The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-11
STATE NEWS.

| WHILE making temporary repairs TO
| the barge Roanoke at Sturgeon Bay, the
| second engineer, Spencer Brieg, fell
| from the top of the pilot-honse to the
pier, distance of IS feet, striking on
| his head and fracturing the skull. He
afterwards fell into the water and sank.
The life-saving crew were on hand, but
| 1t was nearly half an hour before the
body was recovered, when efforts were
| made In vain TO resuscitate him. Mr..
Briggs was about SO years of age. a
Jolly, good-natured fellow and well
nked by hls companions. He leaves y
wife and two children residing in Mil
waukee.
Mons ToRGE, a Cottage Grove farmer
| who was seriously injured by freight
| train running over him in the North
Western yards, AZ Madison, died early
and had lain down on the track 10
sleep. He was about 70 years of age.
MRs. MARY NoGEs, an elderly lady of
the town of Blooming Grove, Dane
County, was quite seriously injured in
runaway accident on the 18th. Her re-
coverv is probable.
+. +. ALLEN and two children of Eau
Claire were poisoned by eating diseased
meat. They recovered.
WILLIAM VAN WATERS, postmaster at
West Salem, is dead. He was pio-
neer of La Crosse County, and Il years
old
President CHAMBERLAIN, of the State
University, has gone TO Southern Iowa
and Northern Missouri TO assist in the
ork of glacial research in that section.
c. +. HAYES, general dry goods and
notions, Ashland, has made an assign
meht II Joel G. Cohen. Assets, $3.50;
liabilities, 1890.
THE Dells Lumifer Company COM
menced an action against the city of
Eau Claire and Dells Improvement
Company, for S40,0 ,0G0 damages, alleged
to have been sustained by obstruction
of the Chippewa River, preventing the
company, plaintiff, from rafting lumber,
etc, by jamming the river with logs.
WILLIAM VAN WATERS, an old resi-
dent of La Crosse County and post
master at West Salem, died ON the 2d
from the effects of an injury by Il fall.
followed ~ paralysis. He was Il years
old. In 1876 he represented the county
in the Legislature.
The earnings of the Milwaukee 4
Northern Rosd during the last week of
JulS were SOS, ,525, for the corresponding
week III 1897, 81, ,90S.2 .2S; increase, 81
6l6.72. The earnings during the month
of July were SS7, ,l22, during July, 1887,
$50, ,S232S; increase. $685.. The
earnings to date are 1888 ,039.57, for Il
corresponding time in 1897, $500, ,294.O2.
Increase over 1897, $50, 1880.
FIRE Was discovered on the I'd, liz
the second story of the Kelly Block,
Eau Claire, the first story of which was
occupied by George NJ. Reeds as a gro
1 rt~f.N hon Z
worth of goods were destroyed by fire
and water; parity insured. The damage
to the building is 81 800; fully insured,
A NEW Eastern freight and passenger
line has been furnished for Milwaukee.
The steamer Favorite will make daily
trips between Milwaukee and Muske-
gon, iii connection with the Grand Rap
ids & Indiana road. The steamer wili
land at K. b. MCEiroy's dock head OF
Clinton Street. The boat will leave
daily at about o'clock in the forenoon,
arriving at Muskegon in time to make
connection with the 3:l5 2. NJ. train ON
Detroit.
The Eau Claire Gun Club is preparing
to prosecute hunters for shooting prairie
chickens. The open season does not
begin until September /.
JoHN DoyGLAss, an old surveyor OF
Dane County, died at Windsor after q
brie pllness.
J. ID. ROGERS, who has been in busl-
ness at Power for over forty years, has
retired on account Of failing health.
ONE of the gentlemen identified with
the Big Falls and other gold mines III
Eau Claire County, says the result OF
the late assay in st. Paul exceeded their
most sangulne expectations. The box
Of ore from the mines on the Eau Clare,
sent TO Prof. Lindon, OF st. Paul, gave
the most astonishing results. The assay
showed S4O6.40 to the ton.
la Crosse is to have a rope ferry
across The Mississippi River, for the ac-
commodation of farmers living on the
Minnesota side. Forty thousand dollars
is pledged for the enterprise, II that
amoGnt Is needed.
JUDGE STEWART has decided at Madi-
son that the state must pay the sum OF
81 ,5O5 to George i. Harding, of Keno
sha, executor of the Harding estate.
The claim is for security deposited with
the state by the Kenosha County Bank
and afterwards made over to Harding;
IL the general deficiency bill,
which was under consideration III the
House Of Representative on the 5Oth,
is paragraph appropriatlng 5000 to
Mrs. Price, widow of the late Congress
man Price, of Wisconsin. The para
graph embudies the substance of the bill
introduced by Congressman Haugen
some time ago, but owiEg to the many
obstacles encountered in the House IN
getting private bills through, Mr..
Haugen succeeded in having it placed
on this appropriation bill, which IN
sures It's passage.
EDWARD ID. MARSH, bartender at
Marinette, dropped dead while fishing
st a place a few miles out of the city
He was II man of family.
THEODORE JOHNSON drowned in the
Chippewa River at Eau Claire, on the
3Oth. having stumbled off his boat while
under the influence of liquor. He was
Il mnn Of family.
Tnh report of Chief % Police Clark,
of La Crosse, for the quarter ending
July /, slows that 653 arrests were
made and 326 tramps dealt with.
HIRAM GODDARD, the lumberman, IS
erecting handsome hotel at Grand
Crossing, near Ia Crosse.
CARRIE Johnson, 1s years old, hanged
herself near Eau Claire because her
lover refused to marry her.
THr Barron County Agricultural Soci-
ety will hold It's annual exhibition near
Chetek OIL September -, - and IA;
TIE fish in the pond at Union Park,
Eau Claire, were killed by alum used by
the water works company to cleanse the