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WISCONSIN NEWS. 8. E. TruEsDELL, of La Crosse, will edit the News, of Merrill, J. H. Pavun’s new mill at La Crosse, has been started. Anaus Guny,of Calamus, while chop ping wood, split one of his feet from toes to instep. At Linpey,on the 25th,Samuel Bu k kett, while in a fit of delirium tremens, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat and the veins in his wrist. He is lying at the point of death. In the Fairchild murder case at Dodgeville, the jury rendered a verdict finding the defendant sane at the time of committing the act. The defendant will now be tried on the plea of not guilty. Thomas Garnes, a farm hand, was arrested at Eau Galle, and Charles Hunter, a woodman, was arrested at Wilson, both for complicity in the burglary last summer at Eau Galle, when Carson and Rand’s safe was blown open and $150 taken. They will be examined at Menomonie. They were arrested on information from Barney Allen, who, after he had been convicted at Menomonie of the burglary in question, and had been sentenced to four years in the peni tentiary, gave the names of Gaines and Hunter as his accomplices. THE case of Fick against the Chicago Northwestern Railway Company, in which the award of $200 has just been affirmed by the state supreme court, was rather a peculiar one. Fick went up to a ticket office at La Crosse to purchase a ticket. The actual agent had stepped out and left an other man in his place. The two got into a dispute about the change, end ing up by the temporary ticket seller coming around from behind the wicket and mopping the floor with his customer. The latter held the com pany liable for this incendiary act and beat the defendant out of $200. THE seventh annual report of the Wiconsin Humane Society has been issued from the press. The society has eight life members, sixty special annual members and 442 active an nual members. GEORGE Wooton has been held to trial at La Crosse under bonds in the sum of $500, on a charge of stealing a watch and a revolver. The calendar for the March term of the circuit court of Eau Claire county, contains 101 civil cases, nine of which are for divorce, and five criminal cases. It is expected that Senator Spooner will deliver an address at Eau Claire, on Memorial Day. Henry Pau, living three miles from Fall River, fell from the roof of a log house on which he was at work, and struck his head on an axe. A gash two inches long was cut in his throat and he was otherwise injured. A SCANDINAVIAN woodsman on a Wisconsin Central train from the woods, was showing his money when a well dressed stranger asked him to change a $100 bill. The woodsman complied with the request, and on ar riving at Eau Claire found when he wanted to make a purchase that the bill given him by the stranger was an old Confederate shinplaster. No clue to the swindler. Gov. Rusk on the 24th signed the bill creating a superior court in Mil waukee. O. M. RicHARDs, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Elk Grove, Wis’, committed suicide at his house on the 23d. He was at work in the barn and went to the house, took down a double-barreled shotgun, and walked to the tool-house which he entered and immediately blew the whole top of his head off. His family, hearing the report of the gun, rushed to the building and found him dead. Mr. Richards was about 56ears old and has resided in Elk Grove for many years. He was a mean of good education and a prominent writer on agricultural top ics. He has been quite a prominent speaker at the Farmers’ Institutes, es pecially on fish culture, an industry to which he had given considerable at tention. He had a pond covering several acres well stocked with black base. He leaves a wife and several children. There was no known cause for the rash act, as his family and social relations were of the happiest kind. THERE were nine bids for the $36,000 worth of bonds issued to build an in sane asylum at LaCrosse. The highest remium was offered by S. A. Kean PO of Chicago (557,) and bonds were awarded to that firm. The low premium is on account of the bonds being pay able in yearly installments, beginning next year. It was reported that an injunction would be served restrain ing the count from consummating the sale, but such action was not taken. A Box factory, using 4,000,000 feet of lumber annually, will be started at La Crosse. The ice in Black river has moved out at Eau Claire. The city of La Crosse receives $28, 000 annually from licenses. ANOTHER railway survey is being made through the western suburb of Madison. THE government inspector of mili tary schools will inspect the State Uni versity battalion on or about May 1. Mrs. Peter De Camp and son, of Union, Door County, narrowly escaped drowning by breaking through the ice on which they were driving. S.and J. Atey, of Fort Madison, Ia., have bought the Polley’s saw mill property on French Island, near La Crosse, from F. H. Hankerson. They intend to rebuild the mill. William GERKE, employed in the carpenter shop at the State Univer sity, at Madison, got the palm of his left hand all torn to pieces by a circu lar saw. It is feared that the fingers will have to be amputated. Levi P. Vinas, of Eau Claire, broth-
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Superior, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Apr 02, 1887
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