Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-11-27
GLEANINGS FROM THE STATE PRESS.

Tho Oshkosh Insane Asylum has
209 inmates.
i Wisconsin cranberries sell for SIS
d barrel in Chicago.
| Hay is selling for sixteen dollars
a ton at Green Bay.
-Janesville and Oshkosh indulge
in Poultry Associations.
Potatoes throughout the state are
scarce and command high price.
The Old Kilbourn dam war will
break out anew in the next Legisla-
ture.
Oshkosh has an artesian well
which is already sunk to the depth Of
$40 feet
1t is thought Major Morgan l.,
Martin will contest with Col. Back for
the Speakership.
Major 4. G.. Miller, of ths goth
Wisconsin, was elected to the Iowa
Senate last month.
The Milwaukee Journal of Com
merce tayors the instruction of music
10 our puOlic SCHOOLS.
Fred Moore will be the Milwau.
kee SentinePs Washington correspon.
dent again this winter.
Sank county Contains 5000 acres
OF public lands, according to the re-
port OF town assessors.
The printers of Madison contri.
bnted fifty dollars for the relief OF SUI.
tering craftsmen in Memphis.
The Eau Claire Lumber Company
have about 30,O0O,00O feet of logs and
about 35,000,000 feet of lumber on
hand.
The Northwestern Orphan Asy.
] lum, to be established at Oshkosh,
promises soon to become q tangible
, ality.
1t is given out that Doctor Wight
is about to assume editorial control OF
new grange paper about to be start
Ell at Milwaukee.
"A man named Sanford was found
: dead near the railroad track near
, Sparta the other day. He held in his
a grasp bottle of whisky.
Governor Taylor, who has been
quite sick for two or three weeks, is
. recovering under the reviving infu
o ences of the election returns,
,, "A Mrs. Schultz was fatally injur.
o ed in Milwaukee few days since by
: attempting to get on to a bridge when
it was opening to let boat pass.
"A mock marriage occurred at al
8 evening party in Fond du Lac, which
l. proved to be bona tide, and has beer
j. the cause of uncomfortable details.
l. "A new machine for stripping bari
il from wood has just been put In oper
alton in the Ames Wood Pulp Mill
:. Appleton. 1t does the work of ter
men.
s. 1T is said that $50 laborers anC
d miners from the Lake Superior iroT
Y regions went South, last Saturday, or
q the Chicago Il Northwestern Rail
road.
!, The Baraboo Republic suggest
y the establishment of a paper-mill a
oI that place, the raw material to consis
J. of the outer skin or husk of the hol
d stalk.
20 One of Milwaukee's two hundred
+, pound bakers-she has many of tina
weight and upwards been sen
70 to Waupun. Somebody was his OF
10 fense
ia The late sheriff OF Fond du La
It, county, who committed suicide, ha,
Id his life insured for $1,000, and the Cir
cuit Court decides that the company
must pay the loss.
"A couple of Milwaukee mel
- made war upon drove of rats the 9th
G. er day, but the rats turned upon then
{. and gnawed them so that it is feare'
r. they will not live. So says the Guide
a The Green Bay Iron Compan.
will buy about 81 900 cords of WOO,
- during the coming winter for thei
De own consumption, about 1000 cord
7e of which will be drawn to the furnace
is by teams this winter.
w The Chicago Times calls Geo.
Smith, +. G. Ryan and Doc. Pease
5 the tuft.end of the tail of the Bour
as bon rump, which was put under tn
D. sod, because these gentlemen clair
the recent victory as a Democrat
80 one.
,o Over month ago a house nea
GAINESVILLE was burned. An elderl
10 lady, Mrs. Root, was burned to
| crisp. 1t is now thought that her hu:
" band first killed her and then fred tt
NJ building An examination is taking
:, place.
- The following applications hav
- been filed in the patent office: Hal
10 row-Miles X. Young, Glen Haver
lie Spring Eqnalizer-Horace Davis, Bel
N lin; Windmill-Samuel III. Railway
10 Berlin; Earth-gauger = Erastus II
= Clark, Appleton.
The Vernon County Censor re
Us ports that Henry Bausman, who ha'
ct his skull broken and portion of th
n brain knocked out, few weeks since
f. has entirely recovered, and is again a
/, work. His recovery certainly ap
proaches the miraculous.
There is likely to be great dis
tress this winter in the Lake Superio
mining country. The failure of irol
smelling establishments in Ohio anc
IN other States, which last spIing ha'
contracted for ores at high prices, hs
= caused complete suspension OF worl
VI in the mines.
At Mary Ann Steele, widow of tn
~ late John Steele, died in the town o
Delton, Sank county. on Wednesda,