The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-05-27
GENERAL NEWS.

car shops of Michael Schall was damaged
by fire today to the extent of So, 900.
One hundred and fifty hands were thrown
out Of employment.
PHILADELPHIA, May 21.-President
Gowen, Of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad company, states officially that
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
from company has suspended payment.
The stock Of the Reading railroad has
fallen TO l.07..
CoSsTASTISoPLE May lefty brig
auds have been killed near SaIonica, 9th
ers captured, and thoir prisoners secur-
ed. They were Under the leadership of
Niko. assisted by his brother Basil aud
his brother-in.law Ha!esh, and all were
armed with the best Of modern weapons.
PEsTH, May 19.-The famine in North
Hungary is increasing. Fourteen hun
bred persons at Szinna, Comitat, and
Zemplin have no other food but grass,
nettles and mushrooms. Troops of emf
grants are leaving the country. The
government has ordered the authorities
to stop emigration, and the police have
arrested some Of the emigrants.
HALIFAX, May 21.-An immense field
Of ice spread from the west coast Of New
foundland to Cape Canso and feet Of
nearly one hundred sail was delayed from
getting up. Two large Norwegian
barques were lost near Rose Blanche,
\. i. The crews were saved. It is sup
posed many more vessels will be lost as
the ice is very heavy.
New YORK, May Ex-Governor Cor
nell has respited Chastine Cox, the muir
derer Of Mrs. Hull, to the 10th Of July
aud Balbao, the wife murderer, until the
9th Of August. The condemned men
were to have been hung next Friday
They received the tidings of respite with
the greatest delight. the italian being
extraordinarily demonstrative.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 20-Mathilda
Schafer, girl II years of age, who had
been missing since Sunday night, was
found drowned in the canal at the foot of
. Walnut street this forenoon. 1t was
developed that she committed suicide in
consequence of bei2g deserted by one
who had seduced her under promise of
marriage.
WASHINGTON, May 19.-The President
to-day made the nominations which were
predicted in these dispatches. Judge
Key was nominated for Judge of the
Eastern District of Tennessee, Horace
Maynard for Postmaster General, and
General Longstreet for the Turkish mis-
sion, to succeed Maynard. 1t is under
stood that the confirmation of Maynard
and Lorgstreet will be opposed by the
Democrats. Maynard never was popu-
lar, and both Senators from Tennessee
dislike him very much, while Longstreet
is a renegade Democrat, having been an
associate Of the despised carpet bag
gers" in Louisiana.
CINCINNATI, May 20.-A cold-blooded
murder took place this morning near the
/ village OF California, six miles up the
river from Cincinnati. Mrs. Stenger, a
widow about thirty years of age, went
out to cut grass on the road side near the
residence of Mrs. Bateman, also widow.
/ Mrs. Bateman ordered Mrs Stenger to
leave. 1t appears she refused, whereup-
on Mrs. Batemau went back to her house
and got 4 double-barreled shot gun and
/ deliberately fred its contents into the
/ face and breast of Mrs. Stenger, and then
coolly went back to her house. The
murder was witnessed by two mon in a
field lear by and Mrs. Bateman was ar
/ rested. Intense excitement was aroused
and the women of the neighborhood
! made threats of lynching the murderess.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-There is a
good deal of interest here over the retire
| ment of Senator Gordon from the Senate
and the substitution of Joseph Z. Brown.
Of Georgia. The whole affair was kept
profound secret until suddenly sprung
upon an unsuspeeting public. Brown is
President and manager of the road from
Atlanta to Chattanooga, and is very rich.
During the rebellion he was war Cover
nor OF Georgia, and made it lively for
the Confederate Government, which he
antagonized on many important points.
Gordon had gust been elected TO a second
six years, and his sudden stepping down
and out Las made quite sensation. 1t
is surmised that he sees no hope of ma
tional Democratic success, and is disgust
ed with political life 1t is understood
that Gordon will be appointed Manager
Of the Georgia Central Railroad, which
IS owned by the State, aud of which
Brown Is manager now. Brown is al
most Republican, and was one for sew
eral years after tie war. He was dele
cato to the Republican, convention in
1868, aud voted for General Grants nom
nation, sustaining him in the convention.
and acting with the Republicans for sew
eral yeals.
AMERICA Is fast becoming, if she is not
already, the greatest coffee-consuming
country on the globe. Coffee is no lon
ger luxury, but !. necessity of the hum
bic home as well as the abode OF the rich.
We import annually in round numbers,
800, 200 pounds of coffee, the value
OF which 5 s25, 100000. This is every
year increasing, in a greater ratio than
that of any nation on the globe. Our
Increase auring the LAST tysnntv-fira rtars