The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-08-27
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

SAMUEL BAIRD, living near Wauke-
sha, lost 40 tons of hay by fire a day
or two ago.
ED. SCOTS residence, Eau Claire,
was burned on the morning of the 18th.
The loss is not stated, but the insurance
is 81, 274 49,. -
HIGHWAYMEN ''held up" MaG. Diet
rich at Racine Junction, on the night of
the 18th, for small sum Of money. q.
watch and q revolver.
a MAN from New York, a German far
mer named Hoffman, was confidenccd
out OF 500 at La Crosse, on the 18th,
by means of the old freight bill game.
LITTLE boy named Hops 1G months
old, had bis head cut off by being run
over by an east-bound freight train ut
Watertown on the, evening of the 18th.
\ FARMER while loading logs near
Stockton, recently, fell in with anest Of
snakes, and after three hours fight
succeeded III killing fifty-four OF them.
Mrs, DAVIS, of Nekim, was badly.
probably fatally, cut in the arm and
head, while removing some grass which
was ciogging the sickle of reaper, re-
Gently. 0rt
THE gross earnings of The Chicago and
Northwestern Railway IL Wisconsin
during the past year were over $4,000
900, and the tax paid the state was over
S83, 900.
FRED BRoER, an employee of tub and
paii factory at Two Rivers, was probably
fatally injured on the 18th, by being
caught between the trucks employed in
the factory.
II
| Ter at the station of the c., NJ & st. p.
Railway at Eau Claire for some time, has
| dccamped with shortage IN his accounts
Of some $4,000.
An incendiary fire destroyed the frame
house of Joseph Karstarnar, Racine, on
the 10th. Loss, 81, 900; insurance $500.
An unsuccessful attempt was also made
to fire Hanson's crockery store. IN the
same city, on the night III question.
! THE citizens of Dunn and Ripon
Counties have started a subscription for
the benefit of the family Of Sheriff
| Chas. G.. Coleman, who was shot by tue
| Williams brothers recently. Coleman
| left wife and seven children with very
! little means.
JAMES OAKLEY, of Hudson, aged II,
| accidentally fatally shot himself ON the
| 14th, by striking the lock of 4 shotgun
against a well-curb which he WAS pass
| ing.
GRANT County has twenty-seYen IN
curably insane people confined III county
Institutions, as well as nine ahead of the
allowed quota at Madison, and two
ahead at Oshkosh.
GoTTLIEB GRAMS, a German farmer 70
| of Ill l11 IL !
Junction on the evening of the 18th 10y
being run over by a train. Grams was
engaged ID driving cattle at the time of
the accident.
Mrs. SILAs BAKER, of Milton June
tiCn, attempted to commit suicide dav
or two ago by taking morphine but the
fact was discovered in time to save her
life. The cause was dependency
through i'll health.
A TRAMP named George Lowell was
arrested at Elkhorn, on the night of the
18th, charged with burglarizing the
residence of William Healey, In Spring
Prairie Township, Walworth County,
recently, and stealing therefrom $40.
HENRY Poor, proprietor of the Pioneer
| House, Spencer, while driving ont with
his wife and daughter, recently, fell out
of the wagon, dead, from a sudden at
tack of heart disease. His fall fright
ened the horses, and they ran away.
pitching Mrs. Pool and her daughter
out of the wagon, probably fatally IN
juring the former. and slightly wound
! ing the latter.
| A MYSTERIOUS row occurred IN Me
nomonee on the night of the 18th. in
which three men, O'Day, Sullivan and
| Lewis Michel, were stabbed and thrown
OF fell down well. Michel was dead
when taken out. The other two. who
were badly cut, say they fell down In es-
Gaping from Ed. Munski, butcher and
q veteran knifer, who was after them
with butcher knife, The men, O'Day.
| Sullivan, Munski, and a man named
| Martinez have been arrested.
| FOND DU LAC Commonwealth: Roscn
dale has a sensation. For some time
Dan earns, the butcher of that place,
has pursued n systematic course of
abuse, his wife and child being the suf-
ferers. Last evening number of men
went to his house, secured him and be-
fore they left gave the brute a suit of tar
and feathers.
SOME unknown person or persons
event through" the c., NJ. & st. p.
Railway depot at Madison on the night
OF Saturday last, smashing IN the door.
The thieves were awarded for their
labor IN breaking in the door, with about
dollar IN coppers This is the second
time within year thieves have entered
the building, and the former attempt
was equally fruitless.
RACINE journal: Parties who were IN
kenOsha yesterday report that a crazy
woman named Tenhagen entered the
residence of a Mrs. Racht, chased the
whole family out of the house, and was
IN the act of plunging a large butcher
knife INTO the breast of Mrs. Racht who
had tainted, when two men caught and
overpowered her. She escaped them
and started for this city
FoND DU LAC Commonwealth: Two
small children on Saturday morning,
near the corner of Waupun and Division
Streets were bitten by mare owned by
a butcher named Lyons, which was
running at large upon the streets, with
It's colt. The children are named Bar
bour and Supranaud, the latter three
years of age and the former not much
older. The children were playing on
street, and attempted to make friends
with the colt when its mother ran up to
the Supranaud girl, caught her by the
arm with its teeth, lifted her up and
shook her, only dropping the child to
seize her Inv tho choaly oD5 CO.,, rV1o