The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-04-07
SHORT SPECIALS.

Mrs. Anne Silverberg stepped on a
match and was burned to death in Chi.
cago.
Austria anticipates trouble in the
Balkans and is preparing to send
large army to the provinces.
The Pennsylvania railroad has de-
cided to instruct its operating en-
ployes in first aid to the injured.
Precautionary measures have been
taken in Russia against recurrence
Of the anti-Jewish riots of last year.
A syndicate is planning to compete
with the beef trust in America by inn
porting beef and mutton from Argen-
tina. n
Deposits in thirty state and fourteen
national banks in Chicago amount to
$529, 822,658 about the highest figures
ever recorded.
The impeachment of Judge Swayne Is
regarded as improbable, leading repub
llcan lawyers of the house holding the
evidence insufficient.
Oswald j. Miller killed himself in
his sWeetheart's home at Jersey City
because his pastor refused to marry
her to him, as she was divorced
The American hierarchy of the
Roman Catholic church will meet in
Washington next week for the first
time since the elevation of Pope
Plus X.
Changes in the rules for the air ship
contest at st, Louis extend the time of
receiving entries until June 1. The
prize for the highest altitude Is with
drawn owing to the danger.
Democratic harmony Is forecasted
by the meeting Of. the national COM
mittee In St Louis, and Chairman J.
X. Jones may retire TO further the
cause of unity in the party councils.
Twentyfour indictments were re-
turned by the Milwaukee Doodle grand
jury in two days Seven Of the ac-
cused men are charged with city graft.
The names Of the others are withheld.
notice of an appeal at New Haven
from the finding of the superior court
excluding from the Bennett will the
sealed letter giving Mr.. Bryan $4,000.
Two freight engines crashed togeth-
er in the Baltimore & Ohio yards at
Clarksburg. w. Va, yesterday in 4
rear-end collision, killing Thomas
Quinn, John O'Brien and Charles Shafer.
Trade between the United States and
Japan is growing more rapidly than
between Japan and any other nation,
one-third of the total exports of the
kingdom in 1902 coming to this coun-
try.
e. II. Hartman has sued in the fed
eral court for the return of the North
ern Pacific shares exchanged for
Northern Securities stock, instead of
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
stock.
The Southern Pacific railroad and
the newly organized Texas & Cuba To-
bacco company, of Nacogdoches Tex,
have arranged to bring over 200 Hol-
land families to cultivate land in the
tobacco district.
The Russian press discusses the
Tibetan expedition with great tenn
perance, and treats Lord Curzon's
warning speech with a sneer An UNI
derstanding between Russia and Great
Britain has been agreed ON.
Mrs. e. B. Hunter, wife of "a prom
inent business man of Memphis, Tenn,
committed suicide at the Grand hotel
in Cincinnati in peculiar manner.
She secured a large collection of roses.
which she wreathed about her head
and then shot herself
The president of the Federal Trust
company. OF Cleveland, which failed
last Thursday, has sworn out a war;
rant for the arrest of George F.. Clew-
ell, the missing treasurer of the COM
pany, charging embezzlement His
shortage is said to be $4,000