The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-07-14
STATE NEW S.

bEN: FAIRCHlLD mas presented the
State Historical Society with a lifc-sized
bust of the late Gen. John A. Logan
THE little 5-year-old Shebovgan boy
who lad been awaiting a claimant at
Eau Claire, has been called for by his
mother, Mrs. Gruener, now of Eleya,
Trempealeau County.
THr body of Volney r. Velie, late
clerk of court for Florence County, was
exhumed to satisfy life insurance com
pany that his death was the result of an
accident. He carried a policy for So,
600.
On taking up the remains of Mrs. Pat
1iGh Farley, at Nasewaupee, for removal
to another cemetery, it was found that
the silk wedding dress that had served
as Il shroud. was in perfect condition,
though it had been in the grave about
seventeen years.
MILWAUKEE has curious case of con-
jugal infelicity. After getting a divorce
from her first husband and marrying a
second, the woman in the case changed
her mind and eloped with her first.
Cor. WALTER S. JOHNSON died on the
9th at his rooms at the Plankinton
House, Milwaukee, where he had lived
for some time past. Col. Johnson was
one of the most widelv-known of the
old citizens of Milwaukee. He was
born i'll 1917 at Middlebury, Vt.
ABOUT noon on the 9th the office of
the Northwestern National Insurance
Company at Milwaukee, was visited by
three men, one of whom engaged
Cashier Hinsdale in conversation while
another slipped behind the counter and
robbed the money drawer of 1913. One
of the thieves, Rute Miner, has been
caught.
JOHN and Martin Nesse, employed in
Tom Sharpe's camp, drowned IN the
Eau Claire River, east of Fall Creek, by
losing their footing on the logs IN the
river while breaking a jam.
Ar La Crosse on the 4th, George Nc
Gee, a railroad fireman, while fuddled
with whisky, shot and seriously wound
ed William Horn, saloonkeeper.
TIE expert engineers who were APP
pointed several months ago to recon-
mend a plan for the abatement of the
Milwaukee River nuisance, met the
public debt commission on the 9TH and
reported that as yet they have done
nothing.
LUcIAN RIPLEY, of Eau Claire, recently
located $4,000 acres of pine land in
Alabama for Henry w. Sage, of Ithica,
n. Y.
PRoF. ALBERT HARDY, of La Crosse,
was chosen president of the State
Teachers Association, which has been
in session at Eau Claire for several
days.
A MANUSCRIPT written on vellum and
supposed to be product of the early
part of the fourteenth century, has been
purchased for the library of the State
Historical Society.
A BRANCH of Catholic Knights has
been organized at Bayfield,, with A. L.
Williams as president.
Is Eastman, Crawford County, a
farmer named Burgett fell under hay
laden wagon and was instantly killed.
ACCORDING to the city directory for
1883, Milwaukee's population is 200, 0,57S.
THE project for Republican club
building in Milwaukee has been aban-
doned.
THE school district of Sun Prairie has
| resolved to tax itself the $3.50 lost by
| the absconding of +. f. Johnson. Many
were in favor of holding the treasurer to
account, but he was eXculpated by a
maiotltvOf so.
By city ordinance the Milwaukee
street cars will hereafter be compelled
| to run all night. This will be a great
accommodation particularly during the
| coming campaign.
| JOHN RYAN. the locomotive engineer
drowned off the Wisconsin Central
docks at Ashland, had his life insured
for 5000.
DR.. THEODORE PETERSON, of Eau Claire
rose about clock on the morning of
the %, and intending to take morphine
| for rheumatism, swallowed a heavy
dose of atrophine. A stomach pump
saved him.
In the case of Mrs. Lydia Reber, of
Lena, H., against exCongressman Ma
COON, now of Milwaukee, the circuit
court of Lancaster decided in favor OF
| the plaintiff in one of the notes in ques-
| tion-for IS, ,O09-ai1d cancelled the 9th
ers, one for s. 900 and the ether for
! s., 600. The defendant claims that his
son obi ged him to sign the notes at the
muzzle of a revolver. He will appeal
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