The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-12
STATE NEWS.

| rebuilt dl once.
| STEAMERS again ply between Green
| Bay and Sturgeon Bay.
| CHEQUAMEGoN BAY is open at its head
| for a great distance, clear water being
visible for miles.
| III. O. JACKSON, tie absGbrtding mar
agef of the Badget State Mutual Benefit
| Association, at Eau Claire, has written
| letter from Minnesota promising to set
| can get the money.
THE Thompson q Walkup Company,
of Ashland, has contracted with vessel
| and barge company to ship 7,O0O,O 900 feet
of lumber to its Chicago yards. -Four
million feet of the stock is at Ashland
and the remainder at Washburn.
JosEtH SAIflf and Warren Bailey, of
STURGEON Bay, cit and hauled 100000
pieces of cedar at their establishments
on the upper peninsula. Ufthis 250,00
are ;ies, 10000 telegraph poles, and the
| remainder, upward of 800, 900 pieces, are
| posts. The ties will be shipped from
Duluth, Mimi, from whence they will
be distributed to points in the west and
northward.
Eb. THbBERviLtE, d boy living with
his parents at 543 Grove Street; Milwau
kee, was shot in the eye willie plaEing
in the marsh near Wolf & Davidson's
shipyard. No report OF a gun was
heard, but the theory is that the shot
which struck him was fred by some of
the many duck hunters with which the
marsh is infested at this time of the
year. The wounded boy was taken to
his home and physicians called, who ex-
tracted the shot. He Will not lose the
sight of the injured organ.
Hoe ,,tpI rpa1p IFS annparanpa
the stock yards at Milwaukee, but it is
believed the prompt measures taken
will prevent the spread of the disease,
as all infected animals were immediate
ly killed.
BELLE BOYD, the "fentale spy of the
Rebellion, is delivering lectures in in
terror Wisconsin towns, under the
auspices of the G.. A. F..
A COMPANY is preparing to build stove
works at Ashland at cost of SIC, 200.
FIRE at midnight, on the Sd, destroyed
CasselPs small butcher shop in La
Crosse. A card was found tackled to the
wall, inscribed "This is to pay for the
bone / got two weeks ago. Cassell says
he had trouble with a customer about
bone. This is the most suspicious thing
about the affair, but he does not cast
suspicion on the customer thus Indirect
ly accused.
RUMoR has it that the Eau Claire Lum-
Der Company has sold its Meridian
Mills, on the Lower Chippewa, and 9TH
er property, to the Mississippi River
Logging Company, which last fall pur
chased 81, ,00O, 600 worth of property from
the same company. The consideration
of the present sale is withheld but it is
probably several hundred Thousand dol
lars.
CHARLES REINHoLDT, of the Pioneer
Meat Market, Prairie du Chen, has
made an assignment In favor of credit
ors. His liabilities are about 800.
TIE contract for furnishing the Wis
consin National Guard with / 300 pairs
of trousers has been let from the quar-
termaster-general' S department to Louis
Lachman, of Milwaukee.
EDGAR PALMER, Ct La Crosse, has been
reappointed by the governor a member
of the State Board of Dental Examin-
ers. The term is five years.
THE business men of Ashland have
| agreed to the terms that will ensiire the
establishment of another iron works at
| that point. Parties also stand ready to
establish stove-works.
THE head of the Wisconsin Patrons of
Husbandry has arranged for the erec-
| ton of large tent for grange meetings
during the state fair. The managers of
the fair have also agreed to enlarge the
capacity of the amphiteater to 5000
people.
ABOUT one-third of the 275, ,000,OO feet
of logs cut along Black River during the
| winter will be hung up on the banks of
the stream, having been carried out of
the channel by high water.
G.. L. 7 l.,1
surveying party is now running levels
in Burns Valley, La Crosse County.
THE mystery surrounding the disap-
pearancce of William II. Harnden,
from his home near Madison, was
cleared up on the 18th inst by the dis
| covery of the missing man in a hollow
tree not far from his home. He was in
| a crouched condition as if intent on hid
ing himself and when taken from the
tree was in state of collapse. Death
| resulted soon after the unfortunate man
had been taken to the house. The de-
ceased was a nephew of Gen. Henry
Harnden and was about 45 years of age.
For wears he was well known about the
city as dealer in berries, etc.
JOSEPH STOCK, Pole, living on Bis
| marck Avenue, Milwaukee, celebrated
| the 1st of May by getting gloriously
drunk. On going home at night he at
tumpted to close the festivities by cut
ting his wife's throat with razor. lie
| came near succeeding, but was arrested.
FIRE at La Crosse destroyed a build
ing owned by John Gautsch and occu-
| pied as q butcher shop. Gautsch's loss
| was about $500 above his insurance for
$500, while the tenants were fully in
| sured.
JOHN KENNEDY, of Ashland, has sued
| the Wisconsin Central Railway Com
pany for $4,000, as compensation for
an arm rendered useless by an engine
| while he was working in one of the
| company's coal sheds.
J.H. OPDALE, recently defeated in his
| s25, 900 libel suit against the Eau Claire
| Daily Leader for defamation of his char
| acter, has been disbarred from practice
| for two wears bv Circuit Judge Bundy,
the order being based on charges of dis
honest practice made against Opdale
by the County Bar Association.
| HAMILToN's dance house at Altoona
CITY was raided by the police. Two
, women and seven men were captured.
ASHLAND has accepted its new county
jail 1t cost $4,000.
DR.. JOHN SHANKLAND, pioneer of La
Crosse County, died at Bangor, aged 70.
W. W JONES, the pioneer hardware
dealer of La Crosse, has made an assign
ment for the benefit of his creditors.
Assets, s. 900; liabilities about the same.
The river at La Crosse, after falling
two feet and three inches from the high
est point, commenced rising again on
the 3Oth aud predictions are made that
it will 60 as high as before, perhaps
| higher. There is q good driving stage
OF water on the east fork of the Black
River and logs are running freely.
w. H. PARKER, superintendent OF the
new La Crosse government building
has received the plans, and has adver-
tised for bids, which will be received
during the entire month of May.
| FERDINAND MILLER was drowned on
the Eau Claire River, while driving logs
THE Odanah reservation Is almost en-.
tirely Hooded, Bad River having over