The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-06-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


For the Week Ending June q.
Memorial day was generally OBJ
served throughout tho country.
Brsdstreet's reports wholesale
trade waiting on crop and labor de.
velopments.
Ex-Congressman Daniel H. Sumner
died at Waukesha, Wis, after o ling.
ering illness. . ,
Dennis Connolly, native Of County
Claire, Ireland, died In Elmira, N. Y,
aged lo3 years.
Nine head Of horses were burned to
death in fire at the race track at
Terre Haute, Ind.
Four men were killed and two bad.
ly burned by an explosion Of gas In
mines at Federal, Pa.
The city Of New York observed the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Of Its civic incorporation.
Two thousand acres of woodland
has been bought by the state of In.
diana as q forest reserve.
A ferryboat capsized on the River
Warthe, near Dembro, Prussia, and
20 children were drowned.
The governments weekly crop re-
port shows favorable conditions In
most sections of the country.
The Union Pacific strike that has
been on at all of the shops Of the
system has been declared of.
Forty persons were injured, some
seriously, in the wreck of an overland
train near Santa Barbara, Cal.
Victor Murdoch (rep.) has been
elected to congress from the Wichita
(Kan.) district by $4,000 plurality.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reibsomer cele.
brated her one hundredth birthday
at her home near Richmond, Ind.
Macedonian leaders threaten to in.
oculate all Europe with plague germa
unless their demands are granted.
An elaborate coast defense system
has been completed by the navy gen.
eral board snd working orders issued.
Henry Field, Will Terrell, Walter
Parker and D. b. Craig were drowned
at Tamaha, l. T., by the upsetting Of
boat.
Imports of manufactures materials
for the fiscal year will aggregate
$500,000,000. Previous records are
broken.
Edward West, IS years old, the first
teacher Of public school In the ter.
ritory Of Wisconsin, died at Apple.
ton. Wis.
The national encampment of the
Spanish-American war veterans will
be held in New Haven, Conn, Septem.
Der $3.50.
Six thousand laborers at the stock
yards in Chicago have been granted
increase In wages and danger Of q
strike is passed.
Plans have been completed by q sc.
cret organization with headquarter,
In Boston for a great negro exodus
from the south.
One negro was killed. two fatally
ahot and a third beaten, and three
white boys wounded In riot at the
Pittsburg (Pa.) bail park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Warren, OF
Lowville, N. Y. have started out fol
drive of 5000 miles. Their desti
nation Is Los Angeles, Cal.
Prof. Harvey I. Woodman, a world
famous authority in natural history
and scientific research, died at Mount
A national freight handlers move
ment for rs per cent, wage increase has
been planned In Chicago. Strikes will
be declared In one city at time.
Mormonism was denounced and the
United States senate urged by the
Presbyterian general assembly al
Los Angeles to expel Apostle Reed
Smoot.
The expectation of manufactures
in April was larger than in any pro.
ceding month In the history of the
trade with two exceptions-March
and May, 1900.
Statistics on 20,344 suicides In the
United States, complied by Prof. w. b.
Bailey, of Yale, show 31a males to one
female, and twO-thirds are between 20
and so years old.
Ruperto Rios, self-stylcd pope OF
Luzon," and leader Of Filipino in.
surgent band. has been sentenced to
hang and 81 OF his followers have
been given long prison terms.
THE MARKETS.