The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-08-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Bank officials are being arrested in
every quarter. The last arrest made was
that of the president of the Indi annapolis
bank.
Immigrants from the cholera infected
districts of Europe are coming to the
United States from Canada by way of
Suspension Bridge.
The cholera is speaking in Germany.
1t is denied liz Berlin that cholera is prev
alent to the extent reported. In GalIcia
the disease is on the increase. In Russia
the deaths from the disease average 76S
per week.
John @. Luliman, a wealthy real estate
dealer in st. Louis committed suicide on
Monday by blowing out his brains It
is thought that he recently met with
heavy losses which drove him to the use
of intoXicants.
Cashier koetting refuses to come to
Milwaukee peaceably, and is fighting the
requlsition for him. He persists in say
ing he is no embezzler and that wnen he
left Milwaukee all the banks papers and
books were safe in the vault. His actions
go to prove consciousness of guilt, how
ever.
The Chicago anarchists are reaping a
harvest of favorable sentiment these
times. There are SO many laborers I'M
employed in that city that any species of
agitation is welcome. Those who see
starvation near them have no great re-
serve of patience and readily fall into
anarchistic views.
A train carrying S250,000 in gold for
Chicago banks was wrecked at Whitney,
Indiana on Saturday morning. The car
in which the gold was stored was burst
open and the money scattered on the
highway. A force of men was employed
to guard the treasure until a second train
was made up which conveyed the money
to its destination.
Cashier koetting thinks he 10 very
much abused now and insists that he
managed the affairs of the bank honestly
and prudently. He denies having specu-
lated IN wheat and denies having con-
cealed the ledger, the possession of which
is now so strongly desired by the credi-
tors. 1t does look as if Koetting is a
good deal of hypocrite.
A man named Curtis, killed his daught-
or, his wife and himself on Sunday last
at Chicago. He had been drinking
heavily for three weeks and returned to
his home on Saturday. On the entreat-
les of his wife he promised to reform, but
left the house and continued the spree.
Early on Sunday morning he reached
home and proceeded deliberately in car
rying out his purpose of murder and
suicide.
The Bedouin village in the Midway
Plaisance had genuine case of abduc-
tioa on Sunday. An Arab camel driver
stole the wife of an Arab actor ana had her
concealed in the wicked city of Chicago
The outraged husband sought informal
ton as to the whereabouts of his false
spouse and was beaten almost to death
for his pains. A great deal of excitement
In the Midway has resulted from this bit |
Of unsavory romance.
The shooting of a number of Italian
Iaoorers at salt works IN France may lead
TO serious complications between Fra nee
and Italy. The latter country is in
ever of indignation and the people can
not be restrained from mobbing French
people IN Italy, A mob attacked the
French embassy in Rome and troops were
'alied out to quell the riot. The demon
STATIONS against the French are general,
md to add to the difficulty, the Emperor
If Germany has sent expressions of SYM
'athy to the King of Italy.