The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-08
UIsCOESIS STATE sEUs.


crops Many view their iaves tment
IN buildings and sheds as dead loss.
The saloon keepers at Eau Clair
put up their shutters on the 1st, ant
tailed to renew their licenses. The al
legged hard times, small profits and al
Increaseln the license fee are the causes
assigned for their closing. The license
the past year has been $500, an in
crease Of $50 over the previous year.
a PosT-oFFICE has been established al
Elk Creek, Dunn County, with Mrs E
;. Dickson as postmistress.
Col. GEORGE B. GOODWIN, a vel
known resident OF Milwaukee, died at
his home in that city on the first inst.
after a protracted illness. He was 81
years old.
THE Wisconsin Central and the
Omaha Railway Companies are cut
ting rates between Eau Claire and
Chicago. The fare has been duced TO
| 81. so, and the probability is that a
much lower rate viii obtain before
long.
WILLIAM HARPER, late special
examiner of the United States pen
sion bureau, will make a tour of Wis
consin in July and August as lecturer
on Washington society.
GLANCE IVES, aged 20, hanged him.
self in his fathers barn, at Black
Earth, while temporarily insane. He
had but recently returned from q
course of treatment at the Mendoza
Insane Asylum.
A TIMER named John Brasser, aged
20, fell from a verandah at Milwau-
kee, on the 30th, sustaining severe in
ternal injuries. He fell twelve feet.
CHARLES MUELLER, a hod carrier,
took a three-story tumble at Milwau-
kee, on the Both. He struck on the
edge OF the dock. Both hisknees were
dislocated and ne received other in
iuries.
AT noon on the 3Oth, the badly de-
composed body of boy was taken
from the river at Milwaukee, and re-
moved to the morgue, where it was
identified as that of Arthur Schuman,
the 10 year-old son OF Charles Schu-
man, a shoemaker. On October 2l, ,
last, the boy disappeared from home,
and was last seen playing on the dock
near Cherry Street bridge.
DANIEL McNAUGHToN, a Calumet
County prisoner, committed suicide at
Gravesville. by taking Paris green.
He was 20 years old.
WHILE freight train carrying ore
was pulling out OF Ishpeming, Mich,
! bound south, on the 2Sth, William
Blanchard, brakeman, OF Madison,
Wis, IN getting off to throw a switch,
fell under the cars and had both legs
badly margIed. The doctors say that
he will probably die.
THE slaughter house OF Plankinton
& Co., at Milwaukee, has been tenn
porarily closed on account OF the
labor agitation. 1t is now estimated
that there are 4 600 workingmen idle
in Milwaukee.
| CHARLIE O'ROURKE, who was thrown
/ from horse at the corner of Broad
way and Erie Streets, Milwaukee, died
on the 29th from the effects OF his in
/ luries
THE Dodgeville village board has H.
! censed six saloons at $500 each. 1t
was supposed that the increase OF the
fee from 5000 to $500 would reduce
/ the number OF drinking bars, but it re-
/ mains the same as last year.
THE seventy-five journeymen tailors
/ of Eau Claire, on the 27th, struck for
an advance OF 10 TO Is per cent. in
wages, principally for work On extras.
All the merchant tailors but two
signed the schedule presented by the
iourneymen, who went back to work
! at noon.
! THE Senate has passed a bill author
/ izing the construction OF railroad
! bridge across the st. Croix River or
! Lake, between Prescott. Wis, and
/ Saltwater, MINI.
| WHILE a gravel train was at work
near Trempealeau Bay, the grading
suddenly gave way, letting four cars
and the track on which they stood
down into the slough. Two hundred
feet OF grade Is gone. The work OF re
filling was commenced at once from
each end, but will probable require
weeks OF steady work.
A GERMAN named Chris. Yanka, who
was log-driving on Elk River, sepa-
rated from the other men by a bend in
| the river, and when the men reached
that point he had disappeared. He is
supposed to have drowned. He was
from Dorchester, and leaves wife and
| three children.
ERNEST PETERS. a married man, aged
80, committed suicide on the 9th by
shooting himself through the head at
West Milwaukee shops OF the st. Paul
road. No cause for the act is known.
THE employees OF FIVE large furniture
| factories in Milwaukee on the 9th en-
| tered upon a strike for the enforcement
OF the eight hour system without re-
duction OF wages The strikers num-
Der about 400 men. The factories
that are closed on account of the diff
Guilty are those OF the Matthews Bros.
Furniture Company, w. s. Seamans
& Co., the Milwaukee Furniture Com
pany, the Conway Manufacturing Com
pany and the Oldenburg Furniture
Company.
THE local committee OF the state
/ fair has decided to lease the Cold
Spring Driving Park, Milwaukee, for
fair grounds.
LAST December the Farmers Loan K
Trust Company OF New York brought
suit in the United States court at Mad
| ison against the Chicago, st, Paul
Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad. Il
| subject the land grant which formerly
| belonged to the Chicago, Portage &
| Superior Railroad Company to a lien
! OF S75S 900 III mortgage bonds OF the
last t-named company, which were Sc
cured by the grant. The latter road
forfeited its grant, and the legislature
| Of 1881 conferred 1t upon the Chicago,
Minneapolis. st. Paul & Omaha Road.
/ The case was taken under advisement
by Judge Gresham, who now renders a
decision holding tnat the lands,
amounting to about 1000 acres,
/ are subject TO the lien. The total sum
now involved is 81, 900 600.
THE trial OF f. J. Ries, Milwaukee's
chief OF police, on the charge OF refusing
/ to grant a prisoner a trial inside the
/ prescribed time, was concluded IN the
/ 26th, the Jury returning verdict OF
/ Mr,nE,