The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-28
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

| huOSS ldItDES ISSll4C III llc lONH VI
Milwaukee, died on the night OF the
10th from the effects OF dose OF car
holic acid gwen him by his mother
Pduring the previous night by mistake
for medicine Lett by the doctor.
NAME TAFT, aged II years, was
| found III a dying condition near her
| fathers house on the outskirts OF Mil
waukee, on the night o. the Goth,
with bullet wound in her head. Al
| though it is proved that she fired the
| shot herself, her friends deny that she
committed suicide, claiming that the
shooting was accidental.
HENRY SCaLOSG, a mailCarrier at
| La Crosse, has been consigned TO the
Mendoza Insane Asylum. One OF his
| delusions is that he car les q lie IN
suranoe Of S15o,000.
Hans E LEA, OF Eau Claire, has in
vented new form OF the old windmill
boat-propeller.
| ERNST LEHMAN, aged 20, VINO lett
| Milwaukee for California, recently, was
kelled by falling from the cars, near
Elko, New
Mas. MICHAEL HEBRON, OF Brady,
Richland County, was tossed to death
by vicious bull.
BURGLARS entered the dry goods
store OF L. Harris & Sons, on Grand
Avenue, Milwaukee, on the night OF the
18th, and got away with goods valued
at about 81, 500.
THE contract for building the freight
and passenger depots for the Chicago,
Burlington K Northern Railway, at
| La Crosse, has been let to Il. l.. Rey
nolds for $4,000. The passenger de-
pot Is to be 40 by 120, OF brick with
slate roof, and the freight house so by
14O, OF the same material, 10 be COM
| pleted by the middle OF November.
Mr.. Reynolds is the man who Is build
ing the forty-stsllroundhouse and has
1t three quarters completed.
THE recent railway boom at La
Crosse caused quite an advance IN the
value OF real estate. J. B. Canterbury
recently purchased a strip OF land on
what is known as the ''causeway," 4"
500 feet long and 800 feet deep, for
| 81, sos. He sold the same property
for $4,000, having held it only one
day.
TIE Eau Claire Free Press reports
that the Chippewa Lumber and Boom
Company has purchased the entire
| stock of lumber in the yards OF the
Sherman Company, and that the
| planning mill viii be started to dress
| about half OF it FOR the market.
An action mas been commenced by
Henry Richards against the town OF
Bridge Greek, Eau Claire County,
claiming damages to the amount OF
$4,000, for injuries alleged to have
been sustained by falling through 8
| detective bridge with his team, IN that
town, some months ago. Mr.. Rlch-
ards has been in a precarlous condl-
ton since the accident, and his recov-
cry is considered doubtful. The litI-
cation promises to be protracted.
MARTIN PETERSON, an empIoye OF the
st. Paul, Minneapolis K Omaha Rail-
road Company, while attempting to
couple freight car IN motion, at Eau
| Claire, fell under the wheels and had
one OF his legs severed at the knee
Joint. His nome is near Menomonee
| Junction, Dunn County, where he has
q wife and three children.
DAVID Gloss, a resident OF the town
OF Bridge Creek, Eau Claire County, ar
rested on q charge OF firing the Free
Methodist Church near Augusta, had
an examination before Justice Camp
| bell, OF Augusta, and the evidence be
ing insufficient to sustain the charge he
was released. The total loss on the
building and contents is placed at 81
| 600; uninsured. Steps are shortly to
be taken TO rebuild.
BURGLARS entered the house OF Rev.
s. w. Homer, pastor OF the Methodist
Church at Madison, and carried away
several gold rings, a bracelet, some sill
| verware, bed clothing tides, aud 50 IN
cash.
DR.. BUCKMAsTER, OF the state insane
hospital, at Madison, has abolished
the system Of mechanical restraints
used with violent patients for years
past. The cribs and beds have been
| remodeled into ordinary beds and the
other apparatus has been stored.
| This system has been in vogue In Ohio,
Alabama and Maryland for some time
and with good results. Chemical re-
straints, or those caused by opiate,
have been abandoned for some time
at the state hospital.
A SPLASH from the Little Falls and
Paintcreek dams caused four-ioot
rise at Eau Claire on the 18th, and
| from 1000, 600 to 7,000,0 900 feet OF
lumber in rats were started on the
| flood. The principal consignments
are to Winona, Hannibal, Burlington,
| Dubuque and st. Louis.
Paul FAUCET, OF North La Crosse,
was killed in Indian Territory, while
engaged in constructing a railroad.
He was run over by a wheel-scraper.
| d.. !
/ Partridge and quail are plenty IN the
woods and thickets this year, for the
| first time IN ten years. This is attrib-
uted to the dry season which has beeD
favorable to bird Matching"
HERMAN II. BoRKE1THAGES, a ship
carpenter, received probably fatal in
iuries at Wolf & Davidson's ship-yard,
| Milwaukee, on the 18th. Hefell twen-
| ty feet to the deck OF a vessel on which
he was at work, fracturlng his skull.
OF the ten mills in the La Crosse
| district but four are running, the bal
ance having shut down the past two
weeks. Unless the water rises all but
one will be out OF logs. The closing OF
the mills deprives q large number OF
employment, but the railroads furnish
a vast amount OF work, and II the riy-
er rises there are plenty OF logs that
may come into the boom easily and
the mills would resumefor the balance
| OF the season.
CHAs. LAWN was murderously as
saulted at Racine, by three men, and
is in a critical condition. Two broth
eTs named Galligen and a man named
Patton have been arrested on suspi-
| cion.
HENRY OLDER, who fell from q
church in La Crosse-a distance OF fifty
| feet-js rapidly recoverirg- a broken
wrist was the most serious injury he
received.
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