The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-27
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

SEW court house is 10 DE erecIeu a.
Phillips, the county seat OF Pierce county
FARMERS III the vicinity of PalmHg
report winter wheat irreparably injured
the recent windy, cold weather.
The residence of H. X. Cowles, III tie
town of Scott, near Green Bay, burned
Friday night. Loss IS, 900; insured for
81 900.
FRITZ BRUEMMER, of Mishicott, threw
his son TO the ground so heavily, Mon
day, that the boy died. The old man
was drunk of course.
HENRY MARoUAUD, matchmaker Of
Racine. attempted suicide Tuesday, BY
cutting the arteries III his wrists. He
will recover. Whisky.
AN old lady named Mrs. DAILY, living
in Oshkosh, was arrested Monday morn
ing charged with stealing about s ,3Ol
from n Mrs Cooper, another OLD lady
whom she had visited.
By Il fire in Green Bay Tuesday night
200 worth Of damage (haf insured
was done, Parmenter's grocery store,
Nincent's carpenter shop and Bruyere.
-four and feed store suffering.
EDWARD SHUNNERHoRS, of Oconomo-
voc, fell from a roof a distance OF % feet,
striking upon his mead, breaking his
skull, fracturing a leg and otherwise IN
juring himself He cannot survive.
MADISON DCDOcrdt: In the town OF
Verona, Saturday, while young man
named Neal Davidson was cutting cattle
feed with a horsepower machine, ms
right hand was nearly severed from the
arm. Amputation had TO take place
Il
following of interest to tobacco growers
William B. Baines, one OF the most
prosperous farmers in the town of Rock,
has sold bis crop of tobacco for 81 300, i
being the product OF SIX and hall acres
of ground. from which he raised 1C. COS
pounds.
ALL the brewers Of La Crosse, with
one exception, have been selling thirty
two gallons of beer for barrel instead
Of thirty-one, and for this discrepancy,
although they lost money by the oper-
alton, the United States VIII assess them
about $4,000, unless they cen compro-
mise III some way.
La CROSSE ChrOHiclC: Parties down
from Midway yesterday report that
Norwegian blacksmith III the employ OF
Ezra Lockman was kicked in the head
so badly by horse that his skull was
fractured, and death resulted in very
short time 1t was impossible to learn
the mans name or any further paltlcU-
lars.
OSHKOSH Southwestern: Geo. Ham
mer, OF Menasha, who it Will be remem-
bered was sentenced to state prison for
killing Lars Oleson at Menasha, passed
through this city last evening on his WAY
home from Waupun. having been re-
leased yesterday from prison. lie had
served year lacking one month and two
weeks which was the amount Of his CIT dlt
for good behavior.
MADISON JOurHoi: This morning a
brakeman named Lawson was seriously
hurt at the Chicago and Northwestern
depot in this city, while coupling ears.
He stepped between stock car and a
fiat one loaded with lumber, which pro-
traded over the end and struck him
fracturing his left arm between the
shoulder and elbow.
WORK on the spur tracks leading from
the various lumber mills III Eau Claire TO
intersect the main line of the Chicago.
St. Paul and Minneapolis roads, WAS
commenced last week and the enterprise
DilSuttt idJltlN IOl dII ~ ttIll lltlloll-
The object OF this railway Is for the con
venience of mill owners and shippers Of
lumber to western points, and viii
greatly facilitate operations of loading
cars
MADISON Jo"ual. Friday about two
o'clock, young man named Davidson,
living in the town OF Verona, caught his
right arm in feed mill, and had it terri
bly, mangled. 1t was only by great pres
ence of mind and determination that he
escaped having his whole body draw
into the cruel machine. Medical aid
was promptly summoned, and the wound
| ed member dressed as carefully as posi-
| BILE.
EVANSVILLE Goacttc: The postoific"
department has decided to make a change
: in the mail route now running to East
Troy, and over which under the present
arrangements three trips are made per
week Instead of this there is to be :"
daily mail to Richmond and return, tho
change to be made on the first of April.
The Johnstown Center people will hr
gladdened by this news, as it gives them
daily communication with GAINESVILLE
: THIS section was replenished by am
other fve-inch fall of snow Saturday,
putting the roads in fair condition for
3 sleighing. The worst of the storm eX-
tended up the Chippewa, where the
ground above the Flambeau Is covered
> now with two feet, which has caused a
i revival in logging operations. It Is n"'
likely that logging camps above tha'
: point viii suspend operations until til"
/ close of the month, and many Of the men
viii remain in the woods and return "lti
; the drive Finn (Yairc carr.
THEY are trying to get up killing
. match in Fond du Lac. A butcher,
= numed Emil Newbauer, offered to back
with money the statement that he could
y dress a bullock better and faster than
: any other man III the state: and that he
could do the Job III SIX and Il half min
/: utes Another butcher now chall"ng'
| HIM 10 make a trial for a stake Of SD {
5000 side. a bet il also offered, S1Ol
! to 500. that Newhauer cannot kill and
dress bullock in fifteen minutes The
trial is to come off before April first.
EVANSVILLE Gazettc: Superintendent
I f. !. Cuyler and Mellen, Assistant Gen
. eral Freight Agent, of the Chicago and
: Northwestern Railroad company, were II
o the city to-day, talking up the PROPOSED
Z line from GAINESVILLE to Alton, CONNECTING
the two divisions of the Northwestern
road An outline of the plan was gwen
- III our Issue Of the 9TH INST, and no"
: comes the assurance that if the company
g can get aid to the extent of probably
f St. 600 to IS. 600 the line will be built al