The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

patients at Its new county asylum.
MONDAY night the residence of Albo.
kng In Oshkosh, was burned. To-
sl,OOO; partially insured.
WILLIAM RoYsToN, of Mazomar;.
had his wrist and one rib broken . E.
DAYS ago, by being thrown from bnc,,
by runaway horse.
Z. e. REMINGTON, once county ina
of Sank county, died at Baraboo On G
day. He was an old settler. and w ooe
member of the legislature in 1883
A DWELLING house and barn, own
by the Flint estate, in Fond du Lac w..
burned Saturday afternoon, togat5.
with two other barns, involving 3 io1
of 81 800. ~
FRANK LEE, the young man recane-
arrested in Marquette county for h:
amy, pleaded guilty Thursday, in M,
tello, and was sentenced to Waupur =,
two years. He is but % years old ,r5
seems but half-witted.
| The villain Kane, who ATTEMPTED O..
outrage on Miss Balm, in the town \
Washington, last June, was taken i,
Waupun, Tuesday morning, where /.
will serve out his just sentence of for,
years.-Eau Claire Neacs.
ONE of our doctors reports a sever.
case Of fever, which in the south womb
be termed yellow fever without an,
doubt. The patient had the black vomi,
to an alarming extent, and for two dsv,
was as yellow as sattron.-JdnesuiHe Ga.
sette.
A REMARKABLE fungus growth va,
found at Elkhorn, Saturday, in whs
is commonly called toad-stool. Il.
diameter was eighteen inches, its eli,
conference fifty-four inches, and #,
weight thirty pounds. Its exhibitions.
tracts a great deal of attention.
WE are informed that the house an
barns of farmer named Carbery, liyir.
in the southern part of the town of Cen
terville, was struck by lightning an
entirely consumed during recer
storm. We have not been able
learn further particulars.-TCO RI
Chronicle.
Miss LIZZIE FoREsMAN, of Madiso
was married in Grace Episcopal Churc
on Tuesday to Walter Baggs, chief ac
countant of the Chicago, Burlington an.
Quincy railroad company. The churG
was crowded with friends of the bride
Presents w-re numerous and costly
Miss Anna Norton, the leading soprano
the Congregational choir of Madison wa
married to II. @. Adams, a prominent
young farmer of Dane county, on Tues
day.
From the GAINESVILLE Gazette: A boz
named Dermody complains that as he
was walking along the street near the
Harris works Sunday night, a man came
around the corner, and without word OF
warning, threw some kind of acid in hi,
face, burning it somewhat, but fortu
nately doing no serious injury. WIZ
the man is, and what could have beer
his object in thus doing are mysterie
still unsolved. The boy was almos
blinded by the stuff thus thrown upOl
him, and before he could recover him
self, the man had disappeared, and ha
not yet turned up.
LAST Tuesday John Marian came u
town, and while here got rather full Of
bad whisky and started for home late ID
the afternoon. The night it will be re
mcmbered was very dark and stormy
and Marian got his wagon wedged /
tween telegraph post and the fenc.
From appearances he got out to unhitc.
his horses and while in this position wa
struck by lightning. He was found OIL
stone dead. The horse he was on wa
also dead, while the other was 50 scare
that when next morning he was loOsed h
started like flash for home. The funera
of the unfortunate man occurred Thurs
day.-Racine AdU0cdte.
FROM the Portage 4dUaace: A viii
case has been up before Squire Bunke
during the past few days. A week ar
last Monday, a Miss Skinner swore out
warrant for her brother, w. V. Skinner
living about four miles from Cambris
in the town of Spring Vale, on a charg
of rape. Skinner was arrested a wee
ago yesterday, and the case was adjourn
ed until last Monday, when the examins
ton satisfied Justice Bunker tina
the prisoner should be held t
appear before the Circuit Court. TIL
amount of bail was fixed at $500, an
as the proper sureties were not presente
the prisoner was remanded to Jail. TIL
same party spent six months in jail fo
an assault to commit the same crime
little over a year ago; and the senio
Skinner, father of this dashing youn
man, is now serving out a sixty day
sentence in the Portage Jail for whippin
his wife
LAST Sunday evening a young GeI
man girl tried to drown herself in a mu
puddle down by the South Side depot
She waded into the pond, ducked he
head under the surface, and held it ther
as long as comfort would permit. Blu
the buoyancy of life was stronger tina
the desire for death, and the head woul
persist ID popping up out of the waite
like a piece of cork just as the girl wa
probably cOngratulating herself on fna
! success. She was clear grit, however
and probably meant business, for he
laudable but rather monotonous endeay
ors were continued with commendabl
zeal, until J. E. 0. Prouty, who had bee
witnessing the exhibition for some time
pulled her out of the mud and water
and claws of DEATH" etc-Nea0 L0nd0
Times.
WITH two companions, James Curral
and William Gilligen, James Con
naughty was out upon hunting ex
petition in the Eldorado-Lamartin
marsh, Sunday afternoon. At about
o'clock the boat in which the three wer
seated was run upon shore, few rod
distant from the Smith crossing, Curral
and Gilligen springing to the land. Con
naughty was the last to leave the boat
and as his companions were walking o.
he exclaimed, "Wait, boys, until | sc
my gum" and reaching down in tn
boat he caught the weapon by th
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