The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-03
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

Oh the season on Friday.
HE Foster house at Milton Junction
is now completed, and is already having
a lively patronage.
JOHN HART, of Watertown, last sea-
son shipped TO New York 10000 boxes,
or 100000 pounds of cheese.
GEO. CASEY, engineer at the Novelty
Iron works, Fond du Lac, by a recent
fall, suffered quite severe Injuries.
THE Chippewa river has reached such
a low stage that steamboat and raft navi-
CATION is almost entirely suspended.
A SON of James McLinden at La
Crosse fell from a barn window on Sat-
urday, and sustained serious injuries
PEDDLER's licenses must be taken out
May 1st All old licenses expire on
April 30th.
CHRISTIAN DAHL's house in La Crosse
was burned on Sunday. Loss $500; in
suranee small.
SAM ISLANDER, of Ashland, met with
painful accident recently, shooting off
three fingers Of his right hand.
MRS. MYRA KNAPP, of Kenosha, is
on trial for the shooting of Mr.. Balm,
last fall.
The Kennedy Brothers of Highland,
Iowa county, lost over two hundred hogs
recently by cholera.
AUSTIN WANG, a mail carrier, is under
arrest at Madison charged with appro-
priating money belonging to DR.. VIM.
J. Donald of Mt. Vernon.
TIE body of john Humel, who was
drowned last November, was found on
Sunday, floating in the lake four miles
from Beaver Dam.
CHARLES BOEss is in limto at Fond
du Lac, for murderous assault on the
keeper of the county insane asylum,
where Boess was an inmate.
MIDWAY, La Crosse county, was
burned by a spark from locomotive,
on Monday, only two Of the twenty
houses escaping. Loss, $4,000.
CARRIE MILLER, a good looking girl
OF scarcely twenty years of age, was sent
10 the Green Bay poor house Monday for
thirty days, charged with vagrancy.
The Wisconsin State Agricultural
board have decided to hold the next
annual fair at Madison, September
to Is.
WIN. BLACK, a farmer living in North
Freedom, Sank county, was on Saturday
seized with a fit, and fell in a creek and
was drowned.
JAMES DENsM0RE, of Markesan,
Green Lake county, will have this year
500 acres of wheat, 100 acres of oats and
100 acres of corn.
A YOUNG man named Bennett was run
over by freight car near Fennimore,
Grant county, last Sunday and died
almost Immediately.
THE examination of Wenzel Morazek,
for the murder of Matthias Nenahlo, at
Reedville, was concluded Saturday. He
was held for trial without bail.
AN unsuccessful effort has been made
of late to revive Cassius Fairchild Post
of the Grand Army of the Republic, at
Madison.
The barge Uncle Sam will be launched
at Madison, about the middle of May.
1t will take the patients of the State
Insane hospital upon their usual weekly
trips around the lake.
HERMAN MEYER, of Fond du Lac, OH
Sunday evening took by mistake dose
of arsenic, but by the prompt admins
tering of emetics he will suffer no i'll
effects from the drug.
Gov. SMITH has returned to Madison
from short trip to Washington, where
he has been on business for the state,
looking up the school and swamp land
interests of Wisconsin.
THE wife of /. Brix, of Clintonville,
presented her husband with the eigh-
teenth child last week. Sixteen of these
Il. ~ IL
able to be about.
HENRY MURRAY, of Fox Lake, lost
or had stolen from him on the 10th inst,
pocket book containing some $3.50 in
currency and note for $3.50, given
in September 1878.
The outward freight traffic on the
Fl. & r. T. railway from River Falls, for
the month of March aggregated 2, 751 ,472
pounds--a large increase over any pre-
ceding months business.
AT the state insane hospital near
Madison somewhat extensive improve
ments are being made. The legislature
appropriated $4,000 last winter for en-
largement of the heating apparatus.
THE Saul & Lally numbering establish
ment, at Chippewa Falls, was sold for
So, 400 under foreclosure, on Saturday
last, the Northwestern LAUNDERING COM
pany, of Eau Claire, being the purchaser.
GEORGE ROBB, of Sun Prairie, the
other day, mistook an open hatchway Of
basement for the front door steps and
plunged headlong down into the cellar.
He received fearful cut upon the
forehead.
A VALUABLE stallion valued at 81 500
which had just been imported from scot
land, and was en- route to Wausau, was
burned to death in freight car between
Mcmillan and Hatfield on Wednesday
afternoon.
HUDSON, st. Croix county, is to bav
water works. The plan is to locate a
large reservoir high upon the side of the
bluff, and by means of steam engine at
the lake force water into it through pip
ing laid for that purpose.
The building of assembly hall at the
state university is being ra pidly pushed
forward, and when finished will be a
credit to the state. The architect esti
mates the entire cost, after glass, fur
naces, ETC., have been put in, at $4,000
The jury of inquest On the body of
Nellie Stewart, at Madison, arrived at
the conclusion " that the woman came
to her death from the effects of bad
whisky, an insufficient amount of solid
nourishment, and exposure"
EDGERToN, Rock county, reports re-
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