The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-01-07
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Brown County.

NISCONSlN STATE NEWS.
Brown County.
John McDermott was thrown from load
! of hay at Green Bay, the other day. His arm
was broken and he was internally injured.
Two men were lately arrested in Green
Bay for passing a counterfeit ten-dollar note
upon q restaurantkeeper.
Columbia County.
A new cheese factory has just been organ
lied at Arlington with capacity for manu-
featuring the milk of 500 cows during the
coming summer.
Dane County.
Charles Pierstorf, of Middleton, his wife,
five daughters and one son recently narrowly
escaped death by drinking coffee in which one
of the girls had accidentally put the seeds of
| stramonium Jamestown weed.
The team of Paul De Bower, of Dane Sta
lion, ran away the other morning, throwing
him out OF his sleigh and breaking his leg.
The noted conspiracy case in which Col.
Bull, A. s Rogers, \. Mueller and sam
Rindsk0pf were defendants has ended. On
| the 29th Col. Bull was fined 5000 and sen
fenced to six months imprisonment in the
county Jail; Mueller was fined $1,000 and
sentenced to one DAYS imprisonment; Rinds I
kopf was fined 5000 and costs, and placed |
one dav in the custody Of the United States /
Marshal. Rogers, having turned States evi- I
dence, was discharged.
The Wisconsin Agricultural Convention
will convene at Madison on the 27th of
January
Dodge County.
no Ia mood
is being circulated at the expense Of a mem
ber-elect of Congress, whose home is near /
Beaver Dam. He read in the paper that Con
gress was to assemble Dec. Z, he packed |
up his clean linen, and with his wife and one /
or two children started for the national cap /.
ital in time to claim his seat in the House of
Representatives at the opening session. |
After his arrival there it did not take him a
great while to learn that school would not
begin for him until the 4th of March. He
returned home after an absence OF about |
three weeks, and finds it mighty hard work |
TO convince his friends that he has only just |
been visiting in Missouri.
Eau Claire County.
The freight receipts at Eau Claire for 1874
have wonderfully increased They amounted
to 2O,O0O, 900 pounds in 1872 q, ,24S, $50 pounds
in 1878, and about IS, 100000 pounds in 1874
Four dwellings were burned in Eau Claire
the other night worth about $1,000.
Fond du Lac County.
The both was the coldest day of the season
at Fond du Lac. At sunrise the thermometer
indicated 2l deg. below zero.
The decision of Judge Ellis, giving j. W.
Bass. Of Fond du Lac, Judgment for some
5000 against the Northwestern Railway
Company for ejectmeut from a ladies' car
some time ago, has been reversed by the Su- /
preme Court.
Green Lake County.
D. Williams, a printer, and formerly one of
the proprietors of the Berlin JoW1sal com
mitted suicide at Berlin the other night by /
shooting himself through the heart. The |
cause of the rash act is said to have been /
family troubles.
Jackson County.
1t is estimated that the cut of logs on !
Black River and tributaries during the winter /
will not exceed 10000, 900 feet, against $50 |
900, 900 in 1873 and 240, ,Oo0, 900 in 1874.
Considerable excitement prevails in Black |
River Falls, growing ont Of the fact that a
child resembling Charlie Ross has been left .
strangers with family resident there.
Jefferson County.
d. W. Kellogg, a prominent citizen of JET |
ferson, died very suddenly the other after
noon. He was out in his stable, attending to |
his horses when he was taken suddenly i'll. |
In his endeavors to reach the house he at |
tracted his wife's attention. When she came |
to his assistance he had reached the steps |
leading to the house, where his strength |
failed and he fell back into his wife's arms
and expired.
Charles Beard, Fort Atkinson druggist, |
recently attempted suicide by taking five
grains OF morphine There was a woman in
the case.
kenOsha County.
\ man named William Van Pattcu, living
| near kenosha, was recently very suddenly
| killed by the caving in of "a clay-ha in a
| brick yard He leaves wife and six chill
dren to mourn his untimey taking Of.
| La Crosse County.
James Langdon, an Alderman and prom
inent business man of La Crosse, died very
| suddenly few days ago from rupture of
| the craniaI blood vessels Twenty minutes
| before his death he was enjoying excellent
health.
Marquette County.
The barn belonging to Mr.. Ed. McCaflery,
of Packwaukee, one Of the largest and best
| in the county, was burned, with all its con
tents the other night. Loss about $500.
Milwaukee County.
Lisa Schatfner, of Milwaukee, was run over
| and nearly killed the other night by two
drunken men in a buggy.
| The boier-shop of the Milwaukee iron
| works was burned on Christmas morning
Loss $500
A train on the St Paul Railway took fire
spontaneously in Milwaukee the other morn
| ing Before it could be extinguished seven
| ears were damaged to the extent of about
800
Thclrug;h of the paved streets in Milwau-
kee is lS01s miles.
Pile named Raczck was killed and
another man fatally injured at Milwaukee,
the other day, by the fall of a clay bank under
| meath which they were working.
| The annual statement of the trade and com
| merce of Milwaukee for 1874 shows the re-
| ceipts of wheat to have been 25,697, ,444 bush
els; shipments, 22,S52l7l; flour, receipts,
| $50, ,9s5 barrels; shipments. 2,20S, AIS; lum
Der, receipts, l4l 404 POO feet ath, Ii, ,103 800
shingles, l1s,US1,o 900; cattle, receipts, 0,925;
live hogs, 237, 7,007; dressed hogs, IS, O94.
| Racine County.
| The improvements in the city Of Racine for
the past year aggregate in value 1921 600.
| Vernon County.
| An attempt was made the other day to
force the jail at Viroqua for the purpose of
lynehing James Larry, charged with shooting
John Downey some time ago The attempt
was frustrated by the courage and coolness
| of the Sheriff and turnkey.
| Walworth County.
| Monroe j. WeatherwaX, Of Geneva, recently
committed suicide by taking laudanuII He
was twenty-six years old and leaves Il wife.
| Wfnnebago County.
A few evenings ago a man entered Whites
| jewelry store in Oshkosh and stole two
| watches while confederate was attracting
| Mr.. Whites attention in another part of the
store. The thief was subsequently arrested
| in Menssha.
William John, an old man WAS badly frozen