The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-08-08

| l3th Milwaukee was selected as the
! place OF the next meeting. The follow
| ing officers We're elected: President, J. 3.
| ;. Perkins, Milwaukee; first yice-pres-
ldent, r. w Hurd, Madison; second
| Nlce-president, j. s. Williams, Fox
Lake; secretary, c. A. Southwell, Mil
waukee; treasurer, B. Douglass, Apple.
| ton. DR.. Perkins resigned as mem
Der OF the examining board and APP
| pointed DIR. Dolbeer, of Oshkosh DR..
McCausly was elected a member OF the
examining board for three years. The
sessions We're well attended. in spite OF
the oppressive weather. heexercises
consisted OF essays, discussions and
exhibitions OF various dental proc
esses. About half the members went
| from there to the meeting of the Ameri-
can Dental Association at Minneapo-
lis
DURING the recent storm lightning
struck the house of Mrs. f. Bradley,
Fall River, going through nearly every
room and then down into the cistern,
blowing the water up. The electric
iiuld Travelled all around the room in
which Mrs. Brown was sleeping. The
| barn ofHugh Hall, in Hampden, some
miles from Fall River was struck by
lightning and burned with its con
tents.
A NUMBER of horses and cattle have
been killed by lightning in the neich-
bOrhood of Eau Claire. Those killed
in fields, in nearly every instance,
were found to be lying close to barbed-
| wire fences, which seem to have an at
traction for the fluid.
THE town and city of Kaukauna are
having some trouble over the settling
OF the towns debts. When Kaukau-
ma became a city the town owed about
S15, 200, and now they are trying to
settle how much each shall pay. Ar
| hltrators have been appointed, Mr.
Phillips, of the town OF Kaukauna,
| representing the town; ID. j. Brothers,
the city. and the third man, Louis
Schintz, was appointed by Judge My
ers.
A WAGONLoAD OF pulp weighing 81,
600 pounds, while being drawn across
the bridge OF the Atlas Paper Compa-
ny, at Appleton, broke through, and
horses, wagon and men went into the
river. Neither the horses nor wagon
were injured, but the bridge was dam
aged to the extent of about $500.
By the running away of his team at
Milwaukee on the 29th, Fred. Kubler,
of the town of Lisbon, a suburb of
that city was seriously and perhaps
fatally hurt.
The State Board of Supervision at
its meeting in Madison on the 29th,
unanimously decided on Sparta as the
location for the new State School for
Dependent Children. Sparta, Ripon,
Green Bay and Stevens Point were the
| only four places that received votes
on the first secret ballot, favor being
shown in order named. After several
ballots the board united on Sparta.
Gov. Rusk will approve Of the decis-
I ion. The precise location in Sparta
has not yet been decided upon. Sew
eral sites have been offered. After the
selection of site bids will be adver-
| tised for Immediately, and it is hoped
the school will be in readiness for the
| reception OF pupils next spring.
GEN. BBAGG, who was chosen a mem
| Der OF the congressional committee to
attend the Grant obsequies, will not
be present, as he has arranged for
fishing trip to the Lake Superior coun-
try during August.
CHARLES STAGER, who was acciden-
tally shot in the abdomen by his
brother on the farm of H. B. Fales in
| the town Of La Prairie, died from the
effects OF his injuries. The deceased
was about 21 years old, resided in the
northern part of the state, and was
unmarried.
A %, l., l.
ly occurred in Florence. Albert New
man locked his house and went out
on his homestead. He missed his dog
but thought he had strayed off. I'M
agine his surprise then, when he re-
turned the other day, after Just twen-
tyslX days absence, and found that
he had locked the dog in the house,
where he had remained all the time
without a mOuthful OF food, a drop of
water and very little air. When found
the dog could barely crawl. The poor
brute refused food at first, but drank
water ravenously and is now as good
as any Other dog.
GODFREU LAFOND, of Sturgeon Bay,
intends to embark in the fishing busi-
ness at Galveston, Tex, and is fitting
out with the necessary apparatus.
He intends to leave about the middle
OF August and will make the trip in a
MackInaw boat.
THE Pierce County Veterans are
making preparations for the reunion
at Maiden Rock, which takes place
September 3, and ).
The Mondovi Herald says that
there is a telephone war there between
citizens and the telephone company,
growing out of mutual dissatisfaction.
RICHARD MURPHY, of Eau Claire, has
130 acres of spring wheat in which the
chinch-bug has made havoc. He
thinks theentirecrop will not be equal
to a fair yield from twenty acres.
PETER WALSH, father OF Assembly
man Walsh, and one OF the old set
tiers OF the state, died at his home in
Milwaukee on the Goth, at the ad-
vanced age of 100 years.
IL the vicinity of Clear Creek, Eau
Claire County, not a drop of rain fell
in seven weeks.
w. T. GILES, of Bedford, Ia. a
prominent music dealer, who was shot
and killed by Miss Ida Kimball,
daughter of a prominent business man
OF that place, was Il business char
acter in Waupaca County a few years
| ago His parents now live in New
London.
OSCAR OLEsoN, aged II, was
| drowned in the Menomonee River at
Milwaukee on the 27th, while bathing.
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