The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-16
STATE NEWS.

SHlppeu on the NGTLH w lsculisiH.
Work on the Sturgeon Bay Ship
Canal will be resumed in March.
ELEVEN hundred persons are en-
ployed in the saw mills of La Crosse.
JOHN CUMMINGS, of Ottawa, Wauke-
sha county, has goose twenty-five years
old
AT Columbus the range of licenses,
as fixed by the new charter, is from $50
to $3.50.
ONION RIVER township, Sheboygan
county, is infested with clover seed
thieves.
THE March convention of the North
ern Agricultural Association will be held
at Oshkosh.
Mr.. F. n. SNOW died at Princeton,
on the Goth inst, at the age of sixty-five
years.
THE question of a narrow guage road
to run from Neillsville to Mcmillan, is
now being agitated.
FIFTY dairy cows were shipped from
Cresco, Ia, to Milton, last week, and
sold at public auction on their arrival.
The log cut of Black river is estimat-
ed DIT 100000, and that of the Chip
pewa at 100000.
The G. n. & n. w. r r. Co., is
having their long bridge at Menasha re-
braced and repaired.
Mr.. n. MARTIN, of Msrtintown,
Green county, has been sent to the in
sane asylum at Madison.
&. S. CANRIGHT, of Manitowoc, was
severely injured last Thursday by the
running away of his team.
THE lumber company at Peshtigo will
probably have 100000, 900 feet of logs to
supply their mills this year.
II. S. SCHUMACHER, of La Crosse was,
on Saturday, sentenced to three years
confinement at Waupun for forgery.
MRS. HElLEMANN, of La Crosse, is
one of thirteen heirs to fortune of 3d.
600 marks, left by an uncle in Germany
A MAN named Rchtar, of Highland,
! recently fell into shaft so feet deep,
and struck upon the rocky bottom with
out serious injury.
LAST Saturday night the town clerks
Office of Glencoe, Buffalo county, Wis,
was totally destroyed by fire, including
all papers, records, &c.
LAST week the wife of John Oleson, of
Menekaune, gave birth to a girl baby
who had six fingers on each hand and six
toes on each foot.
JOSEPH PORTS, an old and respected
citizen of Embarrass, committed suicide
a few days ago by hanging himselfin his
barn by a log chain.
/ NJ. NJ. SAMUEL, formerly of Polk
county, has obtained judgm mt in the
| Superior Court of Louisiana, against
that state for large sum.
! LAST Tuesday morning, February
10Th, Miss Augusta, daughter of Buel
ST. John, of the town of Portland
Portage county, aged about Ii years, was
found dead in her bed.
A BRAKEMAN named Mckenzie, of
Black Earth, was knocked from the
caboose of freight train at Lone Rock,
Wednesday, by the spout of the water
tank, and broke an arm and leg.
Mr.. JOHN IRVINE, ST., and mis- wife
Katy, died of typhoid fever at their
residence, DEBORAH Prairie, on February
9th. There were only few hours he
tween their deaths.
Hon. GEO. f. WHEELER, Pres; u. w.
Oliver, rec. sec. Rev. E. Tasker, cor.
sec. and r. W. Wells, treas, are the of
| ficers of the society for the reformation
of convicts at Waupun.
ANDREW OsAN, while threshing in
the town of Appleton, on February 18th,
caught his left arm in the cylinder, tear
ing it so badly that it was necessary for
it to be amputated just below the elbow.
OLE OLEsoN was driving across the
track Of G. n. w. R. r., near Clinton,
Friday night, when train struck his
vehicle killing his two horses and tossing
him into the air. He escaped death.
Whisky.
JOHN BRADY died very suddenly at
the residence of his brother-in-law, John
Sherin, whom he was visiting at White
water last week The deceased enioyed
his usual health until 9 A. NJ. Saturday,
when he was taken with cramp in the
knee, only living until II 80 A. NJ.
Mrs. SNYDER, lady of sc years of
age, living on the state line, about six
miles from Kenosha. committed suicide
on Sunday night, leaving her bed in her
night clothes and jumping into the well,
where she was drowned. No cause is as
signed for the act.
LAWRENCE MACE, of Neenah, became
intoxicated at masquerade ball in
Menasha and, and going to sleep On the
railroad track on his way home Satur-
day morning, was run over His right
arm and right leg were horribly crushed.
He will probably die.
THE common council of Oconomowoc
have granted the Milwaukee and St.
Paul railway the right of way to place a
side track from their main line, crossing
Milwaukee street to the land owned by
w. B. Fay, on which there is to be an
enormous ice house built, with a capacity
for holding 100, 900 tons of ice.
GEORGE GUST, of the town of Clinton,
having accomplished the ruin of his
step-daughter, who was delivered of her
child on the 10th inst, has skipped the
country. The victim is young lady
and, what makes the crime seem worse,
if possible, is deaf and dumb. 1t is hoped
he may be captured and receive his Just
deserts.
A BLACKSMITH named Burgeson, living
in Pleasant Valley, ST. Croix county, has
been arrested as the party who loaded a
stick of stove wood with powder and
placed it in pile near the school house
where it was discovered while the
scholars were splitting kindlings. Burge-
son was examined and bound over for