The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-17
STATE NEWS.
THE cranberry crop promises well.

at Rock Falls tosbe called Champagne,
after the postmaster.
THE residence of Robert Jaenike, in
Oshkosh, was riddled by lightning dur
ing terrific storm Wednesday morning.
A LARGE ten-wheel locomotive has
been ordered from Pittsburg for the
North Wisconsin r. r.
OVER 700 cars of wood, lumber, ETC.,
was carried over the North Wisconsin r.
R. during the month of June.
Mrs. j. S. GODFREY, of Osceola, Polk
county, was dangerously injured last
Tuesday, the result of runaway.
POLK county farmers complain of
smutty wheat considerably, and fear
that the crop will be greatly damaged.
MADISON gentlemen to the number of
four have purchased the Geneva Lake
yacht Agamemnon, and will keep her at
the city of the four lakes.
THE editors of the Wood County Re
porter have been sued for libel by Henry
Hayden, late, Greenback candidate for
circuit judge. Henry wants $4,000.
JOSH KURTZ, living near Neenah,
threshed his winter wheat and barley
last Wednesday, and got % bushels of the
former and 40 of the latter to the acre.
JAMES CARLIN and Edward Pratt.
two La Crosse yonng men, forged the
name of r. A. Scott to a check for $50,
had it cashed at the -Batavian bank and
skipped out to Chicago. fs.
A LARGE man named z. Breitkreutz,
of Juneau, beat and. kicked little man
named Nicholas, of the same place almost
to jelly Saturday. He has been put
under 1000 bonds to appear for trial.
THE school house in district No. 6
town of Two Rivers, was burned one day
last week. 1t caught from a brush fire
in an adjacent field. 1t was insured for
5000. H
A MISERABLE whelp named Hermann
Mueller, of Sheboygan, outraged the
person Of a 15-year-Old daughter of John
Rodemund, of West Bend, Tuesday
The scamp admitted his crime upon be.
ing arrested.
Is it not about time that that $4,000
was being expended ON our harbor? II
work Is delayed much longer the rough
weather of the fall will prevent anything
being done this year.-IU0 RiuerS Ctro,s
icIe.
FRIDAY afternoon a German boy
named VIM. Lang, was drowned in the
lake at Racine. He was sailing on {
board out beyond his depth, and by
sudden lurch of the board was thrown
off. As he was unable to swim he sank
almost Immediately.
The party exploring for Mr. Wetmort
on the location next to the QuinneseC
mine, struck a good vein of ore Friday
of last week, resembling the QuinneseC
ore and fully equal to it. The new fine
Is eligibly located for mining purposes
and will probably be worked as soon as
Observation-Disclosures Eagle
FARMERS who come to the city to hire
harvest hands say they are over-run with
tramps who refuse to work for two dol
lars per day and board, but who 90 from
house to house begging. Their plea is
that "the world owes them a living,
wherever they can.-FOnd du Lac Cam
na0n1Cealth.
The body of man 80 or 60 years ole
was found in swamp near Pennington
Monday, badly decomposed Inquest
was held and verdict of death by
unknown cause rendered. Articles in
the pockets of the clothing indicate that
deceased was a German named Fred
Hauschen, missing since May l. He has
an only daughter in Milwaukee.
THE "Orchard" farm of 66S acres,
the property of II. P Hall, situated in
the town of Burk, Dane county, two
and half miles from Madison, was
sold at auction on Saturday, being bid
off by j. c. Gregory, of the latter place,
for himself and Messrs. NJ. f. Fuller,
j. W. Hudson and Timothy Brown,
the purchase price being $50 per acre, or
$50, 040 for the whole.
The Green Bay Gazette says: "The
people living in Mill Center have been
greatly troubled lately by the depreda-
tiOns of a huge monster of a black bear.
On Friday yearling calf was carried
Oft from the farm of Luther Dixon, and
ten sheep were also taken. The bear is
said to be large ferocious female one
with two cubs. A party of men have
gone on Its tracks to capture it"
JOHN GoETENGER's house in Ahnapee
was destroyed by fire with all its CON
tents and afterwards it was discovered
! that Goetenger himself had been burned.
his charred body being found Whether
he was dead before the burning is a mys-
terry, examination having failed to dis
cover any facts bearing on the case.
| Goetenger was drinking man. He
lived alone, as his wife had left him.
LAST Friday, He'll Hungerford, Of
Oak Centre, an old gentleman about IS
years of age, was cut by reaper on the
farm of his son. He got down from his
seat on the machine to take a bundle
from in front of the sickle. While
stopping over, the horses started, and
the sickle cut off all the fingers and the
thumb of one hand. This is the first
accident we have heard of this season, in
this vicinity Waupm' Times.
A COW belonging to J. G. Simpson, of
Lone Rock, got her head fast in an
empty salt barrel and was discovered by
Will Hamilton, who took the barrel off.
As the barrel came off she gave her head
a firt and her horn caught Hamilton
under the eye lids and tore it out, fortu-
nately not injuring the eve. Will thinks
he would let the COW go muzzled before
he would take another chance.-Inter-
County Times.
A SERIOUS if not fatal accident oc-
CURED at the new Stovekin pulp mill at
Kaukauna Friday. The cause is stated
to be the bursting of one of the large
stones used in grinding the pulp. The
mill had just been started up, and it is
thought the bursting of the stone was
the result of IFS not hei0u proparIu