The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-31
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

LAST Saturday an OsceOla dog del1b-
erately jumped into the mill pond and
was drowned. Premeditated suicide
4 Dr. TANNER, the "faster, used to
\ live IN Hudson. He is now divorced
/ from the wife who lived with him then.
The residence of ID. H. Walker, in
i Fort Atkinson, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday morning. Loss $1,000; par
| TALLY insured.
THERE have been more lightning
I strokes in the last month than it any one
whole year before, according to the
country papers.
! RACINE is mystified over the disappear
ance of a night Waterman named i.
! Heber He was a temperate man, and
foul play is feared.
Rock county draws S., 1913 20 from the
/ state school fund, on a basis of 40 cents
! per scholar OF this sum the city Of
/ GAINESVILLE takes 81 1920.
THE barn of Gottfried Klog, in Reeds
/ burg, was destroyed by lightning stroke,
4 Saturday evening, together with horse.
4 Loss, 500; no insurance.
THE wife of Charles Kuhnel, of Osce-
/ ola, had fall down cellar last Monday.
The result was two broken ribs, which
/ Will disable her for long time.
/ THOMAS RICHARDS, of Ixonia, an old
man, WAS mangled Wednesday by being
! thrown IN front OF his reaper and run
over, the team becoming manageable.
Rev. JENK H. JONES, of GAINESVILLE,
| together with his wife and two children,
was thrown from carriage Monday
evening and Mrs. Jones had her nose
! broken and was otherwise badly injured
! The others were more or less bruised.
DIR. KEMPsTER, Of the Oshkosh insane
asylum, will bring suit against the Mil
waukce Sentinel and Frcic Prose- and
against A. @. Wright, member Of the
state board Of charities, for statements
to the effect that a woman patient was
put into a delicate condition while at the
asylum.
THE long fast of DIR. Tanner has
/ brought out the statement that W. W.
Bryon, of Milwaukee, well known
/ throughout the state as Deacon Byron,
tasted 10 days III 1854, as a medical
treatment, and appeared strong and
hearty through it all, and was much inn
proved IN health thereby.
DELAvAN Rcpubtican: An old gen
tleman in the town of Sharon, who is
deaf, went in front of his mower for
something, when his team started up
and the sickle guards caught the old man
by the heels and dragged him nearly
forty rods His heels were badly cut up
by the knives and the skin all scraped
from his back.
MADISON J0'rna1: There was smash
up ut La Vale, on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, this morning,
which caused the regular passenger train
from the north to be about an hour and
a half late We were unable to obtain
any particulars of the disaster as but
few passengers got off here, and the rail
road officials do not furnish that kind of
information to the public.
FOND Do LAC Commonwealth:
There has been no transfer of the Patty
house up to this writing. The cash
prizes have nearly all been settled and
soon there viii be nothing to do but to
transfer the title to the big hotel. 1t is
evident that the Auburn men Go not feel
particularly anxious about taking the
premises, as they will be compelled todo
if they take them at all-wlth the
mortgages upon the same.
EAU CLAIRE Press: One of the sad
dcst accidents which we have been com
PEELED to note for some time happened
this morning ut the Eau Claire Manu-
featuring company's mill at about SIX
o'clock A man by the name Of Amund
A. Dahl, a Norwegian by birth, and who
only went to work yesterday afternoon,
when oiling the machinery a saw caught
his right arm about two inches above the
hand, and sawed into the flesh and bone
to a depth OF about three inches.
LA CROSSE UronicIc. Yesterday
afternoon Lemuel Drake, Jr., son of j..
Drake the builder, while going up a lad
der III Giles new building CARRYING a
pail Of water, slipped and fell backward
His legs slipped between the rounds of
the ladder, and a little boy following him
up caught his head, thus saving him a
bad bruise. One ankle was badly
spralned, but the injury was slight com
pared with the peril he was in for an in
slant.
WEBSTER & LAwsoN's saw mill at
Menasha was totally consumed by fire
Sunday, about noon The origin of the
fire is entirely unknown. The flames
secured such Roadway before they were
discovered that it was impossible to
check them, and al efforts were directed
toward preventing a spread of the fire to
the pail factory. The fire was confined
entirely to the mill, which was wholly
consumed. No lumber of consequence
was damaged
ACCIDENTS reported by the Wasauu
RcpuJkcon: Thursday last, in Shawa-
no county, f. Bettwhr cut off his big toe
with an axe. At the same time and place
Ed. McLain cut off two toes with thc
same kind of a tool. In the town of
Berlin this county, Julia Hardcl had
her thigh broken III two places. H. A.
Washburn, in Stewart, S mill, lost a por-
ton of the ring finger of his right hand
by close contact with a saw while in
motion.
VERNON COUNTY Cc1lsOr: On Friday
last a son of Avingo Lombard, residing
near Retreat, was instantly killed by the
accidental discharge OF gun. 1t APP
pears that a brother of the deceased had
been shooting birds i'll the garden and
laid the gun loaded on the cistern, when
the deceased, aged only three years, said
he would take the gun to the house He
caught the gun by the muzzle. and IN
pulling it toward him it was discharged,
the contents entering his body with the
above result.
APPLETON Post: 4 large force of mon
has been busily engaged the past week
e shutting the water out of West canal
hy the construction of a Golfer dam at its