The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-05-05

MARATHON COUNTY.
AT Wausau, few days ago, w. d.
Linscott. professional rope-walker
stretched rope across Big Bull Falls,
and proposed to walk from the west
side of the Falls to the east When
within about thirty feet Of the east
shore a wagon crossed the rope, Earring
it so that he lost his balance, and
plunged headlong into the rushing tor
rent, twenty-five feet below. He strug-
gled for the shore, which he reached in
an exhausted condition, mile below.
I A purse Of $50 was raised on the spot
and presented TO him.
RACINE COUNTY.
PIGEONS are said to be making their
appearance in large numbers in this
county. Mr. George Krug, q book
! binder in the Racine Advocate rooms,
has been notified that large amount
of valuable real estate is lying within
the city limits of Baltimore awaiting
his care and protection. 1t was left to
him by a relative some years ago, and
/ the administrators have been hunting
him for about four years. The value
of the estate is reported as immense,
But Mr. Krug thinks it will not exceed
( 5000 The Racine Advocate says
Latham Cornell, the plaintiff in the
town bond suit of Racine county, died
at Troy, n. Y, recently. Deceased had
100000 worth of property at the time
Of his death"
ROCK COUNTY.
THE State Board OF Charities has
adopted plans for the blind asylum, as
drawn by Architect A. Anderson, Of
GAINESVILLE, and work viii be COM
menced at once. Last week VIM
H. Shaw arrived at his home at Beloit
with the body of his brother, Alexan-
der Shaw, eldest son Of VIM. Shaw,
ESQ, of that city, who was accidentally
shot at Custer City, in the Black Hills
/ country, March TO-
SHEBOTG4N COUNTY,
The ninth annual fair Of the ShebOy-
gan County German Agricultural and
Industrial Society, viii be held on the
fair ground in Sheboygan, on the Goth,
9th and 2Sth days of SEPTEMBER.
Under the management Of Mr.. Frank
Flath, business is being energetically
driven at the Sheboygan Childrens' Car
riage Factory. The factory now gives
employment to q force Of 10 men.
The total number Of carriages manu-
featured, during the year ending April
p, 1876, was 1000, against SIS manu-
featured the previous year.
SAUK COUNTY.
/ IL the recent storm, the fish-hatching
house Of Charles Reed, of Reedsburg.
overtlowed, and he lost $4,000 young
fry, among others, a large part Of his
California salmon fry.
IA Uk-ESfIA COUNTY.
THE ice has all disappeared on Pc
waukee Lake. Ducks have never been
50 plenty in the lake as they are now;
they are in focks of 100 to 1000.
The Rev. Cooney, Of the Order of the
Holy Cross, of Notre Dame, Ind, and,
by the appointment Of the Holy See, a
missionary apostolic viii open mis-
sion in s.. Joseph's Church, Wauke-
sha, commencing Sunday, April 80.
and closing the Sunday following.
FLNNEBAGO COUNTY.
THE Oshkosh Times reports that
about eight acres of the marsh near
Butte des Morris broke loose during the
late storm, and Aoated down to Algoma
bridge causing a temporary suspension
Of navigation Later reports state that
a second break larger in extent oc-
CURED this week, which occasioned
some alarm for the safety of
Algoma bridge The mass of bog
had to be sawed with ice saws
and allowed to drop piece by piece
down the river. The 9th Ami
versary Of Odd Fellowship in America.
was celebrated by members of the
order in Neenah on Wednesday even
Ing, the Goth, by a supper in Odd Eel
lows Hall, and a social dance in Petit
bone Hall
WASHINGTON COUNTY,
A NEW paper has been started in the
village of Mayville, in this county. l;
is called the Dodge County Pioneer and
is printed in the German language.
WALWORTH COUNTY.
/ CONCERNING the Peoria and Fond du
Lac Railroad, Judge Kinyon says that
he has positively and finally abandoned
the idea of coming through White
water, and that his surveyors would be
at work this week running more direct
line between GAINESVILLE and Iron Ridge
/ He has expressed himself willing to run
! branch or spur from the point where
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