The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-14
STATE NEWS.

WIS uIOWu6u III LllC 11NCA IA - OhN 49,
Lac Tuesday.
The La Crosse Light Guards are to
be uniformed at a cost OF 81 400. VI
this amount 800 has already been raised.
THE wagon shop of John Rhode, in
Oshkosh, was destroyed Tuesday morn
ing, involving loss of 81, 900; insured
for $500.
A YOUNG man in Green Bay named
Ben. Thomson stepped of from bridge
Tuesday evening and was drowned. The
bridge was swinging at the time.
TRACK-LAYING has commenced on the
Viroqua railway, and in three weeks 1t
is expected that the company will receive
aud discharge Viroqua freight at Mel
VIVA or Hunts Mills.
GREEN BAY is supplying the greater
portion of fires, lately. An incendiary
attempted to set the Huffman building
on fire Saturday evening, but the loss
was confined to 800.
PATRICK FINNEY, of Oshkosh, at
tempted to shoot his wife, Sunday night,
while he was crazy with drink, He fired
his pistol around promiscuouslv, after
missing her, and was arrested and held
for trial.
IT is reported that Mr.. Weyerhauser
has made proposition to run tele-
graph from the Mississippi to Eau Claire,
provided he receives proper inducements
from the people of Durand and Eau
Claire.-Ilurand Times.
THE numerous robberies at Hixton
have been accounted for by the confess
sions of the thieves. 1t seems there was
regular band of young burglars COM
| posed of members of respectable families,
and tkey stole everything that they
could get hold Of
DOGS recently killed and lacerated
seventeen head of sheep owned by
| Thomas Kelly, in his pastures on Harvey
street, in the Fourth ward. The loss is
at the rate of three dollars per head and
was entailed by the dogs owned by the
| Whittod boys. A law suit will probably
result, if not the funeral of two fine
hunting dogs.-Fond du Lac Common,
| 2Oedlth.
/ A PAINFUL mishap occurred at Thos
Smiths mill, at Cedar Greek, the other
/ day. Mr.. Smith and the miller were
! engaged in renewing the stones with
/ sulphuric acid, and unfortunately got
some of the acid upon their fingers. Mr.
Smith had the ends of the thumb and
| fingers of one hand badly burned, and
the miller also burned two or three fin
gers with the powerful stuff.
A WEsTFIELD dispatch says: "John
| McGiverr, age about 80, a man who had
been long noted for his profigate habits,
and who was in town Tuesday and left
in the evening the worse for liquor, was
found dead Wednesday some five miles
north on the line of the railroad Hi:
head had been cut off by the freight cars
and left outside of the track His body
had been carried several feet, and both
legs broken"
A FEW days ago VIM. Lahey, a young
man living near the tannery of the Wis
consin Leather Company, north of Two
Rivers, was accidentally shot while clean.
ing his gun, the wound causing his
death within q few hours 1t appears
that he wished to get the breech from
Oft the barrels and as it was somewhat
rusted he put it in the blacksmith
forge to burn off the rust, forgetting
that the gun was loaded. In a shori
time there was an explosion and he fel
to the floor fatally wounded.
Two men from the town of Preble
named respectively Phillip Adrians anC
Francis Vanderwegen, were arraigned
before a Green Bay Justice Tuesday
morning on a charge of robbery. The
facts OF the case as near as can be ascer
tanned are as follows: These two mer
had given notes to /. B. Hickox, dealer
in lightning rods, Fond du Lac, amount
ing to S2l3.40. Adrian's note for 800. 81
was due on the lst of the month; Van.
derwegen's amounting to $11260 was no
due until July LIST, 1879. Frank Gard
ner, collector, called to collect the not,
due and was set upon by the two mer
who fOrcibly wrested their notes from
him. They were held in bail of $500 fol-
trial.
FROM the Fond du Lac Common
ceatth: In Saturdays issue we published
the telegram conveying the intelligence
OF the accident to Charles CLARK; TO-DAY
we are called upon to record his dealt
and the particulars of the sad accident
which leaves a wife and four children t.
mourn the fate of loved husband. an
lndulgent father, and the community s
conscientious, honest and respected citi
zen. The fatal accident occurred on the
Michigan shore of the Menominee river
SIX miles north Of Marinette, and few
miles from the Merryman farm. The
evening of Friday Messrs. Clark, Pelton
and two young men from Metomen
Bert Pound and Frank Deweli, were
about to leave the Michigan shore
ard cross the river to the
| Wisconsin side. The four had gone IN
ne boat and were loading their traps.
Mr.. Pound placing them in the vessel
with Mr.. Clark, Mr.. Pelton and Mr.
Dewell on the shore. Just as they were
read to step into the skiff Pounds pnn
slipped from its rest to the bottom of the
| craft and he reached for it. Crashing i
by the muzzle he drew it towards him.
Ihe hammer caught upon some of the
traps, fell, and the gun exploded sending
a ball through Pounds hand, lacerating
1t tearfully, which passed into the BODY
OF Mr.. CLARK, entering the pit of the
stomach coming out again within four
inches of where it had entered. The
wound was a glancing one, and as Mr..
Clark fell ne exclaimed, "Pm shot.
I'm killed"
FROM the Green Bay G1zette, 10th ::
" We are today called on 10 chronicle
another disastrous fre-the complete
destruction of A Weed g. Co.'s extern
sive saw mill. The fire was discovered
about half.n9st twelve of midni0h+ ond