The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-07-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

ONE hundred men went North from
Milwaukee on the 10th to begin work
on the Norrie iron mine, which is To-
Gated on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore
4 Western Railroad near Ironwood
Station. The mine is owned by East
ern men.
Two men, Julius GIeissner and
Charles Trip, painters, were proba-
bly, fatally hurt by the fall of scat
fold on the st. Stanislaus Church, Mil
waukee.
Mrs. w. d. DEAN, the woman who
was so seriously injured at Appleton,
by a runaway horse, will recover.
THE beer bottling establishment of
Jacob Stubler, in Eau Claire, has been
closed by creditors. The immediate
cause Of the collapse was the levy on
account of the chattel mortgage for
S752 in favor of the Schlitz Brewing
Company, of Milwaukee.
w. l.. BRAY, of Cobb, committed
suicide by cutting his throat, at Dodge
vile. He was found on the morning
of the 10th, IN a Chicago e North
Western box-car, dead. Continued
sickness probably caused temporary
insanity.
DURING a circus parade, at Appleton
on the 18th inst, thieves entered j.
B. Hushey's house and stole $3.50
worth of silverware and jewelry and
S15 in cash.
The Menomonie Water Works Com
pany, has filed articles of association
with the secretary of state, at Madi-
son. The capitol stock is 100000
Mrs. HENRY BLUM, aged 50 years
and wife of a wealthy real estate deal
er of Peoria, H., fell from a south
bound Northwestern train near the
village of Brooklyn, early on the
morning of the 10th, and was instant
ly killed. She was returning from
Saltwater, Mimi, to her home in
Peoria.
THE house of Edward Devers, in the
town of Arthur, fifteen miles from
Chippewa Falls, was the scene about
midnight of the 18th, of terrible
tragedy, in which John Cane, farmer,
was shot and instantly killed by a
man named Johnson. Cane came
home late in anintoxicated condition,
and after driving his wife and two chill
and started for Devers' house, which
is just across the road, and asked to
be admitted. Devers, who had re-
tired, arose and opened the door.
Cane struck at him with an axe, and
followed him into the house, striking
at him several times. johnson was
sleeping in an adjoining room, and
hearing a rumpus, came to Devers'
assistance with shotgun. Cane
turned on Johnson, who fired the
charge, which passed through Canes
body, killing him instantly.
THE secretary of the State Board of
Charities IN the report for June, gives
the following figures: Total number
of inmates of the various asylums,
755, of which $50 are males and 375
equals ordinary labor is forty-three;
those capable of doing half or more
than ordinary labor, 172; less than
half or ordinary labor, 275.
A NOTORIOUS rough named Bill Riley,
and an accomplice named Harrington,
waylaid and assaulted S. f. Brimi,
prominent Eau Claire clothing
merchant, while he was on his
way home on the night OF the
l. 5th. Brimi was knocked down,
but his injuries were not sufficient to
prevent him calling for help. His
wounds are serious but not dangerous.
The rascals were after money, and the
circumstances attending the affair
show that they were also after blood.
EIGHT hundred men left Eau Claire
- ~ - h.,
Mountain division of the Central
Pacific Railway.
A YOUNG horse driven by Dent Hor-
ton, of Appleton, became unmanage-
able on the circus grounds near that
place on the 18th, and struck Mrs.
Dean, wife of farmer living a short
distance north OF Appleton, causing
an injury to her side which resulted in
her death a few hours after the acci-
dent. No blame is attached to the
driver.
THE machine shop of Rivers &
Vest, at kaukauna, was burned on the
18th inst
FRANK GURATZsKY. aged Is years.
employed at the National Knitting
Works, on Clinton Street. was drowned
while bathing in the Kinnickinnick
River, near Lincoln Avenue bridge,
Milwaukee, on the 18th.
LIGHTNING struck and burned the
house of f. Herkmar, one mile east OF
kaukauna.
AT 2 O'Clock on the morning of the
18th, the dwelling house and restau-
rant of Mrs. Collins, Kissinger & Co. s
shop and the flour and feed store OF
Otto Plathner, at Spencer, We're de
strnved by fire Loss ahout 50 500.