The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-22

AT Midway, country town twelve
miles from La Crosse. man named
kindhammer fell from the roof OF
house. He had hatchet in his hand,
on which he fell so as to cut his throat.
HIS wlnd pipe Was severed and one arm
was broken. He was alive, but Will
surely die.
FRED RANTAUM, beer peddler for
Watertown finn, was fined 800 at Madl-
son on charge of selling beer at Deer
held, no-hcanse town.
CURRIE c. BELL has been appointed
postmaster ut Bayfield,.
j. L. FREDEmcKsoN's 14-year-old son
was drowned at Chippewa Falls while
swimming.
c. B. Dodge is the name at the head
of No. |, vol. /, of the Echo, published
at Amery, Polk County.
{. W. COTTON was sentenced at Eau
Claire on the 18th to eighteen months
IN the penitentiary for horse stealing.
The crime was committed in 1891, and
since then he has served three years In
the Milwaukee house of correction for
stealing team in that county, and also
q year in the state prison, at saltwater,
for asimilar offense, Cotton has spent
six months in the county jail, making
up his mind to plead guilty to his late
crime.
Miss MAY HoTCHKIss, of Eau Claire,
20 years of age, while walking in sleep
on the night of the l4th inst, stepped
off an outside landing and fell TO the
ground, sixteen feet, suffering conCus-
sion OF the brain, and fraCturing and
dislocating the right shoulder. She lay
from l to 6 O'Clock in the morning, in
sensible, when she was picked up by
her father. Her recovery Is doubtful.
WHILE asleep in a saloon at Liberty,
Door County, Charles Boyer was stabbed
in the right groin by his brother Fred,
the wound being about six inches deep
and two inches long. Fred. was jailed
at Sturgeon Bay to await the result OF
his villainy.
AFTER being ont all night, the jury in
the case of Louis Burke, the High
bridge butcher, came into court at Ash
land with a verdict that the defendant
was guilty of mauslaughter III the third
degree. Burke is the man who chopped
Alex. MONTGOMERY into quarters at
lfighbridge, last February. Public
sentiment does not sustain the verdict,
which it is thought should have been
murder in the first degre.
RICHARD CHUTE, of Eau Claire, has
been reappointed lumber inspector for
the Eau Claire district.
THE name of the man who hanged
himself at La Crosse was Boig.
LOUIS BURKE, on trial at Ashland for
murder, was found to be insane.
A NEwLY-lNCoRPoRATED ASSOCIATION is
the Wisconsin Milk -Condensing Com
pany. of Monroe; capital stock s50, 900,
and the incorporators, A. Ludlow, Jacob
karlen, Ferdinand Grunert, John Blu
mer, J. B. Treat, ID. A. Stearns, Louis
Weber B. n. RUsch, Thomas Hansen,
Henry Holm, John Luchsinger, Joshua
klassy, Simon Saucerman and Fred. j.
lefty.
The Eau Claire companies sent over
8 600 worth of lumber to Johnstown.
NATHAN FELDT, peddler from Mari
nette, was knocked down by gravel
train al Stiles, receiving injuries from
which he died in two hours.
THE annual meeting of the Chicago,
Burlington x Northern Railroad Conn
pany was held at La Crosse, and the
following board of directors was elect
ed: Alex. Cochrane, J. Murray Forbes,
Francis J.. HigglnsOn, W. Powell Mason,
Edward c. Perkins, A. Il. Tourlam,
Charles L. Young.
A MIDDLE-AGED man named Boig, was
found on the 18th hanging by the neck
in the rear OF the saloon of Anton
Preschle in La Crosse. He had used a
strap, the buckle serving as knot The
suicide had been working two or three
months past for a lime burner, few
miles from the city, and had been paid
$40 few days before. 1t is believed
that lie was robbed of most Of this
while drunk, and that was the cause of
the deed. A coroner's jury is inyesti-
eating the case.