The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-07-05
BADGER NOTES.

JERRY NJ kENNEY was elected captain
Of the Milwaukee First Light Battery.
The option for the purchase of the
Milwaukee x Northern Railroad has cX-
pired.
EDWARD BOWMAN. of Clinton, Ia, lost
one of his feet by falling under the fast
mail train at La Crosse. Dan Rauvor
of La Crosse. fell under a street car,
and was So injured that one of his feet
had To he amputated.
Ar Madison, on the Goth, man
named Loberg, aged about 63 years, was
found dead in his room. Prostration
from the heat was the cause of death.
The State Labor Bureau has compiled
table of the losses by ire in factories
for the wears 1885, 1886, 1887. lSSS and
1880 The total factory loss by fire III
the state during this period was s., 42l,
I lSS5-S1l5. .l6S; 1856 s66l 80, lSS1-
s7I3 ,Gn2 -; lssS SS1i.l@0.oi; 1889 81
l7,uoo."1. The heaviest losses We're
distributed through the following indus
tries: Beer and malt-S.160, ,S9o.bO; con
fectonery and steam bakerics-Sl0S,
$50 So; flour and feed-SlW 800; furni-
ture-Sl69, l33; lumber, hath, shingles,
etc-Sl ,266. .l35. 7S machine shops, iron,
and brass foundries- ,S4} 90: paper
and pulp-S270 900 during 1888 and
ls9o) sash doors, blinds and planning
mills-S2221 ,3552.713.
/ ETHEL GARDNER, a miss of IS, joined
( the Salvation Army at Eau Claire
against her fathers wishes. On the
! 2Sth her father went to the army's meet
/ ing and demanded his daughter. The
army formed a square around the girl,
and the female captain, HalieluIah En-
ma, screamed, "Gou can't have her; we
want Ethel for Jesus. But the angry
father dispersed the army, seized the
girl, and took her away. In the melee
the female captain claims 10 have been
roughly handled To-day she sworc
out Il warrant for Gardeners arrest for
assault and battery.
The temperature at La Crosse was ~
by signal office reports and about 100
earth level, the hottest of the week. \
plasterer named Myers, overcome by
the heat, went under shed for shelter
and was found soon atterdead. Joseph
Struh, dealer in cheese, from Dodge
Vile, after travelling about town all day,
fell from a chair at the City Hotel ut
Z. VI. lie was taken to the hospital and
died before 6.
TWENTY cases Of sunstroke were re-
ported at Milwaukee on the 2sth. Two
were fatal in the city, and there We're
two fatal eases at Wauwatosa.
JoHN GooDRICH a man of 56 years,
who lives on Thirty-sixth and Wells
Streets, just outside the Milwaukee
city limits, was shot and fatally injured
i'll Il somewhat mysterious manner on
the night of the 18th. Lizzie Goodrich,
his daughter, 26 wears of age, was ar
rested and taken to the station, pend
! ing the further developments of the
4 Inf =
4 that she fred the shot.
I JoHN DoRs,nER. ianitor at the Wash
burn Observatory. Madison suffered a
! paralytic stroke from lightning in a pc
cular manner, on the 10Th. He was
seated in front of his house talking with
( a couple of visitors. no rain being fall
ing at the time, although the sky was
/ overcast. \ sudden flash of lightning
knocked the three men down. and
/ Dorschcr was found 10 be paralyzed in
his entire left side 1t Is thought the
paralysis is the result of induction. as,
had a spark struck him, it would have
/ killed him Immediately. The case pre-
/ sents many points of psychological in
tcrest.
/ DAVID DUBAY, of Ashland, has sued
A. A. Bigclow for damages sustained at
/ the latter's mills at Washburn, having
4 htt1 thrown nttNgtf tdlh bN toiIlSlOll,
He claims $4,000
! Mrs. SARAH A. RIcHARps, widow of D..
f. Richards, publisher of the first
newspaper in Milwaukee, died on the
9th at an advanced age.
I PRESIDENT LULING, of the State Board
. of Supervision, saws that the next legis-
lature will be asked to appropriate
money for several new institutions, re-
forlnatorv and charitable. What the
Board would like to have is an intcrme-
I diate prison, where offenders too old
! for the Waukesha school, and vet too
Young for confinement with the hard
/ cned criminals of the state prison
might l'e placed. They also feel the
need of an asylum for the criminal in
sane. and an asylum for the feeble
minded. The necessity for some of
these institutions is apparent. and the
( board is hopeful of seeing some OF Its
expectations realized.
THE census returns give Milwaukee n
population of 1875. 600.
IT is said that sevaral Italian musi-
clans who were in Milwaukee recently
are nobicmeu in disguise.
OTTo NEUMAN, aged -, Milwaukee
shoemaker, fell in love with Maggie
klotz, fellow cmploye Maggie failed
to receive his attentions Then otto
got gun and went after gore He met
. Maggie on the street, and blazed away
with deadly intent but very bad aim,
and il now cooling his heated brain in
the county jail
TIE body of Frederick Heiss, who
has been missing from the Soldiers
Home since June 22, was found in the
Milwaukee River. He probably fell
into the river accidentally.
DR.. HuGH MILLER THOMSON, Bishop
of Mississippi, formerly of Wisconsin,
! has gathered his editorial writings from
the American Churchman, published
for time in Milwaukee. and sent them
out III book form under the sensational
title Of Copy"
THE Congregationalist Church Of Mad
ison has issued a call to the Rev. T.. G.
Updike. Of EnglewOGd, ILL.,, TO the pas
torate 1t is understood that Mr.. p
dixie will sever his connection with the
( Methodist conference to enter Congrc-
gationalsm He was formerly pastor OF
the Summerfeld Methodist Church in
/ Milwaukee.
THE final exercises of commencement
/ week at the State University occurred
on the 25th The graduating class mum
. bered I49 members, eIghty-one in the
college of arts, letters and sciences. one
in agriculture, eight IN pharmacy, and
tifty-nine in law.
SEVERAL persons were prOstrated by
the heat in Milwaukee on the 23th.
IT is reported that the census will
give Milwaukee less than 10000 popu-
lation.
BAKER was convicted at Ashland for
the Hurley bank robbery.
DR. CHAs. AYERS. of Grant County,
was fatally injured bv Peter Hentel with
a blow on the head.
THE fight between the st. Croix Dam
and Boom Company and Isaac Staples,
of Minnesota has been settled.