The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-06-26
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

years in the penitentlary.
TERRIBLE storms prevailed throughout
the central and northern part OF the
state Sunday, doing much damage.
Crops on the lowlands in the vicinity
of Palmyra are suffering from the ire
ouent heavy rains of the last two weeks.
CHRISTIAN M1LIERT, of Sheboygan
Falls. an old resident, hanged himself a
few days ago, while temporarily insane.
those cheap toy-pistols that explode
cartridges, are going off and chipping
boys fingers with charming regularity
throughout the state.
. HOMER GLASS of Racine, an old resi-
dent so years of age, attempted suicide
Saturday by shooting himself through
the head. He viii probably die.
Mrs. H. E. EDWARDS, aged &C years,
died at Palmyra Sunday evening, OF
tumor of the liver, after suffering two
years. At the time of her death the
tumor weighed twenty-five pounds.
Ok Saturday evening, Sheriff Bald
win, of Dane county, returned to Mad1-
son from Rock county, having III Gus
tody Charles B. Gary and his wife Mary,
who are charged with the murder of a
child In the autumn of 1878.
4 FATAL accident happened to John
Tennis, of the town of Holland last
Tuesday. While in a fit of insanity he
jumped from window in the second story
and broke his neck He was buried
Thursday.
MADISON Journal. We learn that a
woman supposed to be insane, jumped
off the north-bouud express, this side Of
Beloit, last night. Thetra was stopped
but no traces OF her could he found. II
is rlmored to-day that she was afterwards
seer in Beloit, uninjured.
OSHKOSH N0rth3CcSterH: On Sunday
afternoon, Capt. A. Morley Of the steam
tug Dodge No. =, went across to Nor
ley's Point where the tug was run up on
shore and Capt. Morley went to visit his
relatives. Soon after the tug was dis
covered to be on fire and was shOrtl y
after destroyed.
MADISON Journal: The governor has
named Hons. Philetus Sawyer and JOIN
Johnston as commissioners to assist al
the arrangements for grand celebration
Of the centennial anniversary Of the
declaration of peace between England
and the United States after the revolu.
ton. The celebration is to be held il
New York in 1888.
GREEN BAY gazette: Last evening
about o'clock, a little five-year-old
named Antoine Dantinnie, was climbing
/ on a rail fence on his fathers farm, IL
/ the town Of Humboldt, when a fence
rail broke, and he fell, breaking one o.
his legs He was brought to this city
/ to the Bodart house, and Dr. Rhode
J called to attend to the fracture.
! BLACK RIVER FALLS IHdcpcndcHt.
! On Wednesday night last the store OF
Larsen & Johnson, of independence,
/ Trempealeau county, was entered by
burglars and goods to the amount Of
from $500 tc $500 carried off. The casE
till was pried open but it contained nC
money of any consequence. No arrests
for the job have been made up to thu
date.
LA CROSSE Chr0niclc: A man by tn,
name of c. H. Gle who was recently
boarding at the Revere house, placed hi
pocketbOOk, containing checks on til,
bank for 5275 and S25 in money, under
his pillow and failed to find it the mex
morning. About ten days afterwards
chambermaid pulled 1t out of pillow
where it had been placed by the owner
1 Surprising it lad been stolen he haC
notified the bank not to recognize til,
checks.
De PERE Nc1rS: Engineer Duquett
this morning showed Us evidence of tn
work of remarkable hen he has. Thi.
hen brought forth Yesterday an egg, tn
dimensions Of which was x by g. inche
in diameter, enclosed within which wa
an ordinary sized egg. The outer egg
was enclosed in a thick film or skin, hu
the egg enclosed had a hard shell. Thi
hen once before astOnished its possesso
by laying an egg the diamete of which
was 81 by "a inches.
GREEN BAY Gazette: A boy Il wear
Of age, named Matthias Krin, living il
the town OF New Franken, was driving
lot Of cattle into an enclosure when on
Of them suddenly turned around ant
knocked the lad down. As krim lay OF
the ground the animal trod on his face
the hoof tearing the flesh almost entirel,
from one half of the face The wounC
is bad one, the flesh being so torn tina
his back teeth and jaws were exposed
He is under the care of DIR. Rhode.
MADISON J0nJmaI: We learn that OF
Thursday night an aged woman, who i
supposed to have been about eighty-fv
years Old, was killed by the cars nea
Arena. Her body was run over by
three or four trains during the night an,
portions of it were scattered along tn
track for nearly a mile. A letter foun,
in her clothes showed she was a German
woman who had started from a station
on the Portage railroad and was tryin.
to walk to Kansas, to join a son VIII
lived there. Several people In the cit,
claim to have known her and to hav,
seen her here recently, but no one know
what her name was.
GREEN BAY gazette: An accident oc
CURED to DR.. JENNIE on last Friday which
resulted in his death. The doctor ha,
been attending to his duties as censu!
enumerator, and was returning hom
after his days labors in buggy. Whel
about half a mile from his home. be
tween Duquaine and Reubens places
he struck piece of corduroy road, anC
driving pretty fast over ii, was thrown
out of the buggy. The accident wa
witnessed by two or three men who wer
near the place at the time, and they has
tened to the doctors assistance. H
was found in an insensible condition an,
was carried to his home, when it wa
found that his neck had been broken b.
the fall
MADISON JoHmai: A telegraph
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