The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-11-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

BEFORE the Woman's Board OF
Mlsslons at Cleveland, Miss Sarah
Pollock. OF Wisconsin, read a paper on
That Missionary Meeting" in which
she related her experience in establish
ing missionary society at Jackson,
Wis.
FRANK c. HADDoCK has nearly com,
pleted the biography of his father, tie
Rev. Geo. c. Haddock, who was as
sassinated at Sioux City, Ia. The
work, one of 800 pages, is to be pub
lished by Funk & Wignals, in New
York City.
WAsHBURN is building a city hall at
a cost OF $4,000.
EDWARD SoLBERG, an Eau Claire
farmer, was so frenzied by fright on be-
ing attacked by a highwayman that
he kicked the fellow into quiescence
and then ran home, yelling the while
it was found that the highwayman
had crawled away without disturbing
the wallet he had dropped in theroad-
way. The robber had torn half the
farmers clothes off during the scutfle.
FERDINAND BLEDORN died on the
28th at his home IN Milwaukee, from
the effects OF injury received the previ-
Gus night in the yard OF the North
Chica"o Rolling Mill at Bay View,
where he was employed as switch
man. His foot was caught in frog
and he was run down by switch en-
CINE. His right leg was crushed, his
left arm broken, and he sustained in
ternal injuries. The deceased was 20
years of age and unmarried.
THE coroner's jury in the case OF
Henry Schwenk, killed in the Pine
Bluff collision, on the North Western
Road, rendered a verdict, finding that
Engineer Martin Kelly, of the wild
freight, was running his train on the
passenger train Is time, contrary to the
rules OF the company, which oblige
wild trains to give ten minutes leeway
to passenger trains and that Kelly
must consequently be held for man.
slaughter. Kelly was arrested and his
examination fixed for November g.
WHILE the way freight on the Chica.
! go, Burlington x Northern Railway
was switching at Prairie du Chen on
the evening of the 28th, the conductor,
| Chauncy Monehan, in trying to save g
| little son of Ed. Rogers from being
| crushed between the chute at the cat.
| tle-yards and the car, was seriously
injured about the head and limbs by
losing his balance and being thrown
violently into stone pit. The boy
| had leg and his nose broken, and re
ceived severe injuries about the head
THE Eau Claire police arrested
Charles Holden, q well dressed young
| man who came in on train from the
| North on the night OF the 9th. The
arrest was made in response to infor.
nation from New Hampton, Ia
Holden's offense is not stated by the
Iowa authorities, but ne says he is
wanted for bigamy and confessed him
self to be guilty. He says that while
| he had 8 wife In Wisconsin, he married
a woman in New Hampton last Au
gust. When his Iowa wife learned o
this, he skipped out, and since that
time he has been dodging the sheriffs
and police all over the Northwest.
A LARoRER named Gottlieb Futtra
el llployed by Mueller & Son, box man.
ufacturers, while engaged in piling lum
| Der at the corner of Sixth and Poplar
! Streets, Milwaukee, on the 26th, slip
ped and fell to the ground and broke
his neck, death resulting almost in,
simultaneously. The deceased was al
unmarried man, about 80 years o.
age.
| WHILE a gang OF workmen were en-
gagged in excavating dirt for street
| grading purposes near the river at Nil
waukee on the Goth they uncovered
two boxes containing a quantity O.
human bones packed in sand. There
is no clue as to how they came there
but it is supposed they we're buried by
medical students.
WHILE practicing with a target al
Milwaukee the oath, Valentine Heu
berger was accidentally shot in the hip
receiving a dangerous wound.
JOHN FRANK, a afarmer living at Hale's
Corners, while unloading hay from his
wagon at a Milwaukee stable, on the
25th, was struck by q pItchfork fall
ing from the lott. One tine entered
his back beneath the left shoulder
blade, penetrating the lungs about
four inches. The wound is a dangerous
one.
The La Crosse Law and Order
League has begun the prosecution o
saloon keepers for keeping their places
open on Sunday, q special detective
having been around town last Sunday
when he secured evidence against thir
ty or more. The witnesses will be peo
pie who chanced to be in the varlou:
saloons at the time, and the proscut
ors say they have no fever than three
in any case--and eight in some.
JOIN LAWYERS new railway pom
toon at Prairie du CHEN, has been sue
cessfully Launched. 1t Is TO span the
east channel OF the Mississippi River
at that place ior the passage of the
trains OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & st
Paul Company. it is over 400 feet
long and 40 feet wide. More than l.,
100000 feet Of lumber was used il
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