The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-07-21
STATE NEW S.

| coed military band.
! HENRY BLoDGETT A young man near
| Ettrlck, Trempealeau County while
hunting. saw a swarm OF bees passing
and fred his gun at them. They at once
settled on him. stinging him so badly
| that he died IN an hour.
IN the course of an excavation at Bar
ron piece of pottery was unearihed.
| II was in perfect preservation. shaped
| Ike an ancient water bottle, and was
| decorated, and of very dark red color,
evidently made of clay. In the same
mound were found the skeletons of sew
eral men lying with their heads Ia the
center like the spokes of wheel. They
! are believed TO be the bones of some
| ancient tribe.
THE county clerk has compiled from
the returns Of the various town asses
| Sors statement Of tie CROPS grown in
| Milwaukee County during 1887. Ac-
| cordiag to it there were 80 97S bushels
| Of wheat gathered: 239. .50l bushels %
corn; 40. .9l6 of oats; $50 S29 of barley
40, $40 of rye; 22l ,29i Of potatoes; 60. .34S
of root crons; SIS, 200 of apples; 246 Of
| clover seed; 4 of timothy seed; 2I1
pounds of flax; p, ,324 tons o. cultivated
grasses; 6l3,357 pounds of butter and
| $4,000 pounds Of cheese.
| Onalaska boom is cleared and closed
The output was 9o,0CO,0OO feet, about
| half the amount expected. Logs are
in good shape to be brought along by a
| moderate rise. All the mills are sup
| piled for a month.
| THE La Crosse Chronicle thus sums up
| the result of Sam Small's evangelical
work in that city: "Not sinner has
| been turned from his wrongful WAYS
| Not soul hes been saved. Faithful
| ministers have been wounded and hu-
| inflated. Religion has been made a
| vulgar jest, and every arab Of the street
has acquired a hundred additions to his
| vocabulary of slang"
CHARLES CoTToN died at Milwaukee
on the 18th, from injuries received
while bathing in a lake near Madison.
BECAUSE Pauline Scheib refused to
marry him Charles krause, of Milwau-
kee, shot himself through the body in
| her presence. Charles intention was
to die for love of Pauline and he will
probably make success of the effort.
JoHN w. ADLER, an insane person at
| Passavant Hospital, Milwaukee, %
years o age, was found TO be missing
from bis quarters in the hospital on the
| 18th. A nurse went into the basement
and found the old man hanging to a
beam by the neck, quite dead.
HENRY STEUBING, an elderly farmer,
| was repairing the roof Of house at Eau
Claire. when he fell to the ground, dy-
ing Of his Injuries in few minutes.
The state council of Catholic Knights,
IN session at Eau Claire, adjourned on
the 18th after electing the following Of
Eers: President, j. II. Wigman, of
Green Bay; vice-president, Emmett
HoraG, OF Eau Claire; treasurer, Chas.
| +. HlntZe, of Milwaukee; secretary, H.
| \. Mulholland, of ManitOwoc; medical
| examiner, DR.. J. H. Carderry, of Wan
| kesha. Reports laid before the council
, show a membership in Wisconsin OF
5000.
W. q. CHANDLER has sold theLancaster
Herald to an experienced editor from
Chicago, and will hereafter devote him
self to the sale of spur wire. having OBJ
tanned the right for Grant County.
-OA MAE GILMAN, formerly of Eau
Claire, is suing fer divorce at Mime
| apolis on the ground of cruel and in
| human treatment.
THE lumbermen of Chequamegon
| Bay have formed an association for
mutual protection against fraudulent
c0ntiscatiOn Of loose logs, and for the
purpose of gathering and sorting them.
By a runaway accident at La Crosse
five persons were more or less seriously
injured and several vehicles damaged
and one man, named Jacob Iilger, SO
crushed that his life is despaired. 1t all
happened in less than half minte.
PATRICK HINDs, of Eau Claire, tried to
| Jump from a moving train at Chicago
and Is violently insane. He bad been
| to Washington and was on his way
ii, IL /
well-known logger.
THE most important sale OF pine land
| made this year has recently been con-
summatcd by the La Crosse Lumb
| Company buying of George Hiles, of
Milwaukee, nearly all his pine in Wood
County, tributary TO Black River. 1t is
| estimated at 50,O00.000 feet. The pur-
| chase was made by scale and the price
| was 81. Not long since Mr.. Hiles sold
to the Wisconsin Lumber 4 Manufac-
| turing Company l5,G00,000 to 2n,000, 900
feet, and in the past five years has sold
an aggregate of nearly 81 ,000,0 600 worth
| of pine. He still holds from 80, 600, eco
| to 40,000,C coo feet. The La Crosse Lum-
Der Company is now the third largest
holder of pine on the Black River, the
other two being the Island Mil Lumber
Company and c. L. Coleman
TIE confectionery firm of Fernekes
Bros, at Milwaukee, who were burned
out few months ago, have made an as
signment for the benefit of their cred
| itors.
AFTER being out fifteen minutes the
jury in the case Of William Wright, on
| trial at Milwaukee for the shooting of
Charles Dorsey in a house of lll-fame,
| returned a verdict OF ofmurder in the first
degree. Both parties were colored.
| \ WISCONSIN Central short line train
ran over and killed Mrs Margaret Len
foster, an elderly widow, near the
Union Depot. Eau Claire. She was deaf
aud was crossing the track laden with
| bundles. She leaves four sons and four
daughters.
\ son of Mrs. Jackson, a widow living
on her farm near Prairie du Chen, was
prostrated by sunstroke while cultivat-
ing corn. At the same time the team he
WAS driving was also sunstruck and died
from the effects.
AT Ashland the mine suit of Charles
| Fisher against Mrs. Emeline Vaughn
| Mackinnon has been decided by giving
I the plaintiff one-third interest Mr..
| Fisher claims two-thirds AMI will ap-
peal from the decision. The property
| known as the Columbia miue-Was at
one time worth 10000.
! JoHN BARGAT, a tramp while drunk,
attempted an assault upon 7-year-old
| girl at Eau Claire. on the West Side
| The child escaped while her little
| brother bufieted the scoundrel with a
/ piece Of board Bargat was arrested.
AT a special term Of the La Crosse cir
| emit court, which commenced on the
/ 9th, most important matter was set
/ tied. This was the case made uD for the
! construction of thet portion OF the Will
OF the late Gov. Washburn relating to
providing fixed income of S7,G00 per
annum for each of his two daughters
The point was whether the Minneapolis
water power stock ana certain railroad
! bonds constituted such non -fuctuating
securities as would yield with certainty
| the sum required. The conditions Of
the settlement are not made public.
! TIE tragic death Of August Nenk. a
/ farm hand in the employ of Lars sails