The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-12-15
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limits.
TIE residence of Justin Doore, at
Ashland, burned to the ground, on the
nth inst. rhe loss is estimated at 81
co.
JoHN Erickson goes TO jail at Ma llson
ior three months for stealing pair Of
horse blankets.
SECRETARY OF STATE TIME has Just is
sued tabular statement in pamphlet
form, giving the vote of the state by
voting precincts for presidential cleo
tors, governor and other state officers,
and tie representatives IN Congress.
FuE in Huntley's grocery store. at
Madison, caused a loss of 81 $50 81 500
on stock and 800 on building. Fully
insured.
lr is reported that several Omaha
Railway employees criminally assaulted a
lirl rs years Old, employed IN a hotel at
SpOC ner. Warrants have been issued
for the arrest of several members OF the
party.
JoHN SHANK was liberated from jail at
Eau tlajre, after giving good security
for 500 toward lhe support Of Anna
Brush, a young woman who had him ar
rested on charge OF Legitimate parent
age.
THOUSANDS Of Christmas trees are be-
ing shipped from Door County 10 the
cities of the East and South.
TuE capacity of the branch of the
state fish hatchery located in the EX-
posit on Building, Milwaukee, has been
doubled. and instead of 10000, 900 II Is
expected to turn out from 40,UU0,OL0 10
81 600, 900 WhItedsh this year.
w H. Davis, %! the Ashland Iron 4
Steel Company, shot 3 snoWwhle { owl
ia the Union mill-yaids that measured
/ ) eet from tip TO tin C lis wings.
THE State Historical library contains
1&o,O 900 books aud pamphlets, the State
/ Law library 20,c00 volumes, and the
/ Madison Free library 10000 volumes.
Doom County is furnishing large guam
titles OF poplar and spruce timber tor
/ the Fox River paper manufacturers.
Buyers are paving from $3.50 TO S2.15 4
cord for the timber, which must, how
ever, be perfectly sound and no less
than four inches In diameter.
TIE Milwaukee Exposition netted
over $1,000 on the business of the past
year.
TuE complaints against all the de
PENDANTS in the Highbrldge riot, Ash
land County, have been dismissed by
the prosecuting attorney.
THE Common Council of Eau Claire
~
/ the Driving lark Association of that
city.
rHE State University Y NJ. c. A. has
! purchased the Carr property, nj Madl-
son, and viii erect a 2OOC0 building
/ thereon.
Ara meeting of the directors of the
La Crosse x Mineral Point Railway, at
Mineral Point, it was decided to take
| immediate steps to push the survey of
! the proposed line.
| Ar the adjourned meeting Of the State
! Agricultural Society at Madison, Treas
urer Miner submitted his report show
/ ing the gross receipts of the last fair to
/ have been $50, l63, the disbursements
/ 934 ,4S9, and the balance on hand s, POI.
4 TRUST deed transferring several
! thousand acres of land in Ashland
| County from the Minnesota Commercial
/ Com panv to the Massachusetts, Loan
/ and Trust Company, was filed III the
( office of the register Of deeds at Ash
/ land. The land, together with other
| tracts in Minnesota, is held by the lat
/ ter corporation TO secure payment Of
/ bonds of the company to the amount of
| 1925, 600 held by the loan company.
| Ok the morning of the 9th two men
/ were seriously injured by an accident
| on the Burlington near LynXyiile. A
| pile-driyer was being used 10 repair the
/ bridge and when the hammer was up
/ the car was of its balance in some way,
| and the whole outfit went down the
! embankment twenty feet. Lou is
! knudson had leg broken, jaw frat
! tured, and lost the sight of one eve.
/ one eye is scalded and he has a hole
/ inside of his neck penetrating the
/ larynx so that food passes out instead of
/ into the stomach. He will probably
/ die. Sebastian McGraw has a com
pound fracture OF his thigh and had to
| be dug out rom underneath machinery.
/ He is badly hurt but will probably re-
/ cover.
THE geological department of the
/ State University has Just received about
( 800 worth of material rom the ZoOlOgi-
/ cal station at Naples. They are chiefly
| marine animals from the MediteTrane-
/ an, including specimens of hydroids,
! marine worms, jelly fishes, mollusks.
/ echmoderms and turiscalis. 1t has also
! received choice selection of shells,
/ valued at about S3uJ.
| THE Raft Pilot Association, formed at
/ La Crosse, elected J. w. Rambo presi-
/ dent.
| THE Shell Lake Lumber Companv's
| Eau CLAIRE now has an electric fire
| alarm system.
! *. +. OBER, "A La Crosse boy, died in
/ Chicago of injuries received while en-
( gagged in railroading.
4 BUILDING is to be erected at Ona-
/ laska, La Crosse County. by the Catho-
/ hes of that vicinity, and a school es-
tahlished. Ground has been purchased
for the site.
A TovS has been plated in Ashland
County at the crossing Of tie Ashland K
MarengO road, on the Duluth, South
Shore tE Atlantic Railroad. The cost Of
] improvements contemplated there this
fail viii be between $40 . and el0,0 ,00l.
( Messrs. SanEorn and Prentice have the
machinery for a saw mill on the ground
and have abOnt S,00,O00 feet Of logs
which they viii saw this winter.
SUEEIFF DUNN, of Eau Claire, has sue
ceeded in apprehendiGg Harry Rivers,
who has been wanted since 1885 for
stealing a yoke of oxen from William
/ Morrison. re was found in "a logging
camp on the Fan Claire River.
v. W. EBERT. Of Mason Ashland
+ County, was accidentally shot in the face
while hunting, the bullet entering the
Z jaw and lniiIcting a dang rOus wound.
/ tie Is III hospital at Ashland
/ PRANK GERMAN, while at work in an
ash pit under an engine at the lake
( shore TO1nd-house, Ashland. lost an
arm 10y the engine starting before ne
+ could get out.
THOMAS RYAN was acquitted of having
/ killed a Wisconsin Central IOcoing-
tive at Ashland during a strike there.
The five who were arrested with MIN
I fed to Canada, forfeItiUg their bail
SAMUEL Wells, one of the oldest set
tiers iu Fan Claire County, died on the
I 9TH. lie came IN Wisconsin in $50, and
settled in Damn County.
/ DR. john CoNkNr. one of the oldest
physicians and surgeons Of Prairie du
/ Chen. and widely known for his rare
{ a1lilty, dropped dead at his home in
+ tnat city Of heart trouble. lie was an
army surgeon DUNG the war and
had made Prairie du Chen his home
+ ever since. He leaves wife and two
children.