The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-04-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Theodore Roosevelt has been offered
of New York.
1t is thought that the q, S. supreme
court will refuse TO grant a rehearlng OF
the income tax case.
A true bill has been found against
Oscar Wilde and he will be put an trial
tomorrow for his unnatural crimes.
There seems to be a hitsh in the ar
| rangema nts for the Corbett- Fitzsimmon's
fight The Florida club refuses to post
forfeit of 5000, and this FItzsimmOn's
demands.
Huntington, president of the Southern
| Pacific was arrested lately for issuing a
pass to a San Francisco lawyer, contrary
| to the provicions of the inter state COM
| merce law.
It is thought the supreme court
| will reverse the decision of Judge
Woods in the Debs' case and order
him discharged.
A girl died last week at the lylng-in
| hospital in Detroit after giving birth 30
| child 1t was learned that she had
| been sent from England by her betrayer
so that the birth of the child might not
| injure his reputation,
Joaquin Miller the poet of the S1erras
is again making fool of himself with
women. He took young girl to Homo
lulu with HIM whom he passed off as his
daughter. He lately abandoned her and
| she Is now living on charity.
|
Two British war ships have arrived
at Nicaragua to enforce the demands
| of Great Britain for satisfaction for
the expulsion of one of her consuls
The United States may become en-
broiled in the difficulty.
The talk about Waller whom the
French arrested at Madagascar. not
outstanding he is a citizen of the
| United States and an eX- consul, seems
to be without foundation. Waller
acted as a spy upon the French
troops.
Evan Lewis was defeated IN wrestling
match IN Chicago on Saturday night by
a man named Burns, one very much in
ferior to Lewis IN strength and agility.
! 1t Is charged openly that there was some
thing crooked IN the outcome, though
| there was fine exhibition of artistic
wrestling
A triple tragedy occurred at Camden,
| Ind, on Saturday last, A man named
/ Block took otfense because girl had &C
] cOmpanied another fellow to q ball, and
| threatened her Her escort interferred
when Block shot him. He then shot and
| fatally wounded the girl, after which he
| turned the revolver against his own body
and killed himself
Monterey, Mexico, enjoyed a sensation
| IN a bull and hon fight on Sunday last
| Three Thousand spectators were present.
| Strange as 1t may appear the bull had
the best of 1t though he fought an Afri-
can lion. The latter had the best of il
for some time but the bull broke his
| hold and then tossed him in the air. The
lion skunk away.
JOHN z. WALSH, who was proprietor
| of the Chicago Herald before its purchase
by Scott, 1t is sale mad planned to pur-
chase the consolidated plant and place
Henry Watterson at its head as editor-in-
| chief. 1t is too bad this plan miscarried
as under the leadership of Henry Waiter
son there would be democratic paper
| which could not be switched aside from
principle by any whispering of expedien-
cy. The danger is now that Chicago will
be swamped with mushroom concerns.
Indeed, reports are to the effect that there
is rush now to originate democratic
organs.
Durrant, the young man accused of
the murder of Miss Williams and La
mont in church at San Francisco,
appears to have been a thorough lib
ertlne. The number of young women
to whom he made indecent proposals
and who testify to that fact proves
this. Although be states that he had
not seen Miss Williams for three
weeks prior to the time of her muir
der, witnesses testify that they had
seen him with her the night she was
killed. The church in which the
crime was committed seems to have
been little less than an designation
house