The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-03
STATE NEWS.

CIV '1'"N ivy VIII De Drldged Win iron.
MAY THOMAS, of GAINESVILLE, a very
little girl, walked % miles in hours 80
minutes.
a TURKEY at Gund's brewery, La
and killed.
The hay crop in this state has been
badly damaged by rain. This report
comes IN from all quarters.
SPRING GREEN pays 5000 for It's
school teachers per annum. They re-
ceive an average of $500 each.
DANIEL MEDER, half-witted man of
Waupun, was fatally sun-stricken, We'd
nesday, while working in hay field.
GEORGE W. MoULToN, of La Crosse,
was thrown from buggy and injured
his thigh, Sunday.
FRIDAY night a fire in Fond du Lac
damaged De Sombre's iewelry store to
the amount of 81, 600. Fully insured.
THE dock at the Sherwood House,
Green Lake, gave way last Tuesday, Civ
ing twenty persons an involuntary bath.
+. a. CARY'5 residence in Fond duLaC
was burglarized Friday night OF ? gold
watch worth $50, and few dollars IN
money.
DENNIS SPEILEN, who was murdered
in Portland, Oregon, was formerly a
resident of Fond du Lac, where his,
family now resides.
The immense bog which has for 50,
long blocked the entrance to the lower
part of Fox Lake, has broken loose and
floated off, much to the satisfaction OF
bOatmen.
TIE St. Paul road is about to build a
freight warehouse about 100 feet long,
and J. II. Sleeper proposes to erect an
elevator adjoining to be ready for the
new crops Hdtertoua Republican.
FRIDAY evening, while four-year-
old daughter of Lucius Lawrence, q car
penter of Madison, was walking on
fence, she slipped and, falling to the
the ground, fractured her left arm.
DICKINSON, the hired man arrested
for killing a man named Mack, near
Jauesville, has confessed that he par
ticipated in the murder, but that Mrs.
Mack really did the deed, clubbing her
husband to death.
A wooL-BUYER in Fond du Lac ship
ped over the G. q n. w. Railway for
New York the last two weeks between
1900 and $500 sacks of wool. This IS
the largest shipment of wool ever made
in that length Of time from that city.
A BOY by the name of Nlack, while
bathing in the little lake in the town OF
Pierce, near Kewaunee, was drowned
last Sunday. His body has not yet
been recovered, the water being very
deep.
AT Ripon Sunday, a runaway accident
occurred by which Mrs. Richmond and
Miss J. Crossen were injured. The
former had both arms broken and sus-
tanned spinal injuries, the latter being
badly bruised in various portions OF the
body.
| OUR railroad prospects are brighten
ing. The engineer of the Valley road
has received orders to make Il careful
survey of the route. This, We suppose,
is for the purpose of enabling the com
pany to make lis a proposition.-JeRay
AdUOcGte.
The Ashland Lumber Companys
mill is cutting an average of 5000 feet
of lumber and deal day. Last tines
day the cut was $4,000 feet, The largest
days work ever performed in the mill.
The Single and lath mill cut 10000
shingles and lath last Wednesday.
A YOUNG son of Fred. Tyler, of Wau-
sau, fell from the guard lock into the
river about so clock Wednesday after
noon and was drowned. The water was
Immediately shut of and after dragging
the mill pond the body was found some
distance below the place where the acct
dent happened.
THE six-year-old son of James Nichol-
son, having been sick for about three
years, was placed under the care of DIR.
Miller, who brought from the little fell
lows system, on Monday, a tape worm
over five feet in length, the sections be
ing almost half an inch in width.-F0ad
du Lac Communicable.
DANIEL CLUNE, of Holland turned
fine mare into his pasture July 3D., and
on the 9TH found her down with broken
leg. Some one had shot her either with
rifle or pistol that threw a large ball.
The ball struck the LEG above the knee,
breaking the bone, rendering it necessary
to kill her.
IT has been estimated the trial of the
Ripon boys, now in progress, has already
cost the county $4,000, After the wool
robbery case is disposed of, in which two
of these boys are concerned, this county
will find that few Ripon young men
have been very expensive luxunes.-
Fond du Lac Communicable.
A BOY aged Is years, named Wind,
was drowned at Depere yesterday alter
noon. He was playing about the Fox
River Furnace dock, running on mar
row slip. when he fell into the water.
Holm Norris informs us that the body
was found hours afterward, by parties
searching for it.-G'rcen Boy Gazette
LAST Thursday afternoon Mr. VIII
liam wilkins, wholives near Turtleville,
was driving through the creek just below
Benefits bridge, when the horses got
into some hole and were-drowned. Viii
kins fioated down stream on the wagon
box and man who was with him float
ed on a barrel Both men got pretty
badly wet but finally reached the shore
in safety.
MONDAY afternoon three cases of sun
stroke took place at the railroad dock in
Racine, the persons Frustrated being
Richard Hill, Pat Saltie and Peter John
son. Al the time of the occurrence they
were engaged III loading ties into ears.
1t is thought Johnson will not recover,
but the other two are all right and
around. The weather was intensely
warm, the mercury indicating 90 in the
shade.
YESTERDAY morning, at o'clock,
young man named Herbert Keller, in the