The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08
General Items.

General Items.
THE Fond du Lac Commonwealth is
after the burdocks again
MRS. JOHN DoNNELLY, of GAINESVILLE,
attempted suicide, but was saved. She
is crazy.
THE Narrow Gauge road is building a
new bridge at Byron near the ground OF
the old wash-outs.
S. G. WILLIAMS, an old resident of
GAINESVILLE, died in Catskill, n. Y, Sat
urday evening, the 18th, while visiting a
son.
Two MEN recently fell into mineral
hole fifty feet deep near Highland. They
remained over night to get sober and
climbed out.
ANY one who waters milk that is of
fered for sale in this state is liable to be
fined not less than S25, nor more than
800, for such offense,
THE little boy of Mrs. H. NJ. Loug-
heads, who was so severely scalded
Thursday of last week, died last Satur-
day morning and was buried Sunday af-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Eagle
A MAN named Meikliohn from Fond
du Lac, while on the Wisconsin Central
train a week ago last Saturday was
swindled out of $50 by sharpers, in the
"jack knife game. So says the Stevens
Point Journal.
ONE of Janesville's tonsorial artists is
said to have taken trip for his health,
fastening his departure somewhat by the
fact that one of Monroe's young ladies
came to his city TO see him on impor.
tant business.
Two men named Nicholas Stefens and
Jack MIME were captured in Brother
town, Calumet Co., Saturday evening
charged with having stolen horse five
years ago.
MRS. PIERCE, who is confined in the
La Crosse Jail for contempt of court in
not producing her child and transferring
it to her ex-husband, petitioned for re
lease Monday. Judge Newman refused
the request. The woman has now beer
confined for two months.
| A HORSE was stolen from pasture il
the town of Franklin, on the night Of
the 18th inst. Officers Goodell and Rus
sell searched the country over for the
thief, but without success. The horse
has been recovered, the thief having
! tnrned him loose on account of lameness
CAPT. CAsGRAIN states that one day
last week cedar tree was eXhumed by
one of the dredges at the canal works
which was found twenty feet below the
surface of the land and about five feet
below the water line. The wood was in
an excellent state of preservation.
YOUNG Nose Alice was amusing him.
self, at Ogema, Friday, by putting his
springing it back; the gun went off and
he received the contents in his arm near
the shoulder, SCATTERING the bone, and
making bad wound generally.
LAST Friday while Mr.. Lew Davidson
and Miss Lucy Greenman, of Milton,
were rowing in a boat on Rock river, at
MELVILLE, the young lady fell overheard,
and Davidson jumped into the water to
rescue her. Both would have drowned
had not Albert and Clark Cothrell, two
brothers, come to their assistance.
THE intelligence of the death of J. H.
LeCount, father of Ira LeCount of this
city, called away several of the family
and friends to the obsequies, al Leroy,
Dodge county, to-day. The deceased
was "a years of age, and served in the
war of 1912. His death occurred at
Leroy, where he has resided fer many
years.-Fond du Lac Commonwealth.
WE learn that Mr.. Gotlieb Schultz, a
German living near Forest Junction,
met with an accident on Thursday last
which resulted fatally. While out in
the woods chopping large limb fell and
struck him on the head. His skull was
broken in consequence and death quick
lv ensued. He was about fifty years of
age and leaves wife and several child
rem in needy circumstances.-AppLeto1l
Post.
FRIDAY evening about six o'clock a
farmer from the town of Humboldt, was
driving his team through the alley from
the barn of Refs Hotel, near East river,
in Green Bay, when his horses suddenly
took fright, and started on a run. On the
first start of the horses the farmer was
thrown from the wagon, and the wheels
passed over his body. One side of his
face was bruised, and it was evident that
he had received serious internal injuries.
He bled profusely and died in few
hours afterwards.
A GOPHER hunt on large scale has
just ended in the town of Trenton, near
Waupun. Twenty-Five men on side
were chosen. The hunt lasted week,
and then they met at the Swan House,
chose three judges, and counted up.
Gophers, rabbits, blackbirds, and all
kinds of game were counted. The count
of the pile of A. Bates showed q, 440, and
that of 0. j. Oliver 16, APO, making to-
tai of 81 $50 as the result of one week
work. Harmon Ellis broughtin count
of 4 700 as his share