The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-11-13
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

DR.. RICHARD CoslNs, of Dodgeville,
was quite seriously injured by being
kicked by his horse while out in the
country making professional calls.
OLE JOHNSON. a Norwegian farmer
living north of Dodgevile, committed
suicide by shooting himself thI ough
the chest with a shotgun. Hehad been
IN poor health for some time and 1T is
thought that he committed the act
while in an aggravated fit of despon
depcy. His wife had gone out to milk
the cows, leaving him in bed. When
she returned he was not there, but was
soon found in the hallway upstairs
witt the gun by his side.
THE Rev. G. r. Burdick, OF Prairie
du Sac, has published a volume OF
verse entitled "Who Shall Wear the
Crown"
On the morning Of the 5th, one
the principal assassips of Attorney
Levy, of Eau Claire, Chas. Steinhoff,
was arrested across the Chippewa
| from where the tragedy occurred, and
placed in Dunn County Jail. Brocha,
who also fired at Levy, but missed his
aim, and another accessory, are yet
at large, but the officers are in hot
pursuit OF them. 1t is believed they
will be captured. A 32-calibre baP
has been located below Levy's brain.
but has not yet been extracted. Levy
is Of the law and collecting firm OF
Miner & Levy. He was shot while
serving legal papers. He has numer
Gus relatives in Milwaukee. He is the
son OF Louis Levy, a merchant OF Eau
Claire.
A FLUE in the boiler in the Valley
Lumber Company g Mill at Eau Claire,
collapsed on the 9Th, wrecking por
tion OF the engine house. Fortunately
the boiler room was vacant at the
time OF the explosion and nobody was
! injured. The prompt arrival OF the
| fire department prevented a costly
coniiagration.
THE Little Colby Iron Mining Com
pany has filed articles OF incorpora
/ tion IN the office Of the Milwaukee
register OF deeds. The incorporators
are II. NJ BENJAMIN, George c. Mark
ham, George H. Noyes, Herman Nun
nemacher and John s. George. The
capital stock is $1,0OO,O0O.
| LOUIS LARSON, a foreman in log
ging camp along the west fork OF the
| Chippewa, was brought to the Amer
! lean Hospital, Eau Claire, on the night
of the 31st, suffering from broken
leg-fractured in two places-and from
| otherwise serious injuries, caused by
log rolling upon him.
EARLY on the morning OF the 1st
at Andy Hamilton's bagnio, near Eau
Claire, 8 drunken Spaniard named
/ Pedro BlaEcO, who was a guest OF the
/ house, attacked Hamilton with dirk.
Hamilton caught him by the wrist and
| struggled with him for some time. Fl.
| nally, Hamilton, being cornered, drew
revolver and shot Banco in the leg,
| the ball lodging in the thigh. Blanco
is laid up. He is from New Orleans and
travels for cigar house. The wound
is thought serious.
IT is reported from Woodman that
while several young men were amusing
! themselves on the morning OF the 31st,
/ by rolling boulders down the bluff, one
weighing several hundred pounds
| dashed through the side of a building,
seriously, if not fatally, iniuring an old
lady ramed Everson.
THE measles is killing many swine in
the neighborhood of Syene. "The ami
mails act like man with the typhoid
fever" said well-known buyer OF
swine. "They become reducedin in flesh,
and many die, while others will pick
up and in the end fatten splendidly
The disease is Just as contagious as
typhoid fever, and when it once gets
a foothold in community it hangs
on tenaciously till it has killed of
numerous victims"
The Marquette, Houghton & Onton-
agon Railroad has been sold to syn
dicate OF New York and Western cap
italists. The purchasers agree to pay
$40 share for all the common stock
and $1lO for the preferred stock, any
time within sixty days. Theroad will
be made q part OF the through line be.
tween Duluth and Sault Ste. Marie.
ARTICLES OF Incorporation of the
Star Lumber and Grain Company
have been filed in the Office of the reg.
lister OF deeds at Milwaukee. The cap.
ital stock is $4,000. Harry NJ. Pills
bury, Charles Cutter and Charles
Behrens, Jr., are the incorporators.