The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-06-25
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

default of SIS, 900 bail.
A LITTLE three-year-old boy name,
kaufman was drowned at Green Bay
recently, by falling into cistern.
SERoss Bros. brewery, Fond du Lac
was burned on the 18th. Loss, 81, 900
insurance, 1,5O0.
ABOUT 100000 feet of logs hav,
passed through the booms at Peshtigt
thus far this season.
The saw-mill of Christensen. Erickson
& Co., at Woodville, was burned, re-
Gently. Loss, $1,000; no insurance.
A MAN digging well at Osseo struck
a mineral SO hard that he could not ge
through it. The mineral proved to be
lead ore.
A MAN named Mes, living near Falck'
Corners, IN the vicinity of Wrightstown
was killed recently, by kick from {
horse.
ANDREW J. FUTILE, of Wrightstown.
was recently killed while making 1p 4
raft by large log rolling over him. He
leaves wife and four children.
A RUMoR says that the Nanny reaper
and mower works, of Rockford, ILL.,. are
to be removed from that place to Fond
| du Lac.
The missing DR. Patten, of Ripon. is
reported to have been seen in Chicago by
Mrs. Pratt, a former resident of Ripon.
who knew him.
| FRANK noon, of GAINESVILLE, convicted
of criminal assault on young girl near
that place, has been sentenced to ten
years at Waupun.
A MAN named Elenfelah, living about
four miles from Fort Atkinson. was
struck by lightning and instantly killed
last night, while standing under tree.
A MAN named Ole Oleson was drowned
at Eau Claire, a day OF two ago, by fall
ing from barge into the river. He
leaves a wife and seven children.
ANDREW HoPT, twelve-year-old boy
of Berlin, managed to shoot off finger
while climbing over fence with a load
ed revolver in his hand, day or two ago
AN employee, Mike O'Connen, of
Wright's Touring mill, Berlin, was suffo-
Gated on the 18th, by stepping through
trap door in ar upper floor and falling
into the bran below.
BY the bursting Of steam pipe i'll p.
S. Davidson's saw-mill, La Crosse, on
the 18th, Geo. Student was probably ia
tally injured, and Lon. Congdon
slightly.
ADAM JACOBS, JR., dissolute Young
man OF La Crosse, committed suicide on
the 18th by taking morphine. The de
ceased was "a years old, and monetary
and other troubles was the cause of the
act
GEORGE TAYLOR, of Jenny, under AZ
rest for stealing watch, while being
taken TO the county jail, jumped from a
tram moving ut full speed, but the Off
Ger In charge followed and recaptured
him.
The salary of the postmaster at Five
Corners, Outagamie county is but SO
per year, and the old postmaster has de-
clined reappointment, and the Office is
now without postmaster, no one being
willing to serve.
SOME counterfeit molds for making 25
and so cent pieces were found hidden in
the walls of a Monroe residence. The
house was formerly occupied by persons
who were suspected of dealing in coun-
terfeit money number of years ago.
In the case of W. C. Warren and E. l..
Langford, charged with fraud on the
pension bureau, and on trial in the
United States Court at Madison, no
terminating evidence being found against
him, Warren was discharged.
KEYEs A. DARLING, a former banker
of Fond du Lac, and who has been q
fugitive from justice for years, on &C
count of clearing out" with the funds
of depoeltors, has been seen recently in
Calumet county, where he has been
prospecting for minerals.
The Norwegian Methodist conference.
in session at La Crosse, have under con-
slderation the matter of the transfer of
the Norwegian Book concern from Chi
cago to the proposed Norwegian college.
which IS to be located somewhere in the
northwest.
TRE officials at the Eau Claire jail
found on the person of Louis Carter. re-
Gently arrested for attempting to kill
Charles johnson, a bottle of arsenic,
with which Carter intended to kill him
self IN case he was bound over for APP
pearance at the Circuit Court.
AN over-zealous temperance lady on
board boat near Ashland, recently,
took jug of liquor and threw it over
board. The liquor was freight, and the
lady was arrested, together with another
lady, her travelling companion, but was
released on the settlement by friends for
the property. .#E -
f. c. Brown, living in the vicinity of
Columbus, Columbia county, has dis
covered copper and silver in considerable
quantities in that neighborhood, in the
gravel some nine feet below the surface
the copper and silver assaying IS Der
ton. Gold was also found in minute
quantities in the same strata.
AT Woodland, near Wonewoc, on the
10th, boy of u, Damed Orlando Stan
ley, while repairing wagon, with the
horses hitched thereto, was killed by the
horses taking fright and running away.
he being SO entangled among the gearing
that he was unable to extricate himself
He was horribly crushed and mangled
through coming in contact with stump.
A CROWD of boys while "playing cir
Gus in La Crosse, on the 18th, thought
to vary the programme by shooting
apples off each others heads, Ia
Baughman and Butler An apple was
placed on the head of boy named
Kohlmann, and companion, John Web
Der, attempted to shoot it off with
pistol. Instead of hitting the apple, he
shot the other boy in the shoulder, in
hicting a fatal wound. Kohlmann was
ID years of age.
A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Swiss French
man, undoubtedly crazy, created consid-
cradle sensation in Green Bay, recently,
by carrying a carpet-sack with some