The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-01

AMONG LIE logs ORE, flU down CniS
spring to be sawed by me La Crosse
mills, are thousands that have been
lying in Rocky Run Creek for the past
twenty years. Logs may be found
bearing the stamp OF the owner dated
in 1867. One log is supposed to be
the largest ever taken out of the Black
River country. When measured it
scaled 1900 feet. 1t was cut nineteen
years ago this spring and is thought to
be the largest ever taken out.
THE Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha Road has sold to the St.
Croix Lumber Company and John
standing pine in Washburne County
Wis, on private terms.
LIGHTNING struck the farm buildings
OF James Drummond, in the town OF
Porter, Rock County, killing nine hogs.
A YOUNG man named Neissen at
tempted to steal a ride on moving
train in Milwaukee on the 20th. His
foot was caught in some way and he
was dragged some distance, sustaining
injuries which will cripple him for life.
WHILE a deckhand named John
Sonnemann was engaged in scraping
the mast on the steambarge G. P.
Heath, lying at the st. Paul elevator
"B," Milwaukee River, on the goth, he
accidentally lost his balance and fell a
distance of seventy five feet. The un-
fortunate man struck upon the deck
load OF ties, and sustained serious, il
not fatal injuries.
An infant child OF Edwin Day, living
on Lake Street, Milwaukee, met hor-
rible death on the Goth by falling from
a thlrd-story window.
DANGEROUS counterfeits of the silver
dollar are in circulation in Milwaukee,
and everybody is warned to be On the
lookout. Their weight is the same as
the genuine coin, and their "ring' is
seemingly perfect. Their milling is al,
so equal to that of the genuine. The
bogus COINS, however, are thicker than
the genuine, and lack luster. The hair
and the eye in the head OF Liberty are
not well initiated. The dates on the
bogus dollars so far discovered are
1878, 1884 and 1885.
THE Milwaukee, Lake Shore & West
ern Railway Company has filed a no.
tlce in the office of the secretary OF
state, that it intends to build "spur''
track extending for nine miles south
west OF Hurley along the Gogebic iron
range.
FRED. FELKNER, aged 20, had his
right foot cut off in his fathers saw
mill at Bear Creek, Shawano County.
The unfortunate boys loot flew across
the mill ard struck his father in the
face.
On the evening of the 10th Alice Sc
ger, aged s, whose family live in a
house-boat on the river, at La Crosse,
fell into the water and was drowned.
The body was not recovered.
THE printers OF Milwaukee have
raised the boycott against the Even
ing Wisconsin of that city, all differ.
ences having been adjusted. The edict
had stood for two years.
THE st. Paul Railway Company is
shipping 100000 Wisconsin ties to its
new Kansas City extension.
THE young woman killed by a Wis.
consin Central engine in the suburbs
OF Milwaukee on the evening OF the
nth, is supposed to be q Miss Hagen.
stein.
Mrs. FRED. CARLETON and two chill
dren, OF North La Crosse, are sup.
posed to be among thecyclone victims
OF Sauk Rapids. Minn.
THE body OF Julius Lueck, who had
been missing since February II, was
found in Rock River, near the rail
road bridge at Jefferson. At the in.
quest the testimony did not show
whether it was a case OF suicide or &C
cidental drowning. The deceased
leaves a family of wife and three chill
dren.