The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-04-17
WISCONSIN, NEWS.

OpttdH ~ liuSSeH StOlt Et lNSucsili
was struck by lightning. and badly dam
aged. The counter was torn mp auc
goods thrown down and set on fire.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette estimates the
damage by the burning of Humes
planning mill and the Harris Manufactur
ing Company's establishment at $25, 600
The residence Of Thomas Burns. oi
Stock bridge. with nearly al! its conten nts.
was destloy by fire on Tuesday of last
week, while he was absent at the polls
Loss, about 5000 or LOCO He was
partially insured.
On Wednesday night of last week
John Kerriran, of Woodville, Calum ct
couuty had eight sheep killed and eigh
severely wounded by dogs.
c. w. ThurSton' majority for Conn-
ty Judge Of Calumet county is about 230
II is rumored that German paper
will soon be started in Stock bridge.
A young man named Ulrich was SO
yerely if not fatally stabbed in a salooL
row at Racine, on Thursday of last
werk
y Mrs LAWN, of Caledonia. Racine
county, was bitten by Il mad dog while
milking Il COW, on Sunday.
Highway robbers in Washington coun
rs.
Alf Goddard of Monroe, has gone to
Dakota prospecting.
Racine church property is worth a
quarter of 4 million dollars.
The hop yards throughout the state
have been badly damaged by frost.
A Menasha man SO years of age has
sold his homestead and gone west to
grow up with the country.
Watertown ewes railroad debt o;
5000 900 on an assessed valuation of 81,
100000 of property.
The towns of Racine. Caledonia and
Mt. Pleasant. have been sue FIR 500
600, bonds given in 1854 to help build
ara ir0it
The Chippewa people are charmed
with the idea that II IN Der will command
high price this summer. Spectators
from below are Offering more than the
ST. Louis Market prices at the mills.
Messrs. Danforth i, Griffin have sold
their mill in the town of Lawrence
/ Brown county, TO W. FL. Horton Il Bro.
Oh Appleton consideration $I9,0
G. 0. Chamberlain departed from,
Green Bay rather hastily, on Monday
owing various parties between s., ,00t
and $4, 200.
Emil Arnitz, six years old, was run
over at Eilborun City, on Monday, ans
| had both legs and his shoulder broken
| Bent Marcussen, Norwegian, wa
drowned In the Mississippi river, at L:
Crosse, on Tuesday night
At Wrightstown, Brown county
Hugh Finnegan, lately released from tn
| Insane Asylum at Madison, struck ]
Merrill on the head with large club
Merrill is not expected to live. Finne
| gan is under arrest. No cause for th
| act is known.
The two elks lately owned by John ]
Ross, of Mineral Point, and sold to C
Mapes, of Belmont, have been forwarde,
to New York, and thence are to be sen
to Vienna, to be present at the great ex
position.
Spearing fish by lamplight is the ia
vorite amusement at Berlin just now
As many as ninety have been caught b,
| one boat in q night.
Several cars were ditched near Blacl
River, sn the Green Bay and Lake Pepil
Railway a few days since. They wer
loaded with wheat.
The President has reappointed Johr
| G. Starkweather postmaster at Ocono
mowoc, and Chas. Franz at Kenosha.
] Aht oupCIlOt TtDOTtS DlldG JON
| O'Sagie and brother killed five moose
last week, at Poplar river, seventeen
miles down the south shore. Some O
them weighed 600 pounds. The mea
was brought to Superior, and prove,
very palatable eating. The same par
/ ties brought bear to terms during thei
hunt on the Poplar. They hear ais
/ that Alex Tourville, another of the MIN
{ r(adc oil IL <f 4
Aminicon, some twelve miles from tha
place.
The town of Lodi has just settled Will
Thos. McKeever and wife, for damage
! sustained by them in consequence of
defective highway, to the tune of $500
which was settled to save litigation.
Two fatalities occurred in Chippew;
! Falls last week. a man named Cool
fell from building and broke his neck
! Another named Mcdonnell suicided.
| The improvement by the government
| Of the locks on the lower Fox has beer
| commenced
The death of George Taylor, fornerl,
of Portage City, at the hands of the In
/ dams in Arizona, is confirmed.
| Winter wheat is reported badly injur
ed in the valleys in the vicinity of Maus
/ tou, Dttt iochIIlt3 well Oil the D1uuS.
/ Three cars were wrecked on FRIDAY
on the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way, near Roscoe, by run off.
| A shIngie manufacturer of Oshkosh
has received an order from q Chicago
| firm for ten million shingles.
The Sheboygan Manufacturing Com
pany have bought, during the past win
| ter, l, sos, 600 feet of lumber and logs
for which they have paid 1000. The
principal part of this money has beel
paid out in Sheboygan county.
| The Fond du Lac Rifles have receivet
their new arms-20 breeeh leaders ant
10 Springfield rifles
The Mineral Point Tribune state
that the strongest hopes are entertalne,
by the most thoughtful men Of low,
county, that twelve-month hence vii
sse them nd of railroad bond dificuI
sess ind ssstsxy srnsVnts ga1