The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-13
STATE NEWS.

The Fire and Police Commissioners
of Milwaukee made their report on the
| charges of the mayor against Chief of
| Police Ries, which they have been in
vestigating, on the 9th inst The com
mission ratities the suspension of the
chief and makes it permanent. The
ground OF suspension is general in
| efficiency.
| THE supre ne court has ordered that
| the suit for the insurance money of the
| late DR.. Bruil, of Avoca, shall take place
in Iowa County.
AT Dodgeville on the 9th inst. Jas.
| Holmes was lodged i'll jail for, it is
| thought, fatally injured Joseph Davis at
| Centerville, on Saturday night. They
quarreled over game of cards, and
Holmes stamped Davis in the face,
| breaking his nose and injuring his head
THE jury i'll the case of Mark Terrill,
on trial at Dodgeyille for the murder OF
the negro Henry Wesley, in Mineral
| Point, last May, brought in verdict of
murder in the third degree, and lie was
sentenced to seven years in prison.
A CONTRACT will be let in few DAYS
| for the construction of a magnificent
union depot bui ding at Ashland, to be
| built by the Wisconsin Central Compa-
nv, at cost of about $50 600 Joint use
/ of it will be rented to three other roads.
The plans have been submitted to the
| contractors.
THE Lutheran Synod of Ohio, to which
| Wisconsin belongs, has directed its min
listers to prepare for the erection of Il
college in each of the districts under
| the control o. the Synod. It's probable
that one will be located at Appleton.
THE man, Dick Eighme, shot in Mon
| shan's saloon, Escanaba, on the night Of
| the 9Th, by Keliher. died at IL P. NJ.
| Kelhier was arrested. Eighme came
from Oshkosh where his people are
very respectable, but where he had II
| bad name.
NICHOLAS KLEsER, pressman, while
| intoxicated, fell down stairs at his home
i'll Milwaukee on the 9Th, and died in a
| few hours from his injuries.
| THREE women who claimed to live in
| Milwaukee, were arrested at Chicago on
| the 4th, charged with shophfting. A
| large amount of stolen property, in
Guiding two ducks, WAS found secretcd
| about their persons.
| JAMES CLARK, a bartender at Eagle
| River. burned to death in a cabin while
out hunting. A watch and bunch of
| keys were ali that remained of the miss
| ing mans personal effects.
An exciting foot-race between two
unknown sprint runners was Witnessed
at the Ashland driving park on the 4th
! by select crowd. From the time made
it would seem that they are cham pions.
| The amount of stakes was So $50. The
men went under the names of Porter
and Watson. The latter won by nine
inches in 81 seconds, the distance being
| 100 yards. j. d. Hayes, hacker of Mike
| Conley, was stakeholder and referee.
The match was arranged in Minneapo-
| lis some weeks ago, and Ashland was
mutually agreed upon as the place to
! run.
IN the Buelow murder trial az Wan
toma, OF the Sd, Frank and Theodore
| Schneider were found guilty of murder
in the first degree.
OTTo GALEEBACHER, an orphan boy,
! fell into the river in the rear of Drake
| Bros store, Milwaukee, on the after
noon of the Sd, and was drowned.
| Mrs. ELIZA ROBINSON has sued the
town of Washburn for 5000 as dam
ages sustained by fall upon defective
walk