The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-03-17
BADGER GOSSIP.

Reedsburg to England.
III FARMERS in Washington county
B sowed small quantities OF wheat last
4 week.
SERGEANT ALARMS Tom Reid has
been presented with ten volumes OF
Chambers Encyclopedias.
A PIKE weighing over nine pounds
was caught in Lake Monona, last Thurs
day.
QUITE a number of new buildings are
to be erected in Mukwanago village this
spring.
Mn. EBoN FULLER, of Waukesha,
sowed eight acres of wheat on the 9th
of February.
REV. Mr.. ROYCE, of New York, has
accepted call 30 the rectorship of
Christ Church, GAINESVILLE.
THIRTx members of the Legislature,
who boarded at the Capitol House in
Madison, presented the table attend
ants with SIG, as gift.
BRYAN J. CASTLE has retired from the
aeditorship of the Prairie du Ohien
Union, and John r. Bergman has
taken the vacant position.
SUIT has been commenced against the
bondsmen of Ira B. Pope, late County
Clerk, of Clark County, to recover a
shortage of S., 900.
SCARLET FEVER has been raging all
winter IN towns adjoining Oconomowoc,
and large percentage of cases have
been fatal.
ST.. PAUL's Episcopal Church, of
Beloit, Rev F. Royce, pastor, has con-
tributed S25. ITO II, in the past eight
years, or 50. 221 IA year.
THE Eau Claire Lumber Co, esti-
mates they will cut about 1000 cords
of wood from their land which will be
evertlowed by the Dells.
A TEAM of horses belonging to Louis
WEIGH, of Stockbridge, valued at $500,
were drowned in lake Winnebago last
week.
THERE are 100 men at work on the
North Wisconsin, and it is expected to
have twenty miles cleared ready for
grading by the 1st of April.
THE jury in the trial of young
Loedke, the train wrecker, at Palmyra,
were absent twenty-five minutes, re-
turning verdict of guilty.
Two PALMYRA boys encountered
large gray wolf by the roadside near the
village last Monday, the second seen
within week in that town.
The action of the waves has done so
much damage to property along the
shore at Kenosha that the authorities
contemplate driving piles along the
shore to form a bIeakwater.
A FARMER near the town of Spring
vale, Fond du Lac county, surprised
two thieves who attempted TO clean out
his 8ranery, Thursday. One thief was
captured and brought to the city.
SEVERAL citizens of Palmyra united
with friends from abroad in a grand
wolf hunt at that place on Saturday last.
Though wolves are plenty in that
vicinity they were 7 lsuccessful.
Mr.. VIM MCCARTNEY, of Marinette,
has recently purchased fat-gang from
lumber firm at Red River, which is
being put in his saw-mill. He will also
put into his mill a set of live rollers.
THERE are one hundred and seventy
six civil and nine criminal cases on the
calendar of the Circuit Court of Fond
du Lac county, Court is now in
session.
j. A. SMITH, of Sheboygan, intends
to start cheese factory at Cedar Grove
this spring. This will make the third
factory Mr.. Smith will operate the
coming season.
The residence and an adjoining stable
belonging to Mathew Laskin, in the
town of New Denmark, Brown county,
were burned last Thursday. All the
contents were consumed.
REPORTS from the northern part of
the state are to the effect that winter
wheat has been killed, but shows vitality
IN some places. Should the re-
mainder OF the spring prove favorable, a
fair crop may be expected.
Az apparently domesticated deer APP
peared at the farm of Mr.. James A.
Stewart, in the town of Vernon, Wau-
kesha county, about the 25th of Janu-
airy, and since thst time has remainad
IN the vicinity, passing his time with
cattle at different farms.
The Green County Reformer says:
THE building of railroad down the
Peoatoniea Valley may now be consid-
cred q fixed fact. This will probably
be loss IN trade to Monroe of over
S400 600 year"
TIE time for the Fourth Annual In
dustrial and Agricultural Convention,
under the auspices of the Northern
Fair, has been fixed for Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday, March Goth,
21st and odd. The Convention will be
held il Oshkosh. An interesting pro-
granme has been arranged.
q NEENAH banker named Shields was
accidentally locked up in the bank
while talking IN a vnunc lady tho teller