The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-08-30
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
EVANSVILLE has the burglars now.
PORTAGE wants a lot of sbOemakers.

EVANSVILLE makes her city prisoners
clean the streets.
The La Crosse county fair will be
held on the 25th-27th
THE cranberry crop will surely be
fair one, in the state.
ST. CRoIX county claims 1900, 900
bushels wheat for sale.
| EAU CLAIRE COUNTY will have her
fair at Eau Claire, September 1Sth-20th.
RUMoR is that Judge Hopkins, of
Madison, is dying of heart-disease.
BYRON Town, of Fond du Lac, has
been granted patent on cultivator
teeth.
The Racine county agricultural fair
Will be held in Burlington, September
9th to 7th. "t'
A YOUNG man named Ritterhush
jumped from a buggy, in Monroe, and
broke his ankle-bone.
A LABoRER named Cole in the town
OF Marcellon, got mixed up in thresh-
! ing machine. One arm off.
A LITTLE girl named Tucker had her
arm frightfully mangled in Hunger
ford's carding mill at Mauston.
JAMES E. BAKER, Of Madison, has
constructed a successful steam road
wagon. st...
NEW house, just being erected for J.
Iverson, in Stevens Point, burned FRI
day evening. Loss $500.
THE body of a man found floating in
the liver at La Crosse, Friday, was iden-
titled as that of John Dedro.
AT the Beloit Fair, on the Sd of Sep
tember, Schuyler Colfax is expected to
speak.
The candidates for superintendent of
schools III Green Lake county, are two
ladies.
THE machine-shops of Van Brunt &
Davis, Horizon, have resumed work.
Better timesl
Hop PICKING in the vicinity of Portage
will commence next week. The crop is
an average one.
AT the Northern Hospital for the In
s@le there are at present 557 patients,
27S males and 279 females.
HUDSON has just had seduction case,
resulting in the death of the girl from a
broken heart. No names given. E
The poem which Will Carlton will
read at the Oshkosh fair is entitled
THE Golden Horse"
THE Supervisors of Milwaukee county
have taken $3.50 from Patrick Connol-
ly, Jr., ex-clerk of the courts, in settle
ment of their claim against him.
The Northwestern Lumber Company's
warehouse and stable, at Eau Claire,
caught fire Wednesday morning. Loss
$4,000 to $4,000. Partially insured.
Origin of the fire unknown.
On the farm of john Baston, outside
of Green Bay, there was second edition
of the Pensaukee whirlwind The en-
tire surface of the farm was covered by
water, like a lake, and good barn was
scattered over the surrounding acres by
the wind.
A NOTE from Milton says: "Thresh-
ing is being rushed right along and the
yield of grain is fair. The best yield of
winter wheat to date is thirty-fve
bushels per acre. The drouth was ended
last week, heavy rain doing the corn
fields incalculable good'
AN unusual phenomenon occ Irred on
last Tuesday evening. After the very
sudden and unlooked-for shower of rain,
NnioH icii NHllc tue HlooH was SnlulllS
"htlu-thA~A a,...Aa -aa 81 .l.~ -.--4I- "a =
bow, or, as some term 1t, mOOnboW.
This is an unheard-of occurrence to "the
oldest inhabitant. ."-Bedcer Dam Citizen.
THE engine, boiler, pumps, etc., of the
auxiliary pumping works are to be
erected and in running order by the 18th
of December. The board of public
works has completed the specifications
for the bidders The engine is to be a
horizontal double cylinder engine, to
raise $4,000 gallons of water in "A hours,
through an inch pipe 5000 feet long,
under pressure of 70 pounds per square
inch.-E'cening Wisconsin.
THE artillerist of the clouds aimed
fiery bolt at our city, during the storm
on Tuesday, which took effect on pop
lar tree in close proximity to the resi-
dence of Mrs. Ward, near the Methodist
church. Mrs. Ward was quite seriously
injured by the shock, and in some cases
people felt the conclusion for the dis
tance of an entire block; and 50 sudden
and sharp was the shock that nearly
every one was startled within a radius of
half a mile.-Portage Aduance.
BLANCA @. MITCHELL, wife of Senator
John l.. Mitchell, has instituted suit for
divorce, and her complaint makes SEN
sational reading. She charges him with
habitual drunkenness, extreme cruelty
and with having committed adultery
with Lena Fielder, housemaid. In
addition to this she sues for alimony and
the possession of her child, David Fer
guson Mitchell, aged two years. Mr..
MitchelPs answer has not yet been made
public. Her suit for temporary alimony
is now before the circuit court.
Mr.. CHARLES DONLEvY, brother of
the city marshal of Oconto, with four or
five Others attempted to gain admission
into a house kept by man known as
Belgian Frank" The party were
warned by Frank to leave the premises,
and he said he would shoot if they did
not 60 away, but they persisted in their
attempts to enter the house, and the Bel
gian raised his gun and fired, shooting
Donlevy through the heart. He died in
stantly, of course. Frank gave himself
up. The citizens are of the opinion that
he was justifable in the act, having
fired in defence and after repeated warn
ings for the party to leave his premies.
The town clerks of Milwaukee county
have filed with County Clerk Meyer alb
stracts of the assessments rolls recently
completed in their towns, and upon these
abstracts equalization of the town taxes
will be effected by members of the board
Of supervisors. The table of totals is as
follows: 4 coy.
ToTALs-TowNs AND CITY.