The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-10-04
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

RIPoN's debt is only $4,000, and this
will be wiped out in January.
A KICKING horse broke the left arm
OF Michael Connaughty, of Lamartine,
Sunday.
THE yacht Carrie Morgan, of Oshkosh,
won the Lancaster prize for the third
time Monday.
THE annual reunion of the Thirty
second Wisconsin, will be held in Osh-
kosh, October 18th.
DR.. r. M. WIGGINToN's residence in
Watertown was destroyed by fire Sun
day. Insured for $4,000.
IN Whitewater, young named
Christol had his ear torn off by an acct
dental blow from piece of wood in the
bedstead factory. He will not die.
The immigrant arrivals in Milwaukee
last week numbered 257; of which num-
Der 139 were bound for new homes in
Wisconsin.
THE present number of licensed
saloons in Milwaukee is 855, against
S31 for the corresponding date of
last year. Thus, as in the increased
amount of police work, for instance, is
furnished another evidence of Mil
waukee's "growth."
Mr.. FRED GRUENWALD, town clerk
of Shelby, who was injured some two
weeks ago by being caught in the horse
power of threshing machine wni,e oil
ing it, fingered along, suffering intensely,
until Thursday when death came to his
relief.-La Crosse Republican.
THos. M. GwyNNE, whose death has
been announced, had been resident of
Milwaukee since 1861, and held large
property interests here. He leaves a
wife and four children, two unmarried
and two married daughters-the latter
being Mrs. Theron Highly and Mrs. John
A. Whaling.
EAU CLAIRE Press: The passenger
train going westward yesterday morning
received a volley of stones while passing
the West Side depot, supposed to have
been thrown by some tramps. Several
windows of the coaches We're broken, but
fortunately the passengers escaped unin-
jured.
FOND DUIIAC Commonwealth: When,
on Saturday last, hickory limb broke
forty feet from the ground and sent
Master Dick Watrous, head first, earth
ward, there was every prospect of serious
results until the young gentleman, after
falling six or eight feet, seized limb
and put stop to the exhibition. 1t was
narrow escape.
A BARN at Oakland, Jefferson county,
was recently burned by the spontaneous
combustion of clover put in the barn in
an uncured condition, and covered over
with marsh hay, that prevented the gas
formed by fermentation of the clover
from escaping until an explosion took
place that was heard mile and quarter
away, and which let the air so suddenly
upon the clover that it ignited.
FROM the statement recently prepared
by County Clerk Hartmann, it is shown
that there is property exempt from tax
alton in the county of Milwaukee to the
amount of $5,401,7 25. Of this amount
81, 726,660 is within the limits of the
city, ST., $3.50 in the town of Franklin,
S12,135 in Granville, $12,65O in Green
field, $1O,550 in the town of Lake, $27,-
$50 in the town of Milwaukee, SIC, 900 in
Oak Creek and $494, 740 in Wauwatosa.
A MAN named Peter Smith, while
walking from the Junction to the ST.
Paul depot Thursday morning before
daylight, fell from the west abutment of
the Milwaukee and st. Paul railway
bridge to the river bed, a distance of
about 20 feet. When Smith was discov-
cred few hours afterwards, lying where
he fell, it was found that he had received
a comminuted fracture of the right leg
below the knee, and was in helpless
condition from the fall Wotertown
Republican.