The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
STATE NEWS.

THERE were 297 inmates in the state
prison at Waupun on Friday of last
week.
THERE are ten graduates this year from
the law department. of the Wisconsin
University.
w. I'll. MASON, prominent citizen of
River Falls, dropped dead in Prescott on
the 14th
FIVE HUNDRED men and women have
Joined the Murphy temperance move
ment in Oshkosh.
Two THOUSAND California salmon
minnows were placed in Browns Lake,
near Burlington, on the 18th.
THE residence of S. w. Thomas, at
Eau Claire, was burned on the 10Th.
Loss, 81 900; insured in the American,
of Chicago, for 5000.
MR.. A. A. FERGUsoN's shingle mill,
at Colby, was burned ON the 14th inst.
Mr.. f. was severely burned in trying to
extinguish the flames.
THE rise in the Wisconsin river by the
recent rains has brought down large
numbers of logs from the the pineries.
Crews of men are hard at work.
A MAN named Fred Dretzel, employed
on the Neff's steam barge 49," was
drowned last week in the Wolf river,
hort distance from Shioc ton.
HENRY SALES killed large bear in
the vicinity of Woodlock's logging camp
on the 8th. H. Hudley killed a mon
strous bear at Jenny, two weeks ago.
A YOUNG lady of Madison, in getting
out of her buggy in front of the post
office, fell and broke one of the bones of
her right foot.
JOHNNIE SCHMIDT, of La Crosse, six
years old, fell into cistern and was
drowned, on the 10Th. He was the son
OF the proprietor of the European Hotel.
A TERRIBLE wind and rain storm did
considerable damage in Dunn county on
the 18th. In Knapp several building
were blown down and a number of per-
sons injured
Gov. LUD:NGToN has pardoned James
Foley and w. King, who were convicted
OF grand larceny at La Crosse and sem
fenced to two years and nine months
each by Judge Benton, in January 1875.
JOHN DoLAN, who either neglected to
blow out the gas or left the stop I'M
fastened designedly, in the Fond du Lac
hotel, died from the effects of the gas on
the 18th.
THERE is considerable excitement in
GAINESVILLE over the disappearance of a
daughter of Mr.. Henry Nuggets. 1t is
believed she eloped with a young farm
hand, employed few miles from that
place.
THE United States Fish Commission
deposited 100000 young shad in Fox
river at Appleton on the 18th. These
fish are from Havre de Grace, Nd, and
were in fine condition. If they escape
the cannibal pike and pickerel the Lower
Fox and Green Bay viii be filled with
fresh water shad within five years.
IN returning from work on the 10th,
the team of E. G.. Harris, of White
water, ran away, throwing Mr.. H. and
his son from the wagon, injuring them
severely. Young Ira had his collar
bone fractured, and Mr.. H. was severely
bruised. The team was caught after
running some distance
On account of the number of incen-
diary fires i'll Brown county, insurance
companies talk of raising their rates.
Two companies have commenced to can
eel their risks in that county. Honest
citizens will have to ferret out the in
cendiaries or pay for the damage by
higher rates.
PLATTEvILLE is visited twice day
! by cars from Warren, on the Illinois
Central road, and once day by cars on
the narrow-gauge road from Galena.
There is strong talk of extending the lat
ter road to Wingville, twenty miles
north, i'll Grant county. 1t will proha-
bly, be done at no distant day.
LAST week, during terrific thunder
storm, the house of Oswald Geiger, in
the town of Black Wolf, was struck by
lightning. Mrs. Geiger was employed in
painting the floor at the time. The cur
rent came down the chimney, knocking
down almost all the plastering in the
house. No one was injured.
WHILE Mr.. Henry Miller, of Egg
Harbor, was cleaning his gun, on the
18th inst, which happened to be loaded
with buckshot, it was accidentally dis
charged, and the load entered the right
jaw of his thirteen-year-old son, who
was in close proximity, killing him in
stantly.
NEAR Langkon, twelve miles below
st. Paul, on the NJ. & St. P. road, on the
18th, the wind struck the house of a
farmer named Welsh, in which was him
self, his wife and three children. Mrs
Welsh was instantly killed, and her hus-
band had several ribs broken, and was
otherwise injured. About eight rods
from the demolished Welsh place the
storm struck large new barn, which
was completely demolished.
Mr.. 0. Is. CRANE. while returning
from Westfield to his home on Pleasant
Prairie, on the 18th, was shot by some
person or persons secreted in the bushes,