The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-05-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

master at Clinton
A CHAMPION pullet in Monticello lays
eggs 81 by 8 inches.
The c. and n. w. r. r. Co. have
constructed new and commodious stock
yards at La Crosse.
JUDGE COLDER, of Walworth county,
mas held the office of County Judge con-
tlnuously for twenty years.
PORTAGE is ANNOYED by tramps. who
are decidedly obstreperous in their de-
mands.
VIM KANE of GAINESVILLE, was robbed
of $3.50 on the highway, near that city.
on Sunday night, by two masked men.
THE ice on Lake Winnebago broke ND
and commenced floating down the river
on Monday.
The Walworth county fair will be
held this year at Elkhorn, ON September
| 25-28.
ROBERT Ross mill in La Crosse was
recently sold for $4,000 The mill
originally cost about $4,000.
THE State Medical Society will hold
its annual session in Madison on the sec
ond Tuesday in May
FRANK DAVIS, who ran away from
Milton, with horse and buggy, leaving
several unpaid bills, is now in prison at
Milton. His wife stopped at GAINESVILLE.
Mr.. S. HoUGHToN, of Humbird, sold
his stallion Horace Greeley" the other
day, to party of Buffalo county gentle
men, for $4,000
Mr.. VANDUzER of Hebron, Walworth
county, has made over 1000 pounds of
maple sugar this spring. The season
closed last week after an unusually IA
vorable run
The high water i'll the Catfish river
has washed away the dams at OxbOw,
Iurnerville, and Fulton. At Monterey
the water has done about 81 900 worth of
damage.
AN insane and wild woman was seen
in the woods near Eau Claire last Thurs
day, and it is supposed she is the Miss
from her home in Eau Claire last week
BOATING in WATERFOWL is limited to
two or three scows and half dozen
fat-bottoms, which can be seen most
any afternoon, cleaving the waters with
small excursion parties.
THE Wisconsin Central intends to
put in a side track to Clifford's saw mill
at Stevens Point. Mr. Clifford intends
to cut twenty million feet of lumber
this season, and manufacture seventy
five million feet of shingles.
THE Chiffon wheat dealers have sold
large amount of wheat to the farmers
III the vicinity for seed. The farmers
t sold their wheat early in the fall at a
price much less than they had to pay in
the spring.
CAPT. JOHN LYNCH, Superintendent
of the Wolf River Transportation Com
pany, residing at Oshkosh, was found in
bed Saturday morning nearly suffocated
by escaping gas, which was accidentally
turned on during the night He is all
right
INDIAN AGENT BRIDGEMAN has es-
tablished II boarding school for the
Menominee Indians at Keshena, Shaw
ano county, and it has proved success,
there being sixty dusky lads and Iasses in
attendance. The agent is trying to have
the government build $4,000 school
house to suit the wants of the tribe, the
present building being altogether too
small.
MEssRs. JACKSON and MERRILL, of
Princeton, lost team of horses last
February. 1t was supposed they were
stolen. A few days ago the animals
were found dead in a piece of timber
land two miles distant from the village.
1t seems the horses broke loose from
Montello and started for home, and get
ting off the road, became entangled in
the brush and timber, where they starv-
ed to death. The buggy, harness and
robes were recovered.
STEALING is becoming very common
around Mukwonago this spring. DR.
III. A. Youmans had five bags of wheat
taken from his granary one night last
week, and on Thursday evening, April
II, an old widower of that town had
several shirts stolen, but on a careful
search the following day he found them
on the premises of one of our merchants.
1t is thought the whole affair was for 1t
joke, and was gotten up and executedb by
some of the many ladies who spent the
18th and 18th there.
THE intercollegiate oratorical contest
is to be held in Madison, May 10th.
Orators from six States, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Indi-
ana, will contest for the championship
of the Northwest. The judges are Ly-
man Trumbull, of Chicago; G. G.. Cole,
ex-Chief Justice of Iowa, and w. F. Vi
las, of the Supreme Court bar of this
State. President Hayes, the governors
of the States and notables from all parts
of the Union are invited, and many will
be present to hear the State champions
stauggle for the prize in the art of
Demosthenes.
SUIT has been commenced by Hon
James Campbell, President of the Madi-
son and Portage road Chicago and Su-