The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-11-10
STATE NEWS.

1HE mouse OF Peter Smith, at Burling-
ton, was destroyed by fire. Loss 81 200.
THREsHERs will remember that there
is a heavy fine for running machine
without boxed tumbling rods.
AS A result of one days picking from
two acres of ground, J. S. Soule. of
kipon, reports AZ bushels of cucumbers
OF picking size.
JAMES BLAIR's lumber office in James
vile was robbed Monday night. The
thieves succeeded in getting one postage
stamp and two boxes Of matches.
THERE were just one hundred arrests
made by the Oshkosh police between
the LIST of April and the LIST of Septem-
Der, besides the tramps run out of town
without arrest.
SATURDAY night the dry goods, hard
ware and drug stores of Carswell & Chase,
Liedt & Wiswell, and Young Bros, at
Elkhorn, were burglarized to the amount
of from 500 to $500 each.
BLACK RIVER is at present lower than
it has ever been known to have been.
The water is so low that the Itaska
actually is obliged to work her way
through herd of cows in some places.
La Crosse Republican.
MONDAY morning Malachi Higgins,
long proprietor of the Farmers House,
near West Madison depot, met with a
very severe, if not fatal, injury. He
was blowing on his farm south of Monona
lake; while stopping to arrange the gear
ing in front of the pillow, one of his
horses kicked him in the face, complete
ly disabling him. Both jaws were broken
and other injuries received.
A. GREEN, hotel keeper of Fond du
Lac, charged with deserving his family,
stealing, ETC., returned to that place
some time ago. Saturday evening the
Washington county Sheriff made his APP
pearance in Fond du Lac and after
lively chase succeeded in capturing
Green, who had jumped bail in WASH
lngton county, it seems.
THE man mentioned few days ago as
having been caught in the horsepower of
a threshing mashine near Metomen was
named William Wasserfurth. One of
his feet caught in the power dragging
him inch by inch, crushing the limb
from foot to thigh to complete Jelly,
and otherwise injuring him so seriously
that death ensued in very few hours
Fond du Lac Commonwealth.
In regard to the National Iron Co.
the Depere Neaos says: owe under
stand the creditors were disposed to act
very considerably with the company,
and it is thought satisfactory settle
ment will be reached without any diff
Guilty at the next meeting. In that
event we are informed by Secretary
Hunt that the furnace will resume
operations as early as the first of next
month"
IHE most wonderful sight in the vege-
table line can now be seen at Wayland's
grocery house. Five full grown pump
kins grown on one stalk, (there were nine
perfect ones on the vine, surrounding
the common stem. The vine where it
was cut off is A. inches broad. They
were raised on the city poor farm, and
will be exhibited at the county fair.
The like was never seen anywhere
appleton Crescent.
HE sheriff of Portage county made
his appearance in the city last night and
arrested Miles Brewer, Waterman on
board the steamboat Tom Wall, and took
him back to Portgage. Brewer is charg-
ed with forgery, but the officer did not
give the particulars of the case He has
been engaged about the boats here in the
summer time for six or eight years past
and has always been considered a good
man to work.-Oshkosh Northwestern
WATERTowN is in snarl. The city
is heavily bonded for railroad debts; so
heavily that it is bankrupt. There are
special laws for the benefit of that city
alone, and these laws render it impossible
for the city to comply with the new cleo
ton law. The question which now dis
tracts the minds of the Watertown edi-
tors is whether, under these circum-
stances, the citizens may vote at all this
fall.
GODFREY BONNER, whose farm lies in
the southern part of the village of De
pere, finished threshing his wheat the
latter part of last week, and was fairly
astonished, as well he may be, over the
result Of his labors on that crop. From
II measured bushels of seed he realized
the enormous yield of 252 measured or
$50 weighed bushels of grain! And it
was an A No. l article at that Who
says this is not good wheat-growing
country ?-Depere Necos.
On Saturday last, as servant girl in
the family of G.. Hanchett went into the
cellar, she saw large black snake, about
an inch and half thick and two and a
half feet long. The girl was actually
paralyzed by fear at the sight of the
snake. The alarm was given and par
ties went into the cellar, but the reptile
had disappeared. Yesterday it was dis
covered in its hole, and saucer full of
milk was placed near the mouth of the
hole, and in a short time he came out
and was killed.-JdnesviUe Gazette.
A HEAVY robbery occurred at Milton
Junction, at noon to-day. A lady on
the Madison train stopped off at the
Junction, and while standing at the
lunch table in the Morgan House, was
robbed of $175 in money and $3.50 in
notes. Two women who were standing
near the lady at the table, were sus-
picioned; they came to the city from
the Junction on the 1:20 train, and
Marshal Heating was telegraphed to look
out for them. He met them at the de.
pot, and employed lady to give them
a thorough search, but nothing was
found to Indicate that they committed
the robbery-JaneseiUe Gazette 18th.
A SERIOUS accident occurred a few
nights since at the home of JAS G. Pick
etts, in the town of Utica. A kerosene
lamp exploded, setting on fire the cloth
ing of Georgia, Mr.. Picketts' daughter
vounu lady about 1S wears of ace
AND frantic, she ran into the
street, her clothing all ablaze. Mrs.
Picketts ran after he1, and with great