The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-12-27
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

able to say about the weather.
The Universalists conference las
week at Stoughton was we'll attended. .
JOHN GRIFFIN, of Eden, was run owe
and killed by train on the Air Line
| Wednesday.
Mr.. F. A. kEYEs and Miss Alic
Brown, well-known in Menasha society
were married Thursday.
FOND DU Lac has young man VIII,
attempted to get control of a girl b,
"doctoring " candy. There is law sui
to grow out of the matter.
THE losses by fire in Milwaukee thu
far during the present month have aggre
gated $40. The firemen are longing 20
something to keep them busy.
THE long-continued mild weather i,
doing more to stamp out" the small
pox from Milwaukee than all the pre-
cautions the members of the health
board have been able to take.
A SON of William Clark, residing s
few miles ives. of Fond Du Lac, sus
tanned fracture of one of his legs, by
jumping from wagon few days since
and failing to strike i" fairly"
CHRIsToPHER NELSON, of Racine
shot at F. F. Peterson, and the bullet
whizzed all through his clothing, but
didn't injure him in the least. Nelson
was put under $500 bonds TO appear fol
trial.
A ROBIN perched upon the Music Hall
flag staff, warbled his first notes of vel
come to spring this morning. The poor
fellow has evidently been reading some
of Prof. Tice's weather representations.
Eau Claire Press, 20h.
FRIDAY afternoon, during the tempo
rary absence of the family, sneak thieves
took from the residence of Hon. d. c.
Van Ostrand, of Neenah, a gold watch, a
chain and some clothing, valued at over
$500. No clue to the thieves.
OVER one hundred new buildings of
various kinds have been erected in
Kenosha during the year now drawing
to a close, the major portion of which
are OF a substantial character, and in
tended as permanent improvements.
GRAssHoPPERs are hopping about
quite lively during this summer-like
weather. A large, fourishing one was
captured and taken to the Myers house,
where its capers furnished considerable
amusement for the guests.-JanesrjHe
Gazette.
THE Reed perjury case against Dana
G. Lamb, is still occupying the attention
of Justice Goldstucker, having been on
since yesterday. 1t is thought probable
that the hearing will not be brought to "a
close until some time to-morrow.-FOnd
du Lac Commonwealth, q.
HAMILTON & FINLEY, of this city,
have over twenty teams and a CORE
spending number of men at their lum-
bering camps, who are drawing pay and
rations, but are doing no work, the
weather keeping them out of the woods.
Other firms have men out in the same
predicament, all of whom, however, are
drawing pay.-Fond du Lac Common
aCeaAh.
PROF. OLDENHAGE, greatly respected
teacher of the Fourth District school,
died suddenly, on Thursday evening, at
Milwaukee, of inflammation of the
bowels. The deceased was finely edu-
Gated, and but 33 years of age. His re-
mains were taken to Franciscoville,
where his father, mother and sister re-
side.
THE train that took the Boston Com
mercial Club, Monday afternoon, to
Chicago, left Milwaukee via the North
western Railway at 2:27 o'clock, and ar
rived in the depot at Chicago at 4:l5,
eight minutes. The engine WIS a freight
one that has been on the road some
years The train was under the charge
of Conductor Barney Cavanaugh.
A CHATTEL mortgage was filed in the
city clerks office to-day, by which Geo.
H. Wellman, owner of the Fond du
Lac, Amboy and Peoria Railway, mort
cages the entire track, rolling stock and
appurtenances of the road, with the ex-
ception of two locomotives, to the Bar
ney & Smith Manufacturing Company,
of Dayton, Ohio, to secure the payment
of several notes of the aggregate amount
of SO, 420.77.-Fond du Lac Common
Wealth.
OSE night last week some graceless
scamps got into the upper town grist
mill, in Waupun, and touched off the
steam whistle, fixing the valve so il
would keep whistling until some one
stopped it. Waupun thought it was a
fire, and something less than a thousand
men were soon on the way to the scene.
The boys hauled the fire engine through
the mud, nearly half mile, before the
sell was discovered. For once there was
only one man in Waupun that was not
mad and that was George F. Wheeler
and he didn't wake up.-Brandsn Times
LAST week Phillip Howe and james
Brown were tried on the charge of burg.
larry at Cowen q Eaton's store, at Lodi
last summer. The jury, after long de-
liberation, failed to agree, being ! fol
conviction to one for acquittal-ont
juror not being fully satisfied that the
testimony connected the defendants witt
the transaction, beyond all doubt; but
defendants supplied the missing link by
appearing in the court room, last Wed
nesday. and withdrawing their plea OF
"not guilty." and entering a plea Of
guilty" They received a sentence Of
one year each in state prison.
A CASE came up in the circuit court
this morning involving a little mathe
matical problem which set the court anC
the whole bar in a discussion, and wa
the cause of great deal of fun. A
man had given warranty-deed for two
eighths of piece of land for $775. /
turned out that he only owned two
ninths of the land; how much ought h'
pay back under the warranty? Tht
problem is very simple one, in fact, bu
the answer is quite different from wha
would be supposed at first sight. 1t vii
do to speculate on. Perhaps the schol
ars of the normal school would be a
much divided on it as were the member
of the bar.-Oshkosh Northeastern.
IT is nearly midwinter, according II
the patent medicine almanacs and in
surance calendar blotters, yet betweel
the hours of ten and twelve o'clock last
night the thermometer range was from
81 to "a degrees above zero. During to
day it has been even warmer, and gar
den owners are cogitating the prophet.
of planting green peas. Livery stabl
owners who recently purchaseda scor'
of cutters for the winter custom, ant
furriers who have invested their all il
mink and seal skins, are too incensed I,