The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES


woe, was drowned Tuesday evening IN
the river at that place.
THE storm in the northern part of the
state Friday night was extremely severe,
unroofing barns, houses, etc.
GREEN BAY gazette: We learn that a
young man was struck and killed by
lightning at Peshtigo during the storm.
By the great storm in Oshkosh Friday
night the Inter Ocean circus tent was
blown down and torn to shreds. A panic
ensued. Nobody hurt.
LA CROSSE has started n flew daily
journal, called The Daily Neaos. 1t is
Republican, and was issued Tuesday,
the 18th, for the first time
4 YOUNG German working in saw
mill in Wausau fell INTO the fire and his
feet became 50 wedged in that he could
not he extricated and was burned to
death.
THE StoughtOn COuHfrYnOn says;
"Charles Sweet has just harvested ten
acre field of winter wheat, portion of
which, he thinks, viii yield nearly fifty
bushels to the acre"
Monday two little boys named Dyer
and Cahill, in Whitewater, were set to
fighting under the urging of man
brute and the little Dyer boy soon after
ward died. The cOroner's jury returned
a verdict that death was caused by heart
disease brought on by over exertion.
MADISON Journal: We learn that the
body Of young man named Peter o.
Hove, about 80 years of age, was found
hanging to a tree in the woods near
Stoughton last Saturday evening. An
inquest was held, and a verdict of sui
eide returned. The deceased disap-
peared on Tuesday morning of last week,
and there is no doubt from the decom-
posed condition Of his remains but that
the body had hung on the tree where it
was found during all the time he was
missing.
LA CROSSE RCpUbLicun: Mr.. Ed
ward Casey, foreman of the numbering
interests of the firm of Shrieker & Miller,
of Davenport, while engaged this morn
ing near Colmau's mill in picking up logs
belonging to the company as they fOated
past the city, accidentally shot himself
with a revolver while loading it as he
was sitting In a skiff The bullet passed
i'll through the calf of the left leg and is
supposed to be lodged in the ankle on
the opposite side. where a black spot
exists, but as yet the wound has not been
prObed.
RACINE Duty Nc1oS: Just before
noon to-day Christian Essen, fourteen
year old son of DIR. Eisen, of State
street, was drownedm the river Just back
of Burdicks carpenter shop and west Of
the Northwestern depot The boy, with
two smaller ones was in bathing, and not
being a swimmer and getting beyond his
death he was drowned. The other little
boys were SO frightened that they could
render him no assistance The body was
in the water about half an hour, when it
was found and conveyed to the grief
stricken home.
LA CROSSE Chronicle: A terrible
accident occurred on the Green Bay and
Minnesota road, between Arcadia and
independence, last evening. Meager
Geographic reports inform MS that the
train was ditClIcd 10y a defective culvert,
and the engineer, George Huber, of
I Green Bay, instantly killed The fire
man, Moses Belrose, and the mail agent.
name not given, were seriously ii not
fatally hurt, Mr.. Huber was making bis
first trip since his return to his home in
Green Bay from the east, where he had
been to bury child.
EVANSVILLE Gazette: Henry Cook
died suddenly at his home on Jackson
street about two O'Clock this morning.
Last evening he came home in usual
health, and owing to the heat he lay
down on the floor instead of retiring to
bed, and went to sleep without any APP
pearance of any particular ailment.
About two o'clock his wife heard him
Lreathlng short, and going to him tried
to rouse him, but found that he was
strangiIng and In Il sort of stupor. She
hllrrledly called in neighbOr. Morris
Buckley, but 1t was too late for help.
He was dead For some time past he
has occasionally had difficulty in breath
ing, but not sufficiently to cause any
alarm, and his death came really without
any warning.
GREEN BAY GiOJe: C. l.. Williams,
who was instrumental in starting a
school for the deaf and dumb in this city,
and who left here shortly after his trial
charged with the commission of rape
upon the person of mute woman, has
NCiiN " S1INi, Iit'N Il1S IltS-
sion once too often. 1t will be 1emem-
bered that he left the state institute at
Delavan with similar stain upon his
character, though on investigation there
1t was shown that his accusers were no
better than himself. Since leaving
Green Bay he has had position in the
deaf and dumb institute at Austin,
/ Texas. Attempting to exercise his pecU-
liar mania towards the female inmates of
that institution, a brother of one OF them
took the law into his own hands and adj
ministered justice by means of a revolver
| Williams is now at Hot Springs, Ark, it
is said dying.
RACINE NerS: While at work on the
new Miller & Co. building, about half
past two o'clock this afternoon, Mr.
Richard j. Owens, superintendent Of
the carpenter work, III some manner lost
his footing and fell to the ground below,
a distance of at least thirty-tive feet In
the fall he started face downward but
/ before reaching the ground turned com
pletely over and struck upon his back.
1t is indeed strange that he was not IN
stantly killed upon striking the hard
ground in the manner he did, but men
who FASTENED to his side found that he
still breathed, and in a short time gave
utterance to the most piteous means. He
was placed In a spring wagon and taken
to his residence on Campbell street he