The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-20
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


er of Cate, was killed by being thrown
from his carriage. =
AN Irishman named Henry Hart COM
mitted suicide by drowning at Mauston.
He was discouraged by continued illness.
THE c. NJ. & ST. p. railway company's
earnings for August were 677, ,050.00,
against 1868, 1873 for che corresponding
month of 1876.
A LITTLE daughter of r. Pratt of
Ashland, fell head first from a window
to the ground-ffteen feet-and yet sus-
tanned no serious injuries.
JAMES BLAIR's lumber office in James
vile was robbed Monday night. The
thieves succeeded in getting one postage
stamp and two boxes of matches.
Mr.. c. H. MELCHER brought TO our
Office stalk of corn 81 feet high, hav-
ing no less than seven distinct ears. Its
weight was about 8 pounds Washing
ton Co. Republican.
THE county of Shawano will vote
Saturday ON the proposition to aid the
narrow gauge road from Green Bay. 1t
is said that in case the aid is voted, the
work of grading will begin at once.
CAREY Bros. began picking their
cranberries this week. We learn that
they have about 800 pickers, two or three
hundred of whom are Indians. They
expect to have between $4,000 and To-
600 barrels.-Bertin CO,Tdnt.
WILLIAM MALoNEY, of Fort Howard,
whose recent arrest for selling liquor to
Oneida Indians has been reported, en-
tered plea of guilty at the United
coates court, and was sentenced to forty
days Imprisonment in the Milwaukee
county Jail.
LUDWIG LUDKE, employed as track
man by the G. Nj. & st. P. Co., was run
down by moving car in the Union de-
pot, Milwaukee, on the 10th inst, and
instantly killed. He was middle-aged
man and leaves wife and three small
children who are comfortably provided
for.
A MAN purporting TO be travelling
agent for a jewelry house appeared in
West Bend; the next day his valise was
found on the road leading to Barton,
empty, and the man has never been
seen. The supposition is that the man
was sharper, as his method of trying to
dispose of his goods was not square and
open.
PATRICK CONNER, and two men were
engaged arching tunnel No. ., &C. & n.
W.) near Wilton, when a stone of about
two tons weight, fell from the top of the
tunnel upon Mr.. Conner, killing him in
stantly. The deceased was the proprie-
tor of the Wisconsin house, at Wilton.
He leaves a wife and six children to
mourn his loss.
A FOND DU LAC man reached this city
on the train at two o'clock Friday
morning. A stranger met him, offering
to conduct him to hotel, but instead,
led him to the rear of the freight depot,
where they were met by two other men,
one of whom presented revolver at the
head of the stranger, and they relieved
him of about $40 and fed. No clue to
the highwaymen.-Janespiile Gazette.
WE learn that man in the town of
Verona, has met with severe injury
almost death. He is the possessor of a
gun. Last Wednesday he desired to go
shooting. He took down his gun-a
breach-loader He blew into the muzzle,
and charge of powder and shot came
out and disconnected the blower
Madison Democrat.
/ PROFESSOR CHAMBERLIN, State Ge-
ologist, spent the latter part of last week
in the new Menomonee iron district. He
reports exceedingly important develop
,nents there, vein of iron having been
discovered which promises to prove the
most important in those regions. 1t
the Michigan mines. Tits IS tan an iffefrcas
ton of the importance of geological sur
vey to our state.
On the 18th the body of Moses Le-
Maine, Canadian, aged 65 years, who
had been employed as cook on the
schooner James Garrett, was found in
the Menomonee river, Milwaukee, near
Fifteenth street. LIE Maine was addicted
to the use of liquor and is supposed to
have fallen in the river and drowned
while intoxicated. lie had been miss
ing for four days.
THE following officers were elected by
the State Agricultural Society at their
meeting held during the fair at James
vile: sS
PyesiJent-N. ID. Fratt, of Racine.
Vice Presidents-J. S. Partridge, A. A.
Boyce, j. III. Warren, II. Ludington, Sat
Clark, X. d. Torrey, John S. Dore, Jno. I.
Kingston.
Secretary-Geo. E. Bryant.
1reasurer-Cyrus Miner.
additional Executive C6mmitee-C. l..
Martin, II. c. Mcdowell, III. p. Hall, Geo.
II. Daubner w. ". Field, Isaac Stevenson,
Chester IIazeD.
THEY came near having Pittsburg
mob, though on a smaller scale, on
Bears marsh, last week. Mr., b. had
advertised for one thousand pickers on
a given date. The pickers came, but the
berries were not ripe enough to gather,
and Mr.. B. declined to have them
picked Many of those who had come
could lily afford to wait whole week
at their own expense, and were not only
greatly disappointed, but highly indig-
nant, and disposed to kick up a lively
muss. But they were finally pacified,
without any serious Disturbance
iSterens Point Journal.
On the 11th inst, JOS Fest, farmer,
residing in the town of Oak Greek, ar
rived at Milwaukee with the intelligence
of runaway accident, which, at five
O'Clock, had occurred on the Howell road
a short distance beyond the city limits,
by which his wife, Susanna Fest, had
, been almost instantly killed. The be-
| reaved husbands statement of the Oc-
currence is in effect, that he, with his
} wife and farmer neighbor were in the
: wagon together, and as they were going
; down the steep roadway known as the
Wilcox hill, the end of the wagon pole
slipped from the neck-yoke ring, and the
horses ran, thrusting the detached end of
the pole into the ground with such
, force as to overturn the wagon,
and throw its occupants to the ground.
+ Mr.. Fest and his neighbor escaped unin-
jured, but Mrs. Fest was caught under
l meath the wagon in such manner that her
back was broken. The unfortunate
| woman told her husband as he came
! to her assistance, that she was fatally in
: iured, then at once became unconscious
2 and died soon after reaching neighbor-
! ing house, to which she was taken for
! treatment. An inquest in the case was