The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-12-20
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
OSHKOSH has had 1O2 fires thus far this

FoND DU LAC will spend s., 600 in i'm
proving her Jail.
DR.. VIM. JACOBS, of Madison, broke
his leg while out hunting, Wednesday.
TALK of Lancaster railroad is again
becoming strong. The Dubuque route
seems to bethe favorite.
THF executive session of the Wiscon-
sin Teachers Association will be held in
Madison, December 26th-2Sth.
A BRAKEMAN on the c., M. & Nj. St.
p R., named Albert Jones, was killed by
being run over by the cars near Tomah,
Wednesday night.
TUESDAY morning 500 prisoners were
reported at the State Prison in Waupun,
with several courts to hear from. But
few sentences are expiring at the present
| time
| THE senate Thursday confirmed the
| following nominations for lostmasters in
this state: H. b. Harshaw, Oshkosh;
Jerome l.. Marsh, Sheboygan; Charles
Frantz, Kenosha.
The eastern train on the c. NJ. & St.
p. railroad, at Lacrosse, ran off the
track entirely, owing to an open switch
Thursday. No one injured, but the
cars were badly smashed.
Two chemical fire engines and hook
and ladder truck were delivered to the
city of Columbus Friday After
thorough fire test the apparatus was de-
livered to the fire department.
THE number of men now in the
United States naval hospital at La
Crosse is smaller than it has been for
some months, there being but thirteen
names orsshe list.
A FEW days since a son of j. Bullen,
of Hampden, aged II years, employed
by Mr.. |. H. Ford in Sitting fencing
with a circular saw, had the misfortune
to cut off every finger on one hand by
bringing it i'll contact with the saw.
JOHN HoRNER, an idiot, who was
severely burnt at the burning of his
brothers house in Argyle on the Goth of
November and was taken to the county
poor house, died from the effects of the
burns on Tuesday last, December 4th
He Was ~ years of age.
A NORWEGIAN, by the name of big
Ole" mo other name given), attempted
to commit suicide, Monday, at De Soto,
Vernon county, by shooting himself
with a revolver. He put a bullet into
his breast, but still lives. He says he in
tented to shoot the man he lived with
&C. L. Ingersol) also.
A YOUNG son of c. Fink, of Fort How
ard, about O'Clock this afternoon,
climbed upon wagon loaded with 1000
pounds of freight. As the wagon was
passing over a rough place the boy was
jostled of, and falling to the ground one
Of the wheels of the wagon passed over
his breast. He was alive when picked
up, but it was not thought possible he
could survive.-Green Bay Gazette.
KREMBs e Bro, of Stevens Point,
repaired distillery worm for Seibt, the
distiller who was arrested for illicit
work. They didn't know they were COM
PEELED to pay license fee to the govern
ment before doing such work. They
found it out, however. The bill for the
work was So; they paid the govern
ment sos.
IN November last, Albert Lull, an
Oshkosh aldermen, shot Jacob Krall at
the United States House, in that city;
the ball entered KralPs abdomen, and
the wound was thought to be fatal, but
he recovered and brought suit in the
circuit court for personal damages. The
case has ended by verdict of 81 800
damages.
Mr.. G. H. EATON came alarmingly
near fatal injury on Saturday evening
last. AS he was walking on the track
near the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Il hn Il; all lxy
in front of a train that was being
switched and there was not time to get
oft the track before car struck him,
but it was moving slowly and he sue
ceeded with the push it gave him in es-
Gaping with only bruised hand. 1t
was much too close call to be funny
La Crosse Democrat.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road Company is to shortly commence
the building of a new railroad bridge
across the Fox river at Oshkosh. The
piers are to be thoroughly inspected by
competent engineers, and if they are
not found in perfect condition, new ones
will be built. The bridge will be all
framed on shore, and, when all is ready,
upon some Sunday, when trains are not
running, the old one will be taken down
and the new one put up. A sufficient
number of men will be employed to put
the bridge together in one day.
Mr.. FRED. KRIENBRINK, living on
the old Peshtigo state road, about q
miles north of Peshtigo village, met with
a severe accident last Monday, which
terminated in his death Thursday morn
ing. Monday noon he went into his
stable to feed his team of horses, and af
ter feeding one went into the next stall
to feed the other. While coming out,
and when behind the first horse, the
beast kicked up, striking Mr.. K. a violent
blow in the stomach. He must have
been injured internally, as he fingered
along until one o'clock Thursday morn
ing, when death put an end to his suffer-
ing
THERE is on exhibition in the window
of Gus. Bodies store in Milwaukee, a
very fine specimen of handiwork exc
cuted by w. G. Vonden Gahren, of
Cedarburg. 1t is landscape made en-
tirely of cork In the same store is an
other similar work by the same gentle
man, but is made of the pith of sun
flower stalks. The aforementioned is
very beautiful picture; the pith being
white, and the columns of the houses
showing in contrast with the shadows of
the little particles composing the ground
work, look like marble. They are
framed in black walnut, whick adds
very much to their handsome appear
ance.
THERE is considerable talk just at
pracant amonu property oWpora ALONG
the river, about the extension of the
track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul road along the levee for some dis
tance below its present ending at the
public landing. We are informed that the
officers of the company have expressed
their willingness to run track down
the river bank, and build a substantial
levee with ripraped front as far as the
track extends, upon condition that the
lot owners give them free right of way.