The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-09
STATE NEWS.

ASNUSSu w To pei Ii.ouSd1lQ 16GC,
The Murphy movement still has COM
plete control of Durand, Pepin county.
STEVENS POINTS new iron wagon
bridge is 526 feet long.
The Brown County Agricultural So
clety meet in Green Bay March 18th.
JUDGE WHITE, of Whitewater, is at
the point of death, from consumption.
IT is said that $500 deer were killed
IN the Green Bay peninsular last season.
RIVER FALLS has given $4,000 as a
bonus to the Hudson and River Falls
Railroad.
JANEsvlLLE's directory, for 1878, con-
talns 3,435 names, an increase of 400
over 1876
CAPT. LUTz, of Sheboygan, caught
1000 pounds of lake trout, with hooks,
on Wednesday.
Co. E., 9TH Wis. V. v, will hold a re-
union at Westfeld, Marquette county,
on Decoration Day.
RACINE ice houses are being stocked
from the Mississippi river, via the West
ern Union railroad.
The northern Wisconsin fair this year
will be held at Oshkosh, from September
23d to the 9th, inclusive
AN ice dealer in Madison has received
an order for 100 tons of ice from Nash
vile, Tenn.
DICK VALENTINE, of GAINESVILLE, Sc
cured lst and I'd prizes for his dogs at
the st. Louis show.
WINNEBAGO county has settled with
Elbridge Smith, county poor superin-
tendent for ST, 177.36.
Mr.. S. ID. ("Pump y CARPENTER is
now editor and proprietor of the daily
Patriot, of Carthage, Missouri.
The liabilities of w. n. Coleman, who
recently failed at Fond du Lac, amount
to $4,000, with $4,000 assets.
GRADING on the Chicago & Tomah
Railroad marrow gauge) between Reads
town and Bloomingdale, has been com
pleted.
The La Crosse directory for 1888
contains 1890 names, an increase over
1876 of 440. This indicates population
of nearly $4,000.
WEST. JOHNSON, of Clinton, Barron
county, on Saturday last, had his hand
badly shattered by the accidental dis
charge of his gun.
GENERAL MANAGER r. F. WILSON
OF the Chippewa and Red Cedar railroad,
with his corps of engineers, have COM
pleted the survey of their road.
A WORKMAN named James Monroe
had his leg broken last week at Allen
Cameron's lumber camp on the Eau
Claire.
On Tuesday Mr. Richard Tew, of Oak
field, suffered a compound fracture of his
handles arm by the running away of his
team.
OSCAR GOULD, brakeman on the
North Wisconsin, was thrown from the
cars few days ago, run over, and almost
instantly killed.
HE Wlnnebago county poor commit
tee have been investigating their super
intendent, and find him in arrears to the
tune of $1,332S6.
FIVE prominent lumber firms in La
Crosse manufactured during 1877:
Lumber, 18,9l0,000 feet; lath, 2,475, 900
pcs; and 100000 shingles
Mrs. MoERTEL, who was injured from
jumping from Milwaukee and St. Paul
train, near Oshkosh, last week, died
Wednesday from the effects of the acct
dent.
The Chippewa Falls and Western
road, besides paying expenses, paid
81, 500 on its outstanding paper, SC that
now the road has nothing but its bond
ed Indebtedness.
A MAN by the name of John Sullivan,
supposed to come from Eau Claire, was
seriously hurt at logging camp near
Hinckley, Mimi, and was taken to Pine
City, where he died a few days ago.
GoTTLIEB HEILMANN, a prominent
business man of La Crosse, died Tuesday
morning, aged "a years. Mr.. H., pre-
vious to 1857, was resident of Milwau-
kee.
MASTER BERTHE PITCHER, of Eagle,
while feeding a corn-sheller for his faith
er, last Saturday, had his hand drawn
into the machine and very badly man
gled.
LAST Monday, near Green Bay, man
by the name of Joe Crefcoeur, while
chopping in the woods, had his leg
broken above the ankle, rendering ampu-
tation necessary.
JOHN II. DURFIE, of Omro, received
letter few days since containing a gov
eminent check for 1895 back pension
since his discharge, and certificate for
s. per month for the remainder of his
life.
A MAN named John Kirsch, living in
Raymond, was killed on Wednesday
morning, near the Rapids, about three
miles from Racine, by being thrown I'M
der runaway team, and tramped and
kicked to death.
THE oldest lumberman in northern
Wisconsin has been heard from. He
says the winter Of 1916 beat this winter.
No snow fell at all, and they had to send
to Milwaukee to find out when the
spring commenced.
LAST Tuesday, as Mr.. Samuel STRAIT
ton of Spring Lake, Pierce county, was
engaged in unloading saw logs from his
wagon, by some Encouragement, he al
lowed one to fall upon him, causing his
death almost instantly.
Mr. JAMES KILEY, who lived about
five miles west of Lancaster, died sud-
denly last Monday evening while return
ing from Bridgeport, to which place he
had been with load of pork.
THE contractors of the Dells improve
ment have asked for an extension, (forty
days. until the 10th of April, in which
to complete the work, and the Dells l.
Company have refused to grant their re-
quest.
JOHN YOUNG, the Oldest member of
the Masonic order in Wisconsin, and who
had taken the thirty-third degree of ma
sonry, died Monday at Reedsburg, aged
0Q vears He was one of Sank countv,s