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The News Condensed. W. H. McCann, charged with the murder of Bob Kirkwood near White Birch a year ago, and who was on trial in court at for a man. the the murder, circuit is free West Superior The defense pleaded insanity and the jury returned a verdict of insanity. John C. Koch, a republican, was elected mayor of Milwaukee over Garrett Dunck, a democrat, by over 3,000 majority. The strike on the Northwestern Fuel company's coal docks at Washburn has been declared off. Noah Murray, for forty years a resident of Beloit, died at the age of 83 years. The plant at Eau Claire of the Madison Street Manufacturing company. sashes and doors, was gutted by fire. Damage, $5,000, insured. Harry T. Hubbard, a traveling salesman for Stahl Bros., New York, shot himself at the Plankinton house in Milwaukee. He may recover. The Eau Claire woolen mills. owned by L. Stoeckler, were burned, the loss being $8,000; insurance, $3,000. Belt mine near owned the company, The Iron by Standard Oil order Ashland. discharged over 100 men in to reduce the force. Frank Willern and Mrs. Bertha Escher, of Sheboygan, were arrested for the murder of the woman's husband, who it was alleged committed suicide. Fred Hanson, engineer in the Grant mill at was the main belt and planing by Kenosha, drawn into caught the where he was ly to was a fly-wheel, torn pieces. He almost wife and instant- middle- four aged man and leaves a children. J.G. Grindell, Sr., one of the old residents of Platteville, while working in his brick yard just out of town fell from one of the kilns and was probably fatally injured. A. . C. Probert, president of the lately suspended Bank of Washburn, assigned to O. Flanders, of Bayfield. The dead body of William Escher, a street driver, was a at with a Sheboygan car bullet found jury hole in were through park his body. The coroner's unable to decide whether it was suicide or murder. The Kaukauna Fiber company's sulphite mill at Kaukawna was destroyed by fire. It was a two digester mill, with a capacity of seven tons a day. Loss. $35,000. Robert G. Ries, proprietor of a big cooper shop at Milwaukee, made an assignment. The assets are placed at $25,000; liabilities not given. Ralph York, of Eau Galle, nephew of Mrs. Ed Haag, aged 16, was drowned in the St. Croix river at Osceola while in bathing. has settled a warm in Beloit by dispute Judge Bennett deciding that the legal license fee is $500 and not $200, as the saloonkeepers contended. Charles Roeser, Jr., of Wisconsin, of in partment chief topographer Washington, the post of office died and de- of He was 49 years age, in the war in under served apoplexy. department Gen. the Thomas. commissary of Eau Claire. has been cadet at appointed Fred Arnold. Annapolis by Congressman Shaw. Farmer Grath and Herman Welke were killed by black damp while digging a well near Manitowoc. The store of Thomas Stout at Clear Lake was entered by burglars and the safe blown open, but only a small amount of money was secured. Mrs. Angeline Demarrie died at the home of herdaughter, Mrs. H. S. Allen, in Chippewa Falls. She was born in 1772, and was therefore 121 years of age. The entire plant of the John O. Davis Lumber Company at Phillips has resamed work, amicable arrangements having been made with the employes of the company. The village of Thorpe was recently and at the first election H. Lusk was Schaefer, aged 17 years, a George incorporated Coonie elected president. and Jew peddler named Schwartz were drowned in the Black Hawk river near Spring Green while in bathing. Alexander Agnew. of Chicago, was found dead in bed in a Milwaukee hotel. Andrew Colvin, a conductor on the off Wisconsin Central, had his leg cut while coupling cars at Mellen. John Alton, of Greenwood, aged 19. was drowned in Black river 8 miles below that place. Another successful commencement season has closed at Beloit college and a class of twenty-one young men was graduated. The twenty-sixth annual commencement of the State normal school at Platteville added twenty-six graduates to the number.
