Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-14
State Items.

and the price Is constantly increasing.
Hon. Thad. G. Pound, Of Chip
pewa Falls, was married last week, at
Hartford, Conn, to Miss Emily NJ.
Fem.
At Racine, the A,tcocnte says,
wood is S15 u cord ON the street
That kind Of fuel ought to make hot
fire.
The new paper mill at Menasha |
was burned on Monday. The estab-
lishment was the largest in the
state
The Watertown Republican says
the potato crop in that vicinty.is light,
and produce dealers are shipping pota-
toes from Minnesota for home con-
sumption.
There are more cranberry marshes
in Wisconsin than any Iother State in
the Union, and this land will be
more valuable that any other in few
years.
--M Mrs. Tank offers tie town of Fort
Howard Eve acres Of land for pubG4I
park, provided the corporation expends
s 500 IN improvements upon it pre-
vious to 1875.
--Thos. Mcleod, brakeman, was
killed at Woodland station last week
by locomotive running over him He
attempted to jump on when the cars
were in motion.
A new religious sect has been Or
ganized at Oshkosh. They call them
r, selves Christadelphians, or Lovers Of
Christ. What next? They believe
the world will be destroyed in 1875,
Il --Carcy, the Berlin cranberry man,
recently shipped two carloads Of ber-
ries to California which sold for 81
per barrel. The freight amounted to
$500 per car, holding $50 barrels.
--Gov. Fairchild, the new Consul
to Liverpool, left for bis destination
with his family, day befnve yesterday
Gov Washburne gave them public
farewell reception the evening before.
The trial Of William Maxwell for
the Nurder of Walter Foster, at Meme
; kamc, Sept. II took place at Oconto
! wcea before last, resulting in finding a
, verdict against the prisoner Of murder
in the first degree.
Ia, Sunday last the schooner Sol
Cook was moored at our port. She
was an object Of general Interest from
the fact Of its being the same vessel
!, which cttlidcl with the i'll iatei Stcaltp-
er lady algin some years since, through
which so n,uny lives were host - Raci~s
, .itirocats..
A fourteen Year old boy, named
James Frost, living in the to5n Of
l.auHNiHc, in Dodge county. was 50
sc gereIy kicked by horse about two
weeks ago, that his skull was crushed
and two or three table-spooUtulIs d
the brain came oil. He is now alive,
and will probably entirely recover.
AT RACING, ON election day, 4
German, whose wife carried more mus
Gle than he, and upon being handled
him rather roughly, went up stairs and
got shot gun ani fred at her tour
times, the shot hyin all oyer her body
The Adrocatr, to which Wc are indobt-
ed for these particulars. Iro~ hcon una
bic to ascertain the exte Mt @f her iuiu-
ries.
"A portion of train left the crack
of the Green Bay and lake Pepin
Railroad near Scand navia, the other
day. Six cars, loaded with horses and
mules, wenr into a sink hole, sand two
of the animals were smothercd to death
The rescued animals were dragged out
of the mud by fastening rope around
their nccks and attaching it to the en-
CINE.
Last Wednesday night some per-
sons unknown, forcibly entered the
County Treasurer's Office at Lancaster
Grant county, by prying open one of
the south windows. They then made
"a raid on the safe, completely demo lish
ing enc of the doors by the use ofcrtw-
bars, slcdgos, cold cbisels. &c. They.
got as a reward for t6eir labor, about
500 in five, tea, fifteen. twenty-five aud
fifty cent pieces.
Destructive tirvs have been raging /.
north aud west OF Nccedah. until
checked by the recent rains Many OIL
the cranberry marshes have been burnt