The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-11-26
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

DIR. STEPHEN BOWERS, of the Clinton
Herald, has purchased the Beloit Out
look.
| DURAND is rejoicing in the possession of
| teleglaphlc communication with the out
er world.
The Racine Silver Plate Company has
increased It's capital stock from $43, 900
to SIS, 1000.
A TRAMP giving the name of s. e.
Jetfers died in the Beloit jail recently
while under the influence of liquor.
EX-SENATOR HOWE, who is now in
Colorado, reports his asthmatic troubles
as having almost entirely disappeared.
j. W. RAINBoLT, formerly station
agent at New Richmond, was killed at
Sentinel Buth, Dakota, while coupling
cars.
0. L. OLSON, employed in an Eau
Claire sawmill, buzzed off four fingers a
few days ago.
The Misses Louise and Frances Vesa-
Illus, well-known Racine girls, are sign
ing in opera at Port Elizabeth. South
Africa.
The North Wisconsin Lumber Com
pany, with headquarters at Hayward,
Ashland County, has been incorporated.
Capital stock 100000.
Sank COUNTY News: A little son of
j. B. 'Quimby had his hand cut severely
with a chopping ak. 1t is thought the
hand will not be permanently injured.
DIR. KEMPsTER, of the Oshkosh insane
asylum, has gone to Washington to give
testimony as an expert in regard to
Guiteau's sanity or insanity.
AN insane Norwegian, who can give no
account of himself, except that his name
is cole, Is In jail at GAINESVILLE. Efforts
are being made to find his friends.
REV. JOHN N. NELSON, formerly pas
tor of the Merrill Methodist church, and
who afterward engaged in missionary
work in South America, died in Brazil
recently of yellow fever.
A NEW paper, called the Radical Re-
view, has appeared in Madison. The
editor is Geo. Schumm. The paper will
be devoted to the discussion of general
topics.
A YOUNG man named Crowley was at
tackled by three unknown men at Racine
on the 18th, and severely cut in the face
with knife. No cause for the deed is
known.
AT Millston, Jackson County, Satur-
| day, passenger train on the c., st. p.
NJ. & 0. road ran into freight car on
switch and badly smashed two cars. No
body injured.
GEORGE GARRITY, of Sniderville, fell
from his wagon recently and broke his
back, dying shortly after The cause Of
the accident was the breaking of the
wagon tongue.
Gov. SMITH has made requisition
upon the Nebraska authorities for the
arrest and delivery of Edward Maxwell
alias Ed. Williams, to Under Sheriff
Knight, of Pepin County.
WILLIAM PATTERSON, aged II, a re-
spected citizen of Elkhorn, was attacked
by faintness while in church, and fell,
striking his head against pew. The
shock produced concussion of the brain,
from which he died.
JOHN CUMIINs, James Mccormick,
Jr., James Counelley. Jr., and jeremiah
Flynn, on trial at Prairie du CHEN for
the murder of James Flanagan at Rolling
Ground in August last, have been con-
victed of manslaughter.
A PICTURE sent by Sheriff Knight, of
Wisconsin, to the officials at Joliet
prison, of the man recently captured in
Nebraska has been identified as that of
Ed. Williams. Knight is Ell route for
Wisconsin with the prisoner.
CHAs. SMITH, ticket agent of the
North Western Road at Appleton, was
attacked in his office by three men on
the night OF the 18th and robbed of his
watch. Smith was badly injured. One
of the men, Goodland, has since been ar
rested.
THE circuit court of La Crosse on the
14th granted a divorce to Mrs. Della
Foote, wife of A. E. Foote, in prison at
Waupun, for forging the name of his
father in-iaw, JAS. Vincent. Foote, it
Will be remembered, was a partner of
"Brick" Pomer ,y.
ARTHUR MULLEN, Of Beloit, brake
man, was injured 50 badly by being run
over by train on the ST. Paul Railway
at Western Union Junction on the 18th,
that after submitting to an amputation
of leg, he died. Deceased was young
man.
ASHLAND PKEss: A man by the name
of Ross was shot through the left lung,
the ball going through his body, at
Cable, Bayfield, County, last Tuesday.
A rough by the name of Dorritv did the
shooting at Pat Nehoe's den. Ross was
taken to st. Paul for treatment and it is
thought that he will die.
EAU CLAIRE News: Chris. Hogan. an
employe in the yards of the Omaha road
at this city, was severely injured on
Thursday morning, while attempting to
couple freight to passenger car in the
Chippewa Falls mixed train. His in
luries were in the breast and shoulder,
the collar bone being broken Mr.. Ho-
gan walked home, aud yardmaster Babb
went in search of DIR. Thrane. The in
juries are not considered dangerous.
JOHN HohGATE, clerk of the circuit
court at Marinette, shot his wife III the
jaw on the 18th, fracturing it. Holgate
has disappeared, and it is thought he
has committed suicide. The wife says
the shot was accidental, while she was
trying to deprive her husband of q re-
volver with which he had threatened his
own life. Others think the act was in
territorial. The woman will probably re-
cover. The cause of Holgates act was
whisky.
PALMYRA Enterprise: Shirley Buzzell,
a boy some IA years of age, had piece
of glass taken from the bottom of bis
foot on Saturday which had been lodged
there about four years ago, and although
it had never interfered with his locomo-
ton, it had occasionally caused numb
ness of the foot. We learn that DIR.