The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-06-28
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS


THE ladies of Madison are moving TO
establish a woman's home in that city.
THERE has been shipped from She
boygan this season, up to the 20th, l6,-
27l boxes of cheese.
BURGLARS stole shirt and a goose
/ from the residence of the marshal of
/ Depere, and he couldn't find the thieves.
AT Stevens Point the number of tele-
graphic dispatches sent daily average
one hundred and ninety.
THE Hessian fly has commenced to
work in some pieces OF wheat near
! Whitewater.
A BON containing so in silver and
notes was stolen from picnic party last
week at Herelsburg, Washington county.
f. MACARTHUR, of Omro, has con-
tract for furnishing 80, 900 feet of lum-
Der to a firm in Great Britain. E
A LARGE lynx was seen near Matt
nette. When approached by the boys
the animal showed fight, and the boys
scampered oil.
The late rains have raised the Chip
pewa river four feet. No logs have
come down YET. Eau Claire and Black
rivers were not affected much by the
recent rains.
4 MAN was arrested in GAINESVILLE for
taking IN umbrella. The lawyers not
having any practice volunteered to pros
ecute and defend him. The trial was
postponed to get Il good ready.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth makes
mention of Strawberries grown III that
town "as big as your head" This
strikes us a dubious compliment to Fond
du Lac heads.
The heirs of the late Rufus Dodge
have begun suit to prevent the executors
from paying $1,000 to each of the coll
leges in Wisconsin, as prescribed in the
will.
THREE children of Mr.. Woodwork,
of Wilton, Monroe county, died on the
18th. They had been eating sorrel and
it is supposed eat some poisonous weed
which caused death.
TRAINS are now running on the Peoria
and Fond du Lac narrow guage railway,
Il short distance out of Fond du Lac. 1t "a
is expected the road will be completed to
Peoria the lst of August.
AFTER searching three hours for her
son Mrs. Smith, of La Crosse, found him
in the cstern, where he had fallen in
three hours before. He had managed TO
keep his head above water.
CHARLES WILKINSON, thirteen years
old, residing in Oakfcld, Fond du Lac
county, fell from a tree on the 18th, II
distance of thirty feet, into DUllngs
Gap, and fractured his skull So badly
that he died i'll a few hours. ..
LATE courting has its advantages. A
kosh, had been out late to see his hearts
idol, and on returning home frightened
off some burglars who were making an
entrance into the house.
FIVE young ladies drove to Fond du
Lac from Waupun, on the 10th, in Il
one-seated buggy. Three of them occll-
pied the seat proper, and the remaining
two sat on the laps of the other three.
They We're all pretty, and attracted
much attetion.
THE Oshkosh Times says that by lend
ing $1,000 to he paid in yearly INSTALL
ments, Portage is likely to secure the To-
cation of a large carriage factory. If
this is the sort of spirit which pervades
the Portage people, that place is bound
to succeed.
ONE of the peculiarities of Mr.. Jesse
Cravin, who died here on the l. tn inst,
was his aversion to banks, and his money
he always kept hid about his house
During his last illness he was unable to
about s9s5 TT his premisGs fsac6vefF6 a s6Ht
mostly in gold. Whether all the money
he had hid was found in these searches
cannot be told U'atert0,cn Rp"bt'caa
A LOWELL, Dodge county, farmer has
been trying the new potato bug remedy.
He sliced some and scattered them over
his potato patch At noon he wenC to
the field, expecting to see his prepared
potatoes" covered with dead bugs, but
was surprised to find that the potatoes
had disappeared. On looking farther he
found several of his hogs in the fence
corners, twisting themselves into all man
ner of shapes, as if they were suffering
from Il severe colo.
THE following are graduates G the
elementary course at the Normal school
at Oshkosh on the Goth: Amelia T.. Ban
ming, Fond du Lac; Hannah f. Davis,
Winneconne; Alice J. (iulcombc Spring
Lake; William Leith. Eldora,lo; katlia-
rine 4. Lyons, Milwaukee; Nettie Mar
bic, Oshkosh; Joseph +. Norm, Brighton;
Ada Peabody, Oshkosh; Julius Kosholt,
Scandinavia; Harvey II. Smith, Bara-
boo; Carey Thomas, Deperc; Frederick
G.. Young, Burnett.
WHILE Alonzo Reynolds, Of the town
Of Burke, was in Madison, the other day,
disposing of his strawberries, he left his
team hitched Il short time in front OF
the city hall, with about & half-bushel of
fresh eggs in the wagon, but ON return
ing. found that some hungry thief had
gobbled up the whole lot, which was
rather bare-faced stealing, to say the
| least.
| THE Janesville people are greatly
amused at the habits of the Gipsies en-
camped in the vicinity, and large
numbers visit the camp Sundays. Last
Sunday noted young man named Jim
visited the camp and made love to one
of the dark-eyed, dirty, beauties. She
wanted to tell Jim's fortune, but he,
more intent on courtship, paid SO much
attention that her Ctipsy lover went up
to jim and gave him one, tIco, and three,
on the nasal organ. jim was more than
satisfied, and now he is called "GipSy
jim"