The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-04-04
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
JUNEAU county is free from debt.

SPRING CREEK, near Lodi, has been
stocked with $4,000 California salmon.
| THERE are no smallpox patients int
/ hospital in Milwaukee at present.
| JAS. BOOTH, of Lisbon, Waukesha
county, last week sold thirty fat sheep
| for $240.
A MENAsHA man had two of his fin
gers frozen while putting out garden
seeds, Monday.
! THE West Wisconsin Railway Com
pany will soon lay 65 miles more of the
road with steel rails.
ONE wagon factory in Fond du Lac
gives employment to 110 men and turns
out 81 wagons per week.
| Rome and Ixonia, both in Jefferson
| county, are to have, new cheese factor
les in time for spring business.
| JOHN MoRRIssEY, of the Janesville
Mutuals of lS76-77, has been engaged by
the Crickets, of Bjnghampton, n. y.
CHAs MILLER, the blacksmith of Fill
more, Washington county, has left for
parts unknown, and his creditors mourn.
o. G. MUNsON, of the Richland county
Republican, has fallen heir to fortune
of $4,000.
HARRY CUTLER, of Rolling Prairie,
Dodge county, cut his foot recently very
seriously, and came near bleeding to
death.
THE old Altman dissillery at Mishi-
cott is being removed to Milwaukee,
where it is to be set up and put in
operation.
JUDGE WHITAKER, Cf New Orleans,
who presided in the trial of Gen. Ander-
son, is well known in Prairie du Sac, his
wife being former resident OF that
place.
R. w. RUMRILL and son, of Fulton,
tobacco, last week, the product of six
and one-half acres.
SIX potteries for the manufacture of
earthen jars, tlower-pots, vases, ETC., are
operated in Milwaukee, and steadily en-
pioy a capital of about 500, 900.
THE price of making cheese, during
the season of 1878, at the Lodi valley
cheese factory will be S160 per 100 lbs
of cured cheese, reduction of Is cents
per 100 his.
GANGS of men are at work on Black
river between Neillsville and Onalaska
rolling into the river logs that had
foated on the bottom lands in high
water.
A fourteen-year old youth has just
absconded from his parents and good
home at Oconomowoc with the ambitious
project of becoming Texan rover; he
took with him $50 and four revolvers.
A GERMAN in the employ of the Hau-
ser brewery firm at Fond du Lac, was
severely burned by having shower of
tar strike him in the face Wednesday.
His name is Jacob Emery.
ORNA p. STONE, of Reedsburg, who is
I9 years of age, has a good education,
and is sound physically, has received an
appointment to the West Point military
academy from Hon. l.. B. Caswell, M. c.
On Wednesday, while son of Mr..
Sarbacker, in the town of Montrose,
Dane county, was plowing, lightning
struck and instantly killed the team of
horses attached to the plow. The young
man was not injured.
HENRY GRAVES, of Palmyra, aged Is
years, accidentally shot himself through
the instep of his right foot, Thursday
morning, while fooling with loaded re-
volver. The bones of his foot were
badly shattered.
c. Nj. FOWLER and wife, of Elroy,
were very seriously injured last week by
the upSetting of a wagon. Mr.. Fowler
was fearfully injured, and when picked
up was supposed to be dead. Mrs. Fow-
ler had a rib broken and received other
injuries.
LAST Monday night, near Footville,
Rock county, a son of Mr.. Kinna, Is
years old, boarded a freight train, and, in
passing over the cars, fell beneath the
train, the wheels crushing one of his legs,
rendering amputation beneath the knee
necessary.
VIM. II. HATTEN, of Manawa, Wis,
has purchased the extensive property of
j. M. Rounds & Co., of the same place,
consisting of stave factory, saw mill. and
stock of slaves and lumber, the price
paid being about $2S000. The estate
has been in bankruptcy for the past year,
and creditors will receive about 20 per
cent.
THE jury in the Wissinger case, at
Baraboo, brought in a verdict Wednesday
of not guilty by reason of insanity. The
result was received with much applause
by the spectators. Wissinger had the
jury sit for their pictures as a keepsake,
and has gone to Ohio with his father and
mother, who were present during the
trial
WAKEFIELD & TRow, have run five
lumber camps at Merrillan the past
winter. Up to the 1st inst, they had cut
$4,000 logs and hauled 10000 to mill
and had built Al miles of railway into
the center of their timber. They have
&C, 900, 600 feet of pine to draw out on
said road, which will take eight years to
saw.
w. B. MORGAN, who graduated at
Milton College in the class of IA, carried
off the honors at the Homeopathic Medi-
cal College, ST. Louis, of the medical
class of rs, being the recipient of the
first" The Eckel Prize" a gold medal,
chair of materia medica, and valedictor-
ian Of his class.
The Black River r. r. Co. are max
ing preparations for constructing a line
from Neillsville to cross the Green Bay
and Minnesota railroad about two miles
east of Mcmillan and intersect with the
West Wisconsin railroad between
Wrightsvile and Mcmillan Junction,
distance of thirteen miles, and to be
completed November 1st.
TUESDAY night burglars blew open
safe at Norris & Beattle's Touring mill,
at Stoughton village, but only got $25
in silver, the papers being undisturbed.
The same night Stevenson's lumber
office, near the depot, was entered, but
only revolver was taken from a desk,
the safe not being tampered with, the
thieves being frightened away.
ROUNDS cranberry store house at
Berlin was burned Thursday morning.
In order to get to the river with the en-
CINE and hose it was found necessary to
pass between the building and a wood
pile, and so intensely hot was it that a
! score of hose men were severely burned