The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-04-12

DURING the past winter III ,OUO, OOU
feet of pine logs have been put in ON the,
Wolf river and its tributaries
The name of the postoffice in Barron
county, known as Morley, has been
changed to Cartwright's Mill.
J. /. CASE, of Racine, will enter the
stallion Gov. Sprague in the Chicago
races; he will 60 in the 2:20 class.
RIVER FALLS: Two dollars for every
male and three dollars for every female
dog, is the TAX to be levied on the first
of May.
JESSE MARRIOTT, aged sixteen, resi-
dent of WalWorth county, committed
suicide by hanging, Friday. No cause
known.
THE Riverside wooden mills at Sheboy-
gan Falls will this week commence run
ming night and day. The product is
mostly fine shawls.
THE ice ON the Wisconsin river is now
quite rotten, and few days more of
warm weather, or shower Of rain, will
start it down stream.
A Mr.. MAXoN, living near Augusta,
had three ribs fractured and hip dislo-
Gated by runaway accident, few days
ago. He will recover.
GEORGE SCHATTLE, son of Charles
Schaettle, of Alma, while playing ball q
| few days ago near the school house, fell,
breaking his left leg below the knee.
The Eau Claire Lumber Co. are put
ting a gang in their new mill. They
will be able to cut 1000 feet per day
at their three mills the coming season.
A YOUNG man named Sorrenson, in
La Crosse, shot a youth named Orth,
Monday, during al alteration. The
ball passed through Orth's right arm.
CHAs. BARKER has sold 100000 feet
of logs on the main Chippewa, to the
Mississippi Logging company, at prices
ranging from $3.50 to $4.75, bank scale.
MOST of the lumber camps IN the
pineries have broken up and everything
about the mills at Eau Claire will be in
fine trim by the time the logs come down.
| The dam on the south fork of the Flam-
beau is now full, and there will be an
eight foot flood to drive with. Here
tofore, there never has been over three
| feet.
QUITE number of people left Fort
| Howard last week bound for Southern
Minnesota. They went over the G. B. d
NJ. railway and under the direction of
Xavier Martin of Green Bay.
CAPT. KNAPP and David Hayes have
decided to form a partnership and build
a new steamboat for the st. Croix river
| She will be running about June LIST, and
will be called the Guy Knapp.
ELDRED & Son, of Oconto, estimate
| thai stooly Of Icro ho n, 81 nnN Ana
feet, of which 100000 feet are on the
SuamicO and the remainder on the
OcOnto, Peshtigo and Pensaukee.
The suit against Buchan & Myers, of
| Union Grove, which grew out of petty
malice on the part of a certain lot of i'll
advised temperance men, cost Racine
county $1,000. So says the Advocate.
SOLOMON STINsoN, a teamster, while
at work in lumber camp, eight miles
| from Phillips, had his leg broken in
! three places, the ankle thrown out of
joint, and horribly crushed, last Satur-
day, necessitating amputation.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth of
Monday says: 1.-The committee ap.
pointed on Saturday evening by the
council sold to-day $4,000 worth of GER
tifcates of stock owned by the city in
the \. W. Z. r. r. company at cents
on the dollar.
The village Of Vandyne, near Fond
du Lac, is bound TO grow and thrive.
The latest Improvement is a large cheese
factory, by Morgan Westcott, of Ripon.
Another large factory for other purposes
is also to be built, and dwelling houses
are in good demand
KIMBERLY, CLARK & Co. have in
contemplation the ere ction of a new and
mammoth mill, on their unoccupied
water power at Appleton. It will prob
ably contain from 80 to- 40 run of stone
and will be one of the very largest
establishments of the kind in the whole
country.
The men who were injured at the fire
which destroyed the Fairchild block on
Saturday are doing well. The State
Journal of Monday says: "People with
scared, plastered-up faces, singed boards
and scorched necks are about quite thick,
to-day. A few of the victims are still
confined to the house"
AT Black River Falls on Friday Judge
Newman sentenced James Galbraith to
state prison for life for numbering Min
ME Wheeler, a child six years of age.
James Nagle was sentenced to three
years at hard labor for horse stealing.
Andrew j. Abbott, youth of sixteen,
was sent to the reform school at Wauke-
sha for having committed burglary.
THE twenty-months' old child who
was thrown from the track by
the engine of the Monroe express,
at Palmyra, last week, striking on
his head against q stone pile, eighteen
feet distance, has entirely recovered.
No bones were broken or severe bruises
sustained. The escape from instant
death is considered one of the most
miraculous.
The county board of Chippewa county
audited the bill of Sheriff Hmnig, for
serving papers in the county foreclosure
! cases at 81, 500, or just S27,550 less than
the bill. The bill of Sheriff Daniels, of
this city, was cut down from Sc, 900 TO
$500. We have not learned what action
Messrs. Henig and Daniels will take,
but doubtless they will refuse the award
Eau Claire Neus, 90.
Mr.. J. ATHERToN, who was three
several times arrested at Palmyra
and conveyed to Jefferson county
jail, for completely in horse steal
ing, on charges made by the horse
thief Mitchell, who is now serving five
years term at Waupun, against whom
no one appeared at time of trial, has
served papers upon those who arrested
him and will try To recover damapes for