The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-16
STATE NEWS.

liz ohIHCh Jug 10 luleSIlHg the gram
telds in Vernon county, doing much
damage.
THIEVES entered the residence of Mr..
Shepard, in Oregon, Dane county, stole
5000, and escaped.
GEO. JARVIS was instantly killed in
Menasha, on Saturday, by the fall of a
staging.
THREE fires in Depere last week de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property; in
surance, $4,000.
The price of coal in Lancaster has
fallen from $40 to $2S, and the lead com
panies in Mineral Point have taken of
half their forces.
A SALMON weighing four and one-half
pounds, was caught in Cedar Lake,
Washington county, the other day. The
lake was stocked abouta year ago.
THE amount of property destroyed at
Sank City by fire is estimated at so, :
900; insurance, 1900. Eight buildings
were burned.
The residence of Chas. Kingston, Law
renee, Brown county, was destroyed
by fire last Thursday. The barns were
also burned with their contents. Loss,
81 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE earnings of the Wisconsin Valley
road increased from ST. $40 in 1875 to
1872, 457 in 1876. During the past year
this road has expended about $25, 900 for
bridges and about $4,000 for ties.
IT costs as much to ship wheat from
| Oshkosh to Green Bay Ella the Fox river,
distance of less than 80 miles, than it
does on 400 miles of the Erie canal OF
New York Central railroad.
THE Shawano Journal says: The West
Branch, Lower Red river, and Shawanc
Lake drives, containing abont three and
a half million feet of logs have passed
this city this week. They are now in
good water and will have no trouble il
reaching the boom.
THE Central Wisconsin Agricultural
and Mechanical Association are making
arrangements to celebrate the coming
Fourth of July on their grounds in
Watertown, by holding a series of races
The purses are to be unusually large.
DR.. PALMER, of GAINESVILLE, Wis, has
secured the necessary documents from
the state department, in Washington, to
allow him to go abroad and make obser,
vations in the hospitals of the Turks and
| Russians.
IT is asserted that the project to build
railroad from Fond du Lac to Lake
Superior is being started in the interest
of the Chicago and Northwestern road
and to be an extension of the Fond DIT
Lac air line.
THE Hamilton & Merryman mill a
Marinette is done saving until more
logs come down. Logs are coming down
very slowly. There are between 100000,
900 and 100000 feet on the way
which will reach there shortly.
A LAD fourteen years old recently
swan from vessel on Lake Superior a
mile to the shore, the water being icy
cold, and clambered up on the shore ic'
at Laughing Whitefish Point, benumbec
and exhausted. On being questioned
he said that he was going to Marquette,
and gave as reason that " Father said
| he would throw him overheard"
THE Evangelical Lutheran Synod OF
| in
WATERFOWL, Wednesday. The synod was
chiefly occupied with discussing ques-
tions relating to the organization of an
independent synod, and the instituting
of theological seminary for Wisconsin
at Milwaukee. Both subjects are put
over to the Lutheran ministerial confer
ence, at Oshkosh, in August. The synoc
for 1878 will be held in Milwaukee, Tho
first Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
KILBoURN has been disappointed il
respect to the new bridge. 1t was
thought that the St Paul Company
when putting in the new iron bridge
across the Wisconsin at that point
would adapt it to the use of common as
well as rail vehicles; but the company
has decided upon a railway bridge solely
and ferry is therefore necessarily to be
established by the Kilbourn people IL
order to retain such business as they
have been accustomed to draw from this
side Of the river.-Bdrdbo0 Republic.
UNTIL about two weeks ago no season
for many years promised better returns
to the farmers than the present one
| The weather was such as to enable the
crops to be put in in good time and all
But the protracted drouth has served to
check their growth and crops of all kinds
have been seriously injured. So far as
can be Judged at present, no more than
half a crop can be expected, and if we dc
not have rain soon they will be little
less than complete failures. This is a
great calamity, and one which will effect
not only the farmers but all kinds of
business men.-APplet0n Post.
THE Portage State Register tells us that
in 1858, l. NJ. Dow, of Pacific, caught a
land turtle and conceived the idea of
marking his initials and date on his back,
which he executed with a jack-knife,
and turned him loose. Five years after
he was again captured and turned loose f;
in 1870, we believe, he was in like man
ner captured and was again given his lib
erty. Two weeks ago Tuesday (Ma s
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