The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-27
WISCONSIN NEWS.

PARTIES in the town of Forestville,
Door County, have contracted to de-
liver 550,000feet of hardwood lumber i
Racine and Chicago.
THE German commission which is re-
ducing the transit Of Venus of 1882, has
requested Prof. Holden, of the Wash
burn observatory to make accurate de-
Examinations of the places of a number
Of stars whose locations are needed for
its work.
HERMAN SCHRAMME. the young man
who forged the name of his employer.
Mr.. Tanner, of Portage, to a money or
der fer S47.50, pleaded guilty in the
United States court at Madison OH the
10th, and was sentenced to pay fine OF
81 600, and committed to Dane County
jail to await payment. 1t isreported that
he has $l8, 600 coming to him from his de
ceased fathers estate il Germany, and
that his real name is Herman Traugott
Won Lindenheim.
THE Grand Hotel at Lancaster, re-
Gently completed by Henry Horstman at
a cost of $50 600, was opened by ban
quet on the night of the 18th.
The contractor of the new city hall in
Piatteville, refuses to hand over the
keys until be is paid. a Justice court
having decided in favor of the city, he
has appealed TO the circuit court.
THE annual exhibition of the South
western Wisconsin Poultry Association
will take place at Dodgeville, in Jan
uary.
JOSEPH VALIN COURT, a young La
Crosse jesse james, has confessed to
eight or ten burglaries.
Mrs LAURA DUFFY was found dead
in her bed at Ripon. She was 50 years
old,
In consequence of losses incurred by
the fire at Chippewa Falls, the previous
day, the following firms made assign
ments on the 18th: Lee & Larson
general merchandise, $4,000; W. q
Stoddard, clothing and furnishing
goods, $1,000; G. E. Dalton. general
merchandise. The Chippewa Times.
which was burned out, will be issued
from the Herald office for the present.
FIRE in Florence on the morning Of
the 18th, destroyed three business build
ipgs and property to the amount of
about 81 900, in the best business block
on Main Street. The Thermometer in-
dicated % degrees bslow zero, and only
for the efficiency of the water works and
fire department half the town would
have burned, as high wind prevailed.
THE brick residence of DR.. W. L. Ken
mel at La Crosse, was partially burned
on the 10th. The fire caught from the
chimney and burned beneath the roof
and ceiling, so that the first knowledge
of it was furnished by red-hot bits of
plastering dropping on beds where two
sick men lay. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
- 900.
n. J. WETMORE, proprietor of the
Badger State House, Superior, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself through
the head on the 10Th. Family troubles
are said to have prompted him to com
NIT the rash act.
AT an early hour on the morning of
the 18th, the saloon and dwelling of e.
Harland, at Wilton, Monroe County,
was destroyed by fire, the family barely
| escaping, and ali contents of the build
| ing being destroyed. After the fire was
over number of men congregated in
| the saloon of Charles WetZel, where a
| fight took place between John Jones
and Edward Steik, in which the former
was worsted. After breakfast Jones
again sought Steik, and found him in
Warster's shoe shop. Jones assailed
Steik, when Warster struck the former
on the head with a spade. causing an in
jury of which he may die. At last ac-
| counts he was unconscious, with blood
oozing from his mouth and ears.
Warster and Steik are under arrest,
awaiting the result of Jones' injuries.
AT Milwaukee on the 18th, Francis
ka Stachoska was placed under arrest
for killing her child with a pair ol
| shears.
FIRE III row of buildings on North
Barslow Street, Eau Claire, on the night
OF the 14th. destroyed property to the
value of $4,000.