The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-08-01


heen destroyed by the fires in Northern
Wisconsin and Michigan, and as yet
The flames show no signs OF ahatin-.
TIE remains of the late Lieut.. Cot.
John +. Tourtellntte, of La Crosse, have
been inferred in the National Cemetery
At Washington. The services AT Airing
ton were conducted by Il detail of nited
States troops.
Mes. JoHN CLEAHY Is the mother of
the second pair of twins born in Flor
enCc County. The babes are girls.
EIGHT THOUSAND persons listened to
the address of pr. Talmage at the Mo
mona Lake Assembly.
7. BURKE, yardmaster for the Wiscon-
sin Central Railway at Ashland, is un-
der arrest on a charge of having broke n
into a freight car with intent to steal.
The alleged otlense was committed a
year ago.
STEEL bridge to cost about 81, 600 is
TO span the Milwaukee River at Sauk-
vile. Its abutments a-e TO be Of Wau-
~atosa quarry stone.
Miss H,RRIEf REMINGTON. who has
been in Europe during the last year
studying French and German, has ac-
Ceptcd the position of teacher of GER
\ LETTER from a firm of contractors of
Denver, Col, says Ncls Anderson and
Andy Peterson. who were working on Il
railroad. were murdered and robbed by
unknown asSassins. Anderson had $500
and two watches. The letter saws his
parents are believed to live near Eau
Claire.
W. F. KELLY, night clerk at the Hotel
n F,I ~.
depot platform in front Of an incomi
train. He had the presence of mil
and barely time TO roll one side, b,
tween the rail snl the platform. He
escaped death, but was painfully
crushed and bruised by the low-hang
Ing coach steps.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Milwaukee
to establish an English-speaking Turner
society.
Mrs. krNKEL. wife of a Milwaukee
salooIkeeper, was SO badly burned by
the explosion of a lamp that she is not
expected 10 recover.
An unknown man committed suicide
on the 2Uth by jumping from one of the
bridges into the river
Two boys, Michael Quin and William
Irsch. aged l9 and II years, were
a
suburb of Milwaukee, on the 10Th
IA CROSSE has dog which, seems to
take delight in killing smaller dogs. He
is Newfoundland, very large, and for
some time the animal has been in Il bad
humor, and, like a human murderer,
was too cowardly to select victim that
might prove dangerous. His victims,
therefore, have been little dogs. In
one instance he was seen to jump o.: IA
small dog, and with one bite and Il
shake the big Newfoundland had killed
the little dog. Dropping the body on
the ground he walked away.
THE Governors Guard, Of Madison,
has received its new uniforms.
TIE Lutheran Swedes Of Ashland are
raising money to build a church.
Mrs. WILLIAM F. NILAs and daughter,
of Madison, are summerIng on tho st.
Lawrence River.
ELMER FOSTER, l6-year-old La
Crosse boy, caught sixty-pound fish IN
the Mississippi at La Crosse.
H. c. IRISH, son of the Rev. c. Irish,
a Methodist minister we'll known
throughout Wisconsin, has fallen heir To
Sll 900.
a YOUNG man named Grundy and his
sister narrowly escaped drowning in
Moh"h" Lake al Madison. lhev were
attempting to land twenty pound pick
erel when their boat capsized.
Thomas PUEcELL, arrested at Madison
on a charge of larceny and sentenced to
SIX months IN the county jail, has been
formally adiHdgcd insane.
An Ohio company is to erect an extcn-
sive mill at Ashland for the manuiac
ture of steel and nails The company
will be given building site, and Ashland
people will take $4,000 worth of stock
In the company. Fifty men will be en-
ployed, and the nail output Will be
5000 kegs annuall,
LIEUT.-CoL. JoHN + ToCKTEiLoTIE, of
La Crosse, is dead. He was gallant
soldier during the war. When the war
terminated Col. Tourtellotte went to
Mankato, WIS, and resumed his law.
His close persona friend, cen. Sher-
man, brought such arguments 10 bear
That he decided TO re-enter army HE,
ana was CoihIhissloned MAJOR OF thc
seventh cavalry, afterwards custer
regiment: lie was detalied on zen.
sherman stan, ana n tune became It's
chie1. lie assisted ten. pton IN
tn0rou@i revision OF cavalry taCiics.
hen lhc Marquis ol ioFhe ana rin-
TourtclI"ttc was detailed as their escort.
He was so years old
JoIx Murray q convict in the state
prjson serving two wears under SEN
tence in Dane Comfy for burglary.
mad 8 holI attemrt to escane in day
Iicht He was at work withinthe stock
ad4 ana crowded ,brouoh a doorway
left omen to hermit a car to pass. He
was seen bv guard. who fred his Win
chester 10 attract attention. The
nrisnnar was nnrsued and cantured
ttu.ar,t., rripII.es after bis esrape
ST,TE TnE,,rEEn HrxxrR paid to the
NiIuauk.a ,.ity treasurer the sum of
800 onn far .orre.rondiuc amount of
schnoI honds which have been sold TO
fhe state, The remaining $50, 900 will
be raid into the city treasury in the
near futrlrn
T,r, Ao,,in bo,- who was lost in the
woods = -. ,niIcs from shell Iake was
foT,,,I ,aar porr.nett Two hundrrI
,,,o-l 49," .''' e,D,'i;.,,, m Tho unnGs for
~, IT, I'll H., l,',,.,, a,,d I,,.,pte.