The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-05-21
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

FOND DU LAC lost seven bridges out of
nine in the recent floods.
IMMIGRANTS from Kansas are moving
into Northern Wisconsin.
Ex-Gov. WAsHBURN will make La
Crosse his permanent home.
The population of Mondovi is 1,625.
Nelson has 26 more population.
RACINE has man, an old German
named Miller, who claims to be LOG years
old.
CLARK's new match factory, at Osh-
kosh, will be the largest building i'll that
city.
JOHN FERGUSON, living near Dayton,
had pair of fine bay horses stolen re-
Gently.
JOHN DEFINING, of Beaver Dam, aged
IS, was drowned while duck hunting on
the 18th.
THE amount of beer sold by Green
Bay breweries last year was nearly A.
900 barrels.
ABOUT 50, 800 has been paid out of
the state treasury for bounties on wolf
scalps the past month.
JOSEPH MILLER, a well-known and at
one time wealthy citizen of WATERFOWL,
died Monday, aged 40.
FISH in Third Lake, Madison, are dy-
ing by thousands, and the citizens are
puzzled to account for it.
A YOUNG man named Thurstontel fifty
feet from bridge near Sparta, recently,
and escaped with but a few slight
bruises.
Two little boys, named BERTHE Harvey
and Albert Michael, fell into the river
at Wrightstown, recently, and were
drowned.
ANDREW ANDERSON, brakeman on
the st. Paul road, was killed at Wausau,
Tuesday, by falling under a moving
freight train.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD boy named Jones, at
Watertown, recently, was badly burned
while playing with bonfire, his clothes
taking fire.
The recent rains have swept away
nearly all the bridges In the neighbor-
hood OF Elkhorn, and numerous other
casualties are reported.
THE rise in the river at GAINESVILLE
through the recent rains undermined
Hogoboom & Atwood's ice house, caus
ing loss of some 1000.
The suicide Siegbert, for whose sup
posed murder Steinman has Just been
acquitted at La Crosse, was worth $780,
600 at the time of his death.
ANTON MLHoFER, a Bohemian boy,
aged six years, was drowned in Rock
river, at Watertown, on the 9th, by fall
ing into the river while fishing.
SHERMAN, of La Crosse, charged with
the murder of his brother in law, at
Prairie du Chen, in 1879, has been ar
rested and released on 50, 900 bail.
AN effort is being madet to have daily
mail from GAINESVILLE through to Darien
or to Aliens Grove, and a petition to
that effect is being circulated along the
line.
PARKER THoRP, the bogus revenue
collector arrested at Chiffon, recently,
has been sent to the state prison for one
year, with two days solitary confne-
ment.
THE firm of M. Erickson & Co., Mani
towOc, has been arrested; charged with
appropriating some So, 900 of the funds
of D. M. Osborne g. Co., Chicago, to
the private use.
JOHN Flynn, moulder of Racine,
was badly burned day OF two ago by
molten iron, which he was handling with
a ladle that had water in it. He will
probably lose his oversight.
Two farmers in the town of Rockville.
Grant county, C. P. Rice and n. B.
Cannon, had quarrel, recently, In re-
gard to a disputed road, in which Gam
mon shot Rice twice, killing him in
stantly.
The residence of James Boyden, OF
Necedah, together with furniture and
clothing, was burned on the 18th. Loss
about $4,000; insurance, $1,15O. The
fire caught III the shingles from the
chimney.
HENRY BLANK, of Lomira, Dodge
county, while riding along the road neal
! Byron, Fond du Lac county, day OF
two ago, was attacked by foot-pad, who
fired two shots at him, neither of which
took effect
BRICK PoMERoY, formerly of La
Crosse, is now one of the largest, if not
the largest, mining operators in Color.
ado. He bought twelve mines recently
for $25, 900, and the next day sold one OF
the twelve for $4,000.
GEPPERT, the Racine pillow factory
thief, has been brought back, he having
been caught at Kansas City. He admits
the theft, and says that it was done tc
avenge wrongs done him by the pillow
company.
VIM B. BAINEs, of the town of Rock,
Rock county, raised last year on nine and
one-half acres of ground, $780, 6G pounds
of Spanish tobacco, which he has sold tc
Chas. l.. Wulf, of St. Louis, for the sum
of $2,047.60.
EDWARD ToMAH, while running an
emery-wheel in Rewell & Co. s pillow
works, at Hartford, Monday, was killed
by the wheel bursting, and a portion OF
it striking him in the breast. He leaves
a wife and two children and an aged and
invalid mother.
Work Is in progress in the interior de.
partment at Washington by state land
Office employee, with view to ascertain
ing the number of acres of government
land which belongs to the state, very
imperfect surveys and records having
been made: