The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-23
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES,

debt of $50, 900 at per cent.
A $4,000 HOTEL is to be erected at
Oconto A stock company will do it.
BELoIT has an anti-horse thief So
ciety of between 200 and 800 members.
A SUIT originally involving SO was
settled in Fond du Lac recently, fol
$500.
WASHINGTON COUNTY farmers will
plant sugar cane extensively the coming
season.
SAMUEL PAXTON, of Omro, was recently
killed at Phelps camp, near Jenny, by
the rolling of log from skidway.
The store and dwelling of Pomphtz
Bros, in Stettsonville, burned Sunday
night. Loss, 5000; insurance, 81 800.
DIR. r. S. O'CoNNELL's residence, in
Cato, near MaDitowoc, was entered by
thieves and $500 worth of valuables
stolen.
A. TAYLOR, of Chelsea, killed five
large wolves about three miles from that
village last week, the largest weighing
| 100 pounds.
THIEVES entered the grist mill of
! Frank Herchenbach, Wausau, recently,
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pounds of feed.
4 Mr.. I. CRAwFooT's bee cellar, in Hart
i ford, YVES invaded by water during the
rain two weeks since, aud SO swarms of
bees were "spoiled.'
JOHN WELLS, of Beloit, fell from the
roof of a barn, striking upon his head,
and causing injuries of which he died on
Monday. Deceased was aged 80 years
and leaves wife and two children.
Tony BALDWIN, of Shullsburg, and
Frank Thompson, of Hazel Green, while
gambling at the latter place, became en-
gagged In a quarrel, ending in Thompson
shooting Baldwin dead.
GEORGE CUTLER, assistant yard master
of the Milwaukee and st. Paul at La
Crosse, was severely injured Saturday
by his head being dashed against the
corner of side-tracked caboose. He
was standing on the platform of a pass
ing train, leaning over, when the acct
dent occurred.
EDWARD ELLISON, a farmer residing
on Joseph's Ridge, near La Crosse, lost
four children from malignant Gphtheria
within two days, and his only remaining
child is not expected to live. His wife,
through grief, is also in a precarious po-
sition.
SQUIRE BARNES, of Dayton, bought
in October, 1879, twenty-four head OF
old sheep at one dollar per head, which
he has since shorn and fed together with
the lambs they raised last spring, and
which he has now sold, including the
wool, for $275.35.
THE following articles of association
have been filed with the secretary OF
state: The Wittenberg association, OF
Shawano county, who propose to estab-
lish college at Wittenberg; the Green
wood Park association, of Waupaca,
whose object is to build hotel and es-
tablish a summer resort at Hicks Lake
capital stock $4,000.
FOND DU LAC Commonwealth: The
! O'Connor brothers, who have been sink
ing an artesian well at Sheboygan Falls.
during the winter, for Mr.. Harvard Gid
dings, on Wednesday last struck four
inch stream at the depth of twelve hum
dred feet. The water comes out too
salty for use, and they will be compelled
to go two hundred feet lower in order to
find the desired water.
day as Mrs. Stillman was coming to
horses and sleigh belonging to John
Bourke coming up behind her. Bourke's
team got frightened and ran away, thus
coming suddenly on to Mrs. Stillman,
who was badly hurt, beng tramped on
by the horses and bruised, but we believe
no bones were broken.
SHAwANo Journal: The Menomonees
receive their last annuity this spring.
As they begin to plan for the future,
without this money to fall back on,
things seem to look pretty deary for
them, and they are getting more anxious
that their pine should bring them in
some return, instead of being allowed to
rot and burn up. They will probably
ask unanimously from the present con-
gress for this relief, and citizens of this
part of the state will as unanimously ask
that their request be granted.
MADISON Democrat: 1t is reported
that the Wisconsin Sabbath School as
sembly has issued stock sufficient to IN
sure a capital of $1,000. A large pro-
portion of this capital stock has been
sold. The assembly will probably locate
permanently at this city; property hav-
ing been offered for the purpose by one
of Madison's prominent citizens. 1t is
the intention to hold such summer en-
campment for Sunday school work as is
annually held at Chautauqua Lake, New
York.
ARTICLES of association have been filed
with the secretary of state for the incor-
| Is h.
Railway company, to build a railroad be-
tween twenty and twenty-five miles long,
that shall connect the two towns. The
capital stock of the company is fixed at
100000, to be divided into shares OF
800 each. Among the incorporators are
S. A. Pease, l.. A. Perkins, S. Fallon, J.
F. Lowe, j. B. Cogan, Aug. Plath, w.
f. Roskie, A. M. Morrill,, M. Derham
and S. A. Perkins
CLINTON Herald. Michael Muooly,
living about four miles from Clinton,
left Sharon recently on foot for his home,
five miles distant. He finally reached
the residence of Mr.. Allen, one OF his
neighbors, who tried to persuade him to
remain over night, but he declined. But
after starting again he became Devil
dered, lost his way and persisted but
about half mile from his home His
family believing he had remained in
Sharon, did not become uneasy concern
ing his absence until Saturday, when il
was ascertained he had left Sharon the
previous Wednesday evening. Search
was instituted and his body found Sun
day noon frozen. There were indica-
tions that he was making an effort to
return to the residence of Mr.. Allen