The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-12-04
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


poeal OF the trustees. The latter are
having plans made in order that the
building may becommenced early next
spring.
b M. HENDERSON, of Fairplay,
Grant County, a bachelor, aged 70
years, was found dead on the floor OF
his room, IL Odd Fellows Block, in
that place. He vas one of the leading
Odd Fellows OF Wisconsin, and was
for seventeen years steamboat clerk
on the Mississippi River. Heart dis
ease was the cause OF his death.
THE large crib on the end Of the Wis
consin Central Railways new ore
dock, at Ashland, which was moved
out OF place by the recent storm, was
pulled into position again by tugs, and
the work on the structure is again be-
ing vigorously prosecuted.
LOUIS BLUM has filed bill in the
Milwaukee County court against Han
sens Empire Fur Factory, demanding
$4,000 for the death of his daughter
Emile. She was killed N an elevator
accident last August, when the bal
ance weight fell down and crushed the
cab. The girl was II years old and
had worked at the factory about six
weeks. The complaint charges the
proprietors with neglect and careless
ness in running the elevator.
SIMON KLAUBER died at Chicago, on
the 22d inst, aged So years The de-
ceased went to Madison in about
1852, removed from there to Milwau
kee, thence to New York and back to
Chicago. In ali these places he was
engaged in the clothing business. He
left Madison for New York at the close
OF the war. He was the only surviv
ing brother of Samuel Klauber, OF
Madison, who is lying critically i'll.
Mr.. Klauber leaves a widow and four
sons.
Two pine land hunters, while out
searching for William Goul, who was
lost in the woods, near Ashland, sue
ceeded in finding his body on the 25th,
about nine miles from that place and
four miles from any road. His
parents, at Indianapolis, Ind, have
been telegraphed to in regard to what
shall be done with the remains.
When found, he was lying upon his
back in the snow, with his rife resting
across his breast.
JAMES G. MILLER, brother Of Ros-
well Miller, general mansger of the
Milwaukee road, was killed in the
yards of the Union depot at St. Paul,
on the 25th, by falling under the
wheels while attempting to board the
fast mail on the Milwaukee road,
which was just starting for Mime
apolis. He was unmarried, aged 80,
and connected with q Minneapolis
bank.
J.P. PHILLIPS & Co., agricultural
implement dealers, Milwaukee, have
made an assignment for the benefit of
their creditors.
JOHN KUrELDT, a Milwaukee saloon
keeper, committed suicide on the oath
by cutting his throat. 1t was his
third attempt to end his life in this
manner.
A PROSPECTING party that had been
making explorations along the Chippe-
aw waters, discovered, forty miles north
of Eau Claire, 8 rich vein of iron ore
40 rods long, so feet thick and 40 feet
deep. 1t is said to be the richest mine
found in that mineral section, and is
to be worked by stock company now
in course of formation.
AT Shell Lake 3-year-old daughter
of Thomas Walker fell against boiler
full of hot water that had been left
carelessly standing on the floor, spill
ing the contents over her person and
scalding herself in q frightful manner.
The grocery firm of Ives & Graves,
at Altoona, two miles east of Eau
Claire, made an assignment to Isaac
Cross, for the benefit OF their creditors.
Their assets are estimated at $4,000;
liabilities $4,000. The Eau Claire
Grocer Company and Huebener &
Robinson, hardware merchants of Eau
Claire, ere creditors. Cause ofthefail-
ure, depression of trade and slow col
lections.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the
Windfall Iron Company have been filed
in the office of the register OF deeds OF
Milwaukee County. The capital stock
is 100000. John S. George,
Charles f. Freeman and Henry G.
Payne are the incorporators. The
property of the company is located
near Crystal Falls, Mich.
PASSENGERS on a train from the
North report foul murder, COM
mitted at Phipps Station, by a brutal
Indian named New-e-osh, the victim
being his squaw. The tragedy was the
result OF quarrel while the Indian
was laboring under intoxicants.
A FARMER named Thomas Thatcher,
living near Wilson, on the Omaha
Road west OF Eau Claire, was instant
ly killed near that place by the pas
senger train going eastward. Heleaves
q wife and child.
A BLACK she bear, weighing trifie
over 800 pounds was shot recently in
the woods near Weyerhauser Station,
north OF Eau Claire, by an ambitious
hunter only 13 years old named
Willie Smith. The monster bruin is
the heaviest reported killed in Wiscon-
sin this winter, and was shipped to
Chicago, to be placed on exhibition for
q short time.
PROF. j. b. THAYER, state superin-
tendent-elect, Is dangerously Ill, at his
home in River Falls, with q singular
disease somewhat resembling small
pox. One man in River Falls has died
with the ailment. The professors g
family is reported to be much
alarmed
JOHN MORRISON, 81 years of age, O.
patient at the Milwaukee County hos.
pital, jumped from an upper window
OF that institution ON the morning of
the 21st, and sustained injuries from
which he died three hours later.
The logging camp and contents be-
longing to S. A. Hall, located on the
Upper Chippewa, near Glidden, were
completely destroyed by fire on the
Goth. Total loss 81 200 TO 1,500;
uninsured. Acattle shed, located only
forty feet from the camp, containing
six yoke of oxen and q winters sup
plies, only escaped destruction by an
opposite heavy wind.
A LITTLE 1-year-old child of Mrs.
Suhers, OF Dundas, near Chiffon, fell
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