The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-02-10
The Superior Times.
SuperiOrisns.

~ The Secretary of the Nemadji Gene
terry Association requests us to give notice of
a meeting of the members and lot owners of
the Association, at the office of Col. Hiram
Hayes, Saturday evening at II o'clock, for
the election of officers and the transaction of
such other business as may come before the
meeting.
The wife OF Basil Dennis is quite
i'll.
Tally three for Vincent Cournoyer It's
boy.
An immense quantity of wood is being
piled along the east bank of the Nemadji
River
Mr.. Iiaac Staples is expected here this
week or next, on his way to visit his lumber
camps on the Moose river
Col. Henderson, on the McEroy farm.
this side of Bayfield,, meditates going to the
Black Hills in the spring
John w. Bradshaw, the handsomest un-
married man in town, departed this morning
for a visit to Boston, Mass A pleasant trip
to you, j. w.
The unusually happy expression which
has illuminated, OF late, the benign counte-
nance of our friend Peter E. Bradshaw, ESQ.
is explained. 1t is a girl
-Messrs. Oliphant and Mcclure, two GEN
tlemen who have been out exploring and sur
veyins for Isaac Staples, the heavy lumber
man of Saltwater, were guests at the Hacker
House Wednesday eve. They were en- route
for Saltwater.
From lumbermen we learn that the pub.
lished notice of H. A. Taylor State Agent of
the st. Croix Land, has had the desired effect.
and that lumbermen have ceased trespassing
on this land
Henry Dennis, one of the mail carriers
between Superior and Bayfield,, made the
trip, on foot, from the Brule River to BAYFIELD,
oyertifty miles, in ten hours one day last
week. Good travelling, that.
Hon. l. II. Wing, Receiver in the Land
Office att Bayfield,, was in town Wednes
day guest of JudgeClough. He was on his
way to St. Paul, and will perhaps take in
Madison before his reurn
We are under obligations to Richard
Relf, Esq, for getting out The TIMES last
week, during our absence at Ashland and
Bad River; also for editorial assistance in
this issue Though it is several years since
Mr. r. left the newspaper business, last
weeks interesting paper indcatee that he
has not yet forgotten how to work in the ed.
itorial harness. He yields a ready and for
chile pen.
Accepting a generous invitation from
Superior's wide-awake merchant, August
Zachau, Esq, we accompanied.him last week,
on visit to his trading post at Bad River,
taking IN on the way our nsighboring city,
Ashland, and various other points ofinterest t,
our route being through what our cotem por-
airy of the Ashland Press, Hon. S. S. Fifeld,
has very appropriately dubbed 'The New
Wisconsin" As our account of the trip is
somewhat lengthy, and our space, this week,
crowded with other matter we defer its
publication until our next issue
MERCHANTs-Are you anxious to please
oil 10 L.
sell D. B. DeLand & Co.'S Best Chemical Sal
sratns, and you will be astonshed at the
trade you will build up with it. 81. A. De-
Land 4 Co. warrant it to suit in all cases ::
hence you run no risk, and they know where
OF they speak. During the twenty-five years
they have manufactured it they have not heard
complaint, and they send out tons daily.
morning an atrocious murder was COM
mitted in our usually quiet village, which,
for righteousness and the mystery with which
il is enshrouded, has no parallel The foul
deed was committed on Second street, our
main thoroughfare, in front of the law office
Vi Col. I1lfdu hayes. AS our citizens got
about that morning, they were Mortified to
ind the snow, for quite large space in front
of Mr.. Hayes Office, heavily trampled and
deeply stained with blood, which greatly
shocked many and indicated to every one
that being had been foully dealt with, as,
In addition to the blood stains, the track as
OF body having been dragged through the
snow was visible, its direction tending to-
ward the Nemadji River. After much in
curry the mystery was partially fathomed,
though at this writing it has not yea been
ascertained whether there were any witnesses
to the deed or not. 1t seems that about $50
a IN. Mr.. John Bradshaw was going down to
his brothers to breakfast John is an early
bird } and when opposite Hayes Office. had
his attention drawn to the fighting of dogs
in the street over some large object, and on
stepping into the street, found the dogs de-
pouring the body. He immedia tely drove
them off, and there being no help around at
that early hour, and for fear the dogs might
sgain get at, aud mutilate, the body, he,
with considerable effort land John is no
chicken) dragged the body down to his broth
er's house, four or five blocks off, and put it
in the ice house. After breakfast the
Messrs. Bradshaw had a consultation as to
what it was best to do with the body, and as
by that time the advancing dawn had given
them ''more light" on the subject, it was de-
aided 10 akin n &C the lipht showed than,