The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-07-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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THE town of Leroy, Dodge county, is
said to have woman who weighs 45O
pounds.
THE Eau Claire lumber mill on an
eleven hours run on the 23d, cut 1S3, 900
feet of lumber, an unusually large run.
A FOND DU LAC hired man has killed
twenty skunks the present season. He
must be sweet-scented youth.
OF the seventy-six graduated at West
Point this year, only one is from Wiscon-
sin, Edward 'Chynoweth, of Madison.
THE Northwestern Lumber company
at Eau Claire, have shut down their
mills, having sawed all the stock on hand
THEY charge twelve-year-old boy
one hundred cents and costs for mauling
another boy of about the same age, in
Ripon.
The corn crop of Wisconsin will be
below the average, and high price for
hay will probably rule the coming win
ter.
Mr.. DAVID BOYNToN has sold his
farm of 124 acres, in the town of Ches-
ter, Dodge county, to Mr.. Philo Foote
for Sc, 200.
JOHN KELLY misplaced switch on
the w. c. r. r., at Grand Rapids, con-
fessed, after an arrest, and will take up
his residence at Waupun.
THE people of Jenny, Lincoln Co., are
petitioning to have the name of their
town changed to something else. That's
what's the matter with Jenny.
A VALUABLE MARE belonging to Fred
Rothmeier, of Polk, Washington county,
was stolen from the stable on the night
of the 23d. A reward of S25 is offered
for the recovery of the animal.
GEO. MENGER. President of the village
of fSchleisingerville, isabout to commence
suit against Mr.. Rosenheimer, of that
place, for racing horses through the
streets of that village.
THE Free Masons of Stevens Point re-
Gently purchased piece of property in
that place, for which they paid SO, 900.
The property rents for 81 900 year and
is considered pretty good investment.
TIE Winnebagoes are killing off all
the slippery elm in Portage county for
the bark, which has become an object of
merchandise, being shipped off to Chica-
90 in car loads.
WHEAT, oats and rye on the upper
Wisconsin never looked better, and if
the right kind of weather prevails the
yield this year will average more to the
acre than ever before.
Mr.. G.. NJ WAKEFIELD, of Oshkosh,
has discovered silver in sufficient orian-
titles to warrant working in town Al,
range 40, Ontonagon county, Mich, on
the south shore of Lake Superior.
IT is stated that Mrs Abbie Beeson
Darlington, of Fond du Lac, who has
been a pupil in the Boston Conservatory
of Music the past two years, will spend
the summer in Italy preparing for the
operatic stage.
CAMP COLLIE, at Delavan, has been
enlarged by the addition of five acres.
There will be during the summer sort
of religious camp, lasting several weeks.
Daily services will be held. 1t is ex-
pected that many distinguished pulpit
orators will attend.
Two farmers of Oakfeld, Fond du Lac
county, Charles Hill and Joseph Mardin,
have killed eight wolves since the 1st of
January last. They received $40 piece
for the eight scalpes. They cared more
for money than for fame in killing
wolves.
A TOOTH of a mastodon lately found
in the Platte river, Grant county, is in
the possession of Hon. John G.. Clark.
1t is a monster Length, s inches;
height, 6 inches; thickness, inches;
weight, Al pounds. Efforts are soon to
be made to discover the balance of the
skeleton.
bayfield, must be healthy place.
The Press says: According to statis-
tics which we made up the other day,
there has been but one death here in the
last three weeks, and that was only that
of small spring chicken which was
ruthlessly murdered by somebody else's
dog.
BENJAMIN EVANS, colored La
Crosse husband, beat his white wife,
Josephine, until she appealed to the
courts for protection. The Judge fined
the darkey $14, and he promised to beat
the woman no more. A white woman
who would marry colored man deserves
to be whipped.
On Saturday of last week, DIR.
Meacher, of Portage, assisted by Drs.
Fox, of Madison, Davis, of Baraboo,
Coleman, of Pardeeville, and Blake, of
Lodi, removed an ovarian tumOr from a
lady of Dane county. The tumor, to-
gether with its fluid contents, more than
filled an ordinary wooden pail. The
lady is rapidly recovering.
ABOUT two weeks since, the prisoners
in the Prairie du Chen Jail escaped.
Among them was Pat Ryan, a desperate
unier conviction and awaiting sentence
for horse stealing. Mr.. John Devlin, of
De Soto, saw Ryan on the streets of that
village, on the Goth, and summoning
Constables Rice and LOTUS, they gather
ed the gentleman in, and he'd him until
the sheriff of Crawford county arrived.
Mr.. Devlin secured reward of 81 600.
THE Winneconne Item states that re-
cent observations throughout the farm
ing districts in the immediate vicinity of
Win Ieconne have fully satisfied it that
though the wheat crop may not be as
we have had in some particular former
years, there will be good, fair crop, and
if nothing happens to discourage this re-
suit, the farmers will feel amply repaid
for their labor, and will feel richer than
they have done in some years past.
The schooner J. II. Porter, loaded
with wood, was coming into the river at
Oshkosh on the Doth when she struck a
sunken pile and stove hole in her side.
She sank near Weeds mill. On being
unloaded she floated sufficiently 10 be
towed to the dock east of Colvin's.
Early this morning as tug attempted
to turn around, she capsized and went
down on her beam ends. The masts are
sticking out of the water at an angle of
about forty-five degrees.-Ostkosh North
loestern.
Nor long since a party Of Berlin
young people picnicked at Green Lake.
The left their well-stored dinner-pails
under the shade of tree, and wandered
off in couple4eto throw stones into the
lake. A party from RipOn discovered
the Berlin commissariat, and, being hun
cry, devoured the whole days allowance