The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-03-01
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Matters OF Interest Cleaned from Our
Latest Exchanges.

Matters OF Interest Cleaned from Our
Latest Exchanges.
Mrs. ROCKFORD, of Neenah, made
q misstep In coming down stairs last
week and fell. breaking her leg below
the knee.
ANOTHER kersene lamp has exploded
at Eau Claire, soaring all the inhabit-
ants. The oil was non explosive at 104
deg, but quite explosive at 108 deg.
IT is rumored in Fond du Lac that q
Chicago damsel intends to brig suit
against mineral merchant of Fond du
Lac.
Two OSHKOSH policemen were re-
quested to resign and give up Their
stars by Mayor Haben, because they
objected to and neglected some Of their
duties.
Two petty burglars, Charles Barrack
and Charles Holt, were arrested at
Madison, tuesday. They confessed to
numerous burglaries, in which small
articles were stolen.
DAN DUNN stole q watch and S32
from John Waddle, of Phillips, Taylor
county. He commenced to gamble
with the boys in Medford and lost all
he stole. The sheriff is now after him.
CHIPPEWA COUNTY is certainly coun-
ty of litigation. Jury cases have occu-
pied the time of the court for the past
five weeks, and trials by the court will
occupy two or three weeks more.
A WATERFOWL minister tried to put
his watch on his nose, instead of his
spectacles, last Sunday, and the congre-
CATION lost the thread of his discourse,
for the time.
q. P. BRD, of Marinette, has con-
tracts to deliver to Chicago parties
$50, 600 cedar posts, Is, 900 ties, and
800 telegraph poles. He has led the
work out to jobbers, and rs men are
employed. 1t will bring into the county
SIS, 900.
AT the next election the citizens of
La Crosse are to decide whether the
city is to approve or reject the demands
of the Viroqua and La Crosse Marrow
Gauge Railroad Company for subsidy
from the city Of La Crosse of S25, 900,
in aid of their enterprise.
A SON of P. Smith, of Appleton. was
burned to death Tuesday. 1t appears
he was playing with comrades in a field,
setting fire to grass, when his clothing
caught fire, and he was so seriously
burned that he died shortly after. He
was about six years of age.
A CHILD, the daughter of Mr.. Davis,
of Waubeck, went into the cellar, last
Monday evening, to get some vege-
tables, taking a lighted lamp with her.
By some means the lamp was over
turned, burning her 80 severely that
she died shortly afterwards.
The Peshtigo Company have in 49,
500, 900 feet of logs, and with 16, 900, 900
feet more will be able to keep their
mills busy during the coming season.
Their crews are all at work as yet, but
if snow does not come before the close
of next week, they will be obliged to
break up most of their camps.
A 15YEAR old daughter of Franz Pa
tow, of the town of West Bend, shot
herself mortaliy in the head on Tues
day. Mr.. Patow died short time since,
and she is said to have committed the
deed because she was to be separated
from her stepmother on the order of
her guardian.
The residence of Michael Bellamy, of
Taycheedah, Fond du Lac county, was
burned with all its contents, Monday.
The building was worth 1900. The
family barely escaped with their lives,
and the origin of the fire remains
mystery. Mrs. Bellamy had $85 tied up
in an old stocking, and Miss B. 1913 in
i her trunk, earned in teaching school,
which was burned with the rest.
REV. Mr.. WELToN, the evangelist,
has been preaching in Eau Claire, and
Mrs. Welton has been singing. She
has very sweet voice, and he is a good
preacher. Together they have made
over one hundred converts. They in
tend to remain two weeks longer. The
local clergy have given important aid
A PAIR of land sharks have been
operating at Mansion, Wisconsin, lately.
They traded large tracts of Iowa and
Nebraska land for the farms of people
desiring to move west. Upon investi-
cation the deeds, abstracts of title, ETC.,
of the same proved to be bogus, and the
sharpers gave up what deeds they had
obtained and LETT town to avoid arrest,
leaving their hotel and saloon bills
unpaid.
SIXTY miles above Wausau, two
week ago, a man by the name of Amos
Brown met with an adventure which
might have ended his life. He was
taking load of provisions from one
tagging camp to another, and saw
panther on tree near him. AS he had
g gun he concluded to make an assault,
| and fired two loads of buckshot at
the beast. Wounded and enraged,
the panther made charge,
and attempted to get Mr.. Brown by the
neck, but Amos was too smart for that
and managed to avoid such an occur
renee and at the same time thrust his
knife into the panther's throat. The
next day party of men found the dead
body of the panther in the woods.
Mr.. PRESCOTT, of Marinette, received
an order, on Tuesday, from the Puget
Sound firm of Hanson, Arkerson & Co.
for a chain which is to be 400 feet long,
and the links to be made of q inch
round iron. It's weight will be about 5
tons, and its cost will approximate
81 800. The necessity for a chain SO
strong Eve omitted to say Its purpose is
to pull logs up into the milD exists in
the fact that some of the logs out there
measure 100 feet in length and feet
butt diameter. Mr.. Ackerson says he
got the one he is now using from Eng
land, and doesn'b know but he may
have to send there for this, but he
thought he would give America the first
chance.
THE man Joseph Long, charged with
numbering his infant child and destroy
ing Its body by burning it in cook
stove, was examined before the Court
Commissioner at Mansion on Monday
last. The proof on the part of the state
tended to show that about two o'clock
P. NJ, on Christmas day, the prisoners
wife was prematurely confined, the
ttBtns being only about three months
grown; that the prisoner and his wife
were alone at the time; that the .f,tus
was burned; that the prisoner did not
call assistance to his wife until about