The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-02-03
BADGER GOSSIP.

THERE were 172 marriages in Monroe
county last year.
AUGUST MILLER, of Green Bay, died
recently at the age of ITO years.
THE liquor tax paid in at Menomi-
nee last year was $3,398 SO, by thirty
four dealers.
A RACINE pillow factory, with stock
capital of $12O, 900, intends manufaetu-
ing 1000 plows the coming spring.
MR. ANsoN ELDKED is putting in be-
tween two and three million feet of
logs On the Pensaukee River for his
mill in Oconto.
A GERMAN fam lily near Platteville has
eleven children, all of whom have been
entirely bald, never having had any
capillary adjournment.
Elk Gov. WAsHBURN and D. Morrison
have purchased the North Star Wooden
mills at Minneapolis. They will be
started up with 800 hands.
John HENLI, of Sheboygan, fell on
ice last Tuesday, and received injuries
from which he died the following Fri
day. Henli was sixty years old.
A LADY at Centerville, Kewaunee
county, s8 years of age, has pieced
twenty bed quilts within three years,
and is able to walk all about the house.
A BRUTE named Davis, in the town of
Lamartine, one day last week mauled
his horse for banking in such cruel
manner that it died shortly afterwards,
WOOD county contains $50, 200 acres
of land, only small portion of which
is yet improved. The Wisconsin, Vel
low and Black rivers traverse the
county.
0. H. SMITH, a La Crosse grocer, was
compelled to close his store on account
of not being able to collect his outstand-
ing indebtedness. Liabilities $1,000;
assets $4,000.
A COMMERCIAL traveller had $500 worth
of brushes spread out in his room in
the Revere House in Oshkosh, Wednes-
day, when it burned, and lost his entire
stock of samples.
JOSEPH BURGEMEIsTER, a saloon keeper
in La Crosse, was fatally wounded in
the abdomen by the careless discharge
of pistol in the hands of @. Gross
kopf, ABOUT 8 o'clock Thursday.
THE Farmers Fire Insurance Com
pany of Sugar Greek, Walworth county,
has capital stock of 100000. The
losses the past year amounted to only
5000, which required only an assess
ment of one per cent.
THE Wrightstown, Brown county, In
suraIce Company have 244 policies in
force, with an insurance of 1856, 020.
The assets above all liabilities are
$1,11238. The losses the past year
amounted to only $3.50.
AN agricultural and horticultural ex-
hibition is to be held at Madison, Feb
ruary 6, 7, 8, and 9. Addresses will be
delivered and several papers read by
the state.
A GIFT of $500 was received Wednes-
day from James Gordon Bennett, by
the two orphan daughters of Mark a.
Kellogg was the special cor
of the Herald, killed with
Custer at Big Horn, last spring.
BURGLARS ente red the residence of j.
Hall, at Whitewater, last week, to rob
Mrs. l.. Skillen of $500, which amount
'he had drawn from the bank the day
before. They were scared away before
hey reached the woman's room.
FRANK CHRIsTNAoH, of Hartford, left
his home to go to Schleisingerville, last
Monday, to look for work. Failing to
ecure what he wanted, he started to
walk home. His body was found near
be railroad track Tuesday. It is sup
,osed he fell into fit, and froze to
eath.
HE Polk County Press says: There
s rumor afoat that Caleb Cushing
las sold his large landed interests in
his county to B. f Butler, for the sum
IF SAT, COO, and that Ben is now nego-
iating to buy Cushing's St. Croix vii
age property. We have not yet learned
he particulars.