The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-12-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

THERE were 1l,lS44 acres of hops
having 3,llS acres.
A MOOSE was lately killed on Butter
nut creek, on the Wisconsin Central
railway, which weighed 700 pounds.
THURSDAY evening the residence of
H. B. Fargo, Fond du Lac, was DESTROYED
by fire. Loss So, 500; fully insured.
ALL reports confirm the fact that that
was a real earthquake experienced in
the western part of the state few days
ago.
THE total receipts for trespass on the
st. Croix land grant received during the
past year, as shown by the Secretary of
States report, is $2S,043.40.
A TREE fell on a German named
Brightman, near Hupbleton, Jefferson
county, on the Goth ult., killing him in
stantly.
THE Eau Claire Free Press reports
that Mrs. Robinson, the wife of Mode
na farmer, committed suicide by swal-
lowing an enormous draught of horse
medicine; she died in ten minutes after.
Mental alteration the cause.
FERDINAND FENNER was in company
with his son chopping tree, near Fond
du Lac, the other day, when the boy
brought himself within range of the back
swing of the farmers axe, and was
scalped; the lad lies at the point of death.
THE parties arrested for cutting the
throats of Patrick's and Houston's
hounds had their preliminary examina-
tion before Justice Felch last Saturday,
when all were bound over in the sum of
$500 for trial before the circuit court
Stevens Point Journal.
ISAAC LEE, an old resident of Darling
ton, on the night of the 25th, wandered
off on the railroad track, and died from
exposure and exhaustion before he was
found. On the morning of the 9th ult.,
Mr.. Hugh Foster, of the same place, was
found in his barn in a dying condition.
A FRUIT-AGENT named Beals, from
Saltwater, Mimi, was found dead on
the road close to the dividing line be-
tween Chippewa and Barron counties,
last Friday, and his body was taken
home by the cars on Monday last. We
have no particulars, except rumors that
he had been drinking and got into
quarrel with another man, who beat him
over the head with a Oippcwa
Herald
A CITIZEN of Eureka, Grant county,
loaded up his shotgun with six fingers
of powder and double charge of shot,
and laid in wait for the dog that had
nightly serenaded him. The cur came
at the appointed time, and the citizen
turned the old gun loose. The doctor
thinks he will recover sufficiently to at
tend to business in about month. The
dog has left town until the excitement
calms down.
A MAN named G. 0. Thompson en-
gagged in street brawl at the rear of the
old city hall about midnight on Saturday
night, and as Il result had one of his ears
slashed from top to bottom; which, as
may be inferred, was considerable of a
slash. The wound was dressed by DIR.
Dorland, and subsequently two fellows
giving the names of John Reynolds and
Chas. Gardner were arrested upon the
charge of having been implicated in the
ow.-Eueniag Wisconsin.
AN arson case from Richland Center
is now on trial before the circuit court,
on a change of venue from Richland
county G. ID. Rudolf, the complaining
witness, is endeavoring to establish that
his mill in Richland Center, which was
burned in the spring of 1876, was fired by
Hugh Brooks, the defendant. The the
ory being followed by the state is that
Brooks was hired by another person, an
enemy of Rudolf, to fire the mill, and
alleged confessions on the part of the de-
fendant are being offered in corrobora-
ton ofsthis theory, but thus far they
have been overruled by the court
Madison Journal.
WOLVES are getting to be very plenty
and very ravenous about River Falls.
To such an extent have they increased
of late that sheep raising is out of the
question, and at least two of our farm
ers, among the heaviest sheep raisers in
the county, have sold the remnant of
their focks and gone out of the bust
ness. The Healey Bros. lost all but 10
out of 120 lambs dropped last spring,
besides many grown sheep. The wolves
are very large, appearing TO be cross
between the coyote or prairie wolf, and
the large grey or timber wolf.-Mauston
Star.