The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-11-20
WISCoNsIN NEWS

the storm OF tuesday night, amounted TO
eleven inches. At Fond du Lac eight
inches of snow fell.
Some few of the Oshkosh lumbermen
are getting their crews together for the
campaign among the pines.
Daniel B. Benedict. the register Of
deeds OF Kenosha county. and resident
of Kenosha, attempted to kill himself on
" ednesday morning by cutting his
throat with a pocket knife. He was pro-
baby temporarily insane. 1t Is thought
that he cannot recover. The event has
cast gloom over the whole community.
Ice formed at Green Bay, during We'd
nesday night, sufficiently strong to bear
the weight of a man. The river Was
frozen over af far as the lighthouse.
Navigation on Lake Winnebago and
Fox river has closed for the season.
Under the act passed by the Legisla
ture last winter, Gov. Washbnrn has ap
pointed the following gentlemen directors
of the State Prison. to hold Office two,
four and six years Hon. U. d. Mihiils.
Of Fond du Lac; Col. Ed. E. Bryant, Of
Madison; William Hobkirk, Esq. of
Waupun. The directors have authority
to appoint a warden and clerk for the
term of three years. The law referred to
abolished the State Prison Commission
er s Office, and authorized the appoint
ment of directors 10 his place.
A Racine man was told he could clean
out his stove with very little trouble by
putting in a little powder. He put in
cleaned out
The footing up Of expenditures on the
Sturgeon Bay Canal during the past sea-
IL h,, rf
SI04, 800 This amount has been real
lied from the following sources:
From Loans .......................S58 .983. "a
Sales of Land by otate........... 25,53l Oh
Total ......--........-.........$ lO4, 0OO- w
This does not include the work by the
Government on the harbor at the Lake
Michigan end, amounting to $45 200,
which makes the expenditure on the
canal and harbor $4,000.
A wheat warehouse has been opened
at Preston, on the line of the Green Bay
and Winona Railroad, in Trempealeau
county. 1t is estimated that there are
200, 900 bushels of wheat to be marketed
at that station.
A child of James Ferguson acciden-
tally fell into kettle of hot swill, at
so badly scalded that it died in few
hours.
The Hon. I. G. Sion has been serious
throat. but is now better.
The station at Plymouth was entered
by burglars on Wednesday night, and re-
e th ohan lo
drawer, $25.
A man named Ingersoll was tried at
Chiffon, few days since. for stealing a
horse. The Jury, after being out sever
al hours, disagreed, whereupon Ingersoll
pleaded guilty and received sentence.
The West Wisconsin Railway Compa-
ny are building $50. 900 round house at
Eau Claire.
According to the Stevens Point Jour
nal, the track of the Wisconsin Valley
Railway is laid to within four miles of the
Wisconsin Central road.
A fire at Winneconne, on Tuesday last,
destroyed the residence of H. Carley, a
warehouse and grocery store. Loss $500
Noah Davenport, a hard working, in
dustrlous and worthy citizen, was caught
by the gearing in his MILL in the town of
Union, Rock county, and most horribly
mapgled, When found one arm was torn
off, one leg was entirely severed from his
body, and the back part of his head
smashed. The gearing was covered with
clots of hair, blood and mangied flesh
1t is supposed that he went into the up
per room to oil, when he was caught by
the machinery, and being alone, no aid
could reach him and he was ground as
fine as the machinery could DO it, and its
work was most thoroughly done. hlr.
Davenport leaves a family.
The express train coming east on the
Milwaukee and St. Paul R. R., ran into
wagon crossing the track near Kilbourn
City, Friday morning, The wagon, with
the woodwork on it, was smashed into
kindliDg wood, one of the horses had a
leg cut off, and the other was considera
bly, cut up. Fortunately no person was
injured.
A Norwegian, named Ole johnson,
employed in Hayden's camp, in Clark
county was killed by falling limb. last
week. While chopping at the foot Of a
tree, large limb, from above struck him
on the back of the neck, breaking the
vertebra, causing instant death.
Hundreds of deer were carted through
Neillsville, Clark county, last week.
AT Menomonie, last week. man nam
ed A. Simpson attempted to commit
suicide by taking strychnine In saloon.
A physician was summoned in time, and
his life was saved.
1t is estimated that fourteen or fifteen
thousand bushels of fax seed we're grown
In St. Croix county this season. About
half that quantity has been marketed.
The bonds voted by the city of La
Crosse to the Transit Company, for the
purpose of bridging the Mississippi,
were ordered cancelled at recent meet
ing of the Common Council of that city.
The Green Bay Iron Company will
buy about twenty-one thousand cords OF
wood during the coming winter, for their
own consumption, about seven thousand
cords of which will be drawn to the fur
mace by teams this winter.
Nearly eighty million feet of lumber
were cut by the mills in West Eau Claire
this season,
At Green Bay, on Sunday, two little
boys, sons of Leopold Fontaine, while
playing upon the ice .'on East River.
with sleds, broke through and were
drowned.
The Green Bay and Minnesota Rail-
way will be completed this week to its
terminus, within four miles of Winona.
About A. NJ. Sunday fire in Green
Bay destroyed dwelling owned by s..
Van Dyke, and occupied by f. S. Ellis.
Total loss, on building and furniture,
s., 500.
A two-yea-old daughter of family
named Mcintosh fell into q tub of not
Water in Oshkosh, on Saturday, and was
so badly scalded that she died.
Nineteen steamboats, and tugs are in
winter quarters at Oshkosh
Mary Ann Steele, widow of the lsta
John Steele, died IN the town of Delton,
Sank county, on Wednesday, the 18th
inst, aged 100 years, II months and 8
days. She was the second wife of Mr..
Steel, and was the motLer of IA chill
dren. Her husband died last April, at
the ripe old age of 113,
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