The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-08-18
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

DANE COUNTY farmers complain OF
hghtning-rod sharps.
JOHN RILEY fell from load of hay at
Stockbridge and broke his neck.
AN inventory of the estate of the late
r. II. Baker, of Racine, places Its value
at 81, 900, 900.
JOHN CoNNEBs, years old, was
drowned at Kiel on the 29th, by the cap
sizing of boat.
A NNE-YEAR-oLD boy named Siebel
was drowned at Taycheedah during
storm on the 31st.
Mrs. r. l.. MCCARTHY, of Palmyra,
Wis, was badly injured by being
thrown from wagon, on the lst.
A GERMAN named George Kotterol
committed suicide at Waterford on the
1st inst, by hanging himself IN barn.
THE annual fair of the Green County
Agricultural Society will be held at
Monroe, on the 25th, 26th, 9th, 18th
and 29th of next month.
REv. T. SNYDER has resigned the pro-
fessorship of English language and ut
erature In the Northwestern University,
at Watertown. and has accepted call to
Lutheran church IN Buffalo, n. I.
JOHN L. DICKINSON, postmaster at
Orange, shot himself with suicidal IN
tent early on the morning of the I'd
inst 1t is thought he viii die. Dick
inson has been deranged for some time.
He Is worth about S75, 600.
THE management of the Florence
Mine has decided to cease operations,
owing to lack of demand for the low
grade of ore taken out at Florence. This
viii throw 125 men out of employment.
The pumps will be removed and the
nine allowed to fill up with water.
WILLIAM TERRY was admitted TO st.
Mary's Hospital, Racine, on the ID inst.
While working IN the woods near Es-
canada, Mich, he split his foot badly,
and after binding up the wound himself
he started for Racine. He narrowly es-
capped bleeding to death on the way.
Mrs. STREw, wife of a farmer named
John Strew, residing near Gllllngham's
Corners, took 81, 800 of her husbands
money just raised on mortgage and
left for Chicago, where she wrote John
that she had left him and that she would
hereafter shift for herself The parties
had been married fifteen years.
The fourteenth annual fair of the
Southwestern Wisconsin Industrial As
sociation will be held at Mineral Point
on the 4th, 5th, 9th and 7th of next
month. The showing at the fairs of this
association have always been excellent
and it is confidently expected that the
coming exhibition viii be superior one
IN many respects.
J. V. Y. Plato, a Milwaukee attor-
ney, has brought suit against the West
ern Union Telegraph Company 10 recov-
er 800 damages alleged to have been
sustained by reason of the company's
delay in transmitting telegrapbic mes
sages which were entrusted to 1t by Mr..
Plato and by Judge Sloan, of Wauke-
sha, before whom he had business.
JOHN BICKFoRD, committed to the
state prison from Madison, April Sd last
on a sentence of SIX and one-haH years
at hard labor, for horse stealing, has
been removed to the insane asylum on
Lake MENDOZA. Bickford had been an
inmate of the asylum a number of times
before his conviction for theft, and It is
said his crime was committed during an
attack of his old trouble.
d. NJ. OSBORNE & Co., of Auburn, N.
Y, have filed the complaint in a suit
against Geo. Esterly & Son, of White
water. The action Is brought to recover
$3.50, 900 damages, which the plaintiffs
claim they sustained by reason of the
defendants making false, malicious and
hbelous statements to the effect that
Osborne & Co. are infringing on certain
patents in thelmanufacture of harvesters
and binders.
CAPT. BEFFEL, the Racine wrecking
master, has recovered the door of the
safe of the steamer Superior, which
went to pieces on Pictured Rocks, Lake
Superior, nearly twenty years ago. On
the inner surface of the door, imbedded
in sand, are from fifteen to twenty half
dollar silver pieces and one or TIVE gold
pieces One or two of the coins are
dated 1854 Capt. Beffel will search for
the remainder of the safe, as If is said to
contain large amount of specie.
THE articles of association of the Iron
Mountain Ore and Furnace Company
have been fled with the secretary of
State, the Incorporators being ID. E.
Richardson, G. ". Aruguist and w. J.
johnson. The organization is effected
with a capital stock of $500, 600, divided
into 1000 shares, and has as its object
the conducting of general iron-mining
business in the state of Wisconsin, and
especially IN the County of Sank. The
headquarters of the company are at
hudson, st. Croix County.
PAPERS IN a somewhat sensational di-
vorce case have been filed with the clerk
of the county court during the past week
bv Mrs. Juliette Watkins, who seeks
| deliverance from the marital bond which
| binds her to Edward J. Watkins. Both
parties reside Ia the town of Wauwatosa,
Milwaukee County, and are well
| known aud II comfortable financial
circumstances. They were married
| in 1861, and have ten children. Cruel
| and inhuman treatment of herself and
| her children are the main grounds
on which the divorce is sought.
Among the allegations of the complaint
/ Is one that the defendant had for three
/ months preserved sullen silence. hv-
ing with his wife but not speaking
word to her during that time. The
trouble between the pair has partly
grown out of Watkins administration
| Of property viii IN was left to hia 1r-;Fa