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Judge Ellis, B. S. Phillips and some other of our best marksmen were trying a new style) of shot gun at a mark beyond University Square yesterdayafterncA ve at the ■ streetson.ry small; war of races occurrediorner of Barstow and Gibsonyesterday afternoon, and “the colored troops! fought nobly.” The combatants wjere apparently about eight years oldjand the. black boy was ahead.It \\al. Hdas rumored last evening that,r,misonjintended to begin carrying fj)ot-passkngers on his big ferry to-day free. -It was said that handbills will- be oujt this morning announcing this fact. I Cab is a progressiveCUSS. ’ I i ‘ ;A number of shows intended to appear here in ' the autumn and have alreadywith thbegun ;to make arrangements e leasers of the principal halls. The summer,will remain pretty near a blank in this line.Mr. MichaelCramer, of Monomonie, Dunn county,'and Miss Anna Mary Uetz, of Independence, Trempealeaucounty,terday,Catholiably-wiwere married in this city yes by Rev. Father Boehm at the i church.We publish elsewhere a concise butitten article on Eau Claire,from ti e pen of Mr. TIoppin, one of the livd managers of the Minneapolis Northwestern Miller. It will pay our people to peruse it.rtion. !We have noticed for several yearspast that quite a number of the small oak so common]to the Chippewa bottoms have been j dying in a jvay which seemed to bode their entire disappearance from the city. This phenomenon,; of which no one seems to know ’ the cause, has .been;attributed by some to. the progress of ; horticulture, grading, c;, within the settled limits of the city, vyliieh certainly ! seems a possible explanation. B'ut we have lately, remarked that Abe trees Are dying in considerable . numbers outside the settled limit where, the ground has never, been broken, which apparently can only be due to some prevalent disease or the work of insects.John Ross was sued yesterday morning by Stolp, of the Bose Garden saloon for using! obscene and abusivelanguage. The quarrel grew out of a •question; about rent, and began between Boss and some girls who kept a laundry in the ‘same building with' the- Bose Garden. The case was put in the form of a criminal action -tor using obscene and abusive language, .and. was tried before a jury-consisting of .-Joseph Montena, E.B. Poster, MiloBurgar, Jno.t Kimball,C. New ton, T Converse. T F-Frawley, for the prosecution; II. H. Hayden for the defence. At nightfall the jury, were out discussing the points. • The'case df-JEMi Hickney, coming later onthe docket, was hot called up.Tuesday. .The Presbyterian Sunday. School had what they call “a feast of bowers3 3
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Eau Claire Argus
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Jul 29, 1880
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