The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-08-09
GENERAL NEWS.

The people of Germany seem to favor
China in It's war with Japan. England is
likewise favorably disposed toward China
Raymond Leimer, aged 50 and father
of % children, % of whom are living com
mitted suicide by hanging himself at Dan
bury, Conn, on Saturday last.
The striking miners of Illinois lately
| held a mass meeting and decided almost
unanimously to continue the strike. 1t
was the action of 5000 miners.
The Southern Railway Company is the
title OF a consolidated railway system
| through southern states. The Company
will operate 5000 miles of track.
4 prominent business man and his wife
were sufocated IN folding bed at Ar
kansa City, Kansas on Monday. The
bed folded up while they were occupy
| ing it.
A faLm house in the town of Dover,
Mimi, was burned early on Monday
morning. The owner and four of his
children were burned to death. The
woman escaped but is crazed by the loss
she sustained.
Gov. Matthews will raise money on his
personal note with which to pay the NIL
tia who did service during the strike
The amount due them Is $4,000. He
trusts to the Legislature tc reimburse
him for this outlay.
The l.. A. w. has arranged a Journey
from Washington to Denver by bicycle.
The journey is to be made by relays.
The start Was made on Monday noon
and 1t is expected that the message which
the riders carry to Gov. w ate will be
delivered to him at Denver on the 18th
The distance is 2,037 miles.
The strikers in Chicago are finding it
difficult to secure their old places. SIX
thousand men who applied for reinstate-
ment at the stock yards on Monday were
turned away. The force employed
at Pullman on Monday was 500 On
Tuesday $50 men went to work there. On
Wednesday 1000 men were at work. The
strike there will soon be a thing of the
past.
An old man named Whitman, a resi-
dent of Chicago was fatally stabbed by
one of his sons on Monday morning.
The boys, who are % and Is years le-
spectively, came home Monday morning
from ball. The father upbra;ded them
and quarrel ensued during which one
of the boys plunged knife into the old
mans stomach.
After struggle of 40 days the strike
in Chicago has been declared off. The
misguided men have been told to shift for
themselves. This action was taken On
Sunday. Debs will 60 to New York. He
says he has been offered $500 per night
for 200 nights by an eastern lecture bur
eau. He did not say he will accept but it
IS quite possible he will, He has been
sufficiently advertised to be a success.
Fire broke out at the West Side Base.
ball Park in Chicago Oh Sunday last.
There we're 5000 people in attendance
and panic at once resulted. The exits
were instantly jammed by the rush.
Many people We're seriously injured.
some by being trampled upon and others
by being crushed against the barb wire
fence which separated the stands from
the diamond.
A farmer near Muncie, Ind, had sing
ular and unpleasant experience on Mon
day of this week. He took a stick of dy-
Mantle and lighted the fuse and then
threw it INTO fish pond 70 capture some
carp. His dog was near at the time and
swan for the dynamite, He seized it. |
swan ashore and ran toward his master, |
Fortunately the dynamite exploded be- |
fore the dog came sufficiently near his |
master to endanger bis life. The dog |
was blown into shreds.