Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-02
State Items.

-Twenty-one degrees below zero al
Green Bay on Saturday.
The Mercury indicated a degrees
below zero at Madison on Monday.
The Englishmen of Brown County
are to have a reunion at Depere on the
9th of January.
j. NJ Walker, of Fennimore, Grant
county, lost an arm by the accidental
discharge of gun.
R. J. Huntington, near Platte
vile, has sold thirty-6ve Poland China
hogs which average SOP pounds each.
Henry Libby, of New London,
has been appointed route agent on the
Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad.
Mrs. Lyons millinery establish
ment, in the State Journal block. at
Madison, was burned on Saturday,
Loss $4,000,
A man named Gordon lost his way
in the woods near Suamico Sunday
night, and was found Monday morning
frozen to death.
Hops, which in October were slow
of sale at fifteen cents a pound in
Mansion, arc now bringing from forty
to forty-fve cents.
An effort is on foot to start a
large wooden factory at Sheboygan
Falls. Fifty thousand dollars stock is
required to be taken.
j. & c. Murphy, of Fond du Lac,
shipped to Lake Superior, on Friday,
two tons weight of dressed turkeys,
geese and chickens.
A fire in fond du Lac, Sunday
morning, destroyed Browns, Mickey 5
Trowbrid@e's and Fowler's stores.
Loss $15, 900 - insured for $50
A saloon keeper named Shinn, in
Prescott, has been sentenced to ten
days imprisonment and a fine of one
hundred dollars, under the Graham
bill.
&C. Johnson, on Sec. 6, Town of
Wilson, Sheboygan county, lost his
dwelling, granary aud barn, by fire, on
Monday night last. The fire origina-
ted in the barn, probably from a Ian
tern. Loss about $1,000. Partially
insured
Hudson was visited by a conna-
grafton on monday afternoon, which
destroyed the livery stable Of Coon &
Spencer, the hardware store of Otis
Bros, and the grocery and liquor store
of James McShanc. Loss and insur-
ancc not known
At Peshtigo, last Wednesday, a
young man named Jno Cramer got in
to 4 drunken brawl, in the progress of
which he was struck from behind hy q
chair in the hands Of his drunken com
panion, craking his head badly, in con
sequence Of which he died IN few
day.
The Ployer Times, which went
through the frey furnace last week,
comes to us half sheet as plucky and
full Of vim as though it had made q
cool thousand by the conhaeration,-
Sound Bro, Ingersoll. Don't let a
little fire wipe YOU out Of course, de-
linquent subscribers will appreciate both
your pluck and situation.
From the Appleton Crescent we
learn that logger5 are unusually busy
this week on account Of the good CON
ditlon of the road, hurrying men, sup
plies and teams to the woods. On the
Shoe, Wolf, etc, the sleighing is poor
yet. The health Of the horses is gen
orally improving, and numbering opera
tions will commence in real earnest.
The eastward bound train on the
Western Union Railway was thrown
from the track threc-quarters of mile
from Waukesirs OIL Saturday. Several
passengers were seriously injured, tho
none were killed. Cause, broken rail
\ similar casualty occurred to the St.
Paul Express on Monday, the 10th ult
j. D. Kelly, of Lancsboro. Mimi, was
instantly killed, and many badly bruis-
ed and burned.
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