The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-03-08
SURROUNDING COUNTRY

ed new $40, 600 church last Sunday.
The central feature of the Milwaukee
carnival next summer will be an electric
parade.
A big strike of machinists is now on
in Chicago 1t may spread to surround.
ing cities.
Carferry No. 1 Of the Ann Arbor road,
| imprisoned in the ice in Green Bay, Is
leaking badly.
Three f. & P. M. steamers We're i'm
prisoned in the ice-pack off Milwaukee
for two days last week.
Oshkosh businessmen have organized
an advancement association with cap
ital stock of $100,000
The trial of Henry F. Corbett, charged
with the attempt to HRev. d. b.
Cheney and wife, was begun at Racine
yesterday.
Miss Maud Come, the young Irish pa
triot will not make an address in Mil
waukee. A conflict of dates will pre-
vent her appearance there.
A few hours after William Schleiden
OF Fond du Lac died, a letter came from
Germany announcing that he had be-
come heir to fortune of $3.50 600
Elk. Gov. Upham is defending con
tempt proceedings against him brought
in the Ashland circuit court. He liz
charged with having violated an injunc'
ton.
Henry F. Cochems of Sturgeon Bay
now q student at Harvard, has been
made a member of the university second
debate team which will contest with
Yale.
DR.. Jordan, president of Leland Stan
ford University, in an address delivered
at Chicago predicted that the present
warbetween the Beers and Great Britain
presaged the latter's downfall.
The estate of the late George Smith,
formerly Milwaukee banker, will have
to pay the British government "a, 800,
600 inheritance tax. He died in London
where he had kept his residence for
many years.
The storm of Sunday and Monday was
general throughout the state and caused
a blockade on all the railroads Freight
traffic was completely suspended Tele-
graph communication was not seriously
interrupted anywhere.
Andrew j. Thompson of Santa Rosa,
CAL is visiting at Weyerhauser, this
state. He claims to be 113years old and
says he is going to live another hundred
years. He can run a mile IN six min
utes, and is vigorous in every way.
A new railroad company filed articles
of incorporation at Madison last week.
The road is to be called the GAINESVILLE &
Southeastern, and is designed to connect
the towns southeast from GAINESVILLE with
the C. M. & st. P. road, to which it will
act as q feeder.
There was an indoor athletic meet at
the Exposition building in Milwaukee
last Saturday evening, participated in
by anumber of universities, athletic as
sociations and high schools. Chicago
University won the greatest number of
points. The University of Wisconsin
ranked fourth
THE editor of The Eliot is being involv-
ed in lots of trouble in his absence. His
assistant sporting editor commented
last week on the alleged muskallonge
caught at Silver Lake, and now Bill
Cooper is on the war path. The assist
ant aforesaid has discreetly retired be-
fore he was discovered and left the edi-
tor-in-chief to handle this scathing COM
munication
John Maggie, Esq
DEAR SIR;-Tn be hanged if you have
not done it again, sprung the fish story
too soon and spoiled my summers ad-
vertising. This big fish was not due
until the 9Th of April AMI the 16l pound
fish was to be the third fish caught, not
the first. All this was as you well know
to be printed in book form; the fish on
the first page was to be small and as
you turned page after page the fish was
to grow longer and heavier and to wind
up with the sea serpent that you and
Spindler saw out West when you were
duck hunting. / had told you that l
would give you the work of printing
this book but now it will 60 to editor
Nash of Two Rivers. Nash knows his
business and does not go around. with
rule and scales in his pocket to reweigh
and remeasure other peoples fish. l had
Capt. Fulton ready to swear to the
weight of my fish. Capt. believes any
thing / say; he has to in order to sell me
butter. You took me off your paper as
Robin Reporter and gave it to Bill Ken
nedy who does not know robin from q
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