The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06
STATE NEWS.

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BOYD and Fox, the boy burglars at
Madison, have been convicted.
AN unknown man committed suicide
by drowning at GAINESVILLE, Saturday.
THE house, barn and four horses, be-
longing to Mrs. Robinson, in the village
of Manchester burned, few days since.
FoNTANA's barn, in Fond du Lac,
burned Monday afternoon. Loss, $500;
insured.
j. G. FORD, of Madison, was thrown
from buggy Monday afternoon, break
ing his leg.
OLIVET CHURCH, at Columbus, a new
building costing $4,000 has just been
dedicated.
JAMES [. LYNDEs, prominent lawyer
of La Crosse, died Tuesday morning of
consumption.
CHARLES HARDWICK, a prisoneri in the
Sank county Jail at Baraboo, escaped
Saturday night.
A GERMAN farmer at Crystal Lake,
named Luchme, stole sheep and then
committed suicide.
DAVID SEAvY had his left arm broken
huller at Packwaukee.
FIFTEEN bushels of cranberries in one
days pickings, by one man, is the latest
up around the Berlin marshes.
PEOPLE throughout the state will re-
greet to hear that Henry Cordier, ex-state
prison commissioner of Wisconsin, is in
sane in Pennsylvania.
Four children in Wausau, by the
name of Whitaker, have received notice
that $4,000 has been left to them by an
uncle in England
A GIRL named Anna Wassajack, daugh-
ter of a well-to-do farmer in the town of
krok, (northern part of the state) eloped
with man named Matthias Petzek.
A YOUNG girl agrd Is and a young lad
aged Is We're married in the German
Catholic church in Madison, Tuesday.
The parents thought it better to fix up
the unpleasant matter that way.
THE La Crescent Ferry Co. wants La
Crosse to contribute 81 800 towards the
fund for completing the ferry. The c.,
NJ. q st. p r. r. has given $4,000, and
Minnesota towns have swelled the
amount
SEVERAL days since Mr.. Josiah Jack
son, of the town of Bristol, was kicked by
stallion, and so badly hurt that he died
four days afterwards. He was brother
of Mr.. j. Jackson, of st. John q Jack
son, of this city.-Co Columbus Republican.
Mrs. GARRIrY, we learn, has been ar
rested on charge of arson. The au-
thorities expect to prove three cases
against her, one of which occurred this
morning, when the house of Mrs. Uehls,
about two miles south Of the city, was
totally destroyed. -Fond du Lac C6m-
m0RlCedHH
Mr.. l.. w. WooD, whose vegetable
gardens are located half a mile east OF
West Salem, has growing therein some
cabbages measuring fully sixty inches
Cor five feet) in circumference, which he
proposes to exhibit at the county fair
They are monsters in the way of sauer-
kraut timber, and will be hard to beat
La Crosse Republican.
THE report last night that d man had
committed suicide, upon investigation
disclosed that John Sharpley, residing or
Morris street, has been subject to fits Of
insanity and while in one of these spell;
attempted to cut his wife's throat with
a common table knife. The woman sue
ceeded in escaping with only a slight
scratch, and some means are to be taken
to prevent the danger of another occur.
renee of this kind.-Fond du Lac Com.
naonWedlh
THE people of Lincoln county are agi
tating the subject of building railroad
! from Wausau to Jenny, on their own
account. The plan is to organize home
company, secure all the contributions
that can be obtained from her own resi-
dents, either in money or labor, and then
issue enough county bonds to complete
the undertaking. A pretty big under
taking for a county with only about
l 200 inhabitants.
AS Mr.. Miller and 4 little girl were
driving on the road along the Catfish =
at Madison, train on the G. q n. w
road came bowling along. The horse
was turned so quickly to avoid collision
that the buggy was tipped over. The
train was stopped to allow the employee,
to render assistance, but the occupants
Of the buggy were not seriously bruised
While the train was thus standing upon
the track, the afternoon gravel train
which starts out from the depot, usually
close upon the track of the passenger
came around the curve making faiI
time. Down brakes was whistled, the
engine reversed, and the train finally
stopped within five feet of the rear sleep
er. Had not the late order of the c. &
= n. W., commanding brakesmen to be at
their posts and not in the caboose, been
in force, or had not the still train been
sighted i'll time, a disastrous railroad
accident would have happened. As it
was, it was certainly close call.
A CASE of homicide occurred at Berlin
on Saturday night, which threw the vii
| lage into state of great excitement. A
man named Frank Randall, living at Lit
tie River, Waupaca county, was down to
Berlin, where he met a man named Clar-
ence Grant The two became familiar,
drank together, and began spreeing i
about town. In the evening both men
entered a saloon and were engaged in
drinking at the bar, when a maudlin
sort of conversation arose, such as men
half drunk will often engage in.
The language used became more
and more wild as the men
became more intoxicated. until sud
denly, and with no provocation, accord
ing to reports, Grant drew a revolver
and pointed it at Randall. Randall
grabbed Grants arm and threw it UP
Just as the pistol exploded The ball
took effect in RandalPs temple, pene-
trating the brain. Randall fell to the
floor insensible. Medical aid was sum-
moned, but the brain was ooxing out of
the bullet hole, and he expired in about
three hours. Grant escaped. He is