The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-11-23
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.

Janesv1lle has sewerage sys .em which
will cost 100000.
The tobacco crop in this state Is not
equal to the crops ID years past.
Insurance companies have raised the
rates on plate glass in Milwaukee 90 per
| cent.
| Appleton sports are coming to the
front. They are to have a cooking main
| there this month.
The venetian blind and cistern barrel
factory OF Maurer Bros, Sheboygan was
destroyed by fire on Saturday last.
Ayoungm man named Nagle was drowned
in Boon Lake at Rhinelander on Friday
last. He was skating and broke through
the ice.
Principal Crowley Of the Tomahswk
city schools was arrested and fined for
Furnishing one OF the pupils. He has sp-
pealed the case.
Mrs. Dalman was killed at Elroy on
Sunday last while attempting to pass un-
der car. The engine backed up against
the train and the woman was crushed.
Mrs. Reise OF Oshkosh is under arrest
for cruelty to her little daughter, a child
years old. The unnatural parent bit
off the child's ear and threw her out of a
window.
A child left by it's mother, seated in a
high chair near table on which was a
lighted lamp, upset the lamp. The child's
clothing caught fire and she was burned
to crisp.
Captain Jack Crawford the "poet
scout" Is giving public readings IN Wis
consin. The Captain is a charming read
or and the Clio Club OF this city could
not do better than engage him.
Patrick Roland, an old man. was muir
dered in Arcadia this week for his money.
He usually carried about $1,000 On his
person and this sum the robbers secured.
There is no clue to the perpetrators
A man named Gundlach, formerly city
treasurer of Madison, committed suicide
by hanging on Monday. He had been an
, inmate Of the Mendoza asylum, but was
} discharged as cured few years ago.
A vicious hog attacked an old woman
near Tomah this week and killed her.
The woman was picking up chips when
the hog attacked her. When the body
was found it was half devoured by the hog.
The assets of James Morgan & Co. of
Milwaukee amounted to $2l7,S57 and
the liabilities to S179,097. It seems
strange that so old firm and apparent
ly SO prosperous should have made SO
little in business.
The scourge at Grantsburg has caus-
ed panic in that section. 1t does not
seem to be known what the nature OF the
epidemic is, but il is spreading and fatal.
The Indians IN that neIghborhood are
dying from it in large numbers.
The Kewaunee Enterprise says that a
Carlton farmer named Thor had been
troubled for years with nose Of huge
dimensions. He conceived the idea of
having it pared down and this was done
by DR.. Minahan OF Green Bay, who then
enveloped the diminished nose in piece
Of skin cut from the arm OF the patient.
The story has fshy odor.
A proposition from the propristors OF
the Mitchell bank to the city OF Milwau-
kes has finally been made and it is
thought will be accepted. The bank is
to pay to the city 100000 the day it
} opens, and the balance in semi-annual in
} stallments until the debt is Cancelled. IT
the bank opens it will be with capital
stock OF 100000. It has now 81 100000
in cash and securities given by Mitchell
J and Johnson amounting to l,SOO,0 900.
The Northwestern Car Co. of Oshkosh
passed into the hands of receiver on
Tuesday. This institution was moved
from Detroit to Oshkosh last spring.
The city Of Oshkosh agreed to furnish a
site of % acres and to give bonus of
$4,000. The latter was not given. The
present condition of the Car 90. shows
just what XIII of institutions can be &c.
cured by means Of the bonus. Its plant
is valued at $4,000 and its liabilities are
$4,000. 1t ran only for week. 1t seems
to have no capital to speak of, as presum-
ably, the real estate received from the
city is included in the value OF it's plant.