Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

In Winnebago county there are 26S, 522
acres of laid.
Hurley rejoices at the prospect of hay
ing saw mill
The Methodists are holding camp
meeting at Lake Pepin.
Last week there were lis deaths in the
city of Milwaukee.
The first permanent settlement at
Green Bay was made in 1745.
Waupaca will raise 5000 for its great
Fourth of July celebration.
1t is now alleged that some of the Rip
on grocers sell butterine.
Racine prohibits bicyclists from riding
on the sidewalks.
Of the 1,200 ,enlistments in the First
Wisconsin Volunteers only $50 survive.
James Mueller of CALEDONIA. celebrated
his one hundredth birthday on Tuesday.
= Rice Lake parties are preparing to put
up another saw mill at Round Lake,
above Rice Lake.
The Sheboygan common council has
appropriated $4,000 TO celebrate the
Fourth of July in becomingImanner.
Methodist mission was established
at Green Bay as early as 1929 by young
Mohawk who had been converted in
Canada.
The state constitution of this state was
adopted in 1S4S, Wisconsin being the
seventeenth state admitted to the Union.
For threatening to blow up all Ripon
with dynamite George II. Jusen has been
sent to jail for term of 20 days.
During the past fifteen years the value
of taxable property in Wisconsin has in
creased $171, 071,5O7 or about so per
cent.
The barn of William Jackson near New
Chicago, Trempeleau county, was struck
by lightning and burned. Loss S1.SOO:
insurance $500.
There are nine lumber firms in Wausau.
the combined product of whose mills is a
little over 100,OOO,OO0 feet of lumber per
day.
There are five lady lawyers in active
practice in the state of Wisconsin. Only
two states have alarger number, Michigan
having six and Illinois seven.
The first woman graduate of Columbia
college, Mrs. Winnifred Edgerton, was
born in Ripon in 1868.
The cost of the new dummy line from
Milwaukee to Whitefsh Bay will be about
$4,000 1t is expected the road will be
ready for travel by July Goth.
During the session of the Wisconsin
Teachers Association at Madison next
month, the mechanical product of the west
side school of Eau Claire will be ex-
hibited.
Mitchell Neiedlo, of Green Bay, and
Joseph Smith, of Fort Howard. while at
work on the Murphy mill at Green Bay
fell distance of Is feet and were serious
ly injured.
The highest lands in Wisconsin are To-
Gated along the head waters of the tribu-
taries of Lake Superior, near the cources
of the Montreal river, and are about
eighteen hundred feet above the level of
the sea.
Tuesday the board of state University
regents elected the following off1cere:
President, Geo. II. Paul, Milwaukee;
vice president, J. G. McMynn, Racine;
secretary, Chas. F. Lamb, Madison.
Governor Rusk has commissioned F.
B. GOodhue as first lieutenant of COM
pany G, First regiment, located at White
water, and James Johnson as second
ueuUen2nt.
The Berlin Courant states that block
of granite in the quarry there, fifteen feet
long, six feet wide and fifteen inches
thich, was split so as to form two pieces
each seven and half inches thick.
At Madison, William Macarthur, who
lives near the Flambeau reservation,
pleaded guilty IN the United States court,
Monday, of selling liquor to Indians, and
was fined 500 and costs and sent to Jail
for twentysix days.
At meeting of the conference of the
Seventh Day Adventists, at the fair
grounds at Madison, Monday, subscrip-
ton for missionary purposes was taken.
The munifcent sum of $4,000 was sub
scribed. In view of the fact that the de-
nomination has only LOO members all
told in this state. the subscription Is GER
tainly good one.
Gov. Rusk's recent visit to Wausau
was the first made to that city by any gov
ernor. People came from miles around
to get a squirt at Wisconsin's chief mag
istrate and one man brought his baby to
shake hands with the popular executive.
Hog cholera is reported to have reap
peared in the town of Bear Greek, near .
Eau Claire, and the farmers are killing off
many swine which were intended for mar
ket in the early part of the winter. The
farmers in that locality suffered pecun-
larry loss last winter from the same
cause.
The towns on the road of the Fairchild
& Mississippi Railway company's survey
having voted sufficient aid, the work on
grading will be commenced without delay.
The northern terminus of the line will be
at Abbotsford, and the southern at some
convenient point on the Chicago, Burling
ton 81 Northern railway.
A well on the farm of Louis Hayner,
about two miles west of GAINESVILLE; set
tied full twenty feet, the curbing remain
ing intact. The gravel and loose earth
at the top caved in as the curbing went
down and caused the water to rise within
twenty feet of the surface.
Noah White, colored, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Spooner White drowned Monday,
afternoon at Greenland place, Rock river,
about a mile from GAINESVILLE e. He was
fifteen years old. The past four years
he has been afflicted with epileptic fits.