The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

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weighs 1872 pounds.
ADvICEs from muskrats in various por--
tons of the state are that they are build
ing for a mild winter.
GILBERT CURTIS, of Racine, vas
killed at Delevan on the Sth, while en-
gagged in switching cars.
A CHILD aged seventeen months died
at Oconto few days ago from the
effects OF drinking concentrated I've.
THE Wisconsin Cedar Post COMPANY.
of Cavoits, for the purpose of traffic in
telegraph posts, railroad ties and cedar
posts, has been Incorporated.
THE United States troops who were
ordered to Shawano some time since to
suppress an anticipated Indian outbreak,
have been ordered back to Fort Smelling.
JOHN COLLINS, employed in a Racine
tannery, was so badly injured by ma
chinery on the 18th that he will lose ga
arm.
A LAMP explosion at Brooklyn, n. Y,
caused the loss of eyesight to l. G.
Hatch, formerly well-known jeweler of
Oshkosh.
A YOUNG man of 81 years, Samuel NJ.
Stanton, a medical student, was drowned
at Hudson on the 10Th, while swimming
after a duck which he had shot.
BURGLARS entered the store of Jacob
Noll, Sturgeon Bay, recently, during the
temporary absence of the owner, and
stole money and goods to the amount of
S120.
REPORTS of damage by the food still
continue from Wausau, Rochester, Mer-
rill, Waupaca and other places At
Wausau the river has reached the high
est point ever known.
A TERRIFIC stroke of lightning, during
a recent thunderstorm at Tomah, struck
a school house and injured several chill
dren. The lightning, passing outside,
uprooted trees and plowed burrows in the
ground for distance of six rods.
ARTICLES of association of the Star
Prairie (St Croix County, Manufacture
ing Company, with a capital of $4,000,
have been filed with the secretary of
state. The company Will manufacture
wagons, carriages, sleighs and various
farm implements.
MONROE Sentinel: A little girl, three
and halt years old, child of r. Burr, of
this place fell into tub of hot water re-
Gently, and was scalded so badly that
she died a few hours after the accident
The child's sufferings were terrible, and
the parents are almost distracted.
THE west side of the building occupied
by the Free Press Company, at Eau
Claire, through the undermining of the
foundations by the recent floods, fell on
the 10Th, causing q loss of 81, 500 to the
printing company and 81, 500 to the own
ers of the building.
REV. J. w. Mccormick, of Waupaca,
recently invited to resign by the NJ. L.
Conference on account of hereSy, has
been rendered and has accepted {, call
for an independent passionate made by
the liberal minded Christians of Wau-
paca, with salary of 81, 900 a year.
FRANK UTLEY, who has been confined
In the penitentiary at Waupun for the
murder of his father, in Green Lake
County, made his escape on the 18th,
and is still at large. He was at work in
the garden with several other cOnvicts,
and was not missed until some time
after he had taken his departure.
NELSON w. ALDRIcH, recently chosen
to succeed the late Ambrose Z. Burn
side as United States senator from
Rhode Island, is related to Congress
man Aldrich of Chicago, and to j. T.
Aldrich of Fond du Lac, predecessor to
Mann Brothers, of Milwaukee, in the ex-
tensive business they now carry on.
NICHOLAS OPP, of Oshkosh, aged 80,
is under arrest for attempting rape on a
child of 6 years. The child is said
to be considerably injured The child's
mother is said to have caught Opp in the
act, and attempted to shoot him. Opp,
however, claims that the whole case is
one of blackmal
A NUMBER of the party which lynched
the Mcdonald cousins, at Marinette have
been arrested, among them the ringlead-
er, Forvilly. The father of one Of the
boys is active in the case. He is worth
about $500, 900, and says he is willing to
spend his last dollar to see Justice done.
A brother of the elder Mcdonald worth
as much more, expresses the same views.
GREEN BAY Advocate: Last Sunday
a shower of spider webs tell here. They
came apparently from the upper air.
We noticed them at noon and they were
certainly falling for as much as two
hours. The webs varied from so to 60
feet long to mere specks and could be
seen as far up in the air as the eye could
reach. From any one stand point per-
son could count q dozen of them at one
time. Over how large a tract of country
it extended we have no means of judg-
ing, but certainly all over this city and
Fort Howard, and we hear of it three
miles east, at the Vosburgh place. At
the latter place the webs fell SO thick as
to seriously annoy the horses by getting
In their eyes. The webs we examined
were a snow white and very strong.