The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-10-31
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WISCOE SIN NEWS.


Smallpox has appeared in several
families in Pennington.
Fred. Rush, lately a woodchopper in
La Crosse, has fallen heir to $500. 900.
| Little VALLEY Gle, son of Abner Gle,
OF La Cros' &c, was accidentally shot by
another small boy named Elmer jack
son.
The wife of Jacob Eitler. of New
Holstein, was fatally injured, last week,
| by falling from a wagon.
Captain LoreUZen, OF the 9th Wiscon-
sin, while in the service and acting as a
lietenant, was shot in the head, near
the right temple. The doctors failed to
extract the lead at the time, and it kept
gradually working down his face. until
Saturday last, at New Holstein, it was
extracted from his ear The bullet was
iiattened. and appeared as if split in
| two.
Marsh fires are raging about Oshkosh
| The Lake Michigan schooner now be-
ing built at Winneconne is nearly ready
to launch.
G. N. Paine & Co.'S lumber yard,
wagon shops and tenement houses, in
| Oshk osh, were destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at $4,000 There was
an insurance of about S25, 900 on the
property.
Mir. Pfeil. of Sheboygan, had his
hands badly burned, few evenings since,
| by an explosion of rose oil lamp.
Two buildings were destroyed by a
| fire at Random Lake, on the line of the
| Milwaukee and Northern Railway, thir-
| tynine miles north eff Milwaukee, on
Wednesday evening Loss $4,000.
At Sheboygan Fails semi-monthly in
the Norwegian tongue, TO be called Era
Land og Ilave-The Land and Sea-
will appear on the first of November,
and after the first of January next a
German semi monthly will be issued
from the same office, under the title of
Das Weltall-the former to be edited by
Mr.. A. Hansen, the latter by Mr.. Oh.
Frohberg.
John Scott, of Eau Claire, has lost a
$500 residence by fire.
VIM. Spalding's tobacco-shed in the
town of Harmony was burned, together
with contents. Loss So, 800; about half
covered by insurance
j. z. Wheeler, one of the early sett-
lers of Rock county, soldier of the war
of 1912, died at his home in the town OF
La Prairie, On the Is inst, at the age
Of go. .esi1a.t .t4-
Oeento has new Scandinavian Church
nearly completed,
The telegraph line between Sturgeon
Bay and Ahnepee will be up by the end
Of the present month.
Anton Francl of WATERFOWL, has cap
tured large specimen OF the American
Eagle
The Oshkosh Northeastern says
1.-The cranberry fever RACES like the hop
fever of DID, Cranberries and pine land
appear to be all absorbing topics"
The La Crosse Republicans learns from
a gentlemen just returned from Clark
county, that fire is raging in the pine
ry. On Saturday it was reported that
fires were burning the roll-ways on Wedge
Greek, and it is feared a considerable
quantity of logs will be consumed. A
fire was reported On Cunningham Greek,
where there are a large amount Of legs
and standing pine. For four days the
smoke has been so dense as to obscure
the heavens and turn day into night.
The Durand Times says: last We'd
nesday VIM. Wirl, of this town, had his
right fore arm horrible torn by its being
caught in the gearing of threshing
machine separator. The flesh was torn
completely from the bone, and one of
the bones crushed to atoms. The arm
was amputated just above the elbow, aDd
Mr. Wirl is doing as we'll as can be ex-
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