The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

a CASE OF attempted kidnappinp nv
Gypsies Is reported at Racine.
JUDGE ADoLPH HEIDKAMp, editor Of
the Pert Washington Zeitung, is dead
WIsCoNsN's tobacco crop last veor
amounted to nearly IL 100000 pounds
HESS & SUHL, dry goods dealers
Oshkosh, have made an assignment. The
liabilities are but $4,000.
ABOUT 500 people were present at the
opening of the commencement exercises
at Racine College on the 9th.
RACINE has another "toy-pistol" vic
tim. 1t is lad named George Childs
who shot hole through his right hand
The hay crop in Waupaca County is
estimated to have sustained loss of 80
per cent. by the late rains.
BURGLARS broke into the Madison
Flour Mills on the night of the 2Stb
and attempted to blow up the safe, but
were unsuccessful.
THE Waukesha wooden mill has been
sold to Joseph Hadfeld, of Milwaukee
for 500, 900. The mill will be put in on,
Grafton in few days.
A BELoIr saloon-keeper, Ed. MELON
aid, has been fined for selling Honor TO
a five-year old girl, who had been sent
after it by her mother.
DIR. BoUGHToN, of the state insane
asylum at Madison, is stated to be con-
templatlng the resignation of his posi-
ton.
Fox LAKE is ambitious of becoming a
summer resort, and is havingan analysis
made of the water of a mineral spring In
that neighborhood.
Hon. j. ALLEN BARBER, of Lancaster,
is lying at the point of death from a re-
cent rupture. There is no hope what
ever of his recovery.
A COMPANY to be known as the Eau
Claire Chilled Plow Company, with a
capital of $4,000, has filed articles of
incorporation with the secretary of state.
AHRENs, La Crosse man, was dis
turbed by a fight in his backyard. He
broke it up by attaching n rubber hose
to the hydrant and playing on the crowd.
FoND DU LAC people now assert that
Baker, the failed banker, started bust
ness with less than a hundred dollars,
and has never been on a sound financial
footing.
JOE MILLETT, a Frenchman, was
drowned at Chippewa Falls, day or two
ago, while attempting to cross the river
on the logs. He leaves Il wife and sew
eral children.
THE total collections of the treasury
agent at Madison from hawkers and
peddlers during the fiscal year have
been so, 4SS. IA, fully so per cent. larger
than any previous year.
WILLIAM BRADLEY, of Madison, chief
engineer of the fire department, was
seized with q fit while boating on Lake
Mendoza Sunday afternoon, and fell from
the boat and was drowned.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN J. ALLEN BARBER,
of Lancaster, mention of whose serious
illness has heretofore been made, died
on the 2Sth. His estate is estimated at
$250,000.
A BOY of Is, named Charles Niles,
was fatally injured at brickyard in
Waupaca, on the 9th, by being buried
under clay bank, which caved in while
he was at work.
A STORM in the vicinity of Whitewater
on the morning of the Doth, destroyed a
barn belonging to Alex. Henderson, be-
sides doing considerable other damage in
the neighborhood.
FRANK KARAD, of Caledonia, Racine
county, was killed on the 2Sth, by the
fall of a barn, which he was engaged IN
raising. Deceased was 80 years old anu
leaves a wife and three children.
The following officers have been COM
missioned for the Third Battalion of the
Wisconsin National Guard: Captain, NJ.
L. Moore, La Crosse; major, Benjamin
f. Parker, Mansion; quartermaster, Jno.
r. Canon, Neillsville.
A CHICAGO travelling man named Lars
Olson, was robbed of $50 by Racine foot
pads, who, after robbipg him, threw him
over bridge into the river, from whence
he was rescued in an exhausted cOndi-
ton. The officers are on the track of
the robbers.
THE cashier of the suspended Fond du
Lac bank, Burrows, appeared in court at
Fond du Lac on the 28th on charge of
embezzlipg 50, 700 from the city, but an
adjournment to the 9th of July was had,
and Burrows was remanded to jail in de-
fault of So, 900 bail
A TREE-PEDDLER at Leon got Farmer
Joel Everett's name on a piece of blank
paper as ga reference" When then nan
who bought the promissory note came to
collect it, he couldn't, as the farmers
daughter had written the name at the
request of her father; therefore it wasn't
his signature
S. FRANKS variety store, Green Bay,
was entered by burglars, day or two
ago, and robbed of considerable amount
of jewelry and other goods. Suspicion
attached itself to certain stranger, but
the fellow cleared out before an investi-
cation could be had.
The story started by the Chicago News
in regard to the wrong-doings of "Dia-
mond 10" Reynolds and an erring
young wife, of Chicago, is denied IN toto
by Mr.. Reynolds friends in La Crosse
and elsewhere along the river "Dia-
mond 10" is not "ladies' man." they
say.
PETER VANDERHooF and son, found
guilty of train wrecking and robbery,
last Wednesday, in Appleton, were
brought into court Saturday afternoon
and sentenced by Judge Myers to the
penitentiary at Waupun, each for term
of ten years. The first ten days the
father is to be kept in solitary confne-
ment and the first five the son.
RACINE Journal: There is a bird which
has nest in tree on the corner of
Ninth and Campbell Streets, which is
certainly curiosity. When anyone
passes the place she will attack them in
furious manner, and yesterday she
pecked man on the eye, drawing blood,
and another mans hat was knocked off.