The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-04-11
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

county over $3,100.
Gov. SMITH has reappointed John R.
Bergman as state librarian.
THE mayor of Ripon offers $500 for the
man who struck S. j. Lyon.
TURTLE, Walworth county, is to be
graced with town hall costing $1,000
SEYMOUR, Brown county, will build
schoolhouse costing 81 ,450.
TWELVE deer visited George Pinney's
sugar bush, near Sturgeon Bay, few
days ago, and drank all of his sap.
Mrs. GERHARDT, formerly of Hudson,
St Croix county, suicided at Minneap-
oils Thursday.
A REDUCTION was made April 1st of
from 10 to 25 pei cent. in the wages of
the employees of the NJ, L. S. & w. R. r.
APPLETON Pulp mills are to be sup
piled with poplar from Washington
Island, near the entrance to Green Bay.
Miss ELLA MAY LEW, of Empire,
Fond du Lac county, fell on Tuesday
last and dislocated one of her limbs.
c. +. MITCHELL, while scuffiing at
Boseobel, few days ago, had his knee
put out of joint.
Capt. Bradford, of Madison, captured
two huge carp fish in Catfish creek, at
Westport on Thursday.
HARvEsTERs, binders an reapers are
making their appearance and the seduc-
tive agent is on the war path.
THE deaths in Milwaukee during the
past month numbered l34. against 2l7
in 1877.
ONE Beloit firln manufactured Il, 900
cigars during March aud sold 10000,
revenue stamps costing $oOs
JOHN FULKER, of Janesville, on
Thursday, made an unsuccessful attempt
on his life, with the aid of some of last
years potato bug poison.
TAYLoR's FALLS news from the drives
is not encouraging. More water is
needed on the upper st. Croix and its
tributaries.
CHARLES MEIDINGER, of Racine, was
sent to the asylum at Oshkosh on Thurs
dav. He is worth about $4,000. His
wife will be appointed his guardian.
Mrs. A. V. MILLS, of Koshkonong, was
thrown from a buggy on Tuesday even
ing of this week, and quite seriously
hurt.
A LITTLE child of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Palmer, of Greenfield, Sauk county, died
last week from the effects of swallowing
a bean.
H. CALDWELL, of Merton, Waukesha
county, had a leg broken on Wednesday
by having his foot caught in the spokes
of one of the wheels of his wagon.
Mr.. JAMES NEALAND, of the town of
Burke, Dane county, lost three fingers
and part of thumb on Thursday,
while saving lumber.
Mr.. ALBERT BROWN has filed petit
tion in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $50, 900;
assets, $4,000. Mr.. Brown is one of the
most extensive loggers on Black river.
"ELDER" BILLINGS, a well known
citizen of Beloit for many years, dropped
dead very suddenly Thursday morning.
He was SO years old.
WINGvILLE, Grant county, has voted
to aid in the construction of the Chicago
and Tomah Railroad. The engineers are
now at work in La Fayette county.
The section men on the Wisconsin
Central railway were paid two months
back wages due them from the company
last week
G. w. OAKLEY, of Hudson, found his
son James H., who had run away from
home, with lot of tramps on the levee
at St. Paul.
PROFESSOR ABBEY, of the Menasha
high school, jumped from train, few
days ago at Oshkosh, and was thrown
violently to the ground, his right wrist
fractured and one leg badly bruised.
"ToD" WARREN, of Oxford, was ar
rested in Mauston on Monday by Sheriff
Tarbox, of Portage, on charge of steal
ing horse from near Randolph, Colum-
bia county.
Miss KATIE DoDD, of Janesville, re-
ceiyes $50 per week from Field q Letter,
of Chicago. She has charge of the cut
ting and fitting in the dress-making de-
partment.
Miss PARKER and Miss Jennie Car
penter, of Janesville, on Wednesday
night were overcome by coal gas escaping
from stove in their bedroom at Isaac
Parker's house, and at last accounts were
in critical condition.
JOHN BoRNGEssER, JR., of Weyau-
vega, met with a very serious accident
on Tuesday evening by running against
a sharp stick, striking the knee with such
force that the stick penetrated the joint,
causing an ugly wound.
Hon. o. G.. HATHAWAY, of Musca-
lunge, Grant county has bought out the
Graham Mining Company. The lead
mine is good at present, yielding as much
ore per day as at any time during its
history.
On Friday three Indians imbibed too
much poor whisky at Shiocton, got
drunk and sought their wigwam near by
to sleep off the effects. The wigwam
took fire and burned one of them so bad
ly that he died. The others will re
cover.
w. w. FORBES, of Cassville, Grant
county, has struck what promises to be
good show for lead, at depth of LAG
feet from the top of the hill, being 40
feet lower than any previous mining at
Cassville, The main opening is about
six feet lower than present operations.
THE FoRsYTHE SCALE WORKS, nov
located at Waukegan, ILL.,, are likely to
be removed to Milwaukee within short
time. The officers of the company are
negotiating for a manufacturing site in
the Menomonee valley, at the foot of
Sixteenth street.
A WIDOW woman named Mary Rink,
who until recently has lived in Chicago,
was brought to milwaukee Jail from the
town of Milwaukee on Friday, hav-
ing been arrested in the town
named for a deliberate attempt to
| drown her five-year-old son Willie, by
throwing him from Good Hope
/ bridge into the Milwaukee river.
The little fellow was rescued after he
had been In the water for about ten min
utes, and when life seemed utterly extinct; ;
and while efforts to save him were being
made, the mother stood upon the bridge,
and indifferently watched his struggle
for life. When arraigned before Justice
Buttles for her inbuman crime, the
woman said she was guilty of the at