Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-05
STATE SETTINGS.


Point.
Stevens Point teachers have formed an
athletic club.
Potatoes, half a crop in Manitowoo
county.
Oshkosh is to have a tannery and glove
factory.
Eau Claire county Jail contais but four
prisoners.
Lake Geneva dogs will wear muzzles
until Oct. /.
It costs 32,S5335 a year to run the
Racine schools.
Ahnapee shipped 1000 pounds of cheese
In one day.
An addition to the Masonic hall a Win
neconnie is to be constructed
A stump puller has been at work in the
streets of Amigo.
E. w. Chain and H. NJ. Youmans
bougt the Mansion house property. at
Waukesha.
Wausau has Wisconsin Mining and
Exploring company with a capital stock
of $1,O0O,0OO.
A baby show will be one of the attrac-
tions OF the Fond du Lac county fair.
The street car line of GAINESVILLE is said
to DE doing a land Office business. 1t is a
new thing for the town.
There is movement on foot in James
vile for the introduction of a fire and
police electric alarm system.
Appleton people complain of too many
worthless ours running at large.
Tho Goonfo ho,,1- =.
of new organization.
A carload of Lincoln county relics will
be one of the attractions at the Milwau-
kee exposition.
Insurance companies cancel policies on
lumber along the Wisconsin river, owing
to the dry weather.
The Grand Dixie cranberry marsh,
Juneau county, has been burned over.
One hundred men from Necedah fought
the flames.
Meat thieves are at work in Appleton.
They recently took dressed hog, sheep
and lamb, and beef from a slaughter
house. They work the slaughter houses
as usual thing.
Waukesha has been selected as the place
for locating the locomotive and car repair
shops for the middle and southern divis-
ions of the Wisconsin Central Railroad.
W. d. Cotouche, patient in the North
ern insane hospital at Oshkosh, jumped
into the lake and drowned, He was from
Amorsville, Waushara county.
Edward Moore, the young man arrested
on suspicion of knowing something of
the Search murder, at GAINESVILLE was dis
charged, there being no evidence against
him.
A girl named CIarey had her hand
caught in the feed rollers of a machine
at the Fond du Lac toothpick factory.
Her little finger was smashed and the
tips of her second and third taken off.
As Tho rl>~-t t-e,In on the Omaha road
was pulling out of South Chippewa Falls
Tuesday morning, young woman fell be-
tween two cars and must have been
crushed had not one of the brakemen
thrown his arms about her and held her
up until the train could be stopped
The Green Bay Gazette says there is but
half crop of blueberries at Cascade
Junction. Where, last year, $50 bushels
were daily shipped, this year only one to
one and half are sent out. There are
some berries in the woods that have not
yet ripened that will come on later. The
supply to the west tapped by the Green
Bay, WinOna 81 st. Paul road is entirely
exhausted.
Thirty men are employed on the build
ings being erected at Cold Spring park,
Milwaukee, for the fair association. The
structures, seventeen in number, will be
completed in two weeks. They will be
surrendered to the association on Aug. Is,
and the work of arranging space for ex-
thereafter.
A large copper mass of unknown size
and weight was found on Saturday last
about One-half of a mile above Lake
Linden, near Hancock, on the line Of the
extension of the mine railroad It was
discovered on an excavation being made
near the railroad track, and was found to
be Ii feet wide, and is of unknown thick
ness.
Notwithstanding the recent rains, the
forest fires in Door county continue to
burn to such an extent that they only
need the encouragement of a strong wind
to make them bad as ever. In the
vicinity of Voseville, great apprehension
was felt and in some parts of Sebastapol
trenches had to be dug in the ground,
some of them over mile long and reach
ing several feet down to the rock below, as
the ground would burn. It is not known
to what extent the rain of Wednesday
night covered the county.