The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-06-09
SHORT SPECIALS.

Five hundred excursioniStS held
praise service at Rossville, Ind, after
their escape In train wreck.
Dearth of candidates for position OF
teacher in the public schools of Chica-
go compels Superintendent Cooley to
advertise.
freight collided with a work train
on the Southern railway near Har-
rodsburg, KY, killing two men and in
juring six.
Nearly 100000 acres Of public lands
are to be opened by the government
soon at maximum price of four dol
lars per acre.
The strike of the masters and pilots.
which is tying up freight traffic on the
great lakes, seems as far from settle
ment as ever.
Curtis Jet, under life sentence for
the murder of Attorney j. b. Marcum
at Jackson, has been taken to the
prison at Frankfort.
British officials believe peace treaty
between their country and America is
unnecessary, and it is declared that
none Will be undertaken.
All opposition to President Roose-
velt's choice of Secretary Cortelyou as
chairman Of the Republican national
committee has been withdrawn.
A Russian paid $4,000 for the last
sketch made by Verestchagin, the
painter who lost his life with Admiral
Makaroff on the Petropavlovsk.
William r. Hearst In an interview
said he put party success above hiso
candidacy. The trusts he declared to be
the leading issue of the campaign.
Mrs. Hannah Elias. charged with ex-
torting $685.. 600 from Millionaire Platt,
of New York, is declared to be under
the control of her Japanese servant.
The semi-centennial jubilee of the
University of Wisconsin began at Mad
ison with an academic parade and the
delivery # the baccalaureate sermon.
Striking cigar makers in Chicago
charge that manufacturers since 1898
have been using cabbage and celery
leaves as substitutes for Havana to-
bacco.
w. S. Smith, an American just ar
rived in St Petersburg from Port Ar
thur. says the citadel never Will be
taken unless the japanese sacrifice
thousands.
Formal presentation of the silver
service given by the citizens of Mis-
souri, to the battieship bearing the
name of their state was made at New
port News.
A windstOrm following n day of high
temperature unroofed three houses in
Brooklyn. tied up the rapid transit
system and imperiled small craft in
the harbor.
Reading matter for the blind, books
and manuscripts, in raised letters, may
be sent free through the mails, accord
ng to an order issued by Postmaster
General Payne.
The Spanish press believes that the
United States IS seeking a port on the
west coast of Morocco, and this this
nations precipitancy in sending fleet
there was to back up demands made on
the sultan.
Charles w Graves, who has been on
trial at Des Moines. Ia, charged with
the murder of his wife, was permitted
TO plead guilty to manslaughter The
limit is eight years. and 1T ia expected
he will receive that sentence.
Anton Elias was found guilty of the
murder of Abraham Coury, a country
man. by jury at Chillicothe, o. The
verdict recommended clemency, The
crime was committed last July and
was caused by jealousy over young
woman.
The trial of William l.. Reyes, Harry
Reyes. Wesley Johnson and Frank
Carroll charged with killing 400 sheep
and burning the sheep wagons of Max
well & Stevens at Tie Siding, Wyo.. on
the night of April rs last, has ended In
a verdict of not guilty.