Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-03-11
STATE NEWS.

Albert Schwahn shot q wolf in the
region of Eau Claire.
In the prison at Waupun there are
81 life members
The Racine Wagon and Carriage
Company has raised the wages of its
men.
John Ellis, of Moundville, Mar
ouette county, raised 2, 100 pounds of
tobacco on two acres.
The new play of ''Gas Fixtures"
written by Bill Nye and Scott Marble,
will be produced IN Berlin shortly.
A base ball league of the clubs
comprising eight grade pupils of the
Milwaukee public schools will be
formed at an early date.
Fl. H. Giles, of tie state board of
charities, has designed a model poor
house which he will submit to the
national conference at St. Paul in
June
The Wisconsin conference of chart
ties and corrections closed its session
Thursday at Madison. J. @. Adams,
OF Columbus, was chosen president
for the ensuing year.
Mrs. Nolan, of Ridgeville, in the
region of La Crosse, has just received
notice through her attorney, 7. A.
Gunn, of the allowance of her claim
for widows pension arrearages
amounting to nearly s., 100.
The Rev. L. w. Davis, rector of
Grace church, Sheboygan, In 1916.
died at Lake City, Fla, recently.
&. A. Lincoln, of New London or
ganlzer of the Knights Of Labor, is &C
tive at Butternut and other stations
on the line of the Wisconsin Central
Railway.
The tobacco sales at VIroqua by
Vernon county growers are at 3. 81, 4,
and cents. @. Pulls of the town of
Sterling, sold 1920 pounds at 5 cents.
The buyer at Viroqua says the crop is
a poor one the country over, and that
he has not found first-class lot of
leaf in Vernon county.
Work on the projected state indus
trial school at Sparta is to be COM
menced as soon as the snow is off the
ground. G. d. Parker and L. A. Proc
tor, of the state board are at La Crosse
to confer with the contractors for the
three cottages that are to be built in
connection With the institution.
The Wisconsin Telephone company
has brought suit against the Appleton
Electric Light company to recover
damages claimed to have been done
the formers lines and instruments by
the latter's lines and currents.
The plant at the machine shops at
the State University at Madison, is
nearly all located. Carpenters, pain
ter and other workmen are busily en-
gagged In fiaishiug the inside work of
the building. The work of COM
pletiDg the chemical laboratory will
be commenced as early In the spring
as the weather will permit.
The state superintendent and state
board of health have given their ap-
proval to the use in Wisconsin public
schools of the following books giving
instruction in physiology and ny
giene: primer of Physiology and
Hygiene and 'The Human Body
and its Health" by w. Thayer Smith !;
How we 1--we" by James Johonnot
aud Eugene Bouton; ''The Human
Body" elementary course, by III,
Mcneil Martin and Hettie Cary
Martin; Anatomy, Physiology and
Hygiene" by Jerome Walker; "Our
Bodies and How we Live" by A. E.
Blaisdell, and s'The Eclectic PhysioI-
ogy," by Ell T. Brown.
It is stated that a domestic in the
employ of Mrs. Wallace Hunt of Nee
nah, chewed gum until her jaw was
dislocated. She thought that her face
was paralyzed, but the doctor declar-
ed that her jaw had been dislo-
Gated by excessive use ia gum chew
ing.