The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-08-06

GENERAL NEWS.

Robert Young of Oshkosh was
drowned on Monday last while in
swimming.
Samuel Mathews,a young man TWEEN
ty years of age was drowned this week
while bathing at Houghton, Wis.
Ore has been struck in the old
Inter Ocean mire at Sunshine, Col,
which Is said to be phenomenally rich
in gold.
f. c. ScOtt's hardware store at Poy-
nette, Wis, was burglarized last week
The thieves secured $50 worth OF cutlery
| and revolvers.
Mrs. Masuaghette, An italian woman
Of Bessemer, Mich, gave birth to three
| boys on Friday last. They weighed al
together sixteen pounds.
| Wolves are again reported numer-
Gus in the neighborhood of Nit. Morris.
| Wis.,, and one farmer recently had
fifteen sheep killed in a single night.
| Peter S. hogstad Of Chimney Rock,
WIS, lost his large barn and forty five
| tons of hay by fire Tuesday evening. II
was set on fire by his little girl who was
playing with matches.
Clouds of grasshCppers are reported to
be passing over Nebraska eastward
| bound. In some places they are sad
| TO be Sc numerous as to obscure the suns
rays in perceptible manner. They al e
| believed to have come from Colorado.
| Otto Werner Of La Crosse commit
ted suicide on Monday last by shoot
| ing himself in the breast with a re
volver. The deceased is bookkeepep
but had been out of work for a year
past, and was respondent over the fact
On Monday last a terrible cyclone
| struck western PENNSYLVANIA, and oc-
casloned great loss OF life and property
Small streams of water were changed to
| raging rivers, and many people were
| drowned by floods which engulfed the
| surrounding country.
Forest fires are raging in the vicin-
| ity of Iron River, Wis, owing to the
long drouth to which that section has
been subjected Bridges along the
line of the Northwestern road arc III
danger and the city itself is menaced
| by fires close to the limits
A very destructive storm occurred on
| Thursday last al Gloucester, mining
town twelve miles north of Athens, O..
Buildings were toppled over, trees were
uprooted and one of the principal streets
of the town was almost wholly destroyed
Fifteen lives are reported lost.
Mart. Crawford, a section foreman on
the Missouri Pacific road, was lynched
by al unmarked mob near Upton Mo.
| ou Monday last Crawford was arrested
charged with attempted assault upon a
10 year old girl who had Just arrived
from Kansas City. The sheriff ard the
prisoner were met by the mob, who took
the latter and hanged him to tree.
A fEmer living near Specht's Ferry,
VIE, SldithS TT nave seen monster
snake Kill two COWS on his premises by
crushing them in Its folds. A party was
organized TO hunt the monster, but
when they came upon it, they became
frightened and ran away. 1t is thought
to have escaped from some show and is
described as being about twenty five feet
IN length and three feet in circumference
in the middle.
Forty seven persons were killed and
fortythree injured in collision and rail-
road wreck on 1.-THE meadows" near At
lantic City, n. j., on Friday last. The
Reading express which was racing with a
competitor and going a mile a minute.
crashed into an excursion train Mt the
crossing, and overturned four coaches
with the above result. Geo Hansen
who had charge of the signal tower
where the accident occurred, was arrested
and held pending an investigation. He
was called before the coroner, and on re-
fusing to make any statement was held
In $500 bal! for further hearing.
1t would be hard to convince a man
suffering from bilious collie that his