The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-29
STATE NEWS.

was burned by an incendiary. Loss
So00, and insurance 5000.
WISCONSIN cranberries are being
shipped IN large qualities to Hamburg,
where they are converted into fine old
sherry wine
BENJAMIN E. HALE, who died lately
in New York, formerly edited the Beloit
Journal, in this state He was we'll
known throughout Rock county.
SHIELDS, who was arrested for incen-
diarism, and was on examination before
Judge Latimer, Friday and Saturday, in
Eau Claire, was bound over, his bail
being fixed at $500. The testimony was.
very conflicting.
The supreme court has affirmed the
judgment of the lower court in the case
of j. w. Bass, of Fond du Lac, VS.. the
G. q n. w. Railway, for damages sus-
tanned by being forcibly elected from
car The judgment was for 1880.
+ A SAD accident is reported from the
vicinity of Ripon. One Michael Hoff
man, farmer, while taking a load of
straw to market Monday afternoon, fell
to the ground, striking upon his head
and dislocating his neck. He died in
stantly.
A FEW days ago, in the town of For
estville, at the residence of Gilbert Berg,
while Evan Larson, a resident of Manito-
voc, was handling his gun it was acci-
dentally discharged, and the contents
six buck shot-passed through his left
arm just above the elbow joint, lacerating
the arm and SCATTERING the lower end of
the humerus in scores of places.
THE sheriffs of Wisconsin are in hard
luck this winter In Brown county the
sheriff is under arrest for bad conduct;
in Marathon county the sheriff is in linn
DO for not collecting the personal tax of
last year that was placed in his hands for
collection, and the Taylor county sheriff
is bound open for appearance for the next
term of the Circuit Court for assisting a
prisoner to effect an escape.
THE most essential and thorough job
of work, forming one of the necessary
concomitants to the Dells work now go
ing on here, has been completed, that of
building a cutoff across narrow neck
of land, and shortening up the river by
avoiding a large bend, a distance of
nearly q miles, which, with cutoff or
canal is to be adopted for the exclus-
i've use of all boats or RATS plying on the
river above the dam. The work was
completed we understand, last week, and
was accomplished with crew of 100
men, and 26 teams, with scrapers, plows,
dump carts and wheelbarrows to remove
the dirt.-Eau Claire Press.
A LADY living about twelve miles
from Monroe, in Lafayette county, was
thrown from a buggy forty-three days
ago, and suffered a dislocation of
shoulder-blade. Several physicians were
called, but they could administer no per-
manent relief The surgeons in Monroe
! could not reduce the dislocation, and
abandoned all further attempts. Her
sufferings were intense, and added to
these was the aggravation that there was
no hope of relief. A friend advised her
to come to GAINESVILLE, which she did on
Friday last. Strange as it may seem
the dislocation was reduced at once, and
the patient is rapidly recovering, and
just now she is one of the happiest wo-
men in the world.-JdnesuiHe Gazette.
A SON of Robert Hellard, of Oshkosh,
aged Is years, had very narrow escape
from drowning Sunday. He was skating
on the lake near Miller's point and was
holding sail in his hand by which he
was being propelled very swiftly over
the ice and was carried far out from
shore. Suddenly the ice gave way and
he went in. The water was very deep,
but the boy was familiar enough with the
locality to know that there was a shoal
place little distance from where he
went In. He commenced breaking the
ice in front of him and slowly making his
way towards the shoal. The boys on the
ice near the shore were unable to reach
him. 1t took young Hellard over twenty
minutes to break the ice and work his
way to the shoal, which he finally
reached and touched bottom.
BUSINESS on the Green Bay and
! Minnesota Railroad has increased very
much within the past year. The large
wheat crop of the west has of course had
much to do with it since harvest, but
aside from this there has been a healthy
growth that promises to be permanent.
The towns on the line of the road are
most of them steadily growing, the
basis of their increase being some
thing more permanent than the man
ufacturing of lumber, which only
lasts until the timber is exhausted. The
country is rapidly filling up with a
thrifty farming population. Since the
! first of September the company has had
about all the business it could do, and
has paid off large share of it's floating
debt with the proceeds. The company
thus enters upon the winter with vastly
better prospects than year ago.-Gree,
Bay AdcOcate.
EAU CLAIRE Press: The water was
turned through the lock of the Dells i'm
provement Friday afternoon, between
four and five O'Clock, for the first time
and was four feet in depth in the lock
channel. The Golfer dam above the
main dam has been built two-thirds
of the distance across the river. and
work on the main dam has been
commenced, extending from the lock
to the west shore. The worL
is progressing it would seem. uncon-
scionably slow at present, but the con-
tractors are said to be bothered about
timber, which they cannot obtain in
large quantities until a sufficient depth
Oh snow has fallen to make sleighing. as
much OF the timber must be hauled to
the mills along the line OF the West Wis.
consln road to be sawed and then shinnad
in here pPou
DENNIS MULCAHY, a farmer of tho
town OF Dane, was in the village of To-
Oil, last Friday afternoon, and notwitb-
standing that no liquor license is granted
by the village fathers, succeeded in oct
ting most gloriously drunk. In fbe
evening Mulcahy drove homeward cra
aclng no meansensation as he dashed ont
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