The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-09-15
ITEMS FROM The PILOT FILES.
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
STEAMER LADY ELGIN SUNK


from several of the fire companies, the
City Band, members of the Council
and Police, and large number OF
private citizens, numbering in all
fo,T hundred persons. She arrived
safely at Chicago and left that city on
her return trip about II o'clock Friday
evening. AT = o'clock in the morning
when off from Winetka some nine
miles from shore, she was run into by
the schooner Augusta, loaded with
lumber, bound for Chicago, and sunk
in about thirty minutes. Over three
hundred lives were lost.
The Augusta was disabled but did
not sink. Two boats were lowered
from the steamer. Thirteen were
saved from the first and four from the
second. A number more We're saved
who were on pieces of the wreck.
The fatal news arrived here on Sun
day evening, throwing a dark gloom
over our village, and creating deep
emotions of sympathy and grief. Sud
den indeed was the fall Of the fatal
blow which struck so many down. @,
fatal shaft. How whitening the pangs
thou hast borne to the bleeding bosoms
of anxious mothers, kind fathers and
loving kindred. Melancholy and sad
must be the retrospect. The dearest
and fondest of the family circles have
been swept away-have disappeared in
the meridian and youth of their years
in the prime of man and womanhood-
in the infancy of beauty and loveliness
in the very dawn of usefulness. The
dark storm cloud with the arms of
death in its embrace, suddenly burst
upon them, and they sank beneath the
deep waves. The blue waters of Lake
Michigan covers them, and it only re-
mains for sympathizing friends, who
knew them best, to appreciate the vir-
tues of them all, and pay the last sad
offices of grief to their memory.
ACCIDENT-Our veteran friend, Capt.
Jos. Edwards, had narrow escape on
Monday last While working on the
second story of his new building, the
scatfolding gave way, precipitating him
invo the cellar. He was slightly in
jured, but thinks his time has not come
yet.
THE MARKET-Quite an excitement
was created in the Shingle market on
Monday, caused by holders keeping up
"a stitf upper lip" and buyers bidding
up pretty freely. One or two loads
were sold at 1928 and S2.37, but the
price was not kept up long.
Wheat is coming in freely, meets
with a ready sale, and brings within n
few cents of Milwaukee rates. Several
hundreds of bushels were shipped on
Tuesday.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
James Burke, Louis Falge and Ed.
Brown, all of this county, leave this
week for Chicago where they will take
course in medical college.
An election was held in the town of
Cato on Tuesday to fix the license for
the coming three years. The election
was held in Clarls Mills and 236 votes
were polled of which 1876 were for IL
cense fee OF 800. This gives the high
license advocates n majority of 30.
Quite a large number of the Germans
voted for high license, and the Nor
wegians quite generally. The Irish
were divided but majority of them
were in favor of a 800 fee. 1t was
expected from the first that the vote
would be quite close, and the result
was not wholly unexpected.
Mr.. Torrison in his European trip
visited Ireland and while in Queens
town remembered that he had tenant
in Manitowoc in the person Of the
editor of the PILOT whose ancestors
hailed from that portion of the Emerald
Isle. He purchased cane there made
of bog oak with the shamrock and the
ivy carved in bas-relef on the upper
part, and presented it to the editor of
this paper.
John =. Wickert died on FRIDAY
September II, after an i'll
ness of over one year. When first
seized with sickness his friends looked
for fatal termination Of his disease,
but through the summer he improved
and for awhile it seemed he would
fully regain his health. But during
the last few weeks his malady assumed
an aggravated form and it became ap-
parent that all hope Of recovery was
gone.
Mr.. Wickert was born In Prussia in
the year 1893 and came TO this county
in 1853. He lived for some time in
kossuth and later made Clark's Mills
his home. For years he held local Of
fetal positions and was elected county
clerk which position he held for six
years. No man in the county was
better known nor was there any other
with SO large personal following.
His funeral took place on Sunday and
services We're held in the
Catholic church in the City of Mani
towoc.
Mr.. Frank Miller Of this city has re-
ceived the appointment Of clerk Of the
Indian Agency at White Earth, Min