The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-05-10

Il panic, Fri day afternoon, by doc
which entered one of the rooms contain.
ing between forty and fifty children.
he actions oi the dog We're very strange,
and indicated thai he was either poisoned
or mad. The teacher could not get the
animal out of the room and the scholars
became terrified to that extent that the
teacher found ii necessary To dismiss the
school Mr. Clark Burnham, Jr., one of
| IN" commissioners, was sent for hy the
teacher, but before he reached the school.
the dog had died in the room. The dog
had been poisoned.
The property OF the Green Bly Iron
Company, rear Seymour, consisting of
about $50 acres of Land and five charcoal
| kilns, was sold by the sheriff, 1t Apple
ton, last Tuesday. Mr.. Mr.. Hunt, of
Dcpere, was the purchaser, at 5000.
THE State Geologi~t of Wisconsin has
gust reported that the copper-bearng
rocks of Lake Superior extend almost
uninterruptedly across the state. In the
Nemakagen river masses of native cor
per have been found, and the prospect
that the country will become rich cop
| per region is very encouraging
Gov. LUDINGToN has issued pardons
to L. Roof, of Marccllon, who was con-
Nlcted OF perjury, IN Columbia county,
a year ago, and to David Lewis, of Ran
dolph, who plead guilty to an Informal
ton of larceny, last fall. Application
| has also been made to the Governor for
the pardon of VIM. H. Harris, who was
one of the parties to the last named tram
saction.
Two prisoners tried to escape from
| the Chiffon Jail, one day last week. At
kinson, a horse-thief, was discovered
saving the bars with a table knife,
while a dead-beat prisoner endeavored to
drown the noise by singing and dancing.
The sheriff-s wife saw the men, and tell
ing her husband, they were placed in
irons.
FIFTY-FOUR liens were filed in the
office of the Clerk of the Court, at Hue
son, last Wednesday, on the property of
+. Bellew, by his employees. Mr. Bellcw
has been engaged in the manufacture of
lumber and shingles in the the town of
Emerald, in that county, but owing to
financial difficulties, has been compelled
to suspend. The claims of the employees
aggregate over $4,000.
~ fiRE al I. n. falne ~ 20. 8 mill,
three miles from Mcmillan, destroyed
five tenement houses and blacksmith
shop, on Thursday. The two year old
boy of Joseph Heeson was burned to
death. The child was left alone in the
kitchen of the house, and on the return
of the mother the house was found to be
in flames, and there was no possibility of
rescuing him. The origin of the fire is
unknown. A large quantity of house
hold effects belonging to the mill men
was also Il total loss.
THE Hudson star and Times saws:
"Ihe people in this section of Wisconsin,
and in large part of Minnesota adjoin-
ing, will be glad To know that active
work has again begun in grading on the
North Wisconsin Railway. During the
winter the roadway for twenty miles
was cleared Oft, and now the grading has
begun. The contracts have been let for
grading ten miles, the work to be com
pleted ready for the ties and iron by the
lst OF august. 1t is expected to let
further contracts, and we have strong
hopes that before the snow flies again,
twenty miles of this important line of
railway will be in full running operation
The completion of twenty miles more
will carry the road almost half Of the
way from Hudson to Lake Superior,
gust about half the way from st. Paul.