The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-09-04
WISCONSIN, NEWS.

arms broken by fall in La Crosse.
The Oshkosh Northwestern says: 81
I will be remembered that about two week,
, ago man named Brown had all the
fingers of ore hand taken off in Clark
match factory. Working near him was
young girl about Is years Of age, nam
ed Maggie Ray, who was so affected by
the sight and the occurrence that i.
preyed upon her mind until she was OBJ
liged to be carried to the insane asylum
on Monday"
The aite<ian we'll at the Northern In
sane Asylum is GAG feet deep, and dis
charges water at the rate Of 100000 gal
ions Per day. 1t is necessary to have
100000 gallons per day, SO the we'll will
be deepened still
One hundreds cords ofwood belonging
to the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way Company, were destroyed by fire at
| Watertown on Sunday.
An Escanaba, telegram says: THE
body of section man named Patrick
Rogers was found on the railway track
near Partridge Several trains had
passed over and horribly mutilated him,
in fact cutting him all in pieces. The
remains will be brought here to-day on
the passenger train.
John Shields. German, aged about
35, and single, was seriously, and it is
thought fatally injured, by runaway
team at Appleton. He was thrown be-
tween the horses, and the wagon passed
over him. Shields served FIVE years in
the late war, and took part in twenty
seven battles, receiving several wounds.
The tobacco harvest has fairly begun
in Rock county.
Otto Schenberger died from the effects
of sunstroke in West Prairie, Vernon
county, last week. .ss
Black River is very low at this time
at the boom in Onalaska there are l00.-
900, 900 feet of logs, and it is estimated
that not over 25 per cent. OF that amount
are ahoat. The water is SO low at the
boom that logs cannot be foated out,
hence rafting waits until a raise comes
The Review boasts that the village of
Evansville has a cucumber that measures
FIVE feet three inches, which was raised
by the postmaster.
The Hazel mine furnishes the Galena
market about fifty thousand pounds of
pig lead per day for shipment.
The hop pickers have began their
work. The crop is reported light, the
result of drouth.
A st. Louis man has let the contract
to build a $4,000 hotel on the south
shore of Green Lake. By another season
visitors to that lake will find ample ac-
| commodations.
| A new post office has recently been
established in the town of Herman. 1t
is known as Huelshurg.
5000 people attended camp meeting at
Sharon, Walworth county, on Sunday.
Wheat yields all the way from twenty
! 70 h,,s alc ho
county.
The yield of some wheat fields in Fond
du Lac county, this season, was thirty
one bushels per acre.
Five wheat stacks and stack of oats
belonging to Mr.. Charles Clark, of Wi
nooski, Sheboygan county, were destroyed
by fire last Friday.
Melvin Mayhem, a resident of the town
of Greenbush, Sheboygan county, was
kicked in the face by horse ore day
last week aud SO badly injured that it is
feared he cannot recover. His jaw was
fractured in three or four places.
A young man named Doherty died In
the town of Mitchell, Sheboygan county,
last week, from the effects of sunstroke
A team of horses was stolen from the
stable Of A. Huett, of the town Of Alma,
last Wednesday night.
Beaver Dam was visited by burglars a
few nights since.
The blast furnace of Appleton, turns
out thirty tons of pig iron every twenty
four hours.
Bath, of the Columbus Democrat, says
'old Mother Earth is now as dry as any
| doctrinal sermon we eyer heard.
The officers ofthe Fond du Lac County
Agricultural and Mechanical Society have
nearly completed the ARRANGEMENTS for
the 2lst Annual County Fair. to be held
in Fond du Lac on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, September 18th, 18th and
10Th.
Herman Iche, a German boy fifteen
years old, was killed by threshing ma
chine accident in the town of Osborn,
Outagamie county, On Tuesday.
During the past few days fire has ragged
in the hay and cranberry marshes stu
ated between New Lisbon and German
and cranberries.
| Reports from the cranberry marshes
are not very encouraging at this writing.
1t is feared that the berry crop will be
light, on account of the drouth.
The Racine Advocate publishes adver-
tisemcnts in the Welsh language.
The Bantist State Convention meets iu
Waukesha on the lst of October next.
/ One man in Columbus has this SUM-
mer grown fifty bushels of cucumbers
from three hundred hills.
Patrick Joyce, brakeman on the West
ern Union Railroad, was severely injured
by the cars at Beloit, Thursday.
James S. Smith, the walker, has been
engaged by the Racine County Agricul-
tural Society to attend during the fair
and perform his wonderful fea:s of walk
ing.
A German boy named Herman Tche,
of Appleton. accidentally got his foot
caught in a threshing- machine cylinder,
the other day and received injuries
which proved fatal.
The posters and programme for the
Dane County Frir. which will be held
in Madison on Sept, Is, II, and Is, are
out The Society offers $4,000 in gener-
al premiums and $3.50 in special pemi-
ums.
On Monday last the scaffolding around
the frame of the new paper mill at
Kaukana gave way, carrying with it three
men. viz. John Bowers. Johe O Brien.
Hoffman All were very badly hurt.
Hop picking in Wauke-ha will begin
this week. The crop will be about one
half to twothirds fwhat IS was last year.
The quality will be good, and, on the
whole, much better than was anticipated
few weeks ago.
In the Forth District, in Dane country,
the Republicans have placed in nomin-
alton as candidate for the Assembly,
Hon. Carpus E. Lovcland, of Rutland.
David NJ. Lay, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Depere and Brown county, is
dead
A spring of magnetic water has been
struck at depth of 35U feet, on the
premises of b. Wild & Co, in Fond du
Lac, which raises stream thirty feet
above the rurface. Fond du Lac is wild
, over the discovery. Hundreds of citizens
, are visiting the well, and every man is
3 going to have fountain in his yard and
| (. reservoir in his chamber.
The city fathers Of She oygan have JUS
, acoe pied frst-elass steam fire engine o
the SiIsbee pattern.
! The Ashland Press reports that there
E is a large windfal, several miles south o.
the Range, estimated to, be three mile.
in length. The engineers. in locating the
line of the Central through this mass o