The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-02-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

HE new temperance paper to be
started at Portage viii be called the
Portage Advertiser.
The dissection of a cat for purposes
Of instruction has gathered cloud Of
trouble about the head of a Milwauke
school teacher.
A POLISH saloonkeeper at Milwaukee
was refused a license by the mayor
He then moved his place of business
into little piece of land owned by the
United States government, where tho
city authorities cannot reach MIN, and
where he dispenses the forbidden bever-
ages with impunity.
JOHN W PPER's barn and granarv,
in the town OF New Holstein, burned
few days ago. Mr.. Piper laid lighted
cigar on one of the beams while he took
turn at pitching hay. The cigar fell
into the hay and soon there was live
ly blaze. Loss 500. Twenty head of
horses and cattle were rescued.
A MAN by the name of Wright was
shot and instantly killed by his son,
Robert Wright, at the village of Thorp,
about thirty miles east of Chippewa
Falls, on the 4th. The father came
home in an intoxicated state, and In q
quarrel between himself and son, the
son committed the terrible deed.
AFTER listening to elaborate argu-
ments pro and con by interested COM
mittees and individuals for two days,
the board of control of the State Agri-
cultural Society, on the 4th, decided not
to permit liquor selling or gambling
games on the state fair grounds.
HERMAN KRANZIsCH, a young German
boarder at the Farmers Hotel, Portage,
was taken i'll on the I'd, when fellow
bOarder, a peddler, undertook to re-
| lieve him by administering about fifteen
| drops of tincture of aconite, resulting
| n KrauZisch's death three hours later
| The peddler, on learning what he had
| done, attempted to hang himself, but
was prevented, and is now under arrest
THE American House at Princeton,
| caught fire on the Sd from defect
i've chimney, and was totally destroyed.
The loss on building and contents is
estimated at $4,000 on which there is an
insurance Of only $4,000.
FREDERICK THEILE, of Waukechon.
Shawauo County, was almost instantly
killed by kick in the breast from one
| of his horses. MIR. Theile was AZ years
of age. He leaves 4 wife and two chill
dren.
A 9YEAR,oLD daughter OF Fl. Han
stedt, of the town of Hartland, Shawano
| County, fell off a sIed-load of hay on the
| lst inst, and was run over by team
that was following. One of her legs
was so badly broken and mangled that
| amputation was necessary.
FRED. belize attempted to kill his
wife and son at Appleton on the 1st
| inst, while in drunken passion. He
choked his wife numerically, and cut
his son Charles badly with an axe. He
was arrested and is now serving a SEN
tence of six months.
4. G. RATsCHKE, of Waupaca County,
| attempted to commit suicide at Apple
| ton on the I'd, by beating out his brains
with club, but was arrested in the at
tempt by an officer Later he endeav-
ored to accomplish his purpose by but
| ting his he'd against wagon wheel.
Complaint was made and he was ad-
| judged insane and taken to the North
ern hospital. He had about $500 on his
person beside letter bidding his rela-
tives farewell.
THE La Crosse GasEght Company
has sold its plant to W. w. Woodbury.,
of Minneapolis, w. L. Crosby, OF La
Crosse, and S. r. Edwards, of EIkhorn.
| The amount of stock transferred was
| 100000.