore borne a good reputation. 1t
IS not thought Mrs. Noller can live.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. 22.-The Sen
tlnel of tomorrow morning will contain
an account of horrible atrocities in the
Milwaukee House OF Correction. This
institution is used at the discretion of the
court as state prison. An intelligent
convict just released, whose character
for veracity is youehed for by prominent
persons who know him intimately, states
that he has beer an inmate for two years,
and in all that time had not been allowed
to write to his friends or counsel, and
his family supposed him dead. He says
the bread furnished convicts, for which
the county pays Sc a barrel, is damaged
cow-feed, and cannot be baked, and the
meat is putrii. During his confinement
embryo calves, dogs, and glandered hors.
es were furnished rs meat, and he brings
the bones, which are in the possession OF
the editor of the Sentinel. Details OF
the food furnished are horrible beyond
expression. Of the brutalities of the
keepers, he says the prisoners were beat
en- and put in q black hole which is Q
filthy dog-kennel, five feet four inches by
five feet. 4 man cannot lie at length il
it. There is 10 ventilation, and the floor
covered with ordure and urine. Mer
are placed there for twenty days, and two
died there to his knowledge. There is a
factory connected with the Institution
and it is charged that the police are il
collision with the Superintendent to kid
nap men to work on the chairs. Tn,
whole story is the most startling and re
voting ever published in this century
1t is claimed the charges can all be veri
fed.
New YoRK, Oct. 22-London advices
say that the enormity of the plot entered
into by Russian engineers to blow up til,
Cabul citadel has not fairly dawned upol
the British mind yet, but there is sor
Of suppressed excitement over the news
OF the continuation OF the explosions
The Balea Hussar fortress has been en-
tirely destroyed. Russian engineers il
disguise were recognized in and abou
Cabul for some time previous to the adj
vance of General Roberts column, anC
Afghan officers We're instructed by then
IN the art Of planting and dischargine
military mines.
Many persons additional have been
killed since the first explosion, owing t.
the confusion and fright into which the
conclusions and casualties threw the oc
cupants of the citadel. An investigation
into the cause Of the disasters is about tt
be made in quiet way. The explosion.
differ in power, and are not attributable
to any visible source.
Mountain troops, who were supposed
to be scattered and suhlued by the re
cent British victory, are again exhibiting
signs of uneasiness, and stes,itnily gath
ering at their different places o
rendezvous among the passes south o
Cabul. If the investigations reveal wha
Is expected-that these frightful ant
numerous explosions are attributable Il