The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-02-09
STATE NEWS.

GENEVA anticipates 250,000-ton ice
harvest, for Chicago supply.
A DIRECT mail route was established
between GAINESVILLE and Beloit, on the
lSt inst
A LITTLE Indian boy named Charles
Antoine was drowned the other day at
Keshena.
A GRANT county farmer named Mat
thew johnson, his brother and his wife,
all became insane at the same time. No
especial reason for it, as far as known.
Miss JENNIE HAMMOND, aged about
II years, had narrow escape from
drowning while crossing the ice on Duck
creek. The ice being rotten in the chan
mel, where it was running rapidly, she
fell through, and was rescued with diff
ficulty by parties near at hand.
A VERY serious accident resulting from
runaway, occurred in Whitewater
Wednesday. Silas Zero and II. G.. Left
ingwell being thrown from buggy;
Letfingwell striking upon his head sus-
tanned injuries which were frightful.
His recovery is doubtful.
SUNDAY evening an ice-clad sidewalk
on Wingate street furnished foundation
for another suit for damages against the
city. Mrs. Hill, the wife Of a prominent
business man of Oshkosh, was passing
along the sidewalk when she slipped and
| fell, fracturing her hip. The accident
will MAIN her for life. At the time she
was a guest of DR.. Delaney, but was
taken to her home Monday evening"
! Fond du Lac Commonwealth,
! MENoMoNEE Neus: A. O. Bailey
shipped car load of furs last Saturday
and another Wednesday, consigned to c.
NJ. Lampson & Co., London. The value
of each car load will exceed $4,000.
This is undoubtedly the largest single
shipment ever made by a single buyer
west of New York city. Mr.. Bailey has
gradually and quietly extended his bust
ness, and is undoubtedly the largest fur
dealer in the northwest outside of the
great fur companies.
The want of snow does not stop opera
tons in Jack Harrington's camp, and he
is hauling on a three-mile road Jack is
equal to the emergency: First he took
ice from the creek, and, scattering it
along the road, pounded it up fine; then
he placed barrels filled with water on
sleds and sprinkled the ice thoroughly;
and the water freezing, cements the ice
together, making a road on which each
team can haul from 1000 to 1900 feet to
a load.-BarTon Co. Chronotype
A. P. MAPEs, of Fond du Lac (son of
Capt. ID. p. Mapes of Ripon), died sud-
denly, at the house of Minnie Ferguson,
in Fond du Lac, Saturday evening, hav-
ing Just held 4 conversation with Mrs.
Hirsch, a dressmcker, about whom Mapes
wos said to have circulated ISLANDERS, but
which he denied IN the conversation with
her, which was held for that purpose.
The coroner's jury resulted in verdict
of death from congestive apoplexy.
THE La Crosse Republican says, in re-
gard to Paulson, who was found dead
by the side of the railway: Paulson
left La Crosse the day after Christmas,
and started on journey to his fathers,
at the time of their death. For six
months previous to the departure of
Paulson he was an inmate of the poor
house, and was in poor health. He I'M
doubtedly died from exposure, in being
forced to remain out at night by inhu
man persons who refused to give him
shelter He has no friends in this city"
In spite of the slight snowfall ice.
boating is not impeded, and Third Lake
was all day yesterday fecked with the
darting sails. Many really fine sailers
are among the fleet. Col A. II. Vests
boat and the Git being among them; the
colonePs boat may be frequently seen
upon the lake, managed by his accom-
plished daughter, Miss Lulu, who is
one of the most fearless ice-boat
captains in the feet. No finer winter
sport than riding in the teeth of the hur-
cane, upon a swift ice craft, can be i'm
agined; it has enough danger and ex-
element about it to render it fit amuse-
ment for daring souls.-Madison Journal.
On Wednesday, late in the afternoon.
DR.. H9gh was called upon to attend a
farmer in Mormon Coolie, who had fallen
from his wagon and was dangerously in
iured. The doctor attended the man
and found that his skull had been frac-
tured, and that, as he was So years of
age, there was doubt as to whether he
would live. His name is Ole Halling-
stad, and his farm is situated in Bloom
ingdale, Vernon county. He had brought
load of produce to this city, and OF his
IotuIu uoHic, WucH DeLWeeH the farms
of Mrs. Pfafiein and Raymond Tousche,
the accident occurred Crosse Repub-
Hcdn.
THE Fond du Lac Commonwealth gives
this news in regard to the mysterious alb
sence of Mcclure, which created a SEN
sation in Fond du Lac: The latest of
the missing Mcclure, the huckster, is
that he is in New York and married.
His was an elopement. The woman in
the case is Mrs. Tracy, whose husband
was killed by bridge accident some
years ago. She recovered several thou
sand dollars damages, and recently be-
came the possessor of 5000, her share in
an estate. She was resident of Osh-
kosh, and report has it that Mcclure
met her at Milwaukee, where they were
married, and started for the empire state
on their wedding trip. So mote it be;
and the sensation is at an end"