The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19
STATE NEW S.

| JUDGMENTS have been entered up in
| the circuit court e'erk's office at Ash
| land against n D. Moore and Robert
| McFerran as follows: Edward F. Car
| penter ct al, SS59.67; VIM. j. Quarn,
2.SS; Doggett, Bassett & Hills Co,
81 ,025.qS.
SOME of the striking Burlington &
Northern engineers at La Crosse have
given up the fight, and a number have
applied for work The company will re-
employ as many as there are places for,
but will not discharge the non-union
men.
| j. II. MCCORMICK. manager of a shoe
store at La Crosse, has been adjudged
insane. His mania is said to be due TO
| disappointment in love affair with q
| young lady who at one time was IN his
| employ. The St. Paul company repre-
| sented by him found that he had 5000
| worth of stock in the store and that he
| owed but little.
| ATLAS LINCOLN, who lost both arms
| by the bursting of a saw at Trempealeau,
against Elan, Beardsley & Atwood,
owners of the mill, for S25 900 damages.
JUSTICE MCMILLIN. of La Crosse, has
been presented with key to the Castle
of Westphalia, in Germany, that former
sy belonged to Napoleon l. The key is
of peculiar form and design, the letter
y. crown. Maltese cross, the repre-
sentation of lion, etc, being among
the designs.
ARTICLES Of incorporation have been
drawn and forwarded to the secretary
of state Of the Eau Claire, Mississippi
& Lake Superior Railway Company.
Carital =, 800, 600 The incorporators
are R. f Wilson, George A Burlington,
Senator VIM. A. Rust, Mayor @.
Shaw, H. NJ. Stocking, Henry Cousins.
The line is TO be built from Wlnona via
independence, Trempealeau County,
Eau CLAIRE and Chippewa Falls 10 some
point ON Lake Superior in Ashland
County. 1t is to be an Eau Claire line,
built by Eau Claire people for lumber
outlet to the southwest.
CHARLES DORSEY, colored porter in
disreputable house at 5l5 Market Street,
Milwaukee, was shot and fatally
wounded on the night of the 1lth, by
another colored man, believed TO be
VIM. Wright.
THE La Crosse Crematory Association
has ontraEted FOR Its building. The
cost, exclusive of the furnace, Will be
S5, 765.
THE Wisconsin Centrars new coal
dock at Ashland will be completed III
vessels to arrive from Buffalo, 1t Will be
4I6 feet in length by 1872 feet III width
with a capacity for nearly 1000 tons
of coal.
THE Ashland Driving Association has
purchased the Garfield property-a
tract of thirty acres-for $500. The
association intends TO have the track
| finished. buildings erected and every
thing completed so that the first meet
ing can be held on the Fourth of July.
THE Dubuque Herald announces the
death of Mrs. Gen. Geo. w. Jones,
pioneer of Wisconsin, aged 76. Her bus
band, who served as delegate TO Con
gress from the Northwestern territory,
and afterwards AS senator from Iowa,
survives her, and also three sons and
| two daughters.
| FREDERICK WEYERHAUsER has COM
pleted the purchase of the Meridian
| mills. owned by the Eau Claire Lumber
Comtany. There are 90,000,0 900 feet OF
| logs in the slough at the mill. The
| price paid was 100000 The Missis-
| sippi River Logging Company has by
this purchase obtained the entire prop
erty owned by the Eau Claire Lumber
| Company, for which over S2,0O0,OUo has
| been paid.
THE 500 Il Southwestern Railroad
/
| secretary of state, the object being to
build a railroad from Alma and Beef
| Slough. Buffalo County, across the Miss
| sissiDpi River to Waubasha County,
! Mimi, distance of two miles. The
capital is 81 100000. The incOrpOrators
are James Mcintyre, w. A. Rust, Eau
| Claire \. C. and f. J. Foster of Fair
child; r. NJ. Forsman, of Willlarnsport,
Pa.
THE most important civil case to be
tried during the term at La Crosse VIII
be that of n B. Holway ss. the Green
| Bay. Winona * St Paul Railway Com
pany to recover $50 600 for logs and
timber dectroyed by fire, HO.way cldIEn~
ing that the flames originated from To-
comotive spark.
| DURING the ensuing term OF the CIR
cult court for La Crosse County Al
bert Kennett viii he tried on the
charge of having killed Annie Daniel, a
woman of the town. Judge Cameron,
who has been retained for young Ken
nett, saws he has clear line OF defense.
The policeman who killed Tim Brady,
the gambler, will also be tried.
Ar Ashland ,on the 10th, ,Mythel Burke
was sentenced to one year in prison for
larceny. Burke pleaded guilty.
| Miss ALICE G.. LITTLE, daughter OF
Mrs. Little, superintendent Of the state
school for the blind is about to engage
in missionary service on a far OF tor
eign shore, having decided to cast her
lot among the barbarOus people on an
island where a missionary ship touches
ONLY once wear She takes her house
on board the boat at Honolulu, also q
COW, with provisions for year, and
with the exception of gentleman ana
his wife, will be the only white person
/ 4 - NJ n n
make the voyage. Miss Little is re-
cent graduate OF Oberlin College.
A PROFESSIONAL veranda climber and
crook generally, who gives MS name AZ
Dominick O'Malley, was arrested at
Madison while attempting to pawn a
lot of silver SPOONS. Since his arrest he
has confessed participation IN the
burglary at Mrs Timothy Browns resi-
dence, in November last, when sbUo
worth of diamonds and JsWelry We're
| taken while the family were at supper
O'Malley gives the name OF ms partner
in that affair az John Dorsey, and says
he is now in Sing Sing penltentlary
for eighteen years for burglary at
Banker Morgan's in New York city,
that resulted in haul of $4,000.
ALFRED ExGLEsrADT, editor of an Eau
Claire temperance paper has received Q
letter saving he will be 'Haddocked
if he does not ''let up on the saloons"
| A BoILER-FI.UE in the Superior Lum-
Der Company's mill at Ashland, blew
out, seriously scalding Fireman David
son and slightly injuring john Kennedy.
| Gov. RUsK has revoked ali cattle quar-
antine restrictions existing between
| Wisconsin and Illinois.
THE FrenchviIle Mill Association, OF
Trempealeau County, has been moor
porated. with a capital OF $500.
| l.. A. HAsELTfSE asks 500 damages OF
the village Of DodgeriIe for injuries re-
cevied bv his wife in falling on a defect
i've sidewalk.
FIRE at La Crosse on the 9th partially
destroyed the oil house connected with
the roundhouse Of the Chicago, MIlwau-
kee & st. Paul road, causing loss OF
! about 500.
THE Ashland Driving Park Association
has been incorporated with capital
stock Of S25. 900.