The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-02-15
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Matters Of Interest Cleaned from Our
Latest Exchanges.

NUMBERING in the woods is nearly
completed for the season.
GAS works are to be erected at APP
pleton In the spring.
THE Old Settlers Club of Washing
ton county will celebrate on the 22d.
HARRINGTON & BLAKELE1's saw mill
in Ell Paso, Pierce county, sold for ST.
600.
JOHN BRICKLKY, of Fremont, recently
killed hog which weighed 1,024II
pounds.
THE villages OF East and West
Depere are agitating the question of
consolidation.
LAST Tuesday Mrs. Sullivan, of Wa
terloo, committed suicide by cutting
her throat with q razor.
AN improvement, to cost 500, 900, is to
be made to the Catholic convent at
Fond du Lac, this year.
FROM twenty-five to fifty new build.
ings are to be erected at Reedsburg,
Wis, during the coming season,
A NEW steamboat, built by Lynch
Wall, of Oshkosh, is to be put on Lake
Winnebago this summer.
THE blue glass fever has struck
GAINESVILLE in somewhat of a mild form.
It is spreading, however.
THOMAS CUsTFoRTH, of Dekora, Port
age county, killed wildcat last week,
and received IS bounty.
THE Green Bay soup house supplies
one hundred people daily with quart
of nourishment in the shape of vege-
table soup.
Rev. Mr.. Wooley, of Palmyra, has
so far recovered from his attack OF
diptheria as to be out on the streets
these mild days.
JUDGE AGKEY, an old and respected
citizen OF Green Bay, died last Tuesday
evening. He was Judge of Brown coun-
ty in 1850.
THERE are one hundred and twenty
families in the city of Fond du Lac de
pend emit upon the Poor Commissioner
for support.
ABOUT 400, 90 bushels of wheat were
bought for shipment and grinding at
La Crosse during the four months end
ing December 31st.
Ex-SHERIFF D. w. Ball, of Green
county, has been appointed postmaster
at Monroe. He was postmaster under
Lincoln and johnson.
A HOWE truss bridge, 527 feet in
length, is to be built over the Wiscon-
sin river between Grand Rapids and
Centralia, at cost of $1l 900.
The amount that the Government
claims from the Fox River Iron Com
pany for buying wood from the Oneida
Indians, is 81 200.
TIE ladies of Hudson have collected
and shipped to Gov. Pillsbury, of Min
nesota, for the sufferers, four large
boxes of clothing and supplies.
THE Perry Safety Car Coupling Com
pany has changed its headquarters
from Kokomo, Indiana to Beaver Dam.
The capital stock is $4,000, divided
into shares of $25 each.
ANOTHER Fond du Lac lawyer has got
into trouble. Clark S. Matteson was
arrested for the larceny of the judgment
docket book frem the county court
room.
ONE of the lady teachers in the Beloit
High School applied her rule to pupil
named Greenwood, and was arrested by
the indignant papa. Her trial will take
place this week.
THERE are 1900 Indians on the reser-
walton in Brown and Outagamie coun-
ties, who are represented to be in such
destitute circumstances as to require
state aid.
THREE brothers in. the town of Calu-
met were married at the same time, and
hired hotel for three days, paying
$500 therefor, where they entertained
their friends. 1t was a jolly occasion.
AN old squaw, looking old enough to
have been q cabin maid on Noah's Ark
tried to beg the boots off the feet of the
editor of the Stevens Point Journal, till
the discovery of a hole in one of the
toes stopped her opportunities.
A FARMER named Church, residing
near Milton, allowed a tramp to sleep
in his house Tuesday night. Sometime
during the night the migrate got up
st Die Mr.. Church's pocket-book, and,
jumping out of the window, left the
place.
The Superintendent of Schools oil
Winnebago county finds much difficulty
in the school work. on account of scarle,
fever. The disease prevails in many
localities, and in some of the country
districts the schools are about broken
| up.
A YOUNG man giving the name of J
81. Wood, and having in his possession
team stolen from Lake & Co., of Harv.
\
Saturday, and is now in Jail, awaiting q
requisition from the Governor of Hi
nois.
A MRS. WILSON, of Hartford, Wash.
ington county, aged 70 years, lately
challenged party of visitors to slide
down hill on wager, and won, hel
younger competitor upsetting before
reaching the foot of the hill.
A TRAMP and vagrant named Charley
Pray. after being liberated from the
Green Bay prison, walked to Depere,
stole pair of boots, and twenty -four
hours after leaving was locked up
wants to be fixture in the institu-
ton.
DR.. CHAs. EAGAN, of Highland,
warned the 1uQaDlIdubS buhb u Case Vi
smallpox existed in the place. Ling.
piel, who was sick at the time, de.
nounced the doctor as Q fraud. Two
weeks later the village was blockaded,
and no one allowed to leave or enter.
Fifty cases were reported, and several
deaths occurred.
THE creditors of the Raciue Advocate
became clamorous for payment, and
Mr.. Sanford, being unable to meet all
the obligations surrendered possession
Of the Office to M. B. Erskine, holder OF
the first mortgage. Judge Allen is il
charge of the paper and Office.
Mr.. BURR ROBBINS, of GAINESVILLE,
recently received from Colorado mag
nifcent elk. He has a fine pair OF
horns, the tip ends of which measure
over five feet apart They will fall in
the course of month, when MIR. Rob
bins will present them to the Forester
Club.
TIE West Wisconsin Railway in the
past year carried 70, los tons of freight,
opd 90 mn noaaapoora Tfa Oroac oopp.