The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-03-25
BADGER GOSSIP.

| The body of Leonard, who was
drowned in the lake at Montello, has
been recovered.
CHRISTIAN SHAFER, another of Ma
poleon's soldiers, died at Mineral Point,
this state, on the 9Th inst, aged 96.
ToNEY WEILAND was instantly killed
at John S. Smiths logging camp, on
the South Fork of the Flambeau, re-
Gently, by falling tree.
PAUL OWEN, aged seven years, WAS
drowned at MERRIAM on the Sd inst, by
| breaking through the ice of the creek
! near the Alma Centre road.
| FRANK BURNAP, Beloit cigarmaker of
| dissolute habits, was mangled to death
by freight train at Freeport, ILL.,, re-
| Gently. He was % years of age and left
| a wife.
| JOHN MORGAN has been arrested and
! brought to Eau Claire charged with be-
| ing one of the murderers of 0. NJ. Blash-
| field. His companion in the crime, Pat
rick Heapley was arrested some time
| ago.
+! STARTLING rumors concerning the
cause of the death of Mrs. Jennie M.
Hodge, an inmate of the Mendoza in
sane asylum, having been set adoat, an
! investigation resulted III showing that
she died of brain fever.
WEYAUwFGA CHRONICLE: We learn
that Mrs. H. j. Borham, one day last
week, on breaking an egg, found a kerr
mel of corn, all sprouted, in the yolk of
the egg. The question is: How did ii
! get there? Some may think this is a
whopper, but there are persons who will
vouch for it.
A MEDFoRD dispatch of the 9th inst.
says: When freight No. II reached
| Ogema, last night, it met with quite an
accident. The switch had been mis-
placed, and the train ran into and de-
moraliZed number OF flat cars on the
side track. No one was seriously hurt,
but the engine was badly wrecked.
A SINGULAR freak of nature occurred
on the farm of George Roth, in the
! town of OcoDto. On March 1st, a eve,
owned on the place, gave birth to a
lamb, and again, on March Sth, the
same eve gave birth to two more lambs,
The offspring are all healthy and doing
well.
A MAN named GreYe came to Fond du
Lac from Oak Centre after a daughter,
who had left home and taken refuge in q
house Of ili-fame, kept by Harriet Pierce.
| She was found there and arrested and
told a story of being enticed to life OF
shame that makes Pierce a fiend. The
girl is but 10 years old. Pierce is under
arrest.
A LITTLE boy about II years old, a
son of Truman Thomson, living thee
L., 4 -, 7
rible death recently, being choked to
death by worms which came up into his
throat. Examination after death re-
vealed the fact that the boy was literally
filed with small worms of the maggot
species.
| FOLLOWING Ia list Of the officers o
the branch of the Western Society for the
! Suppression of Vice, about to be estab.
/ lished In Milwaukee,:
President-John A. butcher.
| Vtce PreSident-Prof. Charles S. Farrar.
TredsWa'-Hoel II. Camp.
] SecTetGYg-N. Mason
DirectOrs-Edward P. Bacon, Edmund J.
| Lindsay, Linden II. Morehouse, Edward
| O'Bren, Phillip CaIpeles, Adolph Meinecke
Albert G. Bridges, Andrew Mullen, Edwin
| Hyde, John q. Trentlage, Rev. Erastus W.
| SpaldlnG, and two others whose names will be
| aLuOUICGu WIFI CuOSOu.
BELoIT Free Press: Mr.. J. n. Mel
son, of the firm of Blodgett & Nelson,
merchant millers of this city, has shown
us sample OF remarkably fine spring
wheat Of the mammoth" variety,
grown by Mr.. l. NJ. Baldwin on his farm
q few miles north OF Beloit. Mr.. Nelson
says this wheat is IS good as Minnesota
wheat Except "hard y, and NJ. Bald
win raised twenty bushels to the acre OF
this wheat last year, and credits his good
crop largely to the fact that he used salt
upon if. Salt as q fertilizer has been
ussd on grain with gratifying success by
other farmers In this neighborhood.
The salt wells of Manistee are only
1,500 to 1000 feet in depth, or about
One-third deeper than those of eastern
Michigan This shows that the salt
bearing stratum tips slightly downward
as it progresses to the west, and DC
doubt if the artesian wells now being
bored III Milwaukee were to be sunk 500
or 600 feet farther into the earth, salt
would be found here also. The late In
crease A. Lapham knew over forty Years
ago that Milwaukee contained bank OF
cement rock, bat he told no one who
bad means and enterprise, of this fact.
Ovens ancient geology mentioned that
probably salt-beariug stratum existed
under Michigan, Wisconsin and possibly
northern Illinois. His predictions have
| been verified to the utmost in Michigan,
and some plucky borer may find salt and
fortune in the Cream City.-EUening
| Wisconsin.
4 GRAND RAPIDS dispatch of the 10th
inst. says: A travelling artist named W.
S. Miller has brought suit against Mrs.
| Jarvis, of Dexterville, the circumstances
Of which are somewhat peculiar. It ap-
pears the artist was engaged to enlarge a
picture of the defendants daughter, Miss
| Nellie Jarvis, who Is a niece of George
Hines, the well-known lumberman. A
young man named Charles Reed, see
ing the picture of Miss Jarvis, pre-
vailed on the artist to make a picture of
himself and the young lady, in one
frame, life size. On calling for the pic
ture of her daughter, the mothers eye
rested on the work of the artist, and,
Selling the first opportunity, she broke
it up. The artist sues for damages,
charging malicious mischief. This case
has already bad hearing, but as the
justice forgot to swear the jury, new
trial will be had.
| MAzoMANIE SICKLE: About four years
ago M. D. Tillotson started an exchange
and deposit bank in Boscobel, and as re-
cent developments show, it was evidently
q confidence scheme from the start. The
| bank "busted" on Friday of last week.
The failure was the result of gambling
with his depositors' money on wheat