The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-30
STATE NEWS.

KELLOGG & FREEMAN wilt erect
large grist mill at Fort Howard.
THREE new cheese factories are being
built in the town of Hebron.
G. c. BUTTERFIELD, of Columbus,
last week shipped to Boston $4,000 TBS OF
dressed turkeys.
LAST Wednesday night the school
house in Merton, Waukesha county, was
destroyed by fire. Loss So, 200.
OSCAR BROOKS brought into James
vile, Thursday, six wolf scalps for
which he will receive 1920 bounty.
RACINE has the largest Temple of
Honor in the world, the membership
being 425.
HENRY ToBEY was found dead, Mon
day afternoon, near Western Union
junction. Cause of death unknown.
VIM. FADE, SR., of Union Grove, last
week visited Racine, riding for the first
time on railroad train in 81 years.
JAMES R. IsMoN, who lives near Hud-
son, has nineteen ewes that have twenty
seven young lambs, all alive and frisky.
The log jam on Grandfather Bull
Falls, above Wausau, will be so great
that no common spring freshet will re-
move them.
The oldest cultivated tract of land in
Kewaunee county lies ON the Mischicott
river, in section 80 of the town of Carl
ton.
EDWARD BRoUGHToN, the missing
Lamartine man, who left home on the
18th of January, has not been heard
from.
A GERMAN named Dreger, living near
Juneau, sustained bad fracture of the
leg, on Monday, both bones between the
knee and ankle being broken.
AT Fond du Lac, Frank TANNER, as
sault with intent to kill, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to two years imprison-
ment at Waupun.
FIVE TREES were cut on the North
Flambeau that scaled $4,000 feet, and
one log was banked, IA feet in length,
that scaled 1900 feet.
AS J. Downey was driving to Farm
ington, last Wednesday, one of the wa
gon wheels struck stump, throwing
Mr.. D. out, breaking his collar bone.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD child of Mr.. Ken
ard, living in the town of Saxville, Wau-
paca county, was burned to death Sat
urday, while playing around log fire.
A FOUR months old child of Joe. An
comius was found dead in bed, at White
water, one morning last week. Throat
difficulty was supposed to be the cause
of its death.
4 OBJ dow NJ
ins, residing at Stockbridge, committed
suicide by hanging. He left wife and
family in destitute circumstances.
CHARLES STANNARD, while digging
around an old shaft near Platteville,
was convered by the caving earth and
confined for 26 hours. Beyond a little
weakness he was all right when taken out.
A GREEN BAY boy named William
Joston, recently sawed on knot saw, in
the short space of three minutes, two
hundred and five hingles-lacking hut a
few pieces of making half thousand.
WILLIAM STATS, one of the oldest
of the pioneers of Germantown, Wash
ington county, died Saturday, aged SO
years. He came to Wisconsin about the
year lS47.
A GENTLEMAN in Racine recently lost
cow that died rather suddenly. Upon
being opened the stomach was found to
contain over pound of nails and tin
fruit can cover
On Thursday of last week the bridge
over Black River, about seventeen miles
north of Black River Falls, fell while a
team was crossing it. Team and driver
fortunately escaped.
The body of Mark Liverman, who
was drowned on the 10Th of November
last, while on the way to La Crosse on
the steamer w. II. Clarke, was found
Friday near Lansing, La.
PHIL. HULBURT, county clerk of
Chippewa county, is suspected of being
defaulter in the sum of $4,000. A
special session of the board has been
called to investigate his accounts.
IT is reported that Professor J. HI,
NORMAN, once of Lawrence University.
but now of New York state, has eloped
with II year old young lady, going to
Europe, and abandoning his wife and
child. ~
AT the Waupun prison THURSDAY
night life member by the name of r.
w. West attempted to commit suicide
by hanging himself, but was discovered
and rescued before he received serious
injury.
SEEBER AND BURKET, held for larceny
OF Mr.. Maxfeld's wheat, plead guilty to
the amount OF 16 bushels, in the Circuit
Court last Wednesday, at Stevens Point,
and were sentenced to FIVE months i'm
prisonment.
The Six Mile House." one of the old
landmarks of the Wautoma and Berlin
road, disappeared in fire and smoke last
week. There were three or four
mortgages and a fire insurance policy on
the property.
MILL and water power owners on
Rock river. below Lake Koshkonong,
are just now a little anxious that the
matter be settled, now and forever as
to their rights of having dam at Indian
Ford. A petition, numerously signed,
IN favor of the dam, is being circulated.
A VERY ancient religious medal, about
the size of our silver half dollar was re-
Gently picked up on the G.. and n. w.
Railway track, between Fort Howard
and West Depere. 1t was brought to
this section by Christian missionaries in
the 10th ceuaury.
THE new dam in the dells at Eau
Claire, when completed will furnish
reservoir large enough to contain 800, OOO,-
200 cubic feet of water, capable of stor-
ing safely 100000 feet of logs, and
creating a water power in ordinary
stages of the river, of 5000 horse power.
The contract price of the work is $19, 500.
TUESDAY MORNING, near Green Bay,