The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-05-31
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.

Street cars IL Ford du Lac have been
discontinued because of lack of patron
age.
Valentine BIatz, the well known Md
waukee brewer. died III ST. Paul on Satur-
day.
The Baetz and Kuehn treasury cases
al Madison.
Charles r. Groth the defaulting ex.
secretary Of the Milwaukee fire depart
ment was arrested III New York last week
The Richland county bank which fail
ed year ago has resumed. Ninety nine
per cent. OF Its creditors granted an ex-
tension.
DR.. kempster advocates a crematory
for night soil in Milwaukee as the most
healthful and inexpensive method of get
ting rid of it.
Marshfeld people have now perfected
arrangements whereby they secure the
chair factory from Ironwood for which
Manitowoc had an offer.
The Sheboygan parties who were to
| build road to Waldo have concluded to
withdraw their offer. This gives the Chi
cago parties clear field.
An old man of 50 years swallowed
piece of a match at Racine On Monday.
1t lodged in his throat and caused hem
| Orrhage from which he died.
| An attempt was made to wreck pas
senCer train on the G. & n. ". near
| Reedsburg last week. 1t Is the second
attempt within short time.
] The city Of Baraboo has passed an or
| dluance prohibiting any boy under II
| years Of age from Catching on to any
train moving within the city limits.
| The population of Milwaukee, as midi
Gated by the new city directory just issu
| ed, is 273,OOO. This is a gain of three per
cent. over the population of last year.
The Planklnton packing house is again
| at work. 1t IS nov about a year since
| Cudahy quit it and it was thought that
the slaughter houses would never be re-
| opened.
A farmer near Belmont, this state COM
mitted suicide on Tuesday by cutting his
stomach and wrists with razor. A far
i mer near Spencer used dose of Paris
| green on the same day to put an end to
| his life.
The supreme court decided lately that
| Ed Baker, the Hurley bank robber must
serve his full term in prison. Baker after
serving a year in prison, was granted a
new trial and was again convicted. Had
he served out his first sentence it would
now be completed.
| A girl in Sank county was at work put
ting up swing in yard on Friday last
when she was bitter by a rattlesnake.
| Her throat and the wounded member be-
| gan to swell, but she was gwen liquor in
| large quantities and the wound was poul-
ticed until all danger had passed.
A Milwaukee man named Olson has
brought suit against William Schultz,
second Milwaukee man, for alternating
the affections of his wife. Olson values
at $4,000. He also wants the trlt1e Of
$1,000 from Schultz for pummeling
which he received at the hands of the lat
|
Milwaukee has had case of small pox
| which threatens to make the disease cpl
demic in that city, A youngma named
Inglls contracted the disease in Chicago
and when he reached home was. taken
down with It. The family kept the mat
ter a secret and mingled freely with the
neighbors. The young mans father an
inmate of the Soldiers Home is now down
with the disease. The family will be
prosecuted for concsallng the disease.
A terrible accident occurred on the
Wisconsin Central yesterday at an aban-
doned station called Manville which is not
far from Marshfeld. A passenger train
was derailed and all the coaches and
sleepers were piled up and burned Six
people lost their lives and fifteen were in
jured. Some one had tempered with the
switch thus causing the train to leave the
track. The cars plowed along a distance
of ten rods after quitting the track. The
train was gong at the rate of 60 miles an
hour. There is no clue to the identity of
the person who tempered with the switch