The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-28
SURROUNDING COUNTRY
Ripon has paving fight on its hant

Ripon has paving fight ON its hands.
Amigo has now curfew ordinance in
force
The recruiting officer failed to get a
single recruit at Sheboygan
The schools ofSturgeon Bay have been
closed because of the prevalence of diph-
iberia
The public schools at Hilbert, Calumet
county, have been closed because of the
prevalence of diphtheria.
The mills in the Fox River Valley have
had the water shut off by the War De.
partment They are now tanning with
steam.
Max Richter of La Crosse was out
hunting on Sunday. The accidental dis
charge of his gun blew the top of his
head off.
Mrs. Fred Koppingst of Neenah was
killed by a Northwestern passenger train
ON Saturday evening. She was struck
by the locomotive at crossing and kill.
ed Instantly
A Marlnette man caught a brook trout
at Iron river which weighs Z pounds and
Is said to be the largest ever caught. He
has taken it to the State Fair at Illinois.
1t is mounted in glass box
The Green Bay q Western railroad
will be extended north from Sturgeon
Bay up through the Peninsula II this
be true it is probable that possession of
Mr.. Decker's line to Sturgeon Bay will
be secured
The shooting of hunters goes merlily
on Newton Woodhead Of Ashland. was
shot by a hunting companion through
the hip on Sunday last. A resident of
Mason was shot the same day by fel.
low hunter through the hip
The Green Bay q Western is now run.
ming Il special freight train to Stevens
Point so as to secure the business refus.
ed the Central because of the removal of
the shops But in few years every
thing will be running on in the old way.
A man named Sibenson in the north
ern part of the state, looked so much like
a deer on Sunday last that hunter fired
at him three times in rapid succession.
The third bullet entered the mans breast
and he died The Murderer still lives.
John Walters of Merrill was burned to
death Sunday night at the Wisconsin
House He was i'll, got up, lighted a
lamp and went into shed, where he
fell. The lamp ignited his clothing and
he was fatally burned.
Leonhard Johnson of Marshfeld, a boy
10 years old, lost his way in the woods
which he sought to cross to shorten the
way home, on Friday evening. He wan
dered about frantically through the for
est until he was located by searching
party on Sunday at noon.
A singular case is reported from Ash
land. August Swanson of that city had
leg amputated because of gangrene.
He had been suffering for some weeks
from what was supposed to be rheuma-
tism. No blood issued from the arteries
when the amputation was performed and
they We're found to be solid cords through
which no blood passed
Mrs Frances Rank of Oshkosh was
married on Tuesday morning and she
and her hubby went to photograph gal
lery to have their pictures took. The
photographer asked for pay in advance
and the bride gave him "one in the jaw >
which laid him fiat The couple are off
on wedding tour but on their return
Mrs. Rank will be arrested.
A duel was fought between two men
at Eau Claire with swords, on Friday
last, though without the preliminary
formal challenge. Thompson, q photo
grapher, engaged a young woman to
work in his studio, retonching. Soon
after she began working stranger put
IN an appearance and asked savagely
what the woman was doing there He
gave his name as Mcguire and said the
woman was his wife. There were two
swords in the room and the men seized
them and began duel. Thompson got
the worst of it and Mcguire made his
escape. The husband is worthless fel-
low. who would not support his wife and
she quit him TO earn her own living.