Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-27
THE BALLOONISTS ALL RIGHT
Ihey Land In Dense Woods in North
ern wis. and Have a SERIOUS Time
Getting Out

oh WIS ana have a serious Tim,
Getting Out.
;, Z. ID. Summers of the Western I'm
- y ION Telegraph Co., received the follow
y ing dispatch from Minneapolis:
Prot. King is at Chippewa Falls. His balloon
landed sixty-fye miles up the river from tbat
= place, last Friday. INA
), The Daily Mems of Chicago. Illinois
has the following from J. G. Hasbioan
a signal service employe, who went nm
In Kings balloon.
CHIPPEWA FALLS. Oct. 21.
: me yoyagers who took such hasty
light last Thursday from civilization
feel no such disposition to-day. Ifyou
should see us now, dragged and water
l soaked and exposed. YOU would surely
have thought We loved to see civiIiza-
ton. Before five minutes after leaving
te1ra .1trn,G, We reached an altitude Of
s,3OO feet, moving southwest. A
few minutes later we reached an
upper current moving slowly west. so
slowly that we barely moved; but what
a prospect beneath us. We were soon
shut out by night, and had nothing to
see but myriad Of lights twinkling in
the distance. We remained suspended
over them, neither rising nor falling.
for several hours, but at last puff sent
us southwest, changing before morning
to northwest and west. While going
southwest we remained becalmed about
three hours, swinging over a small
circle that from its location | Judged TO
be Peoria, Ill. AT 5:15 P. NJ. Friday VIC
passed over Spring Valley, Wis, startling
the natives by dragging our drag rope
over their roofs, and one ambitious fell
low sent shot after us as we passed
over the Platte mounds at 7.15 A. M.
we remained for long time swinging
round these mounds, when the balloon,
as though anxious to give us a heavenly
view, took an upward turn. earring us
1000 feet above the strata of clouds
and literally burrying US in the milk
for an hour. In passing the Little falls
at monroe corners we came so near
the ground that we came in con-
tact with the trees, and we were
compelled to take large portion
OF one along as a sOuvenier. When
we neared the ground we we're greeted
with a beautiful view of the verdure la
every variety of form. Children were
hushed, dogs called off, horses whipped
up, and all the country matrons stood
IN Their doors with their arms akimbo
and with the most surprising attitude.
At 8 o'clnck A. NJ. we passed over
Patton, or some similarly named place.
AT 9:4O A. NJ, we passed Tomah, Wis.
At $50 A. M, we arose above the
clouds and lost sight of mother earth
for few hours. The wind increasing,
1t carried us at rapid rate, proba-
bly, four or five miles an hour,
course we were pursuing, InOoVI4v,442-s-
the rain poured in torrents, collecting
on the outside of the balloon, it poured
down the mouth of the bag into the bas
ket in a steady stream, compelling me
| to put away my instruments; but it
was useless, there was not dry pin
head among them. At 12:45, the high-
est known elevation was reached, being
$500 feet. From the last person we
found we were 40 miles from ST. Paul.
and when we descended, at 2:3O P. NJ,
on the west bank of the river, half
mile inland. We concluded we were
in the state of Minnesota, probably
! forty mills from st. Paul, on the Missis-
sippi river. With this supposition in
mind we stepped out of our Car into
about eighteen inches of ice water and
found we we're in a cranberry bog. Our
experience after that for the succeed
ing five days is too horrible. How we
walked for five days up to our
knees through boggy swamps, with
out food, except about half pint
of berries: how wolves and bears
snarled around us at night; how we
slept on wet ground at night through
heavy frOsts, only to start again IN the
morning through the swamp with its
ice water and falling over muddy logs
at every step, cannot be put in words.
AS last resort we built a raft,
expecting to go over the st. An
thony falls. OF our subsequent dis
appointment and our subsequent
tramps, l will tell later. But our
10y when 4 o'clock in the evening on
the 9Th day we reached Flambeau
river and were carried across by Clera-
more Bartrand and Michael Miner
Woodward, and here we are enjoying
the good things before us.
(Signed) ] G. HAsHAGAN.
The field of ''HOnah."
A new civil war has broken out, and
the sacred soil of Virginia is liable to
be once more drenched with gore-al
ways provided that the duelists i'm
prove their craftsmanship. Only a
little while ago the country held its
breath while the representatives of the
chivalrous families of the Wises and
the Lewises. having exchanged often
sive epithets, exchanged shots, and
washed out stains Of invisible disgrace
in imperceptible gore. One cavaliers
, shot fell at the others feet. and the
: other discharged his weapon into the
empty air. The war having opened,
hostilities follow thick upon each other.
Yestesday was signalized by CORY en-
counter between George d. Wise and
our own beloved. readjusting Riddle
berger, he who never is but always to
be sergeant alarms of the senate. Ev-
/ idently the duel was fought with the
arms which Mr.. Riddleberger desires
to be sergeant at, for his shot was with
out effect, and his opponents shot only
/ inflicted slight wound on the too am
| pie skirts of his coat. But this sutficed
to satisfy "honah," and the two comba-
: tants found that their opinions OF each
other were so improved that they shook
2 hands, and left the field of Mars fast
s friends. Nor did this satisfy the dogs
5 of war who have been let loose in Vir-
: ginia. General Early having described
2 Senator Malone as a liar and a coward
arrangements for an early Malone
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