The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-26

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The Geneva Lake Herald notes tl
unearthing, by Fernando Marsh, of al
Indian arrow head weighing 25 lbs.
| A row occurred 5st-een a party o. Eft,
lnmbermen at Chippewa Falls, Or. Mon
| Jay, IN the course of which one Valen
| tine Blum was shot through he neck
and it is thought fatally injured.
Burglars visited Watertown last weel
and carried off some plunder
One Il. S. Moulton attempted tt
swindle the banks of Oshkosh out O
$3.50 by means of forged paper. Ht
was foiled IN his purpose. but managed
| to escape.
Several Of the farmers living sc nth and
west OF New Lisbon have met considera-
Sle loss in their sheep stock within the
past lew Weeks. supposed to be the de-
| predations of wolves, from the manner in
which the bodies are found mutilatad.
Al Manistee, one day last week. a
little daughter of Jacob Rheinald fell
from raft of logs and was drowned
The Appleton Crescent says "Some
farmers are already complaining that
winter wheat has such large growth
now that it is beginning to LODGE"
A lum mberman by the name of Gueriu
was drowned in the Little Wolf river.
near Meik lejohn's Mills. last week.
The house and barn of Mr. Bohn, OF
the town of Mecan. Marquette county,
were burned last week.
Several houses were destroyed by fire
at Eau Claire on Th hursday last
Weed & Co. 8 mill st Big Suamico,
ten miles north of Green Bay. was totally
destroyed by fire Sunday morning. It is
Ip1noasIhlo to oau ho~ tho Er, oc,,rlt ,1
the whole building was in flames before
discovered. Loss and insurance un-
known.
The woods in the vicinity of Esca anab a
have been burning for several days,
causing considerable damage to railroad
and telegraph property. Trains have
been delayed and a considerable quantity
of wood and lumber burned There has
been fire in the woods near Dexterville,
en- the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Rail-
way, doing great damage to the railroad,
but no trains have yet been detained,
and it is reported that the fire is under
control. after burning over several hun
dred acres of good timber.
The State Journal reports case late
ly decided in the United States district
court, in which the bankrupt Milwaukee
insurance company sued George thinner
man on anote he had given the company,
for policy of insurance for five years,
the note payable in four yearly INSTALL
fhents. Before the payments beacme
due the company failed. and the assignee
sued on the note, the result being in ia
vor of the defendant, Judge Hopkins
holding that the consideration of the note
had failed. The precedent cited was a
late decision by the supreme court of
Illinois. We presume this decision vir-
tuaiiy relieves all those who were sued
by the Rock River Insurance Company
of Beloit, also.
Andrew Stein met with an accidental
death IN the town of Pewaukee, Wau-
kesha county, on Monday last week.
The machine shops of the Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railway Company at James
vile narrowly escaped destruction by fire
on Friday.
The name of the French boy drowned
at Fond du Lac on Saturday was Orie
Donas.
At Ripon, on Monday afternoon, two
showmen connected with the Transat-
lantic Circus, named J. Jones and A. A.
Clark, had some difficulty, which result
edin Jones drawing revolver and shoot
ing Clark through the head, inficting
a serious If not fatal wound. Jones is
under arrest, on the charge of assault
with intent to kill.
The fires at Dexterville and on the
Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad
have s.lbsided, having destroyed several
hundred acres of fine pine lumber.