The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-12-01
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At Madison, On n, Mark L.
Ieht was sent TO prison o years
Tor forging the name Of theI,. = County
superintendent to note for $50. Teht
has already served one term for a
similar crime.
DE-. q. W HARRISON was elected
mayor of Ashland a, special election
held on the 27th, 10 i'll Mayor knight 5.
uneEplTed term, by a majority Of 637.
ADJT.-GEN. CHAIRMAN has received a
gold medal valued at $3.50, presented by
John /. Mitchell, Of Milwaukee, 10 be
awarded 10 the mem Der OF the Wis
consln National Guard making the lest
score IN Skirmlsh firing and fixed target
rife shooting. Also a medal offered by
John Johnston. Of Milwaukee, to the
best company IN skirmish firing. Both
are very handsome.
MuwArHEE real estate has come 10 be
recognized as a good investment \
corner lot So by l20 eet in the business
district, with no improvements, which
sold three years ago for S33, ,UU0 brought
S50. eco few days ago.
IIGa 5-vear-uld son of & W. Talma3ge,
Of Milwaukee, who swallowed q small
brass staple some three months ago,
coughed 1t mp on the 25th, thus reley-
Ing hlm of what threatened 10 become
a serious affection OF the lungs.
TIE La Crosse Bridge and Transfer
Company has fled articles of iucorpO-
ration with the register of that county.
The capital stock Is to be $780, co dlvld-
ed into 81 ,09 shares Of 500 each.
EDWARD LINDSAY, who killed Jack
Mahoney at Ashland, has been COM
mittcd 10 the county all for trial on
,sFrl IL.
The preliminary examination was held
before Justice Mae Mullen.
HEAVY Norman and Clydesdale horses
have been received al Eau Claire from
Delaware, 0. They found a ready mar
ket.
JESSE 3. DoAN. formerly agent of the
Wisconsin Central at Upson, who alb
seconded a year ago with $3.50 Of the
company's cash, was traced 10 Texas by
Detective Hartman.
THE Washburn Silver Mining Compa-
ny, operating on the Gogebic, expects
10 be ready 10 reduce ore by January l.
Electricity viii be used instead of tie
stamp mill.
a CURIOUS fact came out at the meet
ing OF the La Crosse board Of health re-
Gently. 1t was stated that the pure,
sweet water in q well near the ruins ola
mill destroyed by fire recently had been
turned into I've by the ashes Of the
burned building.
WM. b. NcCEEARY, a graduate of the
State university. who has been practiS-
ing law al Stockton, AriZ.. shot himself
on account Of a sens tIOnaI scandal in
which he had become involved.
THE GameweU Company Is completing
a fre-alarm system at Ashland.
AT Eau Claire, on the 23d. Torger
and Martin Mark We're bound
over to answer for the murder
Of Chris. Nelson, who was stab
bed IN a drunken row at FaiTchild
October II. Their trial viii occur next
January. CiTcumstantial evidence IS
much against them
TIE Mississippi River Logging Com
pany, whose headquarters are at Eau
Claire, have closed contracts for about
500, ,DGO, 600 teet Of logs thus far One OF
the managers 4 few days ago said the
total amount pat in BY the company VIII
reach about 400 000 W0 feet.
THE Ashland Press SAYS the Lake Su-
perlOT navigation season has been as
good as the average, perhaps, IN freight
business, but the passenger traffic has
been small compared with 1887.
VI ~. ttt-tS. I Is ALL LL la NtESSts =
in San Francisco looking after her hus-
band, q theatrical manager, threatening
10 bring an action for bigamv if he has
married the woman he Is now living
with.
TIE Marinette Eagle saws that. as the
full logging season is commencing
nearly Two months later than usual,
there Is not much question but that
| there viii be a curtaIlmeut of the cut
the coming winter.
Mas. B. GoLDENBERGER, Of Madison,
dropped dead OF heart disease while
she was preparing dinner on the 2lst.
Her husband, who has been in Europe.
lad landed in New York, and was ex-
peCteL hourly. She was go years of
age.
THREE business men of Eau Claire
We're swindled ont OF $75 by having
their names forged TO checks which
were successfully passed on unsuspect-
InE merchants. The fellow who worked
the scheme sent a boy with the CHECKS
and notes requesting merch- nts to cash
the same as It was after banking hours.
He left no clue whatever and Is not
likely TO be apprehended.
Coz. CALEB T. Bowen, of Ashland, has
| inst recovered a silver watch that he
lost At tie battle Of Gettysburg. An ex-
rebel IN Arkansas had sent il TO the ad-
iutant--eneTal Of Rhode Island The
timepieCe was 4 present TO the then
/ LIeut- Bowen by the Fourth Regiment
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