The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-02
STATE NEWS.

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The wages of the employees on the
Green Bay and Minnesota railroad have
been cut down.
IHE Manitowoc Temple of Honor now
has membership Of 1911 The temple
was organized scarcely year and a half
ago, with membership of only Is.
MIR. SAMUEL STRATToN, an old and
esteemed citizen, living south of Cady.
while loading logs on sled with a team
on Tuesday, was instantly killed by a log
rolling on him.
A NUMBER OF citizens are taking adj
vantage of the low price of fuel. and
laying in their next winters stock now.
Good body green oak is now offered at
$3.50 per cord.-Edu Claire Press.
A LITTLE child between two and three
years of age, daughter of Esquire Fuller,
of Cady, fell into tub of boiling water
on Saturday, and was burned SO severely
that it died on Monday.
IT is rumored that arrangements have
been made for the running of the Union
LAUNDERING Company's big mill this
year. This is good news to the people of
Chippewa Falls.
and esteemed resident of Baldwin, mis-
taking the position of chair, fell to the
floor, one day last week, dislocating a
wrist and fracturing one of the bones of
her forearm
THE village of Woodman, % miles
east of Prairie du Chen, on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railroad, was
visited by fire, ON last Sunday night, and
depot buildings, elevators and dwelling
houses were destroyed.
Mrs. DRIscoL, an old lady who had
reached upwards of hundred years of
age, died in the town of Meme, last
Tuesday. She was born in the county
Cork, Ireland, and emigrated to this
country some ten or twelve years ago.
1T is reported that a party of work
men engaged in building dam for the
! improvement of the head waters Of Eau
Claire river recently discovered a rich
and apparently inexhaustible vein of
silver ore, in the northern part of Clark
county.
WINNEBAGo county employs 113
teachers in it's public schools at wages
averaging, per month, for males $3.50;
for females, $27.16. There are 81 school
houses in the county, while at the last
public teachers examination TIA certifi-
Gates were granted, from 800 applicaUi2us.
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfected
by the incorporatOrs of the First Ma
tional Bank of Eau Claire to transform
the manner of conducting their national
system to the private banking system
The reasons assigned for this new depar-
ture are the exactions made by the gen.
eral government of national banks.
Mr.. JOHN SUCHAN, of Gibson, Mani
towoc, county, was severely stabbed in
the breast by a farmer named KunZ,
living i'll the town of Cooperstown, on
the 18th of January. The affray took
place in saloon in Cooperstown, and
grew out of dispute over a game of
cards. To settle the matter Kunz paid
Suchan $115.
ANDREW JACKSON, Of Eau Claire,
while driving a span of colts not yet
| broken to be reliable, was thrown out OF
his buggy, Occasioned by the sudden
start of the colts from a standing posi-
ton. The fall of Mr.. Jackson to the
| frozen ground, resulted in cracking or
splintering his right knee pan, and some
other minor bruises
THREsHING in mid-winter, in this
latitude, is one of the novelties which
the unparalleled weather of this season
has enabled our citizens to witness. The
feat was performed last week, when c.
Houslett, of Oxford, brought down his
huller and crew of meT and run
through couple of stacks Of clover for
S. Falls, on the South Sjde-MontelLo
Eapress.
A FARMER living eighteen miles from
Portage City, in Sank county, while
digging a we'll, at twenty feet below the
surface heard a rumbling noise as of
rushing water; below that it grew louder
and louder as he dug downward, until
he reached bed of gravel, through
which current of intensely cold air
rushed up, with no appearance of water.
Digging through the gravel he reached
water that congeals as fast as it flows
into the well.
On Tuesday night, during the we'd
ding festivities of Andrew Kolb, at the
residence of his father, in the town of
Beaver Dam, one of the guests, an old
gentleman overy sixty years of age,
named Charles AchOmer, who had been
present but half an hour, and was jubi-
liant, suddenly fell to the floor dead.
The sad event cast gloom over the
party and broke up the festivities. A
death at wedding feast is very singu-
lar and unpleasant coincident.-Beduer
Dam Argus.
Mr.. EDWARD DAMS, young man of
twenty years, employed as a farm labor
er near Waterville, was accidentally
shot by the premature discharge of
gun that he was drawing from a wagon
with the barrel pointed towards him. a
few days since. The hammer caught,
discharging the loaded contents into
Davis right side, beneath the lower rib:
the ball penetrated his liver, and lodged
in his spine. He fingered in great agony
until Sunday afternoon. when death
kindly relieved his sufferings.
THE German who, several DAYS aoo
reported that he had found dead man
about thirty miles above here, ia Clark
county, tells the following story: He
says that he is hunter, and that while
out about two weeks ago, several miles
from his camp, he found dead man w.
ing on the ground with his breast torn
open, his heart gone, and his face and
his limbs badly torn and bitten. The
ground around him indicated a hard
struggle with some beast. A fine Win
chester rifle lay few feet from him
still loaded; also a hunting case silver
watch lay near him. Thinks he had the
appearance of having been dead for
about week. A telegram has been sent
to Neilsville, to notify the authorities