The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-09-11
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

gu CnaU place has been conducted.
Having been refused admittance to
the place, they procured the assistance
OF an officer, aud upon entering the
cellar where the cheese was stored,
were staggered by the strong odor of
Inc cheese. Upon examining it, they
found 1t rotting and full of maggots.
Inc farmers asked when they were to
get Their money, and were told they
could take it out In cheese, but they
nad had all they wanted. 1t was as
eertalned that about two tons of the
STOCK was unmarketable. They had
supplied about $4,000 worth OF milk
during the season.
THE Shawano papers report that at
a recent meeting in the Lutheran
Church at Gresham a number of Stock
bridge hoodlums, all more or less under
one ihhuence OF liquor, took possession
OF the church. They abused the pas
tor, insulted the women and threat
ened TO whip anyone who should inter-
tere with them. No resistance was
offered them.
The La Crosse Republican reports
that the Burlington & Northern Rail-
way Company has formed an alliance
with the Minnesota & Northwestern,
whereby the latter company will use
the formers track from East DUBUQUE
east, and IN return the Burlington &
Northern are to have the right of way
and use OF the Minnesota d North
western west and to st. Paul-that is
to say, to use the Dubuque & North
western and Minnesota 4 Northwest
ern from Dubuque and st. Paul.
A NEW find of ore on section 1922
west, Ashland County, was made by
Capt. Michael ]. Hart. James o. Tor
rey has been offered $4,000 for his
homestead adjoining this find.
ROBERT A. ToDD, an old resident of
milwaukee, was murderously assaulted
by q maniac son on morning ofthe
81 ana nearly beaten to death.
A MAN giving his name as Norman
Bruce was arrested at Milwaukee on
the Sd charged with horse stealing.
he made confession, admitting that
ne had been dealing in other peoples
horsehesh for several months.
FIFTY tons per day is the capacity
OF the new iron furnace at Black River
Falls.
GOV. RUsK will investigate the rec
ord5 or the timber agents at ShaWanO.
1t IS reported that sharks are denud-
IGg state lands OF valuable timber.
They buy the land on contract by pay
ing about one-third down and agreeing
TO pay the state annual interest on
the balance until it is paid. The land
Is then stripped and allowed to become
forfeited to the state Or sold for taxes.
Thus denuded OF lumber the state can
not sell the lands again for the original
valuation.
HENRY OERTEL, who was so serious
" Injured at Ashland last May, while
driving Val. Blatz's beer wagon, died
IN the Wisconsin and Michigan hos
pltal. He was q man Of family.
A YOUNG man named Joseph Vance
tell into vat of hot water at Stillman
d Calkins' cooperage factory, Milwau-
kee, on the I'd inst, and was SO severe
ly scalded that he died within a few
hours.
THE epidemic Of diphtheria which
caused q number of deaths recently
IN Lewis Valley, in the north part OF
La Crosse County, seems to have
taken new start. On the 31st, two
children OF Martin Mallory died within
an hour OF each other, and another is
at the point OF death. The neighbors
are afraid to visit the house.
HORACE CHASE, al old resident, and
at one time mayor Of Milwaukee, died
AZ his home in that city on the 1st
inst.
a SAILOR named Charles Sharkey,
Tell overheard from the schooner Hat
tie Fisher, at Milwaukee, on the night
OF the 31st, and was drowned.
JOHN LINDE, a sailor, committed
suicide at Milwaukee, on the night of
the LIST, by shooting.
On the night OF the 31st, a man
whose clothing is marked OF. Kurth,"
hanged himself to g. tree in the La
crosse River bottoms, east OF the city.
There was nothing on his person to
show who his friends are. He was
probably a laboring man.
ERIC OLSEN, ofDownsville,c committed
suicide by hanging himself to rafter
in his barn.
THE small trunk factory OF Theo.
dore Porzorskai, and two small dwell
ings, IN Milwaukee, burned on the night
OF the 31st. Loss $4,000.
The Milwaukee Exposition was
formally opened on the evening OF the
LIST inst.
MORGAN l.. BURDICK, g. resident OF
Wisconsin since 1885, died at his home
IN the town OF Lake on the 31st. He
was "a years old.
MILWAUKEE was visited by a slight
earthquake shock on the night of the
31st.
ON the farm of Writ Wiser, in the
town Of Seymour, on the Both, sparks
from an engine used to thresh oats set
fire to the grain stacks, which were
completely destroyed. The threshing
machines and farming implements and
other property in the barn were also
burned. Theloss is about So, 800; no
insurance.
News has been received OF the death
OF Samuel Chandler, senior member of
the firm OF Chandler, Dewey & Davis,
Milwaukee, at Fenwick Hall, Saybrook
Point, Conn, on the Goth ult. He had
been in poor health for several
months, and went East a few weeks
ago for change OF climate. He had
been g. resident OF Wisconsin for forty
years.
THE corner stone OF new Roman
Catholic Church has been laid at Ash
land. The building will be one of the
finest churches in the Northwest. 1t is
TO be solid brick, 55x110 feet and 80
feet high above grade, with a tower "a
feet high. 1t is estimated that it will
cost when completed and furnished
nearly $4,000.
DR.. N. D. LANE, OF Plainfeld, has a
note issued by the Continental Con-
gress in 1776, that 'entitles the bear
er to receive Six Spanish MilIed Dol
lars or the value thereof IN gold OF
silver, according to B resolution OF
Congress passed in Philadelphia July
%, 1875"
THE post-ofIice in Shawano County,
formerly called Stoneville has been re-