The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
STATE NEWS.

WAUKEsHA had another jail delivery
Tuesday night. Two fellows got away.
The temperance revival in Eau Claire
continues. There are 1,247 names now
on the list.
q. f. GoODALL, for several years as
slstant postmaster at Beloit, died re-
Gently in Colorado.
DORSEY and Sullivan, of GAINESVILLE,
have been sentenced to six years in
Waupun prison for burglary.
DR.. n. ID. SATTERLEE of West Salem.
was arrested Sunday, on a charge of pro-
ducing an abortion in the case of a SER
want girl named Matte Dinger.
Ex-MAYoR JOHN N. JONES, of Madi-
son, has sold his beautiful home on
Fourth Lake Ridge to Col. VIM. F.
Villas for 5000. This is a very low
figure for so valuable a piece of property
ED. LULL, of Palmyra, was severely
kicked in the face, Friday last, bv colt
he was breaking for Mr. A Kuopp.
Several of his teeth were loosened, and
the skin torn in several places.
DANIEL LEE, the sheriff of Brown
county, is accused of having virtually
attempted to commit rape upon mar
ried lady in the town of Scott. The
Green. Bay Gazette states the rumors and
properly demands an investigation. 1t
is said the sheriff paid the woman's hus-
band $3.50 to hush the matter up.
WHILE at work in the Appleton pulp
mill, the other day, Chas. B. Pride
jumped from an elevation to the floor,
descending with great force upon a
spike, turned point upwards on the floor.
The nail entered the bottom of his foot
and made an ugly and very painful
wound.
LAST Saturday afternoon a man named
Thomas Nolan was unruly in the prison
shops, at Waupun, and was ordered by
his keeper, David Harris, to go to his
cell. He refused to go, and drew knife
that he had secreted, and stabbed Har-
rls twice in the arm. He was seized and
punished, and will probably be impris-
oned onger, for the Ofense.
A FEW days ago young man named
Edward Breen, met with terrible acct
dent near his home in the town of Yer
mont, Dane county, eight miles south of
the village of Black Earth. He was en-
gagged in feeding clover huller, when
by some mishap his hand was caught by
the revolving cylinder and drawn in /;
the hand and the arm were fearfully
mangled, the whole machine being
stopped by the resistance made by the
arm. 1t was amputated.
JOHN A. SCHULTZ, of Madison, has
won his case against the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad. Schultz, when
in the employ of. the said company, was
injured while other employees were en-,
gagged in running cars about on the
tracks at the Northwestern depot.
Schultz was shoveling coal, and, not be-
ing warned of approaching cars, was run
into and bodily injured. He sued for
damages, and obtained verdict from
the hands of jury in the sum of 5000.
THE Boyce-Montgomery seduction and
elOpement case created no small degree
of excitement in this county last sum
mer. 1t seems that as soon as the tramp
Montgomery was released from Jail, he
turned around and sued his late en-
ployer, Boyce, for S22.50, wages said to
be due him; the case was up before the
circuit court this morning, on appeal
from the justice court, and the affair
amicably settled. Thus endeth the last
trace of the notorious Middleton case
Madison Journal, 9th.
! A MAN named Thomas Nolan was un-
ruly in the shops, recently, and was or
dered by his keeper, David Harris, to go
to his cell. He refused to go, and drew
knife he had secreted, and stabbed
| Harris twice in the arm. But Harris is
not man to put up with usage. so he
grabbed Nolan and threw him end over
end down stairs from the second story,
where he was at work, to the floor below
Nolan was hurt so he had to be carried
to his cell. Harris arm is a little stiff
but he is around as usual. Nolan was
sent for three years for burglary, and he
has served out about half his time
Waupun Times.
How deeply the citizens of Waupun
| feel on the Hobkirk matter, was made
manifest last Thursday, by the report
that VIM. Hobkirk had returned from
South America to Wisconsin, and had
stopped off at Juneau, and would be in
Waupun the next day. He had beer
seen on the train, and had said that he
was coming to Waupun to try to settle
with his creditors. He did not come tC
Waupun, but did go to Juneau. In
formation had been lodged against him
for perjury, and he put in his appearance
gave himself up and obtained bail. Then
he left the state again. The charge OF
perjury is made against him for swearing
that there was certain amount OF
money in his bank when he knew there
was very much less amount. We did
not hear any great amount of sympathy
expressed for him, though many mani.
tested a hope that he would return and
settle up. Unless he should settle up
Mr.. HQbkirk would find Waupun an
unpleasant place of residence. Folks
here have not forgotten him, and do not
seem disposed to do So Wdupon Times
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