The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-02
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

JOHN LEES, one of the oldest residents
of Racine, died on the DIST, aged n
years.
A NEW national bank is to be estab-
llshed In Racine, with capital stock of
$4,000.
JOHN SHANNON, of Stevens Point. re-
Gently received by express from Florida
a live alligator.
L. j. THOMAS, of Aurora, shot him
self fatally on the 18th, with shotgun.
Business troubles.
JACKSON & PRUNo's saw-milI. Balsam
Lake, was burned on the 18th. Loss.
$3, 200; no insurance.
THE remains of August Battle, sup
posed to have been burned in the Apple
ton fire, have not been found.
SToKDYKE brothers, of Cedar Grove.
near Sheboygan, took 1900 pounds of
fish out of one trap, one day recently.
r. G. MATTEsoN's sugar-cane mill,
Rosendale, was burned by incendiaries.
recently. Loss and insurance not stated
DIR. M. N. BARBER, of WATERFOWL, re-
Gently recovered in Chicago fine horse
which was stolen from him IS months
ago.
FIVE prairie dogs, brought from the
Indian Territory, have been provided
with accommodations in the park at
Madison
| The seventeen-year locusts in Green
Lake and Marquette counties are doing
considerable damage to young fruit and
| forest trees.
A YOUNG bridge carpenter, name I'M
known, was killed at Dodge Station. on
the Green Bay and Minnesota road. on
the night of the 22d.
A YOUNG lad named Voehish was
drowned at Menomonie, day or two
ago, while playing around the logs in a
pond, thereby falling in.
BAUGHMAN, the riheman shot in Mil
waukee during circus performance, re-
Gently, is still in a critical condition at
the Russell house, Neenah.
A BOY named Willie Hill, Ii years of
age, was drowned at Oakdale Station, on
the afternoon of the Goth, in Beaver
Greek. Particulars not given.
The necessary money has been raised
for bringing the G.. b. & M. railroad in
to Stevens Point, and it is expected that
1t will be done within few weeks.
MINNIE LUCK, who sued the city of
Rlpon some time since for damages fol-
fall from defective sidewalk, had the
good luck to receive 81 ,058 as compensa-
ton.
THE body of Charles Harris, of
Brownsville, who was drowned at La
| Crosse, last winter, by breaking through
the ice, has been recovered at the latter
place.
A YOUNG man named George Schiller
was drowned in Fisher river, fifty miles
from the mouth of the Chippewa on the
18th. The cause of the accident is not
| known.
MICHAEL O'BRIEN, of Darien, was
born in Ireland in 1878, being conse-
quently 108 years old, even older than
Peter Bissett, who died at Watertown,
recently, aged 102.
The trial of Peter Vanderhoff and
sons, charged with attempting the wreck
| of a train near Plymouth, on the Wis
consin Central, last winter, is on trial in
Appleton.
| A TRUSTED servant, a colOred man, of
Forepaugh, the circus man, has been ar
rested at Green Bay, charged with car
rylng off some 81 800 worth of property
| from the show.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for the
speedy construction of the Chippewa
Valley and Superior railway, to run
from Eau Claire to some point opposite
Wabashaw, MINI.
r. G. BAKER, the son of the Fond du
Lac banker, who has been a fugitive
from justice, is daily expected to return
to that city to give his testimony in re-
gard to the failure of the bank.
| A NEwsBOY on the st. Paul road, name
not given, was run over by the train at
! Sparta on the night of the 22d, and had
one leg so badly mangled that it is prob
able that he will not survive.
THE bookkeeper for the Racine Hard
ware Manufacturing company, John A.
Mcmahon, is some 81, 800 short in his
accounts, and has "skipped town." He
admitted his guilt before leaving.
The dead body of Mrs. Hilda Burg
found in a neighbours field near Fond du
Lac, recently. Although there were
rumors of suicide, the indications are
that her death resulted from heart com
plant. Mrs. Burg was IS or as years of
age, and leaves niue children.
A YOUNG man named Frederick Hit
bold, of GAINESVILLE, was drowned near
that place Oh the 18th by falling from
! the little steamer LOtos, which plies on
Rock river. 1t is asserted by some that
the young man was intoxicated at the
time.
Mrs. BETSY NJ. HARGER, of Jefferson
| county, New York, and the mother of
Ashley d. Harger, of Milwaukee, and
Charles w. Harger, of Wausau, died
at the residence of her daughter, Mrs
Daniel Jones, WATERFOWL, on the Dist,
aged 80.
t. III. CARNEY, of Waukesha, is in a
critical condition from the effects of a
runaway accident while out driving near
the Silurian springs, on the evening of
the Goth, he being thrown to the ground
and the fall on sharp stones severing two
arteries in the head.
In tearing down the old jail at Berlin,
two silver watches were found in the
walls of the building. A Waupaca man,
Notwithstanding many years had passed,
identified one of the watches as his prop
erty. 1t was doubtless secreted in the
walls by the man who stole it, and who
was afterward confined in the jail.
AUGUSTA SCHIMMING, a girl who has
been working for farmer named Devoe,
near Stoughton, is under arrest for the
murder of her newly-born illegitimate
child. The remains, in horribly mu-
tilated condition, were found IN the
harm yopI nv ono of Mr. DpyOe'S little