Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-17
WISCONSIN NEWS.


site of the old Washington house at West
Bend.
The Rev. II. A. Van Grichmeyer was
formally installed as pastor of the Ger
man Presbyterian church at Mansion.
Milwaukee now has twenty-five addi-
tional policemen who will be put on night
duty.
The Madison policemen have blossom
ed out in a regulation Chicago police uni
form.
The graduating class of the Neenah
High school is composed entirely of
young ladies.
Mrs. Fred Witt, who lives two miles
north of Fort Atkinson, suicided by tax
ing Paris green.
About one mile of sewers will be laid at
Eau Claire this season.
The enrolment in the public schools
of GAINESVILLE for the spring term was l.
23O
The city of Prairie du CHEN has voted
to organize under the free high school
law.
John Daily, of Waukesha, has been
convicted in the circuit court of illegal
voting.
Prairie du CHEN is said to be the best
show town of its size in the Mississippi
River valley.
It is said that unless there is rain soon
the upper Wolf river log drive Will be
hung up.
State Superintendent Graham says
that it is not illegal to hold annual school
meetings on legal holidays.
The town of New London now has tele-
phOnic communication with the Green
Bay Office.
There are eight divorce cases and
eight criminal cases on the calendar of
Manitowoc county circuit court.
Reports received at Madison are to the
effect that at the beginning of the month
of May there were 633 patients in the
northern hospital and 531 in the state
hospital at MOdison.
The Valley Iron Mining company of
Milwaukee filed articles of association
with the secretary of state Tuesday. Capt.
tai stock $3,000,000; incorporators, j. E.
Burton, E. E. Tarben and j. A. Kennedy
Governor Rusk has appointed VIM. Pitt
Bartlett, of Eau Claire, to fill out the I'M
expired term of Senator John G. Spooner
as regent of the state university, which
closes the first Monday in February,
1887.
Artie lockwood, of GAINESVILLE, IL years
of age, died of injuries received by being
thrown off his pony.
Marvin M. Preston committed suicide
at Lake Geneva while insane from illness.
He left wife and two children.
ho
the seventh congressional district, held
at Sparta, VIM. f. Peterson, Norwegian
of La Crosse, was the successful appli-
can't.
The Berlin Journal says the drouth in
that vicinity is not over by any means.
The two showers experienced the past
week have amounted to but little in the
way of wetting the ground, and the sur
rounding country is suffering very badly
from the effects of long continued dry
weather.
The body of man supposed to be
Fred Anderson, of Marinette, was found
floating in the Menominie river at Marin
cite. 1t is thought that the body had
been in the water since last spring, at
which time it is supposed the man tried
to cross the river on the ice but fell
through.
Ole Oleson, of Oshkosh, was crushed to
death by pile driver while at work on
the Central railway dock extension at
Ashland.
"Old Fort Crawford" is no longer a
feature of Prairie du CHEN. It has been
torn down and the stone used for a build
ing on the grounds of st. Marys insti-
tute.
The teachers examination for state
certificates for 1886, will be held at Madi-
son, beginning June 80, at nine o'clock
a. M, and will continue in session four
days. The board will consist of Profess
or Albert Hardy, of La Crosse; President
George S. Albee, of Oshkosh, and Pro
fessOr j. ". Stearns, of Madison.
The supreme lodge knights of Pythias
will meet in biennial session at Toronto
July IL, the first convention outside of
the United States. The two delegates
from the grand jurisdiction of Wisconsin
are John A. A Hinsey of Milwaukee, and
J. N. Morrow of Sparta, beside whom
there will be a general delegation of
about 100 from this state.
Within the past three months the Young
brothers of Louisville, in Dnnn county,
have captured twenty-five wolves, seven
wildcats, and one lynx short distance
from the Chippewa bottoms. On presen-
tation of the scalps to the county clerk
they received 1874 bounty. The state
bounty is as much more which allows
them the snug sum of $268, not including
the value of the skins.
Hayward News: A tract Of pine land
estimated to have upon 1t about 100000
feet, located on the Wisconsin river, was
sold few months since for $4,000. The
purchaser has now been offered 100000
for the same tract, which offer has been
refused. The labor trouble may have the
effect to depress the lumber business for
few months, but that pine is bound to
go still higher is just as sure as that the
sun will continne to rise and set.
Frank Brewer, formerly register of
deeds for Dodge county, was found dead
in the woodshed at his brothers residence
in Fox Lake, having shot himself through
the heart. His friends have reason to
believe that the shooting was accidental.
The deceased, though he had lost both
of his legs by freezing on the plains some