The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-29

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a little girl through the leg.
D. r. HANNAH, a well-to-do farmer
residing in the neighborhood of Bailey's
Harbor, committed suicide a day or two
ago by taking laudanum. Drink
THOMAS DEvLIN, an inmate of the
Dane County Jail serving out o sentence
of thirty days for vagrancy, committed
suicide by hanging on the night of the
10th.
THERE was sufficient frost at Wau-
paca on the night of the 18th to freeze
water standing in the roads. The dam
age to potatoes and other crops is con-
siderable.
PARSONS & GooDFELLow, carriage
manufacturers, of Oshkosh, have failed.
Liabilities, $4,000 assets unknown.
The failure will throw 800 men out of
employment.
NINETY sheep were killed by dogs on
one farm in the town of Empire, Fond
du Lac County, on the night of the 18th.
During the week the entire number
killed was $50.
The man killked by the cars at Madi-
son, recently, has been identified as
Charles johnson, Swede. There are
suspicious that he was robbed and
fastened to the track.
AMENDMENTS to the articles of associa-
pany have been filed with the secretary
of state. The amount of capital stock
has been increased from 100000 to
100000.
JOHN WHITE, the Cashton burglar,
has been sentenced to years imprison-
ment. George Day, arrested for COM
plicity in the same affair, has been bound
over in order that he may secure wit
nesses. 1t is believed that he is limo
cent.
FREDERICK ONIsKA, German farmer
living near Bear Greek, in the neighbor-
hood of New London, accidentally and
fatally shot himself a day or two ago,
while engaged in taking a gun from
where it was hanging on the wall.
THERE is a probability that the sus-
pended carriage works of Parsons &
Goodfellow firm, at Oshkosh, will be run
by stock company composed of the
creditors of the concern. The Thomp-
son & Hayward carriage works will also
be started Immediately.
The span of horses stolen by the
thieves who committed the robbery at
Kewaskum last week by blowing open
Rosenheimer's safe, was found turned
into the woods near Horizon, Friday
The thieves have not been captured
though they are being closely traced.
ARCHIE JENKINS, a freight train con-
ductor on the Chicago, St. Paul, Mime
apolis and Omaha Railroad, was killed
by falling between the cars at Hudson on
the 18th. Although almost cut In two, he
still retained sufficient life to signal the
following train and give directions in re-
gard to his property.
DURING quarrel near Waupun day
or so ago, German farmer and his wife
named Stock, were both seriously stabbed
by their drunken son-in-law, Wieland,
while they were engaged In the pleasant
occupation of driving the latter off the
premises with pItchfOrks and clubs.
The whole gang are described as being
a semi-civiiized set.
THERE has been filed in the Office
of the secretary of state, articles of
association of the Plata Bonita Mining and
Milling Company, of Chippewa Falls.
The purpose of the company Is to mine
In Arizona Territory. The capitol stock
of the association is $40, 900, and the in
corporators are Jasper Smith, W. D. M.
Gilroy, and Daniel Buchanan, Jr.
GEORGE FL. BETHARD, the lawyer ar
rested in Washington on the day of Gui-
teau's examination for wanting to bor-
row a pistol with which to shoot the
prisoner, is described much such a man
as Guiteau. His name can be found in
a number of places on the police books
of La Crosse, and he has been driven
out of Sparta as " drunken tramp"
In regard to the pair of adulterers,
Mrs. A. G. Smith, and Edward Siegert,
recently sentenced to the state prison,
by the courts at Madison, Mrs. Smiths
sentence was changed to a $500 fine.
Her husband refused to pay the fine,
and was himself arrested, charged with
adultery and with keeping house of i'll
fame. The warrant being defective,
Smith was released, but will probably
be re-arrested.
A YOUNG woman, described as hand
some, well-appearing blond, Of IS or 90
years, left an infant, of which she was
undoubtedly the mother, in the charge
of German lady at a hotel in Madison,
day or two ago, while she went to the
/ depot $ to meet her husband" Whether
! she met her husband or not is not known,
as she did not come back to report the
fact, and the poor babe was left to the
tender mercies of strangers.
JOHN MILLER, a young farm hand
working in the neighborhood of Racine,
was thought to be little green, and
some of the boys-his friends-con-
Guided to carry ont little joke on him
by playing burglars. They entered his
room IN disguise and carried out his
trunk. This awoke Miller, he ran into
the next room, procured a revolver and
began blazing away. After one of the
burglars had received a flesh wound in
the back, explanations followed
PRAIRIE DU CHEN Union: ! dead col
ored man was found on the pontoon
bridge Wednesday morning. An inquest
was held before F. L. Hobbs, Esq, and
verdict of accidental drowning was
brought In by the jury. There was
nothing found on his person to identify
him by but a scar on the neck and bull
let hole in the thigh. Being tall and
stoutly built, many think he is
George Washington, the colored man
who was shot by the mate of boat at
the freight depot in this city year ago
last spring, and the one DR.. J. Conant
extracted the bullet from at the county
jail
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