The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-08-18
STATE NEWS.

nave machinery That cost $12, 600.
PRAIRIE chickens are plenty. The
time for legal killing is August 10Th.
Ii costs Fond du Lac county s1O5 per
week to take care of her prisoners.
The Sparta Herald says the hop crop
Is looking fair but light in most localities.
BURGLARS visited the house of Paul
Bibbs at Madison, and secured 1926 worth
of plumber.
RACINE values her property at 81 49,
262-real estate $3,086,417 and personal
property $1,370,S45.
A JEFFERSON man threshed 43 BUSH
els winter wheat to the acre, and a Gin
ton man 35 bushels to the acre.
REV. t. t. KUTCHIN, father of HI. M.
Kutchin, editor of the Fond du Lac
Commonwealth, died Tuesday morning
at hartford.
A VALUABLE sorrel mare was stolen
from the farm of ID. V. Rogers near Osh-
kosh, Saturday night. Chas Kohlman
lost buggy on the same night.
THE G. B. & L. S. r. R. purposes run
ming road to Shawano, from Green
Bay. The road will cost $39S,OO0.
Shawano "hurrahs."
CHIPPEWA COUNTY will have 100000
bushels No. l wheat, surplus. Two hun
dred thousand acres of new land were
broken up there.
Brown COUNTY acreage: Wheat, 25,-
078; oats, 22,168; corn, 5,1S9; barley,
5,251; rye, 1896. Total value Of crops
raised, 81, 059, 42S.
PHILLIP KNoTH, well-known store
keeper in La Crosse, fell down stairs at
his residence, Wednesday morning, and
seriously injured himself.
JOSEPH EBERT, a brakeman on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, was
run over by the cars at Onalaska, Tues
day morning, causing almost instant
death.
THE following is the total acreage I'M
der growth in Dunn county in 1877:
Wheat, q, 307; oats, 1888; corn, 8,65S;
barley, 1857; rye, 1856; potatoes, 9S4;
hops, &c; grass, 10,031.
THE committee appointed to coprom-
mise the difficulty between Welcome
Hyde and the Appleton University re-
garding the sale OF university lands to
the former, is working out the problem
now.
THE pasturage at the mouth of the
La Crosse river is daily becoming better
and extending its bounds. If the water
goes much lower it will be necessary to
fence the dividing line between the two
states to prevent the Wisconsin cattle
from straying over into Minnesota
La Crosse Leader.
THE ST. Croix boom suspended opera
tions last Saturday night, having run
out about 131, 100000 feet Of logs this
season. Of this amount 100000 feet
were old logs left over from last year,
showing that of the total cut on the St.
100000, Ss,000,000 have got into the
boom, leaving about Al, 900, 900 hung up.
The Hudson Star says: '"The ST.
Paul papers report sensation in Lltch-
field, growing out of an attack in the
street on a young man living there, by
the Hollingsworth family, formerly of
this city. 1t seems that the young man
and Miss Annie. Hollingsworth had been
quite intimate for some time, but had a
falling out which resulted in an assault.
Miss Annie shot at the young man twice,
one shot taking effect in his leg. Mr..
and Mrs. Hollingsworth and two daugh-
tiers were arrested and in default of bail
sent to jail
On Saturday aftern DON, Frank, a six
year-old son of Frank Ford, of Lydon,
fell from load of manure, which his father
was drawing to the field, and one of the
rear wheels of the heavily loaded wagon,
passed partially across his breast and the
lower portion of his face, seriously frac-
turing one of his arms and also the jaw
bone. The boy, unknown to his father
had climbed upon the wagon, and in
falling his cries attracted the attention
of his father, who SO suddenly stopped
the team that the wheel yet remained
upon his breast, when his father reached
him, and was afterwards backed off his
body.-Plymouth Reporter.
The businessmen of Oshkosh held a
meeting on Monday evening to determine
about the railroad connection between
their city and the Wisconsin Central
road, heretofore announced.) The fol-
lowing resolutions were offered:
Resolred, That the Oshkosh and Missis-
sippi r. r: Company be requested to call a
meeting of their company and take imme-
date steps to build the proposed road be-
tween this city and the Wisconsin Central
railroad, with the understanding that said
road shall be transferred or leased when
completed, to the Wisconsin Central Rail
road Company.
ResolUed, That the city of Oshkosh be re-
ouested to issue its bonds to aid in the con-
struction of railroad between this city and
the Wisconsin Central railroad, the amount
not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars.
The latter resolution was laid over,
subject to the meeting called for by the
| former.