The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The wife of Lou. Kennedy, one OF the
victims OF the recent pork poisoning at
Rlo Lake, Is dead.
Nj. HART, foreman of the Northwest
ern Lumber Company's planning mill,
at Portervllle, was violently struck by
a flying board, the injury terminating
fatally next morning. Deceased leaves
wife and two children at Porterville
The slaughter house and contents,
comprising the tanks and other arti-
cles belonging to Schwahn Bros.
butchers and packers, in Eau Claire
were entirely destroyed by fire on the
night OF the 30th Theloss. estimated
at -, 900, Is partially covered by in
surance in the Galloway agency. The
fire Is supposed to be the work OF an in
cendiary.
A FIRE in Fairchild village destroyed
the post-ottice and store adjoining
Nothing was saved but the contents of
the post-ottice safe. The total loss Is
estimated at 5000.
S. s. VAUGHN, one OF the leading and
most prominent citizens of Ashland,
died at his residence there at O'Clock
on the morning of the 29th.
JOHN H. KNIGHT, of Ashland, has
recently closed a deal with Chicago
parties for 200, 1000, 900 feet OF pine
stumpage. Logging operations in that
section are being pushed forward very
rapidly. There Is nowplenty of snow.
The only trouble nowis the possibility
OF there being too much. If not, all OF
the companies will get in their antici-
pated cut in good season. The largest
log banked to date scaled 500 feet.
The biggest days work with one team
was 10, 900 feet.
GEORGE W. MACKIE has resigned his
position as storekeeper in the internal
revenue Office, at Milwaukee.
DR.. R. l.. Cook, of Sturgeon Bay, is
under arrest on a charge of criminal
malpractice, preferred by Miss Annie
Johnson.
THE fishermen OF Sturgeon Bay are
receiving only from 8 to 81 cents a
pound for trout aud whitefsh. The
shipments are to Chicago.
THE suit of l.. c. Miles, pending for
several years against the Medford
Star and News for slander was decided
by verdict in favor OF the defendant.
THE residents around Polley's mill
and store, on the Oxbow, in La Crosse
County, have petitioned the postmas-
ter-general for pOst-Otfce.
A LA CROSSE lawyer named J. J.
Hirschheimer is under bonds to answer
a charge of embezzling a certain sum
OF money that he had collected for a
patron.
A MIXED train on the Central road
jumped the track near Montello on the
9th, ditching two cars and seriously
iniuring the brakeman.
ANNA SCHwEAfMER, who drank an al
legged preparation of croton oil and
brandy said to have been preparedby
Mrs. Paulina knight and Frederick
Kurth, got a Judgment Of S3,-
600 against them in the Milwau.
keeCounty court on the 25th. The YER
dict caused considerable surprise
among the legal fraternity. The fol
lowing is a verbatim copy OF thejury 5
verdict: I'VE the Jury find bOath
Deaffendends Guilty and we assess
the Damages at $4,000 for Plaintiff "
BLACK and Thompson, alias Smith,
who broke lall at Marlnette, were re-
captured at Sturgeon Bay. They had
both walked across the bay on theice,
and were in The act OF leaving town
with a rig, when they were overhauled
by the sheriff of Door County.
Dr. T. NJ. MILLER reports that thir-
teen residents at Rib Lake are serious
ly i'll from eating diseased pork. He
also reports four cases of prostration
from the same cause at a camp near
Medford. Portions OF the diseased
meat have been obtained for micro
scOpical examination.
Thomas CURLEY, a section hand,
caught his foot in a frog at the West
Milwaukee car shops on the 26th and
was run down by an engine. Both
legs were cut off.