The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-08-24
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.

The national bank which suspended at
Racine lately, will soon resume.
Ripon has been deluged with lot OF
fool cyclers who went there after fat
purses.
A saw mill at Hayward beat the record
on Tuesday by saving 3O9,4l0 feet OF
lumber.
A bank at Plainfeld, this state, sus-
pended on Tuesday. 1t was an unimpor-
tant failure.
Though the price of real estate holds
up we'll in Milwaukee, there is but little
demand for it.
A man named Breeze was drowned in
the Mississippi river near La Crosse on
Tuesday. He tried to swim across the
river.
James Harkans, a young farmer slip
ped ito threshing machine in Sank
county on Tuesday last and had one of
his feet taken off by the cylinder.
Several burglsries have been commit
ted at Black River Falls within the past
few weeks. Some young men of the
town have been arrested as suspicion
pointed to them.
The f. j. Palica Trunk Co. of Racine
made an assignment CD Saturday morn
ing. The liabilities are placed at 10000
A hardwood lumber dealer of the same
place, made an assignment the same day
Liabilities placed at $4,000.
The Wisconsin Central is in rather bad
shape owing to the failure of the North
ern Pacific. Rent for the road has not
been paid for some time and it is doubt
full If it will be paid at all now. This is
not the rst;-the Central may be fore
| ed to go down with its lessor.
Mrs. Levi Cole, with her 12-year ole
son and an infant were thrown from E
J road cart in runaway while driving
home from Viroqua on Monday last
| The. infant was instantly killed. The
mother and son were SO badly injured
that their recovery is not looked for.
Two men Fred Murray and Anton Bar
went into saloon in Milwaukee to throw
dice for the drinks on Saturday evening
last. They got into quarrel and Bar
stabbed Murray with large pocket knife
hurry will probably die. Both men were
intoxicated at the time of the difficulty
| The laborers of Milwaukee are getting
restless and almost broke into riot OF
Tuesday. They marched in body to TIT
court house and demanded of Mayo
Koch that they be employed by the cit,
contractors. Some of them on their wa,
home broke into provision stores anC
helped themselves to food.
Two well dressed men robbed a maj
named Fohn in broad daylight on Satur
day last. They met Fohn, inquired o
him the time of leaving of the Goodrich
boats and after little conversation IN
vlted him to take a glass of beer in sa
loon near by. He did SO but soon foun(
to his cost that the beer was drugged
They took $50 from him.
An abandoned woman who lived alon,
In shanty near a small village not fa
from Medford, this state, was murdered
on Friday evening last. Her body wa
covered with wounds inflicted with ;
knife. A workman employed in lum
Der camp near by has been arrested TO-
the crime. He had been seen going il
the direction of the shanty shortly before
the murder was committed, and when ar
rested his clothing was covered will
blood.
The body of woman was found il
the Milwaukee river near Pleasant
Valley on Tuesday of this week. Fas
tened to the woman's waist was {
stone weighing 80 pounds. Her limbs
were bound with cord and rope was
about her neck. She was apparently
30 years of age and was well dressed
From the condition of the body il
must have been in the bottom of the
river for fully month.