Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-03-18
STATE NEWS.

AZ Eau SidlIS tnS pfCulUlllUQlSlS
have nominated DR.. G. E Hogeboom
for mayor.
! The Wisconsin State Association of
| spiritualists will hold it's tirst quarter
Iy meeting Of the present year on
March 20 to %, st the Musical Society
hall, Milwaukee,
The Union Lodge 1. O. G.. 7. at
Eau Claire has a membership of over
200.
! The total taxes collected by the city
treasurer Of Appleton amout to about
$103, 200.
Weather flags will hereafter be dis
played at Berlin from the top of a flag
pole.
Within the past two week 26 mem
oers have been added to the Baptist
church of Berlin.
The trustees OF the Wisconsin In
dustrial School for Girls at Milwaukee
are corresponding with several eastern
ladies in hopes of securing q successor
to Mrs. Cobb.
Fond oa Lac Reporter: Competition
will be open to the world at the fair
to be held in this city next September.
SO declared the board of directors at
a recent meeting.
An eastern firm is asking for
| grounds at Eau Claire OF which
they can manufacture 90, 1000 barrels
day.
The mechanics in the factories of
Racine are said to be almost unani-
mously 10 favor of having waterworks
in the Belle City.
| a large number of butchers of Mil
waukee have agreed to close their
shops on Sunday after April 1. The
example set by the Milwaukee BARRIERS
is liable to spread to every bushes
except saloons
There were 1875 deaths in Milwaukee
during February. Of this number
50 were males and 102 females. Seven
persons over sixty years of age.
died. Sixty were infants under one
year, and forty were between one and
five.
Major Walber, of Milwaukee, saws
the number Of saloons In that city
next year will be greatly decreased,
owing to the higher license and the
fact that the beer halls were monopo-
IZluS Inc business.
The old soldiers of Lone Rock are
arranging for a veterans reunion.
to occur on the grounds of the Sixth
battery at that place. A general in
vitation will be extended and rouslng
time is looked for.
| The executive cOmmitte OF the
North American turner bund at Mil
waukee, decided not to admit addi-
tloaal societies to the sangerfest, but
to consider the list closed. The whole
number of singers who are booked to
attend is 2, $50; number of musicians,
244
The circuit court of Fond du Lac
has awarded Tim Brennan S5, 900 dam
ages On account of injuries received
from an alleged defective side walk in
the town of Friendship, Fond du Lac
county.
1t has been arranged by the Buck
horn Sporting club to plant 100000
trout fry in the streams near Tomah.
1t is the Intention of the club to plant
large number of mountain or rain
bow trout.
The United States land sales at Eau
Claire during the past year aggregat-
ed II, $50 acres, on which the receipts
amounted to $17, 689.19, There were
191 homestead entries embracing 81
$50 acres. The collections aggregated
So, 258. AZ.
The new officers of the Eau Claire
board of trade are; T. McDonough,
president; FL. @. Rowland and Hugh
McMaster, vice presidents; J. Ell. Wag-
goner, secretary; W. K. Coffin, treas
urer.
The pile driving engines lave all
been taken off the ice on the Wiscon-
sin river at Prairie du Chen and the
stone is all hauled for the piers of the
new bridge being constructed for the
Chicago, Burlington C Northern rail
road.
At Eau Claire Peter Hart accuses
two men named respectively Richards
and Perkins of the larceny Of some
turkeys. It appears that Messrs. Rich
ards and Perkins went to Mr.. Harris
hotel and took the turkeys on the
ground that the turkeys had been stol-
en- from them by the parties who sold
them to Mr.. Hart. The men were
brought before a justice and released
on bonds to appear at the next term
of the circuit court.