The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-06
STATE NEWS.

HARVEY PUTNAM, of the town of Ore
gon, Dane County, lost leg by falling
against threshing machine.
Mrs. ELIZA ROBINSON has sued the
town OF Washburn, for 5000 for dam
ages sustained by II fall upon defect
i've sidewalk.
FRANCIS 4. CHAPEIo, an Italian labor
or, drowned by falling off the bridge in
Bay City.
WAsdBURN people are worked up over
the Ending OF an ANONYMOUS letter
which conveys the information that the
recent conilagratlon vas the work of
hrebug The writer says that an at
tempt VIII be made TO DESTROY the re-
naming part Of the town.
JACOB BRABANpER, of La Crosse aped
IT., was instantly killed by an accidental
discharge OF his gun while he was out
hunting.
CAPT. MCMAsTER, of the Griffin Rifles
Eau Claire, has been presented with a
handsome sword by the members of his
company.
ALFRED PHINNEY, o. Stiles. shot and
killed four bears hear his house.
GoLD-BEARING quartz has been discov-
cred few miles from Marinette.
A BEAR weighing over 200 pounds was
killed IN a milk-house at Cobb, Iowa
County.
THE Marinette County Agricultural
Society lost about $1,000 by its fair OF
this year.
MILWAUKEE was visited on the night
of the Goth by two destructive fires.
The furniture factory of the Conway
Manufacturing Cnmpa y, in the Me-
nomonee Valley, took fire early in the
evening and was destroyed with It's con-
tents, involving loss of -125, H0. with
insurance less than IS 900 At 4:30 A.
NJ. another alarm called the depart
ment to the toilet soap factory of De-
lorme q Quentin, 226 East Water
Street. Only the walls were saved.
The loss is estimated at Sl7 900 and the
insurance at 81 900.
JACOB TRUAx, father of the wealthy
lumberman, led at Eau Claire on The
18th, aged 100 years and months. He
was born in New York and was pas
senYer on fnlton's first steamboat. He
came West fifteen years ago.
HENRY BERNARD is in Jail at Sturgeon
Bay for stealing furniture from the Idle
wild House last winter. He wac arrest
ed at the time, but succeeded In making
W
pal, Gus. Cocagne, Jr., was punished by
Imprisonment and fine.
A BARN and two horses, owned by
City Treasurer Rau, of La Crosse, were
burned. Loss, 81 900.
BERT I'LANTHABER shot himsel through
the head near the house of Fritz Brock
mann, near Milwaukee, on the 28th.
The suicide was intoxicated at The time
and stood off with his revolver two
friends who tried to dIsaTm HIM until
he fired the shot through his own
brain.
Wescott caught 30-pound catfish with
an S-ounce casting-rod and minnow
bait.
EX-ALD. HIRsCHHEIMER and &. Mueller,
o La Crosse, have invented a machine
that will cut and finish barrel slaves
from the log ready for the cooper TO set
up.
THE Board of Trade of La Crosse has
voted to give $600nt ward the erection
of a bridge cross the Mississippi River
at that point. The structure will cost
it is estima ed, $l60,00n.
Four checks aggregating $3.50 and pur-
porting to bear the signature OF Lyman
|. Burbank, contractor, were passed at
Ashland.
THE st. Francis Hospital Association
Of st. Franciscan Sisters OF Perpetual
Alteration of La Crosse, has been in
corporated.
A RATrLEsNAKE nearly six feet long
was shot in the town OF Drummond,
Eau Claire County.
ORDERS have been issued to put the
Il e. IL
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company at
Bay View into oper ton. The factory
has been idle for some lime, and in CON
sequence number of the nailers have
left for other fields, leaving a reduced
force. 1t is understood that the factory
will run for some time.
THE much-talked-of police depart
ment muddle at Milwaukee has at last
eliminated in the suspension of Chief
Ries by the mayor, pending investiga-
ton br the fire and police commission
ers. The charge is general incompe-
tency and lack of discipline.
SUPT. NEvlN announces that the state
fish commissioners are making prepa-
rations for the tall distribution Of Ger
man carp, and requests all persons de-
sizing the same for private or public
waters 10 send in their applications at
once. Parties desiring carp or private
waters will be expected to pay the ex-
press charges from Madison to their
destination. For those or public wa
tiers the charges will he prepaid. APP
phcants are requested to give the name
of their express office as well az post
office. All communications should be
addressed to Jas. Nevin, superlntend-
ent.
DR.. PAUL A. WERNICH, city health Off
Ger, of Ashland, died on the 25Ih of
cerebro-spinal meningitis, after a short
illness. He was in the drug BUSINESS at
Milwaukee, and went to Ashland in
1886.
GEO. f. SALvo, ticket agent at Mari
nette, for the Chicago K NorthW Western
Railway ompany, is under arrest for
an al eyed embezzlemento $3.50.
AT La Crosse on the 26th, the eXamin-
alton of Leonard Groman, charged With
the murder of Samuel Buchanan and
Joseph and Fred. Hartlick, held as ac-
cessories to the crime, resulted in the
discharge of the latter. In the case of
Groman the charge of murder was dis
missed and he was re-arrested on a
charge of manslaughter. He waived an
examination and his bail was fixed at
$500
Mrs JOHANNA EVE, who was injured
in the collision at Winona, died on the
25th inst, at her home In Eau Clare.