Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
STATE NEWS.

The mouth of the Wisconsin river
is open
1t is thought that the winters lum-
Der cut on Black river will reach $780,
900, 900 feet.
The fancy granite trimmings of
Science Hall, Madison, will be made
Of Berlin granite.
The present senior class OF the State
university is comparatively small.
There will be only forty gradu-
atAs from the literary and scientific
departments.
The question OF erecting a monu-
ment to the memory of the deceased
soldiers from Sheboygan county. will
be voted upon at the spring election
in that county.
The saw mills at Hortonville have
shut down and disposed of their win
ter's cut. The milling was about
thirty three per cent short OF the an
ticipated total.
The Knights of Labor in Neenah
have grown SO IN membership that
they are considering the erection of
hall that will accommodate them
all.
A petition is being circulated among
the employees of the O., M. s. St. Paul
railway at Milwaukee asking that the
working time be reduced to eight
hours.
Miss Ella Hay, of Little Grant, has
been consigned to the Madison insane
asylum.
Mrs. Andrew Loche. of the town of
Watertown, was consigned to the
Northern hospital on order of Judge
Colonius.
The voters of Oconomowoc are soon
to decide whether they will bond the
city the amount of $4,000 for the
erection OF public buildings.
A Jew pack peddler was knocked
down and robbed Tuesday evening of
$52 by three tramps at Portage. 1t is
believed they are the same one ar
rested at Madison, recently on suspi-
cion.
Forty-6ve thousand trout fry have
been received at Rice Lake from
the state fish hatchery at Madison and
deposited in the creeks in the vicinity
of that village.
A large arte san we'll at Prairie du
Chen that already supplies the street
hydrants, will furnish the water pow
er to generate electricity for an cleo
trio light plant on the Edison princi-
pie,
The annual encampment of the Mo-
mona Lake assembly at Madison
promises to be as successful next sum-
mer as during any season in the past.
One additional building,-ene story
high and 16x40 IN size,-will be
erected.
The Blue Mounds, few miles west
OF Madison, IN Iowa county are said
to be the highest spot of earth between
the Allegheny and Rocky mountains
being 1,160 feet above the level of
Lake Michigan.
The Puritan mine In the Gogebic
has been sold for the consideration of
500, 900 cash. The purchasers were,
George 4. Jackson, Minneapolis; J.
b. Collins, Chicago; Moore, BeDja-
min & Co. and e. O. Hopkins, of Mil
waukee.
At a meeting of the faculty of the
State University Monday afternoon
the following honors were conferred:
First honors, Florence Griswold, OF
Columbus; second honors, Elsie Brls-
tol, Of Middleton: L. S, Pease, of
Montello, and T. r. Weber, of Ced-
arburg.
The hard wood mill at Eau Claire.
owned by J. S. Sherman, will do a
good business this season. The mill
was built for the special purpose of
cutting hardwood and is the only es-
Enlistment of the kind on the Chip
pewa. The demand for hardwood is
constantly On the increase in the Eau
Claire section.
At Milwaukee the consumption of
water during the past week was ILL
581, 1856 gallons, an average daily CON
sumption of 15,94O, 1863 gallons. a de.
crease of 1855, 016 gallons from the
daily average of the same week in
1885. The decrease in the amount Of
other liquids in which MiIwaukeeans
indulge is not stated.
The large elevator of the Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis 6 Omaha rail
way at Washburn is completed. Work
on it was commenced Sept. 1, 1885,
and finished March, II, 1886, and it
cost completed 1925, 900. The build
ing is 84x225 feet in size, las feet high
and contains 100 storage bins, each
with a capacity of 6, $50 bushels, and
80 smaller storage bins ranging from
800 to :, 900 bushels each.
Fred Williams, VINO was some
years ago pardoned from state prison
where he had been sent charged with
killing a man in 1874, had his feet
terribly frozen near Stevens Point
last winter and was taken to Fond
du lac for treatment recently. It be-
came necessary to amputate the right
foot near the ankle, and later it was
revuired to amputate all the toes
from the the left foot. Williams is
colered man and was convicted at
Fond du lac. His pardon was secHr-