The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-03-15
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


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OLE BULL is giving concerts in th.
northern part of the state.
APPLETON is to have professional
base ball club during the coming sum
mer.
TIE Hamilton and Merriman Com
pany, of Marinette, are COVERING tn,
roof of their mill with corrugated iron
for protection against sparks of fire.
| SEVERAL Grim. con cases are to bs
tried at West Benz during tho next
term of court, and the editor of the
Democrat is much elsted thereat.
| THE NJ. L. 8. and w. Railroad Com.
pany is putting up heavy stone wall
at Appleton to protect An embankment
20 feet high.
A CLARK county schoolmaster tried
the persuasive power of q poKer on one
of his pupils, last Monday, and was
severely punished by the boys father
IN consequence.
CHARLIE DURoss, known as Whistling
Joe, is out of prison. He was dis.
charged some two or three weeks ago.
| Wonder where he will turn up next
Waup,oa Times.
The real estate market in Fond du
Lac county is decidedly active. Papers
for record were filed during the first
two days Of this week covering trans
actions amounting to more than thirty
four thousand dollars. Commonwealth.
TIE Enivessalists OF Fort Atkinson
are having successful revival meetings.
Rev. Miss Chaplin, of Chicago, is the
attraction that induces the young men
to attend. Many conversions are re-
ported.
THOMAS MALEY, of Monroe, died last
Thursday morning. A short time be-
fore his death, while sitting up In bed
perfectly still, one of his legs snapped
and broke in two, as if done by pow
erful blow. The cause of this singular
incident was the sudden contraction of
the muscles and cords on the under side
of the limb.
THE people of the Chippewa Valley
have three important projects on hand.
These are the completion and mainte-
nance of the Eagle Rapids Works, the
construction of the Dells improvement,
and the building of the Chippewa Val
ley Railroad.
MEssRs. JAMES RILEY and Earl A.
Bosworth of Fond du Lac have pur-
chased from the Knox Brothers their
valuable saw mill property at Stevens
Point, including thirty acres of real
estate. The mill is an extensive one,
and has cutting capacity of $4,000 to
$4,000 feet of lumber per day. The
price paid was about $22 900.
A FELLOW who called his name Chas.
Pray, from Rosendale, was taken before
Justice Baldwin, at Wsnpun, Monday,
under charge of stealing. He was
found guilty and sentenced to sixty days
in the Fond du Lac county Jail. Just
after the Marshal had taken the pris-
oner in charge, q gentleman came from
the hotel where Pray had been shor9
time before being arrested, and found
his hat in possession Of said thief.
Mr.. DANIEL JONES, of Watertown. has
leased the old Watertown Woolen Fac
tory, which has been lying idle for the
past two or three years, to Mr.. d. P.
Price, of Cambria, Wis. It is the in
tention of Mr.. Price to put the factory
in shape to manufacture a first-class
article of cloth, flannel, etc. He expects
to start up about the first of April.
JULIUS WALTHER, of Fond du Lac,
was attacked by q number of roughs
Thursday night, as he was returning
home. He was first knocked down
without word and then pounded
about the head and face. One eye was
terribly cut and his face was otherwise
badly bruised. He says he knew none
of the parties. This is his version of
tne affair, but there is suspician that
a prrvious personal difficulty had some
thing to do with it.
SyME, HEWITT & Co., Clayton, Wis,
are doing an extensive business manu-
featuring slaves and heading. They
have bought of the North Wisconsin
Railroad Company all the oek and
Eastwood within radius of five miles
of their mill. During the past year
they have cut 4, us, 900 slaves and l.
800, 900 pieces o. heading; IL slaves and
five pieces of heading are required for
one barrel; 1000 cords OF slaves and
1000 cords of heading bolts were used
last senson. The bolts are steamed and
sawed while green; $3.50 per cord is
paid for stave and 50 for heading bolts
at the mill.
A POLICEMAN from Oshkosh visited
Appleton, Saturday, for the purpose of
apprehending young man by the name
Of VIM. Morrow, who had appropriated
500 and gold watch and chain from
his landlady. The young man is well
known at Appleton, and has always
borne good reputation. There is no
conceivable motive to be assigned for
his rash act, and those who are ac
quainted with him believe there must
be some mistake in the man; but the
evidence points directly to him. When
he came to Appleton, he did not feel
safe with the money and watch In his
possession, and deposited $50 and the
watch IN q crevice under the steps OF
the First National Bank. When first
arrested, he denied that he had commit
ted the theft, but finally owned that he
had the articles, and confessed where he
I~I ~~-~-~~1-l 1L~.-.- Tho money,
watch and chain were recovered. He
was married not over two months ago,
and up to the time of the theft was
boarding with the family he stole from
in Oshkosh.
LAST Wednesday night three or four
tramps took possession of the school
house of the German Catholic Sister.
hood, in Watertown, and proceeded tc
make their situation as comfortable az
| possible by building a red hot fire in
the stove, and piling up wood around il
to prepare it for future use. The
smell OF smoke about the premises
gave evidence of danger, and some
parties connected with the school looked
in upon the scene to find the wood sur
rounding the stove Cd fire, and all the
tramps sank away to rest in the arms o1
morpheus. Marshal Cunningham wa
sent for to come to the rescue, and the
tramps we're taken to the lock up. The
next day Justice Baird attended to thei,
case and sentenced the batch to 80 days
in the County Jail.
FAors brought ont since the suicide
OF Thomas Mettam, of Poygan, Wed.
nesday, go to fully sustain the theory
that he committed suicide in tempo.
rary fit of insanity. It weuld seem also
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