The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-10-09
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

On the morning OF the Sd, the body
of Julius Seeger, aged As years, was
found IN the woods in the Milwau-
kee suburbs. There were no indica-
tions OF suicide or foul play, and apo
plexy is supposed to have caused his
death.
THE Rev. t. G. Macmurray, of
| Prairie du CHEN, has set out as a
lecturer under the management of an
Eastern bureau. He is to open the
season at Toronto, Can.
A LABoRER named John Tara, died
at his home IN Milwaukee, on the
morning of the I'd, from the effects of
injuries received by falling from a
building.
SECRETARY LAMAR has authorized
the removal of the land Office at Bay
field to Ashland. No change is made
in the personnel OF the office. The
principal reason for the removal is
that the largest body of available pub
lie land in the district is situated nearer
Ashland than Bayfield,.
On account of reduction of wages,
part OF the men employed on the new
railroad south of Monroe, struck on
the 1st.
THE pioneers of ofTrempealeau County
enjoyed a reunion at Whitehall, on
the Both.
JAMES 81. Lucas, of Wisconsin, has
been appointed fireman in the Post
office Department at Washington.
MILWAUKEE has added twenty-five
new men to its police force, making
a total of l SO men.
WHILE standing in the elevator
shaft at the store of Goodrich & Wag-
ner, Milwaukee, on the 1st inst, Hen
ry Friday was struck by the car and
badly crushed
On the 30th, the body OF Vasper
Hubbell, aged 65 years, was found
hanging in the storehouse of the Falk
brewery, Milwaukee. He had gone to
the city with the intention of going
into the meat business.
OLE JONsEBERG, living about two
miles south of Mt. Horeb, Dane Coun-
ty, committed suicide by hanging.
The cause OF the deed is attributed to
despair, Jonseberg having lived
drunkard's life up to a couple of years
ago.
JAMES MEYER, mate of the schooner
Granger, was Instantly killed by the
fOre-boom striking him while the yes
sci was coming to anchor off North
Bay.
A MAN and woman who registered as
Mr.. and Mrs. Duer Christi were arrest
ed at Madison and taken to Mankato,
Mimi. 1t Is learned that they were a
q w ir ord +ho+
Mrs. Christi is the wife OF a Mankato
man. The woman had with her a
baby about FIVE months old. She left
two children of tender years at home
for her husband 20 care for during her
temporary absence.
PETER IsAACsoN, fCT some time book
keeper for McMaster & Co., merchants
at Eau Claire, has disappeared, and,
although his accounts are straight
and there is no deficit in the funds, the
direction OF his flight and his present
whereabouts are equally unknown.
The suit of A. B. Ransom, of Eau
Claire, against the Milwaukee & st.
Paul and the Omaha railway compa-
MES, claiming $4,000 for the death OF
his wife, which was due to an accident
on the Omaha road, has been settled,
the defendant paying the attorney fees
and the costs, IN all 81, 500.
IRON has been discovered in Forest
County, an outcropping of fine hema-
tite.
INVESTIGATION has developed the
fact that the recent fire at Albany was
caused by burglars who blew open the
safes IN one OF the burned stores. The
loss is now placed at $4,000.
LIGHTNING struck the barn OF D.
F'itzhausen, five miles south of Chiffon,
during a recent storm, and it was
burned with its contents. Loss, 81
$50; insurance, IN the New Holstein
Company S1,450.
THE schedule OF liabilities of G. B.
Chapman q Co., assigned, has been
filed at Eau Claire. The total comes
very close to S100, 600, and the assets
are about $13O,00O. The principal
creditors designated in the schedule
are Marshall Field & Co., Chicago,
about 100000; Reed, Murdock &
Fisher, Chicago, $4,000; Sprague,
Warner & Co., Chicago, $1,000; Viii
son Bros, Chicago, 50, 500; Edison,
Keith Il Co., Chicago, $1,000; II.
Schultz Manufacturing Company, Mil
waukee, $4,000; Albert Keesey, Eau
Claire, S3,1OO; Eau Claire National
Bank, $5,7OO; H. c. Putnam, Eau
Claire, 1000; First National Bank of
Chippewa Falls, 81, 500; Bank OF Eau
Claire, $4,000; VIM. A. Rust. Eau
Claire, SO, 900; Mary NJ. Taylor, Chip
pewa Falls, 50 600 The remaining
$50, 900 or $4,000 of liabilities is
divided among very large number OF
creditors for smaller amounts.
FIRE at Albany on the night of the
26th, consumed the Murray Block,
containing the drug store of jay W.
Hicks and the restaurant and confec-
tionery of B. J. McAtee. Loss on
building, $4,000; insurance, s4, 500,
J. W. Hicks loss, 81, 500; insurance,
S3,O 900. B. ]. McAtee's loss, 1,SO0;
insurance, $500. Total loss, $12, 300;
insurance, $4,000.
II. d. FLOYD, charged, at Eau Claire,
with shooting John Bordahl with in
tent to kill, has been discharged, his
plea having been self-defense. Bordahl
has nearly recovered. Patrolman
Elliot, OF Eau Claire, shot by Peter
Robicault, Is convalescent.
EDWARD GETCHELL, brakeman en-
ployed by the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway, had a anarrow escapefrom
being killed at Baraboo. As his train
was pulling out of the yard under full
headway, Getchell tried to step from
the car onto the tender of the engine,
when his foot slipped and he fell be-
tween the cars. The wheel of the front
car ran over the feshy part OF his
limb, splitting the flesh from the hip
to the knee clear to the bone. The