Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-15
STATE NEWS.

! STATE NEWS.
A large sea gull was recently shot on
! Rock river.
| There are nine members of the Junior
class of the Eau Claire high school.
The coal kilns at Marshfeld will proba-
| bly, be kept running the most of the sum-
mer.
Oconomowoc citizens are to have a new
city hall.
The Beloit Paper Pail Works have fled
articles of incorporation. Capital stock,
$4,000.
Julius Zimmerman, of Milwaukee. has
purchased the Pope House at Sheboy
gan for $4,000.
Eau Claire has manual training
school. The boy pupils have just COM
menced carving.
A lot in the first ward of Milwaukee,,
which cost the seller 800 thirty years ago
sold for $4,000 the other day.
The Iron Chief Mining company, of
Milwaukee, has filed articles of incorpora-
ton. Capital stock, $1,0O0,000.
A horticultural fair is to be held at
Ripon, in September.
way are considering the matter of asking
for an increase of wages.
Henry Barretic, the defaulting treasurer
of the town of Bridgeport, Crawford
county, was persuaded to return and set
tie his shortage of 1894. The bondsmen
paid $500 and $252 was paid in by Bar
rette, leaving $342 unaccounted for.
At the Berlin quarry, 7-pound charge
of powder split up about 500 tons of
granite. throwing piece of rock that
weighed 400 tons from five to six feet.
Usually from 80 to 40 pounds of powder
are required to blast from 100 to 200 tons
of rock.
The entire telegraph line between
Schleisingerville and Chicago on the new
Central line requires 1880 pounds of
wire and $3.50 posts. About fifty miles of
wire still remains to be polled along this
new line.
No wheat was sOwn in South Empire and
Eden; Fond du Lac county, during March
1886. In the year 1860 all farmers had
finished sowing both wheat and oats in
the month of March. 1t was the year of
the big crop.
Mrs. John Francis of Fond du Lac, has
fallen heir to property worth $4,000 by
the death of her first husbands mother at
Ithaca, New York. Mr.. Francis is clerk
in the house furnishing store of c. S.
Cornweu.
Chris Cole of Marcellon recently sold a
heifer little over two and one-half years
which weighed 1900 pounds.
It is said that about a dozen private
coachmen of Milwaukee have suddenly
Iof bo5r 10
gon to farm, tempted by the cheap rail
road fares to Pacific coast points.
At GAINESVILLE Everett G. Phelps stabbed
Frank Herrick, a companion, five times.
| The stabbing was the elimination of a
discussion which the men had regarding
the recent ftrike in the GAINESVILLE shoe.
factory. The man who was stabbed will
recover.
Collector Krez, of Milwaukee has
ceived a circular from DR.. Baldamus of
Coburg, Germany, in which he offered
his collection of eggs and birds nests,
containing 1867 varieties, and represent
ing every part of the world, for sale. Col.
Krez has expressed the wish that the uni
versity regents would take the matter in
| hand and secure the collection for the
state university.
| P. Coleman, living near Lyndon, put
poison in a small kettle of beans with the
object of using the stuff to poison rats
with. During the absence of the family
from home an 18-year-old nephew of Mr..
COleman's, LannOn by name, visited the
house, warmed up the beans and ate a pOr-
ton of them. He lived but short time
afterward.
William S. Evans, chairman of the Hud-
son hoard of a6ucati lie pharrnd with
having appropriated to his own use part
of the wood purchased for school use and
he has been cited to appear before the coun-
Gil to show cause why he should not he re-
moved from his position. Mr.. Evans de-
clares that the trouble is the result of an
unintentional oversight on his part.