The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-07-07
STATE NEWS.



a WEYAUwEGA firm have purchased
o'ooo pounds of wool this season.
HE Advent camp meeting on tho
banks OF Silver lake has just come to a
very Successful termination.
EyERYrnISG in the shape of crops is
growing with wonderful rapidity. Farm.
efs 1eei sure of an ample harvest.
FRANK LowTH, editor of the Dodge
county Democrat, and Miss Emma Ar
mold were married at juneau ON the Dist
fHE soap factory Of Peter Coleman
haclne, was damaged by fire on the 18th
to the extent Of $4,000; insured for
800. r
JOHN GRUBEN, of La Crosse, got tired
OF lie, and hung himself, on the 29d.
lie was 81 years of age, and leaves a
wife and six children. No cause could
be aseertained for the deed.
FROM all parts of Brown county the
most encouraging crop PROSPECTS are re-
ported. Wheat, oats and potatoes, es-
pecially, will yield immense crops. The
hay crop only will be light one.
Il. WILSON, of Palmyra, receives 5000
pounds of milk and manufactures 600
poundsof cheese daily, at his dairy farm.
Inc cheese, so far, has been sold to par
ties In Chicago and Milwaukee.
THE Northwestern road is EMPLOYING
about 10 men from Oshkosh in laying
new steel rails and repairing the road
ped north of Oshkosh. The crew is at
work in the neighborhood of Neenah.
ED CREMIEUX, lately practicing upon
the credulity of Appleton people as a
gospel temperance reformer, has beeh
sentenced to eight months Imprisonment
IN the state prison for larceny.
The estimated log crop from the up
per Mississippi is now estimated at no.
000,000. The Rum river drive is now
100 miles from the Mississippi and is
said to be in great danger of not getting
out at all.
A DISPATCH from Watertown saws
two tramps entered the residence of II.
r. Humphreys at Ixonia, and stole $50
and a silver watch. The tramps were
arrested near Watertown and held for
| trial.
Two thieves, Ryan and Foley, who
escaped from the jail in Eau Claire, and
were captured i'll Hastings, Mimi, for
burglary, have been sentenced by the
Minnesota judge to ten and nine years
each in the state prison.
IN the case of Van Starlen, the de-
faulting ex-county treasurer of Brown
county, the verdict is in favor of the
county for the sum of $24, S02.26, with
interest from the expiration of Van
Starlen's term of Office, January l, 1875,
making $29,01255.
LAST Saturday two colts, a yearling
and two-year old, belonging to A. L.
Hastings, of Fountain Prairie, Columbia
county, were killed by lightning. The two
year-old, Mr.. Hastings had been to some
pains to buy match for, purposing to
raise fine matched span of horses.
Mrs. JACOB FowLE, of Oshkosh, en-
tertainad n couple of tralnps with a good
lunch, one day last week, and the same
night the lady was awakened by bur-
glars in the house In watching them 60
away she noticed one of the tramps she
had fed during the day.
THE Darlington Republican says that
small green worms infest the woods of
of Apple River, New Diggings and Ben
ton. They cover the trees with webs and
destroy the leaves. They destroy or
chards and all forest trees except hick-
DRY and poplar. They make the woods
look as bare as in winter.
A MAN by the name of johnson, at
work for Mr.. Brooks, in the town of
Hudson, met with q singular but most
distressing accident few days ago. He
was running across a field where there
there had been brush piles burning, and
he stumbled and fell at full length, face
down, into pile of Goals Before. fhe
/
could get up he was very badly burned
about the face, and will lose the sight of
one, and it is feared both eyes.
THE treasurer of Chippewa county
has been instructed to seize all logs in
the river cut upon lands where the
taxes have not been paid. The Herald
Endorses this action and adds: One case
has come to our knowledge where a
Minneapolis man cut c, 1000, 900 feet upon
property where the taxes have not been
paid in four years. We understand
that his logs are to be attached imme-
diately.
A JEALOUS wife in Fort Howard,
seeing the woman her husband was smil-
ing so sweetly upon pass by her door one
day last week, ran out, dipper in hand,
and applied the utensil with force on
No. 2's new hat. A scuffle ensued, and
the neighbors had to interfere to sepa-
rate the women. The extent of damages
to feelings, dipper, aid garments could
not be ascertained definitely, but was
considerable. No arrests yet.
AN old resident of Watertown named
Jesse Craven died in that city last week
of paralysis. He had many eccentric
notions, and one was that the only safe
way to keep his money was to hide it on
his own premises He had no faith in
banks, and 50 made his deposits about