The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-11-15

/ FIFTEEN inches OF snow fell IN Vernon
| county during the late storm.
| JACOB BREHM, of Spring Prairie was
thrown from from his wagon and had
his collar-bone fractured.
THE editor of the Champion, j. O.
| Barrett, recently fell on Berlin side
walk and broke his arm.
THE Congregational church in Ripon
has succeeded in paying up the debt on
the church property, amounting to
about So 900.
| A SERIOUS gashing afray between a
negro named Harris and another "cul-
lud brudder" took place in La Crosse
Thursday morning.
THOMAS Y. SEoAIs, who came to q
premature end (of ynpe) in the Black
Hills region, formerly lived in Green
Bay.
ID. w. G. WILSON, of the Monroe Co.
Republican was seriously hurt by jump
| ing from carriage to avoid a runaway.
His hip was dislocated, among other in
juries.
WHILE severa workmen were remov-
ing slabs on a lot in Fond du Lac, Thurs
day evening, pile 100 feet high tumbled
over, burying them. Several injuries,
but nothing fatal, resulted.
| III. w. LANDFARE, of La Crosse, has
skipped out" He has been attending
| to the music business of G. Nj. Root, and
after disposing of $3.50 worth of organs,
etc, concluded he would vamose. He
did 50.
A MAN named VIM. Fall was killed at
the Humbolt mine, Negaunee, lately, by
/ falling 10 the bottom of the shaft, dis
tance of $50 feet. He was subject to fits,
and is supposed to have had one when the
accident occurred.
| RALPH HERRICK, of Oak Grove, aged
about 10, son of L. j. Herrick, Esq, ac-
cidentally shot himself few days ago.
In putting pistol in his pants pocket, it
went off, the ball passing through the
feshy part of his thigh, iDtlicting sore
but not dangerous wound.
/ A PECULIAR accident happened at the
cred Mill, -" in Fond du Lac, Saturday
evening. A young man named John
Stevens was struck by a " "tie-pole and
thrown nany feet, the blood pouring
/ from his mouth and nostrils. He will
probably recover.
A LAD named John Dore, aged fifteen
years and living at 400 Washington
| street, South Side, was run over on the
st. Paul Railway, near She new elevator
in the Menomonee valley, Thursday, and
his left leg was crushed so severely that
its amputation at the knee was deemed
necessity, and the operation was per-
! formed by DIR. Brown. Dore was at
tempting to Jump on to a moving train
when the accident occurred. Mllgaukee
Evening Wisconsin.
On the evening of the 9th inst.-day
of election-Mr. p. A. Viles, being in
the Office of Daniel White, at Eau
Claire, on business, left his account book
containing 1922 in money on the counter
and did not discover his mistake until
evening, when he FASTENED back in search
of the missing treasure, but it was gone,
and no trace of it, at the time, could be
discovered. Circumstances, however,
placed suspicion upononeClay Shaw, and
he was arrested and bound over for trial
WHEN Deputy Sheriff Albright, of
Janesville, went to lock the prisoners in
their cells Monday night, he was seized
by Tom Dorsey, the burglar, and Norton,
the counterfeiter, thrown down and his
revolver taken from him. He called for
help, and Mrs. Sheriff Comey ran in
and threatened to shoot the first man
who attempted to escape. The brave
woman kept them back until aid arrived
and they were safely locked up.
Mr.. ROBERT WILKINS, of whose death
| we spoke last week, was one of the very
earliest settlers in the town Of Muk-
wonago, his advent to the county dating
back about forty years. Hehad attained
! the age of seventy-eight years. 1t is
said of Mr.. w. that the first potatoes
ever planted in his town he carried from
Waukesha to North Prairie on his back,
by the way of Saylesville, being com
PEELED to strip of his garments in order to
cross the creek at that place Waukesha
Freeman.
A SHOOTING affray occurred in Bosco-
bel lately, though luckily no one was in
jured. An elderly mans daughter
eloped with young fellow some time
ago, and remained away until the day of
the affray. Seeing him on the street the
irate father and unwilling father-in-law
attempted TO shoot him, and fired three
shots of a pistol at him. Failing to hit
him, and thinking he could do better
with shotgun, he went home to get
one, and was about to try his skill when
an officer arrested him.
THE building known as Norden Hall,
built by the society of that name, but
now unoccupied and owned by Byron
Burlington, was found to be on fire about
daylight Thursday morning. 1t was
burned pretty much entirely, and,
though large building, SO little noise
or excitement did it cause that few of
the neighbors knew of the confagra-
tion till it was almost over. The some
what isolated situation of the hall prob
ably caused this strange result. The hall
was insured for 81, 900; loss about $4,000.
Report says the fire was the work of an
incendiary, and that the steps of the
offender have been traced.--Eam Claire
Press.
LOUIS LOUYGTA, aged about twenty
eight years, in sliding down from a hay
loft in barn on Robert Ross farm,
about ten miles north of Neillsville,
struck against piece of board that had
been nailed against the beams forming
the bay to keep the hay fork from
catching when the hay was being
elevated to the NOW. The board was
about six feet in length and had broken,
or split of, in such manner as to leave
the end very sharp, which entered tie
abdomen, penetrating the bowels, break
ing off and requiring the aid of sur
geon's knife TO remove the
pieces, which operation was performed
by Drs. Thompson Of this village,
and Thomas, of Greenwood, on Sunday
last. One silver entered the small in.
testines, and the patient died of strangu.
lation of the bowels within a few hours
after the operation was performed, the
piece of wood having acted as plug and
prevented the emptying of the intestines
, until it was removed From the first
there was little hope for the unfortunate
, man, the wound being of the most pain
} full and dangerous nature, and the exami-
nation proved that no human skill could
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