The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-07

FREDERICK FLEIsCHER, ESQ, editor
of the Federlaadet og ED'igranten, died at
his residence in La Crosse at one O'Clock
Tuesday, aged 81 years.
THREE young children named Kas-
chorick, of Winfield, during their par
ents' temporary absence, were burned to
death by the house burning down.
JOIN ANDERSON, one of the burglars
and would-be assassins connected with
the Oslock Lee, of Springvale, affair,
received sentence of eight years at hard
labor in the state peniteRtiary.
WE learn with regret that Mr.. VIM.
Wagner, of Door county, who aeciden-
tally shot himself in the head one week
ago last Sunday, was taken with lock-
jaw last Sunday, and died night before
last.-Ahnapee Record.
By an accident to a threshing ma
chine, a young man named Justad,
| living at Halfway Greek, near La Crosse,
/ lost his arm. The bones were not broken,
but the pressure burst the veins and
arteries, and it became necessary to am
putate the member
/ DEER are being slaughtered in large
quantities in Buffalo county, and the
hunters take their plumber to Eau Claire
where they get eight cents pound for
saddles and six cents a pound through
| for carcasses. The hunters enjoy the
sport and it seems that they get paid
well for it.
A RECEIVER has been asked for the
Galena and Southern railroad. The road
! is now completed from Galena north
wardly to Platteville, in Wisconsin, a
distance of about forty miles, and has
another extensin of ten miles, extending
north, which is only partially equipped.
| 1t is declared that no amount of the loan
has been repaid, and that the amount
now due is $568, goo.
| CARLTON LooMER, 20 years of age,
son of Everton LOomer, ESQ, of the
township of Sugar Greek, near Elkhorn,
/ lost his life Monday on Holden's Lake,
while hunting, the recoil of his gun up
setting the boat employed and precipi-
tating him and younger companion
into the water. LOomer in an attempt
to swim ashore was drowned, and his
companion by clinging to the boat was
rescued.
| On Saturday last, some unknown per-
! sons broke the lock of the little building
that stands over the hydraulic ram that
/ furnishes the water, from a spring, for
the houses of Messrs. l.. G.. Stanley and
A. j. Hayward, and with heavy stones,
smashed the valve and otherwise injured
| the ram so as to make it useless. The
supply OF water was therefore cut of
! until another valve came from Chicago.
-Chippea0a FGHs Herald.
A SERIOUS and all but fatal accident
happened to the youngest daughter of
Rev. j. S. Fall, of Wausau, one day last
week. The child was at the school house
and while frolicking with her mates,
jumped upon the bannister on the sec
ond floor and losing her balance fell to
the floor below, distance of about
twelve feet striking on her head and
face. She was taken up senseless, but
recovered and will not be seriously dis
| figured.
CHIEF ENGINEER CAPT w. t. CAS-
GRAIN about the first of this month GER
tltled to the governor of the state that
the third quarter of the work on the
Sturgeon Bay canal is completed. The
next step will be for the governor to ap-
point a commission to examine the
work, and if it is found to be satisfac-
tory, the third quarter of the lands
appropriated fT building the canal will
be turned over to the company.
FROM the Oshkosh Northwestern:
Adam Haber, who lives in the town of
Vinland, left this city about three
months ago for a visit to Germany.
Alter arriving there he enjoyed himself
at his former home on the Rhine. and
meeting many of his old neighbors and
friends he spoke always in high praise of
America, his adopted country. As re-
port now goes, at some of these social
gatherings, Adam became a little en-
thusiastic and spoke of Kaiser William
in a disrespectful and contemplate
manner for which Mr.. Haber was ar
rested, tried, convicted and sent to
military prison for five years, which
sentence he Is now serving out. COnse-
quently his visit to his Faderland will
be longer than he anticipated.
Mrs. CARRIE l.. MAY, who resides at
Depere, was brought to this city last
evening, by Sheriff Harshaw, under ar
rest on warrant sworn out for her APP
prehensiOn on charge of fraudulent
conveyance of land. The facts are stated
to be as follows: Last Friday Mrs. May
conveyed to gentleman in this city
piece OF property located in the town of
Nlnland for consideration of nearly
$500. She then took the train imme-
dla5ely for Neenah, where she con-
veyed the same property to ano Their
party, taking the consideration therefor.
The double transfer was discovered on
Saturday, and a warrant was sworn out
for her arrest, and she was brought here
last night. She brought a little girl
with her, and both are now in Jail. The
examination is set for tomorrow at nine
O'clock Oshkosh Northwestern, 18th.
Nor long ago very sad affair hap
pened in this neighborhood. A young
man living not far from La Crosse stole
a sum of money from a friend, and stole
it in such manner that as soon as its
loss was discovered the owner knew who
had stolen it. The intelligence of the
robbery was communicated to the young
mans father, and he in turn told his
wife of their sons crime On receiving
the sad information the lady tainted, and
the next morning died The man from
whom the money was stolen and friend,
upon learning of the lady's death, has
tened to this city for the purpose of tell
ing her son of it. The young man was
found engaged in a game of cards in
gambling room in this city, and when
informed of his mothers death and the
cauSn of IL Soapo