The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-01-12
STATE NEWS.

JOHN EMERSON, of Eau Claire. hung
himself with a fish-line on Sunday night.
He had been on an awful drunk.
OSHKOSH had a $4,000 fire Saturday
night, damaging Reuben Ash's grocery
store and some adjoining property to
that extent; fully insured.
w. G. CURTIS, employed in a grocery
store in Fond du Lac, had his arm frac.
tured Saturday by plank which was
caused to suddenly fly up as hogshead
of sugar rolled eff from it.
JACK GILLIGHAN, of Chippewa Falls,
has been sentenced to five years impris-
onment, for assault with intent to kill.
The jury were out for eleven minutes.
Gillighan is the man who attempted to
murder Gertie Wanzer, last November.
WAUPUN is excited. Frank King es
corted a lady to church, Sunday night,
but James Mcfarland succeeded in es-
corting her home. King followed them,
and after the lady had been left, King
shot Mcfarland, two bullets striking
him. King was arrested
ACCORDING to the Reporter, the
amount of lumber cut at Oconto during
the season just closed is 100000 feet,
and SO, 000,0 900 shingles. The amount of
logs to be cut for the mills this winter
aggregate 100000 feet, of which
amount part will be put in the Oconto
Diver and the remainder in the Peshtigo
river.
THE 9th annual meeting of the North
ern Wisconsin Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association, will be held at the
common council rooms in the city of
Oshkosh, on the 9Th day of January,
1873, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose
of electing officers and the transaction
OF such other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
Mr.. JOSEPH STUMPH, of LEROY,
brought into town yesterday nugget of
copper weighing 81 pounds. 1t was
plowed up on his farm, and showed that
1t had been pounded or struck by pillow
IN many places. 1t was pure copper,
and looked much as though it had
dropped when III molten state, and had
fiattened as it struck Waupun Leader.
EARLY Saturday morning a stranger,
whose name we have been unable to
learn, while walking over the lower
Chippewa bridge, was knocked down and
robbed OF $35 by some unknown man.
The man was struck full in the face with
blunt weapon and lay on the bridge in
an lnsensible condition until daylight,
when he was discovered by passer-by.-
Eau Clair Press.
A CROSS and vicious cow tackled a
man on Main street this morning and
pitched him several feet, he landing in
the mud. After the show the cow shook
her head viciously while the man picked
himself out of the mud, and with the
question, Anybody hurt?" walked away
brushing off the real estate which so te-
naciously chung to his garments.-F0n
du Lac Commonwealth, 22d.
SHERIFF DANIELS, of Eau Claire, re-
ceived a telegram late Friday evening,
sent from Arcadia, Trempealeau county,
in which county the case of Bill Camp
bell, charged with the killing of O'Mara,
has been on trial for the past few days,
and conveying the agreeable news that
Campbell was found guilty of an assault
with intent to kill, and sent up for five
years, the full term prescribed by law
/ for such an offense.
THERE was pretty good joke on our
friend Rush, of Winneconne. He de-
Tended fellow ON a charge of larceny
and got him cleared. Shortly after, the
fellow came to Rush to sell him suit OF
clothes to pay him his fees A bargain
was struck and the attorney paid the
balance of the purchase in money. The
fellow then lit out for Neenah but be-
fore he got there an officer overlook him
and he was brought back to Winneconne
on a charge of stealing the Clothes
| Oshkosh Times
A VERY sad accident occurred in the
town of Pennington, which may result
in the death of Lynn Mathewson, aged
10 years, son of Mr., w. L. Matthew.
son, higly esteemed citizen Of that
place. He was leading a horse to the
stable, and, when near the door, took of
the bride, leaving the halter on. The
horse, thinking that he was free, turned
and ran, pulling the boy with him and
| kicking him tremendous blow over the
right eye, from the effects of which he
became insensible. Doctors were i'm.
mediately called, and did what they
could for the lad, but at last accounts he
was still unconscious.
LAST Saturday night the depot build,
ing of the S. & F. R'y at Rosendale was
burglariously entered and the ticket case
robbed of 1855 in cash, and a ticket for
| Chicago via. Northwestern railway. The
robbery must have occurred between six
and seven o'clock, the burglar or burg
lars breaking through door and tearing
open the case. To cover their tracks the
| shed attached to the Curtis elevator, and
which is adjacent to the depot building,
was literally saturated with kerosene and
| ignited. The flames were discovered in
time and extinguished When the fact of
the robbery was discovered. The work
is thought to have been done by tramps.
A PARTY of four section men at DE
Forest station, on the G. Nj. q st. Paul
railway, IA miles north of this city,
came to town on hand-car Saturday
afternoon, to purchase Christmas pres
ents. One of them, named Pat Corners,
had decidedly mixed his liquors in his
rovings about town, and felt so dizzy
that on their way back, he fell off in
front OF the car near the Catfish bridge
the machine, which was being propelled
at lively rate, ran over him, COM
pound splinter fracture of the left leg
ensuing. DR.. Ward fixed him up so
that he was able to get home on dunn
my, Sunday afternoon Madison Jour-
nal
AT II NJ. to-day two brakemen on the
West Wisconsin Railway, named West
berry and Parrish, while under the in
fuence of poor whisky, took an engine
from the machine shop and started out