The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-03-24
BADGER GOSSIP.

out last week 1G0, 400 yards of goods.
JOHN KRAFT was found dead in the
woods near Seymour, killed by falling
tree.
A BROOM handle factory at Shiocton
turns out about 5000 broom handles
day.
MISS O. E. HAYES, a teacher in Fox
Lake Seminary, is cousin of President
Hayes.
PETTY thieves are visiting the hem
roosts and calf pens in the vicinity of
Peshtigo.
HE dam of the Sumner Mills, at
Osseo, was washed away last week.
Damage $500.
THE area of Portage county is 507,-
600 acres. The present population is
nearly 10000.
MR.. HoUsER has sold the Buffalo
County Herald. published at Mondovi,
to Geo. E. Gilkey. late of st. Paul.
THERE are from 1000, 900 to Is, O0o,-
600 feet of lumber lying at Reeds
Landing, awaiting the opening of navi-
cation.
HE firm of Hamler, Brinkmann &
Schambel, spoke manufacturers at Sey-
mour, have failed. Liabilities $21, 900;
assets $4,000.
A DELAvAN man, named Willis, has
skipped out and left his fourth wife.
She exhibits no desire to follow her
truant husband.
AN Ahnapee man named Otto ferris
cut one of his heels off. He said it was
an accident, and no one doubted him,
as ne was bungler.
A FARMER named Maluge, of the town
OF Wellington. Monroe county, was in
stantly killed last week by being
crushed by falling tree.
THE monthly pay OF thirty two teach
ers, one teacher of penmanship, and six
janators, in the La Crosse schools. is
1852. There are 1000 pupils in the
schools.
HE Omro factory IS paying some
eight or ten thousand dollars per an
mum clear on an investment of S15, 900.
and they have orders ahead for six
months.
AN order has been received at the La
Belle Wagon Works, Fond du Lac,
from an Omaha firm for 100 ovtro
heavy freight wagons, to be used in the
Black Hills trade.
JUDGE PRIoHARD has been Probate
Judge of Rock county twenty years,
and has filed the Office with such salts
faction that he will be unanimou sly. re-
elected this spring.
AN old drunkard named Albert Fuller,
of Mansion, stabbed Justice of the
Peace named @. N. Holden, Wednesday
night. The wound was inflicted with q
knife. Fuller was arrested and placed
in Jail.
J. C.NoRToN, of Fond du Lac, who
was arrested and tried on charge of
rape, preferred by Idella Mcdonald,
has been dismissed, the charge not be-
ing sustained. The costs, $3.50, were
put on the county.
A MARQUETTE man, who invented a
process for granting giant powder so
that it could be handled like the COM
mon article, has sold his patent to New
York parties for $4,000, and has gone
to Europe for holiday.
ON Tuesday of last week Thomas
Timlin, of Mansion, shipped from that
place Isl bales, about fifteen tons of
hops, direct to London, England. This
is the first shipment ever made direct
to London.
BE kind to the poor Indian and give
him some of your csst-off clothing to
keep him warm. If you can spare him
a blanket, do so, because he is using
his old one to strain maple syrup
through London Times.
A TRAMP named Charles Wilson was
struck by locomotive on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad, at New
Cassel, Monday, and thrown off the
track. Strange to relate, he was not
seriously hurt. Wilson saw the train
approaching, but for some reason re-
fused to get out of the way.
Mr.. l.. M. MARSHALL, whose mill is
located in Chelsea, on the Wisconsin
Central Railroad, has contracted to cut
900, 600 feet of deals by March 25th, to
do which the mill is running night and
day. They will make two vessel car
goes and will be brought to Green Bay
by the Wisconsin Central Road for
shipment. Duncan & Taylor, at West
boro, are filing contract of 100000
feet for the Oconto Company.
A LETTER bearing the following sd-
dress was received at Watertown post
office last week:
NORTH AMERIoA-To Johann Schulz, of
Viernheim bel Weinheim, % miles from Wa
tertewn with TIE omnibus by way OF Stohill,
where the omnibus stops, to be delivered
miles further on.
The Possofice officials are wrestling
with the case. and will snare no effort