The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-08
STATE NEWS.


MoNTELLo is talking of establishing a
free high school.
The forest fires around Wausau have
been extinguished.
IN Grant county there is an anti
treating society.
MARQUETTE county fair, September
1920. Columbia county fair, ditto.
THE Northern Wisconsin Fair will be
held at Oshkosh September 24th-2Sth,
The Omro glass factory has been at
tached for debt. The works have
stopped.
A GREY wolf was seen ON West
Prairie near Trempeleau on Sunday and
on Saturday night hog was killed on
farm in the vicinity.
SOME of the lumbermen have paid
$4OO for the privilege of using the water
IN the dams at mills, OH the Little Wolf,
to start their RATS.
FRANK KITsIGER, of Oshkosh, shot at
William Frank, of the same place, twice,
lniiictlng slight wounds in the head.
The trouble occurred in a saloon.
The residence of Col. J. II. Howe,
kenosha, was entered by burglars Tues
day night and a valuable watch and
about $50 in money carried off.
ELIZA DINELLE, of Fond du Lac, a
seven-year-old girl, fell into the rive,
from row-boat. AMI narrowly escaped
drowning.
BISHOP kRAUTBAUER returned to his
home in Green Bay, Tuesday evening,
from his visit to Rome. He was ere
cepted" by the societies.
A BIG days threshing was done on
John Anderson's farm in the town of
Clear Creek this week, 678 bushels of
wheat and oats in twelve hours time
Eau Claire Press.
La CROSSE has completed arrange
ments for water-works, The Job of
pumping is let by contract to individual
parties, who will furnish the steam
power at small expense.
In the suit Of Leonard & Sweet VS..
the West Wisconsin railroad company
ct al, before the United States District
court in Madison, complainants have just
filed bill to foreclose their mortgages
upon defendants property
FARMERS who have threshed nearly
all agree that the yield has been even
better than expected. Portage county
never garnered as much grain as this
year. The potato crop, however, will
not be as large as was at one time hoped
for, owing to the dry weather of the past
few weeks The yield of early-planted
fields will be fair, but late paintings very
light, so farmers tell us.-,Sterens Point
Journal
GIVE have" says the Sickle, ga man
in Mazomanie who sells medicine for a
living and who recently played croquet
for the watermelons and, winning the
game, sat down and ate seven six-pound
melons. The hungry spectators lifted
him up tenderly and carried him home.
A mustard plaster, a stomach-pump and
the new fire-engine saved him from a
premature death"
WHILE Christian Yancey was thresh-
ing barley on his farm at Ashford, neal
Fond du Lac, the stacks caught fire
from hot box in the thresher and were
consumed, together with the machine
and five hundred bushels of the grain
The loss is Mr. Yanceys entirely, the
machinery and grain belonging to him
We understand that he has an insurance
that will cover nearly, if not all of the
damage.
RIPoN item: Last week Dr. Rogers
was called to attend the sick child of
Louis Caster, the German who was lately
sent to the insane asylum at Oshkosh.
He found the child dying with the scar
let fever, and the house in a deplorable
condition. The children were ragged,
dirty, filthy and covered with vermin,
and the house and everything in it and
around it was covered with filth and
alive with maggots. The family has
rich relatives in Ripon.
On Sunday morning some wretch at
tempted to fire the Chicago and North
western bridge across lake Monona, at
Madison. A lady crossing discovered
the fire, and attempted to extinguish it
but she failed. Then she made haste
and found the bridge tender and gave
information. The latter made quick
tracks to the scene, and extinguished the
blaze. a space of a foot square was
burned in the solid timbers. Had the
fire been permitted to have burned a
quarter OF an hour longer, serious dam
age no doubt, would have followed
JOHN ID. EHLE, of GAINESVILLE, met
with a severe accident Wednesday even
ing. He was engaged in cleaning the
windows in the rear of the store on
North Main street, when an upper sash
began TO fall. In the attempt to stop it
he accidentally pushed his left arm
through one of the paneS, the arm pass
ing through to point between the ell
bow and the shoulder. The windew fell
rapidly and while the arm rested on the
upper part of the lower sash, the former
fell with great force, the edge of the
glass falling directly on the arm, com
pletely severing the main artery, the
vein and the nerve
A CASE of sleep of the Rip Van Wrinkle
order Is reported to us on good authority.
this afternoon, as occurring on Jackson
street in lower town. The slumberer is
is a woman named Henrietta Phelan,
and it is said that she dozed off last
Monday, exhibiting no signs of wake
fulness until Thursday noon. Since
that time she has recovered her
sight and is restless, but speaks
but little, barely eating enough to
sustain life. Some have an idea that the
woman took poison, as during the sleep
her body changed to various colors and
shades, black, blue red and white PIE
dominating. The case, certainly, ex-
hibits need of little confirmation and
investigation, and we propose to give it
one or the other-F0nd du Lac Common
uedith.