The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-04-05
SURROUNDING COUNTRY

Falls will be operated the coming sea-
son.
Congressman Minor has introduced a
bill to make Green Bay a SUPPORT of en-
try.
An additional $52, 900 will be approp-
rated by congress for work on the She
boygan harbor.
Pasquah Viii of Kenosha was found
by jury not guilty Of the murder OF
Antonio Bruno
An electric railway line is soon to be
built connecting Marinette and Peshtigo,
a distance of eight miles.
The True marriage license law has
caused decrease of over 30 per cent in
the number of marriages in Milwaukee.
The low price of cranberries has caus-
ed some talk among both Wisconsin and
eastern growers of forming cranberry
trust.
Quartermaster- General Solliday has
let the contract for 1000 new military
overcoats for the Wisconsin national
guard.
Striking machinists in Chicago return
ed to work Monday pending a settlement
of labor difficulties by the board OF ar
bitration.
Two attempts were made by incendi-
aries last week to burn the Grand View
hotel at Kaukauna, but little damage
was done.
Stewart Jelleff, the Ripon boy who
was charged with stealing money from
his employer, was acquitted by jury
at Fond du Lac.
Chicago University has recently been
made richer by nearly IS, 600, 600 in gifts
of money and property John D. Rookie
Teller gave So, 600, 900 of it.
The funeral of the late Philetus Saw
yer was held at Oshkosh last Sunday af-
ternoon. Hundreds of persons from all
parts of the state attended the services
A company capitalized at $15, 900 has
been formed by some prominent farm
ers of Burnett county, for the purpose
of building ana operating a starch fact
DRY.
Elmore E. Peake of Beloit will shortly
publish novel under the title THE
Darlingtons The Mcclure publishing
house of New York will issue the vol
ume.
Miss Viola Horlocker, well-known
around Platteville, has been acquitted
by jury at Hastings, Neb.. of the
charge of numbering the wife of her en-
ployer.
The famous Ferris wheel of the Chi
cago Worlds Fair is to be torn down
and the 1900 tons of iron and steel of
which it is composed will be sold for
scrap iron
The body of John Mohr of Kenosha
was found in Lake Michigan by mem
Der of the life-saving crew last Friday
Mohr had disappeared the day before
leaving no trace
Dr. W. G. Arons of Fond ,du Lac has
been called to Rio Janeiro Brazil, to
give medical treatment to the wife of a
rich coffee planter. His fee is 10 be
5000 and expenses.
The Ann Arbor steamers that have
been imprisoned in the ice near Sturgeon
Bay for so many weeks have not as yet
been released. They have received sup
plies by teams driven across the ice
fields.
Pauld Biefeld, formerly of Watertown,
md graduate of the State University
in the class of '94, has been elected pro-
fessor Of elecho-technique at the Poly
technic' Institute in Hildbnrghausen,
Germany
B. r. Goggins, an attorney, has been
nominated without opposition for the
first mayor of Greater" Grand Rapids,
Wisconsin. The present city is compos-
ed of the former cities of Grand Rapids
and Centralia.
Mrs Julia Duplici of Chippewa Falls
recently celebrated her 101st birthday
Four of her ten children are living, and
she has eighteen grandchildren, twenty
four great grandchildren and two great
great grandchildren.
The Wausau Central Wisconsin APP
peared last week as a special edition
1t was printed on paper manufactured
by the Wausau Paper Mills Company,
the city's newest industry, and contain
ed full description of the big plant and
its workings.
The daughter of milk dealer at Men
asha named Weaver died last Thursday
night, and an examination showed that
her illness was black diphtheria. There
is great fear that the disease has been
spread through the city by the milk de-
livorad NV tho father