The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-01-12
STATE NEWS

Alrn1, over five feet in length, was shot re-
Gently by PEEK county hunter.
A 1arge black bear. weighing 60 pounds,
was killed in Lincoln, last week.
r. O. Bentley and son Of Green Bay, died
within one day Of each other, last week.
The National Labor Union has made the
Oshkosh City Times its Official organ for the
State Of Wisconsin
Mr. Michel Bohan has purchased an inter-
Is. in the end du Lac Journal and assumes
the Office Of associate editor.
A Chester white hog is on exhibition At
Aliens meat market, GAINESVILLE, raised by A.
Hyatt Smith, which weighs 625 pounds.
The Madison Journal says that Justice
Paine, whose disease is erysipelas of the most
malignant form, still continues quite low and
in critical condition.
The Fond du Lac Reporter says that the
Touring mills on the small streams in that
county, have been compelled to suit work on
account of the scarcity of water
The confidential bookkeepcr OF c. J. l.
Meyer, the manufacturing prince Of Fond du
Lac. has been arrested on a charge Of embez-
Hing S13 0e' Of his employers funds.
The Oshkosh Northwestern saws that there
is lady in that city who has been married
three times twice from the same man, and is
now u widow.
The Racine Journal gives figures showing
that the manufactures of that city last year
amounted to So 456. 500, the largest item 81 :.
00o.s0o being threshing machines; the next,
$3.50 900, leather.
The Portage Register says that while Mr..
| Joseph Durham, residing in the town Of Paci.
6c while engaged in c1cavatirg for cellar, re-
/ Gently, he found q chunk Of copper ore,
weighing two and half pounds.
| The Oshkosh Times says that, on Saturday
| last as Mr.. Henry Lussen, painter living in
| that city. -cs talking with his wife and chill
/ dren before leaving for his work, he fell and
expired almost without Il struggle.
Owing to q lack Of soft water in their cis-
terms. many families at Madison are purchas-
| ing ice at dollar load The Democrat sd
vises its readers to wait for snow. which ii
says the oldest inhabitant' promises in a
very short time.
| The F ond du Lac Daily reports that Mrs.
I Van Colt, the first woman regularly licensed
to preach i, the Methodist church, and who is
| laboring in different parts of The country as
an evangelist, is preaching there. drawing
large houses, and awakening deep religious
interest
The Winnebago Press says: Mr.. Blan chard
the man referred to in our last issue, as hav-
ing lost his life at fire in Watertown on the
29th day of Dee. last, was step-son Of Elder
Hiram Marsh, of Neenah. His sudden death
has cast gloom over his many friends and
acquaintance.
On the West Wisconsin road, about IL
miles from Black River Falls, a man wa'
crossing q bridge he was overtaken by train
of cars He laid down on the cross pieces,
hoping to escape, but WAS struck by the pilot
| Of the engine and the whole train passed over
! him. Strange to say he was not killed, and
hopes are even entertained of his recovery.
On Saturday morning last, about nine
! o'clock, the grist mill Of Messrs Dayton &
4 Dewey, recently built on the North side Of the
/ river in the village of Wsupaca, took fire in
the roof from some unknown cause, and was
/ entirely consumed. 1t contained three run
of stone ard cost. it ID said $4,000. A tan
merry of a Mr.. Sholtz, opposite, also de-
stroyed.
A Weyauwega correspondent of the Osh
kosh Northwestern says p'rties have beer
surveying along the proposed route Of the W
P and r. X. from Doty's Island to Ste
vens Point, during the past summer. TIL,
right of way and stipulated subsidies have
been voted. and the work Of building is abou
20 commence. 1t is proposed to build a first
class trunk road having a grant of 200 ',oOt
acres of land Of the very finest quality. mostly
pine Leaving Doty's Island it passes neal
Young's Corners to Weyauwcga, thence t.
W2upaca, by way of Amherst to Steven.
Point, where it forms junction with DC
to be built from Portage. continuing on t
some point on Lake Superior, probably Bay
field