Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-14
GLEANlNeS FROM THE STATE PRESS.

iLEANlNGS FROM THE STATE PRESS.
milwaukee, has over 600 SO
looms.
-Milwaukee's loss by fire during
April was $4,000.
They are talking of building o
frst-class hotel at La Crosse.
A hat and cap mandatory is to
be established at West Bend this sea-
SOD.
Racine is claimed to be growing
faster than any other town in the
State.
Ten out Of eleven towns Of
Trempeleau county have temperance
boards
Green Bay has new fro alarm
bell, which weighs 3.16O pounds, and
cost 81 264
The Editorial Stale Association
will commence its annual meeting at
Milwaukee, juno 1G.
Major II. A. Tenney has been
elected Secretary of the Board Of
Railway Commissioners.
-Frof. Chamberlain will com
mence his St. geological survey
about the middle OF May.
5000 trout are to be planted IN
the lakes at Geneva this Spring, at
the expense of this State.
Owing to financial difficulties, the
Appleton Wooden Company has been
compelled to mako an assignment
Purses to the extent of $3.50
are offered for seven races to occur
at Beaver Dam on the 81 and 4th of
July.
Alexander Mitchell, NJ. c., is
reputed to re worth $4,000, 900, ard
to be the wcaIthiest man in the
West.
Liquor License has been raised
in Oshkosh from S25 to $3.50, the ex-
tent of the law. This is the correct
policy.
"A man blowing in The town of
Marshfeld, few days age, turned
up lump of pure copper weighing
240 pounds.
Professor Brand, of Madison is
teaching a class Of colored people in
music, and will bring them out in a
concert shortly.
"A memorial table in honor of
the fallen soldiers Of that county is
to be placed in the new court house
yard at Elkhorn.
"A State Convention of tho Cath
Ollie total abstinence societies viii be
held in Fond du Lac, commencing
Tuesday, June 9th.
A gang of burglars visited Sank
City q few days since They blew
open a safe at one Of the elevators,
but secured no money.
Hudson is blessed with the Ian
tern gentry, and watches, money,
purses, &c, change pockets with
the rapidity of drama.
Some Dane county farmer paid
the modest sum of $2400 for forty
long-wooIed sheep. They are said to
be the best breed in the country.
Stephen Ingham and wife, OF
Geneva Lake, aged SO and 81 re-
speotively, started for New York
last week, on a bit of pleasure trip.
The Common Council of Apple
ton have appropriated one thousand
dollars for the purpose of advertis-
ing that city as a good manufactur-
ing locality.
The rebuilding of the blind iin-
stitute at GAINESVILLE has been com
menced. In the mean time accom-
modations have been provided else
where in the city.
John Wilson, a German, tried
the dangerous experiment of mount
ing a moving engine, at Prairie du
Chien, Tuesday, and now mourna the
loss Of his left leg.
George w. Peck, the genius of
the Lacrosse Liberal Demo crat, has
dissolved his connection with that
paper and is to start q weekly in
that city called the Sun.
last week ground was broken
at Wauzeka, for the construction of
the mar Ow gauge. Quite a number
of men have been employed and the
work will be vigorously carried or.
Seven thousand California sal
mon have been put in the lake at
Madison by the United States Fish
Commissioners. Winnebago also
wants few stirred into its waters.
Lansing Bonnell, Of Milwaukee,
for the past several years proprietor
of the Newhall House, is missing
The fact that his property has been
seized for debt accounts for it prob
ably.
Citizens Of Green county have
recently bought in Canada $4,000
worth of Cotswold sheep, and ST., 900
worth of short-borns, besides seven
head Of Berkshire hogs, TO put upon
their farms.
An actress named Kit Taylor
attempted suicide at Fort Howard
last week, just because she had a
row with her husband. She took an
overdose of arsenic, and her zeal to
die saved her life.
Nearly all the cheese factories
in Fond du Lac county will COM
mence operations the second week
in May, which is later than has been
the case with most of them the past
three or four years.
The land office at Eau Clair
that was. with its books, maps, and
papers, destroyed last Decent Der, is to
be reopened on the 18th of June h8v-
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