The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-12-21
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.
John Tomski who killed William Lynch
at Amherst last February, was sentenced
TO fifteen years at Waupun.

John Tomski who killed William Lynch
at Amherst last February, was sentenced
to fifteen years at Waupun.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
company. lately settled with James B.
Regain OF Madison for the loss of leg.
He was paid $1,000.
Nancy Hanks, the queen of the turf, is
t. be used as brood mare in the future
Her owner says there is more money in
raising colts while the mare is in full
vigor than in trott1ng her.
The people OF Kewaunee have forward
ed their donations to the Hurley desti-
tute. There were sent 100 bbls. of flour,
5000 lbs. of meat and quantities of cloth
ing, boots, shoes, pease, beans and grocer
les.
Lawyers quarrel in earnest sometimes.
The district attorney of Sank county and
j. Fl Fenny a Madison attorney, had
regular knock-down argument in the
Court room on Monday last. Fenny got
the better OF the district attorney.
A Fl Howard man named Ellifson and
Mrs. Kailbrak of the same place eloped
last week. They have been traced TO
Tacoma. The man leaves wife and sew
eral step children. Before leaving he Sc
cured 81 200 from his wife. The woman
left husband and three small children.
She TOOK $500 of her husbands money.
Miss Edith Austin of Oshkosh has been
missing for some time. What causes con-
Germ ID her case is the fact that the day
after her disappearance a letter from her
was received by her friends stating that
a search for her would be useless, as she
would be out of the way. She moved IN
good society and was handsome On Tues
| day she was found IN Milwaukee.
In. Stewart of Appleton was can
| didate for the position of reading clerk
of the senate, tie position resigned by
| George Forth when he was appointed
postmaster of Milw aukee. Stewart was
beaten by Gen. Parkinson. HE'S now to
be messenger of the senate at salary of
| 81, 400 per year. He will also serve as
the Washinton correspondent OF The
Milwaukee Journal.
The report of a singular confidence
operation comes fro Black River Falls
A man named Gibson, claiming to be
from Cork, Ireland, and representing
| large Touring concerns, purchased the mil
ling property of Martin Martens of Black
River Falls, paying $4,000 of the pur-
chase price in stock of the st. Paul Land
Co, and giving notes secured by mortgage
on the property to the amount OF Sic, 900
He sold the flour on hand for $4,000, and
later sold the mill for 81 800 to st. Paul
parties subject to the mortgage, and then
skipped out. The stock of the Land Co
Is almost worthless. 1t is thought tina;
The innocent third party" is a party tC
the fraud and he has been arrested.
Owen McHugh who died lately in Calu
met county leaving an estate worth
$1,000, LETT the whole amount to Bis
! shop Messmer of Green Bay to be USED
for masses and other church purposes
with the exception of $1,000 to one
| daughter and $500 to another. The
| children contested the will on the grount
| Of undue influence and that the property
! was accumulated partly by their aid
Nash & Nash OF this city and John Nc
Mullen of Chiffon appeared for the heirs
and Wlgman & Martin of Green Bay TO-
the Bishop. The Bishop practically WOE
The suit, though the bequest for masses
was held void. 1t seems that McHug
was man of violent temper, and severa'
OF his children left him. These he re
| membered in his will, while those who re
manned at home were disinherited. /
appeared by the testimony that the prop
erty devised to the church was largely tn.
| product OF the labor of the children who
remained at home. They and their fathel
do not appear to have agreed during hi
life time and it was charged that on sew
| eral occasions he tried to murder them
| They will now have to begin to labor fol-
| themselves.