The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-10-04
GENERAL NEWS.


{ Connecticut has gone republican by
fair sized majority.
Several deaths have occurred recently
in Constantinople from cholera.
Two prominent German of Berlin have
been sent to jail, each four months Tor
having fought duel.
Reports of the illness of the Gar of
Russia bave been greatly exaggerated.
He is by no means in danger.
Senator Vast of Missouri thinks Hill
will be elected in New York. He evident
ly thinks Hill is man of brains.
A wreck occurred on the Chicago &
Northwestern near Woodstock, Illinois
on Sunday whereby five lives were lott.
Poland is growing restless under Ger
man domination and there is reason 10
believe there will be an outbreak there
| soon.
The inmates of the Soldiers Home at
| Dayton, Ohio, were paid $4,000 in pen
sions on Saturday last. Many of them
vert on spree and were robbed. Two
| of them were murdered.
Two men, the sexton of church and
the organist, at st. Louis were poisoned
lately, through partaking of lunch. The
sexton died. The lunch was served by
an ex-sexton who had been recently dis
charged.
A cyclone visited Little Rock, Ark on
Tuesday and devastated the business
portion OF the city. Scores of people
were killed. 1t was one OF the most de-
structive cyclones which ever visited
that section.
At bull fight in Mexico on Sunday
last, fierce bull leaped the barrier which
separated the audience from the ring,
and gored every person with whom he
came in contact. Many people were
trampleG to death.
The q. S. circuit court of appeals have
reversed that portion of Judge Jenkins
{ order which prohibits employees of rail
ways in the hands of receivers from com.
bining to strike. The strike must be g
peaceable one, however.
People will be panied to learn that
Bourke Cochran is losing his voice ano
will perhaps never be able to deliver an
other public address. The trouble is il
the larynx. He neglected to take precau
> tlons and the difficulty has become
' chronic
Portions of Cuba are inundated through
l excessive rains. It is said that 200 per.
sons have persisted and the loss to prop
erty Is $4,OOO,OOO. In one province 5000
families are homeless. A waterspout il
Venezula killed 100 people and did grea
damage to property.
:, A rain cloud and storm cloud collid
:. ed near Wichita, Kansas on Monday ant
developed a cyclone Its path was onl-
about fifty feet wide but it destroyed
property to the value of $4,000. Thre
children were hurt and two men killet
; by It, 1t crushed buildings as if the,
:. were egg shells.
Train robbers attacked train on tn
: Southern Pacific road in Arizona on Mon
q day and robbed it. 1t is said they secur
: ed $4,000. A sheriff with a posse start
!. ed IN pursuit and succeeded in capturin,
= two of the robbers. One of them Tough
the officers and received five wound
O though none we're fatal
+ A Miss Belle White of Chicago los
s her life in an attempt to add to her beau
s ty, of which she had no inoonsiderabl
: portion. There were certain small blem
e ishes in her face which she was havin
@ burned out with an electrical needle. CO
g came was used to deaden the pain. 1t i
:. thought too liberal application of CO
| caine caused her death which was sud
den.
:, The rapid and wonderful success of tn
: Japanese in their war with China is prov
8 ing surprise to every one, in view of tn
s fact that China has a population tel
o times that of Japan. The japanese ar
a now gong to make the bold strike O
S marching on to Pekin and end the war b
j its capture. They would then demand
war idemnity and also Corea's independ
S ence.
Fltzslmmons is anxious to get tigh
. with Corbett. FItz is 30 pounds lighte
- than Corbett but is man of wonderful
> muscle. He has beaten every one in hi
class who had the temerity to meet him
with the greatest ease. Corbett refuse
4 to fight him. But he has come out will
statement that he Will fight any 81,
men, no one barred, one each night for
week. There is quite feeling that b
would not be much IN trim to fight an,
one after getting through with Fitzsim
= mons.