The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-26
STATE NEW S.

leading business men are circulating
subscription paper for the purpose of as
certaining how much money can be Sc
cured toward building an opera house
that will cost about $4,000 The Hon.
G. c. Hixon, j. c. Easton, J. J Hogan,
Abner Gile, Fred. Copeland, Gen. @.
Van Steenwyk and others favored the
project and il is understood that the
subscrip ption to stock is already about
S25 600 and that there is fair prospect
of securing the amount required.
DR.. SKIFF, of La Crosse, has re lie in
the shape of coin, the value of which
in our money is about 10 cents, made
100 years before Christ. 1t WAS given
him by the famous Robert Morris, well
known to all who are any way posted IN
Masonry as the author of Masonry III
the Holy Land" On one side is clearly
shown a Roman chariot and on the 9TH
er is the head of the Roman consul.
! The coin was taken from stone coffin
| near the city of Jerusalem, it being the
custom in those days TO bury any small
treasure with the body.
Deacon Jackson is wellto-do farmer
of the town of Washington, Eau Claire
CoGnty, and his daughter Lottie is
a beautiful girl and the pride of the
countryside. Roderick Finn is a highly
respected young farmer IN the neigh
borhood who sought the hand of Lottie,
whose father opposed the match. Lot
tie was required to sleep with her SIS
ter, who was deputed TO guard against an
e1opement, but while her sister slept,
Loftie quietly slipped out before dawn
on the 18th and joined her waiting lover.
The couple drove to Augusta, were mar
tied by clergyman and will return TO
ask the parental blessing after we'd
ding tour.
The case of the state VS.. Wood 4 Ring,
of Pittsville, Wood County, for violation
of the pharmacy law, the parties being
physicians and keeping drug store
with no registered person in charge, has
been settled in favor ofthe state, Messrs.
| Wood d Ring paying $50 fine and costs.
SAMUEL O'GRADY BENNETT has just en-
| tered up his homestead patent at Ash
| land The property is at Mellen, on
| the Wisconsin Central road, and on 1t
the owner claims is gold NINE.
CAPT. II. NJ. CULBERTsoN, who died at
| Piacefville, Col, on the 18th inst, made
a good record in the war of the rebel
| lion, enlistinG III Company q of the six
| teenth Wisconsin, as a private and was
| mustered out with the rank of captain
at the close Of the war. While resident
| at Eau Claire he WAS an honored mem
Der of the Blue Lodge and chapter and
at one time commander Of the Knights
| Templar.
| THE Eau Claire linen factory Will be
IN operation next month. 1t Is 10 ne
fitted out with fifty looms.
! Ex-MAYoR GRINsELL, of Eau Claire,
| has been floating a mammoth pine log
that was cit the past winter IN one OF
| his camps on The north fork OF the
| Flambeau. 1t is Is feet in length and
| 80 inches in diameter at the top end,
and was allowed a scale OF 4,030 feet
Mr.. Grinsell has been on the tlVer Tor
thirty years. and this beats all the logs
he has ever seen on that stream.
The Black River boom opened on the
| 18th, and mills are starting up again.
-Four Of the mills have sawed right
along in spite of the high water, but
eight have been shut down most OF the
season 80 far; probably all will be in
operation III q short time. The river IL
falling slowly, the decline from the
highest point being about II inches.
TIVE case of G. L. Halstead vs.. the city
of La Crosse, being a suit for 10000,
in which James c.. Jenkins was Of
counsel for defense. and Gregory 4
Bird. of Madison, for plaintiff, has been
continued for the term. 1t was eX-
pected to occupy the court for five
DAYS.
tT is now understood that the project
| of the Chicago x NOrth-W eStern Com
panv TO erect a sea wall opposite it's
depot at Milwaukee has been aban-
doned.
JtDaE Ira MEAD, an early settler in
| Eau Claire, and who was the first pro-
bate Judge of that county, died at
Burlingame, Kas., on The 4th inst.
| DIR. S. NJ. BABoocK, of the state ex-
perimental station, has Just issued Il
bulletin, No. IA, on Artificial Ferhhz-
ers and Land Plaster"
The Eau Claire County Prohibition
convention elected twenty-eight dele
gates, headed by A. j. Sutherland, to
the state convention at Madison, which
will elect national delegates.
\ LETTER has been received at La
Crosse from Mrs. Mary +. Daniels, of
Dent County, Mo, mother of Annie
Daniels, for whose murder Albert hen-
nett is awaiting trial. Mrs. Daniels ls
not aware that her daughter is dead
and writes to ascertain why the young
woman has not written to her.
| 4 STOCK company has been organized
at Ellsworth TO operate telephone line
between that place and Rock Elm, in
tersecting FL Paso and Ohvet, a distance
of twenty-five miles.
| BARBARA LUTHER, said to be grass
widow whose husband resides IN South
ern Wisconsin, has commenced suit
in Minneapolis for alleged breach OF
promise. the defendant being Geo. {.
Campbell. an old lumberman said to be
worth $4,000. She is dressnaker
and has two daughters, one OF them
married Her suit calls for damages to
the amount of $4,000.
| CAPT. II. VI. CULBERTsoN, of Eau
Claire. q pioneer of the Chippewa Val
lev. died at Los Angeles, Cal, OF con-
sumption.
THE earnings of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore & Western Railroad for the week
ending Nav Il, were S52, ,lS4, as against
S65, ,3S4 for the corresponding week OF
1888. a decrease Of Sl3, 200. The earn
inps from January l to May IA, 1883,
we're $73l ,e75, which falls short by Sll2,-
O55 of equaling the earnings OF the hrst
eighteen weeks of 1887.
The celebrated Palmer x Rice tax-u
tie case, involving the title to $2Jo,OVo
worth of Ashland real estate, has been
decided by the supreme court. The
nropertv was decided to j.. II. Abbot,
by The county, County Clerk McCarty
afterwards deciding tie property to
Minnesota syndicate. Suit was brought
to decide the ownership, the circuit
court deciding in favor of Abbot and the
beople who purchased the property Tor
homes. The supreme court afhrins tnls
decision.
| A COMPANY of Washburn and Bayfield,
men is being organized for the survey
and construction of railway from Bay
field and Washburn to point below
Ashland Junction at or near Prattsburg.
In the case Of John Walker, of La
| crosse. the state supreme court has de-
cided that the selling of liquor on sun
dav bv the keeper Of licensed saloon
does not make the building puDhc
nuisance under the meaning Of section
!. .563 of the revised statutes, or at com
mon law, and authorize Judgment on
conviction Of the keeper, directing the
nuisance to be abated and the building
| closed.