The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-01

that the track was less than a mile in
length. Eastern turfmen, In order to
settle the question, sent a reliable man
from New York to measure the track,
and by his actual measurement it was
found to be one mile and seventeen feet
round. Well, the trotting park was
leased last summer by Mr.. ". NJ Or
mand, who. having entered into some
other venture, recently sub-let the
grounds to Mr.. James Mott, of Fond du
Lac, receiving $500 from the latter fo1
the privilege of running the track. Mr..
Mott, on Thursday, arrived here With
SIX horses, and took them at once tc
Cold Spring, expecting to keep them
there IN the stables during the season.
1t appears that while Mott was away
Ormand's mind experienced a sudden
change, and he resolved that he would
keep and operate the place himself,
Motifs contrac. to the contrary notwith-
standing. Therefore, when on yester-
day, the Fond du Lac man knocked at
the gates of the park, he found them
closed, and was refused admittance by
Ormand, and thus the matter stands at
present writing. Mott has stabbed his
horses in the barns of the Cold Spring
House. There he waits and bides his
time, while Ormand remains on the in
side, guarding the property he proposes
to hold. if possible. He is master OF
the situation at present, but Mott pro
poses to have the park at once, or go to
law about it. As there were no papers
papers passed between the parties, the
result of the affair is doubtful.
IF YOU WOULD COMMIT SUICIDE,
Milwaukee isnot good place to come to
for that purpose, as recent events indi-
cate. Whether our moral atmosphere
inculcates in would-be suicides q desire
to further live and suffer the sings and
arrows Of outrageous fortune, or wheth-
er the eternal vigilance of our blue
coated peelers is responsible for de.
feating the wicked designs of those
weary of life, | am not prepared to say
but | have in my mind eye cases where
strangers have arrived here with special
intent and purpose of shutting off the
mortal coil by self-destruction, who
have changed their minds from one
cause or another and returned whence
they came, sadder but wiser in
dlviduals. No longer ago than Tues
day last, gentleman from the rural
districts arrived here and put up at
the Plankinton, retired to his
room at night, and nothing further was
seen of their guest by the proprietors
until next morning early, when he was
| brought up by a brace of policemen,
who stated that he had been found
cEnging to the piles of the dock in the
river, nearly exhausted from cold, but
making desperate exertions to retain
that dear life which but a short time
previously he had rashly attempted to
destroy by jumping into the icy and
savOry waters of the river The rescued
man had left his room by way of the
window, to the roof of a shed, and
thence TO the ground, and taking his
way to the river, he plunged in, anC
was found as above stated. He was
given in charge of friends.
i ADJUSTMENTS.
At no time withinin my recollection
has Milwaukee been favored with sc
varied aid unexceptionally fine enter
talnments as at present This fact Ii
due, III very great measure, to the in
defatigablo efforts of Harry Deakin, the
popular manager of the Grand Opera
House. That gentleman assumed the
management of the Opera House some
thing over year ago, and has been
unremitting in his efforts to make it {
first class place Of amusement. His
first season was not financially success
full, but that want of success he has
turned to account, as he learned there
from that the demands of our citizens
were for a higher class of entertain
ments, which he is now furnishing
them Ill the engagement of such artists
as Mrs. Lander and Lolita, who are
soon to appear under Mr. Deakin's
management HaverlY's minstrels have
Just closed short and successful sea
son, and were preceded by the Rich
ings-Berpard troupe Edwin Edams
has also recently given a series of per
fOrmances here, and Peck, of the La
Crosse Sun, convulsed several hundred
people at the Academy few nights
ago, narrating the adventures of himself
ard his strawberry blonde mule Seman
tina. WAL.