The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-24
STATE NEWS.

to have new spire at a cost OF S3, 244.
PERSONAL taxes, dubbed delinquent,
in Winnebago county foot up S1,310.37.
G.. A. PiERsoN, of Mazomanie, has an
apple tree that is just coming into bios
som.
NEENAH's assessment roll for 1878
foots up 81, 1913, 2S1 as against 81 o35,0Sl
for 1877.
WINNEBAGo couhty's public school
income for the year 1878 amounts to
$6,051.63.
A NEW postoffice named Sloran, has
been established in the town of Pierce,
Brown comfy.
THE Jefferson county fair will be held
at Jefferson from the 18th to the 10th of
September. inclusive.
NINE telegraph poles were recently
struck by lightning on the line between
Mazomanie and Madison.
THE Fair of the Dodge County Agri-
cultural Society, will be held at Juneau,
September Sd, 18th and 9Th.
PETER AULER's residence in Oshkosh
was burned Tuesday morning. Loss
$1,000; largely insured. Incendiarism is
suspected.
THE Forest House" the largest
hotel in Wausau, was totally destroyed
by fire on Thursday. Loss $4,000; in
surance $4,000.
Mr.. WILL ECKERs, a son of j. Eckers,
a farmer of Marshfeld, fell from a reap
er, Friday, and had one of his legs sew
cred by the sickle.
THE town of Trenton, Pierce county,
raised 42l ,182 bushels of grain last year,
AMI made 1850 pounds of butter, and
164, 297 pounds of cheese.
LAST Tuesday John Gordon, of For
restville, Brown county, cut his leg
severely with a scythe, below the knee,
nearly severing the main artery.
THE "Webb Mineral Spring" water
at Ashland is said to contain about 80
grains to the gallon of solid mineral
matter, chiefly bi-carbonate of lime, soda
and magnesia.
MAJ. j. G. CLARK, of the engineer
corps, is the gentleman who has been de
tailed by the war department to take
charge of the survey of the headwaters
of the St Croix, Chippewa and Wiscon-
sin rivers.
EXAMINATIONS of teachers in Jefer-
son county will be held as follows: AT
jefferson, August %, % and "a; at
Palmyra, August 80, 80 and 81; at Wa
terloo, September %, a, %, % and 81;
at Pipersville, October 8, 10 and IL; at
Rome, November 20 and 80.
AN insane patient at Madison jumped
overheard while the inmates of the asy-
lum were being treated to boat-ride on
Lake Mendoza, Saturday. John Long
field, engineer of the boat, saved him,
making the third insane person Long
field has saved from drowning.
The young lady, Miss Brandt, who
fell from Castle Rock, last spring, and
has been laid up with a broken limb
since, was taking her first walk, we I'M
derstand, one day last week, when she
again fractured the limb in the same
place, and the slow process of recovery
will have to be gone over again.-SParta
Herald.
a YOUNG German of MauSton, named
August Paulus, shot himself, Monday,
because the girl with whom he and his
brother were in love (Miss Blass)
liked his brother better. August
popped the little bullet into his little
head, but he will probably recover from
both bullet and love.
On Thursday last the mammoth and
most complete hog pen in the world was
burned. 1t was the property of the large
numbering firm of Knapp, Stout & Co,
MenOmonee, and was valued at from ten
to twelve thousand dollars. At the time
of the fire there were about thousand
hogs in the pen, but they escaped to the
pasture connected with it and none of
them were burned.
CAPT. YOUNG, of Medina, came near
meeting with a singular accident. He
filled his pipe with tobacco from his
pocket, in which there was some revolver
cartridges. He accidentally put one of
those in the pipe and it went off, blowing
the pipe to atoms; it just grazed the cap
tain's nose, but it did no iniury.-Nee-
nah Times, 3d.
AT Menasha, Monday morning, the
clothing of Mrs. Turner, wife of Capt.
Turner, of the National Hotel, took fire,
and before the flames were extinguished
she was badly burned on the lower limbs,
back and arms, and received severe
shock to her nervous system, but her in
lurles are not necessarily fatal
Gov. SMITHS military secretary, Col.
G.. w. Burchard has notified the gentle
men comprising the military staff of
Gov. Smith, that the governor has ac-
cepted an invitation to attend, with his
staff, a field reunion of the veteran
soldiers of the counties of Dunn, Pepin
and Buffalo, to he held at Durand, on
the 18th, 9Th and 9th of September, and
inviting them to be present on that
occasion.
"SECTIoN l of chapter 800, laws of
1874, is hereby amended, so as to read:
Section /. No person shall catch, kill, or
otherwise destroy, or have his possession
or expose for sale in this state, between
the first day of January and the 10Th
succeeding day of August, in each year,
any woodcock, quail, grouse, prairie hen
or prairie chicken, partridge or ruffied
grouse, under penalty of ten dollars for
each said game bird caught, killed or had
IN possession or exposed for sale"
The last drive of logs on the Wolf
river, that of Tim Cranes, has reared into
the boom and rafting was commenced
on them this morning Rafting will be
finished at the boom this week. The
crop exceeds the estimates by about ten
million, the whole footing up to about
seventy million feet Oshkosh North
lCestern 18th.
FRIDAY night as the construction
train which was returning to this city
was rounding sharp curve on the Air
Line raj road Moor tho old ATOlliC House