Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-31
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

rope this season.
IT Is now thought the State fair viii be 10
Gated at Madison.
THE Madison fish hatchery has 10,00a,000
wall-eyed pike eggs,
Water has been out of the Ledyard canal
for nearly two weeks
ABOUT $4,000 bushels of oats have been
shipped from Potosi this spring.
THE spring muskrat catch on Lake Butte
DIES Morris aggregate {, 435 animals.
A GENTLEMAN living in GAINESVILLE has quite
curiosity in the shape of double bodied
pig.
MORGAN BUSHNELL, OF Beloit, has, received
an appointment to the Military Academy at
West Point
A YOUNG ladies sodalty has been formed
in St Francis Church, at Depere 1t starts
Off with about 100 members
MARTIN MCCoURT died at Oshkosh the other
day, making the third member of the family
claimed by death in eight months
FIVE business houses We're burglarized at
Sparta few nights ago. Two of the crooks
were captured next day and most of the
plumber recovered
CLIFFORD ". MURRAYs widow, of Fond du
Lac, has received from the Wisconsin Cen
trail So, $50 for the killing of her husband near
Ogema, in January, 1881.
DANE county raises the most tobacco of
any county in the State. Last year {, 13T
acres were planted in the county, but the
acreage this year will be from /, 900 to :, coo
less.
HENRY WoLIEREG, one of the oldest dry.
goods merchants in Watertown, made an
ASSIGNMENT for the benefit of his creditors
His assets cover his liabilities, which are
$1,000
MISS MARGARET PARSONS, of Eagle, former
ly of Enfield CT, has made a quilt with
$50 blocks, each block containing thirty
pieces, which makes an aggregate of 10000
pieces.
SOME fun-lOving students of BeIoit took
skeleton from the psychologist department
of the college, q few days ago and hung it
on telegraph wire in front of the leading
Charch of the place.
CHARLES l. COLBY, of Milwaukee, Presi-
dent of the Wisconsin Central Railway Com
pany, was elected President of the mterna-
tional Young Mems Christian Association. in
annual convention at Milwaukee.
FELIX FANCHEE, of Fond du Lac, was horri
bly, mangled few days ago by falling into
the teeth of corn mill. One leg was torn
off as far as the knee and the ankle Of the
other leg was crushed all out of shape
THE Wisconsin state Journal: A man
named Lundy was caught by shaft in
paper mill at Eau Claire, and had two ribs,
the bone of his nose and Jaw broken, his left
ear torn out by the roots and his clothes
stripped off He may recover
AN employee in the paper-mill at Eau
Claire, named Linden, got caught in the
mammoth water-wheeI Of the establishment
while it was revolving, receiving & broken
jaw, dislocated shoulder, and internal injur-
les which il is thought viii prove fatal
W. D. BACON, Of Waukesha, who has LONG
been prominent in financial and commercial
circles in the south Tn part Of the State, is
defendant in suit for divorce his wife al
1eg;nG that he mas, ever since their marriage
in 1890, treated her with great cruelty
WILLIE and August Hubert, the two little
lost on the lake, near Oshkosh recently,
were found uninjured in q bay near Charles
Norgans farm, in the town Of Black Wolf,
into which the boat they had gone out in
had drifted.
JURY at La Crosse has awarded Timothy
Lewis S., 400 for services in securing q wife
for the late Benjamin A. jenkins, a wealthy
but aged resident of La Crosse, whose own
i'll success in seeking a second matrimonial
partner (his first wife being dead induced
him to engage an agent to negotiate for him
The return whist tournament between
Milwaukee and Oshkosh whst-players viii
take place at the Business Mems rooms in
Oshkosh Should the Oshkosh boys get
beaten again, it is suggested that they pro
pose poker, and if any city can get away
with Oshkosh on poker, the contestants viii
throw up the sponge altogether.
MARTIN KENsEr, of Cambridge, Dane
county, patient at Hanson & Rogers
thermo-eIectric bath establishment, on Syc-
amore street, turned on the gas in his
room after extinguishing the flames, and
next morning was found in an unconscious
condition Every effort was made to revive
him, but without avail, and he died two
hours after the discovery.
MRS. CYNTHIA FRANCIS of Madison, Gel
ebrated her Tooth birthday recently, She
was born inHancock, Mass, and was married
in 1893, when Is years cd Mrs Francis re
tains her mental faculties to remarkable
extent and converses free and inteligentIy
on public events which occurred ninety
years ago. She is physically rugged still
does general homework for her daughter,
and walks half-miIe with ease Up to a
few months ago she read without glasses
Mrs Francis has buried two husbands, and
been a widow in good circumstances since
1870
The following is the official vote at the
election held May 1, for Judge of the Four
teenth Judicial circuit:
-, SD. J. G..
|OoNAA' Hastings, Jr. Neville Scat Total