Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
STATE NEWS.

1lSU.
Appleton's knitting mill will resume
operations in a few days.
The furniture of the new court house at
Madison will cost $4,000.
Within the past few days j. Boyson of
Tustin has bought 1 100 dozen of eggs.
A building boom has struck Hurley. 1t
is reported that houses are being rushed
up as if by magic.
The c. j. l.. Meyer sash, door and blind
factory at Fond du Lac has ceased all OPP
erations.
The Monona Lake assembly at Madison
will open July % and continue two
weeks.
Considerable areas of Hemlock and
hardwood lands are being entered at the
United States Land Office at Eau Claire.
A five year old son of Thomas Ander-
son of Waupaca, had all of his fingers on
his left hand cut off at the knuckles by an
ak in the hands of an older brother
1t is reported that the servant girls of
Mineral point are organizing union to
strike for every afternoon out and the
whole of Sunday at the old wages.
Hard time still continue to affect Fond
du Lac. During one afternoon recently
the poor superintendent issued Sc orders
for help.
Percy Perkins, a Burlington, Racine
county boy, who was bitten by q supposed
mad dog, has been taken to Paris to be
treated by Pasteur.
David Barnes, while fishing recently, at
Eau Claire, caught a muskallonge weigh
ing about twenty pounds. While he was
hoisting it up the fish jerked loose, and
its teeth cut cash two inches long and
touching the bone across the back of the
hsherman's hand.
Milwaukee firm recently turned out
bedstead twenty-fOur feet wide, with nine
compartments, for the children of the
family.
A Wisconsin central railway locomotive
got away from its engineer at Chippewa
Falls and ran eight miles before it was
overtaken.
Curtis Bros. & Co., Wausau, have shut
down their sash and door factory. throw
ing out of employment 125 men. Depres-
sion in business is given as the reason.
H. E. Converse's confectionery store
and Ed Rays saloon at Eau Claire we're
gone through by burglars, who helped
themselves freely to the best of the con-.
tents, but secured but a small amount of
money.
The piping of Appleton's gas we'll has
not yet been completed, on account of
the nature of the soil in which the exca-
walton was made; but it is expected that
practical test of the usefulness of the
product will soon be made.
An Adams county man recently caught
sucker which, upon being opened, was
found to contain a heavy gold ring.
The Fountain City rink, at Fond du
Lac, will be turned into soap factory by
parties who have recently purchased it.
It is claimed that in Florence county
| are unexcelled openings for furniture
factories, pulp mills, all kinds of hard
wood and finishing lumber with their
varied uses, sash, door and blind factories
tanneries, wagon and carriage factories.
A geological curiosity is on exhibition
at Sparta. 1t is genuine American peli-
can. 1t was shot on what is known as the
Angelo mill-pond, three miles north of
Sparta, by John Scholtz. It measures 3S
inches from crown to foot, sixteen inches
from point of beak to ere, and IL feet
between the tips of the outstretched
wings.
The case of the Chippewa Logging COM
pany against the city of Eau Claire, plain
tiff suing to recover $4,000 taxes forcibly
collected by mayor Bailey in 1882, is ON
the Dunn county circuit court calendar
this term. The tax collected was levied
on logs in transit belonging to the plain
tiff corporation, the latter claiming that
it had already paid taxes on the same
logs up the river.
young man named Smith was mar
ried to Bertha Worth, Neenah girl,
some time ago. One day recently his
wife was looking over his trunk and found
letters from two other women which in
Dictated that he was the husband of two
wives before he married her. She taxed
him with the fact, and he soon afterward
skipped the town. The police are on the
lookout for him.