The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-06-07
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

hood of Ahnapee.
On Monday night Fort Howard
school house was stripped of all its NOV
ables by sneak thieves.
HENRY SCHAFER, son of Mr.. Anson
Sehafer, of Eau Claire, was drowned in
the sewer at that place Tuesday.
The Green Bay and Minnesota rail-
road company contemplate building a
branch from Plover to Stevens Point.
: AT a game of base ball at Trenton, a
few days since, Almon Bates broke his
leg while running base.
CHINCH bugs are destroying the wheat
cropi in the vicinity of La Crosse. Sew
eral farmers were compelled to plow the
+ land again and put in a crop of oats.
q a POLISH boy, Alex. Forlensky. was
drowned in the river at La Crosse, Satur-
day. The canoe in which he was sailing
was capsized, and not being able to swim
sank before he could be rescued.
Mrs MAGGIE DAY, who horsewhippad
a school maam in Monroe county short
time ago, because her little girl got pun
lshed, was brought before justice of
the peace and fined S25 and costs of suit.
THE Catholic church, of Ripon, was
robbed of gold chalice and vestments
valued at $500. The congregation could
lily afford to suffer the loss. No clue to
the thieves.
a LITTLE son of Mr.. Keister, of Osh-
kosh, was run over by team and terri
bly, mutilated The child will recover,
but will bear the scars of his wounds for
life.
HENRY PEAsLEY was arrested at At
water and taken in charge by the sheriff
of st. Johns, Mich, who will take him to
Michigan, where he is wanted for iail
breaking, forgery &c.
UP to the present time there has been
put in Geneva lake 5,000,0O0 wall-eved
pike, 100000 salmon trout, 1000, 900
whiteiish, 200, 900 brook trout, $50, 900 Cal
ifornia salmon, $4,000 handbook salmon,
and 10000 Oswego bass, making total
of 100000.
THERE was manufactured in Wiscon-
sin in 1870, 22,473,000 pounds of butter.
In 1876, 0,130,000 pounds. The amount
of cheese manufactured in the state in
| 1870 was |, ,59l ,79S pounds. In 1876, IT,
O00, 900 pounds.
/ The creditors of the Prescott Bank
held meeting at the council chamber on
Wednesday last. The Bank gives assur-
ance that it can pay fifty cents ON a dol
lar. Henry Miller will be the assignee,
which gives assurance that what is left
will be honestly divided. Prescott Plain
deaier.
DR.. f. L. HOOKER, of Kilbourn CITY,
Wis, who died lately, ordered by his
will that mortgage held by him on the
parsonage of the Presbyterian church
in that place be cancelled thus freeing it
from debt. This bequest was conditioned
upon the union of the Presbyterian and
Congregationalist churches in that place
"a union which had been effected short
time before DR.. Hooker's death.
LAST Thursday evening the rear end
of Hyde & CargilPs brick store-house in
La Crosse, in which was stored 1000
or 5000 bushels of wheat, was forced
out by the great pressure, and the wheat
moved out and encamped upon the
ground. The store-house is to be imme-
diately repaired.
WE learn from gentleman of this
city, who has had occasion to visit the
Oneida reservation, that there are 1000
acres of as good land as ever the sun
shone on, well fenced, lying idle in the
settlement III consequence of the inabil-
ity of the Indians to procure seed grain.
Fort H0rard Herald.
A HORSE THIEF stole a span of horses
and buggy from the barn of VIM. Wad-
property, aIu gavt' un6 'aIaIiI IirU Vl.i1.
was followed and overtaken by two sons
of Mr.. W. The thief seeing he was cor
nercd, jumped from the buggy and es-
capped. The horses ran away, but were
caught.
ARRANGEMENTS are progressing for
having a large and attractive yacht re-
gatta at Oshkosh on the Fourth of July.
Twenty three yachts, from all the lake
cities, will be present-including four
from Chicago, the Ina, Frolic, Mamie,
and new one not yet named. The Chi
cago yachts will come by way of Green
Bay, and thence up the river.
SHERIFF STANTON, of Detroit, Mich,
came here yesterday with a rcquisition
from Gov Ludington for VIM. 5. Orvis,
of Mackford, who is charged with the
crime of larceny near that place. Deputy
Sheriff Moore made the arrest last even
ing and turned the prisoner over to the
Sheriff This event will astonish the old
acquaintance of Mr.. Orvis.- Waupm
Leader, Nay 29th.
Mrs. ELIZABETH HOOPER, of Palmy
IA, the widow of Thomas Hooper, has
recently been taken to the insane
asylum at Oshkosh Her insanity is
said to have been caused by the sudden
death of her youngest son, about %
years old, who was killed about one year
ago, in consequence of his team running
away and throwing him against tree.
/ Mrs. Hooper esteemed this son very
I highly and refused to be comforted when
/ he died.
The Mississippi Logging company the
past year strung sheer booms along the
low, fat places and sloughs between Eau
Claire and Beef slough, to keep the logs
when running on high water from float
I ing off on the bottoms and ineXtricable
places. Along the river the shoals and
bars, between Eau Claire and the slough
are numerously covered with old logs,
and probably from 6,000,0 900 to 100000
feet of logs are scattered over this portion
of the river.
Mr.. RICE, treasurer of Joint school
district No. 5, of the towns of Pine Grove
and Almond, Portage county, was sur
prised few weeks ago, by receiving a
letter enclosing so bill, together with
a slip of paper upon which was written
the following words: "This money be-
longs to joint district No. 3, of the towns
of Pine Grove and Almond" Just that
and nothing more. Who or where the
money came from or when it was
wrongly taken is not known. Even the
envelope enclosing it did not have leg
ible post-mark.
In the town of Pittsfield, Brown coun-
ty, and in parts of Shawano county,
fires are raging in the woods. Miles of
fences have been destroyed, and manEof
the farmers have to fight fire night and
day to save their buildings. People
there are looking for a repetition of the
destructive fires of 1871. A month more
of this terrible dry weather will surely
bring upon the farmers as terrible forest
fires as every visited anY country The