The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-03-10
WISCONSIN NOTES

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liueal descendent of the family who lay
claim to the valuable Harlem flats prop
erty in New York. Mr.. ?. is in posses
sion of letters, papers and maps sent
to- him by attorneys interested IN the
matter. Many million dollars are in
volved in the case.
GEORGE HooLAN was killed by fall
ing tres in Whites camp, near Eau
Claire.
IT is reported that Johnson, the miss
ing Sun Prairie merchant, lost heavily
in Gogebic mining stocks.
THERE is talk of extending the railway
between Fairchild and Osseo north to
the Eau Claire River 10 connect withthe
proposed Win0na 4 Southwestern.
PRoF H. V. EGBERT, lately appointed
assistant astronomer at the Washburn
Observatory, has arrived i'll Madison
from the Dudley Observatory, New
York. The arrival of Prof. Egbert com
pletes the working staff of the observa-
tory.
THE Eau Claire Board of Trade is
gathering statistics on the city's annual
business TO include in a memorial to
Congress in the interests of public
building appropriation bill.
THE suit instituted against NJ. X. Smell,
of Seymour, for alleged ENFORCEMENT
of funds, was discontinued before 1t
came to trial as Mr.. Smell held receipts
for the moneys alleged to have been by
him misappropriated.
EMIL FABEL and Frederick Beyers
| have each sued the Utley Granite Com
pany for 5000 on account OF personal
injuries by the falling of srestle,
which, they auege, was lnseCnrely
stayed.
THE postmaster at Leola. Adams Coun
ty, gets two-thirds as much for CARRYING
the mail from Hancock to Leola as his
salary for keeping the pOst-otfice, which
amount, for the last quarter, was four
| cents less than expenses.
ONEIDA County has sued J. II. Loper
and l.. n. Arson, as trustees for Lincoln
County, to recover the land held by
them for the Merrill, Wausau K Abbots-
ford Railroad Company. The plaintiff
asks the court to order the trustees to
quit-claim all lands situated in Oneida
| County to them.
| ADoLPH RoHLwEs, an inmate of the
Milwaukee Soldiers Home, was found
| dead, near the railroad track, west of
| the Home, on the 1st inst. He left
home and became intoxicated in sa-
| loon at Wauwatosa. One of his com
rades tried to get him to go back at
night but he refused. He remained
| out during the driving rain, and the eX-
posure killed him. He was 50 years of
age and in very poor health.
DANE County has paid Percival Rob
erts, on the judgment obtained by the
| latter in the courthouse suit, $9, ,69l 80,
with an accrued interest of SlOS.07.
| David Stephens has been ordered to-
pay to Roberts the judgment given
against him, amounting To about 81 500
! more.
J. F. O'BRIES has been appointed
| chief of police at Ashland, vice August
| Schwartz, resigned.
FIRE at Milwaukee on the morning of
| the Sd, which began in the double five
story brick building occupied by j.
| Fernekes & Bro, candy manufacturers,
completely gutted the building, destroy
ing heavy stock of candy and fire.
works. The stock of Goldsmith & Co.,
carpets, adjoining, was badly damaged ,
as was also the stock of mattresses IN
the building across the street. The to-
tai loss will reach S200.0OO.
RICHARD RHODE, an officer of the Pruss-
ian army, committed suicide at the res
idence of Guido Hansen, Milwaukee, on
| the 1st. the young man was guest of
| the family, and tie announcement had
been made of his coming marriage to a
daughter of Mr.. Hansen. No cause is
known for the deed.
THE warm weather is causing a gener-
al breaking up of the lumber camps in
| Northern Wisconsin.
| STANLEY PRoUDFIT, of Madison, has
| been appointed second assistant general
manager of the freight department of
| the Omaha.
Col. J. G. JOHNSON, who for eight years
| has been in charge of the st. Paul Com
pany's Yards at La Crosse, has resigned
| his position and will go to the South
! west Col. Johnson is succeed ed by j.
| A. Emerson, of Portage.
Mrs. THoM, wife of DIR. u. Nj. B. Thorn,
| died at Mardin, Turkey, where she and
! her husband were in the service of the
American Board of Congregational Mis-
sions. The couple were widely known
throughout Wisconsin, having renewed
their acquaintance in 1886, when they
visited La crosse and other interior
cities.
FREDERICK WEYERHAUsER and the Mis-
| sissippi River Logging Company have
| paid Bona Bros. & Co., of Port Deposit,
| Mich, $4,000 for tract of pine land con-
| sisting of twenty-four fortles lying adj
| jacent to the Chippewa.
| IT is said that the village of CrandOn,
| Forest County, the center of tract of
more than 400 ,OOO, 900 of timber, is ex-
tremely anxious for railroad facilities.
| 1t offers the Midland Company 900
to make it point on the line.
GEN. BRAGG, the new American minis
ter, accompanied by his wife and daugh-
ter, arrived at the City OF Mexico on the
Goth. They were met at SilaO by COM
mittee of prominent Americans. Gen.
| Bragg is in excellent health.
AFTER ordering his breakfast at Peters
| 4 Casper's restaurant, corner of Third
| and State. Streets, Milwaukee, on the
the Goth, Gustav Dorsch entered the
wash room where he fell dead. \ ply
sician pronounced heart disease the
cause of his death. Dorsch W-as we'll
| known young man, q years of age, and
has been employed as clerk in the city
distributing department at the post
| office.
A PLAN is being agitated at La Crosse
| for the construction of line of railway
| from La Crosse, via Black River Falls,
| Neillsville, Marshfield and Merrill to
some point on the $500" road.
| THE st. Ausgarus swedish cOngrega-
| ton at Eau Claire have requested the
bishop of the Episcopal Church to take
their church under bis supervision.
AN Anti-Prohibition club of fifty-five
members has been organized at Eau
Claire. Conrad Feige is president and
Geo. w. Robertson secretary.
THE case of Sydney Rosenfeld against
John A. McCaull, for infringement Of
the latter's copyright of "The Black
Hussar." was dismissed in the United
States circuit court, Milwaukee, for want
of prosecution. Judgment for costs was
entered against Rose nfeld.
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GIVEN nORF; PAY.