The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-07

SURROUNDING COUNTRY

The State Fair at Milwaukee opens
next week.
Five hundred citizens of Fond du Lac
have petitioned for curfew ordinance
Prof. Freeman of Madison and his two
daughters leave for Europe OH the 9th
where they will spend a year travelling
The warehouse of the Winnebago Pa.
per company caught fire on Sunday night
and $4,000 worth of property was de-
stroyed
Stoughton, this state. has had mum
Der OF fires recently and the citizens
think they are of incendiary origin
They are greatly excited in consequence
Fond du Lac is pardonably iubilant
over having secured the Wisconsin Cen
trail shops. The shops will cover a tract
OF land a mile and half long and will
be first class in every particular
In the town of Burlington, Racine
county ten persons We're injured in a
runaway on Monday. They were all in
wagon and one of the wheels dropped
off causing the team to run away.
1t Is now suspected that Mrs Gall
Blanchard of Rib Lake this state, who
was found dead in her bed on Monday,
was murdered by her husband The
case was at first thought to be suicide.
An Oshkosh young man who went under
the name of Ted Armstrong has fallen
heir to $25, 600 per year. His real name
Is Cavendish and he comes from good
family in England though he followed
the business of concert hall singer here.
Insurance companies are suspicious of
Oshkosh and have demanded an investi-
CATION of the condition of the fire de-
partment and waterworks The losses
by fire there have all been total and the
insurance companies want to discover
the reason
Michael Vincent, sheriff of Wood coun-
ty shot his brother while hunting prairie
chickens or Friday last. He had Just
discharged his gun and had put in
she'll In closing the breach the shell
was exploded. The shot tore away the
brothers cheek, but the wound will not
be fatal
An insane man, Daniel Nussbaum,
performed an operation on himself at the
county asylum at Appleton ON Monday
with a jack knife for strangnlated hernia.
He cut off a short portion of the intestine
and sewed it up. He is not suffering
from the operation but the physicians
say he cannot live.
A farmer named Robert Eckert was
drowned in the river three miles from
Algoma on Sunday night. He left for
home with a horse and buggy on that
night. The following morning "a farmer
on his way to the city saw the horse and
buggy in the river and after search the
body OF Eggert was found near.
Supt. w. Fl. Holcomb of the Fox Riv-
er Valley Electric line had narrow es-
cape from being shot while hunting
snipe along Lake Winnebago. Two
men opened fire on him one with a shot
gun and one with rifle. The shot
struck over his head and the bullet struck
a tree near him. He is unable to saw
whether the shooting was designed or
whether he was taken for rabbit.
The body of an old man of 10. Patrick
Mulchrone, was found in hut near Vir-
oqua this state on Monday last The
flesh on every exposed portion of the
body was eaten off by rats, dogs and
chickens. He had not been seen for a
week and his body must have lain in the
hut that time. He was miser and lived
alone 1t is evident he was murdered.
Mrs. Sharp of Oconto is again in straits.
She is sued for criminal libel and G. w.
Felker of Oshkosh has begun suit for fees
for defending her against the charge made
by Lynch that she threw acid in his face
and blinded him. She conveyed all her
real property to another person after her
acquittal so as to checkmate any move
ment Lynch might make to sue for dam
ages This she did, she says, on Felkers |
advice But his counsel worked against |
himself Mrs. Sharp says she will pay
her attorneys, but wants time