The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-11-07
WISCONSIN NEWS.

| ported by the Durand Times.
! An enemy of Anton Faast, of Albany
set fire to his hay few days ago, de
stroying FIVE sticks.
A. FIRE in the Racine oil factory las
weefadamaged it considerably.
The failure of Bates & Hoag, leathe
dealers of Racine is reported.
Fond du Lac is going to lave a first
class lecture cousre this winter.
A Waupun steam Touring mill has
concluded TO try peat to burn under it
| boilers instead ofwood
Neenah has a Norwegian dramatic as
sociation.
The lumber-yard of Conlee & Bro.
Oshkosh, was burned on Tuesday.
A little son OF Joe Health, of Osh
kosh, was injured, probably fatally, b,
the kick Of horse or Saturday after
| noon last. --.-
The Grant County Herald says: eve
learn from Mr.. Jacob Kuenster that the
sheep focks of Blake's Prairie are suffer
ing fearfully from the depredations of 9
numb Der of dogs. Out OF his flock of 27
sheep, 81 have been killed. MIR. Nut
had fine lot Of $50, Of which he has
lost not far from one hundred head by
dogs and wolves. Mr.. Kidd had only 3,
but they were all killed, and James Orr,
who had quite number, also lost every
one. 1t is claimed that the bloody work
is begun by wolves, but that the dogs,
getting a taste for mutton from these
killed, go on with the slaughter, and
prove to be ten times as great an injury
to the farmers as the wolves
Arrangements have just been perfected
for the building of another large hotel in
Green Bay. .9 @
The new lighthouse or rather range
lights, at the Straight Cut on Grace
Island, were first lighted upon Wednes-
day night of last week.
Speaking of the Northern. extension,
the Green Bay Advocate says: About
fifteen miles of track are laid on the
Esca naba end, and trains were running
last week twenty miles from Menom-
inee.'
The ST. Paul Press says of the Wis
eonsin Central Railroad: NV ork is pro-
crossing at both ends of the line. but
at the north END, which is through an
exceedingly broken country. progress was
slow and track-laying has been delayed,
while an iron bridge l 500 feet long is
being built by the Buffalo Bridge Com
pany. This will be very substantial
structure and will cost 100000. The
grading is done six miles south of the
bridge, leaving twenty-one and one-half
to be built to reach Penoka Gap. Work
ing from the south, the road is complet-
ed fifty miles north of Stevens Point,
and ten miles more will be completed
this month, leaving gap Of ninety-one
miles to be built to reach the Gap, max
ing ll2 1-2 miles of uncompleted road
The connections of the Green Bay and
Lake Pepin Railway with other impor-
tant routes are given as follows in the
Green Bay Advocate AT Green Bay
it will connect with the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway south along the
Fox River Valley, and north along the
bay shore aud through to Lake Superior
1t will connect with the Milwaukee and
Chicago, north through the Menominee
iron mines to Lake Superior, and north
west through Shawano 1t will connect
with lines Of steamers to Buffalo and
to Chicago. By the Wisconsin Central
Railroad it will have another connection
with the Fox River Valley south and
Lake Superior at the north. By the
West Wisconsin Railway it will have
connections with the whole system of
railroads of the western portion of this
state 1t will also doubtless be directly
connected with the northern Pacific
Railway"
PERSONAL.
Miss Anna Lewis, late of Oshkosh, is
| now engaged in one of the Chicago
churches as soprano singer at salary OF
$500 per annum.
General Phil. Sheridan and G. L.
Wilson of the Chicago journal, passed
through Janesyille Tuesday afternoon on
their way to Lake Koshkonong.
Col. Edward Daniels, formerly State
Geologist Of Wisconsin, and. now editor
of the Virginia State Journal, Richmond,
is candidate for Congress in that dis
trict
General j. Proudfit, recently appointed
Surveyor General of New Mexico, has
sent home several valuable specimens OF
diamonds and other precious stones from
that country.
Prof. T. Cross, of Marquette, is te
make western tour this winter with his
two little girls, five and seven years old
giving musical exhibitions, such as have
during the past year. astonished the
people of very many places in Centra
Wisconsin.
The Door County Advocate says
Hon. w. B. Ogden has returned tc
Chicago from Puget Sound, Oregon,
where he has been with General Cass
President of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, to locate the Pacific terminus o
that national highway across the CONT
nent from Northern Wisconsin to the
Pacific Coast Mr. Ogden is expected
at Sturgeon Bay to examine the progress
of the canal work, and will, doubtless, bt
much gratifed at the large amount O
work done since he was upon the works
a few weeks since.
| GENERAL.
Janesvile has the horse disease.
| David Sherwood, of Berlin, has invent
ed brush mower. ~
The old Rasdall House, Madison, i
now known as the new Capitol House.
The Wisconsin tobacco product, thi.
| year, is estimated at twenty-thousanC
cases. the best in quality ever grown il
the state.
| The work of digging the ship canal to
connect Green Bay with Lake Michigan
by way of Sturgeon Bay is now beins
pushed forward with heavy force O
men.
Scarlet fever at Oshkosh and Platte
vile.
A Fond du Lac woman prays for /,
city hospital.
One hundred and fifty girls are giving
constant employment in the Appleton
woolen-mill.
Fred. Shoenharr, of the town of Ke
waskum, Washington county, lost hi
barn with all its contents, including foul
fat hogs, by fire, last week.
| The following Wisconsin patents Werf
ISSUED from the Uuited States Paten
Office for the week ending Oct. s, 1872
Power apparstus-George ". Vosburg
Sun Prairie. Swinging chair-Marl
H. Prescott, Jr., La Crosse. Water
Edward a. Russell; Milwaukee, Lo,