Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-29
STATE NEWS.

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! The young ladies of Madison are or
| ganlzlng a lawn tennis club.
| A mud turtle Ii inches long was cap
| tured IN the river at Fond du Lac,
Peshtigo saw-mill will try to exceed
cut of 11S.000 day during the coming
season.
The Presbyterian Sunday school of
Marshtield has Just received a collection
of 200 new books.
Farmers have commenced taking milk
to the cheese factories in Sheboygan
county.
The woodworking factories of Sheboy-
gan pay out to employees about $4,000 per
month.
The new iron bsidge of the c.. NJ. j. st.
P. railroad across the Menomonee river
at Milwaukee will be turned by steam.
While passing through the cemetery at
Merrill the sexton discovered a common
soap box in which was a newly born in
FAINT The authorities suspect foul play,
From the barn of Joshua Pierce in the
town of Mt. Pleasant, Racine county,
team of horses, a wagon, set of harness
and other outfit valued at $1,000, were
stolen.
The case of the Wisconsin Telephone
company VS.. the Appleton Edison Light
company has been settled by the Light
company paying the amount of damages
claimed.
The sturgeon are beginning to run at
Berlin. One was recently caught which
weighed 125 pounds.
A number of men are now on their way
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quarry.
The winter wheat in the vicinity of
Madison promises a good yield.
During the past year there were ga
saloon licensef issued at Milwaukee.
GAINESVILLE young men contemplate the
formation of a gymnastic society.
The Mississippi is reported as rising at
Prairie du CHEN at the rate of sixteen
inches in twenty-four hours.
Milwaukee has provided its city clerk
with 5000 new bross tags to be put on the
collars of licensed dogs.
The Berlin Journal says chicken dealer
of Aurora expects to raise 1000 chickens
this year.
| Wautoma, Waushara county, is to have
a temperance saloon during the coming
season.
j. Nevins. state superintendent of fish
hatcheries, had planted 100000 white
fish fry in Green Bay, a short distance
north of the city.
During the recent storm, the new sash,
door and blind factory of Port Washing
ton was damaged by lightning to the ex-
tent of $500.
The farmers around Lancaster think of
organizing vigilance committees for pro-
lection against tramps. The wayfayers
have raided droves of hogs and sheep and
stolen several horses.
Governor Rusk has appointed Murison
Paddock, of Kenosha, district attorney
for Kenosha county, vice D. A. Mahoney,
resigned.
Anna S. Eastman wife of DR.. George
W. Eastman, of Platteville, has been ad-
judged insane and placed in the Mendoza
asylum for treatment.
The Rock river is still rising and fears
are entertained that the dam at James
vile will GO out.
Burglars are raiding small towns on the
Omaha railroad west of Eau Claire.
While two young men named Eugene
Page and VIII ChilsOn were digging into
a wolf den near Mount Hope, Grant Co.,
the earth caved and closed the mouth so
as to imprison Page. Gibson worked two
hours before he succeeded in rescuing his
companion.
Neopold Bear, Otto Bellman and
Zebadke were arrested for fishing with
| gill nets in Green Lake. Bear was sent
up for ninety days by Justice Mcconnell,
of Ripon, and the other two for thirty
days each.
| A Racine man is building a machine
which will be used in clipping up cyclones.
| When cyclone is seen coming, the ma
chine will be run into it's path by horses
and set going.
It is estimated that the flow of gas from
| AppletOn's natural gas well will be from
| 5000 to 10000 feet per hour. The:fow of
gas from the projectors of the scheme
cannot be measured.
A small dwelling house recently burned
at Depere, and the fire department was
unable to subdue the flames from the fact
that when the engine arrived within a
| short distance of the fire it stuck fast in
| the mud.
| August Beemster, boy II years of age,
was carried over Oconto falls by the cur
rent, having fallen into the river some
distance above. AS the descent is twenty
four feet, almost perpendicular, it was
considered certain by those who saw him
carried over that he would be killed, but
when he came to the surface several
| hundred feet below the falls he was found
to be alive, although unconscious and in
terribly bruised condition. This is the
| first known instance where anyone has
been carried through the channel.
| The assemblies of Knights of Labor of
| Eau Claire continue to receive large ac-
cessions to their membership, the ap-
plicants being principally woodmen. The
aggregate membership of the three as
| semblies is 1900, with upwards of 1000
accepted applicants. Arrangements are
now being made for reunion of the as
semblies in Chippewa, Dunn, st. Croix,
Buffalo, La Crosse, Clark and other coun-
ties, to take place in Randall Park in May.
Grand Master Powderly and other promi-
nent leaders of the order will be invited
to make addresses.
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