The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-07-14
STATE NEWS.

IHE total assessed valuation of person
al property in the town and village of
Montello is $64,662
JOSEPH S. BRISTOL, a lad about ten
years old, son of Mr.. Bristol, engineer at
the capitol, Madison, was drowned while
bathing in Lake Monona Friday evening
DONOVAN, the Burlington till-tapper,
who jumped off the train while being
brought to Racine, broke Jail and escaped
on Sunday afternoon.
WIGGLEswoRTH, of the Darlington
republican, has been sued for So, 600
damages by man named Law, for state
ments made while trying to prevent his
reelection to the office of county Judge |
EARLY on the morning of the Goth of
June the steam saw mill of w. McNutt,
at Greenleaf, was destroyed by fire. ORR
gin, unknown. Loss about $4,000; in
sured.
JOHN DUGAN, keeper of house of i'll
fame in Menasha, was stabbed by man
named Wells, from Neenah, on the 18th,
and died shortly after. Knives were
freely used, and both men were badly cut.
Mrs. MAXWELL, OF Neenah, was
thrown from her buggy on the 29th, and
severely injured, having an leg
broken. Levi Strait, of the same city,
was also badly injured by runaway
team on the 2Sth.
Mrs. JACOB FowLE, of Oshkosh, en-
tertained couple of tramps with a good
lunch, one day last week, and the same
night the lady was awakened by bur
glars in the house. In watching them 90
away she noticed one of the tramps she
had fed during the day.
IT is estimated that there are now To-
900 inhabitants along the line of the
Wisconsin Central, between Stevens
Point and Ashland. When the road was
commenced the whole country was
dense wilderness, and, besides Indians,
did not contain dozen souls.
}. ID. GILLETT, at the recent term of
court, obtained judgment against the
county for nearly 5000, on a lot of old
illegal certificates and tax deeds. Some
OF them were nearly twenty years old
His claim was disallowed by the county
board and never ought to be paid
.Stawan0 Journal.
BEARS are numerous in Shawano
county. A large one was killed in
Naverino a short time ago, and last week
large one was seen on ID. Mobiles farm
in Belle PLANE. Last Monday large
one was killed by John Goodwin in his
garden in Leopolis, and another large
one was seen near the town line road by
Frank Raymond.
The bids for the construction of the
proposed iron bridge for the c., NJ. and
St. p r. r., at Kilbourn City, are to be
opened at noon on the 1st of August
Work on the bridge is to be commenced
by November 10, and the structure must
be completed by the 10Th of December
1877. There is to be no interruption of
travel during the time of its erection, as
the old bridge will be used until the new
one is near enough completed to allow of
the passage of trains.
CHIPPEWA Herald: About twenty
eight million feet of logs passed here
during the late drive, ten million of
which are hung up between Eau Claire
and Beef Slough, and the balance are at
the mills below this city The French
LAUNDERING Company secured over a
million feet; the Badger State Company
two millions; and SO on. A. f. Pound &
Co. succeeded in booming ten million
of their logs Several " drives" are hung
up at different places up the river, and
it will take good flood to start them on
their downward destination
ONE of the rifed 12-pound guns pre-
sented by Emperor William to the Co
lumbuS Lutheran Church, to be cast into
a bell, has had the spiking drilled out
and has been well mounted on trucks at
the carriage shops of St. John &
Jackson. The boys took it down by
the river side Tuesday evening, and
fired Il couple of charges, and it was
found to make all the noise desirable. 1t |
is a strange reflection that when last be- |
fore it was fired it was amidst the smoke |
of battle and red carnage, on the side of
lettering empire of the Old World,
while now it is to be used in peaceful
scenes, in celebrating the anniversary of
American Independence. Columbus Re
publican.
JAMES Bliss, resident of the town of
New Haven, about thirteen miles north
of Menomonie, Dunn county, mounted
his horse and started for neighbours on
the morning of the 30th. When about
half mile from his house he was fired
on twice and instantly killed by some
person concealed in the brush. Bliss has
had a great deal of trouble with his
neighbors, and it is supposed the assas-
grew out of some difficulty of
that kind. No arrests have been made
vet. The verdict of the coroner's in
queft held is that ne came to his death
from wound from a shotgun in the
hands of a party or parties unknown.
Nine buckshot and slugs were extracted
from the body.
THE Waukesha Freeman says: owe
do not see how it is that people are being
every day subjected to the frauds of
travelling sneaks, who make lightning
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