The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-04-17
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

S. S. BRASsAS, postmaster of Portage,
died Monday, of consumption.
4 BOT named Carow, was drowned in
Rock river, near Juneau, Sunday, while
hunting
REPUBLICANS were largely successful
at local elections throughout the state
Tuesday.
Mrs BETsEY LARSON, of Scandinavia,
near Waupaca, committed suicide by
hanging, 4 few days ago.
THE NJ L. S. 4 ". passenger depot
at Appleton burned Tuesday morning
Loss 81, 900 Incendiary
WILLIAM PORTER, who was lately
hanged at Alma, Cal, for murder, was a
former resident Of Janesville.
An old man named johnson, aged 70
years, attempted suicide, at Manitowoc,
Monday, by cutting his throat. Failure.
( G. Z. CROCKETT, convicted of killing a
man In MaTnette, was sentenced to five
years at Waupun, Saturday, in Oshkosh.
THIEVES stole $500, a gold watch and
other valuables from DIR. II. Palmer, Of
Sparta, Monday night.
COPELAND TOWNSEND, the well-known
proprietor of the Townsend house, Oco-
nomowoc, died Sunday of hemorrhage
of the lungs.
A. Z. FoOTE, OF POmeroy's Democrat,
who was arrested Oh Il charge Of setting
! fire to the building, was arrested Satur-
day, on another charge, that of forgery,
to the amount of S15,67
CAPT. PUTNAM has secured the sigma
lures of about $50 taxpayers to the pc
tition for the Beloit railroad. Another
100 will fix the matter, and these viii be
gained without any shadow OF doubt
+ JdncSUiUc Gazette.
F ia CROSSE Chronicle: Waldemar
Kuehn, the butcher, caught one OF his
hands on a meat hook III his shop some
time ago, cutting and poisoning his finger
so badly that he thinks it will have to
be amputated.
I WHILE Farmer War1en, OF the town of
! Mt. Pleasant, was chopping down trees
on Tuesday last enc of them fell and
struck him, making an ugly cash on his
head and breaking two of his ribs. 1t is
a miracle that he escaped being crushed
+ to death.
+ WAUPUN Le0dcr: A twelve-year-old
son Of Thomas Wakefield, of Mackford,
was shot in the knee by the accidental
discharge of a revolver which he was
handling, on Friday last. The little
fellow was brought to town on Sunday
and placed under the care of Dr. Butter
field. 4 young man named Bernink, Of
the town of WaupUn, handled a revolver
last Sunday in way that resulted in n
transfer of 4 bullet to one of his legs be-
low the knee. DR.. Butterfield attended
4 him and reports that nothing serious Will
result.
THE Stoughton Courier contains the
following: On Monday Mrs. Raymoure,
IN elderly lady, residing with her
daughter. Mrs Leonard, met with an
accident. Her daughter had gone down
cellar the entrance to which was through
an old-fashioned trap-doOr. Mrs. Ray
INQUIRE stepped into the room In which
the trap-dOor is located, and, not noticing
that it was opened, walked into the open
ing and fell head-tirst to the bottom of
the cellar. Help was summoned, and
the old lady who is 50 years of age and
weighs nearly 900 poornds) was raised to
the room above and cared for. Her col
lar-bone was broken, and she was badly
bruised by the fall.
NEW LONDON was visited, sunday, DIV
the severest contlagration that has ever
swept through the place. The fire broke
ont about ten o'clock in the morning IN
the rear of saloon on the main street,
kept by VIM. Zimmerman. The fire in
creased rapidly and spread i'll both
directions with sweeping fury, totally
destroying eleven buildings altogether
1t was nearly six o'clock before the fire
subsidized and was got under control
The contents Of the burned buildings
were mostly got out, and the insurance
on stocks viii probably cover the loss in
this direction. There was no insurance
on the buildings except that of thinner
mans. which lad 500 on it. The total
loss viii reach between $4,000 and
$4,000. The buildings destroyed were
cheap ones, as general thing. but the
hole the fire makes 10 the main street puts
rather dilapidated appearance upon the
business part OF the city. The cause OF