The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-07-15
STATE ITEMS.

Luc hHpletoH oSt says tHdl SEVER
al attempts at house breaking have been
made in that city.
The thermometer was up to 100 in
the shade last Friday.
"A young man named Huge Riley
was seriously injured by the premature
discharge of a cannon on the Sd inst at
Beloit.
The Sentinel of the 18th says that a
child some eighteen months old toppled
out of a rear third-story window Of Cas-
par Meyers brick block, on the south
side Of Market street, few doors above
Martin. and would have met with in
slant death, had not its mother, who
was engaged in the yard below, seen it
on the point Of falling and succeeded in
reaching the spot in time to catch it be-
fore it reached the ground. 1t is need
less to say that the mother almost swooned
through the excitement of the thrilling
moment, and that it was some time be-
fore she could give an account of the for
tunate escape of her darling.
The IslonI City Times has an ac-
count of a dastardly attempt to iijure
the millers and manufactures of Neenah,
by opening the dam and letting loose the
the water, which was made on Saturday
night last. 1t appears chat two men,
armed with axe and spade, and under
cover of the night, cut away the dam on
the ,uth side of the river, making a
passage about s feet in width and deep
enough to allow the water to run over,
which cut away the ground to the depth
of foot at the top and several at the
bottom. Had this vilainous attempt
succeeded, all the mills and factores on
the water power would have been com
PEELED to suspend work for several
months. For such characters, no pun
ishment is hard eLo gh.
We learn from the Shcboygan Coun-
ty Herald that The Detroit and Sheboy-
gan Transportation Compay is now fully
organized, a d starts out with brilliant
prospects for the future Mr.. J. RICH
ARDS, owner Of the first-class propeller
Benton, that plies between that city and
Grand Haven, is President. Messrs.
REED & HINCKLEY are freight agents,
while Mr.. J. O. THAYER is general
agent of the line. The Company have
been peculiarly fortunate in securing the
services Of 50 prompt and efficient an
agent. We extend to the city, the
line and its gantlemanly agents our cor
dial and hearty congratulations.
The same paper gives the particu
lars of a distressing casualty that happen
ed in New Holstein during thunder
storm not long since. Two young girls
were occupying the upper portion OF a
house, and one was seated near the win
dow sewing. The parents were in the
field near by. On hearing the report
they ran to the house and found the
girls Frustrated on the floor apparently
dead. The dress of the youngest, (about
10 years of age) was literally torn to
shreds and stripped from the body, and
the skin from the neck to the waist near
ly all torn off from the flesh. The hair
was matted into small knots and filed
with chips and splinters from the house
that was badly riddled. The older girl
was not so badly injured and soon recov-
cred. 1t was nearly two hours ere the
younger one showed any signs cf life.
She is still in very critical condition,
being very deaf. and her attending ply
sican thinks it very doubtful if she ever
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