The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-04-27
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THURSDAY, APRIL 81, 1882.
GENERAL NEWS.

LONDON, April 20.-After the jury in
ant, had rendered their verdict, it was
ordered that Mclean be detained in Gus
tody during Her Maiesty's pleasure
The deliberations of the jury occupied
| five minutes.
ST.. PETERSBURG, April 20.-An Imper-
ial order prohibits military men from
publicly delivering political speeches Or
expressing political opinions. War de
partment officials are prohibited from
publishing without sanction of their
superiors documents referring to internal
and external affairs of foreign countries.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 20.-A water,
spout flooded Garner, Miss, eighty seven
miles below here Tuesday afternoon.
Rain fell in torrents for 20 minutes, and
cattle were carried by the rushing waters
down underneath the railroad bridge.
Several persons were Frustrated by the
power of the water and washed into
gullies.
KANSAS CRY, April 19-Robert Ford,
the slayer of Jesse James, was taken to
Richmond, Bay county, this morning to
await the action of the authorities on @
charge of killing Wood Hite, one of the
outlaw gang. The Ford boys assert that
the governor promised them immunity
of all past crimes, but the latter indig-
nantly denies this. He would not say,
however, that he might Lot pardon them.
The governor says he believes Frank
James is dead.
Tucson, April 20.-About ITO bucks
are on the war path, sixty of whom are
supposed to be returned renegade Chini.
cahuas. A report is just received by
runner via Stafford, that Eagle Creek has
been raided by Juh and other renegade
Chinicahuas. If this is the case the fol.
lowing were probably killed: Tom New
land, wife and two employees, McMurren
and son, Lamb and son, and Stephenson,
a sheep herder. The band number about
300, fifty of whom are bucks.
La CROSSE, April 9.-Something very
like famine prevails in the neighbor-
hood of Fountain. Mimi, because of the
rayages of disease called black diphthe-
ria. which is very prevalent and fatal
Yesterday morning the daughter of Will
liam Bodies, Is years old, died of this
disease. In the afternoon her mother
died, and at night the father was dying
Several others are ill. Fountain contains
population of about 200 persons, bust
ness men and mechanics who are depen-
dent on the surrounding farming COM
munity.
SAN Francisco, April 20.-A Tucson
| dispatch says: In view of the recent out
| break of Indians, Gen. Wilcox has order
ed two companies of cavalry to scour the
| Dragon Mountains. A detachment will
also be sent to the Dragon and Null
| Mountains to look for renegade Indians.
Gen. Wilcox in dispatch to Gov. Trittle
slys: Il do not know how far this out
break will spread, but would advise that
the military be notified everywhere. -
Gov. Trittle has notified settlers at Globe,
Bowie and Clifton, and also Gov. Shei-
don, of New Mexico, of the outbreak.
READING. Pa, April 19.-Rev. J. S..
Fisher, young man who attended the
State Normal school at Kutztown, and
subsequently studied theology, has be-
come insane from over study in attempt
ing to commit the whole of the bible to
memory. He became raving maniac.
aud has just been removed to an insane
asylum. He resided with his parents and
spent hours i'll the fields and in the garnet
preaching to imaginary congregations. -
Before he was removed lie was dressed
N new suit Of black broadcloth, and
four men had a desperate struggle with
! him before they succeeded in removing
hi, old suit in order to replace it with the
new one, and he exhibited such giant
strength that they were unable to place
him in a vehicle until they had shackled
his arms and legs.
LONDON, April 19.-At the reading to-
| day Lord Chief Justice Coleridge charg
ed the grand jury in the case of Roder-
lex Mclean, who attempted to shoot the
! Queen.
Montague Williams, in opening for
the prisoner. made insanity tho ground
of the defense. He said it could be
shown that Mclean had an homicidal
mania for years and had imagined the
English people We're against him, and
also that it could be proved that Mclean
had been confined in an asylum. The
superintendent of Salisbury and Brood
moor asylumns testified to McLean's in.
sanity. They said they believed him in
capable of approaching the nature or
quality of any of his acts. Williams
asked for acquittal on the ground of in
sanity. Lord Chief Justice Coler.dge
summed up the case. The jury returned
a verdict of not guilty on the ground of
insanity.
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