The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-07-21
STATE NEWS.

1HE village or lie Gere mas discharged
5000 of its bonded indebtedness.
FOND DU LAC has forty-fve lawyer
and any number of aspiring clerks.
THE Wisconsin river lumbermen ar,
again in mourning over hung-up logs
FOND DU LAC has ffty-fve saloons
and on the 4th the contents of $50 keg
OF beer were drank.
A PRELIMINARY survey is being made
between New London and Shawano, il
view of an extension of the Lake Shore
road to the latter place.
THE Grand Rapids Tribune says;
The crop of timothy in this county
will be enormous. Many have com
menced moving"
THIS item frequently appears now
The copious rains have made the farm
ers feel jubilant, and crops of all kinds
indicate an abundant harvest.
The river at Eau Claire raised ter
inches Friday night, and stood four feet
/ VII llIOllCS dUONC 1ON WdleI uldTk
day morning. Logs are running freely
| JOHN DUNN was taken before the
county judge, Saturday morning, on {
charge of carrying deadly weapons ant
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by the
court to one years Imprisonment in the
county jail.-Jdnesrille Gazette.
THE Eau Claire Free Press is informed
that the large hotel at Osceola Mills
under the management of Mr.. Thomas
Ballard, and which was owned by Messrs
Mansfield and Tarrant, of Eau Claire
was blown down few nights since, dur
ing violent storm.
A CALL is being signed by the citizen.
of Oshkosh, inviting Bob Ingersoll anc
Wade Hampton to deliver addresses al
the next Northern Fair. They boil
speak at the Winnebago county fair a
Rockford, Illinois.
THE Ashland Press publishes MAJ
showing the isothermal line which indi
Gates similarity of temperature at New
Haven, Poughkeepsie, Oswego, Roches
ter, Erie, Cleveland, Detroit, Crane
Haven, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Ashland
and Omaha.
A FOND DU LAC desperate named
Richard Wheaton, committed an out
rageous assault upon a little girl, Kat,
Theissen, at work picking bugs in a pc
tato field. The child's cries brought as
sistance and the wretch fed. A warran
was taken out for his arrest The chic
was severely injured.
THE River Falls Journal relates tina
the lightning last Friday morning kille,
thirty-nine sheep for Mr.. Calvin Ran
dali. They were lying in huddle in
lot back of his house, and only three o
them showed any marks of the strok
whatever, and they were only seorched
little.
GEN. BUTLER runs harness shop i
Poynette; George Washington advertise
that he will clean the carpets of Gree
Bay this season; Stonewall Jackso,
blacks stoves in Oconto; Thomas Jeffel
son polishes boots and General Scott run
an express wagon III Milwaukee, Will
Abe Lincoln is in the ornamental white
wash business at Arcadia.
The Edgerton Tobacco Reporter say
that the tobacco market there for tn
past two weeks has been a repetition O
quietude. Plants are making rapit
strides, and present fine appearance
never known to look better at this tim
of the season. Sales are very meagre
Shipments for the past two weeks hav
been very light, including so cases t
New York, SO cases to Chicago, and
cases to st. Louis.
Mrs. HOBKIRK, wife of the WaUpul
banker who absconded some time ag
with the funds of the depositors, has re
turned to Waupun, and is reported t.
be engaged in an effort to effect com
promise with the parties to whom Hob
kirk is indebted. Hobkirk is in Peru
and is anxious to return to the Unite
States. The chances for settlement O
the matter are supposed to be good, a
the creditors would prefer to Withdraw
criminal action for part of their money
THE board of trustees of the institution
for the education of the blind have &C
copied the new main building from th
contractor, Mr.. d. Stephens, of Madison
1t is one of the best public buildings il
the state; probably not so artistic in fin
ish as some, but is more practical, sui
stantial and nearer fire-proof than an
other state building in Wisconsin, ex
cepting the capitol. Another point 0
general interest is it was completed with
in the appropriation granted by the LEG
islature.
THE Janesville Gazette says tina
through the carelessness of boys throwing
| lighted fire crackers, lady in the ThirC
! ward narrowly escaped a distressing
calamity. Some one threw fire cracke
which went under her dress and explod
! ed, and in an instant her underclothin,
was on fire. Her husband happened t.
be near by at that critical moment, ant
it was only by quick work and excel
lent judgment that the flames were ex
tinguished before material injury wa
done to her body.
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