The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-02-14
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

coming a large city. 1t has an energetic
lot of citizens who are making the place
"hum.
THERE are 292 newspapers IL Wiscon-
sin, or enc for about every 1000 of the
entire population. OF this number Is
are dailies.
NEARLY $50 III cash, besides one box
OF clothing sent, and one nearly ready.
have been sent to the exodus freedmen
from Lodi during the last two months
WHILE August Flblng was returning
from Prairie du Chen to his home in
McGregor, skating across the river,
Monday, he broke through the ice and
was drowned
THE following supervisors Of census for
this state have been confirmed by the L.
5. senate: Alonzo 4. Roper, first dis
trict; David +. Welch, second; Leonard
Lottridge. third; Thomas =. Allen,
fourth
CAPTAIN WALLACE W. BALL, OF the
United States secret service, arrested III
Wausau Tuesday. Nathaniel aud Samuel
Jones for manufacturing counterfeit
coin. \ large quantity Of coin, molds
and material We're also captured.
THE Ripon Commonwealth says"
Since Monday last the city of Ripon is
free from debt On that day the last Of
the railroad bonds were paid and
amounted to S5,213. The taxes for next
year will probably be considerably
lighter
Or the 2,729 convicts who have been
sentenced to the Wisconsin state prison
since its organization. l,601 have been
American born, and l .l2S foreign born.
Among the foreigners, the German Gle
ment preponderates; 4OS being o. that
nationality.
MINERAL POINT DCmOcr0t: We learn
that on last Monday evening, Mr.. VIM
Perry, young man about % years old,
fireman on the Mineral Point railroad
had his leg broken Just below the knee.
He had been in the round house, and
when going out he stumbled and fell
upon pile of wood which WAS lying near
the doorway.
a RACINE woman, who has been living
with a man named kishman for five
years, was arrested Wednesday, cho"ged
with adultery. 4 man named Leding-
ton claimed that she was married to him
six years ago and ran away from him.
The woman says Lexington abused her,
and she tried to escape his brutality by
running away.
LA CROSSE Chronicle: Last evening
at half-past five o'clock, while the skat-
ing rink at West avenue and Main street
was crowded and the boys were playing
''pull-awav," one of them named Jacob
Erickson, aged about twelve years,
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and Cameron avenue, fell down and dis
located his right arm.
WAUPACA Post: After Leavett, the
murderer, had given up all hopes Of his
attorney comting to defend him in his
forgery case, he was visited by Il resident
Of Clintonyille. when Leayett made Il full
confession OF the forgery in detail. In
connection with this case Leavett
says, John Quimby, attorney at law, +"
is just as deep IN the matter as himself,
and he viii bring INN out III It.
SPEAKING of the rush for ICE in that
section the Green Bay GH-cHc says: "A
gang of men numbering about one hun
bred arrived here hy rail from Chicago
yesterday morning with all the apparatus
for cutting and s-uuug ice. They had
six wagons AMI twenty-four horses with
them. After stopping in lie city short
time, four horses were hitchad To- each
wagon, and the army OF ice men
started for Sturgeon Bay, where the firm
is located for whom they are to work III
the cutting aud storing of ice.
Appleton Post: Last Friday after
noon Charles Merrill, an employee of the
Appleton Char and Bedstcad factory,
was the victim of strange accident that
may cost him his life 1t appears he was
attending to some work IN the third
story Of the building near the elevator
way. the elevator having assembled to the
fourth floor. when it is supposed he
attempted to pull the rope tor the pur-
pose of lowering it and by some means
lost his balance and fell through the
opening, distance OF 80 feet. He was
terribly injured.
MADISON JDul1,at: Last evening, &
young man named Girard Smelser, work
ing for Gill & Daggett, loading ice, met
with q severe accident. ewas employed
on the runway. and had to 60 up with
each load to steady II with q kant-hools
At the time OF the accident, he noticed
the ice slip loose in the slide, and at
tempted to Jump out Of the way, but hls
foot caught between the bars, THROWING
him down He managed TO push away
two of the cakes with his arm, but the
pain in bis leg rendered him unconscious.
and the remainder of the ice passed over
him, breaking MS leg. before assistance
could be rendered.
An Eau Claire paper says that
among the aged Indians, formerly in
habiting that locality, is the Old chief
Wolf, one of the oldest OF the Chippewa
bard, now living ON the Eau Claire
river, in Douglass county. He is llS
years old, and j. almost totally deaf,
nearly blind, aud nearly helpless. He
lives with one of his children, and was
recently visited by his children, grand
children, great-grand-children, and great
great grandchildren The representa-
tives Of five generations were IN the wig
wan at one time He had seen his
father and grandfather, which makes
seven generations with whom he has been
acquainted.
NIGHT before last John Mcfarland
filled and lit q kerosene lamp, whl'n ne
placed ON Il table in his house and came
up town. About two hours afterwards,
while mis- child aud another little gri
were playing about the room, the lamp
suddenly split III two. and the burning
fluid was scattered over the table ana Oh
the children. Mrs Mcfarland ProuP'--