The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-12-05

rection, named VIM. kempton and A.
J. HAYWOOD have been pardoned by the
Governor. man ramed De Bare has
been held for examination by the Z. S.
commissioner in Milwaukee for having
received from the express Office $50
worth of postage stamps stolen from the
postofice at Unionville, Mo.-Capt.
Fisk. charged with poisoning Nellie
Williams, in Milwaukee, has been dis
charged, a post norton examination
showing that no poison had been taken,
The woman died from too much drink
OzanISee County.
Mrs. KATHARINE fIRNBABEN, of
Schleisingerville, slandered a worthy
family. was fined 800 and obliged to
publish in the West Bend Democrat
retraction of her charges, which was
done. Katharine should be careful how
she "goes for her neighbOrs.
Racine County.
/ WHILE digging a ditch on farm III
the town of.Dover, recently, the bones OF
a mammoth animal were found after Dig
ging down through twenty-five inches
of peat, twelve inches of hard-pan and
another layer of peat twelve inches
deep. The bones rested in clay, and
were found in a partial state OF preser-
walton. The diggers took out a rib 8
feet in length, and a portion of the
vertebra 81 inches in diameter, also
one of the tusks, measuring feet 5
inches in length, and II inches in cir
conference at the large end. The other
tusk was partially decayed, but was
gathered up with other remains of the
mammoth, and formed part of a load of
one-bushel baskets of bones.
Rock County.
, A HORSE belonging to Cyrus Davis, of
GAINESVILLE. ran away and struck his
head against a tree, killing himself in
stantly.-Geo. Delhi, of GAINESVILLE,
, while putting up a stove pipe, fell from
and struck his head on a stove, frac
turing the skull severely He will re-
cover.-The riverat GAINESVILLE is frozen
, over.
; Shawano County.
5 In the absence of other news from
/ the county, we may state that the editor
of the Shawano Journal must be ailing,
else why does he do this: Indian
summer, the beautiful copper hued
= Queen of Autumn, after long and
memorable reign, abdicated in favor of
the snow-crowned Polar King to-day at
{ 9 a. IN. She retires to the Black Hills
e and Colorado, tinging the green leaves
e with her bushes as she whirls to her
/ nine months confinement.
= Sheboygnu County.
THE work on the harbor at Sheboygan
is finished, giving sixteen feet OF WAGER
the whole length Ofthe channel.--The
= school board has excluded The bible
from the public schools.-At recent
Sunday dances in two German beer
halls in Sheboygan, rows occurred in
which pistols and dirks were used, but
no serious damage done.
2 Vernon County.
Y SMITH SHEREvE, of Greenwood, was
2 badly gored by an OK about two weeks
| since, and it was thought for several
f days that he could not recover. The
Ox's horn entered Mr.. Shereve's mouth,
4 tearing through the upper lip and split
f ting one nostril open. The lower teeth
t were all knocked loose, and his jaw
4 broken in two places. Revelation
g in the attempted assassination of Mr..
: Downie, near Viroqua, show that Guist
{ is entirely innocent, and that a man
named Lowry, a half-brother of Dow
g MES is the guilty one. Lowry has been
s arrested, and threats were made by the
/ citizens of lynching.
e Washington County.
THERE was no opposition to the dem
. ocratic ticket in the county at the late
election.-Wm. Seipp, a farmer living
> near West Bend, while blowing re-
; Gently, turned up large piece of pure
: copper, weighing some 60 pounds. 1t
!, is about Is inches long, II inches wide,
! ! and IL inches thick, tapering toward
! the edges. It's origin is mysterious, as
I there are no known deposits of copper
within several hundred miles of West
Bend.
Wausesha County.
; THE friends of DR.. Wood and wife
, assembled at the water cure, at Pal
Z myra, recently, to congratulate the
worthy couple, and enjoy their hospl-
taiity on the birthday of the estimable
D hostess. A good old fashioned New
England supper was spread, and the
7 occasion was heartily enjoyed by both
S hosts and guests. "A man named
MOlster, living in the town of Lisbon,
r was arrested at his home on requisl-
ton from the governor OF Minnesota,
being charged with assisting to abduct
D the child of Mr.. Taber, a lawyer of Wi
4 mona, few weeks ago. Mr.. Taber's
: wife had been divorced, and the child,
2 a boy ten years old, was given to him
: by the court. Molster was brother
in-law of the divorced wife, and Is
said to have helped in the abduction,
for the purpose of placing the boy IN
charge of Mrs. Taber. holster was
f taken to Madison. The child is some
whers in Illinois. - The tower on
Prospect Hill, in the town of Delatield.
has been destroyed by fire.
Winuebaao County
In relation to the lumber business, it
: is said there is now on hand at Oshkosh
| about %, $50, 900 feet; but notwithstan d
ing this fact, there will be about as
r many logs C ut the coming winter as
there was last winter. Lumbermen
have their camp outfits, and they think
it is cheaper to send them into the
, woods and take their chances of coming
out all right when the logs come into
, market than to be idle.-W. l.. Cald-
{ well, the well known grocer of Oshkosh,
has been forced into bankruptcy by his
| creditors. His liabilities are $4,000.
Wood County.
The sad news of the death by drown
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