The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-01-24
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.

The city of Kenosha is taking steps to
annex some outlying territory.
E1-Sheritf Riley of Elroy was lately
arrested for running blind pig"
There is a typhoid fever epidemic at
Racine, due, it is said, to bad water.
William Sistic, a farmer, was killed by
a train in Kenosha on Monday evening.
Jim Corbett "the champion of the
world" ia starring it in Milwaukee this
week.
Corbett was guest of the Milwaukee
Press Clnb an Monday. He thinks prize
fighting is on the wane.
Wisconsin is to have good roads league
soon. Il is a movement wiIlcl should
meet with the approval of every one.
There is movement afoot to re-elect
Judge Wlnslow of the state supreme
court without the intervention of state
convention.
The Madden hotel at Wausau was de-
stroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. The
guests had just sufficient time to escape
with their night clothes.
A gang of tramps broke into country
store near Watertown on Saturday last
and looted it. They were arrested and
the goods found with them.
Twenty families In the town of Rusk,
Burnett county, this state, have appealed
to the county for aid. Gov. Upham has
been requested to render assistance.
Emmett Moore, a lad ID years of age,
while playing with his fathers shot gun
was shot through the head by the acct
dental discharge of the gun at Waupaca
ON Sunday. He lived but few hours.
The Milwaukee Chamber Of Commerce
has brought complaint against the roads
entering that city, claiming that they dis,
eliminate against 1t in freight rates. The
| inter state commerce commission is in.
vestigat1ng the matter.
Two young women of this state were
| drowned in the Mississippi river on Mon
day. They were crossing the river or
the ice when they broke through Theil
escort, young man, saved himself.
The city council of Sheboygau has in
structed the city attorney to begin lega
| proceedings against the Chicago anc
North Western for failure to provid,
| gates at its street crossings.
George Julian of Green Bay was ar
rested on Tuesday for shooting a mar
named Sanford IN the shoulder. Jub1ar
says he did the shooting because b.
found Sanford in his home with severa
| other men and women. Sanford ma,
| die.
The Ann Arbor No. finally succeeded
in reaching Menominee. Captain Acker
man says that near Chambers IslanC
there are wlndrows of ice ten feet deep.
On Monday night several tramps con
tined IN the county jail at Baraboo at
tempted to kill one of their number,
man named Copper. His cries attracted
| the attention of the sheriff and his sol
but the tramp3 assaulted the officers anC
we're driven to their cells at the muzzlel
of revolvers. The sheriff's son wal
knocked down. Copper, the tramp who
was attacked, will hardly recover.
| Great concern Is felt regarding The
steamer Chicora of Benton Harbor, Mich
which left Milwaukee on Monday morn
ing for Benton Harbor and has since rot
been heard from. She had a crew of 2:
and had four business men from Bentor
Harbor, the guests of Captain Shines
The hope is entertained that the boat
was run into the slush ice when she wa!
struck by the blizzard and cannot extri
cate herself until the weather moderates
A girl IA years old was missed from hel
home IN Milwaukee ABOUT two weeks
She was found on Tuesday and confess
ed she had been leading a life of shame
and made the startling announcement
that her own father was the cause of bel
| downfall. He was placed under arrest