The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-01
STATE NEWS.
JANEsv1LLE's debt is only 500 600.


we'll this season.
Rock county yielded 2S4, 1892 bushels
of wheat, and 2,404, 120 bushels of oats. |
Now Fond du Lac has the burglars. |
Are there not some shot-guns in this
state?
The GAINESVILLE morocco works have
received a stock of goat skins from South
America.
JOHN BAER, an old and highly respect
ed citizen of Cross Plains, died Sunday
evening.
EVANSVILLE is just as happy as a big
sunfower. The Mutuals beat the Chi
Cages by 5 to 3.
B. w. REYNOLDS, of La Crosse, a very
well known man, known as Elder Rey-
nolds, died Friday night.
THE artesian well at La Crosse is "out
of kilter" just now, and one hears less of
that famous mineral water.
A FARMER named Piske, residing in
Bostwick Valley, near La Crosse, was
run over on his farm and killed.
OUTAGAMIE county has decided not
to hold fair this year, owing to the ex-
cessive rent demanded for grounds.
FOND DU LAC parties are talking of
building a new BRICK hotel at Waupun,
on the site of the old Darlington House.
A HAY-sHED, containing forty tons of
hay, all belonging to 0. j. G. Ham
mond, burned in La Crosse Monday
night Loss 5000
| THE GAINESVILLE Pickle and Preserving
Company imported two loads of German
caulifower, last week, because the arti-
Gle cannot be obtained in this country.
WILLIAM ROGERS, horse-thief,
wanted in GAINESVILLE for numerous mis-
demeanors, was arrested in Illinois and
brought to the place that has so long
wished for him.
IT is said that prairie chickens are not
as plenty as was reported early in the
season. The birds, however. are nearly
full grown and make up in weight what
they lack in numbers.
BERLIN, Wis, will have from twelve
thousand to fifteen thousand barrels of
cranberries, and some of Sackets marshes
are doing well and will yield several
thousand barrels
THE dwelling house and tailor shop of
William Rabb, on Main street, Menasha,
!
O'Clock, and was almost entirely de-
stroyed. Loss about $1,000; small in
Surance.
HENRY CARBINO, a gardener living
on the West Side, brought into this office
this morning a string bean measuring 2
feet inches in length. He has one on
his vines, of the same variety, over feet
in length He has cucumbers that are
over feet in length. They will I'M
doubtedly be taken to the county fair
Eau Claire Press.
RETURNED chicken hunters tell us
that there is not much real happiness in
chicken shooting. The ground has been
extremely dry of late-almost red-hot.
Dogs noses have become filled with dust
and the poor animals have become com
pletely fatigued with half days hunt.
Men have become almost sutfocated in
some of the extremely dry fields
Madison Democrat.
WINNECoNNE news: "Never before
was a crop of grain secured in better
shape than the present, and but once
before in the history of this county
(Winnebago) has the yield been SO
enormous. Numerous instances can be
cited where thirty-five bushels to the
acre has been turned out. Oats, corn,
potatoes, and other crops are yielding
well, and as the farmers begin to rush
them into market, money begins to run
more freely"
DURING the recent severe fire on the
big meadow below Plover, the water in
Buena Vista creek became soheated that
large numbers of its fish died. One ac-
count says that barrels of them were
picked out by the people, who went
there for that purpose. This is probably
the first instance on record where people
have been permitted to gather cooked
fish directly from the stream, in which
but a few moments before they were
swimming in the full enjoyment of ro-
bust health.-jStere1s Point Journal
THE barn of Matthias Klimesh, who
lives near the line between Kewaunee
and Pierce, was shattered by stroke of
lightning on Monday of this week The
lightning did no other damage to Xii
mesh's place than that mentioned. On
the same day it struck and killed an OK
team belonging to William Kyster, of
Casco, while they were unyoked in the
field. Mr. Kyster being in rather re-
duced circumstances, having but recent
ly gone into farming, the loss Of his
team is severely felt by hia.-Keaoaunee
Enterprise.
THE Madison Journal says: "Some
of the grain in University farm has been
threshed, and the product is very salts
factory. We have been furnished with
the following items: Odessa spring
wheat yielded 81 1850 bushels per acre,
weighing Oh pounds per bushel; Fuitz
winter wheat yielded A 1850 bushels
per acre, weighing SO pounds per bushel;
white Waterloo oats yielded 80 bushels
per acre, weighing 40 pounds per bushel,
This is good yield and shows well for
those in charge of this experimental
farm"
LA CROSSE Democrats The river
fell one inch in the As hours ending at 8
P. NJ. yesterday, leaving the stage q
inches below low water of 1872, and
probably within three to five inches of
the lowest stage ever experienced here,
There are now thousands Of acres of the
river bed north and south of the city
that look like rich pasture land, and
vegetation shows even on the bars in
midstream. La Crosse and Black rivers
have scarcely enough water left to make
a respectable mill-race, and all the pumps
and wells in the lower part of town are
dry as a powder magazine. 1t is no sur
prise that there are few boats coming in
to port; indeed the wonder is that any
boat has the temerity to turn a wheel
with so many obstacles in the way"
A FIRE broke out Sunday night at II