The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-17
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

The Atwater case will come up before
the West Wisconsin NJ. E. conference,
| which sits IN Sparta on the 18th.
Hon. THOMAS RANDALL, one of the
| pioneers of the Chippewa Valley, died
at his residence in Eau Claire on the Sd.
A STURGEON weighing 169 pounds and
feet inches in length, was caught in
the lake at Racine recently.
The trial of Cochrane, at Neillsville.
for the murder of Hayden, was formally
begun on the 7th.
T. MILLER & Co.'S office at Water
town, frame structure, was burned on
the morning of the 4th. lightning is
the supposed cause.
THE convention of Knights Templar
at Oshkosh is still in session. The at
tendance is good and very enjoyable
gathering is reported.
| The shoe bottomers in the GAINESVILLE
shoe factory have struck for an increase
of pay. The company has ordered ma
chlnery instead of men to do the work.
ARTICLES of association have been filed
for the La Crosse Illuminating Company,
capital $50, 900, the object of which is
to light the city of La Crosse by cleo
tricity.
A CONFIDENCE man, an ex-cOnvict
named Henry Suite, has been jailed at
Fond du Lac for attempting to kidnap
two young girls, Matilda Foster and
Emma Davis.
AN incendiary attempted to burn
vacant building to L. J. Meader, of La
Crosse, on the night of the LIST, but the
fire was discovered before very great
damage was inflicted.
A CRIPPLED man named Wallace, en-
ployed as attendant at the Dead Lake
sheer boom, near Eau Claire, has been
missing for some time, and is supposed
to have been accidentally drowned.
WILLIAM HARMER, n wealthy farmer
of Springvale, was robbed of money and
valuables to- the amount of $1,000 on the
Sd. Suspicion points to a former resi-
dent Of Rosendale of bad character.
Mrs. OCoNNoR, the woman who re-
Gently attempted to commit suicide in
jail at GAINESVILLE, is still in a bad way,
both mentally and physically, and it is
doubtful whether she will live or die.
THE Mutual Union Telegraph Com
pany is now within few miles of Water
loo. 1t is said two lines will be run
from that point, one to Columbus and
the other to Madison.
LIGHTNING was the cause of the firing
of several farm buildings and their con-
tents, owned by Mike Killalia, ten miles
from Oshkosh, on the night of the 9th.
Loss, So, 900; insurance, $1,000.
An eastern hunting party of four,
stopping at one of the Fairmont hotels,
had about $500 stolen from them early
on the morning of the 18th, they having
neglected to fasten the doors of their
rooms.
THE depot at Burlington and t. IT.
Judd & Co. S lumber office were entered
safes blown open. The burglars got DO
booty in the latter place, and but few
dollars in the other.
RACINE Journal: A number of mis-
chievous boys tied large tin boiler to
COW s tail, on the North Side, last--even-
ing. It is needless to say the animal
was frightened and ran until she dropped
from sheer exhaustion.
In accordance with the governors
proclamation, business was suspended
III most of the towns throughout the
state portion of the day on the 9th,
and the time was devoted to religious
observances in behalf of the President
REV. HENRY CowLEs, well-known
clergyman, died at the Institution for the
Blind, GAINESVILLE, on the 9th, where he
had been residing with his daughter, the
superintendent. The deceased was 70
years of age, and had published many
important theological works.
AN old man named Edwin Moore was
killed at Fremont, on the Wolf River. on
the night of the 5th, by young ruffian
named Charles Riley. The deed was
done with an iron implement, the iugu-
lar vein being cut and the neck almost
severed. The murderer was arrested
LA CROSSE News, Sd: The operators
at the telegraph office were alarmed last
evening by noticing volumes of smoke
issue through the floor. An investiga-
ton in the basement showed that num-
Der of wires had caught fire and that the
floor was burning. A few buckets of
water exiting uished the blaze.
RACINE Journal, 9th: Peter Lieb.
alias Clutch Pete" who escaped from
the Chicago deputy sheriff some weeks
ago while being taken to Chicago, was
captured again yesterday, in Rockton,
by Sheriff Bremner and is now in Jail
awaiting an officer from Chicago. Pete
tells some great stories about his escape.
SOMEBODY i'll Madison, advertising
under the name of G.. S. Stickles & Co.,
has been doing considerable swindl1ng
of late. The advertisement requests %
cents to be sent for samples of a salable
article by which large sums of money
can be made. The samples" are small
pieces of common solder. There is no
such firm in Madison as the firm adver-
tised.
STEVENS POINT is excited over the alb
ductlor q. NO children from their grand
father, Dr. Gibbs, of Omro, by their
father, d. S. Carter, who had been
separated from his wife, in whose pos
session the children had been until tho
abduction, and the reabduction by the
mother. The matter is now to be set
tied in the courts
Mrs. SOPHIA GRAVES, farmers wife,
living Ill the town of Hewitt, Clark
County, was on the evening of the 9th,
brutally outraged by James Stafford, of
HiXtOn, a married man. The victim was
alone with her children at The time, and
being partially paralyzed, could make
but an lmavailinG struggle. She was
badly injured. The criminal has not
vet been arrested.
RACINE Journal, Sd: Considerable
reckless shooting is INDUCED in at GER
tain parts of the city, which endangers
the lives of the residents. On Sixteenth
Street last night bullet passed through
window in the residence of q gentle