The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-09-25
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

WINTER wheat will be largely raised in
this state next year III place of spring
wheat
THE Madison insane hospital has con-
tracted for coal (hardl at F7.l9 per ton
and soft at So 20 per ton.
THE "roughs of BrothertowD
treated man named Giger and his wife
to a coat of tar and feathers few nights
ago.
THIEVES have been going through tie
residences of Milton, making small hauly
of money. Sunday night they visited
six houses.
A FIRE in Douglas Centre, near Port,
age, Friday night, destroyed several
buildings belonging to Bloom Son.
Loss $1,000, uninsured
Two GAINESVILLE lads, aged twelve and
fourteen years respectively, were found
beastly drunk. They named the man
and he was fined $40.
MADISON had an experience with safe
blowers Monday night. They opened
the safe door of the Hausmaun brewery.
but were frightened away by the people
awakened by the explosion.
MADISON J0upai. We regret 10
learn that Herbert Sylvester, OF the town
of Madison, had the misfortune to catch
his right hand i'll cider mill, Monday
afternoon, and crush ii SO seriously that
1t became necessary to amputatc two Of
! his fingers.
DANE COUNTY Republicans have nomi-
mated the following ticket: Sheriff, Capt.
George Weeks; treasurer, Chas. keiser;
clerk of the court, II. Il. Moulton; clerk
of the board, II. j. Mcconnell; county al
/ torney, Robert LaFollct; coroner, Cleo.
/ Baxter; surveyor, W. Greavcs.
On Friday afternoon, man named
/ August krenke. at work ON a thrcshjug
machine III the town OF Wolf River, fen
into the front of the machine, one foot
/ falling into the cylinder. His foot md
part of his leg was torn into mince-mcf,
AID he was rescued alive with difficulty.
His leg was amputatcd.
/ A DISPATCH from Seymour says:
/ disastrous contiagration visited tins
young city last night, spreading de-
/ structiOn and entailing q severe loss
! The fire broke out in tic postolice
| about 1890 A. NJ, aud spread rapidly
/ Before it WAS got under control eleven
/ buildings were destroyed. The loss Is
/ about $4,000.
/ EVANSVILLE Gu-cHC: Yesterday after
noon Sheriff Comstock took James Smell
from jail here to Jefferson, where judge
Conger is holding court, and there Smell
was sentenced for his part il the Rcigan
INV. 4
years in state prison, the first three days
to be spent in solitary confinement, it
being the full extent of the law.
A SAD accident occurred at MapI
river mills, near Manktu, last week, In
which a tcn-ycar-old daughter Of G.. Gar
lie, the proprietor of the mills, was
severely injured She was in the mill
talking TO the miller and holdiugo young
babe in her arms, when her clothes
caught on the upright main shaft and
twisted Der body around 1t several times
before the machinery could hc stopped
when relieved. one lc" Was found to have
been broken between the knee and
ankle. She dropped the baby when
first entangled, thus saving It's life.
GREEN BAY gazette: A short time ago
nee road, short distance from the Halt
/ Mile house, under suspicious circum-
stances 1t seems that the woman had
been attacked by a ram on the road and
knocked down, being actually lmttcd to
death. The deceased WAS mn old woman
and the ram completely oyCrDOWcrcd her
When she was first found life was not cN-
tinct, but she expired shortly afterwards
! We have also learned that the same ami
mai attacked n young girl named Mel
/ choir, near the same place, but some
nel9hbors observed them and rushed to
the assistance of Miss Mclchoir One of
the neighhors had an AK in bis hand,
which ne used deity ON the ram, and
severed It's head from its body.
The Wausau CcnlaL Wisconsin has
| the following list of accidents: JOS.
| Allie, at work in the Wausau Lumber
1 Co.'S. mill, had all Of the fingers of his
I right hand taken off by Il knot saw ON
/ Friday last. DIR. Wylic dressed the
hand Of the poor unfortunate. At
1 Clarkcs mill, ON Friday last, while Ole
Johnson, about II years of age, was On
! gagged around the lah saw, 81 splinter,
about two inches long, entered the lower
! id of the right eye and passed INTO the
I brain. DR.. Higgins dressed his wound
and reports the boy rs lying in prcca-
] riOus condition. Gustav FogCtZank, en-
/ gagged IN painting the Catholic Church,
| fell distance of 2S feet, on Friday last,
! and sustained 4 dislocation Of the shoul-
/ der and fractured the shoulder blade.
! DIR. DeNoc was called and attended the
! injured man, and reports that he is
I hopeful that he will soon he out again.
GREEN BAY gazette: The families uf
! McGould and Tcdd have farms adjoining
each other in East Wrightstown. One
of McGould's pigs got into one of Tcdd's
fields and entered on a course Of destruc-
| tion that exaspcratcd the old man and
he set on the infant porkcr with pitch
fork, sending the prongs into it's hams.
The youthful screams of the pig brought
McGould to the scene and TO the pigs
assistance McGould, it is stated,
knocked the old man Tcdd down and
was belaboring him, when a third party,
i'll the person of Mrs. Tedd, appeared on
the field, who seized McGould by his
hair and pulled him off the old man.
Ne. made lcft-handcd blow mt the old
woman, hitting her comb and breaking
it, which ended the melee. The old man
Tedd made complaint against llcGould
for assault, which was heard before JUS
tee Grinnon yesterday, and resulted in
Mr.. j. McGould being fined 50 for the
OilCnsc, the costs III the matter amount
ing to SD, which McGould will have TO
settle