The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-29
WEsCOHsEg STATE gEWs.

JUNE 3 and Is is the time and Mil.
Waukee the place of the coming annual
session OF the State Bar Association.
Two children OF NJ. V. Forest, a
prominent citizen of Boydtown, Craw-
Iord County, aged respectively and
years, We're fatally poisoned on the
Zoth, from eating wild parsnips which
they supposed to be something else,
dying inside of two hours in terrible
agony. The two remaining children
refused to partake of the same food,
supposlng it to be horse radish. The
mother also tasted it but did not
swallow it.
DANE COUNTY has paid $400 in wolf
oountles since the beginning OF the
present calander year.
The old settlers of La Fayette
County will hold their animal reunion
| at Gratlot, on Friday, June 4. NJ. NJ.
Cothern IS expected to deliver the ora
ton. /. Scott Ansley has also been in
vited TO speak.
A TENEMENT house on Menomonee
Street, Eau Claire, belonging to the
Empire Lumber Company, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 21st. Loss,
81 0Oo; insured
GARVEY Bros general merchandise
store at Prairie du Chen, was entered
on the night of the 20th, and large
quantity OF silk goods, clothing, boots,
shoes, etc, taken. A quantity of
mutllated coin was also taken from
the till. The burglars gained an en-
trance through back cellar window.
No clue to the thieves.
Mrs. EMILE PFEIFFER, an aged
woman, was found dead III her house
on Sixteenth Street, Milwaukee, on the
Goth, by the police. The deceased,
who lived alone, had not been seen by
nelghbors for several days, and the
police being notified, broke in, with the
above result. Apoplexy was the cause
OF death.
ELIZABETH SAUBERT, wife OF agarden-
er, living III the town OF Milwaukee.
committed suicide on the morning OF
the Goth, by hanging. She was SO
years old and had been an invalid for
q year or more.
o. the evening of the goth, Ole Ness,
president and general manager OF the
Eau Claire Furniture Company, COM
place OF business to his residence at
Lake Steel, went into the parlor, and
was seen sharpening his razor before a
looking glass, and some time later q
heavy fall IL the room was heard.
The family found him lying dead in a
pool OF blood OF the floor, his throat
gashed from e1r to ear. He had cut
his throat several times, replaced the
razor on a bureau and had fallen. He
was a well-to-do Norwegian and highly
respected. He leaves q third wife and
two sons. Business troubles and i'll
health are assigned as the cause of the
suicide.
THE preliminary examination of
Paul Grotkau, Milwaukee's boss An
archist, on tho 10th, resulted in his
being acid TO the grand jury in 5000
bail.
GARRETT KORTZ, a 10-year-old boy,
whose parents live st 311 Maple
Street, Milwaukee, was drowned IN the
Kinnickinnic River on the evening Of
the 10Th. Together with his little
brother, be was precipated into the
river by the falling OF q lumber pile on
VIII ch they were playing. A man who
witnessed the accident rescued the
younger boy but the older one was not
seen to rise to the surface.
AN Indian known as Honest John"
was lodged in jail at Milwaukee, on the
18th, by Deputy Marshal Marshall.
He is charged with introducing liquor
into the Indian reservation of Shawa-
no County.
AT the Congregational missionary
conference at Madison on the evening
OF the 18th, it was announced that the
American Home Missionary Society
in New York had appropriated 81, 500
Tor the ensuing year, to be expended
under the direction OF the Wisconsin
Home Missionary Society in planting
and fostering churches in Northern
Wisconsin.
ONE hundred shares have been sub
scrlbed Tor the crematory furnace pro-
posed to be erected in La Crosse. The
society wants subscribers for sixty
more shares, when it viii be ready to
invest IN plant.
SENATOR SPooNER introduced IN the
Senate on the 18th, Van Schaick's
bill appropriating SIS 1000 for q new
light house at North Point, Milwaukee
Bay. The bill was accompanied by
communications from the Ligdt-House
Board, showing thenecessity OF then new
light. 1t was referred to the commit
tee on commerce. The same commit
tee in the House refused 10 consider
the bill for want OF jurisdiction.
DURING a thunder storm, wha,h
passed oTer Dodgeville at about 4
O'Clock on the morning OF the 18th,
Matthew Rogers had two valuable
head OF hornstock killed by lightning
while grazing on the pasture.
Lightning struck two story buiIi-
ing near the depot at Tomab, on the
18th. The roof was somewhat shat
tered and fred, but the promptness OF
the people saved its total destruction.
WHILE E. J. Pope, general manager
OF the Eau Claire Pulp and Paper
Company, was experimenting work in
the tiume, four-ton water wheel fell
suddenly and crushed his left foot. It
held him twenty minutes before he
was released. -Four toes we're ampu-
tated
EAU CLAIRE COUNTY reports heavy
frost on the 10th. Other portions OF
the state were nipped.
A MINER named VIII Verana fell down
the shalt OF the Superior mine at Hur-
ley, and was instantly killed. He had
a family in Kansas.
MILWAUKEE now has kennel club
IN addition to its other attractions.
AN arad woman rs-nad Mrs Eai1aI
was found dead at her home in Mil
waukee, Greenfield Avenue, on the
18th. The deceased lived alone, and
as she had not been seen for several
days, s,sthep police were notified and broke
open the door and found the wom9n
dead. Death probably resulted from
old age.
An Eastern Story.
An Eastern story says an Arab and