The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-06-28
GENERAL NEWS.

lately married at New York
The tough element in Lyons is taking
advantage of the situation and the Ital-
ians are being robbed and beaten.
Several of the Homestead Iaborers near
Pittsburg. Penn, have struck. Their
grievance in that they have had to work
too hard.
A business man of st. Louis was stab
bed by beggar on Tuesday last to whom
he refused aid. The wound is apt TO
prove fatal.
THE Coxey armies are dwindling. They
are not receiving as much free grub as at
first and the tramps are again relying on
individual effort.
The income tax, which Senator Hill is
so bitterly fighting, Will not touch the
salary of the President of the United
States. Why such proviso?
The terrible pestilence which Is now
ravaging China is said to resemble the
Black Death, the most terrible plague by
which the world was ever visited.
The village of Kelghley in Kansas, was
practically wiped out by a cyclone on
Monday. Some people lost their lives
| ana many were pinned under fallen
houses.
A17-year locust stung young girl
| Of Warsaw, Ind, on the neck, on Monday.
| The wound swelled and the girl soon lost
power of locomotion ard later, died. She
suffered excruciating pain.
Edison, the great electrician had fall
while at Ogden, n. J. on Friday evening
last. Complications have set in which
! the physicians do not understand, and a
I! great deal Of concern is felt at his condi.
ton.
| The Taylor brothers, the alleged muir
derers of tbs Meeks family were captured
at Buffalo, Ark, on Saturday last. The
murder occurred six weeks ago and was
a most atrocious one. The Taylors pro
test their innocence.
An insane woman made call upor
Gen. Harrison at his office in Indianapo
lis on Monday last. Her insanity was In
ferred from the fact of her having tesla
ment and volume OF gospel hymns anC
being attlred in somber apparel. Sh'
was taken IN charge by the police.
vented number OF non union men from
gong to work on Monday last. A Iarg
number of deputies accompanied the la
borers who wlshedto go to work but coult
not give protection. The train with tn
laborers went on to Anita. Here tn
men succeeded In reaching the boarding
house, but the strikers swear they vii
not allow them to work.
A tug went out with 90 excursionist
from New York on Sunday last. TIL
sea was too heavy for fishing and the tn
started on its return. The waves bea
over one side of the boat and this cause
the people to huddle on the other side
Then the boat careened, and secOn
time the people made a rush to the OF
posite side, causing the boat to upset
Twenty-oS were drowned.
The strike of the employees of the Pul
man Car Co. has been taken up by til
American Railway Union. 1t has order
ed that trains shall not pull any more {
the Pullman sleepers, and employees {
the roads have been ordered not to tax
out any trains having Pullman cars al
tached. The railway companies natural
resent this order and so there Is a pros
pect OF general tie up of passenge
trains.
Adjutant General Tarnsey of Colorad
was kidnapped from hotel in Colorad
Springs early on Saturday morning an
tarred and feathered. Four masked me
were IN waiting outside the hotel Will
two secured possession of the attorne,
he was taken quite distance from tn
' city limits before he was coated with th
tar. Tarnsney has been acting favorabl
toward the striking miners at Crippl
Creek and it is thought this outrage pu
upon him is in consequence of this. Th
proceeding has caused intense excite
ment.
; President Carnot of France was mur
defed while riding in carriage at Lyon
on Saturday evening by an italian name
Cesare Giovanni Santo. The murdere
is only % years. He sprang out of th
crowd lining the streets, jumped on th
steps of the carriage in which Carnot wa
riding and stabbed him with knife II
was saved from the mob by the polio
with the utmost difficulty. He refnse
to give any reason for the crime. c
course the plea of insanity will be enter
ed In his case. He arrived in Lyons th