The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-04-19
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

WINNEBAeo county isnow out of debt.
The young men of Madison are Or
ganlzIng company of cadets.
OCoNTo saw mills will have a stock of
100000 feet of logs.
| The Durand Congregationalists are to
build church this summer.
| ROBERT KENT of Osceola, comes in
for s., 600 pension, having fought in
Mexico.
A NUMBER of half breed Indians at
Bayfield,, got out papers, election day,
and voted.
THERE will be no saloons in the vii
fages of Arena, Helena and Lone Rock
during the coming year.
| julius WEILEP, village treasurer of
Kewaunee, has absconded with the vii
| lage finds to parts unknown.
The Mutual Protection association of
Wisconsin is new insurance organiza-
ton with headquarters at GAINESVILLE.
KNAPP, STOUT & Co. during the past
winter banked on the Red Cedar and its
tributaries over A, 100000 feet of logs.
TIE La Crosse city treasury shows the
total receipts of the past year to have
l DICh 81 CA,OIf.A dDu Vic OlSDuIsSHISnlS
S1S3, 117.23.
Mr.. KNAAK, of Black Wolf, Winnie
! bago county, who was kicked in the
temple by vicious colt last week, died
from the effects of mis- injuries.
A PINE tree on one of the tributaries
of the Wolf river scaled 6,S7l feet, be-
sides two logs which were spoiled by
breaking, which scaled 1890 feet.
CHARLES W. MCINTYRE has received
the appointment of special agent to look
after pine land trespass in Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
A FLowIEG we'll has been opened in
| Appleton. Water was struck at depth
of about rs feet, and flows about 20 feet
above the surface.
| The Barron county ChronOtgDs saws:
Hawkins Taylor, of Washington, d. c.,
has taken the contract for all the differ
ent mail routes in this part of the state.
On Saturday some one set fire to tie
marsh up at the head of Ahnapee river,
where SkimmelI & Janda had about 30
| 600 ties banked, and they were all de.
strOyed. Loss about $4,000.
Mr.. THOMAS L. JONES, of Wyoming,
Iowa county, was seriously if not fatally
injured few days ago by falling from
scaffold upon which he was working on
new house.
AT meeting of the patrons of the
Fall River cheese factory on Thursday
last, the offer of the proprietOrs, to make;
box, and deliver cheese at the depot, for
l. cents per pound, was accepted.
A COLONY of rs men with AZ spans of
horses from Black River Falls left for
Minnesota last week. The colony is
located few miles south of WATERFOWL
on the Winona and st. Peter railroad.
A SUIT has been commenced in the
District Court at St. Paul by James
Mcintyre & Co. against the Eau Claire
Dells Improvement company, to recover
dam in Wisconsin.
AN Emerald Grove man passed through
the city yesterday, having been out to
Leadville. He has a brick in his satchel
which he estimated as worth $4,000. It
was a good deal better to come home
with such a brick in gripsack than
brick in the hat.-JdheSviIie Gazette, It'll.
| On Thursday afternoon, Mr.. Hiram
Miracle, of Vinland, while going to Hor-
tOnville with LOAD of lumber, fell back
wards from the wagon, striking on his
head. He was picked up in an insensi-
bic condition and at last reports he was
in dying condition.-OShkoSh North
Scestern, 18th.
The boat house at Angle-Worm Sta
ton, belonging to the Madison Boat
club, was entered by some miscreant, on
Thursday night or Friday morning, and
the shell.bOat Lady Tenney was very
seriously injured, two large holes ten
inches in length being cut IN the side of
the boat.
THE GAINESVILLE Gazette of Tuesday,
says: Rev. Jenk Ii. Jones received the
sad and sudden news that his brother
Thomas, living near Helena, had fallen
from a house which he was building
and was probably fat lly injured. Mr.
Jones took the night train and hastened
at once to his brother"
EMMA ABBOTT on Sunday attend
ed divine service at the Presby-
terisn Church at Waukesha, where her
mother, brother and sisters reside, ard
after the sermon, by the request of the
pastor, she favored the congregation
with two hymns, "Nearer my God to
Thee" and Guide Me, On Thou Great
Jehovah"
YESTERDAY two surveying parties
took up the line of extension of the NJ,
l.. S. & w. R. E. One began setting
grade stakes where the line crosses the
Shawano road, and the other started
preliminary survey northWard from
Dupont. Everything indicates that the
pick and shovel will soon be in opera
tion.- CIintonville Herald, 4th.
The Green Bay Gazette of Friday
says: eve learn that the contract for
carrying the daily mail between this city 6
and Sturgeon Bay during the ensuing
four years has been awarded to Z. n,
Parker, of St. Louis, Mo. Mr.. Parker
has also secured the route north, and
the contract for carrying the tri-weekIy
mail between Sturgeon Bay and All
napee."
Mrs. DODGE, the owner of the Dodge
House, at Tomah, was found drowned in
a creek near the house on Monday
morning, but whether it is a murder or
q case of suicide has not yet been deter
mined. She had rented the hotel to her
son, Geo. Drake, who with his wife are
under surveillance, his alleged ill-treat-
ment of his mother causing suspicion to
rest upon him.
A. KNUDsoN met with peculiar and
severe accident at Marinette few DAYS