The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-01-29
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

MENoMINEE made $50, 600 worth 9,
improvements last year.
BELoIT college has received s200o
/ bequest from the east. ''OO
REPORTS from all parts of the state aro
that diphtheria is very prevalent. VIC
RACINE is the 10th city in size in n.
United States. Population, 16, O31 -'e
ST. CRorx FALLS water-power attroo.
| ing considerable attention amono co,,:
! talists.
THE annual session of the State Ho,
ticultural society will commence at Ma
ison January 31st.
THE station name Of Lakeland, on tho
North Wisconsin railway, has been
changed to Comstock.
THE next meeting of the Northwesfarr
| Medical association will be held -
Stevens Point, August I'd.
| EVANSVILLE S cotton factory made Owe,
| 5000, 900 yards of cloth the past wear
and paid handsome dividend.
The yearly production of Tobacco II
! Rock, Dane, Jefferson and Green conn
ties amounts to about 81, 600, 600.
MICHAEL WEIGH, former resident
of Depere, was caught in a Dakota
blizzard" recently, and frozen 10
death.
THE revenue collections in the district
composed of Racine and Kenosha coun.
| ties amounted to about $40, 900 the mast
year.
The track on the Neillsville railroad
| is laid to Wedges Greek, and now ONLY
| six miles intervene between NeillsviIjs
and the iron horse.
! THE Wisconsin Central Railway com.
pany has emigration agents IN Norway
Sweden and Canada, to secure settlers.
for northern Wisconsin.
The remains of George Wood, the
! colored porter of the burned Beekwitb
house, Oshkosh, were found in the ruins
of that building Tuesday.
SHERIFF BREMNER, of Racine county.
captured on Saturday, the 18th inst,
one John Whynhof,, an escaped prisoner
from Waverly, Bremen county, Iowa
! Whynhof had shot a man in WAY erly.
AT Ogema, on the 18th, August Be-
not, well-known resident of Depete,
while loading logs in Holmes camp,
had his right leg and foot so damned bv
a falling log that amputation was ncces-.
sary.
The tannery owned by Pfster, Voge
& Co., Milwaukee, at Two Rivers, was
burned to the ground Saturday night
Loss 100000; insurance not known.
! The fire is supposed to have been lncen-
diary.
Mrs. MOSHER, an insane woman Of
Friendship, near Fond du Lac, wandered
away from her home on Sunday night,
and was found on country road with
her uose, face, fingers and feet badly
frozen.
p. S. DAVIDSON, of La Crosse, has at
tached five packets and nine barges of
/ the Keokuk Northern Line Packet COM
pany, now III winter quarters at La
Crosse, for money claimed to be due on
stock.
Hon. JULIUS p. ATWOOD, formerly
resident Of Madison, and well known
throughout the state III connection with
various offices of trust and responsible
its, died in Denver, Col, recently, aged
| So years.
ANOTHER forger was arrested III La
Crosse, Tuesday-one Thomas l.. Nc
Ginnis, the amount for which the forgery
was committed being $40, and the sigma
tllre forged that of Jacob Hahn, a gro
Ger of La Crosse.
Mr.. DAVID HEBRON, of Erin Prairie,
while crossing Bone lake, recently, was
attacked by two large wolves and badly
injured He was unarmed, but succeed
ed in driving them off, and made bis way
to the nearest house.
A YOUNG man named Franklin was ar
rested at Appleton, Friday, on a charge
of DEMONSTRATING. The offense was com
mitted III 10 Daviess county, ILL.,, and
the culprit had just finished a term Of
Imprisonment for n similar crime COM
mitted in Outagamie county.
PETER J. LARSON, proprietor of La
Crosse boarding house, was arrested at
that place on Tuesday, charged with
committing a series of small and stupid
but very successful forgeries, some half
dozen in number, and aggregating sew
eral hundred dollars. He will plead
guilty.
A COMPANY of Eau Claire has effected
an organization to be known as the Eau
Claire Water Power company, with
capital of 575, 600, to be divided into $50
shares, for the purpose of utilizing the
various water power privileges within or
without the state, but more particularly
in Eau Claire county, and doing gen
eral manufacturing, transportation and
mercantile business.
A "sHovER Of the queer 3" named
William Willard, was arrested at La
Crosse, on Friday night. He bad
fifty-eight bogus silver dollars III bis
possession. and had already s1cceededm
palming OF about fifteen in various parts
of the city. The false coins were made
.. of white metal run IN plaster moulds and
washed with quicksilver. 1t is supposed
the man has confederates.
JOHN Bowman one of Napoleon
grand army, died at his son residence in
MERRIAM on Wednesday morning. He
, was born in Paris, France, in 1892, and
and was at the time of his death 81
years, II months and IL days old. Mr..
B. was perhaps the oldest survivor Of
Napoleon s army in the United States,
was with him In his march to Moscow
and in bis final defeat at Waterloo Il
1915.
T. E. WETHERREE, of Mazomanle,
found guilty Of slandering t. l.. Taylor,
as previously reported, has been tineC
$3.50 and costs; and in default of pay
ment will have to serve six months Il
: the county Jail, at hard labor. Wether
bee, it will be remembered, is a cousin
of Taylor's, and sent false charges
against the latter, accompanied by por
trait, in the name of a deputy sheriff, t.
the Police Gazette, Of New York, anC
: the latter published the same.
OSHKOSH Northwestern: A very dis
tressing case of diphtheria exists in thu
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