The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-01-18
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.

Ole Oleson was killed in the woods
near Amigo on Saturday morning by a
falling tree.
The Marine Bank of Milwaukee re-
opened on Monday Of this week. It was
grand thing for Milwaukee and the
state.
The trial of Cashier Koetting of the
South Side Savings Bank of Milwaukee
is now in progress and is attracting con-
siderable attention.
Rev. w. d. Thomas of Madison, secre-
tary OF the Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions, pleaded guilty to having sent
non-mailable postal cards through the
mails, and was fined 500 for the offense.
John johnson, a Marinette policeman
went into his shed on Sunday morning
to shoot cat. He tripped and fell dis
charging the revolver. The bullet enter
ed his neck and lodged in his spinal cord.
He died the evening following.
A young devil named Roehn while out
hunting near Kenosha on Sunday last,
said to a companion who was standing
near, 81 am going TO shoot you" He
then deliberately raised his rifle and shot
Mayer, killing him. There was no pro-
vocation for the deed.
The body of Mrs. Reese was found in
her home in Fond du Lac on Tuesday
morning. A tiny stream of blood was
trlckling from the mouth and this led to
the suspicion OF foul play. The last seen
OF her alive was on Sunday morning It
is thought she had been dead at least 4S
hours before the body was found. Her
husband is travelling man; and was alb
sent in Chicago.
Five men IN camp near KEENAN,, Wis.
held grudge against a fellow laborer, a
new arrival. They enticed him to town
and proceeded to whip him. Crazed with
liquor, they went farther than they in
tended and the man was killed. TLey took
the body to the 800" railway track and
tied it to the rail. All the parties to the
transaction we're arrested and are now
undergoing their examination.
The South Side Savings Bank of Mil
waukee was insOlvent in 1885 on the
showing of Accountant Conrad. He esti-
mated the value of the assets the day be.
fore the bank closed at S244, 900 while the
debts aggregated S1,376,0OO, 1t does not
appear that the bank even had any CAPT.
tai. The showing of the Accountant
proves a terribly rotten condition of
affairs, worse than the First National
Bank OF this city.
A terrific boiler explosion took place at
Wiley d Cos. -four mill in Appleton on
Saturday morning. The engineer was
instantly killed and the boiler house de-
str0yed. The windows of houses near
by were broken and people we're shook
out OF their beds. One half of the boiler
was blown over a number Of trees whose
tips 1t trimmed. 1t struck and plowed
through two feet of snow and dug hole
a foot deep IN the frozen ground; 1t made
three bounds of 80 feet each and spent
It's force right near row of cottages.
Mrs. Annie Schrums who was killed
recently IN Milwaukee, was the victim
OF the cupldlty of her landlord, Rudolph
Peschman, proprietor of the Cream City
Hotel. bis hotel was not paving and
Mrs. Schrums had money he
went to her room and choked her to
death. He failed to find any money and
to conceal his crime, fred the building.
but the alarm was given to soon for his
purpose and the building was saved and |
I he crime revealed. Freshman confessed
the crime.