The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending July IL.

in New ork from Europe.
Charles Graham. the well-known bal
lad writer, died in New York.
There is a remarkable epidemic of
lockiaw in New York and vicinity.
Gen. Joseph f. Wheeler left Washing
ton en- route for the Philippine islands.
At Crawford, Miss, Shields Irwin and
+. \. Tarleton shot each other to death.
The will of Robert c. Billings, the
wealthy Boston merchant, leaves ST.
COO. 900.
Bud Brake was shot to death by a
mob at Corning, Ark, for completely in
a murder.
The year 1899 will be known as the
banner year for the lumber business in
Minneapolis
Orders have been issued for the re-
sumption of all idle coke companies
in the country.
Eight hundred employees of the tin
mills at Lisbon, o., struck for recognl-
ton of their union.
Herbert NJ. Hartman. of New York,
won in Chicago the amateur golf cham
pionship of America.
Fire in a tenement building in New
York resulted in one death and in fatal
injuries to four persons.
Albert Smith, middle-aged negro,
was hanged in the county Jail at Harris
burg, Pa, for wife murder.
Forest fires in the mountains west of
Anaconda, Mont, destroyed thousands
OF acres of valuable timber.
Mai. Joseph lIeatwole, chief commits
sary in Santiago, died of yellow fever.
He was a resident of Indiana.
The war department announces that
the customs receipts at the port of Ha-
vana for June were $1,012,S99
4 heavy earth slide in diamond
mine at Cape Town, Africa, killed II
men and 16 others were missing.
4 freight train carrying six cars of
horses was wrecked at Moors, New, and
nearly all the animals were killed.
The Citizens national bank at Niles,
Mich. was obliged to close its doors
owing to a run on the bank by deposit
orS.
Inquiry at the banks of Omaha, Neb.,
and of Council Bluffs, Ia, reveals the
prevalence of famine of paper cur
rency.
Grand Duke George AleNandrovitch,
brother of the car of Russia died at the
imperial palace in the Caucasus, aged
81 years.
Henry Singletery, a member of the
Georgia legislature, was assassinated
while going from his store to his home
in Lacross.
Chales +. Gibbs, Al years of age, shot
and killed himself in Washington. He
was at one time proprietor of the
Ebbitt house.
AS a result of a strike the 90 largest
cigar factories in Tampa, Fla, insti-
tuted general lockout and 5000 cigar
makers were idle.
BY direction of the president the new
military post near Spokane, Wash, has
been named Fort Wright, in honor of
Gen. George Wright.
Judge Bischoff, of the supreme court,
dissolved the Judge Publishing com
pany in New York and appointed Will
liam j. Arkell receiver.
Heavy rain, together with a cloud
burst, completely flooded Lower Ger
mantown, Conn. and 400 residents were
driven from their homes.
James McAfee was hanged at Car
thage, Mo-, for the murder of Eben
Brewer, merchant of Joplin, whom he
attempted to rob July 30, 1897
George Coppell, chairman of the re-
organization committee of the Wiscon-
sin Central railway lines, bid in the
system in entirety for ST 100000.
Senator w. +. Sanford, millionaire
clothing manufacturer of Hamilton,
Ont, was drowned by the upsetting OF
a boat from which he was fishing.
The street car strike which has been
in progress in London, Ont, for several
weeks led to serious rioting and the
city was placed under martial law.
The Dstillery Company of America,
with an authorized capital of 125,0oO,-
coo. was incorporated in Trenton, \.
j., to manufacture and deal in whisky.