The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-08-20
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thieving Gypsies.
The postoffice has been re-established
at Leon, Monroe County.
THE census of the Winnebago Indians
of Wisconsin will be taken this month.
DIPHTHERIA has caused q number of
deaths in Ripon, recently.
A CASE Of smallpox is agitating the
minds of the people of Kenosha.
ELDER ATwATER, the becloudedc clerical
gentleman of Knapp, has been released
on 81, 900 bail.
GEORGE W. DEM1NG, one of the pio-
neers of the Chippewa Valley, died at
Eau Claire on the 9Th.
THE recent heavy rains have extin-
guished the forest fires that have been
raging SO fiercely IN Door County.
The various lumber companies in the
northern part of the state are short of
men, and engaging hands in Michigan.
PATRICK CAMPBELL, an old resident
of Richmond, died from the kick of
horse day or two ago.
ADAM RUFF, farmer of Caledonia,
Racine County, committed suicide on
the 10th by cutting his throat.
A LITTLE boy named Slattery had
hand taken off in a planning machine,
while playing around a saw-mill in La
Crosse on the 9th.
| AN unknown young man from Chicago
was run over by a railway train ut Osh-
| kosh, on the 9Th lust, and had leg cut
! off,
THOMAS RICE, well known farmer of
East Wrightstown, was killed by kick
from fractions horse at Rockland, day
or two ago.
A DOCK LABoBER named Anthony Duff
! fey was drowned at Racine on the 9Th by
falling from dock into the river He
! leaves wife and eight children.
GRADING has commenced on the Chip
pewa Valley and Lake Superior Railroad
in the neig hborhood of Eau Claire, and
speedy completion of the road is pre-
dicted.
! The assessed valuation of personal
property in Racine is 81, 991 ,915, against
81, 065, 900 last year. Real property is
assessed at Sc, 1852, 315, against 1904,
O45 last year.
AN old German lady, Mrs. Lehman,
was run over by the pay-car on the
Green Bay and Minnesota Railroad, near
Grand Rapids, on the Sth and instantly
killed. She was horribly mangled.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in c. A
| Caniva's store, La Crosse, night or
| two ago, but were frightened away be-
| fore they succeeded i'll securing any
| booty.
The Eau Claire lumber mills are now
all running at full capacity. Notwith-
standing new men are filling the places
J of tv1l-p hn
voluntarily increased wages and lessened
the time of work somewhat.
INVESTIGATION into the case of Marie
Wilde, fifteen-year- old girl, who was
supposed to have died at Oshkosh re-
Gently from natural causes, reveals the
fact that it was case of suicide. The
cause of the act is not stated.
AT Wausau, on the 9th, three prison
ers, named respectively Taylor, Cum
mings and Lavigne, knocked the iailor
down with stick of wood and escaped.
Taylor was awaiting trial for larceny,
and the others for burglary.
A GERMAN girl, fourteen years of age
was recently outraged between Merrill
and Wausau, and badly injured. The
matter was kept quiet until a day or two
ago, when one of the scoundrels was
captured. Threats of lynching are
made.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state of Wis
consln for the Escanaba and ST. Paul
Railroad Company, with capital of
$1,000, 900. The road, as the name i'm
plies, will run from Escanaba, Mich. to
| st, Paul.
ARTICLES of association for the Green
| Bay, Stevens Point and Northern Rail
way have been filed with the secretary
OF state. The company, composed of
prominent railroad men, Will have
capital of $75, 900, and the road Will run
| from Plover to Stevens Point, distance
of 81 miles.
THE premiums to be given at the state
fair, to begin at Fond du Lac on Sep
TENDER 25th, will aggregate $4,000.
The annual address will be given by
George B. Loring, commissioner of ag-
riculture. Bret Harte is also expected
to deliver humorous poem.
THE body of q man named Davis, who
lived at La Crescent, opposite La Crosse,
was found in the river between the two
places on the 10th. Circumstances III
dictate that Davis was drowned while at
tempting to cross the river in q skiff
while under the influence of liquor.
ANDREW THoMM, at Racine, was as
saulted by a couple of unknown men
the other night, and several revolver
shots were fired at him. Although not
positive as to the identity of his assail-
ants, he thinks they are two young men
with whom he had quarrel recently.
A MAN was arrested at Mankato,
Mimi, Saturday, who was supposed to
be one of the Williams brothers. The
prisoner correspondent very closely with
the description of one of the brothers,
but proved to be the wrong man, though
a hard case.
W. M. FREEMAN, of Racine, proposes
contrasting Edison's right to use the cleo
tric lamp, Freeman claiming the inven-
ton as his own, and one which he sent
to Edison for examination and improve
ment. Freeman also says no improve
ment has been made, but that the lamp
| is exactly the same as it was when he
sent it to Edison.
! RACINE Journal: On Sunday morn
ing DIR. Duncombe was called to attend
a case of genuine Asiatic cholera. The
victim attacked was Mrs. jacques, re-
siding in the Fifth Ward west of the
Mt. Pleasant school house. The patient
went through all the different stages of
that terrible disease. 1t was undoubted-
ly sporadic case,
RACINE is agitated over a mysterious