The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-03-29
GENERAL NEWS.

Five thousand miners have resumed
work in the kanawha Valley.
Thousands of letters have been robbed
of small sums In the West Bend post
office.
Milwaukee receives S1,700,000 for dis
tribution among pensioners for the cur
rent quarter.
The brewerles of Oshkosh have combln-
ed with capital stock of S25O,0O0.
beer trust is something new.
ghe damage TO fruit and vegetables in
the south by means of the late cold spell
is estimated at one million dollars.
The Union League Club of Chicago
contemplates expelling Congressman
breckenridge from its honorary member
ship.
Congressman Wilson, who is now in
| San Antonio, Texas, is able to write and
| is improving quite rapidly, though weak
and much emaclated.
The students at Bnda Pesth, like the
students of Paris under the monarchy,
when a man of celebrity died, have made
the death of Louis Kossuth the occasion
of riots.
A recent pension ruling OF the bureau
will greatly swell the pension rolls, as it
restores pensions to large number Of
dependent persons whose pensions were
cut off by former ruling.
Everything is quiet now in the neigh
borhood of Rio Janeiro. 1t is thought
that Admiral da Cana and his officers
will proceed to Europe and thus escape
the blood-thlrsty intentions of Peixoto.
A man named Miller who was having
divorce suit tried at st. Joseph, Mo-, on
Monday last, met his brother-in-law,
Frank Earl, in the court room and open
ed fire on him. Earl was fatally wounded.
Senator Colquitt of Georgia died on
Monday morning. He served in the
Mexican army as major, reached the
position of major general in the confed-
crate army, was governor of Georgia and
was twice elected to the United States
senate.
Prendergast attacked his guard with a
broom on Tuesday and almost punched
one of his eyes out. He was sent to
the dungeon for four hours and this had
the desired effect on him. His anger
toward the guard was aroused by the
latter's having prevented him from ad-
dressing the court the preceding day.
Prof, Richard Garner has returned to
New York, after spending three and one
half months IN a steel cage 10 the wilds
of Africa where gorillas are numerous.
He wanted to make study of this con-
Meeting link. He says the gor1llas have
a language consisting of about so words.
that they marry, but are polygamous, and
have patriarchal form of government.
1t pays some people to get married.
Nolin Hathaway of Milwaukee lately re-
ceived $4,000 from his wife to release
her from the marital bonds. Her rela-
tives are wealthy. She and her husband,
who was a travelling man, were married
secretly after brief acquaintance Her
friends were shocked at what hey deem
ed mesalliance and bought the husband
off by payment of the sum named.
Workmen while engaged in stringlng
trolley wires over bridge in Brooklyn
on Saturday last were interferred with
by posse of deputy sheriffs who COM
manded them to stop in the name of the
law. The workmen wire rubber gloves,
which are non-condactors, and they seiz-
ed the live wires and chased off the dep
utles, shocking some of them SO that they
had to be carried off. When the posse
was driven off the wires were strung.
A farmer near Columbus, Ind, is hay-
ing quite unique experience with a man
intent upon robbing him. The farmer
lately received letter telling him that
if $50 was not placed in certain spot
where the writer could Secure it., his
building would be burned and his stock
poisoned. The farmer was not foolish
enough to heed the warning and is now
nervous lest the threat be carried out.
A full statement of the disclosures
made by ex-employes of the Carnegie
Steel Co. regarding the frauds perpetrat-
ed by tie company on the government in
furnishing armor for naval vessels has
been sent to Speaker Crisp by Secretary
Herbert of the Navy. Plates which had
been selected by the government inspec-
tors for tests were secretly retreated at
night, the remaining plates furnished
being of an inferior kind. This rascality
began IN November of 1892, and strange
as IL may appear, the chairman of the
Carnegie Co., Prick, did not seem to
know anything about it. The whole
blame is put upon Schwab, the superin-
tendent. The company was fined S14O,-
600 by President Cleveland, one-fourth
OF which went to the ex-employes who
furnished the information.