Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-19
HAPPENINGS OF OUR STATE.

Logging at Beef Slough is about sus-
| pended on account of the low water.
A Racine man has patch of corn in
his garden that is ten feet high.
| Thousands of pounds of cheese are be-
| ing shipped from Manitowoc weekly.
| Reports show that 1916 acres of wheat
were sown in Eau Claire county the past
season.
| 1t is said that the total loss from the
fires in Wisconsin and the Upper PENN
sula cannot fall much below S10,0OO,000.
The Chippewa Falls Wooden & Linen
Mill company has filed articles of incor-
poration. Capital stock $4,000.
Campers are numerous at Shawano
Lake.
Kilbourn City is thinking of putting in
electric lights.
The new Chicago, Milwaukee st Paul
depot to be built at Racine will cost $4,000.
The state board of health has mem
bership of about 1000 physicians in all
parts of the state.
1t is estimated that since last fall fully
one hundred families of Russian or Pol
ish Jews have settled in Milwaukee.
The dreaded black-leg has broken out
among the cattle around Prairie Farm,
Eau Claire county. NJ. Downs lost eight
valuable heifers.
The Chicago s. Northwestern Railroad
company have purchased a gravel pit
near Princeton with enough gravel in it
to ballast so or 20 miles of road.
Several farmers livingnear Winneconnie
have cut their oats for hay on account of
the poor quality of grain.
Frank Farwell will be tried at the Oc-
tober term of court at Appleton for the
recent murder in Seymour.
The Central Wisconsin Veterans asso-
citation will hold a three-days' reunion at
Green lake the second week in Septem-
Der.
Henry BOtswick, the youth who shot
Andrew Campbell at GAINESVILLE, is being
vigorously searched for by officers.
Adrian j. Olicoeur, employed in the
Empire company's saw-mill at Eau Claire,
was crushed to death by log that rolled
over upon him.
The mill of the Marinette Saw Mill
company is running nights and turning
out nearly 100000 feet of lumber every
twenty-four hoErs.
1t is thought that the cranberry crop of
Wood county has been almost entirely
destroyed by fire.
Harvesting is about completed in the
region of Marshfeld. Oats are estimated
at so bushels per acre, winter wheat at 20,
spring wheat at from to 10, barley
at 40.
Advices from Milladore are to the effect
that the epidemic at that place, with its
suggestion of cholera, is traceabIe to
drinking impure water.
1t is expected that within sixty days
Depere will have an artesian water supply.
company with a capital stock of $685.
600 has been organized.
Stevens Point capitalists have about
$4,000 invested in the iron mines around
Hurley.
Leading citizens of Hudson have for
mally protested against Sunday steamboat
excursions.
Depere is to have an artesian water sup
ply within sixty days. A company has
been organized with a capital stock of
$4,000.
The Prairie du Chen Courier says it is
practically admitted that that city is
division station of the new trunk-line
railway on the east shore of the Missis-
sippi river.
Charles Cramer narrowly escaped death
from the sting of a wasp while camping
at Target lake. Before he could receive
medical treatment his eyes were swollen
shut and his lips had lost all resemblance
to lips. His tongue was enlarged and his
case had grown quite serious.
Gold assaying $500 to the ton is re-
ported to have been found in Eau Claire
county. Byron A. Burlington, of Eau
Claire, has purchased 200 acres supposed
to cover part of the vein, and will ship
half a ton of ore to Denver to be smelted
as an experiment.