The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-26

SURROUNDING COUNTRY

drew Carnegie for a public library build
. ing.
! Mrs Dufresne OF Oconto was found
guilty of horsewhipping little girl and
fined.
A 'short-change" man was caught 81
Neenah on Monday and given thirty
days in Jail.
The work on the new Wisconsin Cen
trail railroad shops at Fond du Lac is ad-
vancing rapidly
!. Wausau is to have $3.50, 600 paper
and sulphite mill next year. The archi-
tects survey is now being made.
The Chinese Masons of Wisconsin
held an important meeting at Oshkosh
Sunday Sixty delegates were present.
Two freight trains coliided at Fort
Atkinson last Sunday causing quite q
bad wreck One Of the conductors was
slightly injured.
There is native Boer in Sheboygan
His name is Mar1us Van Griethuysen,
and he says the Transvaal will fight to
the last man for independence.
There have been serious forest fires in
the vicinity of Baraboo, but it is thought
they are now subsiding Several thou
sands of acres were burned over
A dry cornfeld near La Crosse caught
fire the, other day and made a tremef1-
dous blaze. The county asylum which
stood near barely escaped destruction.
E. d. Lotus of Green Bay and John
Driscoll of kenosha county, who have
been in the American army at Manila,
| have recently returned to their homes.
A new copper vein has been discovered
in the vicinity of Ashland. 1t is said to
be very rich and of great extent. A
company has already been formed to
work it.
Mrs Rosalind Peck of Baraboo died last
Saturday at the age of ninety. She was
the first white woman to settle at Madi
son. where she lived for some years be-
fore going to Baraboo
The body of an unknown man was
found in the ruins of a burned barn at
Granville Center, Milwaukee county.
The body was unrecognizable 1t was
supposed to be "a tramp.
Upper classmen at Lawrence Univer-
sity, Appleton, captured about twenty
freshmen and tied them hand and foot
Tuesday night The police were called
out twice but made no arrests
! Gen Charles King the author, is d
heavy loser by the failure of his New
York publisher F. Tennyson Nicely.
There are several other writer's in Wis
consin who will lose by the failure.
Last Monday was a record breaker at
the Milwaukee weather bureau At ,
o'clock in the afternoon the Thermometer
reached 81 degrees which is the highest
registration known for the last ten days
of October.
Frank J. Weber, general organizer of
| the American Federation of Labor for
the state of Wisconsin, reports that
there has been general raise of Is per
cent in the wages of Wisconsin work
men during the past year.
Milwaukee hopes to entertain Admiral
Dewey next spring. Capt. I. H. Magde
| burg of that city called on the Admiral
recently when in Washington. and the
latter stated that he would be glad to
visit Milwaukee when his physician al
| lowed him to come west.
! Elk Governor George w. Peck had a
marrow escape from drowning last Fri
| day He was ON Lake Koshkonong in
his canoe when the boat was swamped
| Luckily assistance was ut hand and the
governor was rescued without much
| difficulty.
| The Lake Michigan Car Ferry Trans
portation Go, has made complaint to
the war department that the bridge
across the canal at Sturgeon Bay is an
obstruction to navigation. The hearing
was had last Tuesday before Capt j. e.
Warren at Milwaukee,
A three year old child named Clara
| Steedman died at Fort Dodge, Iowa, last
Thursday, from an attack of spasms.
! No physician was called to treat the
child as the parents We're believers in
Christian science. The community is
much stirred up about the matter and
criminal prosecutions are likely
DR.. Frank A. Travers of Racine is
working ON an invention he calls a
phono-typewriter, The idea OF the ma
chine is an instrument that will print
ON paper words that are spoken into u
photographic mouthpiece 1t is sup
posed that electricity will be used in the
machine in some way
Prof. Richard L. Ely of the University
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