The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-05-24
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

portion OF the way.
THE residence of Hiram Darling, of
Lind, Waupaca county, was burned Fri
day Loss 1000; insured for $500.
THE result of the inquest held over the
remains of Captain John Lynch, of
Oshkosh, was that he came to his death
by accidental drowning.
PHILLIP KRETsCH, of Germantown,
Washington county, has purchased the
Young America Mills Consideration,
$1,000.
| A COLUMBUS Judge gave Mrs. Harris a
divorce, and then sentenced the divorced
and worthless husband to sixty days inn
prisonment in the county Jail.
A DIssIPATED man, Michael Garvey,
of Freedom, fell down while attending a
fire last week, and when picked up he
was dead.
AN old deacon, f. w. Cook, of Ripon,
has been taken to the Oshkosh Insane
Asylum. Although sixty years old he
had mania for little girls
A LITTLE daughterof ThoS. McClusky,
of Prairie du Chen, had three fingers
accidentally cut off with an axe in the
hands of a young brother.
GEORGE DALzo, machinist from
Milwaukee, died suddenly in Racine,
Tuesday, from the effects of excessive
drinking.
| GEORGE FISH, of Mauston, accidentally
shot himself at Winona, Mimi, Thurs
| day, while en- route to the Black Hills.
He died instantly His remains were
taken to Mauston.
| HIRAM CoNovER, of Plymouth, She
boygan county, manufactures daily 40
pounds of cheese, the product of 4, 500
pounds of milk Later in the season he
will manufacture more.
| BENJAMIN's saw mill in the town of
| Eaton, Brown county, run by Ed. Peter
son, was burned Tuesday. Loss $1,000.
| No insurance a man named Pete was
severely burned.
Mr.. AND Mrs. OLE BULL and child,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Thorp, Mrs, Sharp
leigh and two children, sailed for Europe
on Saturday, in the White Star steam
ship Britannia.
LAST week Mr. Patrick Cotter, of
Appleton, buried three children at one
time in one grave. Mr.. William koss
also lost three children within a few
hours of each other.
Young HENDERSON, who was arrested
in La Crosse for robbing drunken man
of a gold watch and a sum of money,
last Tuesday, was sentenced by Judge
Bum to two years imprisonment i'll the
state prison.
A BRANDON saloon keeper refused a
minor liquor, and ordered him out of his
saloon. The minor retired, but returned
shortly afterward with all the roughs i'll
the village and demolished the saloon.
The saloon keeper, Miller, has brought
suit to recover his loss.
A Brown county farmer, in preparing
potatoes for family use, cuts off the seed
end, which is saved for planting. If the
ends thus saved get perfectly dry and
hard, it does not hurt them any, they
will sprout Just as well. Some persons
purposely dry them under the stove to
prevent them from rotting.
CHRIS. LUTZ, a farm laborer living II
miles west of Mosinee, was found hang
ing by the neck in barn, at an early
hour Saturday morning. He was sin
gle man, aged a years, of good charac-
ter and habits,
The town of Janesvilie has pound,
and one day recently forty-six cows from
the city went out there and every one of
them was lodged therein. The most in
teresting point in this little circumstance
is that the owners had to pay 81 each for
the impounding.-Gdz
THE Kellogg patent brooms are being
manufactured quite extensively at the
State Prison ut Waupun, and, if it
seems profitable to do SO, the state will
IL. Co. Of Mr.
Kellogg. If not, Mr.. Kellogg will hire
prisoners of the state and manufacture
brooms himself.
THOMAS HARRIS, of Eau Claire, was
robbed of $50 while returning home,
Thursday night The night was dark
and the Williams escaped They evident
| ly knew Harris had money, waylaid him,
put their hands in his pocket and escaped
with their booty.
| MIsFORTUNES never come singly.
Hardly had the body of Capt. John
| Lynch been conveyed to his residence
when his little boy Charley, aged four
years, was thrown out of a cart in which
| he and some other children were playing
and his leg broken at the thigh.-Osh-
| k0sh Northeastern
Mr.. ARTHUR Fox, of Oregon, Dane
county has purchased the Miller farm in
that township, comprising 200 acres at
the rate of $50 per acre. The property
comprises wood land, meadow and plowed
| fields, and has no superior i'll the state,
being of excellent quality and finely
| located It is to be made into stock
| farm.
A COW belonging to Mr.. G.. Mahn, of
| Pennington, Washington county, wan
deredfaway from home, and passing by
| Mr.. S. Engel's premises, dog belong
ing to that gentleman attacked it, dri-
wing the cow over a bridge, and in fall
ing the animal broke leg. Mr.. Engel,
to save trouble, gave Mr.. Mahn another
COW. If all men were to act as justly
there would be little litigation.
THE conclusion of the examination of
witnesses in the Plendermann murder
case, at Shawano, Wis, resulted in hold
ing August Lange for trial. The evil
dence showed that Lange bought re-
volver four weeks before with the ex-
pressed intention of numbering Plender-
mann, but afterwards purchased buck
shot, deciding to use i shotgun instead
of a revolver. Revenge and jealousy
were the causes.
A WOMAN appeared before Squire
Masse, of Green Bay, on Monday, and
reluctantly confessed that her husband
was jealous. 1t seems he is good, kind
and loving husband, but jealousy, with
out cause, masters his better sense; and
when in such fits he rushes to the whisky
bottle for relief to his wounded feelings.
In such cases the spirits which he pours
down rouses the innate spirit of jealousy
to such an extent that he seems as one
crazed, and when in this condition he
!. abuses his wife. In the early
part of this week the husband was ar
rested; his case was postponed, but ultl-
mately brought to court, when the above
facts were ascertained. For this last
freak in the way of wife abusing he was