The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-06-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

pushed, at Janesville, for the accommo
dation of the State Fair.
BURGLARS entered the store of Clor.
ence Brown, at Burnette Junction. on
the 9TH, and succeeded in finding about
$3.50 in silver
A BLACK EARTH blacksmith while
trying to get on his horse jumped entire
ly over the animal, striking the ground
heavily, and sustained severe injuries.
The venerable Ephraim Marble. of
Appleton, now has daughter, (Mrs.
Stevens), a granddaughter Mrs. Baker)
and great granddaughter, miss
Baker,, all engaged in teaching school in
/ Outagamie county.
HE Black River Falls H,dtpendeat
announces that the clergymen. editors
and doct 1rs of that place have formed a
base ball club, with two mines; thesenior
nine play the local amateur club on Sat
urday OF this week, at the Fair grounds.
TIMOTHY COLLINS applied to the au-
thorlties in Montello, on the 9th, for
medical aid to cure his deljrinm tren,eRs.
lie was taken in charge, and next day
had so severe an attack that his life is
deSpalred of. Since Collins was seen on
the streets, Il number of tipplorS have
Joined the Good Templars
FIVE prisoners escaped from the Craw-
ford county Jail on the 4th The pris-
9ners Knocked OF the fastenings of the
doors while the guards were absent. The
notorious Pat Ryan, Nelson Taft, Mich
OILS and the Two LAWYERS escaped, while
three Others decided to remain. Twoof
the prisoners were state prison birds,
IHE MauSton Star reports that the
Yellow River log drive was completed
on the I'd. The whole quantity got out
is little over 100000 feet. 1t has
been one of the longest and hardest
drives ever run on that river The
crew have been at work over sixty days,
and it has only been by persistent hand
splking and hard work that the drive has
been got to the hooms. This is the only
drive that has this season been got down
on any of the tributaries of the Wiscon-
sin river.
Mr.. LINCOLN, of Otsego, Columbia
county, owns a SOW which recently gave
birth to a litter of pigs, the eleventh one
OF which was born with a nearly perfect
ly formed elephant head. The ears, the
trunk and tusks were perfect, and as
fully developed as they are in young Gle
plants. There was but one eve, but that
had double sight, and was located lust
below the trunk and above the mouth.
The pig-elephant had the body of pig,
but its skin was smooth and white, with
out a hair on it. The wonder has been
preserved. 1t was born alive.
In digging a well at Janesville a piece
'f metal was found at a depth of four
teen feet below the surface in ground
not moved since the drift
period. The metal has the appearance
If lead, and seems to have been cast in
mould of rude construction in the form
# gate hinge. A point of the shank is
broken OFT and is missing. Through the
enter of the upright part runs core of
opper wire an eighth of an inch in
liameter. The relic has been sent to the
'tate Historical Society at Madison and
will be examined by Prof. Butler
w. w. FIELD, secretary of the state
gricultural society, declares that Dodge,
)ane, Buffalo, Calumet, Columbia. Craw-
ord, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Grant,
ireen Lake, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson,
"a Crosse, Manitowoc, Monroe, Ozaukee,
'Ierce, Rock, St. Croix, Sauk, Sheboy-
an, Trempcaleau, Vernon, Walworth,
Washington, Waukesha and Winnebago
, any county was 10000, and the
.rgest 136, 900. The acreage this year,
e believes, is on a much larger scale in
he counties newly opened to agriculture.
The Kenosha Telegraph tells this sto-
V: Herman Boyer is aweli-to-do farmer,
wing near the classic village of Fond du
.ac. Fortune smiled upon him, and he
couired great possessions, but in an evil
our he took unto himself wife and
hen commenced a series of troubles
,hich finally eliminated i'll his being
brown into Jail on a trumped-up
harge, preferred by one OF his wlfe's
Citations. His wife, assisted by her
then proceeded to collect
he old mans valuablcs, amounting to
bout $4,000, and taking with her his
hree children, decamped for parts un-
,nown. Boyer, on regaining his liberty,
It once started in pursuit OF the fugl-
ives, and after many weeks of frultless
earch in New York, Washington, and
,ther eastern cities, whittier he had been
ed by decov letters, he accidentally
earned that his truant wife and chill
lren were living in this city i'll very
etircd manner and under the assumed
lame of Miller. lie arrived here last
week, foot sore and weary, and after in
,oking the laws assistance for the restor-
,tion of his children, he succeeded in in
lucing his wife to accompany him back
% Fond du Lac She went, however,
lnder protest, and the end has not yet
arrived.
IT having been rumored that the
at Darlington had been des-
ecrated, and the remains of lovely
young lady despoiled from their resting
place, an investigation was made. Sew
: al citizens visited the cemetery and
proceeded to the grave, and from lndica-
tions were soon satisfied that 1t had been
opened and filled up again. They pro-
cured tools and had it dug out. They
found the box broken open, the top of
the coffin was also broken, and it was
empty; the bones, which was all that was
left, the body having been buried a num-
Der of years ago had been removed. A
pair of woolen mittens were found among
the earth above the coffin. The officers
of the society were notified what had
been done, and the discoveries made,
and they Immediately instituted a search
for the bones, and the perpetrator of the
outrage The job had been 50 bunglingly
done that this was not found 20 be
difficult task, and they soon discovered
that they were on the right track. Pur,
suing their investigations they received
a communication stating that the bones
could be found in piece of woods north
of the city. They proceeded to the
designated place, and there found the
bones buried; they took them, recoffined
them, and reinterred them in the ceme-
terry.
The Horticultural Society.
The June meeting of the Wisconsin
State Horticultural Society will be held
Al, and OTth nsfs