The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-04-01
GENERAL NEWS.

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Washington stating that positive infor-
nation had been received that Grant will
withdraw as candidate before the Chi
cago convention.
CINCINNATI, March 26.-The CONNER.
cial's special from Cattlettsburg, KY,
says: Within the past ten days fully
twenty converts to Mormonism have
passed through this place on the way to
Utah. They came from Lawrence county,
Ky, where fer year past Mormon mis-
sionaries have been laboring. Among
the converts was young and handsome
married woman who left her husband
behind.
CHICAGO, March IA Kansas City
special says late last night the city hos.
pital near the city burned to the ground,
and its Is inmates escaped only by terri
bic exertions, as they were suffering from
wounds and disease. They crawled out
into rainstorm, and were unprotected
for two hours. Some will certainly die
Of exposure. The main building was
destroyed, and the patients were cared
for in the women's ward during the
night. All Geographic communication
with Kansas City is cut off, there having
been apparently a severe storm extending
all over the northwest. 1t is not known
what damage has been done.
DEsMoNEs, Iowa, March ga girl
aged II years, named Mary Henderson,
who was formerly a dining-room girl at
the Sabine House, this city, gave birth
last week in Hartford, Warren county, to
an illegitimate child, which the mother
Of the girl cut to pieces and burned in
the stove, the cinders being thrown into
privy vault. Four months ago the
girl left this city and has been secretly
confined in n room at her home in Hart
ford during the whole period since.
Previous to her death, which occurred q
few days ago, she confessed all the par
ticulars. Her mother and sister Jennie,
the latter employed in this city, are I'M
II arrest. The father OF the child was
VIM. Ray, miller, Of Hartford, now OF
Nebraska.
ST. PAUL, March 26.-Last November
two men, Henry Hallway and Frank
Heinhuber, We're murdered in the town
Of Ward, Todd county. The wife OF
Hallway had deserted him to live with
John Meide, and the house of Meide was
mysteriOusly burned and the two men
murdered. Meide and his brother Mich
ael were suspected of the crime. John
was arrested and taken from Jail and
hung by mob. Michael escaped by be-
ing hurried out of the county. His trial
has been in progress at Long Prairie,
since Tuesday. The evidence was COM
plete, though circumstantial. The de-
Tense undertook to prove an alibi. The
case was given the jury last night, and a
verdict of guilty rendered with a SEN
tence of imprisonment for life.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The Ute
delegation will leave tomorrow. They
are confident of obtaining the consent of
their people to the agreement made with
the government. Two of the prisoners
brought some time ago from the reserva-
ton. have been found not implicated in
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Miss Meeker as one of their best friends,
and the other is boy of IS who, as is
now ascertained, arrived at the agency
after the event. The list of presumably
guilty persons made up by the commits
sion at Los Pinos in October last, was
based mainly on statements made by
Mrs. Meeker, Miss Meeker, and Mrs.
Price, who were not eye-witnesses to the
massacre and had to draw their concIu-
slons from circumstantial evidence. The
Interior Department is now in posses
sion of list of the names of the guilty
parties, which is thought to be complete
and reliable, coming from one OF the
Indians themselves. Chief Douglas
will be held for the present at Fort
Leaveuworth, and it is expected that the
guilty parties, with the aid of some of
the chiefs now returning, will soon be
brought in.
LONDON, March 26.-Dispatch from
Cabul says it seems beyond doubt that
Abdul Rahman Kahn is at or near Takh-
tapool. The Afghan troops have declar-
ed in his favor. Reports are rife of an
impending attack on our posts between
Gundanuk and Cabul. These posts have
therefore been strengthened.
a dispatch from Lahore reports that
the first brigade will leave Candahr for
Ghuznee Monday, and the second brig
ade Tuesday next.
The Augsburg Gazette says that the
pending trouble between China and Rus
sia Is entirely due to English influence
at Pekin.
The Nord. of Brussels, refuses to be-
ileve the reporS until it is confirmed, but
maintains that, if China enter into any
hostile league against Russia, she will
receive O lesson that will cost her Kuldiv.
and Eng and will have the new chagrin
OF seeing Russia strengthened in her
hold upon the frontier of China.
PANAMA, March pa CHILEAN force
of about ten thousand men, with cavalry
and abundant artillery, landed at Ilo,
Peru, the 25th of February. Ilo is about
sixty miles north of africa, where is a
Peruvian force of about 10000. At a
point about twenty miles south of Ilo is
Chilians landed force of 5000 men.
An attack is expecteds5y land and sea on
africa. The position OF the Peruvian
commander Is deemed critical.
A cargo of arms has been landed at