The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-24
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES


WALwoRTH COUNTY farmers are doing
their fall blowing and sowing largely to
rye.
JOHN MAsTERsoN, an old settler of
WATERFOWL, died on the 18th, aged 70
years.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the amount of $3, 900
have been received for the soldiers
monument nj Racine.
THE Chippewa River still holds a
twelve-foot rise, and logs are being
cleaned out in first-class shape.
JOEL REX, of Eau Claire County, has
been arrested for the forgery of a 500
note on Helm & Rowe, of the same local.
ity.
A CROP of 10000 bushels is estimated
as the probable yield of the cranberry
swamps in the neighborhood Of Stevens
Point.
WILLIAM BURROWS, of Almond, will
not climb over a fence again with a
loaded shotgun, unless he does it with
one leg.
A MONUMENT costing $500 will be
erected by the people of Chiffon in
memory of John p. Hume, late editor of
the Times.
DIR. H. CoAKLEY, well known through
out northern Wisconsin, was killed at
Manitowoc, Sunday, by being thrown
from bis gig.
Mrs. A. SCHwATz, while crossing rail-
way bridge at GAINESVILLE, on the 18th, was
struck by train and received probable
fatal injuries.
TIE college at Fox Lake opened ON
the 18th with hopeful prospects. The
number of boarders is larger than for
several years.
THE case of the state against Rev. At
water, a result of the Atwater-N orthrup
scandal, has been put over to the March
term of court.
SLIGHT frosts for the past two or three
nights are reported from the neighbor-
hood of Palmyra. Crops are out of the
way, however.
CEDARBURG COUNCIL, American Lee
gion of Honor, was instituted on the
evening of the 18th by the ID. S. G. ID.
We'll, of Milwaukee.
A WOMAN and her daughter, whose
names are withheld, were detected in the
Waupun cemetery recently in the act of
robbing graves of plants and flowers.
W. r. PATRICK, superintendent of the
Marinette Paper Company Mills, was
drowned on the 18th by being carried
over the dam while engaged In letting off
surplus water.
ALvA DAY, aged rs, was found dead
of the 10Th. He had dropped a lamp on
the bed, which was partially burned
when he was found.
| A LITTLE boy named Seneca Chatfield
| at Little Prairie, fell from fifteen-foot
scaffold around his fathers house and
! struck on his head fracturing his skull.
He remained unconscious several hours.
WAUsAU Central: On Tuesday last
| Geo. Bond was killed at Kelly's mill by
the breaking of belt. He was working
around the planer when the belt broke
and the end struck him on the head,
/ knocking his brains out.
THE Fond du Lac County court house
was burned on the night Of the 18th.
! The property loss was insignificant, as
the building was an old weather-beaten
structure, and most of the citizens are
reioiced at its destruction.
DENNIS KEEFE, night engineer in
Holt & Dnloonn'o mill, Oshkosh, who
was caught in the machinery on Thurs
day last ana received injuries 50 severe
that the amputation of leg became
necessary, has died from the effects of
his wounds.
BRAKEMAN named William Besson
fell from the rear of the last coach of a
moving passenger train near Portage a
day or two ago, and broke his collar
bone and sustained other serious injuries.
The tram was moving at .tie rate of
fifty miles an hour at the time
The trial of Theodore Rounds and
Frank Shay, for~the murder of Clarity,
in Hudson, time since, which was to
have begun at Menominee on the 18th,
has been postponed to November 10, on
account of the absence of important
witnesses.
MADISON is exercised over the disap-
pearance of Mrs. j. W. Warner, of that
place, who vanished on Sunday last,
leaving a note to her husband stating
that she intended to commit suicide. 1t
IS feared that in fit of temporary in
sanity she has drowned herself.
THE Madison Democrat is responsible
for the truth of this: A gold watch, lost
by Mrs. Peck on an island at Oconomo-
voc, Wis, nine years ago, was found the
OCILOh CpO DCluS bdhtu 10 u
ieweler, it was found to be uninjured,
and, when wound up, kept time as good
| as new.
G. W. KENNEL, till recently head
news agent on the West Wisconsin Rail
road, and lately occupying a similar POI
sition on the Duluth line, has been ar
rested for stealing several watches from
a Hudson jewelry store. He was mar
ried few days ago, and his wife WIS
with him at the time of his arrest.
Though evidence is strong against him,
he protests his innocence.
MADISON Journal: News is brought
to the city that on Friday night, some
stacks were burned in the town of
Windsor, on farm owned by Alex W.
Greenman, and occupied by tenant.
A few days ago, an attempt was made to
burn the house, and traces of kerosene
were found around the building. There
can be no doubt that the incendiaries
have been at work and careful watch
should be kept in that section until they
are caught.
RACINE Journal: Last evening, while
Chief Mills and Policeman Grobel were
walking on Douglas Avenue, they were
startled by the report of q revolver and a
bullet whistlipg in close proximity to
their heads and burying itself in a build
ing close by. They made a thorough
search in the locality, but could not find
anyone. The shot was probably fired
by some enemy with tho intorI;o,, of