The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-07-26
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

NEENAH getS Dutter-1fklnS from yer
mont.
THEY haul in 1000 pounds of fish at a
time in Kenosha.
HONEY retails for ten cents per
pound in the country.
APPLEToN's gas works will be ready
by October 1st.
THE aggregate value of all propertyin
Kewaunee is $4,000.
THE cranberry marshes of this state
promise to yield abundantly this year.
CHIPPEWA FALLS delights in a pig
that can whip any dog in the state.
RIPoN is in fair way to secure the
location of a large glass factory at that
place.
EIGHTY buildings have been struck by
lightning in Dodge county during the
last fourteen years.
THE loss by fire in Neenah, resulting
in the destruction of several stores, Is es-
timated at $1,000.
HENRY DEvEREUx, druggist at
Green Bay, left his store Monday and no.
body knows where he is.
HENRY ATKINSON, of Fort Howard,
was robbed of 81 800 on night train of
the c. and n w. r. r. few nights ago.
Bishops stave factory at Hilbert was
totally destroyed by fire Wednesday.
Loss $4,000. Fifty thousand slaves were
burned.
WHILE blowing on his farm, near
West Bend, Matthias Regner brought to
the surface lump of pure copper
weighing twenty-six pounds.
AT the Madison baby-show there were
thirty-one entries, five being colored ba-
bies. Clarice Ada Cook took the first
prize for being the popular infant.
THE Escanaba Tribune says, all grades
of Lake Superior iron, except No. 2
charcoal, has advanced $1.00 per ton
according to latest reports.
EAU CLAIRE's gas-works Capital stock
800, ,0O0) will be completed by Novem-
Der lst. Five miles of pipe will be laid
this fall.
A MAN in Madison stole the plans for
new hook and ladder house. Madi-
sonians think he is crazy. He refuses to
give his name.
| ANOTHER warning to boys who jump
on and off moving trains, was furnished,
at La Crosse, by lad named Wincel,
who was severely injured by getting un-
der the wheels.
THE hemlock bark trade along the
| line of the Central is getting quite large.
| The most of it is shipped to Milwaukee,
where it brings $3.50 per cord. This,
after paying the freight, leaves an aver
age of $4 per cord for the bark and
peeling.-,Sferens Point Journal
A MAN named Young, at work for c.
Hazen, of Ladoga, fell upon pitchfork
! in such a way as to drive the handle
several inches into his bowels He lin
gered along for few days, when he died
from the injury. He was a stranger in
these parts. Waup,tn Times
A CHANDELIER in a Catholic church
hall at Oshkosh fell with crash Thurs
day evening, and the oil Immediately
took fire. The audience was panic
stricken and Miss Amber Hay and others
were injured. The fire was extinguished
quickly.
A CRAZY man who had been setting
snares and spring guns in his neighbor's
/ fields was captured near Ripon and taken
to the asylum. One of the neighbors
ran into one of the guns while moving
in his hay field.
YESTERDAY evening a large pickerel
sprang from the waters of Lake Winnie
| bago into the sail boat Neptune, which
was being sailed by the Rattle boys.
Catching fish by this method is not re-
corded in the piscatorial works.-F0nd
! du Lac Commonwealth.
A MAN named Edward PECK, farm
laborer, committed rape on little girl
at Farmers Valley, near Bangor-and
afterwards made three unsuccessful at
tempts to commit suicide. He is under
arrest at La Crosse, whether he was
taken Saturday.
THE Madison Democrat says: Yes
terday, at about o'clock, young girl,
daughter of Chas. Brockney, who lives
near Pokerville, Iowa county, while
hunting the cows in the woods near that
place, was brutally outraged by a tramp,
whose name is unkno- y. The populace
of that neighborhood are greatly ir censed,
and large numbers of the citizens are In
quest of him. If caught in that neigh
borhood it is somewhat doubtful if he
would be given the benefit of a trial"
THE tug @. B. Green is to tow dredge
and dump scows, as well as pilot a small
tug, from Cheboygan to Sturgeon Bay
this week, to work upon the canal. The
steam pile driver East River is build
ing temporary breakwater between the
piers at the lake end of the cut, to pro-
tect the dredge, tug and dump scows
from any storm that may occur ON Lake
Michigan before the dredge works Its
way inland sufficiently to protect itself
and the feet. The work at all points
ON the canal is working satisfactorily
Green Bay Gazette