The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-18
STATE VIEWS.


| THE North Wisconsin Lumber Com
| pany shipped 3S5 ears OF lumber from
| Hayward during March.
THE Eau Claire Free Press states
that the creditors of the Pioneers
| Lumber Company have authorized
| the assignee, Col. La Pointe, 70 Oper-
ate the mill during the saving season,
and to sell and dispose OF the com
| pany'S property as he may deem for
| the best interests OF all concerned.
| The total indebtedness OF the COM
| pany is about S26S, 900.
THE Appleton Crescent estimates
| that the new law will close about
twenty OF the saloons in that place.
Col. 5. c. MOWER. one of the propri-
| etors of the Milwaukee Sunday Tele-
graph, committed suicide in a room at
| the Kirby House. Milwaukee, on the
| 10th inst. by shooting himself in the
| head. No cause Is assigned for the
| act. Col. Mower was AZ years old.
| He was born in New England and came
| to this state in 1857. He served
| during the war in a Wisconsin regiment,
and was prominently identified with
state militia matters, for many years,
| and was last summer appointed by
| Gov. Rusk major of the Fourth Bat
talon, W. n. G.. He leaves a wife and
two children.
ALBERT kGPP, a 3-year-old child,
was killed at Milwaukee on the 10th
| inst. by the fall of small out-building.
! 4 ClOthesline was attached TO the
structure, and a strong wind pulled it
over on the little one, crushing him to
| death.
THE Chippewa Valley Hospital Com
pany have purchased a site in Eau
| Claire, on which they proposeto erect a
magnificent building for hospital pur-
| poses Their present place Is found
| patients, and the new building will be
cCmmOdious, complete in all OF its ap-
pOlntmentS.
AT La Crosse on the 10th, James
Kavany, school boy aged IA, in at
| tempting to climb on a moving freight
| train. fell between the cars. The wheels
passed over him, cutting of and hor-
ribly mangling one arm and both legs.
He died in three hours.
DAVID TAYLOR has been elected as
| sociate Justice of the supreme court
and Geo. II. Myers Judge OF the Tenth
| Circuit.
On the evening Of the inst, Mrs.
| Solomon Osborn, wife of Prof Osborn
OF Mineral Point, tried to commit sui
| eide by drowning For about a year she
| has not been in her right mind, but 1t
was only lately that she has threat
/ ened her life. She was rescued Just al
ter jumping into Spenseley's creek
! about mile from town.
THE preliminary hearing of James
| ). White, charged with embezzling
| seven 81, 900 Milwaukee city bonds
whilecomptroller of that city, was held
on the 9th. White was remanded for
trial, and his bond fixed at $4,000.
A NEW paper company has been
| formed at Kaukauna, to be known as
/ the Badger Paper Company. Villas, OF
! the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
Railway, Is president; Col. F'rambach,
vice-president and treasurer; John
! StOvekhI, manager. The mill viii be To-
Gated on the South Side canal.
THE following new pOst-Otiices have
! been established in Wisconsin-Bun-
CERT, Outagamie County; Glenwood,
St Croix County; Hempel, st. Croix
County; Morris, Chippewa County;
/ Oak Ringe, Pierce County; Randall,
Burnett County; Spokeville Clark
| County; Strm, Trempealeau County.
THE La Crosse Republican reports
| that the ice in Lake Pepin Is honey
! combing very fast.
THE extensive sash, door and blind
/ factory at Fond du Lac, owned by O..
| c. Steenburg, secretary OF the North
| Western Sash Manufacturing Associa-
ton, was destroyed by fire on the 9th
inst. The blaze originated by the
/ smoke-stack burning out. The factory
! was full OF manufactured stock and
| burned like tinder The loss is over
| $35, 900 with but $4,000 insurance.
The factory will be rebuilt.
THE ferry steamer Warsaw sunk at
| her moorings at La Crosse, on the
morning OF the 7th. The cause Is a
mystery. She was laid up the previous
night in good condition.