The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-22
STATE NEWS.


dentally killed last week, near Hubble
ton, by the falling of tree
THERE are sixty inmates of the Jeffer-
son county poor house, twenty-six of
whom are pronounced incurably insane.
A BARN belonging to the City hotel in
WATERFOWL was destroyed by fire Tues
day. Loss $500; insured.
BY runaway in Oshkosh, Tuesday, a
farmer named Isaac Hart was run over
and injured. and horse was pierced by
shaft and killed.
Mr.. HENRY MILLER, of Jefferson, who
attempted suicide by shooting a revolver
into his ear few days since, is slowly re-
covering.
HUGH BROOKS, the man convicted of
arson, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge
Stewart, of Madison, to five years inn
prisonment in the penitentiary.
The annual meeting and twenty-sec-
ond session of the Wisconsin Conference
of Unitarian and independent societies
will be held in GAINESVILLE, December ii
18th.
GLEN BARNES, convicted of man
slaughter in the second degree, in James
Vile, was sentenced to four and half
years in prison, Monday. John Corners,
for the larceny Of $3.50, was sentenced to-
one year in the prison.
VIM. d. PALMER hung himself in a.
barn belonging to Benjamin Pratt, near
Racine, Thanksgiving day. Despond--
ency on account of no work was the;
cause.
Hon. L. b. CAswELI., congressman
| from the Second district, was recently
called home from Washington by the
dangerous illness of his aged mother.
who now lies at the point of death, at
Fort Atkinson.
THE hardware store belonging to o.
Wigdale, at Fort Atkinson, was entered
by burglars on Saturday night, and
about $500 worth of stock taken, consist
ing principally of knives, pistols, etc.
No clue to the thieves.
JOSEPH QUICK, charged with an
assault with intent to commit rape upon
the person of Josephine Tillock, of New
Cassel, was found guilty of the offense,
Tuesday in the Fond du Lac court He
has not yet been sentenced.
The grading on the North Wisconsin
Railroad is now finished ten miles be-
yond the end of the track, and twelve
miles beyond Clayton. The bridges and
culverts are all finished and the road bed
| ready for the iron, As soon as the rail-
road company are able to purchase it
Bayfield, Press.
VIM. CANARY. who was sentenced IN
/ GAINESVILLE, Friday, to three years i'm
prisonment, for striking Michael Muir
ply on the head with ten-pin, evident
| L i Al. l. L. OH to hn
severely punished when he appeared be-
fore the judge. He made terrible
speech, using profanity freely, just be-
lore the sentence, but qualled vlslbly
when the sentence was read.
A DWELLING house owned by VIM. j.
Shields, and occupied by family named
Rooney, on Bohemian hill, was consumed
by fire this morning about two o'clock.
The family succeeded in getting pretty
much everything out of the building,
which was burned to the ground. The
fire was professionally the work of an
incendary The building was insured
for $500. Shields has been arrested,
charged with incendiarism.-Edu Claire
Press.
AN anonymous letter was found on
the street in Neenah, Tuesday, written
in good style, saying that there would
be a terrible conf1agration in that city
between now and New Years; that there
would be three fires started at once in
different places and burn up the business
part of the town; also two fires at the
same time in Menasha. The gipsies also
prophesied that there would be a big fire
there within sixty days. What it all
means is a mystery, and the matter is
causing much talk.
FISH spearing off McBride's and Pic
mic Points is at present a highly profit
able industry for professional fishermen.
Numbers of fine whitefish are caught
nightly, by aid of large lanterns which
reflect their light down into the water,
so that small fish, twelve and fifteen feet
below the surface, are easily seen, and
can be accurately aimed at. Boats have
sometimes, on good nights, to land their
fish and start out again for another load.
These fish sell upon our street corners, IN
wheelbarrows, at five cents per pound,
NATURALIZATION journal.
By letter from Mr.. O. B. Green to
Hon. Isaac Stephenson, written last
Monday, we learn that at that date
space of 800 feet separated the dredges
working on the two ends ofthe Sturgeon
Bay canal. The dredges will be kept at
work as long as the weather will permit.
The engineer appointed by the state re-
ports that the second quarter of the work
has been finished, and some work on the
third quarter. As soon as his report is
made to the governor, the canal company
will be enabled to secure that portion of
the grant accruing to it under the law,
and will make arrangements for selling
it and devote the proceeds towards com
pleting the canal.-Marinette Eagle.
FROM the Fond du Lac Common
aUedlth: "Quite sensation occurred in
our city Monday in relation to the arrest
of O. 2. Reed, of Ripon, for perjury, in
making an affidavit for the arrest of
| ID. G.. Lamb for larceny. The history of
the matter, as we learn, is simply this
In 1876 one Mr.. Brundage, upon the sug-
gestion of another party, loaned to Mr..
Lamb SSO0-on which he was to receive
interest and installments. as it might
be called for in sums of not
more than $50, on ten days notice
Afterwards an arrangement was made
by which Mr. Lamb was to pay S25 on
the 10th day of each month, as the party
might want to use it for his support.
These installments have been promptly
paid as called for. A few days ago o.
2. Reed called ON Mr.. Lamb and asked
him to pay the whole sum, which Mr..
Lamb declined to do; and then Reed
threatened him with criminal prosecu-