The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-01-10
GENERAL NEWS.

The town of Decatur, Texas, was al
most wholly destroyed by fire on Tues
day.
a bill will be introduced at the CON-
ing session of the Legislature to tax
church property.
Pittsburg is threatened with food.
Heavy rains in that section have caused
the rivers to rise.
Judge Grosscup has denied the motion
to quash the decision against Debs. The
latter is now IN jan.
Bob F1tzsimmons was in Milwaukee
last week. He Is confident he will win
the fight with Corbett.
The boiler of steam boat burst near
Rio Janerio on Tuesday last ard 100 peo-
pie who were aboard loet their lives.
There are FIVE candidates for election to
the Z. S. Senate in West Virginia. The
notorious Steve Elkins is in the lead.
Prof. Zastrow OF the State University
has become insane. He was professor of
psychology and is yet quite young man.
A duel with pistols was fought between.
two officers of the German navy at Gee
setemunde on Monday last. One was
killed.
Geo. W. DAVIS, a railroad claim agent
shot and killed himself at Cleveland,
Ohio, SO as to escape marrying girl whom
he mad promised to marry.
The japanese committed great many
atrocities after the capture of Port Ar
thur. The capture of this place will
probably terminate the war.
A woman in Utica, n. Y, shot and kill
ed'her husband on Sunday morning. She
then wounded her mother-in-law. She
says the woman made trouble in the
family.
One of the heaviest rainfalIs ever
known in that region, occurred at Gin
cinnati on Sunday last. 1t rained steadily
% hours and the fall was three and one
half inches.
DR.. f. l.. Harrod of Harrodsburg, Ky.
was shot and instantly killed by Sheriff
Arsdall on Friday last. The doctor had
opposed the reelection OF the sheriff and
thus feud had arisen.
A prominent labor leader named Breen
who went from Butte, Mont, last Novem-
Der to attend labor convention at New
Orleans, has not since been heard from
and it Is feared he has met with foul
| play.
Two men engaged in a duel in a saloon
at New Orleans on Saturday night last
and both were killed. The quarrel grew
out of the fact that one of the men, a des-
peraco, had been intimate with the others
daughter.
Two negroes who were engaged in q
crap game at Charleston. No, on Satur.
day last got into a row and blazed away
at each other. 1t WAS in the heart of the
city and several people were wounded.
Miners at Dubois, Penn, who are out
on strike held meeting last week and
r-solved to hold out until starvation
drove them to work. They had resumed
work IN June, having been out on a strike
the early part of the year.
Brazifis in the throes of another rev.
olutlon. The people of large section
of Brazil have seeded, declaring their
independence and organized separate
republic. President Moraes says he will
use the whole power of the republic to
crash the revolution.
State Treasurer Taylor of South
Dakota stole S35O,00O of the state
FUNDS and then fled from the country,
Mrs. Ida Weinberger, BRIDE of six
weeks, committed suicide at her home in
Chicago, on Monday, by taking a large
dose of carbolic acid. She had lived 10
Milwaukee before her marriage She left
letter stating that for four years she
had planned taking her own life.
The sugar planters OF Louisiana tried
to get an order of court to compel Sec.
rotary Carlisle to continue paying them
the bounty on sugar, Notwithstanding
the repeal of the law. But the court re-
fused to grant the order.
A row took place between two'pol1ce-
men and fifteen soldiers at Fort Sheridan
on Tuesday night. The soldiers were put
to flight three of them being seriously
wounded. The two policemen are like
wise wounded. They claim the soldiers
were bolsterous and attacked the police
when they tried to quiet them.