The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-04-05
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

n NEW mall route has been established
from Langlade to New.
ALL the lumbermen on Chequamegon
bay agree in saying the yield of saw logs
in that vicinity excels that of any other
season.
JOHN BRYAN, for burglarizing
Clancy's store in Racine, was sentenced
to three years imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
A YOUNG man in Fond du Lac,
named Seldom Rose, was seriously
burned and half-blinded by explosion of
powder he was mixing q few days ago.
He will recover.
Ir is estimated that the log crop of
1879 on the tributaries of the st. Croix
will not fall far short of Us, 900, 900 feet.
The prospect for big money" in logs
this year is not encoursging.-St5tLo0dter
MeSse, GER.
JAS. JOHNSON, an employe of the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western
Railway company, had his hand SO badly
crushed as TO render anputation neces-
sary, by getting it caught between the
bumpers, while coupling cars at Manito-
voc last Saturday morning.
A YOUNG man by the name OF HeW-
lit, of Mount Pleasant, is held under
$500 bail for reading scurrilous paper
in public audience, rejecting upon the
good name and fame of q young man
and bis sister, by the name Of Baker, OF
the same place, says the Green county
ReJormer.
The total bonded Indebtedness OF
Fond du Lac is $160, 600. OF this 49,
900 bears eight per cent. interest and
commences to fall due in 1891, in ten
annual payments Of 81, 500 each. The
compromise bonds are for S94 ,0O0, bear
six per cent. interest, and fall due in
1884 and 1885.
WE hear, that Notwithstanding the
recent cold snap a good deal of blowing
has been done in the agricultural dis
tricts, and doubtless some wheat has
been sown 1t is almost an unfailing
rule that the earlier the seed can be de-
posted in the ground the better will be
the crop.-MadlsOp Journal.
A BELOIT dispatch of the Goth says:
Charles Bedell was arrested for being
drunk to-day, and confined in the lock-
up. He soon dug Out and reappeared in
the saloon, covered with lime and NOR
tar, saying he did not like the place.
Notwithstanding his dislike and trouble
be had taken he was re-arrested and sent
back.
Gov. SMITH issued the following COM
missions Tuesday: Trustee for the state
hospital for the insane, Knud Heogh,
NJ. D., of La Crosse, vice r. E. Davis,
term expired. Managers Industrial
school for boys, Edward O'Neil, of Mil
waukee, and Vim. Blair, of Waukesha,
both re-appointed. Trustees Of the
institute for the education of the blind,
Ephraim Bowen, Of Brodhead, and
Cyrus Miner, of GAINESVILLE, both re-
appointed. Trustees Of the inftitute for
the deaf and dumb, Aaron l.. Chaplin, OF
Beloit, and S. Reese La Bar, of Delavan,
both re-appointed.
The international commercial conven-
ton, which assembled at New Orleans
last December, passed resolution rec
ommendipg that the governors Of the
several states in the Mississippi river
basin should appoint three commission
ers from each state as members of q
board of commissioners to unity and
direct public sentiment relative to
the improvement Of the Mississippi
and its tributaries. Gov. VIM. E.
Smith has appointed the following
commissioners to represent the interests
of Wisconsin on such proposed board:
Edward ID. Holton, of Milwaukee, Jno-
LAWYER, of Prairie du CHEN, and r. 4.
Wentworth, OF Portage.
The Clintonville Herald says: The.
fact that that the Milwaukee, Lake Shore
and Western railway will be extended
at no distant period in the future, is an
unquestionable certainty; the route it
will pursue only seems to be the issue.
Two routes have received sort of pre-
llmlnary survey, one via Shawano to the
recently developed iron mines in ranges
ID. 10, IL and Is, east, the other pursu-
ing a northwesterly route from this point
through western Shawano and Oconto
counties, taking a direct course for
Ontonagon, its final point of terminus.
The only object of the Shawano route is
to reach the aforesaid iron mountains;
aside from this there is not redeeming
feature in the country along the Sha-
Wano route after leaving Shawano.
LAST Wednesday night, Clarence, aged
10, son of Mr.. Ward, who lives about
one-haf mile north of the village of
Mcfarland, was left as sole occupant
and guardian of the household. He re-
tired early, but was aroused about ten
o clock by noise at the blinds Of the
kitchen, adjoining his bedroom. TAX
ing his double-barreled shotgun in
hand, he advanced to the scene of diff
Guilty, and discovered that some one
was trying to get in; in few moments,
Clarence meanwhile waiting with
courageous patience, two heads
peeped in at the open window. The
boy took aim; the cap on the first bar
rel was discharged, but missed the mark.
The foremost tramp perceiving that the
battery had become exhausted, Jumped
In the window, with rather an unusually
desperate determination, and ran up to
Clarence who retreated to the stove, on
which lay butcher knife with which he
he'd been cutting kindlings before going
to bed; grasping that weapon, he slashed
at the burglar, giving him a severe stab
IN the breast. Knife still in hand,
Clarence dashed from the house and ran
to neighbor's, Mr.. Stewart, and there
stayed till morning. At daylight.
an expedition to the Ward house
was made. 1t was found that the
floor and window-sill were covered with
blood, as well as Clarence's bed, from
which sheet had been torn, evidently
to stanch the burglars wound. Tracks
OF blood led out into the yard and were
then dissipated. Nothing further has
been seen or heard of the burglars, who
are undoubtedly of a party of tramps
who had been hanging about the neigh
h0Th0nd