The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-21
S413,102,97
Around the State.

YOU'VE GARDNER, accidentally shot
at Glenbeulah, is dying from the effects
Of the wound.
IT is reported that Matt Altenhoefer,
of kewaskum, heavy merchant, has
failed. Liabilities over $4,000.
DIPHTHERIA is raging in Delavan to an
alarming extent. Victims are buried in
the night. Both children and adults are
down.
The libel suit of Supt. Whitford
against Goodrich, tried in GAINESVILLE,
resulted Wednesday in a verdict of not
guilty.
HERBERT KIMBALL, the GAINESVILLE
lad who shot himself because of unre-
Quilted love, is still alive, although the
physicians have no hope for him.
A EVANSVILLE man named Jim Kelly
hired a livery team in Oshkosh, Monday,
for short ride. He forgot his way back
and the sheriff is trying to hunt him up.
BY the burning of the Worcester
House, at Worcester station, On the Wis
consin Central road few days ago, a
man named August Eucke was burned
to death.
WHILE coming out of store, Friday
evening, Mrs. Mercer, widow of John
Mercer, of Viroqua, made a misstep and
fell, breaking her thigh. She is ~ years
old, and it it is doubtful whether she
will recover.
THE Rice Lake Chronotype claims that
the gang of burglars which has just been
broken up in that neighborhood,
(Chatek) eclirsed the Younger Brothers
in deviltry. They are the ones who
robbed Knapp, Stout & Co.
THE slaughter OF wild animals, upon
which the state has placed bounty, is
an important and growing industry.
Last year the state paid SO, 734 as bounty,
chiefly on wolves, some wild cats and a
few lynxes, however, being included.
MICHAEL SAGsTATTER, of Menashe
who was convicted of the murder Of r
wife, was sentenced in Oshkosh Saturd w
to imprisonment for life. The verdict
was surprise to everybody, for Sagstat-
ter's wife was accused of gross infdelity.
MONDAY evening a daring burglary
was committed IN Racine at the resi-
dence of j. L. Fish, lawyer. During
the time the family were at supper,
thieves entered the house and ransacked
the rooms, securing a gold watch, gold
chain and other jewelry amounting to
$500 or more. The burglars escaped.
FIRE Friday night destroyed the barns
and out building on Pat Flavin's farm
in the town of Fond du Lac. Flavin
lost most of his farm machinery, besides
+ oo ,+a,, 20 Df L.
about 81 900 with an insurance of $500.
Tramps are supposed to have been the
cause of the fire.
CHIPPEWA Times: The board of Su-
pervisors of Barron county have decided
to erect a Jail at Barron. This will be
sad news to the sheriff of this county,
who, we understand, has had an in
come of from one thousand to fifteen
hundred dollars year for boarding the
prisoners from that county.
| Mr.. GEORGE RITTER, of Carlton,
brother of Mrs. John McNally, met
with a severe accident Thursday after
noon, in very singular manner. He
and Mr.. McNally undertook to kill a
hog. Mr.. Ritter attempted to pull the
hog over, preparatory to stabbing it,
when his foot slipped and he fell, the
! hog rolling upon him. and breaking both
bones of his left leg below the knee.
THE graders are getting along first-rate
in their work on the railroad, and will
have nearly the whole six miles finished
by the latter part of next week. There
viii be no more grading done ther
until next spring. This winter the con-.
pany will go to work on the bridge
across the st. Croix river, put in the
piers and get out the timber.-Burnett
/ County Sentinel.
THE Adam Boyd robbery and the dis.
appearance of his hired man, named
Howe, simultaneously, remains still 6
mystery, notoniy as to the particulars but
! the nOn-success of all efforts made to learn
the facts. We have been able TO ascer-
/ tain that the name of the missing man is
/ Howe, and that of the servant girl
/ Moore, or some such name.-F0nd da
| Lac Commonwealth.
! THE village of Sparta has been enjoy
/ ing degree of prosperity of late quite
out of the general experience in this
section. The building of the new rail
way to Vircqua has made it a base of
supplies for that work, and put quite a
force of laborers into the city. Thi:
work, with the receipts of grain, produce
and live stock have made Sparta mer-