The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-12-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Ashland County.

the popular candidate for the assembly,
received all the votes cast, excepting
one. This gentleman has been men
toned as candidate for speaker of the
next House -An attempt was recent
ly made to institute crusade at Prince
ton, but was a failure.
Barron County.
THE county seat of the county has
been removed from Rice Lake to Barron.
Judge Cate, Democratic candidate
for Congress, has 116 majority IN the
county.
Brown County
A KEEPER of boarding house, named
Merchant, in Green Bay, while seated
at table in the house one afternoon,
counting money, was robbed of $4O0,
by man who entered and coolly point
ing a revolver at Merchants head,
grasped the pile of money on the table
and Immediately fled. He has not been
caught. -- A prostitute was recently
robbed of 1862 while purchasing rail
way ticket at the depot in Fort Howard,
by a man who snatched her handker-
chief which contained the money, and
escaped in the crowd. The authorities
have a clue to the thief, and he will
probably be captured. - f. Won
! Strain, the county treasurer, is sup
posed to have absconded. He has been
absent from his Office for several days.
Calumet County.
| THE barn of RAYMOND LEM, in
Brothertown, was destroyed by fire
recently, together with its contents.
The loss was about 81, 600, on which
there was an insurance of $500. The
democrats elected a majority Of the
county ticket, while the republican can
didates We're successful for some of the
! ffices.
| Chippewa County.
The iron necessary for the completion
of the railway track from Eau Claire tC
| Chippewa Falls, has been purchased by
ex-Lieut Gov Pound
Clark County.
A MILITARY spirit prevails through
out the county, and company of militi;
is being organized The muster roll i
now nearly full.-The democrats
elected their entire county ticket, will
the exception of clerk of court and sur
veyor.
Door County.
THE sheriff of the county recent,
started for the insane asylum at Osh
kosh, with an insane person named ID
Sanborn. While awaiting a train Il
Green Bay, the crazy man ran from til,
hotel and plunged into the river. H,
was rescued by some sailors. Sanbori
is from Bailey's Harbor, and seems III
tent on lf-destruction.-S
dogs were recently brought into the
county for the purpose of running dee
into the lake. The people i'll the neigh
borhood disappearing of such sport
scattered poison around, and the enter
| prise was a failure
| Dane County.
CONSIDERABLY Indignation was recent
| ly occasioned among the students of TIL,
university by an order of the faculty
prohibiting the boys from visiting tht
young lady students.-A barn anC
hay-stack belonging to Henry Bryan, o
Madison, was recently destroyed by fire
The case of Christine Amundsol
against r. A. largo, for breach o
promise of marriage, tried in the Circui
Court Of Dane county, terminated Will
a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for TIL,
sum of 81, 600.--The Episcopal con
vention of southwestern Wisconsin me
in Grace church, Madison on the 18th
Bishop Welles was in attendance
The work of removing the dead bodie
from the old cemetery In the Third ware
at Madison is progressing. The dead ar
reinterred in Forest Hill cemetery.
The full official vote of the Eighth dis
trict has been received at the Secretar7
of States Office, and is as follows: Cate
9,446; McDill. 9,444; Gates majority
2. This includes in McDill's vote tn
county of Lincoln, which is 4S maiorit,
for McDill, but excludes the votes o
the First ward of the city of Gran,
Rapids and the town of Line DIN, Woo,
county.
i Eau Claire County.
EAU CLAIRE has expended about SO,
600 for road purposes and cross walks
this season. Private parties, Ill addition
have built $40,0 worth of sidewalks
Fond du Lac County.
CITIZENS of Fond du Lac pride them
selves on the fact that there are II,
beggers III their midst. -Frank Schaf
of Fond du Lac, who carries his none,
in his coat pocket, recently lost hi
pocket-book containing 800 therefrom
Martin j. Yenzn, Waterman TO
G. j. L. Meyer, at Fond du Lac, drop
ped dead just as he entered his home
His four children We're coming t.
welcome him home as the sudden dealt
occurred. The county board of su
pervisors has been mandamused to lev,
a tax to pay the judgments in the rail
road bond cases.
Green Lake County.
A FARMER named ID. b. Lyon, living
near Ripon, lost $500 worth of timoth1
and straw stacks by fire. The cause o
the blaze could not be ascertained.
Mr.. Paige, living three miles from
Berlin, was thrown out of his buggy re
Gently and instantly killed
Jackson County.
THE body of a man supposed to have
been murdered, was recently fount
near Black River station, On the Greer
Bay and Minnesota railroad Further
particulars have not been received
Juneau County.
4 MEETING of the citizens of New Lis
bon has been held to consult on the
feasibility of building railroad FROM
that place to Necedah, and to devise
measures by which the village board OF
trustees could take action in the matter
of giving aid to the project by tax and
| loan.
Keno>Iia County.
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