The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-07-06

A sTREET-DEALER Of the kind known as
gold watch taklrs, was rather summarlly
closed out at Sturgeon Bay. He had
disposed of several watches when the
city marshal, without giving him time
TO collect the money due him, pulled
him from the carriage and dragged him
to Jail. The crowd then upset the car
rage, spllling the watches and jewelry
INTO the street to be picked up by the
boys. The lakir's assistant fled to his
hotel and locked himself in his room.
EAU CLAIRE friends will try to secure
new trial for August Johnson, SEN
fenced to death for murder IN Mon
tana.
CONGRESSMAN VAN SCHAICK has re-
quested Postmaster General Wanna
maker to send an expert TO investigate
the charges against Postmaster Paul.
MANY Eau Claire women voted at the
school election.
HENRY FINK took the oath of office as
collector of internal revenue at Mllwau-
kee on the lst inst.
s. HoMMERBURG' feed mill, at La
Crosse, was totally destroyed by fire on
the 29th. Loss, 80 800; insurance 81 900.
1t Is supposed that the fire caught from
passing locomotive.
JoHN FRAzELLE, of Eau Claire, an old
resident. fell dead on the 30th, just as
he reached the Baptist Church. lie
was overcome by the intense heat.
TIE Frohsinn Society, of La Crosse,
recently received a silk banner that had
been made to order IN Switzerland.
THE saloonkeepers at Sturgeon Bay in
sist that no distinction must be made IN
the enforcement of the Sunday law.
l,xx a J, !, for
the privilege of selling their goods they
stand upon the same footing with other
mercantile houses, and that the Council
cannot Justly refuse to them the pTiyi-
lege enjoyed by restaurants, llverymen,
BARRIERS, marketmen, grocers, milk deal
ers, and all others who supply the wants
of customers on Sundays.
As the result of difficulty with the
government civil service commission re-
gardlng his administration of the office,
Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, has
sent In his resignation.
Mrs. GERTRUDE RAssBACH, of Cross
Plains, Dane County, has secured dl-
vorCe from her husband, DR.. Geo. F..
Ras5baCh, Of OwatOnDa, Mimi, with
s. 800 alimony. They had not lived to-
gether for twenty years.
TIE Bunker Hill Creamery, of Ellen
boro, Grant County, has filed articles of
assoc alton with the secretary of state ;
capital stock, s., 900; incorporators, j. T..
Wilkinson, d. II. Lille, l.. d. Culver,
and eleven others.
WILLIE OBURS made a desperate a.
tempt to murder Thos. Hawley, at a
saloon in Bay field, on the 2Sth. Haw-
ley WAS cut seven times with large
iack-knife. Both men were intoxicated
and the fight was the result of an old
grudge. Oburn made his escape and a
reward of Sln0 has been offered for his
capture.
THE La Crosse Veteran Association
will meet at Onalaska July 20.
JoHS A. CULLMAN, of La Crosse, who
was terribly injured in a runaway accl-
dent, is dead.
w. A. Rust, John s. Oven and II. G.
and +. 3. Putnam, OF Eau Claire, have
purchased a sawmil plant at Hinckley,
Mimi, and 10000, 900 standing pine, tor
$3.50, 900.
Tue remains of Richard Hallager,
who committed suicide in New York,
were buried at II Crosse.
c. F. COOLEY, of Madison, will furnish
the state hospital for the insane with
300 tons of diamond Indiana block
coal, e. 1919 per ton.
TIE Milwaukee Health Department
muddle over the recent smallpox cases
resulted in the exhoneration of the city
health commissioner by committee OF
the city Council.
\ TERRIBLE crime was committed at
La Crosse early on the morning of the
9th. burglar entered the residence
of J. NJ. Weber, and On being discovered
by Mr.. Weber's two daughters, stabbed
Lena, the younger, with a long knife,
inficting a wound which Will probably
prove fatal.
DURING the storm at Milwaukee on the
Goth, lightning killed three horses in
Aid. John Guerin's barn. Several other
places were struck without doing much
damage.
AT Benoitville, small station on the
Omaha Line, Mrs. Alice Brown, post
mistress at that place, struck John Rose
on the head with a club. He died from
the effects of the blew. Coroner Leon
ard and Chief of Police Latin, of Wash
burn, went there and held an inquest.
Rose was intoxicated, and Mrs. Brown
claims that she struck him in self-de
fense.
J. G. NoRToN's store, at Flambeau,
Chippewa County, was burned, with q
loss Of 81 600. Insurance, s. 900.