The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-11-21
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

LEN. LOTTRDGE's California excur-
sion OF La Crosse families is to leave
the Gateway City on the 18th of next
month. Their special car is the ed
Win Forrest" which is known all over
the country for its beauty and com
fort.
The trustees named in c. c. Wash
burns bequest for public library at
La Crosse have directed NJ. p. Wing to
prepare articles OF incorporation and
authorized a committee consisting oi
c. l.. Coleman, G. Van Steenwyk and
John NJ. Holley, to search for site
for the proposed building.
THE next annual meeting OF the Wis.
consin Dairymen's Association will be
held at Richland Center in January
next.
AT the North Chicago Rolling Mills
at Bay View, on the 18th, Frank Kroll
was almost instantly killed. 1t appears
that Kroll, who was employed to
drive a one-horse cart, working
in and about the mills, was pass.
ing along the road after entering
the main gate of the mills-the
road being parallel to railroad
track for some distance-when his
horse was frightened by a passing
locomotive and started to run away,
the driver losing all control of the
horse. After covering a couple OF hun.
dred yards, the cart suddenly came in
contact with a piece OF old boiler fiue
upsetting it and throwing young KrOll
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upon thehead and probably dislocated
his neck, iniuring him so that he died
IN short time.
FIRE in the Northwestern Sleigh
Company's factory, on Hill Street,
Milwaukee, on the night of the 11th
damaged the eproperty to the extent OF
5000. The cause OF the fire is un-
known.
EUGENE WooD, a farmer living five
miles from Lake Mills, 40 years old,
on the 11th shot himself in the abdo,
men with ashotgun loaded with gravel,
from the effects of which he died in an
hour. Insanity is assigned as the
cause of the suicide.
A YOUNG man named Elric Olson
mysteriously disappeared while foot
ing the way from Altoona to Eau
Claire. He was about to visit Nor.
way, and, as he had a large sum OF
money with him, it is feared that he
met with foul play.
THE farm buildings of Joe Savaria,
a farmer living twelve miles from Eau
Claire, were all burned on the night OF
the 10th. Loss $4,000; partially in
sured. All his hay stacks were burned
a few weeks ago. 1t is supposed both
fires were the work OF ap incendiary.
By the fall OF derrick at Madison
on the 11th, employed in erecting the
foundation of the new Science Hall,
Henry Haven, a mason, was fatally
injured
AT GAINESVILLE, on the 10th, the Jury
in the case Of Mary McKei VS.. the
city OF Janesville, brought in a verdict
in favor of the plaintiff for S1,70O
The action was brought by Mary Nc
Keigue, administrator of the estate OF
Bridget McKeigue, deceased, to recov-
er damages in the amount Of S5,O 600
for injuries sustained by a defective
apron on a crossing in April, 1888,
from which she died. The case was
tried last April and the jury disagreed.
Counsel for the defense entered a mo-
tion for a new trial and to set aside
the verdict.
FIVE carloads OF steel rails have been
landed in La CrOssefor the Burlington
& Northern Railway.
LOUISE KHER, a young unmarried
1,y I
tected, on the 9th inst, in committing
day burglaries in Madison. The fol.
lowing day she was sentenced by Judge
Braley to one year in the state prison
PATRICK KELLY, a teamster, had
both legs shockingly crushed by being
run over by log wagon near Shawa,
no.
IT is now stated that Milwaukee will
positively have a soldiers monument
next year.
THE partially decomposed corpse ot
middle-aged man was found in Lois
Creek, near Eau Claire, on the Sth
inst. The feet were tied to the roots
of tree with a strap. The body was
under water and the throat cut from
ear to ear. From the condition OF the
body death must have occurred six
weeks ago. The remains have not
been identified.
H. NJ. JOHNSON, an Eau Claire bust
ness man, dropped a pane OF glass
while walking home, and the next steI
he took drove a silver of glass into his
leg, severing an artery. He nearly
bled to death.
PAT CONNOLLY, a state base bal
celebrity, had several toes cut off by
a railroad train at Eau Claire.
FIRE on the night OF the 9Th, dam
aged the residence of Thos. Burns in
GAINESVILLE, to the amount OF 81 200
insured in the Fire Association of Phil
adelphia for $1,000.
A NUMBER of cases of glanders are
reported at Ashland.
MARF.ELD and Beecher, the most
desperate burglars ever captured in the
vicinity broke jail at La Crosse on the
night OF the 7th, by saving off the bars
in the upper corridor and dropping tC
the ground ten feet below. The escape
caused great excitement in police
| circles.