The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

Tor the insane, to accommodate seventy
five patients.
A MOVEMENT is on foot for O new fast
line of boats to run between Ashland and
Duluth next season.
A LA CROSSE street car was run into
by freight train, the car smashed and
two passengers slightly injured.
The capital stock of the Madison
Plow Works has been increased from
$50, 200 to 100000. -.r
CARL NoRDAHL, recently arrested for
| the burglary of shoe store at Blue
Mounds, has been sentenced to three
years Imprisonment at Waupun.
THE lumbermen of the Chippewa Val
ley are making calculations on cut of
$50, 900, 900 feet, on the Eau Claire and
Chippewa the coming winter.
A COLLISION of two passenger trains on
the st. Paul Road, at Hudson on the
18th, caused delay of several hours to
passengers and some injury to the trains.
DAVIS & MACKINNoN, of Menasha,
have sold water power site to Henry
Hewitt, Jr., and H. G.. Bemis. The
latter will erect mammoth chair fac
tory.
Hon. ALEX. MEGGETT, of Eau Claire,
hat received his commission as register
of the land office at that place, and will
assume the duties of the position on the
first of December.
DANIEL GRADY's barn at Verona, near
Madison, together with aw-stack
and windmill, burned on Sunday. A
youth of the neighborhood started the
fire, but whether accidentally or not is
not known. a
A BRILLIANT wedding took place at
Beloit on the Goth. The contracting
parties were John K. LeBarron, pub
Usher of the Daily News, at Elgin, Ill. +,
and Miss Mollie E. Bundy, daughter of
William Bundy,of Beloit.
BY the jumping from the track of a
freight train on the North Western
Railway at Green Bay on the 9th, a
brakeman named William Edwards was
badly injured by falling from car, and
a number of box cars were considerably
| damaged.
A GREEN BAY dispatch of the 28th
says: While hunting in the woods at
Suamlco this afternoon, John Robichaw,
of the mill firm of Robichaw & Teller,
stumbled, and lodged the contents of
one barrel of his gun in his elbow. A
surgeon was summoned, and it is feared
| he will lose his arm.
RACINE Journal: Extensive arrange
ments are being made for the Welsh
Eisteddfod, which occurs In this city on
Christmas day and evening Visitors
will be present from Oshkosh, Wauke-
CHI ~ hon.
is no doubt it will be the grandest mu-
steal event which has occurred here in
years.
PORTAGE COUNTY GAZETTE: Mrs. A.
FL. Bancraft, of Amherst, was found
dead in her house last Tuesday, evil
IDENTIFY from heart disease. She was
found by her son living on the floor, but
as she was living entirely alone and had
not been seen for several days, it is not
known when she died, probably the Sat
urday before, as she was last seen on
that day.
FRANCIS NJ. WEST, q formerly we'll
known young business man of Prescott,
a graduate of the normal school at River
Falls, has been arrested at London,
Ont, for larceny and arson. His family
is quite prominent in Pierce County.
The young man is % years of age, and
nothing had been known of his where
abouts for some time until the news of
his arrest came.
GREEN BAY Gazette: While Joseph
Wilde was at work in hauling the w. L.
Brown from the river at Harris ship
yard, be had his arm broken. It APP
pears he was holding on to the capstan
line when the level of the capstan gave
way, and swinging around struck Wilde
on the arm. This is the second time
that Joseph has had the same arm
broken.
THE civil suit of John P. Fonda
against jerome Shimeal, at GAINESVILLE,
in which the plaintiff sought to recover
damages for receiving a pistol shot at
the hands of the latter, has resulted in
favor of the plaintiff, the jury returning
Fonda for $500. Shimeal had previously
paid fine of $500 in the matter for as
sault with intent to do great bodily
harm.
LA CROSSE Republican, Leader: A
freight train going east missed brake
man named Gregg last night, and sup
posing that he had fallen overheard and
probably been killed, backed up and
held the train for over two hours, search
ing for him. When the train had been
backed to Lisbon, he was discovered
walking up street with his girl. Whether
he accidentally got left or not we were
not informed, but the management are
willing now to allow him to walk with
his girl all winter.
A MADISON dispatch of the 2Sth says:
Two burglaries we're committed at Blue
Mounds, Dane County, last night. The
residence of Charles Lowe was broken
into and valuable watch and chain and
$50 taken. A trunk containing a large
amount of money was undisturbed, al
though unlocked. The store of Paul A.
Sletto was also entered and a quantity of
boots and shoes distracted. Carl Nor
dald was arrested on complaint of Sletto
and held to the municipal court in this
city for trial.
BURGLARS made an attempt to rob the
jewelry store of G. Frank, at Fort How
ard, on the night of the 9th. They en-
| tered the store about 10 o'clock. blew
out the lights, presented revolver at
the head of the proprietor, and severely
! choking him, demanded his money.
| Outsiders heard the scuffie and entered
the store, whereupon the burglars fed
| The robbers were three in number, and
were masked. They are believed to have
been green hands. They got nothing
| for their trouble.
A KENosHA dispatch of the 9th gives
the following: The Pennoyer-Allen
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attention of the circuit court here for the
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