The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-26
BADGER BRIEFS.

MALIGNANT 61phtheria b as broken ont
smong the Indians on the Lac de Fiam-
| beau reservation.
JoHN McPaEE, veteran of the
'.Esgle" Regiment, Eighth Wisconsin
Volunteers, died at Chippewa Falls.
AT Florence. on the 4th, fire in a
building occupied by Curry's barber
shop ard Anderson's shoe store, caused
damage to the extelt Of $500.
HEAVY aims have caused great DAM
age TO crops in Lafayette County. The
river is very high and the Chicago, Mill
waukee 4 ST. Paul Railway track has
been washed away in many places.
II. AUSTIN, of Johnstown, cut and
put in hls barn forty acres of hay IN
four days. His mower, tedder, horse
rake, hay-loader and men were kept
busy.
THE residence of B. B. Northrop, the
cashier of the Manufacturers National
Bank, Racine, was entered by burglars
on the night Of the 9Th inst, and silver
ware and other goods TO the amount of
500 stolen.
OK the 4th, at Union Center, Lear La
Crosse, there was sham battle as part
of the celebration. A man named Gree
lev, veteran of the Eighth Wisconsin,.
was loading a cannon. when 1t was pre-
maturely discharged, blowing off both
of his arms and putting out both eyes.
The unfortunate man died soon after.
MRS. ANTLEMAN, the German woman
living near Black Earth, who was shot
by her husband about week ago, Is
now in a condition to justify hopes OF
her recovery. Although her husband
committed suicide after shooting her,
she still labors under the delusion that
he will return to do her injury.
CHAs. S. GUERNSEY, printer, former
ly resident in Bei2it, sen OF the inventor
Of the Guernsey prees, was drowned
few miles below Davenport. Ia. He was
on his way to Muscatine, when last seen,
aud was well provided with money. The
fact that no money was found on the
h0ay leads bis friends to suspect foul
play.
THE Jefferson County Union says:
"Cheese factory owners cannot be too
careful not 10 put their cheese IN too
low boxes A buyer in Chicago writes
US describing how a shipment of 400
boxes were nearly ruined by being thus
obANA- Inc ti't'c4s
to save a little on the cost of boxes and
lost hundred times as much in injury
to his cheese.
ARTEMAs BAIRD, aged so years, was
instantly killed on the 9TH inst. on the
farm of his son-in-law, o. Fl. Standish.
N North Geneva, by the fail of a scat
fold, IN barn on which he was engaged
putting ap hay carrier. The fall was
nearly thirty feet and Baird's skull was
frightfully crushed. Messrs. Hopkins,
of Springfield, and lsborer named
Malone, were also standing on the
scaffold when it fell, and narrowly es-
capped by clinging to the hay carrier.
Mrs MICHAEL CUMMINGS saved a
Milwaukee, Lake Shore Il Western train
from destruction last week, while on her
way from Reedsburg to her home near
Grimm Station. An old, dry oak tree
had fallen across the track near curve,
and at the bottom of a grade. She at
once unhitched her horse, first sending
her little daughter to flag the tain, and
then went out herself and waited an
hour, taking her position in the center
of the track with small red handker-
chief.
On Jan. 8, 1883, a letter enclosing
twenty five cents was mailed from Grand
Rapids, Wis, addressed to John Ryan
Bathurs, Australia, by way of Brindisi,
Italy. After having been opened by
mistake and advertised. IT was sent to
the British dead letter office in Austria
lia. thence to the United States dead
letter office by way of San Francisco,
and thence back to the Racine Office
Lax ,n
cult of the globe in one year five
months and fifteen days. TIE envelope
bore all the marks of hard usage, but
the piece of silver was still enclosed,
wrapped as when it was mailed.
LEONARD G. MORSE, of Bush Prairie,
Monroe County, has herd of thirteen
fine Holstein cattle, eight of which were
imported, and five bred in this country.
1t is the only herd Ill Monroe County
and with the exception of 3 few animals
owned by Messrs. Gray and Van Waters,
at West Salem. is the only lot of Hol-
stems In Western Wisconsin. At the
head of the herd is Bourbon, year
old bull-a magnificent animal His
weight in April was 1875 poands, and
he is likely to attain 1900. There are
also four year old cows Zone weighing
l, 800 pounds; one 3-year old, with calf
a month old; three 2-yesrs and four
yearlings. No record is kept OF their
yield of milk, but it is very
heavy. Mr.. NJ, also has stock
horse, Challenge, a fine specimen of the
famous Cleveland Bays. He is 3 years
old, weighing l, 285 pounds, and was i'm
ported by Geo. W. Brown & Co , OF Au-
rora, H., the same farm from which the
Holsteins were obtained.