The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-04-06
WISCONSIN ITEMS

render U6ClSlbHS III lnS cases argued at
tne last assignment. The January cal
endar having been completed, there
will be no further arguments until after
the summer recess.
THE balance in the state treasury
April was 81 $50, 144.60.
The Graft malpractice case, which oc-
cupied the attention of the circuit court
at Eau Claire nearly all of last week,
resulted IN a verdict for the plaintiff,
damage being fixed at s., 500.
WILLIAM WATSON, arrested at Florence
on charge of resisting an officer, es-
capped from Sheriff Parmenter. Watson
was searching for bondsmen, accompa-
MED by the Sheriff, and gave the officer
the slip. He was carried over the
Michigan line by friend.
The Menomonee Indian logs are ad-
vertised TO be sold to the highest bid
der, on the 18th inst. There is about
100000 feet of irst-class green logs
th will doubtless create lively COM
petition among buyers. Part are on the
Wolf and part on the south branch of
the Oconto.
MARSHAL RosEBRoCGH, OF Huntington,
Ind, left Ashland, on the I'd, with
Frank Williams, alias Jas. O'Brien, hav-
ing secured him upon a requisition.
He was held for safe-blowing, and is
wanted there on the charge of murder
ing William Newcombe, in that city,
Feb. y, 1885. -Four years ago Newcombe
was his pal, and they are alleged to have
been engaged in breaking into the post
office at the time of the murder.
They were caught at their work by
City Marshall Bulngarteu. While hold
ing him, one in front and one behind.
O'Rrien attempted to shoot him I'D the
back of the head. He lodged to one
sisie and the ball struck his partner, kill
ing him instantly. The marshal was
baply crippled and O'Brien escaped.
The municipal election in Milwaukee
on the 2nd resulted in the election of
Wallber, the Republican candidate for
municipal Judge, over Mallory, who has
held the bench for thirty years.
ASHLAND County will sue Col. J. II.
knight and Mayor Harrison for So Coo,
the amount of the alleged shortage in
the accounts of the late NJ L. GafIney
as county clerk.
WILLIAM Carson, the wec'thy lumber
man of Eau Clare, narrowly escaped
drowning IN the woods recently. He
was crossing lake when the ice gave
way under him. His companions pulled
him out.
LOUIS BURKE has entered plea of not
guilty to the charge of killing Alex.
Montgomery, at High Bridge, some
time ago.
IT is reported from the tobacco mar
kets of the state that the export grades
have now been pretty generally picked
up and the bulk OF the purchases are of
the better quality for which from S to
10 cents assorted is being paid.
CYRUS WooDMAN, whose death at his
home in Cambridge, Mass, from beart
disease, has been announced, was one
of the early settlers of Wisconsin, busl-
ness partner of the late c. G. Washburn,
and close personal friend of the Wash
burns all his life. His age was about 70
years. He was an uncle Of +. B. Usher,
proprietor of the La Crosse Chronicle.
Ills property was estimated at 81 600, GOO.
EDWARD P. ALLIs, one of Milwaukee's
oldest, and most respected citizens died
at his home in this city on the Isl inst.
Neuralgia of the stomach was the cause
of death.
BURGLARS burgled the house of John
5. George, the railroad man. of Milwau-
kee, on the night of the 3lst, and after
ransacking the house for portable
Doodle made themselves comfortable in
the dining room, where they appropri-
ated whatever delicacies in the way Of
cake and wine they could lay hands
on, and also sampled box of imported
cigars.
u. NJ. MARSHALL, an old soldier. was
struck and killed in the saloon of Fred.
Brauer, on National Avenue, Mil
waukee, by Thomas Eagan, on the
morning of the lst Both men had been
sitting in the saloon drinking, when
misunderstanding arose and Egan
struck the soldier blow in the face that
felled him. He was taken to his board
ing place near by, where he died short
~ afterwards. Egan was arrested.
Mas. MARGARET kISLEIN and her three
children were burned 10 death in their
home, 55i Fifteenth Street Milwaukee,
early on the morning of the Ist. There
was every indication that the mother
had deliberately burned herself and
her children to death. They had all
occupied the same bed The only the
ory of the fire which seemed at all pos
sible was that Mrs. Kinlein had put her
little children to bed, closed all the
doors and windows of the inner room,
and then built fire under the bed, alter
ward lying down herselfand awaiting the
death she had arranged for herself and
her children.
THE suit of Nymphus B. Holwav, of
La Crosse, to recover $4,000 as the
value of standing pine alleged 10 have
been destroyed by a spark from an en-
gine on the Green Bay, Winona 4 St
Paul Railway, resulted in favor of the
railroad company.
IT is reported that the Indians around
the Chippewa reservation near Hay
ward are greatly demoralized 1t ap-
pears they can get all the liquor they
want In Hayward or on the rese
vation, and also directly or indi
rectly at the forks of the road. A squaW
and her husband recently came to Crane
Creek, having in their sleigh the re-
mains of two small children that had
been burned to death at a time when
/ the husband was away, and the squaw
was asleep under the influence of liuuor
BUTLER THOMSON, Herman Thompson
and Samuel Odemard, of Mondovi,
Buffalo County, became very drunk in
saloon in that village. The
Thompsons, who are brothers, set
upon Odemard on his way home and
dubbed him until he was unconscious,
fracturing his skull. both of his arms
and five of his ribs. The Thompsons
are in Jail. An old feud and bad whisky
were the cause of the trouble.
BLACK JOE MEMOIR, who attempted to
murder Miss Ellen Long at High Bridge
because she did not reciprocIte his af-
fections, and who thereafter cut his
throat, died in the hospital on the Goth
Of his wounds.
WILL DRAKE, a gang foreman on the
81. Paul road, was seriously Injured and
has wife instantly killed by a switch e4- ~
CINE at La Crosse on the 9th.
A PORTION of the residence of Mrs.
MacBride, at Prairie du Chen, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss, SlO,-
O00.
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