The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Dec. 22.

the railroad depot, at Benson, N. G.
One hundred persons were made
homeless by fire at Millvale, Pa.
A plot to kill Gen. Morales, acting
president of San Domingo, was frus-
trated.
Sir Thomas Upton has announced
his readiness to challenge again for the
America cup.
By the sinking of the tugboat Matte
M. at Lake Concordia, Miss, six men
were drowned
John Stringer (colored) was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, for the murder Of
William O'Neal.
Three children of August Batteen, a
farmer of Allamakee county, Ia, were
burned to death.
Five thousand Crane employees in
Chicago will receive $250000 profits as
Christmas gift.
Three safeblowers robbed the Bank OF
Kennard, Neb., of $4,000 and escaped
with stolen team.
Actor Wilbur Todd killed himself with
property" revolver during perform
ance at Marion, Ind.
Martin Olson, John Rusk and Lars
Anderson were suffocated in a fire at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Anna Krenen wife of Fred krenen,
drowned herself and her two children in
cistern at Lesueur, MINI.
The board of lady managers Of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition decided
to ask congress for 100000.
William Grant (colored) was hanged
at cambridge, Ga, for the murder OF
James Bird, a white farmer.
r. j. c. Walters, member of the For
ty-seventh congress from Pennsylvania,
died in Philadelphia, aged IS years.
The American Baseball league meet
ing in Chicago ended with voting
President Johnson salary of $4,000.
Mrs Sarah Caswell Angel, wife OF
the president of the University of Mich
iean, died at Ann Arbor of pneumonia.
Viola Sands Hazard, thought to be the
oldest woman in Rhode Island, died at
her home at Wakefield. aged 105 years.
The negro problem has been solved in
North Carolina, according to Gov. Ay-
cock, by practically DISTINGUISHING him.
The invention Of telegraph system
that will send 5000 words a minute is
claimed by Patrick b. Delaney, Of New
York.
An earthquake has broken off the
southeastern peak of Mount Rainier ly
ing 60 miles southwest of Tacoma,
Wash.
Gen. John c. Black, of Chicago, sent
his acceptance to President Roosevelt OF
his nomination as civil service commits.
sioner.
United States Senator Dietrich in Oma-
ha pleaded not guilty to the indictment
on the charge of proliting by post office
leases.
Weekly trade reviews report heavy
consumption of merchandise. growing
ease of money and fewer commercial
defaults
Mrs. Harry L. Smith and her two
young children were burned to death by
a fire which destroyed their home at
Oaklane, Pa.
Judge Jonas Hutchinson, OF the Cook
county superior court, died suddenly al
his home in Chicago of heart failure
aged GO years.
At Appleton, Wis, the first divorce
ever granted an Oneida Indian was given
to Joseph Metoxen, aged So, from Lena
Metoxen, aged 81.
Funerals were interrupted and de-
layed and many dead were left I'M
buried as the result of the strike Of liv-
cry drivers in Chicago.
Fred Pfugradt, hardware merchant
in Chicago, disappointed because hii
wife gave birth to boy instead of girl
killed her and himself,
Rather than face cherries Christ
mas, Roscoe w. Derby, a Cleveland (OD
machnist. killed his wife and three chill
dren and committed suicide.
News of the passage by the United
States senate of the bill for reciprocity
between the United States and Cuba
caused rejoicing in Havana.
The Big Four railroad is reported to
have contributed $4,000 to the fund for
erecting a gymnasium at Purdue uni
versity in memory of the students killed
IN the Big -Four wreck last October.