The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-11
SURROUNDING COUNTRY

Il pleasure DOdJ Was Cdp5lLeu Oh iaSc
Geneva last Sunday during the storm
and six persons were drowned.
Miss Eliza Allen, a Milwaukee teacher
committed suicide Sunday by swallow
ing part of the contents of bottle OF
carboiic acid.
A Montana man is advertising ID the
Wisconsin papers for wife. The new
woman" might find harbor of refuge IL
the far west.
Mrs. Sarah Davis of Oshkosh was shot
in the breast by her daughter last week.
The girl supposed the revolver was Load
ed with blank cartridges.
i rkyrocket which took horizontal
course, struck Wausau box ID the neck
near the jugular vein and injured him so
severely that his life is despalred OF.
4 Memphis, Tenn, packet boat in
backing out from her landing, struck a
snag and sank Immediately, drowning
five persons il fourteen feet Of water.
Considerable damage was done to
crops, dwellings and other buildings last
Sunday by terrific rain and han storm
which visited the southern part of the
state.
Winona, Mo-, was almost completely
wiped out By food on Friday last, a
dozen persons are known to have lost
their lives and nearly all the property in
| the town was destroyed.
| Charles Winters of Milwaukee was
| drowned Sunday while bathing in the
| Milwaukee river. Winters drowned in
| the presence OF his brothers neither OF
| whom could swim.
The body of an unknown man was
found hanging to a hickory tree near
Granville Center on Sunday last. From
the appearance of the body 1t must have
been hanging there for several days.
Nothing was found to determine the
identity of the man.
4 prize fight took place near Milwau-
kee last week between Eddie Forey of
Milwaukee and "Yonng" Dempsey of Chi
cago. Forey's arm was disabled IN the
seventh round and the Chicago man Uon
A trolley car became unmanageable in
East Liverpool, Q. on Monday, and
Jumped the track, sliding down a twenty
foot embankment injur;ng sixteen per-
cons and killing one.
An elevator IN the Warren Springer
building in Chicago, dropped from the
Eighth floor to the basement Monday
morning, seriously injuring two men.
A Chicago robber who attempted to
rob a saloonkeeper was run down by a
couple of policemen, who killed HIM
during the chase The thug succeeded
in seriously wounding two bystanders
before he was shot.
Captain Johnson, deputy game warden
for Oshkosh and vicinity, was hung 10
effiey last week at Butte DIES Morts, and
the dummy was bored full of holes with
rifle bullets. The fisherman IN Butte DIES
Morris are openly hostile to the warden
aud only short time ago while he was
pulling up nets illegally set, he was shot
at from the public wharf, Oshkosh fisher
man are causing considerable trouble
by defying the law, but the state warden
declares that he will suppress illegal
fishing il It takes the militia to do it.
VHE business portion of Wauwatosa, a
suburb Of Milwaukee, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on Tuesday last. The fire
originated in bakery shop and quickly
spread to adjoining buildings The fire.
men were at a disadvantage IN their
efforts to cheek the flames, as the supply
OF water was inadequate to Their needs
and the pumping machines became
clogged with mud. The loss is estimated
at fully fifty thousand dollars.