The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-07-21
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

CHARLES MILLER, aged II, was
drowned at Egg Harbor, Door County,
on the Fourth.
JOHN A. SAKE, a Chicago painter, was
drowned iu the canal at Ledyard on the
9th, while bathing.
THE name of the postoffice HamiIton's
Mill, WaushaIa County, has been
changed to Hamilton.
THOMAS 3. BRowN, a Chicago guest,
died suddenly of heart disease at the
higgins House, Waukesha, on the 2d.
THE cheese factory owned by Robert
Cameron, III the town of AshippuO, was
struck by lightning during the storm of
the 81 inst. and entirely consumed, to-
gether with large quantity of cheese.
The factory and contents were insured
i'll the Township Company for 81, 900.
GEo. DAVIS, a colo1ed barber of
Cambria, while drunk, cut James Price
III n dangerous manner with a razor. 1t
was at first reported that Price was
dead, and a mob quickly bad rope
ready for lynching Davis, but the report
was contradicted and the rDzOr- wielder
was jailed.
Mrs CHRISTIAN BAKTHINE, wife of
respectable young farmer, residing three
miles east Of Mazomanie, left her home
late on the evening of the 4tb, and next
morning was found dead, hanging TO the
limb Of tree III a neighboriug wood.
Domestic infelicity is assigned as tue
cause for the act.
ID. NJ. OSBORNE & Co., of Auburn, n.
Y, manufacturers of the Osborne self
binder, have commenced o suit against
George Esterley & Son, Of Whitewater,
ia which they claim damages III the sum
of $50, 600 for the circulation OF q state
ment to the effect that Osborne & Co.
have infringed some of the Esterly
patents.
FRANK SALTER, of the town Of Jack
son, Washington County, farmer and
breeder of fine-blooded cattle, died sud
denly on the 2i INST, after three days
illness. He was one of the most wealthy
and Influential men of the county. He
took especial pride in his hue herd of
blooded cattle, which were the source
of bis wealth.
OLLIE LUND, son of Mr.. Lund, of
Cambridge, about II years of age, was
drowned on the Sd inst. He undertook
to bathe III the tiume leading from the
dyke to the grist mill. The urder sue
ton of water which was rushing through
the gate drew him down, and when
70 nd his body was wodged in between
the gate and the bottom of the tiume.
FREDERICK C. ADDISON, late of De-
troit, Mich, formerly captain of Com
pany b, Third Michigan Veteran Cav
airy, died at his residence in the town
of Madison on the 4th, aged 80 years.
He was wounded i'll skirmisb with
guerriilas at Duval's Bluff, Mo-, in Au-
gust, 1864, and his death, after years of
intense sufferir G, was the ultimate re-
suit Of the wound, caused by a ball
passing through bis neck.
a SERIOUS accident marred the pleas
ure of picnic at f. s. Roswell's farm,
three miles from Whitewater, on the
Fourth Of July. Mr.. Rgswell's team
became frightened 10y an umbrella, near
Henry Williams, and overturned the
carriage. Mrs. Roswell and daughter
each had an arm broken. Mr.. Roswell
was severely hurt on the forehead and
Young girl named Signal was also badly
hunt. 1t IS believed that all will fully
recover.
AT Milwaukee on the morning of the
4th, Willis l.. Damon, aged % years, a
resident of Wauwatosa, was instantly
killed by lightning while driving a horse
and buggy near the intersection of
Grand Avenue and Thirty fourth Street,
the animal also being killed by the same
thunder bolt. The funeral took place
on the 65h at the residence Of the de-
ceased's father, Cyrus W. Damon. in
Wauwatosa. The unfortunate young
man had been married only three months.
THE decision in the Caswell will case
at Milwaukee is that Mr.. Caswell
was of sound mind and memory when
he executed the viii. The court de-
cided that the provisions of the docu-
ment, the sharp attention that the testa-
tor was paying to his business at the
time he executed his will, and many
other circumstances, prove his sound
mental condition at the time the will
was made. The will has been admitted
to probate. Mr.. Caswell left an estate
valued at $3.50, 000