The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-04-26

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THE Arkansas was the first boat
through Lake Pepin this season.
THE town treasurer elect of Eldorado,
Fond du Lac county, cannot qualify.
The trappers are getting good crop
of muskrats from the WinnebagO marshes.
The stock fairs held at Burlington are
proving very successful and will be con-
tinued.
THE dwelling of Mr.. VIM. Yule, of
Thompson's Valley, was burned on Mon
day last.
SAM ALIENS extensive bennery has
been removed from Chippewa Falls to
Hudson.
The Green Bay savings bank is set
Ting up affairs preparatory to going out
of business.
KEN osHA's city treasurer, city clerk,
city marshal and assessor receive $400
each per year.
WORK is booming at the Marinette
Iron works, the shops being in operation
day and night.
DELAvAN on Tuesday voted to rein
corporate under the general laws by q
majority of 104.
RUST & KEMPT, of the Eau Claire
Lumber company, will operate the new
st. Paul boom for five years.
A CHILD, six years old, was drowned
in the Catfish, near Madison, on Sunday
No name or particulars given.
THE freight shipments from Fond du
Lac on the c. and n. w. R'y aggregated
9,946,6l0 pounds during March.
A STURGEON about feet long, weigh
ing 35 pounds, was caught in the Chip
pewa by some boys on Thursday.
EDWARD KIRK was arrested at La
Crosse on Tuesday charged with an as
sault with intent to kill VIM. Dolan.
EAU CLAIRE lumbermen and others
look discouraged at the aspect of affairs,
as the prospect for driveis uncertain.
A YOUTH of sixteen named St. An
drews, and maiden of fifteen, Miss
Kinney, have eloped from Fond du Lac.
The La Crosse and Winona rife match
was shot on Sunday. The score at the
finish was: La Crosse, 1,143; Vino a,
1,070.
The present outlook justifes the ex-
pectation that the lumber trade of the
Mississippi will exceed that of any for
mer year.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR from Chippewa
Falls, Neillsville and Menomonee at
tended divine service Easter Sunday at
Eau Claire.
CHARLES FRENzEL, Of Oakfeld, Fond
du Lac county, has been held to trial
in $3.50 bail for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
SOME of the Upper Wolf drives will
probably be consolidated, if there is
enough water to warrant it. Work will
begin this week
Il. III. MARSHALL, of FIT. Howard,
while attending to business at his store
on Monday was suddenly stricken with
paralysis, and at last advices was very
low.
The State Horticultural society has
published the rules to be observed, and
the list of premiums to be awarded at
Its fair, to be held in Green Bay in June
next.
NJ. & B. VANDENBERG, of Holland.
Brown county, gave bonds on Friday, at
Green Bay, to appear, the 28th inst, and
answer the charge of selling liquor to
minors.
JOHN PETERSON, of Menekaune, who
recently had some of his fingers on one
of his hands badly smashed at Green
Island, had them amputated on last
Monday.
HE dimensions of the new Fond du
Lac yacht " Pinafore" are 80 feet over
all, with % feet perpendicular and 10
feet 2 inches beam; depth Of hold 2 feet
10 inches.
LUMBER rates on the Mississippi are
at least 81 below the prices obtained in
March last year. But very few of the
mills along the river are now running,
owing to the scarcity of logs.
The body found floating near Fond
du Lac on Monday is believed to be
that of q Frenchman named joseph
Breatt, who fell from the J. II. Porter.
last October, and was drowned.
HE contract for the erection of DIR.
Jacobs summer hotel on Lake Monona.
was on Monday awarded to A. d. Camp
bell, of Poynette. The hotel is to be
ch-isteped Tonyawaha." God of
waters.
PAc"ChO S9fSc Ol water on the
Black, Chippewa and Mississippi rivers
is very low, and will not admit Of driving
or handling logs at the booms on anY
OF the streams tributary to the Mis-
sissippi.
AT Green Bay On Friday, Joseph
Moklnson was arrested on the serious
charge of threatening to set fire to the
farmhouse, barn and premises of Martin
). Dormal. His trial was set for the
Oath inst.
a TRAIN of so persons from Pictou,
nova scotia, en- route for St. Vincent,
Manitoba, passed through Madison on
monday, ever the Chicago and North
western railway. One hundred more
Will follow about the 18th.
HE two barns of Thomas Souires
whose farm is the old Ostrander place
Two miles south of Waterloo, were burnt
Gown last week. A threshing machine
FARMING implements, and quantity of
CAREY and hay, were destroyed.
IHE North Wisconsin built twenty
mics OF new road last season, and have
arranged to begin work on a further ex-
tension of twenty miles almost imme
dlateiy. This latter extension will give
a route of 100 miles. The terminus of
the road is ultimately to be at Bayfield,,
on Lake Superior.
h. NORTON, son of Miles Norton. Of
YORK, Dane county, was last fall caught
Ia threshing machine at Lansing.
Mimi, and had his arm fractured and
otherwise badly injured. 1t declines to
heal 60G lost woaH h:o fo+t,or ~oo.:-l