The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-02-04
STATE NEWS.

WORK.
RoHERr c. Mcclure, bookkeeper for
a. w. Rich x Co., was found dead IN
bed at bis boarding house, l6S Juneau
Avenue, Milwaukee, on the 2Sth, having
been asphyxiated by escaping gas dur
ing the night,
FIRE at Eau Claire on the 2Sth partial
ly destroyed the Chapel block and sew
eral stores. The heaviest damage is
fully insured, and 4. ID. Chappel, dam
age to building, $1,000; insured, g, 20.
The Masonic fraternities lost 5000
worth of furniture, etc, fully insured.
Other losses aggfegate about 5000,
nearly covered by insurance. The fire
started from coal stove in u coniection-
erv stole.
JAMES I. REYNOLDS has been arrested
on the charge of embeZzling $3.50 of the
funds of the Madison lodge of Ancient
Order of United Workmen, of which
society he was the tinancier. He has
given bail in the sum of 500.
EMMA RrETZ, German domestic, was
arrested at Milwaukee on the 9th,
charged with the murder of her iilegiti
mate child. The babe was born during
the night and was found in the snow on
the roof of shed near the girls room.
The unnatural mother was arrested Il
few hours after while at work in the
kitchen.
IN a row over a woman at dIsrcput-
able house on River Street, Milwaukee,
cary on the morning of the 2Sth, jim
Grogan, railroad man, shot Ed. :.
Levy, a travelling salesman, iniuring
him slightly. The ball grazed the top
of his head and seriously wounded
Lottie Ford, another inmate OF the
house.
OSCAR b. BARBER, pension attorney
who travels around the Northwestern
states, locating temporarily in principal
towns, was arrested at Eau Claire by a
deputy United States marshal, and taken
to Springfield, H., to answer to a charge
of forging a name of an Illinois notary
public to document relating to
the pension claim of q soldiers
widow. Barber was indicted recently
by the United States grand jury at
Springfield. He SAYS the party who
FLED the Information before the grand
jury was "a partner of his and was the
notary public in question, and though
he Barber) signed his partners name
without the latter's knowledge, the
partner subsequently agreed and con-
sented TO 1t.
AT Madison, on the 9th, in the case
of Marcus Anderson, of La Crosse,
against John V. Farwell < Co., and
John Sloane 4 Co., of Chicago, the jury
in the circuit court returned a verdict in
favor of the plaintiff, assessing his dam
ages at Sl0,572.l5. Anderson sued the
defendants for $4,000 damages alleged
TO have been sustained by reason of the
defendants closing his store on iudg-
ment notes, which levy was declared
void by the supreme court for the rea-
son that the judgment notes upon which
the levy was made were not wholly due.
ED GoobLAND, the Pelican Lake
Ioonkeeper who shot and killed Ed
Guilliaume, has given himself up and is
at present at Monico, under bail of ST..
| COG for his appearance and trial. Good
| land was traced to Montana through the
| aid of pictures which Guilliaume's fa
| ther had photographed.
\ MAN giving his name as c. H. Os-
| good, who claimed to have served in the
war with Mexico, spent twenty-five
| years in the Southwest and received
many wounds in encounters with BAN
| dts, arrived in Ashland, claiming to
| have walked from the Rio Grande. He
| was en- route to Phillips, where he has
| relatives.
| THE proceedings of the recent annual
| meeting of the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin have been published in
| dBmphlet form. The brochure has for
| it, frontispiece an excellent likeness OF
the late tlexdndef Mitchell.
JOHN TENGERIE, French clock ped
! dIer, was arrested at Eau Claire on
| charge of criminally assaulting Mrs.
| Christian Bohr. middle-aged lady, at
| ner residence. After the alleged assault,
| Tengerie went back to the house, and
was met by policeman. He pleaded
| not guilty,
| c. L. COLEMAN, of La Crosse, sold the
| Wausau Law and Land Association a
| large tract of pine laud in Taylor Coun-
| ty, on the line of the Wisconsin Central
| Railway, for $4,000. 1t is estimated
| that there is about 100000 feet of
| standing pine on the tract.
| GoTTFRIED WEIDEHoLz was blown thir-
| 1y feet at Eau Claire by the premature
explosion of a quarry blast. His skull
| was fractured.
| The case of Marcus Anderson, of La
| Crosse, against FarwelI & Co., and
| Sloan x Co., of Chicago, for $4,000 dam
| ages for closing plaintiffs business In
| an Illegal manner, is on trial at Madison.
| An inquest was held at Milwaukee on
! the body Of Hugh Harmon, brakeman.
| The Jury found that he came to his
| death by slipping into ciilvett while
| cOuplinE cars. They recommend that
''such culverts ought to be kept in such
| shape that employees OF railroads will be
able to locate them in the night"
NOTICE has been served by the Half
| Moon Lake Canal Company on the West
| Eau Claire Mill Company in which the
| latter is notified that the canal compa-
ny, which embraces several heavy lum-
| Der corporations, claims the entire own
ership of the Half Moon Lake log res
| ervoir. which holds 20,0OO,0O0 of logs,
and all riparian and other privileges
| which have hitherto been used by the
| West Eau Claire Company. The notice
| Is preliminary to suit to secure pos
session of the property.
Hans HANSON fell from a freight train
at Madison and was instantly killed by
! being run over.
| JoHS EK. of Rib Lake, will lose all the
| fingers of his left hand and one or two
Of bis right hand Oil account of exposure
| during the blizzard.
! TIE Central Hotel at Prescott was de-
stroyed by fire that originated in an adj
| Joining building. The loss was about
$500.
GoTTFRIED WEIDEHoLz was blown
| thirty feet in the air by the premature
| explosion of blast in stone quarry
near Eau Claire. He came down on his
head and rolled down a. embankment.
| The American hospital surgeons re-
moved three square inches ofhis frontal
| bone. He cannot recover.
| WHILE some men were blasting near
| Blatz's mill, five miles south of Dodge
| vile. Giuseppe Aiello, an Italian, aged
% years, jumped into tool box TO avoid
the flying rocks, and when the blast
went off it sent up a large. rock which
descended squarelv upon the tool box,
| crushing through the lid and tearing
| away the greater portion Of the young
mans head, killing him instantly.
| EAU CLAIRE has been invaded by de-
! tail from the Salvation Army. The troop
| is in command of Sergt. kernohan, who
| is assisted by a Father Ryan. A hall.
secured under a years Lease, Is to serve
| as barracks.