The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-20
STATE NEWS.


WAUPACA COUNTY lakes are soon to
receive $4,000 young trout.
ONE brewing firm at Prairie du Chen
pay a revenue tax of 81 $50 per year.
| THE total amount of unpaid state tax
is S31 ,319.19.
| LA CROSSE has potatoes of the crop of
1873, raised by Mrs Potter, in an open
garden.
! GEORGE BURPEE, prominent citizen
of Elkhorn, died, Monday afternoon,
from consumption, aged So years.
A WAGON road is to be built across
Horizon marsh, on the county line east
of Waupun.
DIR. CHARLES MUTH, of Sheboygan,
was thrown from his buggy last week
and suffered painful injury.
CAPITAL LODGE, No. 1, of Madison,
organized in 1856, is the Oldest Good
Tempiar lodge in the world.
PURSES aggregating 81 900 will be of
fered at the trotting tournament to be
held at Ripon in June.
EAU CLAIRE will expend more money
on building improvements this season
than for five years past.
Miss CLARA, daughter of DR.. 5. ).
Judd, of GAINESVILLE has determined to
make the stage her profession.
julius PEGLEAR, of Elkhorn, was
shot in the hip by the accidental dis
charge of his gun Friday, while hunting.
CY. WEIGH, of Depere, was last week
found guilty of highway robbery, and
will probably serve the state at Waupun.
J. SULLIVAN, living near Monroe, had
span of horses killed by lightning few
days ago.
! SoUTHERNERS and others seeking re-
treat during the summer months are
already f1ocking into Wisconsin's resorts
! THE boy Rolf and his girl, who eloped
from Spring Green last week, have re-
turned home after being married in Sank
City.
IF the season moves along, as is indi-
Gated now, it will bring the wheat har-
vest about the second week in July-in
good time to steal a march on the bugs
/ FOND DU Lac had triple crystal
wedding on Monday, the parties having
been married in that city March 18th,
1868.
Mrs. REYNOLDS, who recently died at
Kingston aged 5years, leaves husband
aged 80. They had been married &c
years.
LAST week Chas. Miller, Jr., and two
other young men captured and killed,
near Sharon, a large she-bear with three
small cubs.
Hon. JOHN LEIGH contemplates build
ing paper pulp mill on the site of his
saw and grist mill, on the Oconto river,
lately destroyed by fire.
The perjury suit against 0. P. Reed
and the ENLIGHTENMENT against Dana c..
Lamb, OF Fond du Lac, have been set
tied by mutual agreement.
REUBEN REED, aged SO, a well-known
business man of Fond du Lee, died from
! the effects of paralytic stroke Thursday
night and was buried Sunday.
Mrs. STERLING, of Durand, while at
work near her stove, Saturday last, had
fainting fit and fell upon the hot stove,
burning and scalding herself very badly.
AT Platteville, Thursday evening,
, while one of Mr.. VIM GrindelPs little
boys was playing in a hay-loft, he acct
dentally fell to the ground floor of the
stable, breaking his collar-bone.
JOE CALLAHAN was sent down from La
Crosse 70 McGregor the other night,
cut in about twenty places. His face
slashed, and gashes across the abdomen
and hips
Miss MARGARET MARTIN, sister of
Mrs. Thomas Snyder, near Sextonville,
sustained an injury fro.n a fall, from the
effects of which she died and was buried
on Monday.
ELMER GRANT, of Oshkosh, while
hunting with Charley Boynton, near Al
gonna, on Saturday, was seriously, if not
fatally, injured, by the accidental dis
charge OF gun.
/ CHARLES DREGER, of Oak Grove.
Dodge county, while pulling out stumps
with span of horses ON Monday last,
had his leg broken between the knee and
ankle, breaking both bones.
ONE of the oldest inhabitants f." of
Wisconsin, says that people who talk
about this being mild winter don't re-
member back far enough. In the winter
of 1879 not snowflake descended.
JOHNNIE WARD, of last years GNU
tuals," leaves GAINESVILLE for Binghamp-
ton, n. Y, next Monday. He will play
with the club at the latter place this
season.
LAST week Paul Painter, of Albion.
Rock county, took 10 market three hogs,
which weighed respectively 40, go and
645 pounds; also a pig, ten months old,
that weighed 40 pounds.
Hon. j. /. CASE, of Racine, has re-
ceived some valuable horses from Roch-
ester, n. Y. They are Narragansett.
Newport and Belle Bartese. Narragan-
sett is a half brother to Gov. Sprague.
and Newport has trotted in 2:31.
The buildings of the Industrial Mu-
scum in Prague, the capital of Bohemia,
were built by Mr.. Volta Naprstek, for
merly leading Bohemian citizen of
Wisconsin, at cost of $4,000 and by
him donated to the city.
The verdict of the coroner's Jury in
the rape and murder case, at Tomah. is
thai Mrs. Nancy Ann Ryan was muir
dered by Fred Berg, German tobacco
MIST, and that the instrument used was
the handle of a pitchfork Berg has
been taken to Sparta for safe keeping.
MAJOR WIN. w. GRAHAM died, few
days ago, at Phillipsburg, Montana.
Major Graham was the son of the late
Captain Humphrey Graham, who, in
connection with Governor Alexander
Charters, settled on the banks of Rock
rlver over forty years ago.
IHE dells dam at Eau Claire. across
the Chippewa was completed on Satur-
DAY and the gates shut down. It 1880
deet long and Is feet high. The lock is
500 feet long, 40 feet wide and an foot