The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15
STATE NEWS.

The state prison has $40 inmates.
EVANSVILLE proposes to have water
works.
DEPERE has man named Houle, 105
years old.
JUNEAU's new court house is progress
ing finely.
AT Westfeld cows are regularly killed
by the cars.
TWELVE sheep in Lafayette, Monroe
county, yielded $50 pounds of wool.
DURING the tornado articles were car
ried through the air for twenty miles.
G. A. Brown, of Marinette, was
thrown from his buggy and broke his
leg just above the ankle.
EGGS 9x7 inches are getting so COM
mon now as to hardly cause mention.
THE Northern Wisconsin Spiritual
conference will be held in Omro on the
14th-16th of June.
THERE is Law compelling town SUI
pervisors to erect guide boards at the
intersection of roads.
A DAUGHTER of Harvey Campbell, of
Madison, was thrown from buggy. and
so seriously injured that it is feared she
will die.
FRANK SELDOM, who vas killed in the
accident entailed By the flood in Colo
RADIO, last week, was formerly resident
of Oshkosh, where his relatives now live.
SPARTA has had numerous cases of
highway robbery lately. One young
man was robbed of suit of clothes, in
addition to his watch and pocket book.
A TEAM belonging to John Nochrein-
er, of Spring Green, ran away and one
of the animals was killed by colliding
with tree. The occupants of the wagon
were not injured.
| EGgERT }. RANDALL, of Batavia, n.
Y, was arrested at Oconomowoc, Mon
day, charged with having committed
forgery in his native place some time
since.
WHILE daughter of jackson Mulher-
ron, residing near Fall Greek was swing
ing, (standing up with another girll she
fell, and fractured her leg between the
knee and ankle.
A YOUNG man named Williams, from
West Union, Ia, formerly a barber in
Chicago, tried to swindle the people of
the latter city, Monday, by selling forged
notes. He was detected and arrested.
TUESDAY the worlds congress of good
templars met at Minneapolis. Delegates
from Madison were Mrs Gov. Taylor,
Messrs 81. ii. Giles, L. D. Kanouse, the
present right worthy grand templar, and
S. D. Hastings, P. R. w. G. T.
On Wednesday afternoon, while play
ing base ball near Atwater Station, Mr.
F. S. Jacobs was struck in the face by
"hot ball with such force as to smash
his nose in horrible manner Wdupun
| Times.
A MAN named A. Evenson, living
eighteen miles below Eau Claire, went
into that town Monday morning. Feel
ing somewhat tired, he sat down to rest,
and Immediately expired from a stroke
of paralysis.
LA CROSSE stands fair show of hav-
ing a new government building, The
following telegram was received by
Mayor Law from Senator Cameron:
The bill for the erection of a govern
ment building at La Crosse will be intro
duced on Monday. Send me statistics
of postoffice and custom house business.
There Is some prospect of success"
A SON of Fred Hartung, two years of
age, fell backwards into pail of boiling
water last Saturday, and was so badly
scalded that he is now in very critical
condition. The water was being used to
wash of the store windows, and the little
fellow, who was playing about the store
with his little sister, was accidentally
pushed into it, as above stated.-Too
Rioers' Chronicle.
TUESDAY Mr.. Burnett, the crazy man
who was frozen last March and had both
legs amputated below the knees, was
sent to the Waupaca county poor house.
1t is said that he has an individual in
terest IN property which has been kept
from him on account of his insanity.
The property, it is reported, amounts to
over one hundred thousand dollars, The
authorities propose to investigate the
matter.
The damage to buildings, live stock
and fences by the great storm will not
be less than S25 900 in the towns of Oak
land and Jefferson, to say nothing of the
loss OF human life, the injuries received
! by persons, end the incalculable damage
to fruit and shade trees, timbers, etc.
At moderate estimate, the damage
done to farm property in Jefferson
county, will amount to over $4,000.
A SERIOUS conhagration occurred at
the village of Jenney, Saturday after
noon, which resulted in the complete
destruction of the Posey House and it's
contents, besides several outbuildings
and barn belonging to Frank Andrews.
The fire caught from a chip pile fire,
which had been started in the rear of
the hotel The hotel building was new
and cost about $1,000 Total loss about
SIS, 600; no insurance.
ABE DUCHATEAU tells us of a cat
that is rearing family OF young rabbits
together with her own offspring. They
are of the wild" sort, and being found
in the woods in the absence of the
parents were taken away and merely as
an experiment were placed with litter
of newborn kittens. 1t was thought
the mother cat would devour them. but
with a maternal feeling she has adopted
them, and Is rearing them on the milk
of feline kindness.-G Bay Globe.
SUNDAY night, at Sparta, pack-ped-
dler named Wolf Roseman, was enticed
out into the grove, at the north of the
village, by one of three confederates.
who there set upon him, knocked him
down, rlfied his pockets, stole his pack,
and then went home to bed. In the
scuffie one OF the three roughs, attempt
ing to stop Roseman's cry for help. got
his flnger In the latter's mouth, and was
bitten so badly that by that mark he was
easily identified. Justice Hoyt exam
ined them Monday forenoon and bound
them over under 800 bonds each to an