The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-15
STATE NEWS.

VERNON Co. fair September 19th-2lst.
MADIsoN's personal property foots up
1897, 120.
The total loss by fire in Fond du Lac
during August was $500
Hon. HORACE RUBLEE has about re-
covered from his late severe illness.
MRS. DR.. STEELE, of Appleton, has
returned from trip to Europe.
The Willow River Mills, in Hudson,
have been sold for $4,000 to Comstock,
Clarke & Co.
THE squirrels that have made the
Capitol park their home, in Madison,
have departed.
LA CROSSE is putting in water pipes
ar is having the usual list of accidents
ion sudden caving in of the trenches
THE Mcdonald saw mill at Fond du
Lac, will begin operations about October
LIST for the season.
Mrs. ABBIE CARRINGToN, of Fond
du Lac, has gone to Milan to finish her
musical education.
OLIVE p. QUINNEY, only daughter of
the celebrated Indian chief, John w.
Quincy, died Monday, the 9th ult.,
aged So years, at Stockton
THE bank at De Pere has suspended
business, caused by the failure of Meeker
& Co., of Chicago. The depositors lost
nothing.
AN oil lamp exploded in the residence
of Joseph Lesage, Green Bay, Tuesday
morning, and the house was burned to
the ground. Loss, 81, 800.
A YOUNG man at Prescott had his
nose shot off, one eye put out, and sus-
| tanned other injuries by the discharge OF
a spring gun that had been set in a melon
patch.
ASHLEY ID. HARGER, for many years
editor of the Oconomowoc Times, has
been taken to the Oshkosh Insc he
Asylum in the hope of mending his
shattered intellect.
] WEDNESDAY morning Wilbur F.
Paine, farmer of the town of Fitch
burg, aged thirty-four years, while build
ing shed, dropped dead, from hemor-
image of the lungs. ~,aaus
The twenty-second annual session OF
the Grand Lodge of Good Templars met
in Madison Tuesday About 200 dele
gates were present. The reports showed
a membership of $4,000 in the state.
On Wednesday, S. w. Cross, foreman
of, the windmill works, got his hand
caught between large grindstone and it,
frame, mangling the back of it badly
No bones were broken Waupun Times
THE friends and neighbors of the
family, of Mr.. Lean, of Ottawa, wfo
was recently killed by lightning, have
contributed for and built barn in place
of the one destroyed by the same stroke
that killed Mr.. Lean.
WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, Fifth wardel
who burglarized the steamer Nellie
Thomas on the Fourth of July, wa!
yesterday arraigned before Judge Ben
ton. Upon the plea Of guilty he wa
sentenced to one year at Waupun.-L
Crosse Democrat
A LITTLE two-year-old daughter of c
B. Stevens, of De Soto, while alone il
the room got hold of bottle of lauda
mum, and drank portion of the col
tents. Medical aid was summoned, anC
after twelve hours work the child's lif
was pronounced safe.
CHARLES DECREMER brought into GU
office on Monday a sweet potato that ht
had raised in his garden. 1t was a foo
in length and d inches in circumference,
at the largest part-as fair and sound a.
any that we ever saw. He promises t.
show us some peanuts of his own raisint
by-and- by.-Green Bay Advocate.
VIM. LUMB, of Troy, reports whea
taken from the field, threshed, cleaned
sent to mill, ground and made into bread
all in six hours from the time it wa
taken from the field, he eating some o
the bread at the expiration of that time
THE engine and three cars of grave
train on the F. A. & z. Narrow Gauge
r. r. ran off the track just outside o
Fond du Lac, Tuesday morning, injuring
John O'Connor, John Sullivan anC
Michael Cahill seriously, but not danger
ously.
Door and Kewaunee counties have
been formed into a mission district of the
Episcopal church by Bishop Brown
The mission church is to be located a
Ahnapee, at cost of from 81 800 tt
$4,000. Already both the land and .
good amount of building material have
been donated.
THE successful bidders for supplying
the legislature with stuff were the
following: For gold pens, c. A. Belden
of Madison, 81 227 SO; knives, Mosely &
Brother of Madison and GAINESVILLE, ST,
423. %; writing paper and envelopes, II
Niedecken & Co., Milwaukee, 81, 5S5
stationery, J. M. w. Jones' Chicago, 81,
697
MEN, women and children hereabout:
have been engaged the past week har
We ting the hop crop, getting 80 cents q
box in all the yards northeast of town
it is said to be an excellent crop. Thurs
day morning a Baraboo hop-growel
started for his home with a load OF Madi
son feminine pickers-Madison Journal
AN unusually large crop of barley was
harvested in this county, but it now
turns out to be generally of very poor
uuality Good clean unStained barley