The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-08-07

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| Justice BHrlinRaDe, of Sparta, married
Jacob Waltburger aua Martha Slough
! ton, aged respectively so and 50 years,
| the other day. 1t was one of the old. old
| stories. Poor Commissioner Tsham had
mplained of them
The Kentucky giantess, accompanying
Bailey circus, was upset in her carriage
| between Darlington and Platteville, and
is now at the latter place unable to BE-
removed
The Normal School 10 Oshkosh con
nences its fall term on Tuesday. AueuS;
26th.
The Depere News has been enlarged.
Horse thieves are operating in Kcno-
sha county.
The Advocate eDumerates, in a modest
way, the wants of Sturgeon Bay They
are; a steam ferry, Il railroad to Green
Bay, blast furnace and iron works. q
furniture factory. a wooden ware factory,
sash, door and blind factory, tanneIy.
shiryard and dry dock. -
Sheep are being killed by wolves in La
Crosse county
A lad named Michael Kearns was bad
ly injured at Madison, Thursday, while
seaiing ride on the cars
Henry G. Batteff. farmer near Ber-
lin, had twelve sheep killed aud one bad
~ injured. out of flock of one hundred,
by the lightning on Thursday of last
week. One sheep had its head smashed
to pieces and the neck split down to the
brisket, while no mark could be seen on
any of the others.
Two GAINESVILLE saloon keepers have
yielded 10 the moral effect Of the female
tenn perance demonstration. They ex-
press their intention to leave the city or
get into some other business.
A lump copper, weighing SO pounds.
was recently found on farm in Kewau
nee county. .
A Dane named O. Z. Hanson was
drowned at Dexterville, Wood county,
one evening last week, while bathing in
the Yellow river He was single man,
and his people live at Scandinavia.
The barn, hay stacks. three horses,
plows, etc belonging to P. O. Barrett,
living three miles north of Evansville,
were burned on Tuesday. No insurance
A boy named Dorsey, was killed in the
town of Jackson, Washington county,
last Monday, by log rolling from a
wagon on his breast
Manager Hark ness, at the wooden mill.
in Berlin, is husr packing woo! for shipp-
ing In all, 70. 900 lounds of wool have
been purchased at the mills this season,
40, 600 pounds have been shipped. and
the balance retained for working in the
mills.
On Tuesday morning of last week, a
son of Chas. Kelly, postmaster at Cam
bria. fell into well forty feet deep,
about mile from the village. He was
much bruised but will recover
Major Houston has ordorde that the
locks on the Fox River improvement,
from Menasha to Wrightstown, be clos
ed to navigation on August Goth, for the
remainder of the season.
Rev. Herbert Hanscomb died at Ma
shotah, July 10th. i.
A highway robber has been chuckei
into Jail at Wausau
Mrs. Van Cott will labor at Brandon
sometime this month.
The fruit crop in the vicinity of Wau-
kesha will be very light tl>
A man near Ahnapee suspects he has
struck a copper mine on his farm.
Grasshoppers have been doing great
damage to the oats in Columbia county,
The potato crop of Fond du Lac county
will be immense. says the Fond du Las
Reporter.
A little daughter of Peter Lehman
was fatally crushed by the cars at Chill
ton. Thursday
The Fond du Lac County Fair will be
held In Fond du Lac, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, the 18th, 10th and Goth
of September,
A badge designed by Lieut.. H. B.
Harshaw, formerly Sergeant Major Of
Second Wisconsin, and executed by the
Coventry Silk Works, in England, has
just been completed for the old Iron Bri
gade.
Near Plymouth, Friday. a wagon in
which Adam Riekmeyer and John Adam
were riding, was struck by an engine on
the Milwaukee and Northern Railroad,
the former being instantly killed, and
the latter having several ribs fractured.
The Advocate says 1.-The cry Of Muir
der, Murder ~ which alarmed the resi-
dents on State street, near the Milwaukee
road, Racine, last Wednesday night
about ten o'clock, was caused by good
wife administering little slipper dis
cipIine to her drunken husband"
A severe hail storm passed over Sha-
wano county, one day last week, doing
great damage. The centre of the storm
appeared to pass through Belle Plaine
and the hail only fell over a space of
three miles. A gentleman who was rid
ing through Belle Plaine states that a
hail stone passed through his umbrella
and struck his hand with such force as
to completely paralyzeit. Mr.. McConley,
who was hauling in load of hay, was
knocked from the load and stunned by
one of the stones. A number of chickens
and pigs feeding in the barnyard were
killed before they could obtain shelter
The crops which had been gathered
oats, corn, hay and wheat-were entire
ly destroyed. The beautiful fields which
siirted the road are lying fiat and pre-
sent discouragingp picture to the farmers.
Hail stones three inches in diameter, fell