The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-29
STATE NEWS.

pointed CHIEF OF ponce OF Ashland by
Mayor Knight and confirmed by the
council. 1t was decided on an opinion
written by Ex-Atty. Gen. Frisby that
no registration would be lawful IN Ash
land this year.
SAMUEL BUCHANAN, who was struck
with billiard cue at La Crosse, died
from his injuries.
TIE forty-eighth annual Congreea-
tional convention of Wisconsin began
it's session at La Crosse on the 25th with
about 200 ministers and lay delegates
present.
A sIGNAL-FLAG service is to be estab-
lished at North La Orc sse.
KNAPP, STOUT q Co, of Menominee.
shipped a raft of over 100000 feet OF
lumber to Fort Madison, Ia. The mem
befs of the firm and several friends, in
Guiding Capt. A. fainter, I. Il. Wilson
and Capt. Stout, with ladies, are follow
ing the raft in pleasure boat.
a MAN named Fegeshad has mysteri-
Dusty disappeared at la Crosse. He
had $400 in his possession when last
seen. The police have been notified of
the circumstance.
TIE capacity of the big Listman flour
ing mill at La Crosse has been increased
to | 100 barrels per day.
THE Board of Supervisors of Florence
County will at once advertise for pro-
posals for a site for a new court-h house.
WHILE temporarily insane, Emanuel
Felix, living at $50 Fifteenth Street,
Milwaukee, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head.
TIE strike of the switchmen at Ash
land closed all the mines at Ironwood.
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good and the pumps pulled out. The
strike has been settled and the men are
returning TO work at the old prices. The
strike on the Lake Shore road is still on.
THE Milwaukee County Republicans
have made the following nominations:
For congressman. Isaac w. Van Scheick
for sheriff, John L. Burnham; for regis
ter of deeds, Henry j. Baumgartner;
for clerk OF the courts, Albert De Leur;
for district attorney, John TooheV; for
county clerk, Frank Sebastian; for
county treasurer, John j. Reilly; for
surveyor. Hans G. Reinertsen; for cor
oner, +. A. NJ. Leidel.
The La Crosse police picked up a
man on the street supposed to be dead
drunk. Next morning it was discovered
he had bad wound on his head. The
doctors say his chance for recovery is
is bricklayer. The wound was inhict-
ed by Leonard Grome with billiard
cue, and he has been arrested.
FRED f. MANN, Of Marinette, Wis.
has been appointed as cadet at the
West Point Military Academy.
GEO. J. REYNOLDS. an adventurous
MadisonIan, drowned near Cedar KEYS,
Fla, while coasting IN cat-rigged boat.
He left wife and several children at
Madison.
THIEVES around Eau Claire have added
barb wire to the list of available plun-
der. They stripped nearly two miles
of fencing at Alex. Il. Watson's farm.
THE Rev. Edward Cooke, d. D., first
president of Lawrence University, died
at his home in Newton, Mass.
A LIFE-IIKE portrait of the late Con-
gresham William Pitt Lynde, which is
to be placed in the gallery of the State
Historical Society in the capitol, has
just been finished by the artist, Yer
Bryck.
TIE saloOnkeepers at Marinette will
contest the e.ection which fixes the sa-
loon license at $500.
W. L. GREEN, who resigned the place
Of trainmaster Of the Chicago. Burning
ton q Northern Railway to move 10
Portland, Ore, was presented with 1919
in gold by friendly railroaders at Ia
Crosse and Savanna.
EDWARD Foss, who with Miss Hattie
Foster created such cyclone in social
circles in Fairchild about Il year ago by
a jest marriage that was susceptible of
an earnest Interpretation, has been duly
and solemnly married to Miss Hattie
Arnold.
JAMES FINEEGAN, of Winona, was ac-
cidentally shot while duck hunting in
the swamps north of Irempealeau.
The gun was discharged in removing it
from the wagon, the charge striking him
in the thigh. He will recover.
GATEWAY Assembly, X. of L., of La
Crosse, prints resolutions denouuc-
ing the circular threatening a boy
colt on Boycott, the printer, purport-
ing to have been issued by the
Assembly, as forgery.
EVIDENCE is being taken before the
local land officers at Ashland to deter
mine whether the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Company is en-
titled to patents on 5,99S acres. The
question Is raised as to whether the
lands are mineral or non-mineral
Should the land officers decide that
there IS mineral on the lands, new
patents will be granted and the present
ones will revert TO the government.
Il. ENGLE < Co., dealers in general
merchandise at Ashland, have failed
The assets and liabilities are $4,000
each. No cause is given Tor the failure.
JOHN MENowsKI, OF EIighbridge, Ash
land County, has been held to trial in
e, eco bonds, on a charge of cr1minally
assaulting l2-year-old girl named
kroeykowski.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON pleaded guilty
at La Crosse TO a charge cf having com
terfeit money in his possession, and
was sentenced to one year in tie house
Of correction at Milwaukee. The case
of Herbert Richardson, arrested on a
similar charge, was continued.