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Show ivy iv. u. xoiegrajilj.j Tllfcl SUFFERING IN WISCONSIN. WISCON-SIN. Milwaukee, Wis., 22. At a meeting meet-ing of the relief committee last evening, colonel Robinson of Green Bay Btated that the firo extended over a tract of fifty miles long by twelvo wide. On the west side of the bay it was confined to Peshtigo and vicinity and the sugar settlement. The pcoplo of the peninsula penin-sula aro all gathered at Mcnimonee, on the east shore. The greatest suffering is from ten miles north of Green Bay to Little Sturgeon bay. Gov. Fair-ohild Fair-ohild said he had telegraphed to the secretary of war, asking him to issue one hundred wagons and harness, and one thousand uniforms for destitute people, ana had received a farorablo reply. General Sheridan had told him that whon our people had done all they could, ho would issue rations and keep supplies on hand all tho fall to draw from. Geo. W. Allon said fifty thousand thous-and dollars would be raised here, $25 -000 in New York and probably over a hundred thousand would soon be on hand for the relief of the suffering. Immenao supplies oi men's clothing havo come forward. . Tho great need now is for heavy clothing, and women's andchildren's clothing and underclothing. |