The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-20
STATE NEWS.

great cable street railway.
A DECISION of the court in the test case
says Milwaukee's new milk ordinance
is good law and must be accepted as
such by the peddlers.
CARL BELLMAN, a blacksmith SO wears
of age. living on Nliet Street, near the
Milwaukee city limits, shot himself in
the head with suicidal intent. His
family carefully suppressed the facts,
Gained that the shooting sas acct
dental and removed the old man to the
Passavant Hospital for treatment, where
he died the next night. Domestic
trouble led him to self-destruction.
PETER McGEocH has sold a contro' NO
interest IN the Milwaukee City Railway
to syndicate of New York capitalists.
The price paid is reported at 81 900 600.
A. }. BARTON, register of deeds of Bar
ron County, veteran soldieran prom
inent member OF the G.. A. II. and order
of Masons, is dead.
RECENTLY unknown parties "girdled"
all the shade trees in front of the resi-
dence OF DR.. Gregory, of Marinette. A
few days later the trees in his yard were
also destroyed in the same manner.
A DEED has been filed at Ashland
transferring from Richard f. Fan, of
Eau Claire, to the Chippewa Logging
Company, 400 acres of pine in town
43, north range ! east. The consid-
Grafton set down in the deed was S22.-
700.
THE Bay Land Improvement Compa-
ny, of Bayfield,, has donated $3.50 to
those persons who owned buildings de.
stroyed by the late fire who are en-
gagged in rebuilding with stone or solid
brick.
REV. Dr.. W ID. THOMAS, who has been
pastor OF the First Presbyterian Church
of La Crosse, for the past eight years,
has rendered his resignation to take ei-
feet on the last Sunday in December of
this year.
A FRANCHISE has been granted to the
Marinette Street Railway and work on
the lines will be commenced at once.
RICHARD T. FAIR, of Eau Claire, has
sold 400 acres Of pine in Ashland
County to the Chippewa Lumber Com
pany for So, 700.
THE 5-year-old son of John Waller, a
farmer near Menomonie, was killed BY
runaway team.
JOHN WHALEN was fatally injured at
Ashland by a descending skip at the
Lake Shore coal docks
OWEN CHRISTIAN, lad Is years old,
living at Rusk, while out hunting ducks
on Nelson's Lake, was drowned in at
tempting to shoot at a flock passing
over him. He lost his balance and fell
overheard. He got within few Yards
of the shore when he was taken with
cramps and could 90 no further. His
body was found in four feet of water.
BY decision rendered in the United
tntn 10, az - laIi - l..
Railroad Company is sustained in It's
claim to 5000 acres of land in Ashland
County. The ownership of the land was
contested by the government on the
ground that it was of a mineral char
acter.
The general land Office at Washington
has held for cancellation 1850 acres of
the selections in the Ashland, Wis,
land district. made by the Wisconsin
Central Railroad Company, on the
ground that the line Of the
road, under the grant of 1856
for the st. Croix & Lake Superior
Railroad Company NOW the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Railroad Company, having been def
nitely located and withdrawal made for
indemnity purposes prior to the passage
of the act making grant to the Wiscon
sin Central, the lands within the six and
tiftcen-mile limits of the frst-named
road were for all purposes outside of
the grant TO the second.
p. /. CLARK has been re-appointed
chIef-of-police at La Crosse.
CHIPPEWA FALLS is to have free mail
delivery with the beginning of the new
year.
WASHINGTON ISLAND markets 5000
pound lots of trout and whitefish by
way of Sturgeon Bay.
DPuTHERIA is prevalent at La Crosse.
Two children of John George are dead
and number of others dangerously i'll.
LAST week W. r. Culbertson picked a
bouquet of roses from bushes that were
still blooming in his garden at Eau
Claire.
J. NJ. LANE & Co., lumbermen at
Washburn, have made an assignment
TO I. :. Clark, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
Lane q Co. took one of the Rood &
Maxwell mills and other property a
year ago, when that firm failed for $780,
900. The affairs of the company are I'M
known to any one on the outside, and
the assets or liabilities cannot be OBJ
tanned.
A MILWAUKEE train ran into drove of
twenty-iour horses at the Black River
drawbridge, La Crosse, and killed six of
them.
J. II. KNAPP, founder of the Knapp
Stout Company, at Menomonie, is fail
ing rapidly from cancerous atfiiction
that has for long time been undermin
ing his constitution, and it is doubtful if
his life can be prolonged beyond few
days or weeks at farthest.
Err g tbn Nc
trict Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held at La Crosse, Octo-
Der 80 and 81.
Miss MINNIE EDWARDS, daughter Of
ex-Mavor Edwards, of La Crosse, was
married last week to Joseph NJ. Par
sons, of Salem. Mass.
THE State Historical Society has re-
ceived portrait in oil of the late Bishop
Kemper, of Nashotah, painted by James
r. Stuart, of Madison, The portrait of
the late William Pitt Lynde has also
been received.
WHITE, the Minneapolis crook ar
rested at Madison for passing bank
checks bearing the forged Signature of
Judge Bum, was sentenced to lmprison-
ment Tor five wears. The forged checks
were two in number, and for 500 each.
On the person of White was paper
bearing the names of prominent citizens
on whose bank accounts ii is presumed
he intended to draw.
TIE La Crosse Theater Company has
voted to complete its building.
AMONG the voters registered at Madi-
son is ntenarian-Edward kerwin-
aged 102.
GENERAL MANAGER " dTTCoMB, of the
Lake Shore Road, says his company is
not party i'll any way to the union depot
scheme at Ashland. This will create
something OF surprise there, as an or
dinance was passed by the council va
eating valuable property at the request
of the Central Company, with the I'M
derstanding that a union depot should
be built.
CHts. HENDERSON, an old settler, who
has lived in the Lake SUPERIOR district
since the Sixties" died in a destitute
condition in fishing camp near Ash
land. He accompanied Jay Cooke on
his famous trip to Duluth.