The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-04-10
WISCONSIN, STATE VIEWS.

JOHN Nj. HIsLoP, who disappeared
from Milwaukee four years ago, and
who vas thought to have committed
suicide by drowning, has turned up at
Philadelphia, whittier he had skipped
on account OF financial troubles
A STATE carnp-meeting has been ar
ranged by the Methodist Episcopal
Church, to be held on the Monona
assembly grounds Immediately after
that body adiourns next summer. 1t
will continue about ten days and it is
expected will prove a large and sue
cessful meeting. The speakers will
embrace eminent revivalists. including
Harrison and Chaplain McCabe. An
| effort to secure Sam Small will proba-
! bly, not be successful, owing to Mr..
Smalps being occupied elsewhere at
| that time.
W. W. WooDMAN, OF Poysippi, has
six hands engaged IN making maple
syrup. He is tapping 1,700 trees.
A LARGE party of NoIwegians have
gone from Mt. Morris to settle in Da-
kota.
MOST of the logging camps along
Wolf River are deserted. The break.
up is earlier than usual, and the total
crop OF logs will be about 20 per cent.
less than it would have been but for
these distractions. An early drive
and plenty OF water is anticipated, as
there is yet a good deal of snow on the
ground in the woods.
Mrs. E. l.. BRowER, q teacher, died
at Milwaukee on the Both, from an
overdose oil chloroform.
THE cotton factories at GAINESVILLE
were set in operation on the 29th un-
! der prospects OF a busy season. They
had been closed all winter.
JOHN MCGovERN, q contractor, fell
between fifty and sixty feet from the
top OF the new elevator at the Daisy
mill at the foot of Washington Street,
Milwaukee, receiving internal injuries
and severe bruises about the body.
He had one hand broken.
| TWENTY-FIVE girls employed in the
| knitting factory, at La Crosse, struck
against reductions Of prices on GER
tain class OF work from 20 to 18 cents
per dozen. The officers OF the compa-
ny say they are paying more than 9th
er factories, and think the girls will
| return to work.
THE treasurer of Bridgeport is short
in his accounts and he has disap-
peared. The amount of his shortage
| is not stated.
l.. l. ROBINSON died at his home in
Janesville on the 9th. Deceased was
born in Erie County, Pa, in 1914;
came to Belvidere H., in 1S45, and
went to California in 1S49. He came
| to GAINESVILLE sixteen years ago, and
was for long time identified with the
Harris Manufacturing Company.
AT noon on the 9th, fire destroyed
the barn, tobacco shed, fifteen tons
of hay, grain, farming utensils, and a
number OF swine, the property OF Ira
cy Montgomery, residing four miles
east of Evansville, in the town OF
Porter, Rock County. The fire origi-
mated in the shipping room attached
to the tobacco sheds while Montgom-
cry was at dinner. Loss about
$4,000, partly covered by insurance
| in the Continental, OF New York.
IT is now definitely determined that
the Vienna Mannerchor will not visit
Milwaukee in body during the San
gerfest, but will be represented by a
delegation.
THE ice went out at La Crosse on
the 9th, and the river is now open
the entire length below. Above the
ice is solid at the railroad bridge and
one or two other points, with which
exception the river is clear to the foot
! of the lake