The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-02-16
STATE NEWS.

on slippery sidewalk and broke her
arm.
DR VIM. AMER, of GAINESVILLE, died
Monday night. He had lived there 20
years.
A SON of Charley Bowen, of Oshkosh,
fell IN the barn and broke his leg above
the knee.
+, ). TYLER, of Juneau, had his hand
crushed IN threshing-machine to such
an extent mat amputation was necessary.
THE residence of Rev. VIM. Dafter.
Episcopalian clergyman at Oconto, was
burned to the ground Sunday morning
at two O'Clock. Thought to be incendi
airy. Mr.. Dafter and family lost eyerv-
thing.
THE GAINESVILLE Shoe Manufacturing
Company is financially embarrassed, Of
fering to settle with the creditors at fifty
cents ON the dollar. Their liabilities are
$4,000 The factory has not been run
ming for some weeks, and the result was
not unexpected.
THE lumber yards all over town are
almost exhausted of the proper variety
of material for building purposes, in
consequence of the unusual amount of
building going on in the country, which
severe weather in former seasons inter
rupted.-Edu Claire Press.
A MAN giving his name as George
| Willard, staying with relatives in Fond
du Lac, reported that he had been robbed
of 5000. The officers heard his story, but
regarded it as thin" Willard had a
payment to make on a mortgage the day
after the reported robbery.
KNUTE ERICKSON, who had been in
the county jail for couple of weeks,
charged with an attempt to rape girl
at Little kaukanna, was released on
Friday, having furnished bail in the
sum of 81 900. He will be tried at the
next term of the Circuit Court.-Gyccn
Bay Globe.
Kewaunee Enterprise: About fifteen
or twenty cases of di phtheria have made
their appearance during the past week.
Three or four have been quite severe.
though, at this writing we believe none
board prudently closed the village school
ON Wednesday.
Miss LILY SNYDER, of Flo, this
county, was married l. It week to Mr.. F.
Jay Haynes, photographer at Moor
head, Minnesota. The young lady was
the third in the family who married pho
tographers, she being a sister to Mrs.
w. NJ. Lockwood of Ripon. and also q
sister to Mrs Cook Ely of this city
Oshkosh Northwestern.
AT Waupun, Sunday morning, VIM.
A. Jones shot himself through the heart,
with the deliberate intention of commit
ting suicide, death following almost in
simultaneously He had been in i'll health
for some time, and occasionally his mind
wandered The coroner's Jury returned
verdict in accordance with the facts.
Mr.. Jones leaves wife and small family
to mourn his death.
THE party who are the Chippewa and
Red Cedar railroad will leave Eau Claire
TO commence the work, on Wednesday
morning, and will consist of the transit
engineer, Mr.. Remington, one leveler,
one rodman, two chainmen, three axe
men ana a span of horses and driver. 1t
is thought the survey can be made in
about two weeks time.-Edv Claire Press.
The readers of the Gazette doubtless
remember the sudden death of little
child of Michael Furay, by choking
a
swallowed. Beloit reports more curl
Gus but less unfortunate case. A little
daughter of Mr.. n. A. Clark swallowed
five carpet tacks and one shingle nail
and came out all right.-,JanesUit{e Ga
.ette.
CERTAIN circles of society are CON
vulsed with the reports of serious scan.
dial, which gain credence with some
owing to the absence of a young man
from the city whose name is coupled
with the affair. People who are pre-
sumed to know about the story deny il
wholly and state that there is not par
ticle of truth in it.-Fond du Lac Com
na0npedlh.
AT about four o'clock Monday after
noon Thomas Mcdonald and Wyneln
Postweiler, men employed on the new
railroad bridge, in removing she timber
work of the old bridge, were precipitated
with portion of the structure upon the
ice below, and were both badly crushed
by the timbcrs and conclusion of the
fall. 1t is hoped that their injuries will
not prove fatal, but the result can not
yet be predicted.-BJack Rirer Fails Ind
LAST Monday Ole Oglum had started
for home from StOughtOn, and passing
the track by the depot his team became
frightened by the train and ran up the
hill, throwing off the wagon seat. He
got out to replace it, when the horses
started, throwing him down, one wheel
passing over his body, breaking TWO of
his ribs and bruising him badly about
his head. He was brought back to town,
and DR.. Evans tended to his injuries. He
is 70 years of age, the Courier says, and
will mend slowly.
JOHN DUNN, who was given a twelve
months stretch In Jail for carving a
shoe knife concealed in his coat sleeve
and who has already served about seven
months OF his time, was pardoned out
Monday. The reasons for the clemeucy
shown were that Dunn had shown re-
markedly good behavior and hal also
greatly assisted the officers at the time
when there was squalling disturbance
among the prisoners. John promises to
behave himself, and all good citizens
will doubtless encourage him to do So
JanesriUe Gazette.
/ THE cashier of the Dells improve
ment Company paid their men their last
months wages last week, and discharged
about fifty laborers, on account of not
having sufficient amount of work on
hand to keep them busy at present.
They now have force of about one
hundred and five men at work, and will
probably increase that number as the
accumulation of material iustifes.
About fifty carpenters are at work, re-
ceiving 81. 80 per diem, and seventy-fye
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