The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-03-22
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

MONROE now supports daily paper
the Daily Retormer.
Farmers have begun their spring
wheat sowing and narrowing.
WHITEFIsH were caught in Green
Lake few days ago.
The old settlers of Beloit and sur
rounding towns have organized a pioneer
society.
A FIRE in Winneconne Monday night
destroyed the residence Of Mr.. Agard. |
Loss 81 900.
EB. STEVENS, of Oshkosh, has been
appointed Indian agent in Green Bay, |
vice Bridgman removed
The Appleton WOODEN mills narrowly
escaped destruction few days ago. The |
loss was confined to $3.50.
SOMETHING like 1000 bushels cfclover !
seed have been shipped from Waupaca
during the present winter.
IN Eau Claire, Wednesday, man
named Pitts dropped dead on the street,
supposed to have been from heart dis
ease.
A LARGE frame building in Kenosha,
destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. |
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Mrs. BRAUN, wife of DIR. Braun, OF
Vineland, n. j., and daughter of Leon |
ard Lottridge, of West Salem, La Crosse
county, Wis, died at her home on the |
Stb.
JOHN DoLAN, of Racine, fell down the
stairs near Winship's pump factory,
Wednesday evening, and SO seriously
injured himself that death will probably
ensue.
HERMAN SCHUETrE, of Centerville,
| fell in an epileptic fit the other day,
while unhitching his horses from
sleigh, and one of the horses stepped
upon his face, crushing the bones and
mutilating the flesh.
THIS morning, at three o'clock, a barn
belonging to Mrs. a. n. Hayes, near the
fair grounds, was totally destroyed by
fire. -Four COWS and one horse persisted
in the flames. Loss, about $3.50; partly
STANDARDIZATION Journal, 11h.
The prospects for the erection of
another large Touring mill in this city
are good. Prominent parties are now
engaged in negotiating for suitable
site for its location and we hope soon to
be able to announce that the mill pro-
ject is a fixed fact.--LG Crosse Leafer.
The Eau Claire Ne10S says that the
ice is thirty inches thick on the dam at
the Dells. With five miles Of thick,
solid ice on dead water, the chances are
that the Chippewa will not be open
between Eau Claire and the Falls until
the latter part of April.
A SCHOOL teacher named John ?.
Ryan, in district No. 7, town of Fond du
Lac, recently whipped an eight-year-old
boy, named John G.. Policy, so severely
that bis back was covered with cuts and
bruises. The offense was failure to get a
lesson. Ryan was arrested and fined
$50. The affair created much excite
ment in the neighborhood,
The Racine Advocate says that on
Tuesday morning, shortly after the
machinery at Jens Jensen's shops had
been set in motion, a serious accident
happened to boy named John Shelmark,
a Bohemian. His clothing caught in the
coupling of a shaft, tearing them from
his body, pulling his THUMB entirely off,
and breaking his leg in three places.
His wounds were dressed, and it Is hoped
that he may recover.
4 YOUNG man named Owens COM
mitted suicide by shooting himSelf
through the heart, at SherbWin's logging
camp, some forty or fifty miles north of
MenOminee, Monday night. No reason
is known why he committed the rash
deed He was heard to remark, several
days since, that people would hear of
his death before long, and they would
have no trouble in laying him out.
By the new village ordinance, passed
at Jefferson, March 4tb, larceny, not
exceeding the value of $50, and assault
and battery within the corporation, are
made punishable by fine not to exceed
500, or imprisonment in the county
Jail not to exceed six months. Assault
not excusable or justifiable, within the
same limits, is made punishable by
imprisonment in the county Jail rot to
exceed three months, or fine not to
exceed 500 for each and every ofense
FOND DU LAC enjoyed two fires on
Tuesday. In the morning at $50
O'Clock, the dwelling occupied by Peter
McCabe was destroyed. Loss $500; in
surance on house and furniture $780,
At 1920 o'clock, the dry house of the
Mihills Manufacturing company was
found to be on fire, but was quickly ex-
tinguished with a loss on lumber Of
$500; insured. The mud prevented the
rapid handling of the fire engines.
PETER CHARBoNNEAU, the black
smith was badly injured yesterday from
the kick of horse which he was shoe.
) ing. The bottom of the hoof struck him
squarely between the eyes and over the
nose. One Of the heel corks struck him
him just over the eve, crushing through
the exterior bone. The nose was badly
split open and his face otherwise mn-
tilated. He was knocked senseless by
the blow and bled terribly Oshkosh
Northeastern.
SEVEN of the balky tramps are still
being kept alive by bread and water
only, they refusing to 60 out to work.
Four others were put at work on the
streets to-day, but one of those soon
tired and lay down his shovel, saying
his hands were too sore. He was allowed
to stand in the street during the day,
and watch the others, and was thus
greatly disappointed as he hoped to be
sent back to Jail to play seven-up with
the other boys. One of the gang was
heard to remark to-day that this was
more work than he had done before in
twelve years.-Jane8yjls Gazette.
On Thursday bills were posted in
Ripon that Louis Pinch, resident of