The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-01-13
GENERAL NEWS.


1t is predicted by those in position to
know, that the Cuban war will be ended
inside OF g month.
The glrI who was kiile,. at Algonquin
last Monday was murdered by her step
mother who gave out the report that 1t
was the work OF tramp.
Mrs Mack who was implicated with
William Thorne in the murder of Guild
ensuppe in New York, was sentenced to
ID years Ia the state prison.
A day coach went through bridge near
Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday after
noon. Two persons were seriously H.
Jufed and elthteen others, slightly.
There is an eDidsmic of lynching at
Bearden, Arkansas. Four negroes have
been iynched there within the last few
days. Two were raplsts and two murder
erS.
1t seems that Col. Ruiz who was
tried by court-martial by the Cnbans
and shot had boosted he could seduce
Cuban leader and set out with that
purpose in view.
A crematory has been found in Cali
fOrnia which will care for the body of
Darrant who was executed last Friday
for the murder Of Blanche Lamont
1t is at Pasadena.
1t Is announced that me Rothchilds
Will build railroad into the Yukon
| country over the Daltow trail. The road
| Will he 400 miles long and its estimated
cost will be SS,000,000.
Durrant was executed on Friday last
he delivered passionless speech on the
soatfold. The cemeteries refused to take
the body and the crematories likewise re-
fuse to have anything to do with it.
Russell Sage with money to the
amount of S50,00O,000 is no longer a
power in financial matters IN New
York. He has been dropped from a
number of companies through which
he operated.
A girl threw vitriol in the face of a
young clerk at Paris on Saturday last
and then stabbed him. He shot her
as she was running away and then sat
on her head and put three more bull
lets in her body.
Francis Newton a prosperous farmer
OF Brooktield Mass his wife and their
| ID year-old child were found dead in their
beds on Monday last. They had been
killed with an axe The hired man is
suspected as he is missing.
Corbett has made a last desperate eff
fort to get fight with Fitzsimmone. He
offers now to add $4,000 TO the purse for
$4,000, making $4,000 in all, which he
will give to Fitzslmmons if he Is not
knocked out q ten rounds.
An unusual alteration took place in
a court room at Susanville, California
on Saturday last. A Judge descended.
from the bench and struck an attorney
whom he had fined for contempt
The lawyer attempted to strike back
but was prevented by an officer
William Gipp who three years ago,
at Buffalo, shot and killed his mother
and wounded his father. and then fell
into state of coma. revived last Sun
day. He found it difficult at first to
frame a sentence but has now recover
ed his speech. He spent three yaa1s
unconscious.
lhe hiOndlkers are now Id no danger
OF starvation. Large herds of moose and
carlboo have passed the district and have
been slaughtered by wholesale. Meat has
dropped to 40 and 80 cents per pound
Moose meat is said TO be the most de
llclous in the world.
Early on Sunday morning a man was
seen punching hole in the ice In the
Missouri river. near st, Joseph. When
the hole Was made he was seen to shove
child into it. The man who Witnessed
the hendIsh proceeding sent boy to no.
tlfy the police and then gave the murder
er chase.
AT Algonquin, ILL.,, tramp asked
little girl for bread. Before waiting
for her answer he shot her and then
choked her to death Then he fired
al her mother but missed her. He
then fired the building but the flames
were extinguished.
There is an uprising Of the Seminole
Indians at Oklahoma. Two of their
number had been lynched and the tribe
set out to avenge them. A reign of ter
ror prevailed at Earlboro upon which the
Indians are marching. 1t is said that %
persons have already been killed.
A travelling doctor with medicine
company which gave an exhibition at
a town near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. last
Saturday, decoyed three little girls
behind the curtain and after the peo-
pie left assaulted one of them. A
mob quickly surrounded the building
and the doctor was in serious danger
of being lynched.
Patrick Largely, president of the Saw
lnRs Bank of Butte, Montana, was shot
and killed 10y Thomas Riley on Tuesday.
Riley called Largey to the cashiers win
dow and fired at him. The bullet shat
tered the arm, a second bullet struck
Largely In the forehead and be fell dead
Riley had lost leg Id an explosion which
occurred IN building of which Largely
was manager and be wanted satisfaction.