The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-23
STATE NEWS.

closed for the summer, on account of
scarlet fever.
LOG sales, amounting to about 5,O00,-
ooo feet, are reported on the upper Mis-
slssippi, at from SO to $1,000.
HENRY JOHNSTON, a farmer of Vel
lowstone, Dodge county, hung himself
to tree with a strip of Eastwood bark,
ON the 9th, and was dead when found.
The Ross mill at Lacrosse, was burned
on the 9th inst, with 100000 feeto lum-
Der and 100000 shingles Loss, $4,000;
no insurance.
A GANG of thieves were caught in
Waupun last week. They were bold fell
lows to operate within the shadow of the
penitentiary
A Transfer named Dorsey stabbed a
saloonkeeper named Kleinschmidt at
Racine on the Sd, inAicting dangerous
wound. Dorsey was arrested.
CHARLES SCHULTZ, of Oshkosh, SEN
fenced about year ago by Judge
Pulling to two years at Waupun for
bigamy, has been pardoned out, and is
back to that city again.
0. KAUFMAN sold his farm of 100
acres, near Fond du Lac, for $4,000, to
H. M. Durham, and purchased of DR.. E.
Brown farm of 300 acres in the town
of Lamartine for $4,000.
DEEP mystery surrounds the Will
liams swindling case, at Madison. 1t is
believed that Williams will yet turn up.
A neighbor of Mrs Forth says he has
reason to believe that Williams is hiding
near Madison, or has committed suicide.
ANY one knowing the whereabouts
of Mrs. Jerusha Toothin, formerly of
the Isle of Man, and who will give the
desired information to the editor of the
Depere Facts, is to be rendered a reward
of 500.
A SINFUL woman named Amy Ray
mond who resided in La Crosse many
years, was recently converted to religion
in ST. Louis, and now she writes to the
turnkey of the jail that she is going back
to La Crosse to lecture to the people
TIE annual summer session of the
Wisconsin conference of Unitarian and
independent societies, including also So
cieties and persons of kindred sympathies,
of whatever name, will be held at Bara-
boo and Devils Lake, August 8 to II.
Mr.. FETzER, of Forestville, Kewau-
nee county, while engaged in repairing
shafting i'll his mill, was caught in some
way and jerked into state of nudity.
TIE other employees of the mill rushed
to the place; they only saw a nude statue
apparently gazing at the shafting.
THE Beef Slough Company have RATED
outabout 40, 600, 600 feet, and shut down,
leaving 100000 more between Eau
Claire and the Slough. There are 80
100000 feet on Eagle Rapids, left there
by the giving way of the dams last year,
and an effort is being made to get them
down.
The Institution for the Education of
the Blind, at Janesville, has an inmate
who is a prodigy in playing the mouth
organ. He is only about II or II years
old, and shows some remarkable ability
in his power over that instrument. He
performs some of the most difficult music,
and renders it in manner which sur
prises his hearers.
THE West Wisconsin railway has been,
by order of the court, placed in the hands
of receiver. VIM. II. Ferry, who for
some time past has been the general
manager of the road for the bondholders,
is the receiver. There will probably be
few if any changes in tie present subor-
dinate officials or employees of the line
F. E. PURPLE, young Watertown
boy, pursuing a course of study in the
law department of the State University,
at Madison, started from Madison Friday
afternoon at five o'clock and reached
Watertown Saturday morning between
two and three o'clock, having walked a
distance of nearly forty miles.
THE Oshkosh aldermen passed an or
dnance that all unmuzzled dogs should
be put in a pound. The plan looked well
on paper, but the policemen could catch
no dogs. Instinctively the CANNES ran
away from the "cops," and they are
now abusing the city fathers for the fail
ure of the ordinance which promised
such Il bonanza but didn't work Mean
while the dogs howl and bite.
THERE is another new deal in the
railway company. Upon application of
the Baldwin locomotive works, heavy
creditors of the company, a receiver has
been appointed, and has taken charge of
the road. w. III. Ferry, of Chicago, who
has once before been in control of the
road as agent of the trustees for the
bondholders, has been appointed re-
ceiver.
THE celebrated giantess, Fanny Wal
lace, whose real name was Mrs. Ruth
Beaton, died at her home in Bergen,
Vernon county, on the LIST. According
to all accounts she was a woman of sub
stance. Her height was seven feet,
four inches, and weighed $50 pounds.
Her coffin was seven feet eight
inches in length, three feet six inches in
depth, four feet wide at the centre,
twenty -four inches at the head, and
twenty-three inches at the foot. The
doors had to be cut out two feet to get
the coffin in and out. In required six