The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-08-29
BADGER NOTES.

THE Lincoln County fair this year
promises to be the best ever given by
the society.
SECRETARY TRUE says that the stallion
Nelson has been secured 10 trot ut the
state fair.
ABOUT l20 acres are used for the Mari
nette cncampment. including the rifle
range.
CHARLES NoLNEE, of La Crosse. who
spent several winters at Madison a.
clerk of the judiciary committee. assist
ant sergeant alarms and assistant post
master, is dead, after Il lingering i'll
ness.
THERE is a very severe drouth pre-
vailing in the counties of Polk and Bar
ron. Crops are suffering severely. Po-
tatoes will only make one-tourth of 4
crop, and corn Will lie total failure.
Small grain made an average crop, and
hay about one half.
The Ashland Rifles, which National
Guard Company does not belong 10 any
regiment, has gone into camp on Made
line Island.
The man who threw himself in front
of a train at Ashland is supposed to be
Joseph Bouchard. of St. Alphonse,
7. @
HANS HANSON has been doing some
eXCavating on his farm near Sturgeon
Bay, and the result is the discovery II
two large chunks Of iron ore. The
pieces will probably weigh twenty IONS,
and specimens submitted to n locsi jew
eler developed 50 per cent. of pure
metal.
DEPUTY SHERIFF ERNEsT BURMEIsTEE
has resigned hJssposltion as turnkey at
the Dane County jail. He WAS ap-
pointed by sheriff Mead when the new
administration came into power. Bur
melster says he resigned because of the
abuse he received from Mrs. Margaret
Murphy, prisoner in the jail. He
further states that Mrs. Murphy has
the freedom Of the whole place and
the sheriff would not allow him to lock
her up.
WORD is received at Eau Claire that at
Redwood Falls, Mimi, Mrs. Jennie Me
Cam, of Altoona, Wis, who WAS arrest
ed for clipping from her husband. man
aged To escape the custody of Deputy
Sheriff McClintock with her children
just before McCamn, her husband.
arrived on the train from the East TO
claim the children. He was much cha
grined and is again in pursuit. Wicks,
who ran away with Mrs. Mctann. Is
Cam, the injured husband, was ut Bar
sboo when he heard Of his wite's esca-
pade.
CHRISTOPHER IEoroID, n Milwaukee
tcamster, who ran over Hattie Scisow-
ski June - causing her death, was held
for alleged mansaughter.
TIE full detailed arrangements and
plans for the annual outing of tho state
Press Association VIII bc announced in
few days. This wears excursion
promises TO he one of exceptional in
tcrest. The start will be made from
Chicago iii October. Thence the party
will proceed to Louisville over the Mo
non route. visiting Mammoth Cave,
Nashville, Chattanooga, Lookout Mount
ain, pass over the Western x Atlantic
Railroad, along every mile Of which
battle was fought, st npplnE n Marietta
and marching on through Georgia to At
lanta. The expense viii be very small
and an unusually large party is expect
ed to take advantage of the proposed
excursion.
Two Eau Claire men, Ben Johnson
and jim Martin, fought II pugilistic bat
tie for girls hand. Martin wa victo-
rious, but the girl refuses TO have any
thing to do with either, because Of the
fight
| RtE. u AklES +. bENNEil, nilt lijS
occupied the chair of Latin in the State
University for the past two year, has
left for Providence, Il. o., where he has
accepted a similar position in Brown
| University.
TIE largest yield of wheat reported III
Trempealeou County Is from the town
| of Gale, whore ole Scrub threshed IL
bushels from two acres.
ASHLAND now has county W. {. T.
L. Mrs. +. \. Shores is president, Mrs.
| George Mcilister, Of Hurley, secretary,
and Mrs. J. NJ. thapple treasurer.
ForR new business blocks, yalucd at
| $50 600. are projected By Ashland.
IoSErH Q NELL, an Eau Claire hoy,
| fell from scatiiold at Moorhead, Mimi,
| and struck the pavement, l4O feet be-
| low. He will die.
EAU CLAIRE ministers are holding
open air services each sunday
THE LAFAYETTE County fair will take
| place at Darlington September to IL.
THE Ettrici< Creamery in TrempcaIcaU
| County claims to lead all the credmerlcS
| in this part OF the state. : Its output for
| June was 66. -; pounds of butter, tie
greatest daily amount being 4,l02. Its
| average daily product for the summer
il over 1000 pounds. The creamery is
| owned by a stock company Of farmers.
| ASSISTANT CnIpr MCCiow,N. of the EaS
| Claire fire department, still holds his
| office, and claims that he is entitled t.
| life tenure unless removed for mIsbe-
| havior.
GAME WARDrN u. W. FERNANDEz has
| received letters from his deputies along
| the Wisconsin River, stating that shoot
| ing will be unusually good tins season
| on the Wisconsin bottoms.
| TIE Sand River Lumber Company has
| Z. 100, 900 feet of logs hung up on Sand
| River near Ashland, and tits feared they
| cannot get them down tins season un-
| lesp there is more ra%n.
SOME very rich looking specimens Of
ore from the Hummer Ritzinger prop
erty. on the Eau Claire River, are on eX-
| hbltion 10y Norman l.. Buck. 1t has
| assayed 81 silver to the ton, and there
is apparently much of it.
| PREsIDEHr T. G. CHAMBERITN, of the
State University, has IN preparation a
| circular soon to be issued giving IN
| formation regarding the department OF
mechanics and engineering at the nj
versilv New chairs have been added
in this department.
| County JUBGE LARSON has appointed
| Herman Hanson special administrator
| of the estate Of John Johnson. the
| Eau Claire saIoonkeeper who was found
dead in his bed. Hanson was an old
| acquaintance of the deceased, and was
eummoned from Elk Mound. John
johnson was an old bachelor, and no
relations Of his are known to be living
| ir the United States.
TIT state Historical Society has Just
received a valuable gift in the form Of
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