The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-25
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hanged herself at her home in the town
OF Vienna, Dane County, on the 10th.
Her husband had been sick for a long
time, and for the past few months she
mad not been in good health.
The Northwestern Lumber Com
pany's large mill at Porterville is in
operation with a force of about 800
men. The Eau Claire Free Press saws
the establishment will run night and
day and will be Illuminated with the
Brush electric light
THE saw and flour mill of Andrew
Yang at Galesburg, Shawano County,
burned few days ago The fire was
caused by a heated shaft in the saw
mill. Loss, S22, 700; insurance, So
900.
The case of Elizabeth O. Hinton
against the Cream City Railway Com
pany, OF Milwaukee, was concluded on
the 10th, a verdict for So, 900 being
rendered. Mrs. Hinton sued for S1O,-
600 for damages received while alight-
ing from one OF the cOmpany's cars.
The Eau Claire Free Press SAYS an
other discovery of silver has recently
been made near Eau Claire, this time
near the Eau Claire Wooden mills, on
Otter Creek. Four assays have been
made, showing rich leads, one of them
beng represented as the best yet dis
covered in Wisconsin.
THE man named Danbury, OF North
La Crosse, who had his skull sawed
into across the forehead last season,
Is a marvellous example of the reCu-
peratlye powers OF the human body.
The wound has healed but shows an
irregular scar across the forehead
down to the right eye to a point under
theid. The sight Oftheeyeis impaired
\ large section OF bone was taken from
the center of the skull and the pulsa-
ton OF the brain can be plainly seen.
MISSES IDA B. FALEs and Alice J.
SanbOrn, of the class of 1888, State
University, and Matte Week and Ma
rie f. Dahle, of the class OF 1884, haze
entered 160 acres of land each on the
prairies OF Dakota.
AN unknown person fired into the
engine-cab OF a Chicago, St Paul, Min
neapolis & Omaha train at Eau Claire,
the bullet striking the fireman in the
neck; but having lost itsforce in crash
ing through the glass it inflicted no in
jury.
MILWAUKEE had a big hydrophobia
scare on the l 5th. Anapparentlyrabi
dog went tearing about the South
Side, biting everybody and everything
Thirteen persons are known to have
been bitten.
GEORGE FAULKNER, Il young man
living a few miles south of Columbus,
was fOOling with a loaded cartridge
on the 18th, when it exploded taking
of one of his fingers and destroying
the sight OF one OF his eyes.
Tue body OF Jacob Moledeur, an
inmate OF National Soldiers Home,
Milwaukee, was found near the en-
trance to the grounds OF the institu-
tiOn on the morning of the 18th. The
body was found at the foot OF an EN-
bankment, and there were indications
of foul play. Molledeur was 81 years
old, and had been an inmate OF the
home for about ten years. He served
during the war in q Missouri regiment.
w. B. BANTER, Of Lancaster, was
stricken with apOpleXy on the
18th inst, while eating supper, and
died in n few hours. He was a prom
inent druggist of Lancaster, and was
the proprietor of ''Baxter's Horse Lo-
ton" He leaves a wife and three
sons.
DRs. HASTEN and II. VI. Brown held
la post-mOrtem examination on the
18th upon the body OF the man, sup
posed to be John Kemp, who died
under mysterious circumstances at
Milwaukee the previous day. The
physicians found no poison in the
stomach, and decided that death had
resulted from natural causes.
MILWAUKEE, has a gurney.
CONGRESSMAN RANKIN Is again IN
Washington after three months milk
dieting in Georgia. He says: 81 am
feeling very well. Ihave lost ffty-fve
pounds Oftleshin the past three emOnths
but have enough left yet for weigh
165pounds now. How will get on the
next five months is not so easy to say,
for the doctors tell me can eat moth
ing but milk for a year"
JOHN FRANKIE, a grocer, the oldest
wholesaler in La Crosse, died on the
18th, aged y.
ABOUT 200 journeymen tanners at
Milwaukee are out on a strike.
INCENDARIEs got their work in sue
.cessfully at Eau Claire on the 18th,
setting fire to a building owned by
Frank Breck. The fire communicated
to two dwelling houses adjoining, all
Of which were destroyed. involving a
lose OF 80, 500, with 81, 500 insurance.