The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-02-22
SURROUNDING COUNTRY

Appleton and Kaukauna are to be
connected by a trolly line
Cook Bros barn at Oconto was de-
stroyed by fire on Thursday night caus
ing a loss of $4,000.
| The high school building of Marquette,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on Saturday
afternoon. 1t cost $40, 900.
John Moix of Randolph, this state,
while practicing for cake walk ON Sat
urday night, dropped dead.
There We're 1000 players present at
skat congress in Milwaukee last week
1t was under the auspices IF the Deutch-
err Club
A three-weeks-old child of Mrs. Paule-
son of Green Bay died of starvation last
week. The mother was in destitute cir
cumstances.
The Prairie du Sac electric light plant
was destroyed by fire on Saturday night
and also grist mill The loss is estim-
ated at S. 600.
Gabriel Crist of Beloit committed sui
eide on Sunday by taking dose of laud
anum. He had made several unsuccess-
full attempts before
Otto Knaack of Milwaukee, % years
old, was sent to the insane asylum on
Monday last. His insanity was caused
by smoking cigarettes
A girl who was lying i'll in house at
Brodhead, this state, died of fright on
Thursday last, because the building in
which she was, caught fire.
An attempt was made to burn the
Oshkosh City Library on Saturday night
last. There is not much doubt that the
fire was of incendiary origin.
Mrs. Hanson of Excelsior this state
gave birth to triplets. two girls and Il
boy, on Friday last. The combined
weight of the children was 1873 pounds
Isaac Stephenson of Marinette has an
nounced his intention of giving that city
a public library building which will cost
$50, 900. 1t will be built within the next
two years.
VIM. ellis of Oshkosh was seriously
injured this week in the lumber woods
by having tree fall on him. He is So
years old and has worked 20 winters in
the woods.
Grand Rapids and Centralia will vote
on the question of consolidation March
ID. They are separated only by the
Wisconsin river and both places have
population of 1000.
Gov. Scofeld has been petitioned to
remove the sheriff and the district attor
ney of Oneida county. He has required
the petitioners to furnish bond to pay
the expenses of investigation in case the
result should be adverse TO them.
John Arguette of GAINESVILLE who was
recently acquitted of the charge of arson
wants to begin suit for $40, 600 damages.
He says he was arrested in Milwaukee
and kept in Jail for seven months so that
certain officers could secure the reward
of 5000.
Ed. DAILY OF Milwaukee who shot and
killed John Walsh in Milwaukee while
the two men We're engaged in a fight,
and who was sent to states prison for
five years, was pardoned by Gov. SEQ
field on Monday after serving one year
of his sentence.
Albert W. Lawrence, a student at the
State University, was found dead in his
bed on Monday morning. Another stu
dent was bed fellow of his and on wax
ing in the morning found Lawrence
, dead. He had been treated the evening
before for a sore throat
William Mace of Mount Horeb, this
state ate mince pie which he had taken
t with him on trip and died soon after.
) 1t is charged there was strychnine put
in the pie A boy, member of the fam
? lily, had tried to purchase strychnine at
} drug store few days before
Andrew B. Aas who was sentenced to
Jail for months for wife beating was
pardoned by Gov. Scofeld on condition
he would keep from drink and desist
from the amusement of wife beating.
Aas celebrated his freedom by getting on
a spree and whipping his wife. His par
{ don was at onced revoked and he is now
in Jail.
= Samuel Beswick, an old man who died
in Chicago and whose remains were
: brought to Racine where he had lived,
had 81, 900 slowed away in the lining of
2 faded and battered overcoat. The
coat had been thrown into the rag pile
2 at the hospital where Beswick died. A
, brother of the deceased in making a