The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-18
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
WHEAT worth $1.03! in La Crosse.

session at Oshkosh.
SAw-MILLs are shutting down. Can't
get logs-rivers so dry.
MADISON proposes turning the base
ment of City Hall into public market.
THE literary societies in GAINESVILLE are
waking up for the winters work.
OSHKOSH is already making great
preparations for the yachting season of
next year.
ROBERT STONE, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Rock county, died at his home
in Fulton, Saturday.
LA CROSSE is having great trouble
over lack of proper facilities for weigh
ing grain.
THE total expenses of Fond du Lac
for the month of September figure
Sc, 1887.
! c. n. HODGES has retired from the
Ripon Commonwealth, E. L. Scofield tax
ing full charge.
WoNG CHIN Foo the Heather Chinee
is tramping around the state again on
lecturing tour.
JOHN MILTON, one of the oldest of
La Crosses residents, died of apopleXy,
Thursday.
THERE are several ladies up for nom-
nation for county superintendent in
Barron county.
He lives in GAINESVILLE and is a shoe
maker. Tried to light fire with kero-
sene. He s,recover.
RICHARD ROGERS, of Oshkosh, has Sc
cured the contract for building an opera
house in Waco, Texas.
/ A YOUNG man in the town of Madison,
named S. Warren, had both shoulders
put out of joint, on yesterday, by an ac-
cident.
HART & NoRToN's building in Gale
donia was damaged by the fire that oc-
Cured there Friday, to the extent of
1925, and their stock to the value of
$500.
JANEsvILLE suffered from burglars
Thursday night. About $500 worth of
stuff was taken from the three places
visited.
GEO. BABCoCK lost an OK last Sunday.
The OK had been turned loose on the
range, got into corn field and ate until
he killed himself.-Dwdnd Times.
THE Milwaukee clearing house reports
business as follows for the week ending
Saturday: Total amount of exchanges,
$3.50, ,707.S2; total amount of balances,
1925, ,52964
| TRACY THOMPSON and John Kline,
arrested in La Crosse on a charge of
stealing yoke of oxen, were bound over
in the sum of $500 each to appear for
trial.
REV. FATHER SAILER, an old resident
of Port Washington, but at the time of
his death in charge of the Catholic
church in the town of Belgium, died
Friday morning.
NOTWITHSTANDING the unfavorable
season our pickle factory has taken in
over 900 bushels of cucumbers. The
growers have realized an average of over
fifty dollars per acre for the land plant
ed with cucumbers.-Mauston Star.
Work has begun on the narrow guage
railroad from Martintown, Green coun-
ty, to the state line. Work on the north
east end has been in progress for some
time, and the force is sufficient now to
construct mile per day.
THERE is now confined in the county
Jail man by the name of Eben Downs,
on the charge of larceny. Downs was
one of the original owners of the village
of townsville, but has been for some
time insane and a vagrant.-DaTand
Times.
THURSDAY fatal accident occurred
in Beloit, young man named Charles
Culvert being the victim. He attempted
to climb fence with loaded gun in his
hands, and by some accident it dis
charged, the load penetrating the head
producing instant death. Culvert was
about 20 years of age and leaves no fam
lily.
A NEW industry has sprung up on the
shores of Lake Winnebago and the north
ern rivers that promises to increase. The
new departure is the preserving and tan
ming of sturgeon skins, which when
tanned are very soft, and are said by
those having worn boots made therefrom,
to be equally, if not more durable than
other leather.
THE Hon. B. r. Hinckley, of Summit,
Waukesha county, has been appointed
by the Governor as trustee of the in
stitution for the education of the blind
vice DR.. Morse, of River Falls, who
failed to qualify, on account of poor
health. Hon. f. w. Keyes, of Madison,
has been appointed regent of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, vice Hon. George
H. Paul, of this city, whose term has ex-
pired.
JAMES REIDY, who has frequently
been arraigned at the municipal court on
the charge of maltrcating his wife, got
into an alteration with her Monday
afternoon, and during the progress of the
row he struck her in the face with the
jagged end of a clothes-pole, literally
punching out her right eye. The brutal
fellow fled, when he learned the extent
of the injury inflicted, and thus far has
eluded arrest.-Ereniag Wisconsin.
CHAs. BOND and Frederick Schell,
young men, resident of Milwaukee, were
arrested by L. S. Marshal Fink on Sun
day, on the charge of passing counter
felt half dollar pieces. A quantity of
the spurious coin was found upon their
persons, and several saloon keepers whom
they had victimized, gave testimony
against them. At the preliminary ex-
animation conducted before u. S. Com
missioner Bloodgood, they were held for
trial at the January term of the United
States court, bail being fixed at 81 900.
Bond furnished sureties and was releas-
ed. Schell could get no bondsmen, and
awaits his trial in the county Jail.
j AT an early hour this morning Mr..
Peter Nicholai, residing on Otter street
opposite the court house. discovered
that his horse had fallen into an old
well on the lot adjoining where the
residence of A. Meisner stood before
the fire. The lot had been used by Mr..
Nicholai as a pasture and the well had
been boarded over. 1t appeared that
the horse broke through the boards,
going down the well hind first. His
head stuck up only few inches out of
water. Help was called, and after con-
siderable difficulty the horse was extri-
Gated from his perilous position, pretty
well chilled through by his Involuntary