The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-02-18
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.


Kleiners slaughter house at Eau Clare.
A BRAKEMAN named Pease was badly
crushed by the cars at Elroy. HIS IN
juries are about the head
Mrs. MARY MULLIGAN, aged go, and
well fixed in worldly goods, was arrested
in GAINESVILLE for shoplifting, recently.
THE First Methodist Church, of Ra-
cine, Wis, burned on the 9TH, involving
a loss of Sal 900; insurance $4,000.
The Berlin Agricultural Society will
entertain the Northern Wisconsin Agri-
cultural convention with banquet on
the 21st.
The remains of John Swager, who
died at Jacksonville, Fla, were inferred
at Evansville with Masonic ceremonies
on the 4th inst.
ROLAND HILL was caught IN frog
while switching cars at WATERFOWL, on
the 9TH inst, and badly injured. He
will probably recover.
FRANK RAVE, of BRUSSELS, who was
arrested on the charge of committing
rape on the person of Miss Josephine
Dupont, has left for parts unknown.
CURTIS Bros. & Co., of Clinton, Ia.,
have started their branch sash, door aud
blind factory and planning mill at Wau-
sau. 1t is one of the largest mills IN the
state
THE remains of Wheeler Van Dorens
who died at Paola, Fla, about three
weeks ago, arrived at Oshkosh on the 5th
and were consigned to the grave on the
same day.
ROMA LOCKE, son of Hawley Locke,
of Richmond, Walworth County, com
mitted suicide on the 5th inst. by taking
laudanum. He was Il years old. No
cause is assigned for the act.
A FAMILY named McSioy, living at
Edison Center, on the Wisconsin and
Minnesota Railway, have lost four out of
five children with diphtheria within a
the country around there.
An employee in Redmond's camp, on
the upper Chippewa, by the name of
Oleson. resident of Eau Claire, WAS
brought home, on the 7th inst, with
broken leg, caused by a log rolling Oh
it. He was otherwise badly maugled.
A KEROSENE lamp exploded in the store
of Christian Pfeifer, at Bailey's Harbors
on the It'll inst. setting fire to the goods,
and before the flames could be extin-
guished about 81, 900 damage was done
to the stock. The loss is fully covered
by insurance.
PRINCETON REPUBLIC: A girl who
had been at work in a hotel at Berlin
contracted diphtheria. She returned to
her home in hIt. Morris, WaHsbara
County, and Ia as many days eight chill
dren OF the family were down with the
disease and two died.
A GERMAN in the employ of O. d. Van
Dusen & Co., at Dorchester, WAS
seriously injured on the 1st inst. by
being struck on the head by the limb of
a falling tree. He received q severe
scalp wound about four inches in length,
his skull was fractured, and one of his
arms broken.
AT Dorchester, on the Sd inst, Lewis
Robbins was struck by a falling limb
and died the next night. Saturday, at
the same place, tree fell on q man
named Schmltke, holding him fast, and
before assistance arrived he was dead.
Two other men, names unknown, were
also hurt near Dorchester by falling trees.
The trial of Edward Gary and Mary
Gary, who were charged with the murder
of an illegitimate infant, born to the
latter in the Dane County poor house,
was concluded in the circuit court at
Madison, on the 9TH inst. The jury's
verdict was that the defendants were not
guilty.
AMONG recent important decisions by
the supreme court at Madison are: One
to the effect that the signature to a sum-
mons may be printed instead of written;
affirming the right of a railway company
to make regulations in regard to stop
over tickets; and maintaining the injunc-
ton to restrain owners of land on the
Black River from removing levees along
that stream.
EAU CLAIRE News: All reports from
up in the woods agree that logging OPP
eratioDs are now progressing very salts
factonly in the Chippewa pineries. The
roads are excellent for hauling and pretty
much all of the camps are doing good
work Reports of extraordinary loads
and big days works, are constantly CON-
ing down which, if true, denote that logs
have never been banked faster than dur
ing the past few weeks.
PORT Hope, Ont, Daily Guide: In
formation Is wanted of two sisters,
whose maiden names were Jane and Ann
Grey, and who emigrated to the state of
Wisconsin some thirty-seven years ago,
one of whom married a gentleman named
Flanagan. Information regarding either
of them or their families will be thank
fully received by their sister, Mrs. l..
Bebee, Port Hope postoffice, Ontario,
Canada. Wisconsin papers please copy.
The Antige Republican denies the
statement printed IN various state papers
that Langlade County is the largest in
Wisconsin and says Langlade stands
sixth in the list. 1t gives the following
to prove its assertion: Lincoln County
has 96 full townships and 9 fractional;
Chippewa has SO full townships; Ash
land, 40 full and fractional; Marathon,
Al full; Marinette, 80 full and Is frac-
tional; Langlade, 38full and fractional;
Burnett, 80 full; Shawano. 80 full.
PHILLIPS Times: A report is in circu-
lation that two men were frozen to death
during the late severe cold weather, at
Hugh Cameron's old logging camp on
the main Flambeau River. 1t is re-
ported the men belonged at Sam. Babb's
camp on the Thornapple and strayed
from there and became lost in the woods.
Search was instituted and their frozen
bodies were discovered in the old camp
| We cannot vouch for the veracity of this
recital, but we hope that it is not true.
The committee appointed by the Bust
ness Association, of Oshkosh, held q
meeting on the 9TH inst. and heard the
report of Col. Boardman, civil engineer.
employed to make a survey Of the Nee.