Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

The Rev. A. V. Nepper, member of
the Milwaukee district conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, has been
expelled from the ministry for unchris-
conduct and misrepresentation of funds
While digging a well on the farm of
Peter KHAN, two miles north of Sherwood,
natural gas was found. It caught afire
and the flames shot upward for forty or
fifty feet
lightning fired the barn of M. W.
Chapman, at Delavan, on Saturday eve
ming. When the flames become so threat
ening that no man dared approach, Mrs.
Chapman let out nine blooded cows.
Door County Advocate: Farmers tell
US there is a smaller percentage of screen
ings in wheat this season than for many
years, the Ultimate being only one in ten
bushels. This is considered very light.
The western summer school of philos-
ophy was formally opened at Milwaukee
Monday evening, Mr.. John Johnston de-
hvering the address of welcome.
Many farmers living near Appleton are
prewaring to engage in numbering and
getting out wood and timber for the COM
ing winter.
The Badger Paper company of Kaukau-
ma has received a carload of sulphite pulp
from Sweden, with which it is intended to
experiment.
The thirty-second session of the west
Wisconsin annual conference of the NJ.
E. church will be held at Black River Falls
from September soto October 4. Bishop
Merrill will preside.
The months of October and November
are the only months that the law legal
ICES deer killing in Wisconsin, and then
only for consumption. Farmers in the
vicinity of Amigo complain of parties
killing deer at this season of the year.
While fishing in the Wisconsin river at
Wausau, August Zieben was drowned.
His body was recovered. He leaves a
wife and three children.
The entire cranberry crop of Wiscon-
sin last year was over $4,000 barrels,
while that of all the rest of the United
States was 123, 40 barrels.
At Prairie du CHEN man named But
Ter drowned while passing through the
west channel of the pontoon bridge with
a skiff load of wood. 1t appears that his
boat was too heavily loaded. He left
wife and seven children in destitute cir
cumstances.
The Knights of Labor assemblies in
the state average about 100 members,
which will give the order a strength of
little over 10000 members in the entire
state.
While bathing in the Chippewa river at
Eau Claire, Wednesday afternoon, four
teen-year old son of Charles Redustrand
was drowned. The boy was seized with
cramps.
The annual fair of the Manitowoc In
dustrial school association will be held at
ManitOwoc commencing Sept. 81. The
veterans of northeastern Wisconsin hold
their reunion during the fair. General
John A. Logan has promised to be present
and deliver an address.
At Chippewa Falls sixty Knight Tenn
plars are drilling, preparatory to taking
part in the grand parade and encamp-
ment in st. Louis Sept. 20.
In the region of Washington Harbor
near Sturgeon Bay, turnips have been
nearly destroyed by grasshoppers and are
accordingly an almost total failure.
The br2weries of Milwaukee are soon
to receive fifty cars of barley from Cali
fornia. The Southern Pacific is to carry
the grain to New Orleans, whence 1t goes
by water to New York, Buffalo, and west
ward.
1t is estimated that there is popula-
ton of 10000 people on the range be-
tween Hurley and Wakefield Eighteen
months ago there were not over 100 peo-
pie in the territory. The iron excitement
did it.
Mrs. G. H. Slayton, of Berlin, found in
the yolk of an egg an animal about
quarter of an inch in length and Ieech-
like in shape. The microscope shows
its back covered with spots. 1t is to be
sent to a scientist for examination.
Lumber men in the region of Merrill
say they will build dams on the tributar-
les of the Wisconsin, and will avoid the
trouble of being Inconvenience by
drouth second time.