The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-21
BADGER GOSSIP.

r. II. GUTHHm has the honor of being
the first Mayor of Chiffon.
The mill of ]. S. Manning. of Port.
age, was damaged to the extent of 81 900
by the late food.
FRANK GRAY, of GAINESVILLE. shot 145
ducks at Koshkonong, one day last
week.
THE total log cut on the Menominee
river Will reach about 10000, OOG feet.
which is fully up to the average.
A TWELVE YEAR OLD boy named Eddie
oensloa' residing at Green Bay, is ur-
der arrest for horse stealing.
A SOW belonging to VIM. Ref. of
otockbrldge, Calumet county, recently
produced twenty one pigs atone litter
all alive, none got away.
A MADISON couple are rejoicing
over their sixteenth child. The numer.
GUS family consists of ten boys and six
girls-al living.
HE wife of Ed. Kanouse, of Sun
Fralrle, died of scarlet fever on Satur-
day. This lady had five children at one
birth about two years ago.
THEDDEUs @. CLARK, an old resident
OF La Crosse, died on last Wednesday.
He served as Lieutenant in the Next
can war.
MIR. JAS. r. DEssEY has brought an
action against the Wisconsin Railroad
Company for $1,000 damages, for an
accident he sustained while In the EN-.
ploy of that company as a freight con-
ductor.
IHE town of Cam pbell, La Crosse
county, have voted to bear one-half of
the loss suffered by the town Treasurer,
who had about 81 200 in town funds in
the defunct First National Bank, of La
Crosse.
The city of Oshkosh received last
year upwards of $4,000 for liquor
licenses. Licenses there are fixed at
$loO per annum. The city has Dor T.
ed Indebtedness of $50, 900 only, which
is very well for Oshkosh.
IHE trustees of the Institution for the
Education of the Blind at GAINESVILLE
have elected The following officers for
the ensuing year: President, VIM.
McMacloon; Treasurer, Cyrus Miner:
Secretary, J. B. Whiting.
SEEDING has been generally beoun
throughout the country. Considerable
wheat was sown during the latter part
of last week, though but small portion
of the tillable land was dry enough. =
La Crosse Republican.
LAST week two COWS got their horns
hooked together in the wood about sc
rods from Delton, Columbia county,
and remained in that condition for three
days, without anything to eat or drink,
when the strongest one backed the other
into town, when they were separated.
@. P. WHITFoRD, ESQ.,, treasurer OF
the Beloit fire department, on Monday
paid over to the three companies, one
third to each, the sum of s38108, col
lected from the different fire insurance
agents of the city as their per cent ia,
on city business for 1876
ALL the lumber camps have been
broken up and come down. Good
judges say that there will be from 80,
600. 900 to $1,000, 900 feet of logs RATED
~ ho oo r,x -
up, and driving will commence in a few
days.-SaaaOano Journal.
The dead body found in Chester
Hazen's woods in Springdale, Fond du
Lac county, up to last accounts has not
been identified, owing to the face hav-
ing been eaten away by birds. The
superstition is that it was a person who
had been crazy, and had lain down to
sleep and froze, during the past winter.
AUGUST CoLwAY, of Meme, got badly
hurt in his fathers grist mill, last Mon
day. While he was oiling the gearing
his hand got caught in the cogs, and he
put out the other hand to jerk himself
that he will have to have all his fingers
amputatsd
CLARENCE ECNN, a boy about four
teen years old, shot bald. headed eagle
near Lake Shawano, last week. It
measured six feet and four inches across
its wings when spread out. This eagle
and its mate have been around the lake
for years, and it is too bad that one was
shot.-JOur7dl.
Mr.. RUSSELL PELToN, of the town of
Lyndon, Calumet county, had his arm
broken last Thursday by the kick of 6
horse. He was hitching up his horse,
and had the lines in one hand and his
arm up before his breast, when the
horse kicked and struck his arm, break
ing it just above the wrist.
Mr.. STARzMANN, of Token Creek,
Dane county, who was arrested and
tried on charge of poisoning his wife,
so as to marry Mrs. Nilsson, of the same
place, was discharged from custody
Thursday, the post norton examination
and proof submitted having shown that
Mrs. Starr mann died from the effects of
abortion committed by herself.
THREE years ago therewere only
two Temples of Honor in
Wisconsin, with membership
of less than so. Now there
are l28 temples, with membership of
ahouf IN 000 OF the IN 0OO rnap,bers