The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-02-03
WISCONSIN NEWS.

pared. An effort will be made to get
the Wisconsin State Board Of Health to
confer IN joint session with the Michigan
board
CHRISTIAN l. kIEs, an old resident Of
Oshkosh, ianitor OF the Read school,
was found dead in the school house He
was go years of age. His sudden demise
was due to heart disease.
. GEORGE LLOYD was arrested at Ash
land on a charge Of obtaining money
under false pretenses. His bonds We're
fixed at 5000 and the case was adjourned
until March /.
FRED. JOHNSON, a young man living
near Union Grove, Racine County, was
attending some horses when one Of the
animals snapped at him and bit his
nose off.
THE barns of the GAINESVILLE Coal Com
pany, at GAINESVILLE, were damaged by
fire TO the extent of 5000. one horse
was burned to death.
The funersi of DR.. Joseph Hobbins at
Madison was attended by many people
from all parts of Southern Wisconsin.
! TIE 7-year-old son of Mr.. Becker, Of
Appleton, fell from q sleigh while bob
: bing and broke three ribs.
ACCORDING to the city directory for
1884 Racine has 4 population of 26, 80.
/ WILLIAM Boom, Il cOlored man, was
sent to the penitentiary from Fond du
Lac in December, 1892, to serve fifteen
months for cutting white man with 4
knife. Boom was ALWAYS known as a
shrewd negro, but he outdid himself in
an Gttempt to get out of prison. He
caused to be written letter, purporting
t. come from Kansas CITY. wherein it
was announced that he had fallen heir
to property worth $4,000. The mo-
mcnt it became known that he had So
/ much money, he sUrmised he could
/ command legal talent. The plan mis-
/ carried. for when inquiries were made
at Kansas City no information could be
+ obtained regarding the cOlored man :
patrlln0ny.
THE Wisconsin State University has
come into possession of an interesting
curiosity in the way of a dynamo which
was one Of the first used by Edison in
his experiments in incandcsccnt cleo
/ trio lighting. The dynamo was ob-
tanned from the Edison exhibit at the
/ World's Fair. The machine was con
structcd in 1850 in Edison 5 laboratory
at Menlo Park, and was used in test OF
lighting.
FINAL arrangements have been made
/ for the intercollegiate debate between
/ the University OF Minnesota and the
Wisconsin | University. The speakers
chosen to represent Wisconsin are:
George krOonckc. OF WilmOt, :. You
ker. OF Waterloo, and {. W. Lam0rcauN,
of Horizon. The dcbat" Will take place
/ early in the spring. The question viii
be submitted by Wisconsin.
I WORD has been received at Oshkosh
that c. f. IIeckes, Of that city, who 80
mysteriousIy disappeared three weeks
ago, has been found alive and we'll at
Eureka Springs, Ark. 1t was reported
recently that IIcckcs had been muir
dered. His parents reside at Zion,
/ Winncbago County.
! JoHN WEAVER was burned to death in
his own home in the village of Merton,
/ Waukesha County, while trying to cN-
] tinguish blaze caused, as is supposed,
( by an overturned lamp. His head and
feet were nearly burned off. He was -
years of age and lived alone, being a
WIdOWcr.
/ OLE QUALLE, Young man residing at
/ Mcfarland. Dane County, while work
! ing on an ice run missed his footing
and fell distance of thirty feet. He
I struck on pile Of ice and was picked
up almost litelcss. 1t is feared he can
4 not survive.
PETER PAUrsEN, Norwegian aged 80
/ years, proprietor of the Menekaune
/ Hotel at Marincttc. committed suicide
/ by shooting himself through the head.
/ He is supposed to have been tempo
rarily insane.
THE Eau Claire Pulp and Paper Com
pany's plant at Eau Claire was sold by
Receiver Burlington to Q. II. Ingram for
S4S, 800 The plant is 10 be started up
and operated night and day.
! Mas FANNIE RAYMOND, of Racine,
died at her home in that city of heart
failure, aged 20 years. Edwin T.
Dickey, also resident of that place
passed away at the age Of Gl years.
ANTON GENEsKY, residing near Port
age, was badly burned about the face
\ by the explosion of a pop bottle con-
tanning blasting powder. Mr.. Geucsky
held the bottle too near fire.
HAZE, the young daughter of Mrs. +.
l.. Morehousc, of Oshkosh. died from
the effects of an injury received by fall
ing on the open blade Of Il knife a few
days ago.
JONI PEINyE was seriously injured by
falling tree ut Mineral Point. His leg
WAS broken and he sustained severe in
ternal injuries.
+ HENRY GUNDER~oN, living near Eau
! Claire, was stabbed in the back during
quarrel al dance. He will recover.
I GILLN LENORE, Florence resident
has been arrested on a charge Of rob
bing North-Wc~tcrn freight car
THE city Of Oshkosh expended SS4S
upon its poor during the month Of De
Cember.
\ CASE of smallpox has been di5coy-
cred in the Rock County Jail at James