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

to the state treasurer.
The daily catch of fish al Green Bay
Is decreasing, and fishermen are getting
discouraged.
HE Senate has confirmed the ap~
pointment of s. W. Osborn as post
master at Darlington.
A COMPOSITION of Is cents on the dol
lar was rejected by the creditors of JAS.
+. Atkinson, of Appleton.
FORTY thousand dollars lave been
pledged to secure glass factory in
Wlnneconne. a
The farmers of Pierce county want 0
good cheese. maker to move there and
start a factory.
Mr. A. E. MORSE, of GAINESVILLE, has
purchased of E. w. Wilton the abstract
office. paying Sc, 800 for the same.
A NEW German Lutheran church, to
cost 81, 200, is to be erected at Amherst
this spring.
The Menominee Iron Furnace made
245 gross tons last week, and the man
ayers claim it to be the best weeks work
ever done, considering the fuel used.
JOHN M. MITCHELL, of Green Bay,
has been sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment for stealing furs last De-
| cember.
The lumber mill of Knox Voorhees,,
in Duncan, has been purchased by
Rely & Bosworth, of Fond du Lac, for
$4,000.
CHAs. LAwToN and wife, of Depere,
were recently poisoned by eating pickles
put up in lead lined jars, but recovered
after severe illness.
JOHN SIMPSON, living about two miles
east of Rolling Prairie Station, Dodge
county, is reported to have sold his farm
to German for $50 per acre.
ISAAC P. DARKER, of Winneconne,
while saving wood on Friday, was
stricken with paralysis, and he died six
hours later.
The postmaster at Cooperstown,
Manitowoc county, Mr.. Morrison, was
killed on Friday last by falling down
stairs with pail OF water and breaking
mis- skull.
IT is proposed by an American COM
pany to introduce fur seals from Alaska
into Lake Superior. The temperature
of the lake is regarded as cold enough,
and O Petition will be presented to the
Canadian Parliament and the American
Congress to protect the animals from
slaughter for twenty years. At the end
of that period it is supposed the animals
will have accumulated 80 as to afford
valuable sport.
The Darlington Republican says, a
young mother of that village, fearing
thu t the dangerous diseases now preva-
lent might attack her innocent two year
old, purchased quantity of chloride of
lime to use as disinfectant Being
ignorant of the right manner of using
it, she foolishly tied it up in bag, and
fastened it around the child's neck. In
J a short time the lime became wet,
thereby causing it to slack, and the
child was burned so severely upon the
chest that the services of one of the vii
lage physicians was necessary to save 1t
from premature grave.
A MISERABLE fellow named Jos. Long
is now confined at Mansion, charged
with destroying his infant child. The
evidence presented to the District At
torney shows that Longs wife was con-
fined at their home in Marion, juneau
county, that only Long was present, and
that he took the child as soon as it was
born, and put it into the stove and de-
stroyed it. It is said that he did the
same thing with one born under the
same circumstances year or SO before.
The man Long appears to be poor,
shiftless fellow, uneducated and incapa-
BILE of appreciating the horrible and dis
gushing character of the act he is
charged with.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Poy-
sippi, Green Lake county, says. Our
little village consists of a grist mill,
saw mill, two stores, hotel, blacksmith
shop, school house, two churches COM
pleted, one in progress of building,
besides another in contemplation that
We know of and for ought we know
each family may have one before we
come to the end thereof; so you see
that strangers soiournipg here for
season can enter church of their own
choice and have whole pew to them
selves for there is not enough to fill one
church as it should be filled.
TILE Madison Journal says: Ten
ex-Speakers of the Assembly were in
Madison, Thursday, who have presided
over that body, collectively, for sixteen
years, as follows: Moses M. Strong, in
1850; F. W. Horn, in 1851, 1854, and
1875; VIM. Penn Lyon, in 1880; w.
w. Field, in 1864 IS; 81. D. Barron, in
1866 70; A. M. Thompson, in 1868-69;
VIM. e Smith, in 1871; ID. Hall, in
1872; Sam S. Fifeld, in 1876, and J.
B. Cassoday In 1877. Messrs. Fl. L.
Palmer and Gabe Bouck, exSpeakers,
have been in the city within few days.
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