The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-02-11
STATE NEWS.

kee & ST. Paul road for the last week
in January were st90, $50 20 as com.
pared with $473 l906l for the CORE
spending week in 1897, an increase
for the week of SIT, ,369.6S
ALBERT KENNETT, son of a La
Crosse doctor, who lett town the
night Annie Daniel, a woman OF ILL.,
fame, died under unusual circum-
stances, has been arrested at Peters
burg, H., and the necessary steps are
being taken to bring him back. He
had been intimate with the woman
for long time. The theory is that he
procured the medicine the woman
used to produce miscarriage and
afterward used chloroform freely
20 relieve the pain, both together
causing death. 1t is now known she
had besn dead some time when dis
covered, and the probability is at
Kennett or somebody else decided to
burn the house so as to make it ap-
pear that the woman's death was
from that cause. Before doing so the
house was robbed OF all it's valuables
and if q caller had not unexpectedly
arrived the chances are the scheme
WOuld nave succeeded.
COLLECTOR WALL, of the internal
revenue depar tment, Milwaukee, has
for sixteen months had the daily de-
posits recorded, showing how much
was IN checks and drafts and what
amount in currency and coin. From
October / 1887, to January 81,
1888, the deposits, which were the en-
tire receipts OF the office, amounted %
50, ,297 SS2; of this $171, ,039 was
currency and S6O,S47 coin; making
the receipts OF the Office only 7h per
cent. in money.
A CAREFUL examination Of the con-
dition OF the winter wheat in the west
ern part of Wisconsin, made by re-
moving the snow from spots in the
fields, shows a small but healthy
growth. and good protection by the
heavy snow covering. The acreage
last tall was larger than usual, and
farmers are hopeful for heavy yield.
REV. JosEPH HEWITT, a superan.
nuated minister OF the Primitive
Methodist Church, died at Mineral
Point, where he was stationed since
1848 as a missionary, aged rs years.
THE January receipts at the Ash
land ost-office, exclusive of box
rents, amounted to Lila.
TIE annual winter meeting of the
Wisconsin Press Association will be
held 10 Milwaukee on Tuesday and
Wednesday, February % and 20. A
programme is being prepared and will
be sent out in q few days. The COM
ing meeting is to be strictly for busi-
ness. Papers will be read on subjects
of financial interest to the fraternity.
It is also expected that addresses will
be made by the Hon. Henry Waiter
son, OF Louisville, and by the Hon.
Henry W. Grady, of Atlanta. The
annual election of officers will also be
held. Several plans for an "outine"
next summer will be discussed and the
best and most agreeable one adopted.
THE authorities of Florence County
are closing ell the disreputable dens
within their Jurisdiction.
PRESIDENT DUNNIEG, OF tie state fish
commission. says the aggregate value
Of the fishing property III Wisconsin
will exceed $l,000,000.
ASHLAND is to vote on the PROPOSE
ton to borrow 100000 from the
state land trust fund, $35, 900 to be
used for school purposes, 81 5000 for
sewerage and $4,000 for paving.
A STRIKE occurred at Dodqevile on
the 18th among the construction men
on the Freeport, Dodgeville & Northern
Railroad, occasioned by a reduction
of wages from $1.75 to 81 so per day.
ment and tried TO prevail on others
to DO SO but failed. The strike will
not materially int 1fere with the
work, as the remaining men and those
who will take the places OF the strikers
will finish up the work by March 1.
AT La Crosse on the morning of the
I'd, Dickie Dennier who kept g house
oi Ill repute, was found dead IN her
room. ChloTOfOrm was the cause OF
death, and the drug Is supposed to
have been taken with suicidal intent,
as there was evidences OF an attempt
TO set fire to the carpets by saturat
ing them with kerosene.
DURING the month OF January
seventeen men were enlisted in the
United States regular army at the
recruiting office in Milwaukee, There
were forty-seven applicants.
ACCORDING to statement made by
Collector Wall, the tobacco manufact-
ured in Milwaukee last year amounted
to 5,927,5 pounds and the tax col
lected to S474 200.
B. I. BlCKsLER, an Ashland furni-
ture dealer, has assigned, Assets,
S4S, 900; liabilities, $4,000.
THE women OF Wisconsin were de-
feated III the supreme court, the court
holding 10 an elaborate opinion that
the Legislature in 1885, when it en-
acted chapter oil, did not for a mo-
ment contemplate extending the same
suffrage to females which males iulOy,
but on the other hand meant to re-
strict female voting to school matters
only, as specified IN the law.
AT Washburn, on the 30th, ]. II.
Bauer. aged 2S, shot himself in a
room OF the Swain House because q
young woman to whom he had been
paying attentions had gone to q dance
with another man.
EDWARD HANsCHKE, q car repairer,
wss run over by s switch engine In the
Lhhe cuOIb aluHi dS 6SHlduG, ana
killed
IT is reported in La Crosse that
Supt. Williams, OF the Southern Min
nesota Division Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway, is to re-
tire and be succeeded 10y Supt. Bush,
formerly of Racine.
SARAH t'ATELY, d notorious colored
woman or Florence, has sued three
special CoDstables Tor damages fot
having raided resort kept by her.
THOMAS RoDEN's large stock barns
IN the town OF Midway, La Crosse
County, were destroyed by fire, con-
siderable stock perisbing in the
flames.
THE deep snow In Northern Wiscon-
Sin is generally interfering with logging
operations.
PROBATE JUDGE DAYTON at La
Crosse, has issued an order permitting
the Fidelity Insurance Company, of
phIiz.te1rhta crfaff..Iilp of tl, ,-a-, II