The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-11-19
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

DECKER's sorghum mill at Fond du
Lac has turned out 100000 gallons Of
sorghum the past season.
GENERAL SHERMAN has sent a fine
portrait of himself to be hung up in the
armOry Of the GAINESVILLE Guards.
THERE was snow enough at Waupaca
on the 9Th to necessitate the use Of rum
ners instead of wheeled vehicles.
OSCAR D, BRANDENBURG, recently of
the State University, has assumed the
city editOrshlp of the State Journal.
Ex-senator ANDREWS, of River Falls,
had horse stolen by some unknown
party on the night of the 9Th.
AT Racine, on the night of the 9th,
Steven Anderson was severely stabbed in
the eye and hand by q man named Ma
zenta. The latter was captured.
THE Racine soldiers monument fair
closed at Racine on the 5th. 1t proved
more of financial success than was an
ticipated.
CHRIST. ANDERSON, was found dead in
barn at Eau Claire on the 9Th. He
was in good health on the same morning,
and the cause Of death is not known.
The jury in the case of Christian An
derson, who was found dead in the
Eighth Ward, Eau Claire, recently, re-
turned a verdict that deceased came to
his death from epilepsy or heart disease.
NELs MADsEN, a track walker on the
Northwestern Railway, was killed by the
cars near Summit on the 9Th. 1t is sur
missed that he was attacked by an epilep-
tic fit and fell on the track.
THE dam across Rock River at Beloit
broke on the 18th. There was no par
ticular damage done to the buildings
below, although some of them were over
flowed for foot or more Oh the lower
floors.
HUDSON correspondence st. Paul Pho
neer Press: Ex-Rev. Atwater of Knapp
unpleasonthess is selling brushes over in
Pierce County. He has had large expe-
rience III brush matters and merits lu-
crative success.
Il. Il. HUMPHREY, travelling sales
man for a Chicago house, died suddenly
at La Crosse, on the It'll He retired III
morning. health, but was dead in the
his usual The cause of death is believed
to have been rheumatism.
WILLIAM KUHL, the man who has been
supposed by many to be Lon Williams,
was released Monday afternoon at Me
nOmOnee, without even preliminary ex-
animation, the authorities deeming the
evidence already on hand sufficient to
discharge the prisoner.
i. b. PETERS, a young man of "a,
drank five trimming glass of whisky in
quick succession at a Stevens Point sa-
loon on the 9th, and was carried into
back room IN a supposed state of stupe-
faction. 1t was found, however, upon
trying to awaken him, that he was dead
The deceased was the son Of the district
attorney Of Marquette County.
CORNELIUS ROGERS, a farmer in the
neig lhood of Stoughton, while re-
turnll from market, recently, was
stopped by the three men who demanded
his money. He answered by a pistol
shot, when the men fled, one exclaiming,
Il am shoti" Mr.. Rogers little boy,
who was driving another team ahead of
his father, was thrown from the wagon
by the same men.
EVANSVILLE Gazette: 1t will astonish
many to learn that Tom Ingalls,, the es-
capped convict from Waupun, was in the
city the other day, and shrewedly evad-
ed the eyes of the officers. He wore
wig, and false moustache, but his eyes
gave him away. He called at one of the
offices IN the city, merely opening the
door aud asking a question; and seeing
that he was recognized by his cross-eye,
ne hurried out, was watched for a short
distance, and then disappeared.
MADISON Journal: Sunday afternoon,
Charles LOOMS, Token Greek saloon
keeper, went out hunting with three
young men. The youngest of the latter,
whose name was unknown to the person
who brought the information to town, to-
day, was considerably intoxicated, and it
IS reported that his companions were
making much sport of him. AS the party
were crossing a marsh, the lad, unsteady
from liquor, clumsily fell, the gun in his
hand being discharged, and the full
charge of shot entering the back of
LOOMS, who was In range. A physician
was summoned from Sun Prairie, but he
being new in the practice of surgery was
unable TO state the probable result of the
wound, which is, however, generally
considered dangerous, if not fatal,
LA CROSSE News: A woman from the
Kickapoo country went through a
strange metamorphosis in town Satur-
day, and was carried for treatment into
Drs. Gage & Beebe's Office She ex-
perienced sort of fit during which her
whole body became rigid with the ex-
ception of the neck so that her head
could be moved from side to side. She
retained her senses and could talk just
the same as ever, answering all ques-
tons. This netamorphosis is peculiar
to the Kickapoo country and 1t Is said
they all do it there on occasions. They
call it being bedeviled and the ignor-
ant and superstitious denizens of that
benighted region seem to be possessed
like the witches of colonial times This
strange freak of nature here disclosed af-
fords occasion for considerable comment
among physicians. 1t is probably a sort
of hysteria induced by superstitions
common among these people. 1t Is
found that their phenomenal agency is
all sufficient to "bedevil anything but
woman's tongue.