The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-11-06
wISCGNSE y NEWS.

The steam saw mill in Morrison town,
know as the Almeyer mill, was destroyed
by fire recently 1t was a saw, shingle
and heading mill, owned by Fred Gross.
Except the boiler it was total loss, es-
timated at from 81, 900 to $4,000. with
no In surance.
Charles Saunders, a fisherman residing
at Escanaba, was blown out to sea in
small boat recently, and landed on the
east shore, betw zen Sleeping Bear Point
and Frankfort, after an exposure of forty
hours in the wind and waves The dis
tance helplessly traversed was one hun
dred miles.
Matthias P. Hanson, of Carlton, Ke
waunee county, recently got drunk at
dance, went home and turned his wife
and children out Of doors, and then took
poison.
The blast furnaces at Depere will run
full time during the winter. as hereto
fore. The car works will run eight
hours per day, principally on contracts
for seeders, valuable invention of Mr..
Workman, one of the new proprietors
from Ripon.
A fine lode of mineral has been struck
on Mr.. Robert Neeley's land, two miles
southwest of Platteville. Messrs. Neeley
and Howe are the owners of the land,
and the prospects for a good yield are
first rate. They have already taken out
between three and four-thousand tons,
and there is much more in sight.
Trains have been delayed in the north
and west by drifted snow.
Work has been suspended at Case s
Iron Works, at Racine, for three weeks.
Mr. Stiles. the oldest Mason in Ameri-
ca, died at Prescott, in this State, two
weeks since.
A vessel of fifteen ton burthen is about
to depart from Racine to New Orleans,
with load of potatoes.
James Gardner, of Freedom, exhibits
a trophy OF successful gardening in one
turnip that is feet and inches in cir
cumference.
Mr.. Stephen Joubert, an old resident
of Fond du Lac died on Monday last He
was II years of age, was widely known
and respected.
A salmon weighing six pounds has
been caught in Paint River. Salmon fry
| has been placed by United States fish
| commissioners in the Menomines waters,
and that is 1.-The cause of it.
an absolutely free church the settings
/
tribute in any manner toward paying the
| current expenses.
! A beaver weighing over sixty pounds
was shot on the Peshtigo River, a short
time since.
DIR. Pearce, of Green Bay. received q
! gold headed cane from the grateful par
ents of a little girl whose life they felt he
had saved. This is handsome excep-
ton to the usual way of grumbling at
doctors bills, in return for services.
| On Tuesday morning, about o'clock
| just as cast was being made at the Green
Bay Iron Furnace, and while the storm
was raging high, the water in East River
| broke over the banks. and filed the cast
| ing room of the furnace to q depth Of
| about three feet, in less than 3 minutes.
| The casting-room was Immediately filled
with dense clouds of steam. and particles
of hot iron were flying through the all
| in every direction. The men in charge
did not desert it, but worked through
both water and fire, and thus prevented
! the destruction of the building. One
man was slightly burned.
The carding aud saw mill of n. Didiot
/ on the Bara boo river, near Hlllsborodgh,
was destroyed by fire short time ago.
1 A son of Geo. Foster. of jefferson, had
one of his wrists badly mangled in ma
/ chine on Monday.
The New London Times states that :
! bear. OF the species known as the CInna
mon. was shot near the village of Black
| Creek last week. He measured SIX feet
and two inches from the end OF his most
to the tip of his tail, and weighed 46t
pounds.
As stock train on the G. 4 n W. K
r. was going south " Nednesday night, 1,
broken rail, two niles north of Roscoe
! threw three stock cars and the caboost
| off the track into the ditch. injuring, bu
not seriously, FIVE stock men and brake
man. TIE caboose caught fire and burn
ed up
A brakeman named John George
aged sixteen years, was killed by falling
from train near Boscobel, on Wednes
day night.
The boot and shoe establishment o
Niles t. Stickney & Co.. in Oshkosh
has suspended work, throwing thirt.
hands out of employment.
The AhEapee Record states that sai
case of death by drowning occurred In The
town of Forestyilie. last Wednesday I
two-year-old son of Mr.. Joseph Brett, o
that town, was missed by his parents
and on search was found drowned in
well near the house.
4 naughty bear tried to hug a good
looking young German woman over il
Shoepp's Valley, the other day.
Nels Nelson, blacksmith at Rock Elm
Pierce county. lost q leg while huntip,
last week, by the accidental discharge O
his gun.