The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-03-31
WISCONSIN NOTES

AT La Crosse on the pod, the dead
body of Henry Gieseler was found froz-
| en- into the ice on the La Crosse bot
toms. Deceased had not been seen for
several days. He was janitor OF United
Workmen's Hall. His former home was
at Hokah. Mimi.
SEVERAL carloads of ore have been re-
ceived at the Ashland steel works, and
everything is in readiness to ope rate
| the plant.
IT is claimed at La Crosse that the en-
gineers who took the places of the strik-
! ing Burlington & Northern engineers,
| run trains in thecity limits faster than
the law permits.
ANNA GEORGE, an Ashland dom este,
is charged wite having concealed the
of the infant was found in trunk.
THE Public Library Association of La
Crosse is preparing to place a tablet in
its rooms, as u memorial to the late ex-
| Gov. G.. G. Washburn, in commemora-
ton of Mr.. Washblrn's bequest to the
association.
THE officers of the Ashland land office
dismiss the application of Charles Toll
liver to file land claims in the Wisconsin
indemnity belt, holding that they have
no jurisdiction in the matter. The case
| will be appealed.
MICHAEL Dunn and Thomas Brown,
| inmates of the Milwaukee Soldiers
Home, were frozen to death during the
night of the 2lst. Both were outside
the Home grounds, and are supposed to
have been under the influence OF
| whisky.
TIE large planning mill of the w. II.
Schmidt Company, on Seventh Avenue
Milwaukee, YVES destroyed by fire on
the night of the 22d, involving loss Of
$4,000. Three hundred people are
thrown out of employment.
A. S. FLETCHER, of Eau Claire, will
clear about 5000 by his logging opera
tons at Turtle Creek, near Butternut
McNeiPs camp, consisting of nine men,
have put in l0,0OO, 900 feet. Mr.. Fletcher
states that loggers, as rule, will lose
heavily in consequence of the deep
snow.
THE La Crosse Republican states that
the Mississippi River is now open to lie
Claire and boats are plying between
down stream points. The Bella Mac is
engaged in running logs to Hannibal
from Quincy ana Boston Bays. The
logs were hung up last season by low
water.
"JENKs' Cooley" a little valley on
the west side of the Mississippi, be-
tween La Crosse and Winona, is greatly
dreaded by railway engineers on dark
nights, as it is crossed by the railroad in
a short curve which hides it from view
from both ways. Many an engineer has
"whistled for down brakes" and felt
that death might be near at hand and
then discovered that the lights he saw
were from steamboats, and not the head
or rear lights of an engine or train.
THE Central Wisconsin Medical So
ciety will meet at Madison on March 27.
THE Rice Lake Lumber Company has
increased its capital stock to $500, 900.
EVANGELIST WOLF converted about six
ty persons during his revival at Reeds
burg. He has gone to Indian Territory,
but will return to Wisconsin in the fall
with tent that will hold ], 600 persons.
THE Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased piece of land with a frontage of
600 feet on St. Louis Bay, and will build
dock for handling the oil supply of the
Northwest. The company will expend
$4,000 in improvements.
Miss HATTIE EATON, a teacher in Ash
land, is under arrest for unusual severity
in Christening pupil named Fox.
WILLIAM kALKBRENNER is under arrest
III OF. SIOiA SbuutS lOT OUldlllluS money
on an express order that he found in a
letter addressed to a man of the same
name.
EDWARD HUDsoN, a switchman at Ash
land, is in custody on warrant charg-
ing him with having taken trunk from
the Omaha depot, the contents of which
were valued at $3.50.
PAUL LIE SEUR, prisoner in the La
Crosse County Jail, broke away from a
deputy sheriff who WAS escorting him to
court, and escaped.