The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-08
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

Lee Allen was struck by a locomotive
on Thursday, and instantly killed.
Senator Carpenter spoke at Mauston
on Monday evening.
The poultry show at the Northern
| Wisconsin Fair was very credltable.
| James Thompson Of La Crosse. has
raised one hundred pounds Of tobacco
this year.
There is fair prospect of the estab-
| lishment of a glass factory at Winnie
come.
The yield of hops in Portage county,
! this season, is estimated at 135, 1853
pounds.
A Norwegian, was robbed Of $500 by
the three-card monte men who infested
Janesville during the days of the fair.
! B. T. Goodell, of Montello, killed 7
polecats at one discharge of his breech-
loader the other evening.
A herd of four hundred Texas cattle
was driven through the streets of James
vile on Thursday, en- route for Chicago.
| The wheat crop in Dane County is a
failure again this year through the rava-
| geS OF the chlntz bug.
The Hon. Andrew G.. Miller, late
United States District Judge for Wis
| consin, died at Milwaukee on Wednes-
day evening last, aged 73 years.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York,
is in Green Bay looking after property
| owned by him in that section.
The barn of Florentine La Brrln, in
| Appleton, was burned on Friday, with
one hundred bushels of wheat. Loss
$400.
Prof. r. B. Anderson, of the State
University, is the author of work just
published entitled ''America not dis
c covered by Columbus.
J. S. Barker, of Appleton, we'll
known engineer, has been employed by
the city to superintend the construction
of the new bridges being bulls there.
A young man in Fitchburg near Ma
Olson met with sudden death by the ac-
cldental discharge Of a gun in the hands
of boy.
Montraville Johnson, an old resident
If Appleton died suddenly on Wednes-
dav last. He was as well as usual up to
5 o'clock, and went out to milk his COWS,
returned, and IN a few minutes was dead.
The post office of Scales Mound, Grant
county, WIS entered by burglars Last Mon
day night, and robbed Of about $100 in
staa9.s and currency. The burglars
were captured II Freeport.
Joseph Fasting, living in Fort How
ard, bled to death at Green Bay, on
Monday, from the effects of cut re-
ceiyed while chopp1ng In the woods on
Sunday. Deceased was 28 years of age.
The warehouse of Day & Goodrich, at
Fort Howard, burned Friday night at a
loss of $1S, 900 is now supposed to have
been two previous attempts to fire it.
The distance from Milwaukee to Ber-
lin is IS miles and to Oshkosh it is 103
miles, yet the rate on merchandise to
Oshkosh is five per cent. less than to
Berlin. We don't see how that agrees
with the law.
The Kewaunee Enterprise says: ''The
County fair held in this village last week,
though by no means failure, was not
as highly successful as the officers Of the
society, whose efforts were unremitting,
had hoped to make it. The receipts
amounted to 1858. 7S, and the disburse-
ments, including the cost of the new
building, to $405. o."
The removal of the Winnebagos was
an amuring diversion, but the fun was
expensive to the government. They are
all back again, and groups Of them may
be seen about the streets of Portage
at almost any hour. They come into
the courthouse daily and smoke and
chat with the county officers, who are
now very anxious to learn what induce
mems are offered to actual settlers on
the Western frontiers.
On Thursday night of last week, a
melancholy accident occurred in the
town of Moselle. A German by the
name of Sachtler, his wife, and their son
went to bed as usual. In the night the
floor of the second story gave way, by
reason of the weight OF grain which had
been stored on it, and the old gentleman
Sachtler was smothered beneath the
grain. The young man and his mother
who were in another part OF the house
escaped uninjured.
As Messers. J.. A. and l.. Olds,of
Wood, Wood county, were digging
well on their place the other day, they
came on to what appeared to be an old
swamp, twenty feet underground, which
was filed with old logs, sticks, pine
cones, ETC., to the depth of ten feet,
when they struck q bed of sandstone
rock thirty feet from the surface. The
logs, cones, etc., were in good state OF
preservation.