The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-06-18
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES


The court house to be erected at Wan
paca will cost SIS, 900.
COMMENCEMENT week at Racine COLLEGE
begins on the Doth of this month.
THE 50, 500 trotting stallion. Gov
Dodge, owned by j. H. Durham, of Ju-
neau, died recently.
JOHN MONTGOMERY. SR., Of Aurora
vile, was fatally kicked in the forehead
by horse, recently.
CROPS in the neighborhood of Manito-
voc are looking better than is usual at
this time of the year.
REUBEN g. INMATES, the associate
editor of the State Journal, has gone to
Colorado for his health.
MAYER & Co. s stave-mill, in the town
of Pittsfield, was burned on the 8th.
Loss, S., 900, with no insurance.
A TERRIBLE hail storm, which did
much damage, is reported from Scan
dlnavia.
THE telephone instruments at Green
Lake Station we're injured by lightning
recently.
COMMENCEMENT week at the state uni
versity begins June 18th, and Ripon
college June 18th.
j. Y. WATTS broom factory, near
Eau Claire, was destroyed by fire ON the
It'll. Loss, 81, 900.
TIE Indians near Chester had
drunken row, recently, and III the melee
a papOose was killed.
INCENDIARIEs attempted to fire the
Rosenheimer elevator, at Kewaskum, re
tlu Int 7 Il
j. FITzsIMMoNs' barn, Sparta, was
burned recently, together with It's CON
tents, entalliDg loss of some $500.
A FAMILY named Pelton, near Sparta.
lately lost SIX children (the entire num-
ber) from malignant disease of the throat.
The Walworth County Baptist associa-
ton convened ON the 9TH in its thirty
fourth annual anniversary at Walworth.
II. j. KIMBALL, of Omro, had his
house destroyed by fire on the Sth. The
loss is not stated, but it was fully COW
cred by insurance.
The prohibition candidate for governor
in this state two years ago was recently
incarcerated i'll the Racine jail for drunk
enness.
IL. j. STETsON, an extensive dealer in
dry goods at Waupaca, has failed with
liabilities aggregating $11, 200; assets,
$4,000.
The new board Of control met at the
Delavan deaf and dumb institution yes
terday, and reelected the principal and
steward.
THE annual meeting of the Veteran
Soldiers and Sailors union of Grant
county commences on the forenoon of
June 9th.
ARTICLES of association have been
filed with the secretary of state for the
erection of a new public hall in Black
River Falls.
INVITATIONS have been issued for the
silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. d. H.
Pulcifer, of Shawano, which will occur
on Jul y 9th.
A FEELING is gaining in Ripon and
Green Lake that the missing DIR. Patten
was not drowned, as no trace of his re-
mains has yet made its appearance
The jury in the case of Frank Nelson,
found dead III the woods near Beaver
Dam, recently, with bullet-hole in his
head, returned verdict of suicide.
THE out-buildings of William Noyes,
near GAINESVILLE, were destroyed by light
ming recently, as well as several hogs,
two fine carriages, and 500 bushels of
corn.
SHAwANO COUNTY has appropriated
5000 for the purpose Of making rail
road survey from the shores of Green
Bay through the county to the Wiscon-
sin river.
JOHN HUTsoN's barn, in Big Creek,
near Sparta, was destroyed by Lightning,
recently, together with a valuable bull
and some tools. The loss will aggregate
500 or $500
A YOUNG justice of the peace at Pc
waukee, recently, went through the mar
mage ceremony with a couple tfor prac-
tlce." All the parties took it as Joke,
and not binding, but it turns out they
were mistaken.
The Waupaca district Methodists
have decided on a spot at the "Chain of
Lakes " near the town of Waupaca, for
holding the yearly camp-meeting. The
meeting will begin the first week In July.
The seventh annual council of the
Episcopal diocese of Fond du Lac is in
session at the city of Fond du Lac. In
addition to the members of the council,
some twenty or more invited clergymen
are present.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts have made
their appearance in considerable num-
bers IN Green Lake and Marquette
counties. They had been predicted for
that section by Prof. Riley, the state en-
tomologist of Illinois.
I. A. PAMPRIN, of Fort Howard.
while working in a lumber mill at
Stevens Point, recently, had an arm
broker N two places by being caught In
the belt and carried over the shaft Had
not the belt broken, he would probably
have been killed.
THE Oshkosh Times thus tells how o
woman lost her fingers: A woman
named Kilranie was standing in field
holding a horse by the name. The
horse became frightened at something
and started suddenly. The name was so
firmly wound around the lady's fingers
that when the animal started they were
taken out nearly as nicely as any physi-
clan could have done it.
AN old gentleman named Curtis, of
Madison, who recently went insane, Gre
ated considerable stonishment by making
contracts with parties unaware of his in
Fiction for the digging of some sixty cell
lars in Charles City, Iowa, whittier he
had gone on business for his son. Forty
were dug before the true state of the
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