The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-01
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

The wife of Thos. Bigford suiclded
at Sheboygan Falls last week.
THE Depere paper records the falling
of snow there last week Saturday.
WIN. QUAIL was killed by the cars in
Kenosha last Thursday.
GoRDox ROBERTSON committed sui
eide at New London on Saturday last
week, by cutting his throat
The Tomah Journal says that hundreds
Of bushels of cranberries in that vicinity
were ruined by the recent frost.
An attache Of Cooper's circus attempt
ed to outrage Is year old girl at Col
umbus. He failed and is now in jail.
CHAUNCY BARNETrE has discovered a
bed of iron ore about one and One-half
miles from the village of Sturgeon Bay.
DIR. j. LANDREF, of Milwaukee, shot
himself Monday evening after attempt
ing to take the life OF his female house
keeper.
FL. D. JAslEs, treasurer Of Columbia
County, Who mysteriously disappeared,
has been heard from. He ''Went out
West. :"
MERGERS iewelry store at Chippewa
Falls was on Sunday night robbed OF
$5, 900 worth Of goods. No arrests re-
ported.
Four thousand pounds Of grapes, from
| vines covering one fourth Of an acre, is
the yield reported by culturist near
Beaver Dam.
Nd. WRIGHT has retired from the
Delevan Republican, and his successor
| is understood to be Frank Leland, late
OF the Elkhorn Independent.
AFAM1nY living near Museoda were poi
soned by eating mushrooms, last Sun
day. The father and one boy have died
| and the other members are still sick.
FRIDAY, Phillip Traynor, of EIba, aged
about 70 years, was struck by the handle
| of @ plow while he was holding it, and
had his neck broken, causing instant
death.
CHAs. WErsy, residing near Ahnapee
died last week. He suetalned injuries
while at york on threshing machine,
and suffered two amputations OF an arm
Elag1orfage causes his death.
LAST week the passenger train on the
| Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad ran
through flock of sheep belonging to
MIR. Thomas, near Pickett's, and killed
about forty head.
TIE River Falls Advance says: 'Last
Tuesday deputy =. S. Marshal from
Kentucky arrested a woman at Hammond
charged with being concerned III the
murder of a man in that state two years
since.
A MAN named Kennedy got into a
quarrel with John Hall at house OF Ill
fame in Eau Claire, and Hall bit Ken
nedy's nose off. A doctor sewed 1t on,
and thinks it may grow again.
THE annual address before the North
ern Wisconsin Agricultural Society Will
| be delivered at Oshkosh, to-day byJames
G. Blaine, Speaker of the National
House of Representatives
The members Of the Austrian Polar tiX-
pedition declare that explorations III the
direction of the North Pole are hopeless
of satisfactory results, and that reports
of the existence OF an open polar sea are
untrue.
A CHILD of Joseph Chappell, at New
burn, aged years, took drink OF con
centrated I've last Tuesday and the mex
morning, after suffering the most e1
cruciating pain, death came to her re
, Lief.
: A WISCONSIN Central Poultry Associa
< tion has been organized at Madison
5 with the following officers: President
: Col. w. Hamilton, of Sun Prairie; Sec
retary, E. S. Mcbride, Of Madison
: Treasurer, s. 81. Hall, of Burke.
! MT. ErNA is still in state Of agita
, ton. Rumbliug noises are heard INSIDE
and Saturday an earthquake shook tn
I mountain to its base. The shocks ex
: tended to the village of Aurdosa and de
I stroyed seveaal houses.
e JOSEPH WHITE, of Willow Springs
{ Lafayette County, shot his son the otne
: dav. but did not kill him. 1t was tn
result of an old difficulty. The fathe
is about 70 years old, and was 3 times
S member of the Assembly IN this state.
= WooD COUNTY, in the Kaolin beds
:. which are SO thickly scattered all throug
: Her borders, mas an inherent Wealt
. which has hitherto been latent, bu
= which, henceforth is destined to elias
: her among the richest counties ID th
= state. Says the Reporter.
e The telegraph Office III Ahnepee ha
y a very narrow escape from cremation
: one day last week. During the prevail
ence of a thunder storm, lightning enter
ed upon the wires and set fire to the VII
: dow casing through which they ran.
) A SON of William Schaifenberg wa
fished out of the canal, at milwaukee
Sunday morning. He had been missln
nee Thursday last, and, as he was sui
> t to epileptic fits, it is supposed b
!eS into convulsions and was drowned
the town of Wood, Wood county
IN ". Pitts vomited live streake
Lux or inches long! He had fe
sna4i, 81 times for several weeks as thoug
aaten,athing at sst live was in his stomach, an
sone-u ar1 crate, ul to get rid of the unwe