The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-02-17
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 1881.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
DETROIT, Feb. 1o.-A shocking acct
dent occurred at the state capitol, in Ian
sing, to-day. Robert CIippenger, mes
senger boy twelve years old, carelessly
sliding down banister of stairs on the
fourth floor, lost his balance and fell to
the marble floor eighty feet beneath,
killing him instantly, his neck being
broken.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 10.-The water
is still rising in the rear OF the city. In
many places in the Third district it has
crossed the east side Of Claiborne street.
Skiffs and sailboats are coming into very
general use IN overfowed districts. The
Cypress Grove cemetery and Spanish
Fort railroad is submerged. The water
in the canals is slowly receding.
The great overflow considerably in
creased during the night. The relief
committee is doing good service distribu-
ting food to the water-bound inhabitants.
MADISON, Feb. 10.-Senator Black
stone put IN a deadhead this morning
which viii he used il case necessity shall
so require in order that women may at
least be eligible to school district Offices.
The move is made so as to ensure some
satisfaction to the friends of women's
rights in case the constitutional amend
ment should by any possibility fail to
pass. There is still lingering belief
that the passage of an amendment ex-
tending the right of suffrage is not re-
CURED to be passed by two successive
Legislatures, and if by any mischance the
Simpson resolution is lost, test will be
made of the matter, in the consideration
OF Senator Blackstone's bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-A sad accident
at the rife range occurred here yesterday.
Two young men were practicing at the
Washington Scheutzen Park, with rifed
| carbines, at the same time the butchers
employed in the slaughter house, some
soc yards distant from the targets, were
| at work. AS the sound of firing. from
the park was not unusual, they paid no
! attention Dit; but about 3 20 clock P. NJ.
one Of the bullets struck one of the work
men, Henry Phelegan, in the head. An
alarm vas at once gwen, and Officer
David L. Birmingham responded. See
| ing what had been done, he Immediately
went to the park, and found the two
young men still engaged i'll shooting,
being totally ignorant that one of them
had shot q man. They We're taken to
| the second precinct station house. The
unfortunate man was removed TO his res
idence, and the wound pronounced fatal.
He fingered till l o'clock this morning
when he died. lie leaves a wife and
three children.
MADIsoN, Feb. 9.-The present is the
| ables6 Senate since that OF 1870. This
can be said without any disparagement
| to the ten senates which have convened
between that time and this. The senate
Of 1870 contained such men as David
Taylor, now Associate Justice of the
| Supreme Court; Ex-congressman VIM.
2. Lynde, and Peter Y. Deuster, of Mil
waukee; Congressman Geo. G. Hazel
ton, of Boscobel; Elk congressman Sam,
uel y. Burchard, of Beaver Dam; Sat.
Clark, of Horicor; II. Fl. Gray, OF OAR
lington; Romance Z. Davis, of Dane;
VIM. I. Price, of Black River Falls;
Congressman G. G. Williams, of James
vile; Hiram S. Town, postmaster at
Ripon; Milton H. Petit, of Kenosha,
and Geo. D. Waring, of Berlin.
The present Senate has not SO many
able or distinguished men, but it contains
large number of good parliamentarians;
cool-headed business men; fine scholars;
able statesmen and representative citi-
zens of the state, in fact, an unusually
large number OF them.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 10.-A frightful
explosion occurred to-day at P. G. Mauer
& Co. s coal mine, at Robinson. on the
Niles & New Lisbon railway. Appalling
loss Of life. a special from the scene OF
the explosion, ii few miles south of Sal
| EN-, says man named Smith was going
| into the mine. The superintendent eau
toned him about going in a certain room,
| as it contained fre-damp, but as that was
| dry, while around the track was filed with
water, Smith disobeyed orders and at
tempted to pass through the forbidden
room with lighted lamp in his hat
Immediately terrific explosion occurr-
ed, while hole was cloven through if
teen feet of earth composing the roof,
and carrying death and destruction all
around. About twenty men were at work
III the mine, six of whom were killed out
right and number dangerously wound.
ed. A mule and train of eight cars
were shot out of the main entrance as if
from cannon. Another mule, drawing
cart in which man was seated, was
blown on the top of the cart, killing the
driver. A dog was also blown out of the
mine. One man, jackson Heck, Just
entering, was blown back and over a high
railroad embankment into the creek be-
low, and badly hurt. The men not dis
abled or killed escaped through shaft
to the open sir.
Mrs. Griffith had gone to the door of
the mine TO call her son when the explo-
sion occurred. She saw the mule shoot
out-of the mine and found her son iniur-
ed. George Henshilwoc3 died in his
wife's arms.
The scenes were heartrending in the
extreme. A corps of physicians were
summoned as,i ,.,,, ll,,-