Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
STATE NEWS.

Ihe state university has permanent
university boat club.
Eau Claire has 'sPronouncinp CIub.n
The Ripon Commonwealth saws sum
mer guests are already arriving at Green
Lake.
More than one-half the saloons of Fond
du Lac are still running without Ii
cenSe.
At present there are 200 children at the
North Point Industrial school near Mil
waukee.
Incendiaries attempted to burn Heftv's
brewery at Monroe. Their scheme failed.
A scheme is on foot to introduce GYM
nastlcs in all the educational institutions
of Milwaukee.
The Burlington & Northern land syndi-
dictate have paid about 5000 for land in
North La Crosse.
The work of removing the dead from
the old cemetery at Merrill to the new
one Is being prosecuted.
The Kosciusko Guards of Milwaukee
VIII this year commence the erection of
an armory which will cost $4,000.
Twenty persons will be graduated from
the Plattevllle Normal school next June.
This Is the second largest class which
Plattevllle has ever graduated.
A storm at Clinton seriously injured
the fruit. Nearly every house in the
place had more or less of its east windows
broken.
Merrill Advocate: The T. B. Scott gang
saw Is again at work. The logs are sawed
up at terrific rate, and the mill is a bed
lam of business.
The proprietors of the Merchants Tea
store at Racine paid $40 for violating the
state law with regard to lotteries and left
the Belle City.
The little 5-year-old son of Mrs. Dav-
ton of New Richmond was drowned while
fishing below the mill dam at Boardman.
The child was drowned in inches of run
ming water.
The people of st. Peters church at
R1pon, have extinguished the parish
debt, the entire amount, nearly $1,000
having been subscribed and paid in cash
since Easter.
GAINESVILLE youths ranging in age from
10 to Is years, make the Bower CITY a
lively place at night by their unearthlv
yells, playing hunko and drumming on
tin cans. 1t is no wonder ore of the
ministers of that city preached a series
OF sermons on GAINESVILLE by Gaslight."
At Bateman Mills, near Chippewa Falls.
a Wisconsin Central brakeman named
John Borhley attempted to Jump on
moving train but failed and fell under
the cars. His right leght leg was terribly
crushed. An attempt will be made to
save his foot. The injured man is single
and his parents live in Illinois. He is an
old railroad man.
A new saw mill with a manufacturing
capacity of 10000 to 10000 feet of INN
Der per day is to be put up at Weyerhau
ser, located In a fine numbering district
north of Eau Claire. couple of Eau
Claire people are said to be interested in
the enterprise
A lew OF the enterprising people of the
villages of Elk Mound and Spring Brook,
Twelve miles west of Eau Claire, Joined
financial issues and erected fine Catholic
church on the Elk Mound road passing
between the two places, which will shortly
be ready for formal dedication. Most of
the building work was done by them
selves.
number of lady and gentlemen clerks
and statesmen of Eau Claire. ENCOURAGED
by few of their employers, are agitating
d movement for early closing, and it is
believed their efforts will be marked with
success, as the leading business men with
few exceptions have expressed themselves
IN favor of the move
The industrial association of Manito-
voc county will hold its third annual fair
at Manltowoc Sep. 81, %, 80 and 30. The
soldier reunion of the veterans of the
northeastern portions of the state will
be held during this fair.
M. M. Moore fell into the river at Eau
Claire. A cigar which he was quietly
putting when he fell in was still between
his teeth when he was fished out and set
down on his feet on dry land. He asked
for match, but he found his cigar hadn't
gone out.
The Business Mems association of
Medford filed articles of association with
the secretary of state Saturday, the OBJ
ject being to advance the business and
social relations of Medford. There is no
capital stock. The Concordia college
also filed articles, the object being to
MAINTAIN an educational institution to
instruct young men in harmony with the
doctrines of the Lutheran church. It
will be under the control of the German
Evangelical Lutheran synod of Missouri
ONO and other states. The incorpora-
tors are j. G. Koch, Charles Eissfeldt, g.
W. Kuechle, and J. l.. Semmen. There is
no capitol stock.