The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-17
WISCONSIN STATE VIEWS.

Ar the second days session of the
| Wisconsin State Anti-Prohibition Con-
ventlOn at Milwaukee on the 9thinst.,
the following officers of the state as
| soclatlon were elected: President,
John \. Hinsey, of Milwaukee; first
| vlce-president, Jacob Heck, of Racine;
| second viCe-president, Henry Emder,
OF Portage; financial secretary, A. B.
Judd, OF Milwaukee; recording secre-
tary, A. f. Greulich, OF Milwaukee:
/ treasurer, Emil Kiewert, of Milwaukee;
executive committee: August F. Mill
| er. OF Milwaukee; Joseph Deuster, Of
Milwaukee; Henry Hegemeister, Green
| Bay; John Toeller, La Crosse; Peter
| Barth, Milwaukee.
The young man who threw himself
IN front OF train on the Northwest
ern road near Milwaukee was Fred
Ehleiter, the 24-year-old son of a
| farmer living in the town of Lake. A
| cOroner's Jury returned a verdict ofsui-
eide. The testimony showed that the
young man had been sufferer from
epilepsy, and had frequently threat
ened to kill himself.
ARTICLES OF incorporation have been
| filed at Madison, OF the Bayfield, Har-
Dor q Great Western Railway Com
pany, which proposes to run a line
from Bayfield, southwest to point on
the Minnesota state line in Douglas
County; also branch from the main
line in Douglas County to a point IN
Wisconsin opposite Saltwater, Mimi,
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tai stock is S5,0O0,00O. The incOr-
porators are w. f. Darymple, G. H.
NOyes and d. c. Millett, OF Milwaukee;
Oliver Dalrymple, of st. Paul, and d.
f. Glover, OF Bayfield,.
JAMES KELLEY, the murderer of
Patrick Kennedy, was captured near
Galesville, on the Sth, and lodged in
jail at La Crosse.
News was received on the Sth of the
| death OF Louis Knoll, an old resident
OF Milwaukee, who committed suicide
IN Kansas City, Mo, by hanging him.
self in an empty freight car.
AN unknown man committed suicide
at Bay View, on the Sth inst, by tax
ing a position in front OF Chicago &
| Northwestern train and deliberately
laying his neck across the rail.
GEORGE BULLARD, freight conductor
on the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
d Omaha railway, was run over and
killed on the night of the 7th, while his
train was pulling into Menominee
junction. The remains were shipped
to Fairmont, Mimi, his late home.
Bullard was about % years old and
unmarried.
THE Society OF st. Jean Baptiste will
hold It's first convention and banquet
in Marinette, October q and 2S, when
eleven societies will be represented. A
large convention of the same order has
recently been held at Holyoke, Mass
PROF. GEORGE NJ. GUERNSEY died at
| Platteville, of disease OF the brain
| Mr.. Guernsey was born at Tioga, Pa,
in 1928, and graduated at Amherst,
| Mass. HeCametO Wisconsin in 1853,
and for two years was a professor in
| Milton College; in 1860 he assumed
| charge OF the Platteville Academy and
served as principal until that institu-
| ton was changed into a state normal
| school; he was the first professor of
mathematics in the normal school,
| and served IN that capacity until 1868,
when he resigned. From 1874 until
1873 he was superintendent of schools
| for Grant County. Alter this time
| and until his death, he devoted his
| time and energies to fire and life insur-
ance. He leaves a widow and two
children, both daughters, the eldest Of
| whOmisnOw teaching at Geneva Lake,
Wis.
A LARGE black bear, weighing 295
pounds, was shot at Elk Creek,
about eight miles west OF Eau Claire,
on the 9Th, by Willie Hodge, afarmer' s
boy. Bruin was found in the under
brush enjoying lunch.
An incendiary fire at Brodhead on
the night OF the 5th, destroyed a ware
house close to the railway station, be-
| longing to the Robert Taylor estate
Loss on building hardwood lumber,
and Cased tobacco, staves, etc, owned
| by other parties, about 1000
| Mostly insured.
On the 4th inst, while a party Of
boys were hunting ducks at Pine Lake,
| near Belle Plain, Shawano County, one
| of their guns was accidentally dis
charged. Thecharge entered the leg Of
Lee Rouse and so badly shattered it
| that amputation may be necessary.
THE shoe store Of William Mast, en-
| Wisconsin Street, Milwaukee, was
damaged to the extent of 5000 by a
supposed incendiary fire on the night
| OF the 9Th.
EDWARD MONROE pleaded guilty to
| horse stealing, on his arraignment at
| 70 70
state prison for term of two years.
DR.. HEINRICH MAYR is studying the
| forests of Wisconsin, under the direc-
ton of the Bavarian government. He
recently visited Taylor County.
EDWARD JAMES, a little son of Robert
son James, of Milwaukee, swallowed a
narrow gold plate about three inches
| long, while asleep on the night OF the
| 4th. The plate had been placed in his
mouth by a dentist to straighten
crooked teeth. The little fellow has
suffered no particular inconvenience as
| yet on account of his strange morsel.
| PROPERTY in La Crosse to the aggre-
| gate value OF S35, 900 has been pur-
chased by the Chicago, Burlington &
! Northern and Chicago & Northwest
/ ern Railroads.
OVER 1000 people visited the Mil
waukee Exposition on the Sd inst.
THE Franciscan Fathers at Keshena
are building a large addition to the
sisters school building.
CONRAD FAUST and George Mainz, OF
Bailey's Harbor, Door County, are
under arrest for illegal voting.
FIRE broke out early on the morning
OF the 4th, in the rear OF the saloon OF
Otto Schesock, Marinette, consuming
seven buildings, including the CONNER
cial House and several places OF bust
ness. The total loss is from S25, ,OOO
to $4,000; insurance about half.
The origin of the fire IS unknown. The
! rrincinal sl1ffarers gre as fnllNMs. ID