The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-12-26
WTSCOySkS STATE SEWs.

WESCOySES STATE NEWS.
TIE Merchants National Bank, OF
Chicago, won its suit at Madison
against the Chicago Railway Equip
ment Company, the Judge directing
that verdict be rendered for S1O,-
944. This decision makes valid $780,
OuO IN similar notes now outstanding
JOHN MICHNA, John Pokryzwa and
Frank Lewandowsky, the Poles on
trial at Milwaukee for the murder of
John Datke, fellow wcountryman, were
convicted on the night of the 9th
The Sturgeon Bay G. \. r. named
+. ;. Minor as their delegate to the
department encampment in Milwau-
kee. ID. W. Stebbins is the alternate
A POsToFFICE is to be opened at
Porterville, on the line OF the Milwau-
kee q Northern Railway, with Robert
McNllhams as postmaster.
a YOUNG man, Knute Peterson, who
res 3es at Hudson, Wis, was instant
~ killed by q tree falling upon him at
Plunkett & Warren logging camp, be-
tween Weyerhauser and Bruce. He
was engaged in cuttinga tree which fell
IN an opposite direction from calcula-
tions. The remains were sent to his
former home for interment.
ONE o( the public schools in the
West division OF Eau Claire has been
closed on account OF the prevalence of
contagious diseases.
IT is said that Gov Rusk contem-
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stipulation that he should not return
to Wisconsin. Wilson is theman who
was convicted twenty years ago on a
charge OF having committed murder
in Milwaukee, and who was pardoned
out by Gov. Rusk a few weeks ago, on
the production OF testimony tending
to show that he was not guilty. Will
son is now at Troy. n. Y.
CHARLES WHEDON, the little Milwau-
kee boy who was bitten by a mad dog
some time since, died in terrible agony
on the nth.
ACCORDING to a report by the presi-
dent of the Wisconsin Dairymen' s
Association the number of COWS in
Wisconsin is estimated at 100000;
product of cheese, 80, ,O00pounds; but
ter, 100000 pounds; total value,
$4,000, 200.
IL different institutions in Wisconsin
there are at present 2,264 insane per
sons.
An effort is being made to arrange a
match between Evan Lewis, the Madi-
son wrestler, and Matsada Sorakichi,
the japanese champion, for 5000 or
$500 a side. The wrestling will take
place-if agreement can be reached-in
Chicago and New York.
WILLIAM PITT LYNDE, of Milwaukee,
died at his home in that city on the
18th, at the age of 6S years.
The Junior class OF the State Uni
versity at Madison, in obedience to
the rule adopted by the Board of Re
gents, will not issue the annual publ
cation called the Trochos.
A. E. BERG, a miner, of Florence, was
robbed OF S7OO at Commonwealth, on
the 18th. The money was secreted in
trunk, and presumably was taken
by some one acquainted with the
premises.
BOB TOOMBs, the general freight
agent of the Milwaukee & Northern,
is a nephew of Robert Toombs, the
deceased Georgian.
THE residence of C.. A. StOuch at
Eau Claire, was destroyed by fire on
the 10th. Loss 81 SOC; covered by
insurance.
THE sheriff of Dane County has
closed the general store of Patrick Carr,
of Pine Bluff, fifteen miles west OF Madi-
son. The liabilities are about 50, 600
or 1000; assets about the same.
The heaviest creditor Is said to be w.
J. Quan, of Chicago.
RECENTLY Mr.. Magner, of Richard
son, captured one Of the largest, ii not
the largest and finest specimen OF the
eagle tribe ever seen in this country.
He is of the bald variety, and spreads
eight feet from tip to tip.
THE jury in the case OF Mary Mul-
cairns against the city OF GAINESVILLE to
recover $4,000 damages for fatal in
iuries received by her husband, Thomas
Mulcairns, by the caving in Of fire
cistern, August IS, 1884, came IN on
the 18th, finding for the plaintiff in
the sum OF $4,000.
ONE Of Milwaukee's philanthropic
citizens is about to open rat pit in
that city for the amusement OF the ris-
ing generation.
AT about 10 O'Clock on the morning
OF the 18th, the body Of John Garde
wig, about 40 years of age, formerly
employed as helper in a butcher shop,
at Kaukauna, was found hanging in a
slaughter house about half a mile from
the city, in the town OF Kaukauna.
He had been drinking excessively and,
according to the verdict OF the jury at
the inquest, he committed suicide.