The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-08

Green Bay few days ago.
IHE new iron bridge at Stevens Point
Is completed, and teams have commenced
crossing
ID. l.. QUAYLE, brakeman, died at
Fountain, Sunday, from injuries re-
celyed while coupling cars.
Exit. Gov. WYMAN SpooNER died
at his sons residence near Elkhorn, Sun
day, aged SO.
The GAINESVILLE cotton factory sells
one-halt Its products-more than fifty
thousand yards per week-to parties in
Milwaukee and Chicago
BUoB Bros cooper shop in GAINESVILLE
was destroyed by fire Sunday night A
cooper named Thelan lost his tools also.
Total loss 5000. No insurance.
A VERDICT of $3.50 in the case of Otis
vs. the city of GAINESVILLE, has been rem
dered in favor Of the plaintiff. Poor
road-accident.)
EAU CLAIRE is having tremendous
temperance revival At two meetings
| Sunday and Monday 315 people joined
the Temperance association.
JAMES MORAN, brakeman on one of
the freight trains, while doing some
switching at Oconto, the other day, had
both legs badly damned between the ten
der and car.
WHILE at play in the barr on the
Dawes farm near Ripon recently, VIM.
Cas-, aged years, had three fingers am
putated by placing them upon the knives
of a straw cutter.
THE Oconto LumbGman says: "Mr.
Mcdonald, of Fond du Lac, has con-
tracted with Chas Pendleton and II.
Sargent, of Oconto, to put in 10000, 900
feet of logs for him, on the Peshtigo,
Beaver, Peshtigo Brook and Waupee."
On Monday night, in Eldorada, most
brutal assault was made by two young
tramps upon G. T. kurtzhalz, man SO
) years old, in his own house. He was
pounded until senseless and then bound
to a chair and the tramps stole So from
him. 1t is doubtful if the old man will
recover. No arrests.
! A TUG or small steamer went up the
river last evening for the Mississippi
, river. She is fitted up with the requi-
site machinery for saving single bolts
, and cutting shingles, The boat is in use
by the owners for running on rivers and
, cutting the lumber from the woods and
river banks Green Bay Gazette.
AT Waupun, Saturday evening, John
Wakeling was assaulted by neighbor,
name unknown, and brutality beaten
) over the head with stick of wood. Wake
! ling's life is despaired of, and the neigh
2 trouble originated in a dispute regarding
3 the ownership of an ak.
9 THE Williams House, on the corner of
0 West Milwaukee and High streets,
! GAINESVILLE, was totally destroyed by an
= incendiary fire at ! O'Clock Monday
morning. Scarcely any of the furniture
i was saved. The building was insured
= for $4,000; furniture 81 900 The total
3 loss is about $4,000. This is the second
hotel burned within month in this city
by incendiarism.
A SERIOUS accident occurred to the
wife of Nels Norton, the Menomonee
section boss of the c.. & \. w. Ry. Mrs.
n. was in the act of milking her COW,
3 when the animal attacked and hooked
7 her in the side and abdomen, inficting Il
terrible cash. DR.. Phillips now has
charge of the case, and although the
woman has experienced the most intense
suffering and pain owing to the peculiari
ty of the case, she will probably recover
from the effects-Na inette Eagle.
ABOUT o'clock on Sunday morning
: boy came running down town in great
! haste, inquiring at the drug store,for Il
doctor, who was wanted Immediately at
the residence of Col Dorrance This
: gave rise to a suspicion, which has since
been pretty thoroughly verified, that
Mrs. Hatch, who is stopping at present
OF (io1 nnrranno1c hol oft tod do
; by taking laudanum. By the prompt ar
drug were averted, and Mrs Hatch is now
out of danger.-Osh northwestern.
A few evenings since, as two sons of
Mr. +. Klatt were walking on the ice
near their home, below the Catholic
church, the older of the two fell through,
and the other, in trying to help him out,
fell in also The water happened to be
. shallow at that place, and only came up
to their necks, where they stood in the
ice cold water for twenty or thirty min
utes until rope was thrown them, and
they were drawn out in an exhausted
condition. Dr. EARL was called to at
tend them, and the boys are now as live
ly as ever.-Columbus Republican.
Mr. GEO. c. FERRIS residence on sec
, ton 50, town of Union, was totally des-
: troyed by fire Sunday morning. The
family were engaged milking and by
some means COW knocked over lantern.
igniting the hay Before any efforts to
4 extinguish the flames could be made the
? entire barn was on fire. The loss is quite
t severe Twenty head of COWS were
burned to death, also all of his hay and
! farming implements, excepting one plow
/ The barn was an extensive one and only
| partly insured.
5 Onward BRAINARD was killed on the
West Wisconsin Railroad Saturday. He
was freight conductor, and Saturday
t morning between the hours of and s
r O'Clock, while the train was at Wilson,
| he undertook to couple the engine to a
fiat car that was loaded with lumber.
} Inc lumber was loaded by sumo careless
: parties, and projected so far over the for
ward end of the car as to give him no
, chance for himself when the engine and
car came together, and he was fastened
so tightly between the two as to cause
hiss death short time after he was re-
leased
A YOUNG man, while walking over the
trestle works, just beyond Taylor &
Duncan's foundry, last night, made
misstep and fell between the sleepers,
! and but for remarkable presence of
: mind in grasping one Of the sleepers with
his hands, in the act of falling between
them, he would have fallen into the
$ water, and not being able to swim, would
quite likely have been drowned As IL