The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-05-26
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

prayer-meetlng at Clinton, last Sunday
evening.
YOUNG FRANK REILLY. of Willow
springs, was run over by 900 pound
farm roller, but will recover.
Track laying is now progressing on
tne Wisconsin Central, and is being
finished at the rate of mile day.
len carloads of iron for the Fond du
Lac, Peoria and Amboy Narrow Canoe
Railroad arrived at Fond du Lac on Fri
day.
JAMES HAMMOND severely injured
John Erickson, of Portage, at turkey
shoot last fall, and jury has imposed
fine of 5000.
A LITTLE daughter of Joseph Kaye, of
Green Bay, while playing near the stove
was so badly burned that she died short
ly afterwards.
On Tuesday 10000 salmon trout were
placed in Browns Lake, Racine county.
A large crowd watched the placing of
the fish in the water.
CLlAN ~ oOh11Sj tIlC NIlilICI oI Tic
oratorical prize, was awarded an ovation
when he returned to Appleton. Large
numbers of the citizens and all the stu
dents turned out to do him honor
! IT is estimated that the failure of the
Prescott Bank has swindled depositors
out of about $50, 900. The heaviest loser
is Pierce county, which had $4,000 on
deposit in the broken institution.
| JOHN MoGLER, of Baraboo, was ell
gagged in burning brushwood, when his
bride of three months, who came to as
sist, accidently set fire to her clothing
and was burned to death.
On Thursday last, near Baraboo, Mrs.
Mogler, while in the lot where her hus-
band was burning brush, had the mis-
fortune to set her clothing on fire, and
she was so badly burned that she died
soon after.
Four of the six contestants at the late
oratorical contest in Madison are Badger
boys, and were raised in Wisconsin.
Curtis, who won the prize, Baird of In
diana, Goodenough of Ohio, and Prouty
of Iowa.
LAST Saturday, J. Stevens, a convict,
died at the State Prison of paralysis. He
was imprisoned for passing counterfeit
money, and had served but one and one
half years.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD daughter of Ira
kanouse, of Cottage Grove, Dane coun-
try, was burned to death, Thursday,
from accidentally upsetting a kettle of
boiling soap, her mother being engaged
In the manufacture of the article.
NIKE MCDERMoTT, a Fond du Lac
rough, is lodged in jail, awaiting sentence
to Waupun for burglary. He broke into
Mrs. Hattie Shaw's residence, and Mrs.
Shaw called her neighbors, who finally
succeeded in capturing the fellow.
WILLIAM DUREN, of Durand, one day
last week, while fumbling with pistol
III his pantaloons' pocket. shot himself,
lnficting painful, though not a dan
gerous wound, the ball passing through
his thigh.
A LITTLE two-year-old son of r. E.
Scott, of SCOTS Valley, fell into well
sixty feet deep a few days since His
father, who hastily descended into the
well: found him floating on top of the
water, but without material injury from
his tremendous fall
CHARLES HANSON, of Chippewa Falls,
has captured very fine and large eagle
on Yellow river. He stands about three
feet high, and measures from wing
to wing ten feet. The eagle made
a desperate fight, and Mr. Hanson ex-
hibits many bad wounds which he re-
ceived in the engagement.
THE wife of John Endres, farmer of
the town of Dane, near Madison, had
been sick for some time On Saturday
of last week, while the family were at
church, she went to the woods near the
house and cut her throat with an old case
knife, and was found there dead on the
return of the family.
The largest pine tree in northern Wis
consin is in Wood county, near the Wis
consin Central Railroad. Three feet
from the ground the tree measures
twenty feet and six inches in circumfer-
ence. 1t is seventy feet from the ground
to the first branches, and overlooks the
entire surrounding forest.
A CONTRACTOR from Chicago had his
satchel, containing $4,000, taken in mis-
take, and one empty one left in its place,
Tuesday morning, at Green Bay. 1t was
supposed to have been stolen by some
thief, until found in the possession of
young man, who had mistaken it for his
own.
A MAN named Rogers entered the dry
goods store of Billstein & Co. in Neenah,
one day last week, and procured suit of
clothes valued at $3l on forged order
signed Fred Bartlett. He was suspected,
followed, captured, and made to return
the goods. The merchant declined to
prosecute Rogers, and the officers let
him go.
A FARMER and his wife while in Fond
du Lac last Saturday, met with a serious
accident. The horses, young team of
colts, became frightened, ran away and
the woman was thrown out Her head
was badly bruised, her wrist dislocated