The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-27
UTsCGYSIT STATEEEWS.

WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
THE contract to do the brickwork
for the Iowa County insane asylum was
let to Whitford & Kelly for So, 225.
All the material is to be furnished by
the county.
AMONG the cases to be tried during
the special term of the La Crosse cir
cult court is that of J.W. Hart for the
murder of Mrs. Adolph.
FOREST HOFFMAN was instantly
killed by & tree falling on him while he
was cutting ties in the town of Forest,
Richland County.
HARVEY SEuEY, 15-year-old sport
at Viola, shot a clay pipe from the
mouth OF companion twenty feet
away.
PETITIONS are in circulation at La
Crosse for the denomination of Mayor
Powell.
AN 8-year-old son OF Alexander
Boher, of Forest, Richland County, met
with a singular and serious accident.
While father and son were driving
home, a limb of tree which had been
bent by the ice and projected over the
road caught in the sled, and before MIR.
BOher could stop the team it flew
back and struck the little fellow with
great force below the knees and broke
both legs.
\ DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Agus-
ta early on the morning of the 18th,
destroying a large portion of the busi
ness part of the city, including J. f.
Beebe's brick block, containing four
stores, one barber and tailor shop,
the post-office, a photograph gallery
and two public halls. Also two saloon
buildings, one furniture store, one ho-
tel and one livery stable. At 2 O'Clock
smoke was discovered issuing from the
stairway leading to the hall. 1t is
generally believed that the fire caught
from a stoveinC. f. Woods boot and
shoe store, as that portion OF the
building was filed with smoke when
the first alarm was given. The fire
company, after some delay In finding
water, did some effeCtual work in check
ing the progress OF the flames. The
losses aggregate $4,000, with S21,-
| 600 insurance.
FIRE on the night OF the 18th de-
stroyed a portion OF Leathem &
Smiths planning mill, in Sturgeon Bay.
Loss SO, 900; insured.
AMONG the nominations sent to the
! Senate by the President on the 18th,
was that of Alfred B. Judd to be pen
sion agent at Milwaukee, and Frank |.
| Phelps to be surveyor OF customs for
the port of La Crosse.
THE thirty sixth annual convoca-
ton OF the Grand Chapter of Royal
| Arch MasOns was held at Milwaukee
on the 10th.
THE annual meeting of the State
Bar Association was held in the Unit
ed States court rooms, in Madison, on
the 10th. The following officers were
elected: President, ~ NJ Strong:
vice presidents by judicial circuits, 1st
| circuit, j. Y. Quarles, Racine; I'd, Sam
uel Howard, Milwaukee; Sd, c. W. Eel
ker, Oshkosh; 4th, W. II. Seaman,
Sheboygan; 5th, Philo Orton, Darling
ton; 9Th, J. M. Morrow, Sparta; 7th,
! w. c. Silverthorn, Wausau; 8th, L..
NJ. Villas, Eau Claire; 9th, f. J. Lamb,
Madison; 10th, VIM. Kennedy, Apple
ton; 11th, t. A. Hayes, Ashland; 18th,
John Winans, GAINESVILLE; 18th, Ed.
Hulburt, OcOnOmOwoC; 18th, c. E.
Vroman, Green Bay; secretary, f. p.
! Villas, Madison; treasurer, J. II Car
| penter, Madison; executive committee,
three years, NJ. Griffin, Eau Claire; B.
B. Eldridge, GAINESVILLE; w. f. Carter,
Platteville.
THE house of B. B. George, of Stet-
| sOnVille, burned on the night OF the
| 18th. A little boy of years was lost
in the flames. Two of the children
were thrown from an upper windowto
the ground.
THE following are the insurance
losses in the recent Windsor fire. On
| Fischer's elevator 81 GOO each in the
Hamburg OF Bremen, and the St. Paul;
on the cheese factory, 81 900 each in
the Norwich Union and Hekla and
$500 in the Pennsylvania; on Fischer's
household furniture, S4OOin the Penn
sylvania. The abOveiusurance was in
the Madison agencies.
CHARLES RICHARDS, OF Knapp Sta
ton, Dunn County, has received ar
reaFages Of pensions amounting to 49,
| 900. He was a member Ct the TWen-
ty-frst Regiment.
ARTICLES Of incorporation for the
South Superior Iron Company have
been filed with the secretary OF state.
The incOrporators are f. d. Day, B.
Heinemann, S. II. Thompson, T. W.
Kennedy and James \. Wood. They
are the owners in fee Of 1000 acres OF
land on the south range, twelve miles
below Hurley, and will Immediately
commence explorations for vein OF
ore known to exist there.
STEAM-HEATING apparatus is being
placed in the Chequamegon Hotel, at
Ashland. The landscape fronting Oh
the lake is also being improved and
bcautifed, and thefeet viii be enlarged
by an additional pleasure yacht in the
/ spring, making three in all. a first
class brass band aud orchestra has
been engaged for the season Of 1886.
A 2-YEAR-O OLD son OF a man named
JOchem, living in Milwaukee, accident
ally overturned a coffee pot full of hot
coffee. The coffee poured over the lit
tie fellow, scalding him so badly that
he VIII probably die.