The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Brown County.

putdltu Tue mana or 81 Twelve year O1i
son of John Bergman, at the wrist
JOINT. The hand had been caught In a
single mill at Suamico
Dane County.
SOMETIME last June the store of E.
X a. ID. Knapp, of Clay Banks, was
robbed of several hundred dollars
worth of goods. No tidings of the
goods or thieves were received till a
lew days since, when Knapp was in-
formed that Philetus Phillips and a
Norwegian named Swenson were the
thleHes. They We're arrested and a
small part of the goods recovered. -
A severe gale did much damage on the
shores of Green Bay recently. The
pier at Eagle Harhor was DESTROYED by
ice, with 800 cords of wood. At some
places ice was showed up $50 feet from
the water line, and lay 40 to 80 feet
thick.-The shingle mill, recently de
stroyed by fire at Clay Banks, is being
rebuilt.
Dunn County.
INDIAN AGENT RICHARDSON has lust
finished payment to the Menominee In
dams OF their annuity. Payment was
made to 1,524 persons, after deducting
a national debt The Agent has lately
surveyed the Meuominee reservation.
and finds that extensive trespassing has
been committed upon the pine within
Its borders. He proposes to push due
prosecution.
Eau Claire Connty.
a LARGE fire occurred at Eau Claire
on the oath ult., burningan entire block,
including the American House, and five
stores occupied rs barber-shop, shoe
shop, paint shop, and dwelling, all
frame. Also two barns of the Eau
Claire Lumber Company Total loss
$4,000. Insurance 81, 100. The con
tents of the buildings were all destroyed.
The plate-glass III the front of the Lum-
Der Conlpanys store was badly cracked
by the heat, which was intcnse-Tho
log drive on the Eau Claire, was very
successful, 70 per cent. of all the logs
reaching the booms-Wm. Steller,
living near Rock Falls, lost thumb and
three fingers by the explosion OF a gun
a few days since.
Fond du Lac County.
THREE convicts in Waupun the noto-
rious Dave Raggio, sent from Milwaukee
for burglary, being one of them, at
al
were prevented by the'guards. Raggio,
in jumping from the wall to the ground,
suffered a compound fracture of one of
his ankles.-The Fond du Lac Com
monwealth says it is feared that most of
the wheat sown III the county was
frozen ont during the cold SPELL
Burglars carried off the gold watch of
Silas Clark, in Fond du Lac
Milwaukee County.
The Milwaukee papers mention the
appearance in the Police Court, the
ether day, of a young nymph du pare
whose body Is entirely covered with
scales, like a fish. The girls name is
Amy Iust. Will use l.
200, 900 feet of lumber for street repairs
(pavement) the present year. "A fish
erman took from the Milwaukee river
a few days ago, "butfalo fish" which
weighed 40 pounds. A few days ago,
while farmer Walter, who resides about
nine miles from Milwaukee. on the
old Fond du Lac road, was hitching his
horses, one of the horses kicked him
and fractured one of his legs.
Oconlo County.
ST.. NATHANs, is the name of postoilice
about five miles northwest of Flintville,
i'll Oconto county, on the Little Suam-
leo, where Chase & Dickey have a saw
mill.--A man named August Groess-
Ter was accidently killed while moving
a barn at Portage, a few days ago
The doctors at Oconto have organized n
medical society. The city of Oconto
pOlled FOB votes ut the last election,
being ISL less than were cast last year.
are sold by the wagon-load
along the river, bringing so load.
OzuuI,ce Comfy.
SAUKvILLE has 10000 bushels Of
wheat stored in her elevators.-Mrs.
Richards, of the town of Grafton, re-
Gently stumbled over a board in the
yard of her residence and fractured her
left leg-Mr Eichenrad, a farmer,
resident of the town of Grafton, fell
from the hayloft of his barn and sus,
tanned compound fracture of his leg.
Portage County.
The PiOver Times says very little
lumber will be run out of the river to
market this spring. The best qualities
will be shipped Ly railroad.--Frank
Bradley, the railroad yard master at
Stevens Point, was killed by
the cars a few days ago, and lumber
man named Robert Henry, was killed
III a log jam, at the same place.
Rock County.
OK the morning OF the oath the house
of Mn Baxter in GAINESVILLE, was discov-
cred to be on fire. The alarm was
promptly given in the neighborhood, but
by some neglect it was not conveyed to
the fire department Mr.. Baxter was
alone IN the house and was a man about
70 years Of age. VIII n the building
had burned down his body was found III
the ruins, burned to a black, ugly mass.
He had lived alone III the house for
some years.-The residence of f. l..
Dimock and J. B. Cassidy, in James
vile, were burglarized a few
nights ago. i. Fallant, of Beloit,
was buglarized out of $50 recently
Robbins circus was to start from James
vile, May l, OF its summer tour.
Wai,yorIh County
A NEW steamer has just been launch
ed on Geneva Lake. She is a side
wheeler, 40 feet keel, 116 feet deck,
30 feet breadth of beam and five feet
hold. Her wheels are % feet 6 inches
in diameter, and are to be propelled by
q powerful engine of 100 horse power.
She is being built by j. w. French for
her owner, whose name she bears, and
will he completed by the middle Of the
ensuing month.-Ge Sheldon Wall
ing. one of the oldest citizens Of Elk
horn, died on the 18th. He was the
first sheriff of Walworth county.
Waukesha Comfy.
THE odd fellows of Milwaukee and
Waukesha celebrated the 18th annlver-
sarv Of the establishment of the order