The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-01-19
STATE NEWS.

Aho yiOlu VI Sceu Is Salu TO
be excellent
MENoMoNEE is all excitement over
that robbery of $4,000 of iewelry from
Woodford's store.
kUNERT's gunsmith shop in Water
town was destroyed by FIRE Tuesday
morning. Loss, $500
THE sixth annual meeting Of the Wis
consin Dairymen's Association will be
held at Whitewater January 23d and
Oath.
OLE OLEsoN HALoFT, a Norwegian
farmer in the town Of Pleasant Valley.
died in such a peculiar manner that sus-
picions of foul play are aroused.
IT is proposed to hold reunion of the
members of the State Constitutional
Convention, to celebrate the 39th ami
versary. February 1st is the day fixed
upon and Madison the place.
ANOTHER change has been made on
the f., A. & z. r. r. The sheriff, under
writ of attachment, has placed the road
III the hands of a receiver this party
being Judge Kinyon, of Fond du Lac.
MARINETTE has shipped 13S,162, 900
feet of lumber to Chicago from Mari
nette and Menominee during the past
season, a trifie less than last year. The
only other place that shipped more TO
that market was Muskegon, which is
credited with 250, 574 900 feet.
JOHN ARQUETrE, well known to the
people of this county, by being once a
resident, and who was arrested but a
short time ago for the stealing Of horse
and buggy, was tried at Oshkosh last
week, found guilty, and sentenced to the
state prison for four years colby En-
/ terprise
| EDWARD WESTON, while riding on
| horseback near Linden, last week, had
one OF his legs broken in very singular
manner. Some horses were running at
large, and as Weston was passing along,
one of the horses wheeled around and
kicked him below the knee with such
force as to break his leg.
IT is reported that on Sunday last,
while number of boys and young men
were hunting ON the shores of Lake Win
era, one of the party attempted suicide
by plunging into the water; and it is
said he would have met death had not a
comrade rushed in and rescued him.
Drink is assigned as the cause of the
rash attempt.-1Ladtsoa Democrat
+ A LITTLE before seven o'clock Tues
day morning the fire alarm was sounded
and the department fastened to the
southwestern part of the CITY, near
where the river and Eleventh street
meet, and found the house Of a Mr.. Will
liams in flames. The dwelling was TO-
tally destroyed, with furniture, agere-
eating loss of several hundred dollars.
Fond du Lac Commonwealth.
/ MRS. AUSTIN, wife of Judge Austin,
met with quite a severe accident shortly
before noon. It seems she had set some
thing ON the back steps to cool, and. 90
ing out shortly afterwards to get it, felt
dizzy as she stopped down. Feeling that
she was going to fall, she jumped down
the steps, q distance of about five feet,
and broke her leg below the knee OSh-
koSh Northwestern, I'd.
GEO. B. BAKER, while chopping wood
upon Mr. Ponds farm, at Sun Prairie,
luckily escaped a serious injury. 1t
seems that the axe with which Mr..
Baker was chopping, caught upon the
limb of a neighboring tree, and glancing,
came down, edge forward, and the corner
OF the axe struck Mr.. Baker upon the
top of the head, cutting through the
scalp and slightly into the bone Had
there been more force to the axe as it
| descended, it would have proved a seri-
Gus injury; as it is, Mr.. Baker can con
graduate himself upon his lucky escape.
THE sensation at Sparta is the trial OF
Nicholas Plemling, who is charged with
having murdered Mrs. Van Voorhees, and
her three children, at Wilton, Monroe
county, on the 9TH of November. The
trial will occupy several days. The cir.
cumstantial evidence against Plemllng is
very strong. The prosecution will at
tempt to prove that he made improper
proposals to Mrs. Van Voorhees, on the
night'of the murder, and was led. by hen
refusal, TO outrage and murder her, af-
forwards killing the children and burn
ing the house to wipe out all evidence OF
his first crime.
A FEW days since the wife of a Ger
man in Ripon, by the name of Paumbel
appeared before Squire Hall and Mad
her husband arrested and bound over to
keep the peace On being discharged by
the Justice, he Immediately turned tc
his house and attacked his wife with a
butcher-knife, inficting serious wounds
III her breast, sides and back. She broke
away from him and the room where she
was and ran into the street, giving the
alarm. He was again arrested, and Jus
tice Hall bound him over in the circuit
court for trial. The woman was badly
an h,,4 Of h.. i 4
though serious, are thought to be fatal
The severest wound is in her lett side
The blade of the knife in striking one OF
the ribs probably saved her life.
A MADISON dispatch, dated the 30th
Sunday says: A young man % to
80 years of age, named NJ. O. Smith,
from Galesburg, where he is we'll con-
connected, arrived here on Saturday
morning, taking breakfast and dinner at
the Park hotel and visiting an acquaint-
ance during the afternoon. Near even
ing he hired row boat from Capt.
Barnes, rowed across Lake MOnona, and
when near the shore attempted suicide
by jumping into the lake The water
proving too shallow, and being chilled
by the cold water, his suicidal mania
forsook him and he waded ashore He
went to farmhouse near by The farmer
suspecting his insanity persuaded him to
accompany him to the city, where he
was placed in charge of the teriff, who
kindly cared for him at the Villas house,
telegraphing to his brother at Galesburg,
who is on his way here to take care Of
him. The cause of his temporary in
sanity is unknown, but from his inco-
herent mutterings it is supposed that the
mental trouble is induced by some love
affair.