The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-07-11
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

CHARLES Miller, OF La crosse, was
sent to prison for two years for tap
ping till in Eau Claire.
THE La Crosse Chronicle reports
that Chas A. Hobbins was sentenced
to prison for two years for forgery.
CORsTENs & HARDWIG's brewery at
Hau Claire was totally destroyed by
fire on the morning of the I'd. Loss
$4,000; insurance on building, So
600; on stock, 50, 900.
DR. w. A. ANDERSON, appointed
United States cOnsul-general at Mon
treal. was banqueted by the citizens
OF La Crosse, on the night of the Both.
A SHOCKING accident occurred at
Williamsburg, a suburb of Milwaukee,
on the 30th. Mrs. Quadius used kero-
sene to assist in lighting the kitchen
fire. The oil was spilled on her cloth
ing, which took fire, and she was so
badly burned before help arrived that
she died in a few hours.
Ok the evening of the goth, boy
aged 13 years, named William Werk,
engaged in Parks bindery, Madison,
was operating the elevator, when his
head was caught between the elevator
and the second floor, and was terribly
crushed. He will survive, though with
his cOuntenance much disfigured.
OK the Doth, Carrie. daughter of
Layton Mills, and Jennie, daughter of
William H Miller, little girls each aged
s years, were padding about on a
raft in a small boat on Miller's farm,
in the town of Verona, when the raft
upset and both children were drowned
in four feet of water. The bodies were
recovered.
JAMES PORTER, Michael Farmer and
Dan Sweeney were overcome by foul
air in the hold OF the burned steam
boat, d. w. Blanchard, at Milwaukee,
on the afternoon of the Both, resulting
in the death of Porter, and the dan
gerous prostratiOn of the others.
IT is reported that herd Of thirty
horses, in a pasture near the Milwau-
kee house OF correction are afflicted
with glanders.
WILLIE SMITH, s years old, was
drowned in the MenOmOnee River at
Milwaukee on the Both He was play
ing with his twin brother on the dock
of the Northwestern Fuel Co, and fell
into the river. The body was recov-
cred.
STET's Brewery at Beaver Dam,
used by Navier Steit as residence,
was destroyed by fire on the morning
of the 29th, and three of Steit's
children were burned to death. The
children were Jacob, aged II years,
Francis, aged s, and Cecilia, aged ).
Mr. and Mrs. Steit saved themselves
and a baby by jumping from the win
dows. When the fire was discovered
at $50 the building was nearly
wrapped in flames, and the children
were probably smOthered by the
smoke The bodies were exhumed
from one of the large cellars. The
building and furniture were covered
by about $500 insurance, 1925 OF
which was in the Milwaukee Mechanics
A GERMAN farmer by the name OF
Karl Miller was drowned in the mill
pond at CIintonvilIe, while fishing.
Two frame dwellings in Eau Claire,
belonging to Jacob Johnson were
totally destroyed by fire on the morn
ing OF the 2Sth. q. H. Bagnall's
dwelling adjacent was damaged to the
extent of 5000. The entire damage
amounts to about 81, 800. Johnson
had S4OO insurance.
DISCOVERY was made on the goth,
that Miss Tutie Geissman, white girl
OF Is years, lad eloped with and mar
ried Harry Winborn, a colored
waiter.
CHARLES KRALL lost a leg in the
Frambach paper mill, at kaukauna,
by accidental contact with a pulley.
THE Rev. A. n. Experidon, a Bull
garian monk of the Greek Church, has
pitched his tent in West Salem, La
Crosse County, and lectures to thrOngs
of visitors. 1t is said that his singular
appearance and remarkable huency
OF speech prove wonderfully attract
i've.
AN Eastern firm is about to build
water works in MenomOnie, Dunn
County. The city pays $4,000 per
year for five miles OF pipe and eighty
hydrants, and the rates Tor private
consumption are not to exceed those
in Eau Claire. The works are to he
completed December /, next, and will
cost 100000
TUE propeller B. w. Blanchard was
partially burned at Milwaukee on the
2Stb. The weight OF the water used
in putting out the flames sunk the
hull with a cargo of flour and grain
The total loss will reach S25 900.
FRITZ DALLMAN, employed in Burn
hams brick yard, Milwaukee, Slipped
and fell on the 2Sth in such a manner
as to cause an internal hemorrhage
from which he died the following day
WHILE returning home from church
in tn suburbs OF Milwaukee on the
2Sth, Mrs Conrad Stoll was assaulted
and brutally beaten by unknown
parties.
THERE were three drownings in Nil
waukee on the 27th. Joseph Mathes
aged CO. fell from the government
/ breakwater while fishing, Edward Junt
was taken with cramp while hathin!
and Jacob Kranke, 3-year-old child
was drowned in an open sewer.