The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-07-07
Wisconsin Items.

Two children Of Charles Otto, Sheboygan
county, were drowned in pond last week,
while bathing.
Charles Firstnow, of ond du Lac, while
leaving Sheboygan, the Herald says, fell from
the cars and was killed
The Durand Times says if rain does not
come very soon the entire crop of wheat and
oats will be destroyed.
The Wisconsin says there have alresdy been
more cases oc sun stroke this summer in Mil
waukee, than occurred any summer before for
twelve years.
The Racine journal says that on last We'd
nesday morning, a Bob emian found the body
of man on the beach about mile and half
north of the point.
The Fort Howard and Copper Harbor, L. S.
,, military wagon road hiss been completed 1913
miles to the Michigan state line.
The West Eau Clair News reports that the
weather still continues hot and dry, and crops
are suffering terribly for want of rain. The
hay crop will be a very short one
The Waukesha Plaindealer learns that
child about one year old, of Mr. Regan, of
New Berlin, was SO badly burned by drinking
hot tea on Saturday, that it died within few
hours
The preliminary survey of the Berlin, Wey-
auwega Lake Superior Railroad line has
been completed from Berlin to Weyauwega.
The Courant says the distance is 81 miles.
The Wisconsin Teachers association will
hold its eighteenth annual session at Water.
town CONNIE n cling Tuesday evening July
18th and closing Tuesday evening July 14th,
1870.
The names of those Sho graduated from the
Wisconsin Deaf and Dumb Institute last Wed
resday, are as follows
| Chas. Demarais, F ond du Lac: G. G French,
La Crosse W. H. Trowbridge, Augusta :;
Dennis Durick, Stephensville A. w. Goold,
Racine C. Balls, Milwaukee Joseph Mos
nat, Manitowcc Frank Hutson, GAINESVILLE :;
Maggie Hutton, GAINESVILLE Euphane Veider,
Berlin +; Agnes Sutherford, Jefferson.
The editor of the Mansion Star has recently
visited portions of Wonewoc, Plymouth, Hills
borough ard Glendale, and finds the crops
everywhere suffering for want of rain. 1.-THE
drouth continues, the yield Of wheat, oats and
potatoes must be below the average. The corn
is still looking we'll.
The Herald says the crops in Sheboygan
county and along the lake shore are splendid.
Our great lake has attracted copous showers,
and wheat and oo-n fields arc viewing with
each other in their luxuriancc and grcenn ess.
There is but one shadow upon this pleasant
picture the thought Of the complete destruc-
ton of the potato crop.
The Reloit Register wants all people there.
about to understand that notices of marriages
where no bride-cake is sent, will be set up in
small type, and poked in some outlandish cor
ner of the paper. But when the editor attends
the ceremony in prepria persona, and kisses the
bride, it will have especial notice, very large
type, an the most appropriate poetry that can
BE- begged, borrowed, stolen, or coined from
the brain editorial.
1t is said that not one hop yard in ten, in
the vicinity Of Mansion, in this state, will pay
Cor picking
| The large brick store of D. E. Miles & Bro -,
at Chippewa Falls, was destroyed by fire dur
ing the night of the 2Sth ult- with its contents
Loss upwards of $50 ,OOo-insurance $1,000
| At Fond du Lac, on the 9th ult., a German
| girl nam ed Minnie Klein, working in the fam
lily of Mr.. Stevens, undertook to light FIRE by
using kerosene. when the can exploded scat
tering its contents over her person, and burn
ing her SO terribly that she lived only six hours
Her ame was in Nanitowoc.
!, A singular accident occurred in the town o,
Plymouth, Sheboygan county, on the 9th ult.
Some persons brought re ceipt to Mrs Moeller
the drug store. She mixed the ingredients
as required, and, as they were mercury and
nitric acid, On immediate explosion following
burning her face, meek and hands severely
; siss Is seriously. IAoneA rot fatally injured