The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-13
STATE NEWS.

LINCOLN county has 2, 100 inhabitants.
MEDFoRD, Taylor county, owes 81 $50.
SHULLsBURG hasa population of 1000.
THEY have $500 hog pen in Kewau-
nee.
WAUKEsHA is 225 feet above Lake
Michigan and S03 feetabove the sea level.
The mammoth paper mill of the
northwest, will be Appleton's boast in
few months.
FRED MONTE, La Crosse fisherman
caught an eel in the Mississippi on Fri
day that measured three feet in length.
BROWN county offers for sale 100. 900
acres of land at from 81. so to sc. 90 per
acre.
DR.. Copy, of WATERFOWL, amputated
a leg last week for William Manning, of
Lake Mills.
A JANEsvILLIAN claims that SO years
ago April I'd, the grass stood one foot
high.
HENRY WERTH, of Carlton, Kewaunee
county, broke his left arm few DAYS
ago by fall.
JOHN PARISH was thrown from a
Jured quite seriously.
AT Green Bay, on Monday, a fisher
man captured 1000 pounds of fish, with
two hauls OF his seine.
The cranberry marshes along the Wis.
Valley R. r. are reported in good condi-
ton, with plenty of water.
j. A. KIMBERLY and c. B. Manville,
of Neenah, are erecting a stamp mill at
Deadwood, in the Black Hills.
CHARLES ATWOOD, of GAINESVILLE, was
badly injured on Sunday by his horse
stumbling and throwing his rider under
him.
Mrs. j. S. HUSTON, of Stoughton, was
thrown from her carriage last Tuesday,
the bones of the right arm being dislo-
Gated, and otherwise injuring her.
A BOY named johnson, aged about
fourteen, was killed by falling tree last
Tuesday on the Stiles road, near Pesh-
tigo.
EDWARD BRoUGHToN, the young
farmer who disappeared from Lamartine
several months ago, has not been heard
from.
THOMAS MILLS, while crossing the
Wolf river in small boat at New Lon
don Saturday night, fell overheard and
was drowned
AN old man by the name of Carter,
who lived by himself near Montfort,
Grant county, was found dead in his
house one morning last week.
L. 5. WILLIAMS, of Newark, Rock
county, on Thursday, killed eight wolves
and got $3.50 from the county treasurer
for their scalps. Good days work.
Miss ELLA WALKER and Mrs. p. f.
Walker were thrown from their carriage
in Marine, Polk county, last week, and
Mrs. Walker was seriously injured.
MAGGIE LIPsETT, of st. Croix Falls,
while at school last week, in the play of
dumping rope" fell and broke the
bones of her left arm. above the wrist.
ID. BELMIRE, German As years old,
fell into the river at Grand Rapids
Tuesday evening and was drowned. He
leaves wife and five children.
JOHN DYNE, a workman in the Apple
ton bedstead factory, fell down flight
of stairs in the factory ON Saturday, and
sustained injuries from which it is
thought he may not recover.
ALVIN LINTON, accused of horse steal
ing, was sentenced at Eau Claire to two
years hard labor in the state prison, and
William Maxon, thirty days in the coun-
ty Jail for stealing some traps.
WILLIE GERMAN, of Montello, while
cutting wood on Thursday, struck his
right foot with the ak, severing the three
small toes and a portion of the flesh on
the outside of the foot.
THE youngest son of Mr. Chas. Gear
hart, of Chelsea, Taylor county, while
knot saving in the mill last Monday
morning, fell on the saw, cutting his arm
in fearful manner.
Mrs. CLARK, of Wausau, was so badly
burned by lamp explosion, Tuesday,
that she will probably die. Her hus
band and a neighbor were severely in
jured in trying to subdue the flames.
AN old Indian at Traverse de Sioux
predicts that there will be great freshet
in June and July, this season, and that
the Mississippi river will be as high as in
1851 and 1852
PARTIES who have been looking over
the Menominee Iron range are excited
over the prospect, believing it will prove
the most valuable deposit of iron ore
ever discovered.
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit
trade dollar in circulation throughout
the state is one thirty-second of an inch
smaller, and weighs 1154 grams less than
the genuine coin.
A DAY or two ago, John Zwichee's
little daughter, in the town of Greenleaf,
Brown county, fell into pot of boiling
water, and was scalded so badly that she
died in few hours.
MRS L. G. MERRILL, of Mcmillan,
who has been spending a portion of the
winter in Texas, a short time ago fell or
jumped from buggy when the team
started to run, and broke one of her legs.
JOHN GORHAM, convicted at Green
Bay of an assault with intent to commit
rape upon a girl eight years of age, was
sentenced, ON Tuesday, to three years
imprisonment in the state prison.
Miss IDA SUCHs, a school teacher of
the town of Dunn, Dane county, is
charged with cruelty and numerically
beating one of her pupils, 1nger John
SOD, little girl of some seven years of
age.
PETER NANDERVOORT, at Oshkosh,
on Thursday, was engaged in pulling
down an old building when the falling
debris crushed him to the earth, serious
ly injuring him and almost severing one
of his thumbs.
LOUISA, a little four year-old daughter
of Gustav and Cresentia Metzler, of La
Crosse, fell from the slide of Paul's mill,
Tuesday evening, at the rear of the
building to the logs below. Just as she