The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-01-05
STATE NEWS.

oND Do LAC Is surviving hard for
several scandals.
NUMEROUS deer have been seen
around Portage, lately.
EVANSVILLE has another long-married
couple. Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Scofeld
celebrated their golden wedding Deem
Der 10th.
This is said to be the first winter in
the recollection of the oldest inhabitant
that Lake Winnebago froze over and
then thawed out. At present the lake
is open.
A HEAVY burglary was committed in
Fond du Lac last week. The house of
Henry b. Eastman was broken into dur
ing the absence of the family and $500
worth of goods was stolen.
SATURDAY night man named Henry
Ripe, in Oshkosh, stabbed Ferdinand
Gebauer in the face, while the latter was
attempting to put him out of his saloon
hotel
A RECEPTION was rendered Rev. Faith
er Deberg, at the German Catholic
Church in Racine Thursday evening, in
honor of the 25th anniversary of his
priesthood. Several priests from abroad
were there and there was large torch
light procession through the streets.
THIS is the modest way the Omro
journal most scientifically records a
shoulder dislocation: "He fell through
between the joists, striking one arm,
which threw up his hand and the hui
merus down into the axilla. Dr. Mccall
was called and reduced it."
WIJTrAzE TTnnaNr c A.
crime of rape before the Kewaunee
County Circuit Court, October Goth,
1876, and sentenced to state prison for
the term of ten years, was on the lst
inst. pardoned by Governor Ludington,
and discharged from prison on the 7th
inst.
TUESDAY Mr. Patrick Conroy, living
between Sharon and Clinton, was the
victim of fatal accident. While in
hay-mow throwing down hay, he fell
through the hatchway upon a tanning
mill, thence to the floor. He lived about
twenty minutes. Mr.. Conroy was an
old resident of that loo atty.
4. E. POUND & Co., of Chippewa
Falls, made an assignment Monday toL
Z. Stanley, for the benefit of their cred
| ltors. The firm have been embarrassed
on account of the low water, preventing
the logs coming down, and it was deemed
best for all parties that an assignment
should be made. 1t is supposed that the
assets equal the liabilities.
AN experiment in lighting the streets
by allowing the neighbors to bear the
| expense is being tried on Jackson street,
north of Irving. The wards have put
up several kerosene lamp posts and
burners, and the neighbors are furnishing
the oil and attending to the lighting and
extinguishing without any expense to
the ward. 1t appears to be successful
Oshkosh Northeastern.
On Saturday last, German known as
Fritz, employed in the vicinity of Spies
mill, went into the stable while, as it is
reported, under the influence of liquor,
and was injured by one of the horses so
that he died ON Sunday. It seems that
be got into one of the stalls and under
| the horses feet and was trampled upon.
The burial took place on Monday
Oconto Reporter.
WE learn that d. NJ. Kelley intends to
retire at once from the management of the
Green Bay and Minnesota Railroad, ard
| that in November he notified the eastern
owners of the road of his resignation as
vice president and as general manager
and requested them to appoint as Tissue
cessor some one who should be able to re-
lieve him of his duties on or before the
31st of the present month.-Green Bay
| Gazette.
THE police have heard from the sheriff
of Dunn county, relative to the affair in
which Madison widow and an ex-em-
ploye of the senate are interested, but the
correspondence is unsatisfactory. Letters
were sent Saturday morning to the father
of the child, and if the little one does not
turn up alive and well within few days,
there will be war in the camp 1t is
thought that possibly the child was muir
| dered
| THE station house at Amherst Juno
ton was burned to the ground at four
o'clock Thursday morning. The flames
broke out in a portion of the building
that strongly indicated that the fire was
set by some malicious person. It con-
tanned no freight at the time, and but a
few small parcels in the baggage ROOM
The large platform surrounding the
station was uninjured. The building
was owned jointly by the Green Bay &
Minnesota and Wisconsin Central Rail
ways.
LAST Saturday night Mr.. A. Miller, of
Lind, was in town "sobering off," and
his team tied to post somewhere on
Main street. Some scamp sheared the
tails of both of his horses, and cut the
reins nearly in two, SO that by slight
pull on them they would have broken.
! Two young men, who certainly ought
not to be guilty of any such deed, were
arrested on Tuesday, and are to have
their examination this morning, too late
for report as to result this week. Wou-
paca Republican.
A FEW days ago we published the fact
that.some chaps In Brandon put lager
beer sign ON the new house of L. J. Hall.
But. there is more to it than we stated, it
seems: Mr.. Hall, who is a prominent
temperance man and a sterling Methodist,
became incensed, tore down the sign and
chopped it into kindling. He also Of
fered reward of ten dollars for the APP
prehension of the parties who hung it
where it was found. All at once man
named Kopplin appeared and said it was
his beer sign Hall destroyed and claims
damages. Hall says he is willing to pay
if Kopplin will prove that it was his sign
and how it came ON his building. Kopp-
lin insists upon pay for his sign, and
there is likely to be a lawsuit over the
affair.
A YOKE of cattle were brought into
town and left at the Eau Claire House
barn on the 9th of last August. They
were offered for sale at figures so low as