Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-03-26
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

Pickeral are being caught through
the ice at the mill pond at Wautoma,
Waushara county.
The Giee club of Lawrence Univer-
sity intends giving few public ex-
hibitions during the coming vacation.
In about two weeks the Fon du Lac
Furniture company will begin the
erec ION of four-story building 200
feet long by 100 feet.
During the past week the Banner
rolling mills at Marshfeld have been
running day and night 10 supply the
demand for work.
Chris Hill, an enterprising lumber
man, has procured 20, 900 brook trout
and planted them in the upper waters
of the Oconto and its tributaries.
The burning of three cars of freight
in New York state has brought
neavy loss upon number of we'll
known Milwaukee firms
Flocks Of farmers sheep in the reg
ion of Palmyra are said to be suffer
ing from the ravages of wolves.
Two miles north of Etkhorn Ern-
est Roop shot golden eagle which
measured seven feet between the tips
of its wings.
Ten converts were recently baptized
in the Baptist church at Berlin in one
night.
1t is thought that next semmer the
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
railroad will be extended from
HinckIey, Minnesota, to Superior,
Wis.
The Medford Star and News says
Ct. W. Adams recently cut a tree on
his farm that made four good logs,
sealing over 4 900 feet.
II is thought that the swamp lands
of Waupaca county would make fine
celery fields. If this is so, celery ought
to be profitable crop to SOW in Fond
du Lac.
Oconomo VOC citizens have purchas-
| ed site and will have new city
hall.
Madison cigar makers are some
what indignant on account of fall
| ing off of work.
Theske Bros of Princeton have
yearling Clydesdale colt which tips
the scales at !, 800 pounds.
The membership OF the Madison
branch of the Knights of Labor mum
bers into the hundreds.
Emil Larsen of Racine, by his guar
dian, has brought suit against the
Mitchell " Lewis company of Racine
| for S., 900 damages, which he claims
he sustained through the loss of his
thumb while at work in tba defend
ants factory.
tro
Shawano county man named Ber
dali was thrown from buggy and
suffered the breaking of leg and a
couple of ribs as we'll as other Injuries
He has now sued the county for S.
600 damages.
A new railroad line is to be built
from Washburn to tract of standing
pine in Bayfield, county The line is
TO be built in the interest of Capt. r.
D. Pike of Bay field and +. E. Drake
of st. Paul who recently purchased
about 800, 900, 600 feet of standing pine
in Bayfield, county, paying for it the
sum of $500, 900.
Neenah Gazette: Some men who
were cutting ice in the lake Wednes-
day morning found encased in a piece
of recently frozen ice good-szed
plckerel, TO all appearances dead as
herring. The cake Office was placed
in a tub of water and soon the fish ex-
hisited signs of life, and when the
oyercoat of ice was melted off the pick
erel was lively as any live fish.
During the Boscobel institute a
gentleman started that "a 600 pounds
of honey were gathered from an area
of probably sixteen square miles of
territory. As this product, amounting
in value to over $4,000, did not inter
fere with other lines of business, IT was
all clear gain.
Prof. Leo L3squereaux, who spent
some time in the Janesville jail for
the theft OF scientific books and miner
illogical specimens, has been operating
at Galesvllle, ILL.,, under the name of
Prof. Hard and others, of Knox
college.
A peripatetic dentist named thinner
man was shown out of Hartland, Wau-
kesha county, because of his peculiar
method of practice. Not long before
a young lady named Stena Krim
called upon him and desired to have
two teeth drawn and two filled. The
dentist there upon prevailed upon her
to take some whisky, and becoming
drunk himself he continued to pour
the liquor down her throat until she
became insensible, and while in that
condition he extracted the four decay
ed teeth and ten perfectly sound ones.