The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-11-01
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

AN adopted daughter of Joe Peake
of Osceola was kicked in the head by
colt Saturday, and severely cut and in
jured.
PAUL FTTZ, a shoemaker of Kewas-
KUN, committed suicide by cutting his
throat and the arteries in his wrists,
Sunday.
MRS. BULL finds blueberry bush in
blossom, October 10th, and deposits it
among the archives of this Office. Sum-
mer is approaching-Osceola Press.
MRS. FOGARTY, of Milton, wife of the
murdered man, admits that she had been
criminally intimate with Christiaansen,
the hired man who murdered her hus-
band.
LoTTIE KoENIG, girl 81 years old,
died Sunday morning in Oshkosh, from
the effects of an abortion. DR.. Myron
A. Shaw, Mrs. Snowden and Mrs. Get
chell were arrested.
A. WINCHEL, of the town of May
vile, Clark county, reports that he raised
a cabbage this season that measured four
feet in circumference after it was closely
trimmed, Who can beat this?
A MAMMOTH rutabaga of excellent
variety, weighing IL pounds, raised on
the farm of Mr.. James Luther, of Pleas
ant Valley, was left at this Office Mon
day morning.-Eau Claire Press.
THERE is suspicion in Green Bay
that Michael Normile, who was found
dead on the Wisconsin Central track
near Ledgeville, few days since, was
murdered and placed on the track.
THE Stoughton Courier says that few
days since, at Stoughton, while Andrew
Norman, young man employed in
Severson's sash and blind factory, was
pulling out the lacing of leather belt
with file, it slipped and struck him in
the eye, putting it out.
The track on the new connection has
been laid about one mile this side of
Hortonville to a small creek which is
now being bridged, when the track will
be continued for two miles further on,
the grading now being ready for the
ties.-Oshkosh Northwestern.
The following are late patents issued
to Wisconsin people: Automatic hatch
way, w. A. Holbrook, Milwaukee
lock for wagon hounds, P. A. Goodman
and F. l.. Wilcox, Menomonee; governor
for horse power, jeremiah Worick,
Racine; cutting apparatus for harvesters,
I. E. Page, La Crosse; portable bathing
closet, l.. W. Fiske, Darien; hain-link,
j. E. Dudley, Oshkosh.
| Rock COUNTY seems to be noted for
bloody crimes. An incident occurred in
the town of LaPrairie recently which,
though not bloody, show how little feel
ing a man can have for his family. a
farmer living in the above named town
sold his grain, tools. in fact everything,
and ran away, leaving his wife and
three small children the youngest only
three weeks old, entirely destitute of the
necessaries of life.
SOMETIME during Thursday evening q
young man in La Crosse named John
| Bowling made what appeared to be an
attempt to commit suicide by drowning
in Black river near McDouald's boat
yard in the Fifth ward. He rushed into
the water, but there witnesses to the act
who pulled him out, and it is suggested
by some that he took care that there
should be witnesses before venturing on
his freak. Unhappy love was what allied
him.
THE Appleton Crescent has the follow
ing list of accidents: Mr.. Chas. Rogers.
working for Thos Butler, town of
Center, had the misfortune to sustain
the breaking of his leg, below the knee, by
the kick of a horse. While at play, a
FIVE year old daughter of Joseph Sim
mers, Fourth ward fell from fence, and
broke her arm at the elbow. Henry
Vert, working at Clark's pulp mill,
struck his axe into bis foot, instead of a
stick of wood, On Tuesday, making q
| severe cut.
APPLETON Post: On Thursday last,
| Mr.. Nelson, one of the lock-tenders on
the government canal, was the victim of
very serious accident. While engaged
il closing one of the massive gates, the
water caught it and moved it with such
force, and the windlass to which it was
attached with such rapidity, that the
handle of the latter struck him with
such violence as to break his thigh bone
and cause other very serious injuries
The injuries are of such an alarming
character that it is not certain if the
unfortunate man can recover.
Four prisoners escaped from the
Brown county jail, in Green Bay.
Friday night, by making sudden dash
for liberty as the jailer was locking them
up for the night. The prisoners are Hi
Burt, Otto W. Conklin, Chas. Brown
and Thos. Kane. Hi Burt was accused
of shooting with intent to kill, and his
trial was continued until next term:
Conklin was in for stealing, aud had
change of venue in his case; Brown, the
horse thief, had his trial also continued:
and Thos Kane had just been sentenced
to two years in states prison for bur
glary, and was to be taken Saturday
morning to Waupun. A reward is
offered for their capture.
EVANSVILLE Gazette GOTH Last Tues
day as John Mccarthy and Patrick Car
rol, two elderly men were standing talk
ing on the sidewalk near the store of the
Green Bay Hide u Leather company, on
came up and tried to get his father to go
home. Both the men had been drinking
some, and Mccarthy trying to persuade
Carroll not to go home, but to take
another drink. Patrick Carroll, q young
man about twenty-five years of age,
stepped up to Mccarthy and gave him
push. He fell off the sidewalk onto the
pavement but was not at the time sup
posed to be injured seriously. He COM
planned of young Carroll for assault and
had him fined. Yesterday the startling
news spread upon the streets that Nc
Carthy had died from the injury thus
received.
CORRESPONDENCE of Green Bay Ga
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