The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-02-11
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

Station, lost his wife and three children
by smallpox.
DAVID WEIGH, son of John Welch,
supervisor of the town of Hull, had an
arm and leg broken recently while at
work near Chelsea.
CHARLES BRUso, of Turtle Lake, has
taken the wife of Antoine Casherette to
parts unknown, and the bereft husband
is now on the trail.
SAMUEL WHITE, vice-president of and
heavy stakeholder in the Phoenix Man
ufacturing Company, Eau Claire, died
on the Doth after short illness.
The Mazomanie correspondent of the
Madison Journal says John Murrish has
SIX 10-months' old pigs that average over
500 pounds each.
The Marinette Eagle says falling
tree at Wlttbeck's camp on the Michi-
gammi, on the oath, instantly killed man
and one of team of horses.
E. T. BENNETEAU, a lawyer of New
Lisbon, has fled with S400 secured by
forged note and lot of law books be-
longing to a friend. The books cost
several hundred dollars.
JOHN LUNDERMAN, of Caledonia, and
Mrs. Lang, of Delavan, eloped on the
30th, leaving ten children behind them.
Lunderman also took $500 of another
mans money.
On the 25th the two-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. P. E. Doane, of Weston,
Dunn County, was left alone in cradle,
pulled lamp over and was burned to
death before the careless mother re-
turned.
HALvER Men, whose home is in Area
dia, struck himself on the foot with an
ak, severing the anterior tidal artery.
He came near bleeding to death before
they reached Chippewa Falls from the
camp, which is thirty miles distant.
BEN TROUT was brought down to Chip
pewa Falls from Mitchelrs camp with
crushed foot, caused by falling tree.
The doctors found it necessary to ampr-
tate the foot. He is young man-sin-
gle.
POLK COUNTY Press: Last week Thurs
day the house of Charles Mcdonald,
new settler at Sand Lake, in this town,
was totally destroyed by fire, with all its
contents. The loss is about 81, 900 with
no insurance.
BENTON SIMoNToN, the well known
wheat buyer of La Crosse, was found
dead IN his bed Saturday morning. 1t
was decided that death was caused by
apoplexy. Mr.. Simonton was one of the
pioneers of La Crosse, first going to that
city in 1852.
VINCENT SMITH, who shot Pecor near
Peshtigo last summer, and was tried and
convicted of murder in the second degree
at Marinette, at the last term of the cir
cult court, was sentenced on the Dist, to
twenty-five years at hard labor in the
state prison.
AT a meeting of the Beaver Dam Cot
ton Factory Association, held last week,
organization was perfected, and John s.
Rowell, j. I. Smith, Geo. B. Congdon,
Hiram Barber, J. J. Williams, E. R.
Hoyt, Chas. Schultz, j. S. Gibson and
Theo. Hutte were elected directors.
RECENTLY William VIVIAN, a we'll
known resident of Union Grove, was at
the railroad station at that place endeav-
oring to lift trunk from a wagon. His
feet slipped and he fell, striking against
broken and internal injuries received.
At last accounts he was lyingin critical
condition.
The celebrated arson case of John J.
Sutton against julius Fox, which has
been on trial at hartford, Green Lake
County, before the Hon. d. J. Pulling,
circuit Judge, was concluded On the 2Sth
by verdict of the jury for the plaintiff
for the sum of So, 609.20, to which all
the costs of the protracted litigation will
be added.
A NUMBER of Chippewa Falls lumber
men have purchased tract of timber
land estimated to contain 70, 600, 900 feet
of pine. The land lies between the
Green Bay and Minnesota and the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Railroads, with the proposed road from
Sparta to Lake Superior running directly
through it.
A MAN by the name of Yartel, who
was in jail at Wausau on a charge of en-
bezzlement. made his escape on the 28th,
but was captured west of Colby. He
married his wife's niece, little girl fif-
teen years old, two weeks after the death
of the wife, and then commenced to rob
her estate, but was arrested and bound
over for trial.
On the 9th, Mr.. A. Manton, of Hud-
son, was found near the railroad track,
opposite the engine house, at River
Falls, with the right arm crushed nearly
off above the elbow by car wheel pass
ing over it. He was too much intoxi-
Gated to realize his misfortune. The
arm was amputated and at last accounts
MantoL was doing well.
IT is stated that the surveys on the
line of the Chippewa Valley Road show
that the fall from Eau Claire to the Mis-
sissippi is about fifty-fve feet, which
makes an average grade of only little
over enc foot to the mile. The whole
line is nearly dead level, the heaviest
grade being only forty feet to the mile,
and there are only one or two such on
the line.
CHIPPEWA County has an area of 5000
square miles, and is the largest county
In the state but one, and that is Lang
lade, which has 1000. Ashland, Bur
nette, Marathon and Oconto follow with
1900 each. Manitowoc and Monroe have
1900, Douglass 1900 and Clark, Dale,
Grant, and Shawano have 200 each.
Kenosha is the smallest county, having
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