The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-08-13
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

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A sIx-YEAR-oLD, boy named Clark, fell
into the river at Kenosha, day or two
ago, and was drowned.
AN iucendiary set fire to and burned
about 81, 600 worth of slaves belonging
to Jas. Thompson, at Rice Lake, a day
or two ago.
A STOCK company, with capital of
So, 900, has been Incorporated for the
purpose of building a new opera house
at Baraboo.
Work on the state grounds at
Fond du Lac is nearly completed, and
! the artesian well will soon be in working
order.
THE managers of the Northern Fair,
to be held at Oshkosh, have decided to
raise purse of 50 900, to be competed
! for by Maud S. and st. Julien.
DANIEL LEARY, a bridge carpenter of
La Crosse, was seriously, perhaps
| fatally, injured by falling timber from
bridge at Rushford Mimi, on the %.
DIR. j. G. MEAcHAM, of Racine, rep
resents Wisconsin in the medical con
gress which convenedin London Tuesday.
| Over 5000 delegates are in attendance.
! EXTENSIVE forest fires are raging in
the northern portion of Door County.
and numbers of the inhabitants are TAX
ing refuge In flight. Considerable lum-
Der property has been destroyed.
| RACINE sports engage in horse-swim-
ming Matches" At one recently, with
a keg of beer as stake, one of the par
! Elephants, Smith, fell off his horse into
the lake. and was only saved from drown
ing by hanging on to the horses tail.
The horse won the race, however.
In the case of Jack O'Brien aud
RateJl, charged with the robbery of
Navin, on the highway ct Oshkosh,
Ratell has turned states evidence and
acknowledges the robbery. Both
| O'Brien and Ratell have been retained IN
custody in default of $500 bail.
RACINE Journal; Len Higgins, young
man and a stranger in the city, claims
| that while on his way to an uncle's resi-
! dence, some one shot at him on Erie
| Street, the ball whizzing in close prox-
unity to his head. Probably a stray
ball from some pistol used for shooting
| cats.
| Monticello Express: The residence of
l.. A. Perkins, received a shot from the
quarry last Saturday. A stone weighing
! so TBS struck the roof and went through
| to the ceiling. The blast, Thursday
noon, landed 15-ton rock into the front
yard, within Is feet of the same resi-
dence.
/ M. G. HINES, of Waukesha, was ar
rested at Madison on the ID, charged
with felOniOusly entering and rObbing
the house of A. G.. Mcknight, near
Madison. Hines is an old acquaintance
of Meningitis, and comes from a good
family. The stolen goods were traced to
| a secondhand store in Madison.
A HORSE stolen by the Williams out
| laws from Henderson County, ILL.,, has
been found by the sheriff of that county
in the Eau Gale woods, nearly starved,
| the animal having been tied to tree
and left without food or water for four
or five days. This is taken as another
indication that the men have escaped.
The remains of a man, supposed to be
| those of a foundryman of Beaver Dam,
Jacob Ertz, were found in the woods
near Wausau, on the LIST. Thehead was
nearly blown off with a charge of shot,
and near by was the gun with which the
deed was committed. The affair is be-
lieved to be a case of suicide on account
of domestic trouble.
WAUPUN Leader, 29th: Edward
Wells, Familiarity known as "Uncle
Jimmie, died in the prison at O'Clock
Sunday morning of heart disease and
general debility. He was So years old
and was sentenced for life from Wau-
shara County in 1857 for murder. He
was the coolest inhabitant," having
been for % years recipient of prison
inequalities.
PROCEEDINGS, after ten days notice,
will be commenced against the bonds
men of G. J. Pierron, The former Fond
du Lac city treasurer, for a deficiency
of $40, 900, resulting from the collapse
of the Baker bank, the cashier of which
was PlerrOn's sub-treasurer. There is
more than probability that the bonds
men, in order to cover as far as possible
their own losses, will force Pierron into
insolvency.
A RACINE girl, name not given, was
some time ago seduced by hack driver
under promise OF marriage. The young
man left the city, and the girl, to hide
her shame, went to Chicago, where she
shortly afterward entered upon a disre-
putable career. Remorse induced her
to take poison, but the aid of physicians
was invoked and her life was saved, leav-
ing her wreck, however The parents
of the girl have gone after her to bring
her home.
EVANSVILLE Gazette: A young son OF
r. j. Dowd, of Beloit, was stung by a
bee last Thursday, and there at once APP
peared similar effects to those attending
the bite of a rattlesnake The doctors
death, and it was "a hours before he was
considered out of danger. a singular
feature of the case is that he has been
stung before by bees, and never had
such strange and alarming results fol-
low.
EDWARD LEMON, of Neillsville, com
mitted suicide q day or two ago, by TAX
ing laudanum. He was accommodating
enough to take the poison to a news
paper Office, and ask the editor to watch
him drink it and then report the result.
/ The editor laughed at him, and Lemon
went away. After having taken the
drug, he returned, and insisted on the
/ editors 6 seeing him die" which that
worthy kindly did. The cause of the act
! is not known.
By the explosion of locomotive
boiler on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad, between Peshtigo and Omro,
on the night of the Both of July, the
head brakeman of a freight train was
killed and the cn0inaar and the fireman