The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-24
UESCOySEN STATE VIEWS.

a PLAN mas been adopted IN Mllweu-
/ kee looking to the establishment OF
manual training in the city schools.
/ TIE Milwaukee Exposition closed
on the 18th. 1t is stated that the ex-
position was losing game this year
/ AUGUST MARKET, who owns a farm
IN the town of Milwaukee, a few miles
/ north OF the city, took a dose of Paris
/ green on the 9TH and died the same
night. The deceased was "a years OF
/ age. He leaves a family of several
grown-up children and wife.
/ IT is reported that a number of
horses at La Crosse are afflicted with
tglanders.
/ DIPHTHERIA is prevailing at Eau
/ Claire to an alarming extent. Ten
new cases were reported on the 18th.
/ SWIFT Justice was illustrated at
| Milwaukee on the 10th inst, when a
/ young man stole a small sum of money
| early IN the morning and escaped.
/ Within six hours the thief was cap
tured, tried, convicted, sentenced, and
/ was on his way to the house of correc-
/ ton
! IN the circuit court, at Eau Claire on
/ the 18th, George Harrington and Will
4 lam Riley, were arraigned on q charge
/ Of assault with intent to commit high
way robbery upon Sever f. Brimi,
/ prominent citizen of that city, in July
/ last. Riley was discharged, having
proved an ahbi. Harrington was
found guilty.
! Two men are working a swindling
! scheme on the farmers in the interior
| OF the state. They have a number Of
/ cheap finger rings, and fix the price
| thereon at S45 apiece. They will ad-
nit that the price is high, but allow
| the purchaser an opportunity on a
game of chance by guessing. They
take two boxes and purport to place
S75 in one and S15 in the other,
in bills. From one box they will leave,
as through carelessness, thecorners OF
so and a So bill protruding. The
purchaser will be told to take his
choice, and will at once Jump at the
conclusion that the S75 are in the
| other box and call for that, in which
viii be found S15, which he gets, but
pays, withal, $50 for cheap ring.
WILLIAM J. WAGNER, of the town OF
| Primrose, Dane County, was convicted,
at Monroe on the 18th, OF murder in
| the second degree, for the killing OF
frank Hyde, OF Monticello, at New
| Glarus. July 4.
ARTICLES OF organization of the Mil
wauBee Malt Extract Company have
been filed at Madison. The capital
stock Is S25. 900, divided into $50
shares of 500 each. The company
| comprises Otto Zwietusch, Conrad Mu-
I T,n,,ay4 NJ
Zinn and Charles Kiewert.
Mrs. HANNAH RE1fLEY. who had been
| on trial in the circuit court, at Dodge
| vile, for three days as the accomplice
| OF her youthful son in the murder OF her
husband. Conrad Remley, was found
/ guilty, on the 4th, the Jury being out
only seventy minutes. The son, who
/ Is already serving a life-sentenCe for his
/ part in the crime, was brought into
court as a witness. Mrs. RemIey was
/ sentenced to Imprisonment in thestate
/ penitentiary for life, Oneday each year
| to be spent in solitary confinement.
Her attorneys, will endeavor to secure
a new trial or an appeal.
The citizens OF Ashland and vicinity
have presented a strong petition to the
| general land office, to have the land
/ office at Bayfield, removed to Ashland.
! 1t IS represented that the greater pOr-
/ tIOn OF land requiring the work OF the
office is adjacent to the latter place,
and that Bayfield, was selected at a
time when the principal means of COM
municatiOn in that region was a
steamboat. Ashland is now reached
| by the Omaha, Northern Pacific and
| Wisconsin Central, and to put the
| office there would be a great public
| convenience and economy. Gen.
| Sparks has decided to grant the re-
| quest, and the office Will be removed
| to Ashland.
GEORGE W. CLEVELAND. 35 years Of
age, a brakeman on the St. Paul Road,
| fell from the top OF freight car near
| Milwaukee on the 14th, striking on his
| head. He was picked up in an uncon-
! scious condition, seriously injured.
THE Manufacturers National Bank
| and the Commercial National Bank OF
| Appleton, were consolidated, Monday,
under thename OF thelatter. Thecap-
| ital stock OF the Joint institution is
$50, 900, with surplus OF $50, 900.
| The following new stockholders are IN
| terested: Senator Sawyer, 5. W. Hay,
| Robert Mcmillan, and Charles Scribner,
/ Of Oshkosh
| THE board of trustees OF the Milwau-
| kee County insane asylum, at their
last regular monthly meeting. elected
| DR.. A. J. Hare, OF Milwaukee, to the
| superintendency OF the institution.
THE body OF Henry Pettys, who
| mysteriOusly disappeared from his
| clearinghouse, was found in the Mil
/ waukee River on the 18th inst. 1t Is
/ thought to be a case Of suicide.
DURING the noon-hour on the 18th,
a carpenter named Henry J. Blum,
! employed at SandersOn' : new elevator,
Milwaukee, accidentally fell from the
| upper part OF the building to the
! ground below, a distance Of sixty-hve
| feet. He was picked up in an iusensi-
| bic condition. His right arm and leg
were badly broken and he sustained
| other terrible injuries OF an internal
nature which may prove fatal. Blum
Ii. 81 years of age and has a wife and
/ trO children.
CHARLES H. TATE, ofNioIa, Richland
/ County. shot himself in the barber
shop OF the Headquarters Hotel, Bill
lings, Mont, killing himself instantly.
GEO. SCHwEITING was siashed with a
knife and several others injured In a
row on the steamer Sam. Neff, at Ap-
pleton.
HANS FRED. WTEBEE, 2 painter en-
ployed at the West Milwaukee railroad
shops, was run over by the cars and
instantly killed on the morning OF the
/ 18th.
Mas. MARY JESTER, aged "a years,
living in Milwaukee, cut her throat on
the 18th, in a period OF arrangement,
+ occasioned by illness.
On the 9th inst, while Gertie
Schroeder was engaged in washing the
third-story windows OF building on
Grand Avenue, Milwaukee, she lost
+ her balance and fell to the brick pave
ment below. Her neck was broken
and she died IL a few minutes She