The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
STATE NEWS.
The logs are running freely.

The Hudson & River Falls railroad
will be In running order by July 4th.
MONDAY evening $4,000 trout were.
deposited in Lake Winnebago, at Fond
du Lac.
The Delavan scandal, at the deaf and
dumD institute, will be investigated IN
June. 1t will be private.
w. X. DRESSER, of Green Bay, was ac-
cidentally killed at Sturgeon Bay, Mon
day.
w. A. Brown, of GAINESVILLE, was
arrested Saturday, charged with setting
fire to his residence.
IHE bottom has fallen out of that
Waupun wooden mill project, and there
was found to be nothing in it.
Z: +. CARLSON, of GAINESVILLE, was car
ried over the dam in that place Satur-
day, but was rescued by his son.
THE scafolding on the cathedral in
Green Bay fell Wednesday afternoon,
injuring four men who were upon it.
HENRY EsMILLER, a farmer of the
town of Barre, was quite badly injured In
La Crosse by his runaway team Monday.
JOSEPH HARRIET, former resident
OF MediOrd, was drowned in the Flam-
beau river, while logging, few days ago.
WAUPUN's fire company has resigned,
because of the non-appreciation of its
services by the citizens of that little city.
IT has been decided that the eagle at
Madison is Old Andy" and not "Old
Abe"
ID. j. FLEETWOOD, at Stevens Point,
has four-legged chicken.-Green Bay
| 4dUe cate.
Mr.. McCAMMoND, of Oshkosh, had
his loot torn from the ankle Saturday
afternoon, by a running wire-rope, in his
cigar-box factory, in which he became
entangled.
| Mr.. A. E. WIGHT left at our office last
Monday an egg which measures inches
in circumference the long way, and
inches around it, and weighs ounces
PloUer Times.
WHILE several children were playing
on the turn-table at Appleton, few days
ago, one of them, little girl named
Anglum, was seriously injured by being
caught between the wheels.
IT is surmised that the legislature will
be called to extra session to consider the
revision of the statutes on the 18th of
June next. The committee on revision
is making good progress with its work.
A SON of Senator Sackett, at Berlin,
owns Shetland pony which has given
birth to a colt that only weighs ten
pounds. 1t is said to the smallest piece
of horse flesh in the country, and little
beauty.
MONDAY morning, while Mrs. Still
man was going from the town of Royal
ton to the cheese factory in Weyauwega,
with milk, the wagon ran over an OBJ
struetion in the road, throwing her out.
She was seriously hurt about the head
and neck, also receiving scalp wound.
On Friday afternoon OF last week,
Francis, daughter (about 10 years old)
of f. A. Denison, of Augusta, was ser
iouslv scaIded on her neck, chest and
back, by having dipper of boiling water
upset upon her. She is doing well, and
likely to recover.
! Two ACCIDENTS occurred in the mill
at Medford few days since. John
Heating, while knotsawing, had the mis-
fortune to cut the end of his fingers
nearly off. Fred Walrath who took his
place, had an idea that his thumb was
too long, so he made it about a quarter
of an inch shorter.
AT the annual election Tuesday after
noon, the board of trustees for the state
institute for the blind elected the follow
ing officers: Mr.. Hinckley, of Ocono-
mowoc, president; H. S. Hogoboom, sec
rotary, and Cyrus Miner of GAINESVILLE,
treasurer. DIR. j. B. Whiting was chosen
physician.
Mrs. HARTsEL CHRISTIAN, Of Han
over, was witnessing the baptism of her
children in Bass Greek, Sunday, when
she was taken i'll and shortly after died
She was large woman, 60 years of age,
and as she bled freely from the mouth, it
is thought she ruptured blood-vessel in
jumping from the carriage.
REPORTS from the different Turner
societies of the state and the canvass of
the vote show that Emil Wallber and F.
B. Hutching, of Milwaukee, H. Plath,
of Sheboygan, and VIM. Puepke, of Osh-
kosh, have been elected delegates from
the Wisconsin district to the Turner
national convention which cOnvenes at
Cleveland the Goth inst.
A SON of Ole Larson, of Pennington,
about ten years of age, was accidently
shot a few days ago. The accident hap
pened while the boy and playmate
were fooIing with revolver. The boy
snatched the weapon, thereby causing it
to discharge. The ball penetrated the
thigh, severing several small arteries.
A physician was summoned, who probed
the wound. He says the boy will soon
recover.
SUNDAY afternoon a boat containing
Joseph Peaters, his son and daughter,
aged respectively and years, was up
set in the river in Watertown, near the
plank road bridge, in the city, by dog
jumping from it, precipitating all into
the stream. The boy was drowned, and
the girl taken out for dead, but she was
finally resucitated. Peaters, although
no swimmer, managed to save himself.
THERE is a man confined in the jail
whose stubborness would put to shame
mule. He was fined by Justice Hub
bard six days ago for being drunk, but
though he had the money he refused to
pay the fine and was sent up He told
the officers that if they put him in Jail
ne wouldn't eat mouthful, and he has
Kept his word, not having eaten morsel
Tor SIX days. Strange to say he does not
suffer from his foolishness, and looks
ust as healthy as when first put in
La Crosse Republican,
EARLY Sunday foleuoon the stores of
A. Crane and H. Kellernan, the county
treasurer's office and the residence of
hon. Il. &. Lewis at Juneau, were en-