The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-12-08
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Brown County.

Brown County.
For the coming year Green Bay
must be supplied with $50, 900 for run
ming municipal expenses. So says the
Common council.
Dane County.
MAJOR ALMERIN GILLEr, a graduate
of the Madison University, of the Class
of 1861, now resident of Emporia,
Kansas, has been elected to the Kansas
State Senate. He received large vote,
running several hundred ahead of the
State ticket. :. On the Oath inst, the
commission to select site for an asy-
lum for the chronic insane met at Mad
ison, and after brief discussion decided
to erect building in connection with
the insane asylum near that city. Inc
action, however, of the commission
was not unanimous. The University
of Madison has $40 students =. The
annual meeting of the State Agrlcul-
tural Society was held in their rooms
in the capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 81.
Dodge County.
A SPECIAL committee of the county
hoard recommends that a building
committee of five be appointed to
build a suitable county building in
Juneau on the site where the offices
now stand, at an expense not to exceed
$4,000 furniture and all. 1t Is rec
ammended to raise $4,000 by tax this
season, and the balance next year.
During the month of October, there
we're "a round trip centennial tickets
sold at the Beaver Dam Station,
amounting to s988.60. The local ticket
sales for the month of October, amount
ed to $96O.15. The total receipts from
sales of tickets thus being $1,74S.75
-. They are sueing considerably on
premium notes in the defunct Dodge
Do, Mutual Insurance Company.
Eau Claire County.
A MEETING to raise subscriptions in
order to organize a company to build
the now famous dam at the Chippewa
Dells was held at Eau Claire on the
oath inst, and $50, 900 subscribed. The
city voted 100000, and another meet
ingwill be held Fifty thousand dollars
more is necessary to organize the COM
pany. The Valley Lumber Co. ex-
pect to put in about 100000 feet of
logs the coming winter. The new
bell for the Eau Claire Baptist church
has been received. 1t is made of STEEL
weighs 1000 pounds, and was cast at
the Cincinnati Bell Foundry. Cost
about two hundred dollars . . The total
value of real estate and personal prop
erty in Eau Claire county is $5,936,794.
Fond du Lac County.
WAUPUN village has grown more dur
ing the past summer than for ten years
previous The people of Fond du
Lac keep burglars away by hanging a
lighted lantern and a small pox card on
the door . . The receipts of the State
Medical Convention, at Fond du Lac,
were not sufficient by $3.50 to defray
the expenses, but this amount was
promptly made up by the members
within few moments Of adjournment,
and the association disbanded with q
clear balance sheet A man named
Charles Klciforte was knocked down
aud robbed of So in Ripon, one night
lately Tuesday morning, Nov. q, at
Ripon, the stables of S. NJ. Brown, bus
proprietor, and the barn Of I. Shepard
were destroyed by fire. Total loss es-
timated at $4,000 g.. The state prison
has 273 inmates. The District Con
ference of Fond du Lac district COM
mences its first session for the year in
Division Street Church, in that city, on
Monday evening, December 4.
Milwaukee County.
MILWAUKEE has expended $37, 874. %
for water pipe. The first ward leads.
Superintendent MacAlister of the
Public Schools is establishing a teach
er's library which promises well. On
the Oath the case against A. G. Weisert
ex-Deputy Collector, charged in the IN
dictment with bribery in Office, was
nolled in the United States Court
Judge Dyer the testimony upon which
the District Attorney relied having
been ruled out asrirrelevant. Martin
Scheibe, an old German so years old
living on Fond du Lac Avenue, Tenth
ward, committed suicide on the 23d by
hanging himself. The immediate
cause Of the suicide was quarrel with
his son, on account of the fathers In
temperate habits On the evening o.
the ed bold robbery was committed
by which a well known secondhand
dealer and pawnbroker of Milwaukee
lost 81 900. While the members Of A
G. Loomis' family were at tea the safe
was unlocked (the key having beer
carelessly left on top of the safe) ano
the contents were taken.
Portage County.
JAMES FoY, was instantly killed by {
falling limb lately, while chopping IL