The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-01-14
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

Indians on the Oneida. reservation, near
Green Bay.
The number of boarders il the
Female College at Fox Lake is greater
than for many years.
Gov. RUsK's first official act was the
appointment of l.. j. Rusk (his SOM as
his private secretary.
II. L. HUMPHREY, book and cigar
dealer of Hudson (son of Congressman
Humphrey, has failed.
THE Dodge County board of super
visors has adopted the report of the
special committee recommending the
erection of a $25, 600 insane asylum.
THE reported case of smallpox in
Racine proves TO have been false The
young lady who was said to have had
the disease Is in perfect health and has
been throughout.
THE smallpox in the town Of Little
Wolf IS under control, and no further
spread is apprehended. But two fam
lies have been afflicted thus far, with
three deaths.
AN old paUper named Thereau, nearly
100 years old, wondered away from the
Fond dG Lac poorhouse some time ago,
and his dead body, mutilated by dogs or
wild animals, has been found some dis
lance from the city.
Two young men from Isabella, Pierce
County, Andrew Gunderson, a Scandi-
navian, aged II, and Fred Meter, a
German, aged 20, were drowned by
skating into an r-hole at the head of
Lake Pepin, day or so ago.
WAUKEsHA is excited over prospec-
tive wedding, the parties to which are
Miss Gertie Rowe, aged l6, and George
A. Hines, u wealthy widOwer, aged 70.
Considerable opposition is manifested to
the match by Mr.. Hines family, and
much ill-feeling has been engendered.
The officials of the grand lodge of
| Good TemplarB of Wisconsin have sent
out circulars, warning the order against
! an intinerant lecturer and dead beat,
/ one Frank NJ Ellis, alias ''MaiOr Die
Vernon, who, under pretense of being
| an ardent temperance worker, has beelt
| swlndling the order and spreeing on the
! proceeds.
! Mr.. OLEINGER is proprietor of what is
| known as Oleinger's Park, on the North
Side, Eau Claire, and kept considerable
money ID his house. Saturday night
! dancing festivities were in progress on
! the premises, and during the temporary
absence Of the proprietor some person
! broke open trunk where 81, 700 was
! kept and distracted it, together with
! several other articles Of minor value.
LA CROSSE Chronicle: DR.. Powell
received news that We-noo-sbiek, head
| chief of the Winnebagoes, died last week
at his camp, near Black River Falls
His son, Big Fire (or Medicine Smokel,
will probably succeed him but not with
out much wrangling, as Black Hawk and
! several other chiefs are determined that
/ the old mans plumes shall never grace
| she head of the pretender to authority.
SHAwANo journal: The Norwegian
Lutheran Church has purchased 800
acres of land at WitteGburg, Shawano
! County, and will establish at that place
an orphan home. A residence for the
Rev. q. J. Homme, the president, is
already built, and the walls of the base
ment story of the main building laid up
with stone and brick
AN Oshkosh dispatch OF the LIST says:
\ young man aged 20, named Emil
Lueck, son of John Lueck, school COM
missioner of the Sixth Ward, was
drowned late Saturday night In the
river while skating. His cap, found
floating IN an..air-hole, gave a clue to the
accident. The river was dragged, and
the body found, Sunday.
OCoNTo Reporter: 1t is reported that
Capt. DickeGsOn, whose little boy was
recently lost, has received All anonymous
letter offering to restore the lost child
for the sum of 81, 900 land no question
asked. We sincerely hope that the
child will be recovered, and that the
mlscreants who stole him Will be hung
by mob composed Of fathers.
EVANSVILLE Daily Record, 4th /:
Messrs. Galbraith Bros. sold their cele-
brated horse, Glencoe, yesterday, to a
party in Illinois. 1t is said that he
brought the highest price ever paid for
a draught horse in America. He is a
good one. They also sold to a neighbor
of the same man, the celebrated Clydes-
dale mare Lady of the Lake, at high
| figure. Glencoe, it will be remembered,
took several first premiums at fairs last
fall
A MADISON dispatch of Wednesday
evening says: The Legislative committee
who have been inspecting the state hos
| p1tal for the insane for several days fin
i'AiNNt b1ASll lctbOLo ldSI tNtLlItSs bDC1lttbOl
Simpson, chairman of the committee, re-
ports that everything is in splendid con-
dltlon and that the action of the state
board of supervision III dischargipg over
thirty officers and employees has in no
way impaired the efficiency Of the insti-
tuition.
A RACINE dispatch says: The Racine
Light Guards while out practicing to-
day, just west Of the city, placed their
target IN direct line with Mound Gene
terry, and great many wide marksmen
scattered their bullets into the graveyard
IN which funeral was being held, but
luckily no one was hit, although the
bullets came in close and thick for a
while There was some slight damage
done to few gravestones and monu-
ments.
A JANEsvIILE dispatch of the I'd says:
Fred Fields, conductor of the Monroe
freight train, while coupling in the yard
mere this morning, was caught between
two cars, causing a link to be driven
clear through one side of his body. The
injury will probobly prove fatal. He
leaves wife who is in Milwaukee. He
has been ID the employ of the Milwau-
kee and st. Paul Company for several
years, and was formerly on the Michigan
Southern road.