The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-06-28
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES
THE state prison has 1913 convicts.

DELLIE MOORE, VI hOuA'
fence and broke his arm, Tuesday. /
HEAVY frost visited the northern part
of the state, Monday night, ana cu'
everything to the ground.
HENRY CoRDIER, ex-state prison COM
missioner, died in an insane asylum near
Philadelphia few days ago.
WORMS are troubling the young cur
rants, and but half crop OF the fruit Is
expected.
IT is stated that Blackburn, the Rosen'
dale merchant and hotel keeper, mas
failed about $4,000 worth.
THE Fond du Lac Harrow company
will manufacture over 1000 OF Its I'M
Elements this season, and has now good
force working.
ia. OGDEN, formerly of the Waupaca
Post, found $4,000 in his cellar, few
days ago, while digging. The amount
was in roll of greenbacks. :.
REV. SOLOMON A. DwINNELL, OF
Reedsburg, died Sunday night. he
built the first church Congregational
in his place.
A LITTLE son of G. SHELF of the town
of Dale, fell headlong into well Y feet
deep, fracturing his skull. The proba-
bility is he will die.
Nm. NEWELL, the engineer recently
scalded in railroad accident near Bos-
cobel, is at his home in Prairie du CHEN.
He is reported to be in good spirits, and
recovering.
A FARMER about 20 years old, named
Leech, about twenty miles below Eau
Claire, attempted suicide, Saturday, cut
ting his throat three times with razor.
Supposed cause, financial difficulties.
HARRY ALLING, son of Mrs. Emma
J. Alling, of Fort Atkinson, fell from a
tree distance of twenty feet, Saturday
afternoon, crushing his skull and other
wise injuring him, so that he died in
about fifteen minutes.
T. d. GOODRICH, the Clark county
bigamist, who ran away from the Eau
Claire sheriff last fall, has been recap
uured and taken to Neillsville. He
pleaded guilty and asked to be sentenced.
J. JEGER, an employe in Allin's tan
merry, was run over and killed at Kenosha
by freight train, on Monday afternoon.
He was intoxicated, and while trying to
get on fell under the train. Both limbs
were badly mutilated.
THE regents of the State University,
at their meeting Tuesday, elected Prof.
VIM. 81. Rosenstengel, of St. Louis, pro-
lessor of German, and Prof. Owens, of
Madison, professor Of French, and voted
Mrs. Prof. J. l.. w. Nicodemus $500,
being due her deceased husband for q
quarters salary.
WHILE Robert Burns, a well-to-do
farmer residing a short distance from
Waupaca, was blowing, the pillow struck
a stump and the handle hit him with
great force just above the heart. He
now lies in critical condition, and the
attending physician entertains doubts of
his recovery.
A LABoRER named Tostensen, at the
Mcdonald threshing machine works,
Fond du Lac, recently lost one of his
thumbs, the member having come into
contact with a saw while in motion.
The thumb was sliced off and thrown
upon the table of the machine before
the man knew that he bad been injured
PARTIES from the Byron camp grounds
report that there is no end to the petty
sneak thievings going on in that religious
gathering. Provisions, bits of harness,
clothing, kitchen utensils and other
articles disappear mysteriously, nc one
knows whittier. On Sunday the thieves
made good use of their knives, and many
are the lost martingales reported. Fond
su Lac Commonwealth.
REPORTS in regard to the culture of
cranberries in Burnett county are not
very encouraging. 1t is stated that many
of the marshes which were formerly pro-
ductive will have to be abandoned this
year, the attempt to cultivate them hay
lug resulted in destroying the vines and
converting the marshes into good hay
meadows.
| FOND DU LAC Commonwealth: A
dastardly outrage is reported from the
Seventh ward, where scoundrel of no
conscience or humanity brutally manned
an excellent cow owned by J. M. Wells,
by cutting several gashes into the ami
mails udder. The villainy was perpe-
| trated on Sunday, and there is nothing
which tends to lead to the apprehension
of the coward who was guilty of the
deed.
FRIDAY morning as funeral process
sion was leaving the Catholic Church at
Little Chute, the sexton was tolling at
the bell, when the bell fastening gave
way. The bell, which probably weighs
twelve hundred pounds, fell from its
position several feet, but was fortunately
caught in its descent between two heavy
beams in the beifry. Had it fallen to
the floor there is little doubt but one or
more of the mourners would have been
killed.
AT about noon to-day child of Tim
O'Brlen, Front street between Main and
Pearl, aged twenty months, fell into
tub of water. The accident was not
noticed by any one and short time
after Mrs. O'Brien discovered the child
in the tub and lifted the apparently
llteless body out. She was greatly.
alarmed but had the presence of mind
to apply the usual remedies in cases of
drowning and succeeded in resuscitating
the child. 1t is not known how long it
was IN the water, but when taken out it
appeared that life was extinct. The
child is now all right.-La Crosse Re
publican.
FOND DU LAC Commonwealth: A GEN
tleman informs US that a portion of Calu-
met Is at present all agog over the dis
covery OF petrifed body in the grave
yard at st. Johns. twenty-five years
ago Mrs. dig died, and was buried in
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