Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-12-05
State Items.

friendship, Adams county, Is Z
have a starch factory.
At Johnstown, Rock county, the
hogs are complaining of epizootic
troubles.
A prairie FIRE in Iowa captured
and consumed 800 out Of flock of one
Thousand sheep.
1T is said that Gov. Washburn
will 1901 invest 800, 900 in a Touring
mill at Millespolis.
--One hundred and twenty-five
markets supply Milwaukeeans with
fries, roasts and steaks.
On Friday morning Dan Trainer,
of Kildare, a resident Of juneau coun-
ty since 1851, was found dead in his
bed.
The Wisconsin tobacco product,
this year. is estimated at twenty thou
sand eases, the best in quality ever
grown in the state. =
Congress Convened last Monday
The Presidents message is published
and will appear in synopsis in our next
issue, it being too lengthy to publish
in full.
Geo. Gaddcs, the brakeman fatal.
ly injured on the st. Paul and Lake
Superior Railroad, has a mother liy-
ing in Racine, to which place his body
will be taken.
The work of digging the ship ca
nal to connect Grceh Bay with Lake
Michigan by way of Sturgeon Bay is
now being pushed forward with a heavy
force of men.
Parker & Stones foundry, in Be-
lott, containing all their patterns, TASKS,
etc, was burned between II and ]
o'clock Friday morning. Loss 50, 900
to $1,000: insured for $500.
David II. Jones fell into a well
sixty feet deep, on the premises of
Abel Williams, in the town of Rose.
Waushara county, and strange to say,
escaped with several broken ribs and a
fractured limb.
CLARK Niles was recently crnalseh
to death at Chaplin, Franklin county,
on the Central of Iowa railroad. He
was TWENTY-FIVE years old, had for sew
eral years set type in the Eldora Legcr
Office, but had b, en- a brakeman on the
railroad for a year.
The Racine Advocate states that
on Monday evening a large number OF
friends and relations gathered at the
residence of DR.. Duncombe, to Hcle-
brate the t~wenty-ifth anniversary cf
the marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. William
I. Lyon, Of Madison.
-Four young men, Robert, Joseph.
Bill and John Nicholas Weildcrs, were
arrested at kaukauna, Outagamie Co.
a few days ago, to await trial, charged
with displacing rails and otherwise OBJ
structing the trains on the Manitowoc
and Appleton railroad.
Mrs. D%ousman, mother of the late
John p. Dousman, died at Keshena,
last Monday morning, aged 76. Her
remains were buried there. but it is
the intention to have them brought to
Bay at an carly day and depos-
tied near those of her deceased rela-
tives.
The safe Of the County Treasurer
of Grant county was burglarized one
last week, and swept clean of the
currency and scrip on hand. 1t was n
bad night for burglars, for they only
realized about $50. They demolished
one of Lilies best safos, which was
the most serious loss.
Black River Falls is TO have a
blast furnace in operation by the first
of May next. Herman Nunnemach-
er, Jacob Humbird and ID. J. Spauld-
ing compose the company engaged in
enterprise. 1t is high time the
rich deposits of iron ore in that region
were utilized and made serviceablc to
mankind.
The Portage Register reports that
Register of Deeds Of CuIumbia
has recorded a decd from the
Bay and Mississippi Canal eom-
pany to the United States Government
of its property commonly known as the
Fox and Wisconsin River Improve
.ent, The consideration was S145,-