The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-06
STATE NEWS.

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JEFFERSON COUNTY paid state tax
of ST. ,S22S9
SHEEP-sHEARING festival at Caldwelps
Prairie, May 3d.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY paid 5000 IN
taxes in Taylor county.
The cut on the Menominee amounts to
155, 100000 feet.
DUPLAINvILLE, between Pewaukee
and Brookfeld, is new station.
The new iron bridge over the Fox at
Princeton IS being put together.
The first farm opened in Buffalo
county was in the year 81.
The bonded Indebtedness of the towns
and villages of Grant county is $92,-
O3069
CLOVER seed is cheaper in this state
this spring than for many years-S4. 90
to $3.50 per bushel.
IMMIGRANTS from Germany and Aus
tria, in considerable numbers, are taking
up lands in Pepin county.
ARCADIA and Galesvillc are in mourn
ing over the loss of the Trempealeau
county seat. Whitehall has won.
IT is expected that the Hudson and
River Falls railroad will be finished by
the 4th of July.
WILKINsoN's homestead at North
Prairie, sold recently for $500 and the
farm for S46 per acre.
THESE & Co., of Columbus, slaugh-
tered a heifer last week, % months old,
that weighed 724 pounds.
A LUMBER firm in Oconto is credited
with manufacturing the finest grade of
deals which reach Great Britain.
ELMER GRANT, the Oshkosh youth
who accidentally shot himself in the
mouth while out hunting recently, died
Wednesday.
CHAs. SPIGELBERG, while at work last.
Friday, in camp near Jenny, Lincoln
county, cut his foot nearly off with an
axe.
A "PAPER RAG FESTIVAL" at New
London the other night led to the con-
tribution of twenty-six hundred pounds
of rags.
THE huge jam of logs that has been on
Grandfather Bull Falls since last July,
estimated to contain ten millions of feet.
has been broken.
DURAND, Pepin county, raised the
price of licenses for the coming year from
$50 to SIS for retail liquor and from $50
to $40 for beer license.
WIN. WILDs, at work in the new mill
at Okauchee, near Oconomowoc, had an
arm broken and otherwise badly injured,
while trying to set band, last Saturday.
REV. Mr.. CRUIKsHANKs, of Kenosha,
has a young son who poisoned himself
Monday by eating locust bark, which he
mistook for elm bark. 1t is thought he
will recover.
A SON of Frank Link, of Alma Cen
ter, had his arm crushed and broken by
falling from wagon and being run
over, a few days ago.
POSTMASTER JAMES, of New York, will
preside at the next commencement meet
ing of the alumni of Wisconsin Univer-
versity. U. S. Senator Roscoe Conkling
will deliver the Grafton
Mr.. j. A. HOLMES, an old resident of
Fond du Lac, and whose house was
burned down a few days ago, was found
dead in an clubhouse Wednesday after
noon. He was subject to fits.
WILL K. BRAGG, the son of congress
man Bragg, of Fond du Lac, died in that
city Saturday morning, of heart disease.
He was twenty-five years of age and an
only son.
JAMES WALLACE, a Scotchman, was
found dead in his bed at the Farmers
hotel, GAINESVILLE, Thursday evening, the
result, the doctors said, of " accidental
strangulation while intoxicated"
JACOB SNYDER, who was convicted of
counterfelting in February, 1877, and
sentenced TO two years Imprisonment at
Waupun, was released Thursday upon a
pardon from President Hayes
CYRUS ALDRICH, sentenced by Judge
Ellis to two years in the state prison, for
highway robbery, and Elias Sayres, to
one year, for stealing cattle, left Green
Bay tor the Waupun prison, on Monday
MIR. HOFFMAN, of Auburndale, Jump
ed from the top of car load of logs to
the ground while the train was moving
last Wednesday. Result, a broken leg
between the ankle and knee joints.
A FEW days ago, while returning from
drive, Mr.. David Morrow's team ran
away, near Wausau, and threw him out,
breaking one arm and bruising his head
IN fearful manner. He was picked up
TOR dead, but is recovering.
A BRAKEMAN named Mcguire caught
his foot in frog and was run over by the
cars at Mcmillan, on the Green Bay and
Minnesota road, on Saturday. His leg
was severed below the knee. The
wounded man lives at Grand Rapids.
LAST week some miserable creature
entered Mrs. Settlemcyer's barn, in the
village of Mazomanie, and with a sharp
instrument cut the cords on the hind
legs of her COW just above the gambel
joint.
JUDGE w. S. PURDY and family have
removed from Viroqua, Vernon county
to Kansas. The Judge served as clerk of
the court, county judge and two terms
as state senator from Richland and Yer
non counties.
ALBERT Brown, of Neillsville, whose
creditors forced him into the bankrupt
court on Monday has liabilities to the
amount of 100000. His assets, consist
ing of logs, sleds, horses, etc, will
amount to about $25, 900.
DIR CADY, of Kilbourn City, assisted
by Drs. Russell, Jenkins and Sexton, on
Tuesday removed a fatty tumor from
the spine of the scapula of Mrs Joseph
Clapper, which was of eighteen years
growth, its weight being eight and one
fourth pounds. The operation was sue
cessful