The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-06-09
STATE NEW S.

A MnwAUKEE County farmer has in
| troduced a new feature in the dairy
| business, that of furnishing milk exclu-
sively to invalids arf children
PATRICK HAYES, blacksmith on Fifth
Street, Milwaukee, was trampled to
! death on the 90 b5 horse which he
was shoeIns. :
THE earnings of the Milwaukee x
Northern road for the last week in May
were $50. .445, rs compared with S2S3 $685.
| IS for the corresponding week last year.
The total earnings Of the road dtfitg
the month of MAJ show an increase
of SIC, ,6l7 II over last year.
ABOUT 500 men are now employed at
the Beef Slough rafting works, and the
daily output, which is now about 900,
900 feet, will be increased considerably
| wheil ths M}esissiupi goes down few
| feet, 1t being at present shout, hFe teet
| higher than Is required for the besf re
suits in handling logs.
NEARLY all the COWS on the north side
district, Eau Claire, which belong to
poor families and were herded on Il
common, were poisoned by some un-
kh6wh person with Paris green
sprinkled about the pasture Sixteen
COWS are dead.
JUDGE GRESHAM decided at Madison
that the action of the Cow rnihent vs..
Stinson, to set aside title to 1000 acres
of land in Douglas County on the ground
that the filings were illegal, could be
brought in the district where the lands
were located.
THn United States court at Madison
has granted q ne~ trial in the case of
Luck a Pfemo against the Chicago,
Milwaukee, - St. Paul Railway Com
pany, an action for daItages for person
al injuries resulting from collision. II
the first trial the plaintiff was awarded
S., 900.
The Eau Claire Leader prints stotv If
a sensational encounter between two
young ministers of Northern Wisconsin
cities. 1t seems the clergymen both
loved the same lady, and the acceptance
! Of one snitor resulted in a fight in which
one of the rivals vas knocked down.
CLARENCE HOWARD, a brakeman ON the
Milwaukee & St Paul Road, fell iforfi d
6abco6e near Prairie du Chen and was
so terribly Inangle1 that he died soon
after he was picked up.
EDWARD MALoNEY, of Ashland, recent
ly acquitted of participation in the Bay
City riot, accidently shot himself with a
revolver, the ball passing through the
palm of his hand and into his side, caus-
ing wound that may prove fatal.
AN accident on the rafting ways at \
B. HUlway's s mill, La Crosse. on the 30th,
eatlsed serious if not fatal injury of
Jacob Schtiltz, Ole Olson and Matt Sea
man. A crib of lumber had Just been
completed and slid down the Eays TO the
waters edge, where it lodged. A dozen
men Jumped in behind it to move it off
when the next crib above slid down,
catching the three men named before
the~ could escape. The others got out
of the way.
JOHN HAUT, a gardener, living ol;
Humboldt Avenue, Milwaukee, hanged
himself in his barn on the Both. No
cause for suicide is known. He was 50
years old and leaves a family.
TUE Rev. E. Z, Ward, an Episcopalian
Clergyman at one time widely known in
Wisconsin through his ministry IN cUn<
nection with the Milwaukee Soldiers
Home, and who for time was rector of
Christ Church, Milwaukee, died in the
asylum at Fordham, \. Y, on the 29th,
where he had been under treatment for
2 wear or two, His family is in Mil
waukee.
THE Manhattan Life Insurance Com.
pany, of New York City, has favorably
decided on a proposition to build an
opera house and BUSINESS block in
Ashland and has authorized its Wiscon-
sin managers to offer even more
favorable proposition to the Ashland
Business Men's Association. Thete j.
no doubt that Ashland will have one of
the finest opera houses and business
blocks in Wisconsin.
JESSIE MABEL MUNRO, aged 4, was run
over and killed at Milwaukee, on the
30th, by grocer's delivery wagon.
The complaint in the case of James
Bonner, Pat Rivers, Mike O'Brien and
FL. Carley, four of the men arrested for
rioting last winter at High Bridge, Ash
land County, have bsen dismissed IN the
circuit court at Ashland.
THE Touring mills at La Crosse are
using sawdust for fuel at a saving of 45
per cent. in cost.
J. w. LosEY has been chosen bresl-
dent of the company organizing at La
Crosse to build a theater.
HERMAN KANITz, a contractor, was
badly injured about the head and face
on the 2Sth by the explosion of an old
| gasometer in unOcCupled building on
Galena Street, Milwaukee,. The catse OF
tne explosion Is something OF mystery,
| as the instrument has not been in use
for months and was entirely free from
any connection with the gas pipes that
run through the house.
AT Eau Claire, on The 28th, Andy
| Hamilton, the denkeeper, and his wife,
| after preliminary examination lasting
a week, were held for trial, each furnish
| ing bond of $500, given by Matt Johan-
| mes, a soda-water manufacturer. The
| defense made a vain attempt to bring
| out the names of members of the citi-
zens' anti-den organization.