Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-24
STATE NEWS.

! S1AIE NEWS.
The work of laying track for Janesville's
street railway has begun.
One day last week Sheboygan egg
dealer shipped 1000 dozen of eggs.
There will be no general celebration
of the 4th of July this year in Milwau-
kee.
Solomon Nj. Langworthy, once lead
ing merchant at Potosi, died at Dubuque,
Ia, of paralysis.
The State picnic of the A. O. U. W. was
held at Madison, Wis, followed in the
evening by promenade concert and
ball
The Rev. Father Obermueller died at the
La Crosse convent of st. Rose de Viterbo,
aged 76. He had been stationed at La
Crosse 20 years.
Geo. st. Claire, living at Drywood, near
Chippewa Falls, was instantly killed by
lightning.
About one-ffth of the legal fraternity
of the state belong to the Wisconsin State
Bar Association.
While bathing in lake near Drum
mond, in the region of Eau Claire, Aug.
Carroll was drowned.
Berlin Courant: The tug Hero has laid
up for the season, as all the logs that
could be had have been taken up and the
water is so low In the streams that nologs
can be RATED down.
Robert Narrower an old resident of the
town of WOodman, suicided by cutting
his throat. He is thought to have been
insane at the time.
Mrs. Henry Schultz, widow living on
farm near Manitowoc, was fatally burn
ed while endeaVoring to light a fire with
fagot of straw. She lived in terrible
suffering until Tuesday when death
brought relief.
j. j. Murphy, of Detroit, has purchased
tract of pine land on the head waters of
the Peshtigo, estimated to contain 2OO,-
100000 feet of lumber. Consideration
S712,500.
Judge Hathaway, of Waukesha, has de-
cided that John Russell was legally en-
titled to the $1,000 recently placed IN his
hands by dying uncle, and which claim
was contested by other heirs of the de
ceased.
The body of Daniel Hercher was taken
from the river at Milwaukee Tuesday.
The last time Hercher was seen was on
Sunday when he went to the Milwaukee
garden to tend bar at picnic.
Leading lumbermen of the Chippewa
valley are advocating the construction of
a railway from Cameron junction to Rice
lake, thence to Long lake and in a north
easterly direction to Bad river and Hur-
ly. The proposed line would pass
through some of the most extensive pine
tracts in the state, and would at the same
time greatly facilitate the mining traf-
fic.
Secretary A. o. Wright, of the state
board of charities and reform, reports
that at the close of the month of May
there were 1882 patients in the hospitals
and asylums. In the state hospital there
were 527, Northern $40, Milwaukee county
asylum 800, and in the county asylums,
9O8.
Secretary of State Timme has drawn
warrants on the state treasurer to the
amount 1868, 832.58. This is the amount
of the school fund income apportiOned
for the year Of 1886, and is by far the
largest ever known in Wisconsin, and all
goes to educational purposes. The
share of Winnebago county is $19,972.-
%.
Milwaukee's cooking school had total
number of 100 pupils during the year.
Free demonstration lectures for the
poor will be one of its new features.
John Wellsbery, of Stevens Point, has
IN his possession $50 gold piece which
he swallowed abont year ago and which
remained in his internal economy for six
days.
A supply train on the Burlington 81
NOrthen railroad near La Crosse killed
two horses belonging to Joseph Hafner.
The owner claims that the horses ran
half mile on the grade ahead of the
train.
Over one hundred delegates attended
the meeting of the State horticultural
society. The display of strawberries,
vegetables and flowers this year was re-
markedly fine.
At Appleton a citizens meeting was
held at the rooms of the Appleton club
Wednesday evening, to consider propo-
sltion in reference to the development
of the Farwell-Murphy Natural Gas well.
A syndicate of Chicago capitalists, who
have had large experience in the natural
gas business, have interested themselves
in the business and have procured leases
to all eligible property in the neighbor-
hood. Contrary to the popular idea that
the grass is produced DO the decomposi-
ton of an immense tamarac swamp
which underlies its surfabe, these ex-
perts are of the opinion that it comes
through assures in the rock from much
lower depth The company propose to
sink a well, if necessary, to depth of
1000 feet in the endeavor to tap the
sources of supply.