The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-04-03
WISCONSIN NEWS.

ter, Rock county, accidentally shot md
killed himself while hunting neac Mag
nolia Station, on Thursday.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette states that
Fred. Buck, a freight conductor on the
q. & n. w. r. r. was seriously iniur
ed in the head, on Friday, while coup
ling cars at Crystal Lake.
From the Sheboygan Times we learn
that the high water has carried a portion
Of the Onion river, Our Town, and Mr.
Giddings' dams away.
& Il. Crane consents to be a candi
date for the office of Mayor, at the Spring
election in Green Bay.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Lewis. re-
siding in the town of NinelanG, Winnie
bago county, celebrated their silver wed
ding by a pleasant social gathering at
their residence.
Asaph Green is the czndidote for
County Judge in Calumet county.
A fire at Grand Rapids, on Sunday
morning, destroyed the Star Saloon,
drug store of I'll. B. Philleo & Co., jew
ery establishment of Stowell & Lord.
and vacant building adjoining The
flames crossed Front street and destroyed
the stores of VIM s. Miller and L. B.
Warren The buildings, except one.
were all owned by John Rablin, who
loses So 800. The total loss is estimat
ed at Sl5 900.
The Shawano Advocate states that a
bull moose was killed by the Indians
last Tuesday, near Rice Lake. He was
alone, and is supposed to have wandered
through from the Lake Superior regiou.
AThe Burnett saw mill, at Armstrong,
Wright county, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday night.
The Baptists of Long Prairie, Todd
county. are making preparations for
building a church to cost 50, 500
The st. Paul aud Pacific Railroad
Company are building fifty fat boats
at Breckenridge for the Red River trans
portation business. -...
A mad dog was killed in Racine last
Sunday.
Two little tugs and two scows are be-
ing built at Appleton for Government
use, to ply on the Lower Fox.
On Monday morning the stave factory
of John Aud, at Kaukauna, was burned
to the ground. The loss was about
$4,000. Insurance $1,000; machinery
saved, 81 900.
The factories at Menasha are bringing
in their logs by rail from the woods north
and west of Stevens Point, and find that
mode OF carrying to compare favorably.
as to expense, with the old system of
water transportation.
Eli Stilson, of Oshkosh, returned a
few days since from Kentucky, where
he went to inspect the great herds OF
fine Short horn cattle, for which that
state is noted. He brought back splen
did Short-horn bull, called London Duk G.
Mr. -. f,I
exhibited great curiosity in the shape
of lamb with five legs, no mouth, and
the eyes on the underside of its head
1t will meyer follow Mary, as it died
shortly after its entry into this sinful
world
A few days since, a man named Alex
ander Smith, while sick with small pox
at Ritchie's S camp, near Green Bay, be
came delIrious. and jumped from win
dow almost naked. He wandered around
about an hour, when he returned and
dropped down dead from exposure.
The West Bend Democrat SAYS
"Wenzel Wachtel of this place, and
another carpenter whose name We did
not learn, were seriously injured by being
struck by falling timbers while they were
engaged raising the bents of the railroad
bridge at Young America last Thursday.
Mr. Wachfel had his leg badly bruised
and the other man received injuries
about his head"
H. King of Clarne, has a SOW of the
Pollen China breed that had twenty-one
pigs on the 18th inst
The new telegraph line being put up
from Green Bay to Negaunee is progress
ing, and the wire has already been
stretched to Negaunee The line will
be in working order by the latter part of
this month.
The La Crosse Republican says it is
currently reported that the Milwaukee
and St. Paul Company has traded their
road on the west side of the Mississippi
river, between La Crosse and Winona,
with the Northwestern for the Cut Off, ;"
Monroe S shlngle mill, in the town Of
New Denmark, Brown county, was en-
tirely consumed by fire last Friday The
cause of the fire is not definitely known
but il is supposed to have caught in the
fire room. Loss about $1,000; no in
surance.
The Grant County Herald says
From general report we learn that the
past winter has been very severe on small
game Hundreds of quals and patridg-
es have been found under the snow frozen
or dead from starvation Rabbits and
squirrels have died from similar causes.
The Janesville Gazette says: ''Beni.
Harrison lost his COW the other day, and
after looking all over town for her he ac-
cidentally discovered the missing bovine
in the upper story of his barn, among
the hay. She had gone up the stairs
and was enjoying unlimited rations of
timothy"
Miss Cordelia Fish, an Evansville lady,
has completed a bed-quilt that contains
3,762 pieces
Gov Washburn has rcappointed the
Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Institute
at Delayan.
Nicholas Renter. of Port W ashington,
has been sentenced to the State Prison
for twelve months for larceny.
Mrs. Suydam, of Clifton, Pierce coun-
ty, has brought an action in the Circuit
Court, against Jacob Cook, for selling
liquor to her husband. She alleges
damages to the extent Of 5000.