The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
STATE NEWS.

J. G. KEYEs, of Lafayette, Wal
worth County, exhibits pure Hubbard
squash that weighs 264 pounds.
A 2-YEAR old child, named Rick, fell
| into kettle of boiling water at La
Crosse and was scalded to death.
TIE dull times in sheep and wool
was shown by the small exhibition of
sheep at the state and county fairs.
MATT. WHITE, brakeman on the
Northwestern road, got caught in
frog at Racine, on the 9th inst, and lost
a foot
The receipts for the Jefferson Coun-
ty fair are reported to have been 3d.
200. more than sufficient to meet all ex-
penses.
DAVID MCMILLAN, of Whitewater,
threshed thirty-four bushels of winter
wheat to the acre, and about the same
quantity of spring wheat.
THE Peshtigo Eagle reports that
farmer in that town who expected from
700 to 500 bushels of potatoes has about
! bushel in 10 that are sound.
THE UPPER floor of the basket factory
at Weyauwega gave way under heavy
load of staves on the 9th, wrecklng the
building 20 the extent of $500.
G. G. STANDARD, of Prairie du Chen,
exhibits al ear of white dent corn that
measures 109 inches in length, Z ! inches
Ill circumference and weighs II pounds.
THE champion oat stack III Rock
County was in the town of Center. 1t
contained 700 bushels, the top weighing
seventy-four to eighty pounds to the
sack, machine measure.
A. W. GEER, who has resided in Ra-
cine County since lS4q, died on the 9th
inst, in the 62d year of his age, of can
Ger of the stomach. He was quite
wealthy and well known.
JAMES PANNIsToN and George Smith,
of Argyle, were arrested on the 9Th
inst for causing the death of a sister of
Panniston aged II years, whom they
criminally assaulted a week ago.
A STRANGER named William Lloyd
died suddenly at Washburn. All that
could be learned about him was that he
was Canadian and Freemason. The
fraternity buried him at Ashland.
THE private bank of George Krous
kop, at Richland Center, which was
forced to suspend last spring, has set
tied in full with all creditors and re-
sumed business with ample capital.
THE taxpayers of Pittsville, ratified
the sale of their railroad stock to
Wheehhan & Ward, by a vote of 136.
There were but fourteen votes to re-
sciud on the terms of George Hiles.
THE guardian of Charles ii. Hemming-
way, an infant, of Hanover. Rock
County, has brought suit against the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road for
$4,000 damages for injuries alleged to
have been sustained by his ward in a
railway accident.
THE safe in the general store of j.
Allen, in Livingston, Grant County,
was blown open and rifed of $500 in
currency and $4,000 IN notes. Safe
blowers also worked the store of Huse
& Rundall, at Rewey. in the same
county, but secured only So in silver.
LIGHTNING struck the barns of Henry
Schulz and James Conroy, one mile
west of Tess Corners, on the 9TH inst
Two valuable horses, worth $500, were
killed The barn did not burn. Mrs.
Schulz left the barn but five minutes
before the lightning struck it. 4 2-year-
Olu steer DeIouBluS 10 Joun lHiey, one
half mile west of Tess Corners, was
also struck by lightning and killed.
A YOUNG German woman named
Fredericka Engelking was arrested on
the 9th upon complaint of Herman
Hoefner, a New York city gardner. The
latter claimed to have been robbed of
5000 by the woman, with whom he was
living in Philadelphia several months
ago. Hoefner, who claimed to have
been divorced from his wife in New
York, finally offered to settle the matter
by marrying the woman. His offer was
accepted and the couple returned east
together on the 10th