The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
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was drowned.
DAVID FITCH has the job of building
the extension of the Milwaukee and
Northern between Menasha and Apple
ton, and already has the material on the
ground, and will commence the WORK OF
grading on Monday.
The Grand Rapids Tribune says that
the June frost killed all the cranberry
blossoms above the surface on the " big
marsh" but that from the buds that
escaped a considerable crop OF very hne
berries will be gathered.
The Knapp, Stout Il Co., company
have bought of the North Wisconsin
Railroad company 90, 346 acres of pine
land located in Barron, Burnett ana
Chippewa counties. The consideration
is $4,000, or less than five dollars per
acre.
Fl. NJ. LooMER, who sold out his
paper, the Shawano Journal, and went
out to Montana with colony to grow
up with the country, has written letter
to Wisconsin people: IF you have q
good home, and are doing reasonably
well, stick to it."
D. J. SPAULDING, a lumberman, OF
Black River Falls, has made an assign
ment to his brotherin-law, W. I. Price,
for the benefit oFhis creditors. His OBJ
legations are said to amount to $500, 900.
His assets are estimated at from half a
million to a million and halt.
THE Fond du Lac Commonwealth says:
"The biggest fish ever caught in de
Neveu lake was taken from there on
Saturday morning by L. M. Wyatt. Its
length was ~ inches and its weight 20
pounds. 1t was pickerel, and required
a fight of nearly hall an hour to secure
him.
a FEW days ago the furnace at Iron
Ridge exploded from a surplus of gas,
and a workman named August RandIin
was so badly burned that he died in a
short time. Another workman, d. Hen
derson, barely escaped by jumping
though window, his clothes being badly
scorched.
THE Bayfield, Press says last Saturday
the Eva Wadsworth succeeded in run
ming down and capturing large, fat
buck which the hounds had run into the
lake near Houghton Point. He will
probably grace an Ashland park-possi-
bly, become an attraction in the Chequa-
megon grounds.
THE Oshkosh Northwestern says: Last
Friday afternoon an old man, aged SO
years, named James Sallow, residing
with his son-ir-law, E. Stead, near Fisk's
Corners, made an attempt to commit
suicide by cutting his throat, but with
out success. The old man is feeble and
not very strong mentally.
ORvILLE TYLER, an old citizen of
Waukesha, and one highly respected,
died on Wednesday evening. His dis
ease was liver complaint, and his suffer
ings were quite painful. He was over
sixty years of age, and had been resi-
dent of Waukesha and a prominent
business man for twenty years.
The Oshkosh Northwestern says that
the barn of John G. Donkey, in the
town of Nekimi was totally consumed
by fire last Thursday night. The barn
was nearly gone before the occupants
were aroused. A horse in the stable
was secured badly burned. A large
amount of hay, tools and harnesses were
burned. Insured for $3.50 in the Cont
mental.
THE Fond du Lac Commonwealth
says: The grasshoppers are doing and
have done more damage to grass and
grain than all the chinch-bugs in this
vicinity. The hoppers are running the
pastures and the aftermath of meadows
as well as cutting the heads from oats.
In some localities they have almost de-
stroyed late oats.
FRED. WILLIAMS, convicted in Fond
du Lac, ten years ago, of the murder of
Nathan Young, and sentenced to prison
for life, has just been released upon an
order of the Supreme Court obtained
eight years ago. He has always main
tanned his innocence, and, as the evil
dence was wholly circumstantial, it is
possible that he has suffered wrongfully.
THE Fond du Lac Commonwealth says
that George Richards, of Western ave-
nue., reported robbery which occurred
at his residence about ten days ago by
which he lost gold watch valued at
$50 and IS in cash. The robbery took
place in daylight, while the ladies of
the house were at their work. The thief
came at the kitchen door, entered a bed
room and took the money from one
drawer and the watch from another of a.
bureau. -
THE Lodi NeTs says: A son of John
Greenman, about II years Old, living
near Windsor, Dane county, was badly
cut by the sickle of a reaper on Wednes-
day last. The horses ran away, and he
was thrown ON or in front of the plat
form in some way, and both limbs were
terribly cut up, the bones of one being
entirely severed, and the other pierced
entirely through by some part of the
machinery. One limb will probably
have to be amputated.
THEentire amount appropriated by the
River and Harbor Appropriation act for
the current fiscal year has been placed
to the credit of the War DEPART
ment, and it has been determined to dis
burse the entire sum in making the va
rlous Improvements authorized by the
act. The following is the amount appro-
prlated to Wisconsin:
Milwaukee harbor. 81. 800
Two Rivers harbor ......... 10000
henomonee harbor 10 ono
Port Washington harbor. 1900
"a Ahnepee haroor.... ..................... 1000
Manltowoc harbor. 6 200
R " heroor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
henosha bor......,.,..,. < 600
Superior Bay harbor. 5000
Green Bay harbor d 900
Sheboygan hsrbor 600
Fox and Wisconsin rivers ......... $50 900
Sturgeon Bay canal. 10000