The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-11-08
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

DANIEL WHTTsoN, of Packwaukee
was robbed in the Black Hills region.
A PEDDIER on the road near Burling
ton was robbed of $40 by three highway
men.
THE new Odd Fellows hall at Plym
outh has been dedicated, with great cere
monies.
ID. w. MARsTON, of La Crosse, mourns
the loss of a gold watch and chain and
small amount of money, stolen from
him Monday night.
A MAN calling himself John ID. Nor
ton was arrested in GAINESVILLE Thursday
evening, for passing counterfeit silver
pieces.
Mrs. FARRELL of Mauston, slipped
on the frosty walk, fell and broke her
arm. The accident is especially serious
as Mrs. Farrell is a music teacher.
In Pacific, about five miles from Por-
tage, man was arrested for whipping
his wife. They have. only been married
about year. He is now lodged in the
Portage Jail.
Two years ago Joseph and Sarah
Richards, of Racine, were divorced.
They did not succeed in making life's
journey singly, and were hitched mp
again on Tuesday evening last.
ARRANGEMENT ought to be made for
a limited course of lectures this coming
WIN er.-Menashd Press. We will guar
antee that the course will be sufficiently
limited AeeaCh GG-sttc.
DURING the past year 43 wolves and
one wildcat have been killed in Juneau
county. The bounty paid by the county
for killing wolves is so per head. 1t
pays no bounty on wildcats. The state
pays bounty of 50 per head on wolves
and So on wildcats.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON the engine of
the road-master's train jumped the track
near Afotn, on the Chicago and North
western road and two cars of iron scrap
fell upon it. Road-master Keys and the
engineer, brakeman and fireman were
under the wreck and barely escaped
with their lives. Keys is badly burned
and smashed up. The Others are severely
injured.
A GENTLEMAN from Packwaukee
relates the particulars of novel sight
he was witness to the other day on
| Buffalo Lake. His attention was
attracted toward the lake by a roar that
resembled the approach of hurricane,
and there he discovered myriads of
| ducks engaged in mortal combat. He
watched them for while and discovered
that the battle was between the canvas
backs and mallards, who were evidently
striving for supremacy in the celery
fields. The lake was fairly strewn with
feathers, as if all the ducks in the land
had been picked for the occasion.-I'or-
tage Register.
| A COMPLICATED runaway accident,
inaugurated by a horse belonging to the
American express company, occurred on
East Water street on Saturday evening,
and resulted in the partial wrecking OF
| the express wagon; the total annihila-
tion of a wagon belonging to George
Fratt, of Burlington, and the killing of a
horse valued at $3.50 owned by Thomas
| w. Clark, of $50 Grand avenue. The
officers of the American express company
have been called upon to pay the bills
Eeening Wisconsin.
A GIRL named Anna Mckay, aged ii
years, and an inmate of the Milwaukee in
dustrial school was arrested Friday even
| ing, for attempting to fire the building.
! The girl had set fire to a bed in one por
tion OF the building, and lighted pile
of straw underneath carpet in another
room, and but for timely discovery, and
prompt action by the matron, the struc-
ture would soon have been regularly
ablaze. The reckless young criminal
was returned to the institution by the
police two or three days since, and is sup
posed to have adopted the plan of arson
as a measure of spite.
SHAwANo correspondence: Gone of
our citizens recently went to a court
commissioner to get married, and in re-
ply to the usual question said he had two
wives, but did not know where they
were, and that the first one went off with
colored lad, and the second with an
Indian, and he thought that was trouble
enough; as the marriage was not per-
formed he did the next best thing I. e.,
took the hand of his third love and de-
clared themselves man and wife; thus
does love laugh at the obstacles of life.
PROF. HAsKINs, experimenting at the
| telegraph office in Milwaukee, Sunday,
with a Bell speaking telephone, was sue
cessful in transmitting the sound of the
tune "The Sweet By and Bye" sung by
quartette at this end of the line,
so that it was easily recognized
by listeners in the office at Minneapolis
"a distance of $50 miles. Subsequently,
the Minneapolis nightingales "struck
up" the same tune, and the individual
voices of the quartette were easy recog-
nizable by the company at the office in
this city. And it wasn't much of day
for telephone practice, either.
A TRAMP, having win him four
year-old boy, whom he said was his son,
applied at the house of Charles Prop, in
this village, last Saturday evening for
food and lodging, saying that they were
hungry and penniless. The sympathies
of Mr. Prop and his wife were enlisted,
and the pair were provided with supper
and bed In the morning the able
bodied vagabond decamped, leaving the
child. The deserted little fellow is still
on Mr.. Props hands, and will probably
have to be adopted by the county
ReoDunee Enterprise.
A RATHER curious accident, and a
very narrow escape from death, occurred
: on Monday, on the island. Angie Wood
worth, a young lady, while engaged in
: hauling water from an open well, IN
some way fell and plunged headlong into
the well. The well is sixteen feet deep,
and contains five or six feet of water.
! In falling the girl received quite Sc
we're bruises, and when first seen by
her father, who fortunately happened
t to be near at hand and heard her scream
as she fell, she was literally "standin G
on her head" in the well, in which
t position she would quickly have drowned,
but in some way in her desperate
D struggles, she got her head above water,
and her father hurrying to her relief. she
was speedily rescued from her perilous
position.-Neendh Gazette.