Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-20
STATE NEWS.

Wages charcoal kilns, at Pound now
turn out about 800 bushels a day.
| The citizens of Menomonie are sub
scribing for fountain for the public
park.
Joe Seamans, eight years old, acct
dentally drowned in a brickyard pond at
Berlin.
William Bird, of Scales Mound, Iowa
| county, recently sold 1000 pounds of lead
ore.
Seven of the fifteen saloonkeepers at
Rlpon have taken out licenses at $500,
several of them paying under protest.
The Catholic ladies of Oconto have Sc.
cured $1,1S4 for the erection of Notre
Dame convent, just north of st. Peters
church, in that city.
The Marinette Eagle says the Pike
River country has found favor with set
tiers since the extension of the Milwaukee
& Northern railway.
The Chippewa Lumber s Boom COM
pany's mill at Chsppewa Falls employs
$50 men. The new band-saw cuts from
$4,000 to 10000 feet of lumber day.
Depere has but one half of the saloons
of last year and yet derived from that
source fully $1,000 more than she did
that season, the fee having been raised
from 5000 to $500.
A 9-year old son of Tobias Green, resid-
ing at Mt. Pleasant, Racine County, had
both legs broken by getting them entang-
led between the spokes of the wheel of a
moving wagon.
While 14-year-old son of Frank Red
fol in =
ed George Wild, were in q field near
Mound Cemetery, Racine, Redfield was
shot in the body, probably fatally. The
boys claim the bullet was from rifle of
some boys who were shooting at mark
several rods away. As the clothing of
the lad is singed with powder, it is be-
heyed he was shot with revolver at close
range.
1t is said that the prospects for a good
lumber season in Oshkosh are not the
most flattering. The new crop of logs
will be 20,000,000 feet short of the amount
brought down the river last year, the fig
ures being 9O,00O,OO0 last year and 10000
900 this.
While treating Charles Hartshorn's four
year old boy, at Kaukauna, the doctor
found cambria needle in what is sup
October last the swelling first appeared
on the child's back. 1t gradually moved
around on his body to his stomach where
it was operated on.
The Carney company has planned an
important undertaking at Marinette,
namely, the construction of canal Sc
feet wide and 16 feet deep, running par
allel with similar waterway owned by
+bo p nh.
work is preparatory to the piling of the
lumber manufactured by the campany an
other season.
The Eu Claire Lumber company has re-
solved not to pile any more lumber in that
city. 1t is understood that company con-
siders it more profitable to raft the lum-
Der and run it down to st. Louis than to
pile and ship it, and that the freight rates
from Eau Claire to the Southwest as COM
pared with those from Mississippi river
shipping points have had much to do with
the conclusions to discontinue shipping
from the yards there.
The fourth annual reunion of the Vet
eran association of Adams, Marquette
and Waushara counties will take place at
Piainfeld, June s, 9 and 10. Gen. Fair
child, Gov. Rusk, and Phil Cheek, Jr.,
have promised to attend.
The Rev. January Czarnowski has been
stationed at Berlin, and will endeavor to
harmonic the Polish Catholic of that
place. The Rev. Wieczarek, the retiring
priest, has been called to Milwaukee,
Eau Claire Free Press: Colonel George
W. LaPOinte, assignee of the Pioneer
Lumber company, has made application
to the Hon. E. B. Bundy, circuit Judge,
for leave to dispose of the property of the
company. Hearing will be had on this
application before Judge Bundy on the
oath inst, at Hudson. The Pioneer Lum-
Der company's list of assets embraces the
sawmill here, one OF the finest and best
equipped in the work; an eighty-acre
farm adjoining the Pioneers plat and
lying within the city; 100000 feet of
lumber; 5000 saw-logs; 500 lots and other
valuable property, aggregating in value
fully $500,OO0. No Indication have been
given by any parties interested as to who
the probable purchaser of the property
will be.
GAINESVILLE papers reported that at Foot
vile girl named Winnie Flynn recently
passed through that city on her way home
after a very singular experience at the
country residence of Edward Moran. She
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garnet of the house until she was re-
leased by a constable. Moran's father
claimed to know nothing of the girl being
there until about three weeks ago, and
was afraid to say anything about it for
fear the boy would turn on him. The
young man appears to be dead in love
with the girl and wants to marry her,
but she pretends she will not have him.
The mystery is how she could live in a
One-story building about 12x14, with a
small space between the ceiling and the
rafter for six months without her lovers
father, who resided in the same house,
being aware of the fact. Moran is said
to be of unsound mind. He published
book year ago, and is the author of
numerous poems, mostly in love. He is
said to have been confined in the asylum
at one time. It is said that the girl has
consulted counsel to bring him to sense
of his culpability.
A Lover Of Nature.
Rambler