The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-11-03

IVY 10 IotCHlIlg HIty CcHeo d puollcl.-
JanesriVe Gazette.
,VENIsoN is coming in very freely
Mr.. Hummel brought down eight deer
yesterday. Two hunters from the head
waters of the Big Suamico brought in
four; two of them weighed 220 and $50
pounds.-Green Bay Ga1ette.
YOUNG Toms, who was accidently shot
in the thigh one week ago yesterday, in
the town of Washington, while out
squirrel hunting, expired from the effects
of the wound on Friday, and was buried
yesterday Eau Claire Press, 22d.
THE child accidentally shot at Rose
dale the other day was named Clark, and
has since died, the ball penetrating the
brain. Another warning to people who
will allow dangerous fire arms to be in
reach of children. ond du Lac Common
Uedlth.
THE number of kerosene lamp explo-
parts of the state is alarming. Four
deaths occurred in this state last week
from kerosene explosions, and two or
three occurred III a city where gas is
manufactured.
SATURDAY evening some bloodthirsty
person, in Eureka, threw a stone weigh
ing fifteen or twenty pounds through a
window in the hotel, SCATTERING glass
and sash, and striking John Nc
Groty on the head, telling him to the
floor and cutting hole in his head,
luckily not serious.-B Berlin C0urant.
THE little son of James Young met
with severe accident, escaping death
by mere chance, last Wednesday
Playing with a knife he fell upon it,
the blade entering the child's throat,
cutting frightful cash. DIR. Marches
sault was called, sewcd up the wound
and the child will recover-Ashkand
Press.
CHRISTINA LESTER, notorious wo-
man, died yesterday afternoon down on
Front street. An inquest was started
last evening but could not be completed
because the city physician was out of
town. The inquest was held becaufe the
police force were afraid of being accused
of killing the woman otherwise.-La
Crosse Democrat.
A FATAL accident occurred at Bailey
Harbor last Wednesday afternoon. The
facts are as follows: A boy named Jacob
Warner, who lived with Mr.. Arlt, miller,
went into the grist mill to grind his axe
on a grindstone that is operated by at
taching belt to a pulley close beside the
main belt While in the act of adjust
ing the grindstone belt, he was caught in
the main belt and whirled into eternity.
QUITE an accident happened to part of
the crew which left here yesterday for
Rock Island with the sheer boom built
for the government The boom and
floats to which it was attached got stuck
on Boyd's rapids. The company sent for
their steam pile driver at Meridian, and
while at work trying to pull the boom
over the rapids line parted and flew
back, seriously wounding VIM. Douglas,
Phillip McMan, Peter Warner and James
Culbert.-Eau CLAIRE Press, 18Th.
THE Madison Journal, of Wednesday,
sums up the accidents as follows: "John
Comfort fell from his wagon, Monday
afternoon, and, falling among his horses
legs, was badly injured; being an old
man, his recovery will be slow. One
Terry had his arm badly bruised yester-
day, by being thrown from buggy. A
boy down in Vernon was out hunting,
Monday, and pulled the wrong enI of
the gun over the fence after him; he
will wipe his nose with his left hand,
after this.
THE trustees OF the fire department
held meeting Saturday evening for the
purpose, principally, of taking action
relative to the firemen's fund. The pur-
pose of the trustees was to remove all
pretext or possibility of the city becom-
ing possessed of the fund. Acting under
the legal advice of Moses Hooper, the
trustees unanimously voted to cancel the
orders drawn for the division of the fire.
mems fund. Mr.. Hooper was employed
as attorney for the firemen in the in
junction case pending.-O Oshkosh North
1CesteTn.
THE Peshtigo water mill has shut
down, but the harbor mill will run to
the end Of the month. The company
have from 100000 to 7,OOO,0 900 feet of
logs still up the river, that will not be
got out until spring. The company
sawed this season, up to October 18th,
32,000,00 feet of lumber, and will cut
about 100000 feet more before the
close of the season. They have been
very successful this season. The water
mill has lost no time this season; one
side of the harbor mill was shut down
Tor week on account OF scarcity of logs.
LIZZIE HEATH, child about six years
OF age, living on MARI street, was quite
seriously bitten by a large dog belonging
to new neighbor of the Heath's, named
Austin. The child's ear was badly LAGER
ated, and 1T is thought the dog would
have killed her had not assistance been
promptly on hand. Tue dog followed
those who came to the rescue, Jumping
the fence and even attempting to pass
the door into NJ. Heath's house. The
cause for this sudden ferceness of the
dog is not known The child had not
provoked him.-Fond du Lac Common
iCfatth.
In the case of the L. S. vs.. the Beef
Slough Co., the demurrer of the defend
ants has been sustained by Judge Drum
mond, of the L. S. Circuit Court. An
order is being filed here this forenoon
with the leave of the defendant to amend.
The demurrer is sustained on both
grounds taken by the defendants; first.
it does not show that the defendants
were violating any act of Congress; Sec
ond, that the defendants were in any
property or the property rights of the
United States. The main question be-
ing whether congress has by act regulat-
ed the commerce of the Chippewa river,
and no such act having been pointed out
by the plaintiff, the line of complaint
must fail.
THE recent rains have raised the river
sufficiently for the lumbermen to COM