The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-08-14
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES


4 SUNDAY morning Owen Champion. of
! Madison, was drowned while bathing In
1 Lake Monona
/ FRANK MAREK's house in La Crosse
was destroyed by fire, Monday. Loss
/ 81 200; insurance 5000.
A CHILD of John Anderson, of Vienna.
/ fell from fence a few days since, strik-
! ing his arm on a rock, dislocating and
/ badly bruising the elbow.
/ On Friday evening Mrs. r. J. Wash
burn, of Palmyra, was thrown from her
carriage, the horse being frightened by
/ the cars, sustaining broken collar bone
and severe flesh injuries.
/ OLE ANDERSON. of Norway, Waukesha
/ county, was killed by the accidental dis
charge of his gun Sunday evening. He
/ dragged it from a boat, III the usual way,
with the muzzle towards him.
/ In the WOODEN factory III GAINESVILLE 20
knitting machines are to be put iii opera
! ton, thus giving employment to 30
women, In addition to those already en-
! ployed.
Miss BRIDGET MIscoLL. of Grand
/ Rapids, shot burglar the other night.
as he was attempting to force his way in
to her house. He escaped, but blood
showed that her aim was good.
A LITTLE boy named Snyder, of Forest,
near Fond du Lac, had his leg cut off by
a reaper, a few days ago. The family
/ has been afflicted in most remarkable
manner during the last two months.
EDWARD A. KEELER, mail agent on
the C. NJ. & ST. r. road Southern
! Minnesota divisiOn) was arrested Wednes-
! day charged with stealing registered let
! ters from the mail car at La Crosse Sun
day.
Rev A. o. WRIGHT, secretary of the
board of charities and reform, has been
arrested ut the instance of Dr. Kempster,
! female patients at the Oshkosh asylum
were debauched.
EDWARD DECKER, of Kewaunee, whose
wife mysteriously died III March, cans
ing considerable commet, although
chemical analysis failed to show any
trace of poison was married Wednes
day morning TO Mrs Elizabeth Walker,
of Manitowoc.
/ DURING the thunder storm Monday
afternoon, Mr.. i. NJ. Morley. of Prince
ton, had good horse killed by lightning
in his barn. Nothing else i'll the barn
was hurt, and the only marks found on
! the horse were aslight burn on his name,
! and the hair on the inside of both ears
! singed.
THE Depere Ne1oS claims that August
/ Laget, of that city, finding that his wife,
+ during his absence had bestowed her al
/ fectiOns on a bridge-tender of the place
/ sold her to the aforesaid bridge-tender
/ for So, giving a "quit-claim deed to
/ the effect that he would get a divorce
which he did.
! A LITTLE girl living with Mr.. Meme
/ hen, of the town of Erin, had her feet
nearly sawed off Saturday by the sickle
of a reaper She came up to the driver
on the wrong side, to hand him some
water As he laid down the lines to
drink the team started, and before they
could be stopped the terrible work was
done.
GREEN BAY Gu.etfc. A little son of
Capt. Hawleys, while playing near his
home III Fort Howard, WAS hooked by a
vicious heifer and thrown considerable
distance. The animal was in the act of
making a second attack when the child
was rescued 10y Mrs. Doty. The little
one was fortunately not seriously hurt
but it was a narrow escape.
LODI Nc1rs: Last spring Martin
Osborn was kicked by a horse and his
hip dislOcated short time afterward il
was again dislocated by some means I'M
known to us, and on Wednesday last
while pitching grain in the country neal
here, he stepped on a sheaf of grain
which proved an insufficient support
and his hip was again thrown out Of
Joint.
Mrs Eliza l.. Coon, of Palmyra, sister
of O. p. Dow, Of the Enterprise. dice
after long and painful illness, at hel
residence on Maine street, at sunrise
Saturday morning, III her tifty-siXtf
year. The funeral services We're helC
Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Coon was fol
many years Il highly esteemed residen
Of Palmyra. She left many friends t.
mourn her departure.
EVANSVILLE gazette: Further par
ticulars concerning the babe found IL
Beloit are given by the Free Press. L
seems that a young man named Coylo
living with his parents III the outskirts O
the city, discovered -four sack back O
the barn, and strangely enough it was
moving as though alive. On opening
the sack he found good sized boy baby
There is no clue to the parentage vet.
RACINE NcrS:: "This morning
little two-year-old son of Augustus Kin.
dorf fell into large stone jar, cramping
his arm in such a manner as to fracture
the condylc of the humorous. The little
fellow is in great pain, though every
thing for his comfort Is being done. The
writer of the above fractured the serious
ness of the affair by making "humor.
ous item out of humerus accident.
RACINE Ne1rS: Last evening after
Charlie Ehrhardt had closed his saloon
and retired, some one knocked at the
door, and Charlie Jumping out of bee
started to so down stairs, half awake
and fell the whole length of the stairs
The fall was a hard one and came neal
resulting fatally. His head was cut opel
in several places and he bled profusely
For some time he was perfectly wild ano
could hardly be managed.
EVANSVILLE Gazette: Old John Con
nors. the same who took a trip among
the tree-tops during the cyclone al
Johnstown, met with further bad luck
this morning. While engaged in Clean
t ing out the cellar of Putnam & Ellison
r grocery store, he slipped on the stairs
: and fell, breaking his leg. The old man
could not be convinced that it was
, broken. but the doctor knew better ant
COnnOrs viii after a little.