The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-17
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

BRICKLEY d OFT have 5000, 600 feet,
in their boom on the Little Eau PLANE.
The Doty's Island camp meeting wiiE
begin July I'd and continue eight days
A NEW bridge has been built across
the inlet at the upper end of Green Lake.
DANCES at cheese factory openings
are now in order throughout the state.
A LARGE piece of virgin copper has
been found on the state university farm.
The camp meeting at Byron, Fond du
Lac county, will commenc &c on the 18th
of June.
A GRAND Masonic reunion win be
held at Eau Claire on st. Johns Day,
June Oath.
A YOUNG son of John bundle had his,
arm broken, Tuesday, at Princeton, by
falling from s wagon.
EAU CLAIRE is to have branch rail
road built from the main track to the.
several mills in the city.
HARRY MOORE caught seventeen
black bass, weighing forty-seven pounds,
at Geneva lake, ON Monday.
THE body of Myrcn Barber, who died
recently in Texas, was brought to Lima,
Rock county, for burials
c.. BELL, for selling liquor without
license, at Platteville, was fnea $50 and
costs in each of three cases.
The extension of the St. Paul road
has reached the city limits at kenOsha,
and cars will soon be running.
LoG-DRIvING on the Upper Wiscon--
sin has been abandoned for the present,
owingto the low stage of water.
A SON of G. Lefelholz, living near
Dickeyville, Grant county, was killed
last Wednesday by the Kick OF horse.
FOND DU LAC borrowed on time
orders the last wear $51 900, and paid
81, 930.5S of interest tor the accommoda-.
ton.
CoNKLIN q GRAY, Of Madison, re-
ceived the contract for furnishing the
capital with coal during the ensuing
year at 1919 per ton.
A LITTLE daughter of Frank Shappeep
who resides at Hatfield, Jackson county,
fell from a box on Wednesday, breaking
both bones of her left arm.
ID. J. SPAULDING, of Black River
Falls, lost a valuable stallion on Thurs
day of last week, of inflammation of the
lungs, for which he paid 81 500.
]. d. GOODMAN, in the dry goods
business at Ft. Atkinson, has failed, and
his stock is being sold by S. M Levy, OF
Watertown.
THE c., M. & ST. P. Co. has large
gang of men planting hedge of ever
green trees along the railroad between
Ripon and Oshkosh.
| A CURRENT rumor says that Ben But
Ter owns $1,000 acres of land in Wiscon-
sin, and offers to give it to the negroes
who are leaving the south.
THE Lake City Guards, of Madison,
has y members on its roll, and expects
soon to number 100-the law allowing
| 80 privates, besides officers and drum
corps.
The state fish hatcheries are in -four
ishing condition, and plenty Of all kinds
of young fish, except brook trout, will
be ready for distribution during the
season.
A WOMAN living in the town of RoE-
bury, some 10 or Is miles northeast OF
Black Earth village, fell or jumped head
first into barrel of rain water one day
last week and was drowned.
PROCEEDINGS have been instituted in
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recover lot of logs alleged to have been
cut On government land in the town of
Howe, ShawanO county, by one John
Farrell.
MRS. Polly JOHNSON, of the town of
York, Dane county, aged SO years, whose
husband was volunteer soldier in the
war of 1912 in New York regiment, has
applied for pension. If successful in
the effort, she will draw from 1000 to
81 800, being from 1865.
GEORGE GALE, of Galesville, Trem-
pealeau county, lost a gold watch three
years ago which cost him $3.50. Re
Gently he took a turn along the creek
where he supposed he had lost it, and
was both surprised and delighted to find
it comparatively uninjured.
THE loss to the G. b. q NJ. Railway
company, at Grand Rapids, will approx
innate from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t is
thought that from $4,000 to $4,000 will
repair the engines, and about So, 600 will
replace the building and appurtenaDces,
The loss was partly covered by insurance
WHILE Carl Garnish. the little five
year-old son of Emil Garnish, Esq, of
Ashland, was playing on the depot
SIouhdo diOunu VI usu ulC Will StN-
eral children, day or two ago, his
clothes took fire, and before they could
be extinguished he was severely if not
fatally burned.
The Windsor, Dane county, cheese
factory proprietors are to make such
changes in the factory building as will
enable them TO make both butter and
cheese, and to run the factory the year
round, using the milk of 800 cows
Mrs. SAM HoDGMAN was poisoned at
Beaver Dam, on Tuesday night, through
the carelessness of Louis Minkey, a boy
clerk in Peter Beule's drug store, the
prescription not being compounded cor
rectly. DIR. Schimoneck says the chances
of her recovery are very doubtful.
ELIAS AND ISAAC PALMER, brothers,
are in Dane county Jail for safe keeping;
} sent from Polk county. Isaac is charged
with numbering a man to obtain posses
sion of his wife and Elias with commit
ting a rape on mere child aged ten
years, the daughter of the aforesaid
woman. They will be held until the
, November term of court.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Fond du Lac, Amboy
and Peoria railway at Fond du Lac on
Tuesday, the following were elected
directors: Ex-Congressman VIM. p.
Wolf and S. V. Landt, Upton, Iowa; j.
A: Barney, Mayville, Wis; Judge
Alopzo Kinyon, Alexander Mcdonald,
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