The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-09
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

VIM. SoHN's residence was destroyed
by fire at Colby, recently. LOSS, f400.
DURING rain storm at Beloit, on the
25tb, live fish and hsil stones dropped
from the clouds.
w. BULLENs' grain warehouse at Ar
lington, was DESTROYED by fire on the
25th inst. Loss 81, 800; partially IN
sured.
AT Palmyra, q -year-old daughter OF
Mr.. Pett ate some POISONOUS substance
while playing in the yard few days ago
and died soon after in commissions. Sne
vomited a greenish substance resembling
| rhubarb leaves, of which a quantity
grew where she was playing.
MARINErrE North Star: Elisha E.
Stoddard. from New Brunswick, III the
employ of the Boom Company, was
drowned on the Pike on Tuesday last.
He was employed upon the Dam and was
alone, and is supposed to have fallen TOTO
the water and SO injured by the fall as
to be unable to get out.
On Sunday, May Goth, Kate Kane,
| Milwaukee's woman lawyer, was released
from the county Jail after an lmprison-
ment of twenty-five days, which she had
suffered as a penalty for her contempt
of court i'll throwing a glass of wafer III
the face of Judge James A. Mallory,
while the latter was seated upon the
bench.
CLINTON BABBITT, secretary OF the
State Agricultural Society, calls the at
tention of fruit growers to the threat
ened invasion of their farms by the
canker worm. and advises farmers to
mix one teaspoonful of genuine Paris
green with two gallons of water and
sprinkle the new foliage and blossoms
with the mixture.
MEssRs. WILLIAMS Il Finn, the gen
tlemen who are breaking up SO much
of the prairie land near Arena, Iowa
County, have already plowed 500 acres
ard have planted $50 acres of sugar
cane, 116 acres of potatoes and several
acres of melons. They will have ,OOO
acres planted by the 1st of June. They
have from twenty to twenty-five men ana
fifty to sixty horses at work.
Ten days ago Masonic circles were
startled by a report that Jno. W. Wood
hull, secretary of the Wisconsin Grand
Lodge was short in his accounts to the
extent of S5, 200. On the 26th the re-
port was in measure verified by the
sudden resignation of Woodruff. 1t is
reported the board of trustees of the
grand lodge demanded the resignation.
Woodruff is a prominent Mason and
held the important office for eight years.
- Weekly Wisconsin.
ABOUT O'Clock on the afternoon of
the 221 inst. well on the premises of
II. Morford, at Chippewa Falls, caved III
while being repaired py man namedJ.
II. Duncan. 60 years of age. He was at
the bottom of the well taking out some
of the curbing when the dirt commenced
to cave. He signaled to those above to
draw him up, which they did distance
of about thirty feet, when he called out
to stop, as there was no danger. just
then the top of the well commenced to
cave in, and buried him alive. Dlggers
were at once set to work, and at 10 CLOCK
the next day found his body standing in
the bucket, the hands still clinging to
the rope.
Two years ago a young girl named
Maggie Zinshain left an uncongenial
home at New Berlin, this state, to make
her own living in Milwaukee She OBJ
tanned employment In various factories
| for about year and halt, and week
| before last Christmas she informed her
| friends that she had secured situation
as a domestic In a respectable family
residing on franklin Street. A short
time previous she had been living with
a brother, Matt ZinshaiD, brakeman,
living on the South SIDE. The girl
started, as was supposed, to assume her
duties in the First Ward, since which
time her brother or immediate friends
have been unable 10 ascertain her
whereabouts. Mr.. Zlnshaln is very
anxious in regard to his sister and fears
that something terrible has befallen her.
| He does not know the name of the fam
| lily with whom she alleged to have hired
| and cannot conceive what became of
her. All OF the girls clothing remain
at her brothers house and all she took
with her was what she wore. The affair
has a singularly mysterious appearance.
- Weekly Wisconsin.