The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-10
WISCONSIN STATE sEVS.

! delirium tremens.
/ WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
/ JOHN WICK, saloon keeper at Gratiot.
| laid down on the railroad track near
! Scales Mound, H., on the I'd inst,
and had his head severed from bis
| body.
| EIGHT frame residences and three
barns, on the North Side, Eau Claire,
occupied by a large number OF Nor
wegian families, were totally destroyed
/ by fire on the I'd inst. Total damage
| about So, 500; insurance about So
| 500 One of the houses was owned bv
| the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company. Origin of fire I'M
| known.
FRANCIS CLIFFORD, aged IS, commit
ted suicide at the residence OF his
| daughter in the town OF Unity, Clark
| County.
Mrs. CAMERON, wife of ex-United
| States Senator Angus Cameron, La
Crosse, is said to be failing rapidly.
She was recently injured in the spine
| by a ferry-bOat collision at New York
JOSEPH BoRCHERT has been ap-
pointed deputy collector of internal
revenue. at La Crosse, and took charge
OF the office on the 1st inst. Ed Ford
also assumed the duties Of deputy
| postmaster, succeeding f. w. Ellis,
who has been in the office twenty-tour
years.
LA CROSSE is to have a national
bank with capital of 500, 900 The
stockholders are nearly all Illinois
men, and the cashier is to be from
that state.
The family of David Atwood, the
veteran editor of the Madison Journal,
have presented the State Historical
Society with a fnelife-sized oil portrait
| OF the general, who has been a member
| OF the executive committee of the So
| Ciety from its inception IN 1S49, and
| for many Years past one OF its vice
presidents. The portrait was painted
! by James R. Stuart and pronounced
an excellent likeness.
THE goth and DIST of this month
| has been fixed asthe date of thefourth
annual meeting of the Wisconsin I'm
| dertakers' Association, which Will be
| held in Milwaukee.
| THE North-W Western Railroad Com
pany are making arrangements TO
| erect a new depot building at La
| Crosse.
| A MILWAUKEE tailor named Charles
! Brehm, committed suicide on the 1st
! inst. by hanging himself with a piece Of
clOthes-line. He was 80 years old,
and his rash end is attributed to in
temperate habits.
| A LABORER in Davidson's sawmil,
! at La Crosse, named Dahl, was struck
on the breast and head with a board
throw from an edger and fatally in
jured.
! RICHARD ROssTER, chairman of the
| Milwaukee County Board of Supervis-
! Ors, was committed to the County In
sane Asylum on the 1st, it being con-
! sidered necessary by his friends. 1t is
! thought that the attack is only tempo
rary.
\ HANDSOME slab OF marble has been
! received by the Milwaukee Light Horse
/ Squadron from the National Rifles, of
! Washington. d. c. The stoneis taken
1 from the material used in the Wash
| ington monument, is properly inscribed
and will be placed in the wall OF the
/ SquadrOn's new armOry.
Or the evening OF the 29th, while
/ City Marshal E. l.. DOolittle, OF Me-
nomonie, and County Treasurer Carroll
| Lucas were returning from chicken
/ hunt, one of their guns was accidentally
! discharged, the charge entering the
right arm OF Mr.. Lucas near the
shoulder and coming out on top Just
back of the shoulder Joint, horribly
tearing the muscles and fracturing the
/ bone. The doctors fear amputatiOn
will prove necessary to save Mr.. Lu-
cas- life.
A SAD affair occurred on a North
! Western train on the 29th. In the
second-class car was a Norwegian
woman, accompanied by her two chill
/ dren. Arriving at Appleton Junction
1 the woman attempted to wake the
/ little boy, 3 years old, who lay on the
seat in front OF her, but in vain, he
having died quietly during the night.
The passengers and train men did
everything in their power to assist the
/ poor woman in her trouble.
THE six months limit, under the
new law requiring dentists to register
with the State Dental Board, expired
on the 29th. Secretary Edgar Palmer
reports 3S7 qualified dentists in Wis
! cOnsin.
PETER OLSON, OF La Crosse, was
fatally injured by fall from thereof OF
new church in Lansing, La.
GUIsEPPI LOMBARDI, formerly a
lodging house keeper in Milwaukee,
.
at New York on the 2gth. He had
/ converted his possessions into a draft
for %, $50 francs, which he was about
swallowing under the impression that
he was beset by thieves, when ar
rested.
HERMAN WERNER, Of the town 0
/ Hartland, ShawanO County, Is charged
with intent to killAlbert Gipp. Shots
We're exchanged on both sides, and
/ Gipp retired slightly wounded.
IE Marinette three cases OF smallpox
have been discovered and a panic pre-
walls. The afflicted persons have been
isolated and everything has been done
( to prevent the spread OF the disease.
NELLIE MILLER, a La Crosse servant
girl, attempted suicide by drowning,
/ but was rescued by a lOiterer on the
/ levee and taken to jail During the
night she tried to hang herself with q
neck-scarf, but was cut down by the
sheriff.
THERE is trouble ahead for Bay
View. A short time ago all saloon
keepers in the city were instructed
to close their places OF business
on Sunday, under the state law.
One man kept open and was fined.
Now the saloon men propose to see
that the bakers, butchers, milkmen
and others shall also close up on sun
day.
4. W. BELL, who sued the city OF