The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-03-22
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS,
Matters Of Interest Cleaned from Our
Latest Exchanges.

Falls, have failed. Liabilities S6, 1000
assets $4,000
Rev. FATHER O'MALLEY has induce,
over 500 men in Washington county t.
sign the Catholic temperance pledge.
The total log cut on the Marinett
river, up to March 6, is 158, 600. 600 feet
and the amount banked LOG, 900, 600 feet
THERE were twenty-six deaths from
scarlet fever and forty cases of sickness
In Peshtigo up to last Friday.
1t is reported that the best lawyer
in the state have been employed to con
test the legality of the Darlington cit,
charter.
NORTH LOWELL has thirteen person,
over so years of age; one over 20; thre,
over 80, and one, James Knapp, nearl,
so. All are hale and hearty.
THERE are no less than twenty arte
sian wells in Meeme. A fountain STRUCK
last week throws out 5000 gallons pei
hour, through hole eighteen inches
in diameter.
OF the specimens of prehistoric cop
per belonging to the historical Society
at Madison. Washington county has
furnished fifty, larger proportion
than any other county.
In Stevens Point are thirteen saw
grist and planning mills, seven churches,
four public and two private schools,
and upwards of two thousand offices
and business houses of different kinds.
THE city of Racine has reduced lis
bonded Indebtedness So, 900 within the
past year. The new court house is tc
be used for the first time, for holding
the March term of the Circuit Court.
THE cut of pine logs on the Chippewa
river and its tributaries will reach
seventy per cent. of last year. With a
clean drive most Of the mills will get
logs enough for seasons saving.
SAMUEL STOWE, of Gratiot, Lafayette
county, completed his 84th year on the
10th ult., on which day he sawed two
cords of oak wood twice in two. Who
is the man of his age that can beat it
AT the charter election in Darlington
on Monday last the entire No-License
ticket was elected by a majority of %,
and the saloon-keepers Will enjoy the
luxury of selling liquor without paying
any license fees.
PETER YELEK, while digging a we'll
near Mauitowoc, recently, found lot
of fine white ashes and charcoal at a
depth Of tweDty-three feet below the
surface, and still further down limbs
and moss were encountered.
A BRUTE in Randolph came home
from Fox Lake drunk, and found his
son lying on the lounge. Becoming
enraged at him from some cause OF
other, he kicked him in the stomach, SC
that the boy died the next day.
On Yellow river there have been
about 100000 feet of new logs
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streams and in the bOoms. The usual
lumber cut on the river is $4,000, ,0OO
feet per season.
The firm of Jones & McHugh, sue
cessors of the late d. W. Ballou in the
proprietorship of the Watertown Demo
crat, was dissolved last week, Mr.
Thomas G. Jones purchasing the inter.
est of Mr.. James McHugh, and thus
becoming sole proprietor of the paper
The town of Cadiz, Green county
has voted, by a majority of 83, to ex
tend aid to the Freeport and Dodge
vile Narrow Gauge Railroad. 1t is
understood that the town of York vii
aid to the extent of $4,000, and Perry
in similar sum.
A HOG raiser and pork producer ii
Dane county, named Thomas O'Malley
sold to Packham Bros. Of Waunakee
six pigs, six months old, weighing !, ,52(
pounds, averaging 253 2-3 pounds pei
head, at $5 per hundred, amounting te
S76.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee and st
Paul Railroad Company propose re
placing the present railroad bridge
across the Wisconsin River at Kilbourl
City with fine iron structure, havine
roadway for the accommodation O
teams, like the present bridge.
ONE day last week Jerome Beince, o
Brussels, accidentally cut the big to-
off from one of his feet while alone Ii
the woods. MIR. B. coolly put the to-
in his pocket, walked a mile through
the woods to his home, and then sa
down and wrote the Ahnapee Record a
account of the affair.
CAPT. BRADLEY, of Polk county, ha
invented novel stump machine. 1t /
a sheet iron furnace, with pipe.
fire is built around the stump, and th
sheet iron placed over it. The draugh
keeps the fire burning, and the stum]
is consumed.
The Depere National Iron Company
furnace was blown out last Wednesday
after a most successful run of 338 days
making 10, 729 tons of pig metal, or a
average daily yield of 31.74 tone. Th
furnace will Immediately undergo re
pairs, and will blow again in abou
thirty days.
THE firm of Ingerson & Hobart, dul
ing the past three years proprietors c
the Beloit Free Press, has been dissolve
by mutual consent. Cham Ingerso
retires to give his whole attention to tn
management Of the large paper war
manufacturing business. Henry T
Hobart is now sole proprietor of th
Free Press establishment.
HE Madison young man who wa
blown from the top of freight car las
week, while en- route from the Crear
Cito to Madison, on the Milwaukee an
st. Paul Railroad, VINO who sustaine
some slight injuries theyeirom, confir
ing him to his bed for several days,
reported to be all right again, and abl
to be about.
THE Augusta Eagle says that a ger
| tleman of that place took the villag
school ma'am home last Saturday, an
that while he accompanied her into he
fathers house some young scamps be
gan to modest his rig. He fred pistc
over their heads to scare his prosecutor
away, and the local jury said he wa
completely justified In the act.
| A FARMER named Freitag, residin
in Polk, Washington county, and VIII
resides on Cedar Lake, was engaged il
getting out saw-lo9s one day last weeE
As fast as they were sawed out he role
them down the bank to have ther
haddy to load up. One of his children
8 years old, it seems, went into the log
way to play, and the father not KNOWN
of it, started log, which completed
crushed the life our of the little one.
A FARMER named Graf, living in tn