The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-10-29
IfADGE!s NOTE 5.

I TfB!SitT Oh tttuS al .iSll!dDt, iICoi-
poratinr the Ashland Sulphite Fiber
/ Wildhagnn, OF Ashland. MEX Weiiani,
! William Wenzel, Peter j John and Frank
! kottenhofen, and JosSph Greulich, of
| Appleton. The capital stock is to be
| SIT, 600 III l52 shares of s5D1 each. The
| object of he company is to manufacture
and deal in suDhite fiber, wood pulp
and all paper products.
\ NEW literary society has been or
! ganlZed in the law school at Madison.
/ 1t is called the ''Columbian Law So
Ciety, and lis purpose Is TO discuss
| questions which require, exclusively,
research in the law. The officers
! elected are: President, II. \. I.atlin;
| vice president, H. ). kellogg; secre-
| tary +. +. A0rthrop; treasurer, {. ".
| Williams; Gergeant-at-arms, w. Grim
mer.
IT is reported that Fred Strickland,
who fed, while on bail, from Eau
| Claire, has been caught at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, and will be taken back to
| Eau Claire. Tn, charge against him is
! grand larceny, and his bail bond, $500,
| was slgncd bv q poor widow, Anna
| Ande rsOn, who was induced in some
way 10 take the Iisk.
| \ 7-YEiE-oLD daughter of William
| Peterson, of Detroit EIarbor, boo,
| County, had her leg badly smashed
| above the knee by being run over by a
| lumber wagon. 1t IS likely that the
| limb Will have TO uc aInputated.
| MRS. CHRISTIAN TAE>ING, of Nasewau
| pee, Door County, dropped deaQ while
! engaged in washing dishes. Heart fail
/ ure WaS the supposed cause OF her sud-
| dc II demise.
ALFRED HoLGEES had his collar bone
| broken ana received other serious in
/ lulcs by tail down we'll which he
was diggin" at Wasiburn.
l.. BLAIR, the man arrested on q
| charge OF burning his hotel at tiile,
| Ashland County, was committed TO jail
| for trial IN de ault OF 5000 bail.
| WILLIAM \. JACKSON, a former resi-
| dent of Eau Claire, died at his home in
Chelan Falls, Wash.
| WHILE funeral services were in pro-
! gress in a church at Ashland the floor
! gave way, ard congregation, corpse and
| furniture fell through into the base
| meEt, distance of nine feet. A panic
| ensuGd, women screamed and tainted;
! ut struggled 10 cXtrIcate themselves,
| ami, strange as II may appear, but few OF
| the victims received other than slIght IN
| iuries. In a Jew moments the church
| was surrounded bv fesCu ng party,
| and with the aid OF ladders the victims
were taken out of the debris. The
| coffin was unharmcd, although it was
at tine bottom OF the heap, and within
an hour the funeral services were COM
| pleted at the cemetery. The church
WAS badly wrecked.
| STEpHEX MtR>rEN. of Fan Claire, was
| recently LEFT SD, ,0JO by the death of his
| brother James, at Pennington, Ne.
| IL. {. SyUnFIEID. 4 student of tine uni
! veT-ttv at Madison. while working at
| the laboratory, net with an accident
which will disable him for some time.
! some chemicals which he WAS prcpar-
| ing exploded il his hands, burning
! them terribly, and causing him such
pain that he tainted away.
| TIE library Of the state University
| School Of Economics at Madison, has
| received several important private do
| nations in tie form Of a good number of
works on economics. The gifts lave
| been made principally by Profs. \. \.
| knowlton, K. T. Ely and +. ]. Turner.
| \ LARGE spotted adder was killed on
the stock farm Of ! q. Fox, near Oregon,
| Dane County, a few days ago. The farm
| Is an extensive sheep ranch. One of the
| shepherds named John Burke discover
ed a snake among the sheep. lie inn
| medlately gave battle. and after 4 furious
| fight he slew the reptile. When stretch
ed out il measured feet l. inches from
| tip TO tip. It was a spotted adder, quite
| rare III that section now, although once
| more numerous.
| Two German farmers came TO death
! and one was hurt while they were going
i home from La Crosse. They We're Fred
| X. Zimmerman, an old man, his son,
| aged about -. and IOrenZ Strittner, i3
| years old. Ihey tried t. cross the
track IN front of Burlington train going
north and miscaiculated the distance.
| The engine struck the wagon Just back
OF the horses. Young Immerman
rolled out behind and escaped injury,
| the others We're tossed In the air and fell
dead. The younger Of the two was
| badly manged The crossing is the full
width OF the road with clear track.
NINETEEN checks were stolen from the
office Of \. +. Shores, president Of the
Shores Lumber Company, at Ashland.
lie had commenced signing the pay
roll of checks, and left them in his
desk. During the night an entrance
was made through side window, and
all the checks taken. John kemmler,
aged 10 years, was arrested II the act
of passing one Of these checks, which
| was endorsed on the back.
THE finney family, residing near Eau
Claire, have sbeen sadly afflicted by
diphtheria. Two children have died OF
the disease within the past month, an
the mother and one of the remaining
children are down with it.
WORD has been received at Madison
that John Payton, business man OF
that city, h&i been stabbed and robbed
al Chicago, ami hes in a preCarlOus con-
dItion. Mrs. Payton has gone to ChlCa
60 to attend her husband.
NEW bridge Will be built over the
Black River at La Crosse, leading to
French Island. II will cost S3,3557.
STATE GAME WARDEN FERNANDEZ states
that he intends TO commence crusade
against the fishermen around Lake
Winnebago who make a practice Of
hunting ducks with sail boats and snar-
ing them. There is heavy fine for
violating the game law.
\ SERIOUS calamity was averted by the
timely arrival Of Mrs. George IL. Cor
don at her home in La Crosse. Mrs.
Gordon had been 10 party. The serv-
ant girl had put the children TO bed and
left the lamp burning Lear one OF the
Windows When Mrs. Gordon reached
the house the room where the children
and the servant girl were asleep was all
ablaze. She gave the alarm and then
rushed IN he room and carried the ut
tie ones out. The ire was extlngulshed
with little damage. The curtains be-
came ignitcd from the lamp.
Mrs EElCK-oN, Norwegian milk ped
dler. aged % years, was driving on a
dark street in La Crosse in heavy rain
and got on the street Car track. As d
car appr0ac he'd she drove of except one
hind wheel, which cIung To the rail.
The car struck the wagon, overturnlng
il. The woman said she was all right,
except her back. She went home and
died at clock next morning.
THE second drive of logs down the
Menominee River has reached the
hoonls above Marinette. having been
aoated from Grand Rapids. There are
$1,000. .ut0 feet OF logs IN the drive.
Rrs1xEs- c.rcles throughout the state
vi. II Interested q the announcement
that {. I. Nash, Of Milwaukee, has re-
sieu=3 from the presidency Of the Ma
tiGnai Exchange Bank, and las also re-