The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-02-03
GENERAL NEWS.

of the Tekke Turcomans, more or less
decomposed, lying before and behind the
Russian positions, and in view of the i'm
possibility Of burying them without in
curing fresh losses, General Skobelef
proposed to the Tekkes, from the tower
of observation, eighty yards from the
main rampant of the fortress, that they
should remove their dead, hostilities to
be suspended for one hour. In order to
avoid any misunderstanding, it was pro-
posed to the Tekkes that they should af-
terward reoccupy their positions and
should be first to reopen fire. This was
done after due warning given to the Rus
slams, the Tekkes taking care not to fire
until the Russians. who had temporarily
left their trenches, had returned into
them. The conduct of the Tekke -Tur-
comans was altogether honorable. The
fighting was afterward renewed with for
mer fury.
LONDON, Jan. ga Kanturk CORE
spondent describes remarkable scene
at the meeting of the poor-law guardians.
The day was bitter cold and about 200
famished persons stood without the work
house where the guardians met. Among
them were eighty stalwart, but hungry
looking laborers, who loudly demanded
! work. The guardians could give them
none. In the midst of the meeting word
was brought that the laborers were fore
ing their way into the building. Bus
mess was suspended and dead silence pre-
vailed. Immediately afterward footsteps
were heard ascending stairs. The door
was almost taken from its hinges with
the kicking and pushing it received from
| the outside. Several voices were heard
calling on the guardians to open the door
and give them relief. The door was
opened by Mr.. Cauliffe, one of the guar
dians, who was about to leave the room,
when be was thrown back and informed
that neither he, nor any guardian in the
room, should leave until they had done
something for them. The passage on the
stairs was thronged with sullen, famish-
ed looking men. A scene OF confusion
ensued, which lasted several minutes. In
the background some poor fellows were
weeping. After some time, the men got
to understand they could find bread and
tea in the hall, and that their families
would receive outdoor relief for week.
The besieged guardians were, on this
understanding allowed to go uninter-
rupted.
PROVIDENCE, Jan. Pin the Office OF
the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Wash.
ington county to-day, William Sprague
filed petition praying for divorce from
his wife, Katherine Chase Sprague. The
petition recites the facts of the marriage
and says that he has ever since on his
part kept and performed all his marriage
covenants, but that said Katherine Chase
Sprague unmindful of her marriage VOWS
and disregarding her marriage covenants
hath violated the same in this, that she
has wilfully and without cause deserted
the bed and board of your petitioner,
which desertion although not for the con-
tinued term of years, yet was under
such circumstances as to entitle him to q
decree for divorce; that she has commit
ted the crime of adultery, and has been
guilty of other gross misbehavior and
wickedness, repugnant to and in violation
of her marriage covenants in this, that
she has persistently, and against the ex-
press wishes and commands of your pc
titioner, and after great public scandal,
had been occasioned thereby, kept the
company of and been on terms of close
and improper intimacy with other men,
and of the same men whose names had
been associated with hers in the public
scandals aforementioned; that she has re-
peatedly declared without cause, thai, she
would never live with your petitioner
again; that she denies to him and his
household cares and duties incumbent on
her, as wife and mother, to fulfill; that
she has without cause turned and driven
her oldest child and son out of doors;
that she has persistently, and against the
will of your petitioner, squandered his
property and means by engaging in the
most lavish. extravagant and foolish ex-
penditure of money; that since the finan-
cial embarrassment of your petitioner in
1872, and after repeated entreaty, re-
quest, demand, and command to the con-
trary by your petitioner, and after full
explanation to her by him of his financial
situation and inevitable effect of such pro-
ceedings on her part, yet the said respon-
deat. Notwithstanding, has still persisted
so far as possible, in the same reckless,
extravagant, lavish, and foolish expendi.
ture of money and style of living, thus
further Gas explained and pointed out to
her in the manner aforesaid) embarrass-
ing and defeating your petitioner in his
effort to extricate himself and any rem
nant of his estate (commingled with the
estate of others) from the said financial
difficulties and embarrassments; that she
has many times since her marriage with
your petitioner, and against his wishes,
absented herself from his house and home
for long periods of time, living abroad
and at hotels, thereby subjecting your
petitioner to further great expense, and
depriving him of her society and assist
ance, to which, as her husband, he was
entitled; that she has wilfully persisted
in course of slanderous and abusive
language and publications. of and con-
corning your petitioner with view and
Of vavin, o,J