The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-07-13
STATE NEWS.

crop was never better.
BROWN county is receiving numbers
OF foreign emigtants.
do ioIATo Bugs are very numerous and
dong great deal of damage.
The kaukauna pulp mill is turning
Out two tons OF wood pulp per day.
A MUscALLoNGE four feet long was
caught in Sawyer's Bay, (Green Bay a
few days ago.
EITHER dogs or wolves are making sad
havoc among the lambs in MARQUETTE
county this summer.
A NEW postoffice has been established
IN the town of Lebanon, Dodge county,
five miles east of WATERFOWL.
S. JONES, SR., of Clinton Junction.
had leg broken, caused by his team
running away with him last Thursday.
The Fox Lake Boat Club will hold a
grand sailing regatta on the afternoon
OF the Fourth for silver cup valued at
$40.
JUNEAU COUNTY cranberry marshes
are said to be in better condition than
ever before with encouraging prospects
for large crop.
BLUEBERRIEs are being shipped from
Black River Falls in large quantities to
Milwaukee, Chicago and st. Louis. The
selling price is $500 per bus.
A MAN at work on the Juneau court
house had his leg broken in two places,
last Friday. A large stone fell on it,
causing the fracture.
A MRS. LARKIN, of Dellona, attempt
ed to commit suicide one day last week
by taking ratsbane. She took too much,
SO failed to accomplish her object.
SOME dastardlY wretch set fire to the
new court house Friday night of last
week, and but for its timely discovery
by Sheriff Newland, the building would
undoubtedly have been destroyed.-Ash-
land Press.
A. B. CULP, of Madison, a brakeman
ON the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
road, fell from his train Saturday even
ing, at Genesee, and was killed. He was
twenty-one years old.
JUDGE WILLARD, of Kingston, Green
Lake county, owned share in the first
telegraph line ever built for practical
purposes, that was put up in 1874 between
Baltimore and Washington.
THREE persons were struck by light
ming on Wednesday at Ishpeming, DUR
ing storm which visited that CITY.
They were Frustrated for several hours,
but recovered from the shock.
AN old gentleman named Thomas
Rose, OF Princeton, was arrested Wednes-
day, charged with running an illicit
still. he was put under $500 bail to
appear for trial in Oshkosh, July 9th.
On Tuesday of last week, Mary Morel-
Ii, daughter of Joseph Morelli, of the
town of Genoa, committed suicide by
drowning herself in the Mississippi
river, about one-half mile above the vii
lage.
r. S. CHURCH, of Beloit, shot himself
in the head on Tuesday with a revolver.
Physicians say he cannot live. A young
lady Tilted him, and he wrote a letter
giving this as a reason for attempting
his own life. He is about %
On Tuesday morning, at half past
nine, Doland, or, as he was familiarly
called, "Doty," the little eight year old
boy of Capt. Crosby, of Black River
Falls, was drowned while bathing in
Town Creek, under the bridge, at D. J.
Spaulding's Mill
| THE Geological cabinet of the State
University has lately received valuable
present. Mr.. Chas. Bliss, a former resi-
dent of Madison, passing through on his
way from Australia to Nevada, gave the
cabinet collection of about three dozen
tralian birds.
! Two boys, Johnny Burns and Jimmy
McCabe, residents of the Eighth ward,
became involved in childish dispute
Friday, and before they could be separ-
ated McCahe severely cut Burns foot in
ficting a severe and painful wound with
some sharp edged instrument. McCabe
has not been arrested.-FOnd du Lac
| Commonwealth.
CYRUS PRIDE, farmer and an old
settler residing in the town of Oshkosh,
about half way between there and
Butte DIES Morris, died very suddenly on
Mr.. Pride settled in that county over
thirty years ago, and was well known to
the early pioneers who still remain. He
was almost rs years of age.
THE steam wagon contest will star
from Green Bay on the 18th of July,
going via Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Jeffer
son, Milton Junction, GAINESVILLE, Beloit,
Evansville to Madison, where the award
of $4,000 will be made, if any of the
half dozen competing machines prove a
success.
AT late hour yesterday afternoon
g. Peterson. carpenter, working on a
building on Sixth street, fell from a
scaffold to the ground distance of
several feet, striking upon knife, which
entered his m-pit the full length of the
blade. The wound is not serious.-La
Crosse Republican.
IN speaking of the death by drowning
of George Gosser, at Sank City (Which
occurred few days ago., the Inter
County Times says: at may be interest
ing to know that two weeks ago his
mother dreamed that ne was drowned,
and on Sunday last when he was at home
she told him of her dream, and warned
him of the river. Certainly, remark
able coincidence"
On Friday evening last, while the
agent at the Monroe depot was absent at
tea, party of young boys broke into
the freight house and went through
packages of figs, tobacco, etc. One little
nine-year-old urchin, named Meyers,
was captured in the act. He has dis
closed the names of his companions, and
the chances are good for full course at
the State Industrial School
THE celebration at Sturgeon Bay in
honor of the opening of the canal prom
;sas tn he one of the great occasions of