The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-09-28
WISCONSIN ITEMS

enrolled. One of the members was
born IN Ashland nineteen years ago.
SPECIAL election in Eau Claire re-
suited Id majority against issuing So :
OOO additional improvement bonds.
AvERY's drug store at Madison, WAS
entered by burglars and several boxes
OF cigars were taken. Entrance was
gained through d rear window, which
had been left unlocked. No clue to the
robber has been obtained.
| FRANCIS Downs, who years ago WAS a
| well-known Wisconsin boy, is now one
of the solid men of New Mexico. He
| enlisted for service for the late war from
| La Crosse. He was graduate of the
| first law class of the Wisconsin Uniyer-
| sity IN 1869. Afterward he spent sew
eral yeats in Chicot County, A k, and
was Judge of that county for four years,
and was member of the constitutional
| convention OF that state in 1874. lie
now resides in Santa Fe, n. NJ. Mr..
| Downs is spending some time in Wis
| consin.
| CAPT. ANDREW TAINTER, of Menomonee,
| Dunn County, is erecting a costly ana
| hitting monument to the memory of his
| daughter, who died a few years ago.
| lie Is building an opera house, which
| will be used as Unitarian Church.
The structure will be three stories high,
and cost $4,000. When completed it
will probably be the finest and most
costly edifice of the kind built in North
ern Wisconsin.
IT is now stated that the expenses OF
the great Encampment at Milwaukee
VIII aggregate about S4S 900.
THE international Plumbers and Gas
filters Cooperative Association store at
| Milwaukee has been closed by
the sheriff on an execution by Glenway
Maxon for $4S7.24. The company is
said to be in bad way and for some
II a rating. Members of the firm claim
they will be able to settle all claims and
| resume.
The contract for supplying the eiec-
| tric appliance for the HinSey road, Mil
waukee, has been let to the Thomson u
Houston Co., of that city.
WIN. A. NOVEL;, Milwaukee's new
postmaster. took possession Of Uncle
SANS chair on the 23d.
ASHLAND COUNTY had no criminal
cases TO try at the last term of court.
ASHLAND has an inventor in the per-
Bon CT A. K. Gustayson, who has pro-
| duced a grain sep eparator for use on small
farms and in new agricultural districts,
and will apply for a patent. He has
had several of the machines manuiac-
| tured for testing their adaptablhty for
| the work they are expected to perform.
| The machine is small and compact for
| two horses only, and isexpecte to turn
out from 200 TO 500 bushels day. 1.-THE
machine IS a success, it will supply the
want of small farmers and be of great
| benefit.
| THE Indians of the Menominee reser-
vatlon have sent souvenirs to President
Harrison and Secretary Noble, in token
of gratitude for the retention of Indian
Agent Jennings.
MADISON women have started war
on sparrows, because the impudent lit
tie birds persist in robbing their gar
dens of sunflower seeds. They are
| about to suggest to the governor the ad
visibility of calling out the National
Guard to exterminate the little teath-
cred Anarchists.
Rev. Z. BRADFORD, presiding elder of
the Eau Claire District NJ. +. Confer
ance, reports that over 700 cOnver-
| sions have been made in the district
during the past year, and the property
Of the society has greatly increased.
In the United States court at La
Crosse, the grand jury found an indict-
ment against Joseph Bresee, of Madi-
son, for mail robbery, whereupon he
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
two years in the house of correction at
Milwaukee.
A GANG of men putting in sower at
Eau Claire tore up part OF the Eau
Claire Street Railway Company's track
in one of the business centers of the
West Side. Supt. Root, of the street
railway. backed by his employees. re-
sisted the aggression. People tiocked
TO the scene till the street was crowded
for blocks. There was great excitement,
| threats ard hot words, but finally the
| city attorney, the acting mayor and sew
eral aldermen, with the assistance of
the police, quieted the trouble.
DIVORCES were granted by the Ash
| land circuit court in the following cases:
VIM. A. Holiday VS.. Alice Holiday, the
plaintiff to pay the defendant $500 ali
mony; William jackson vs.. Mary J.
| Jackson Eliza Herbert VS.. Fred. Her
bert; j. w. Coria VS.. Miriam Coria.
THE Lake Shore road is about to make
a change in its schedule, which will
materially shorten the time between
this city and Ashland
THE State Agricultural Society re-
elected all of its old officers.
FORTY-sEvEN members attended the
reunion of the Legislature at the Plank
inton House, Milwaukee, on the 10Th.
EAU CLAIRE is discussing a row which
occurred in local insurance office, in
which a man is said to have slapped
the face of a young lady employed to
operate typewriter. The man lost his
| position and the young woman re-
signed. She was from Chicago.
THE grading for the Abbotsford &,
Northeastern Railroad is completed.
GOV. HOARD has appointed E. G..
| Oliver, of Cedar Grove, Chauncey Il.
| Thayer, Of Sturgeon Bav, and James
| Chapman, of Bayfield,, fish wardens for
the First, Second and Third Districts,
respectively.
THE name of the post-office at Hogan,
Wood County, has been changed to
Lindsay.
JOHN GoRHAM was arrested ut La
| Crosse on a charge of assaultng an s.
year-old girl at Tomahawk.
SHERIFF SCoTT, of La Crosse, made a
capture of female horsethief Mary
Hyatt, connected with Coup's horse
sho W, hired a horse at livery stable in
| Rochester, Mimi, and started to drive
| to La Crosse. The liveryman has been
| following her fOf lhTee days, and Sber-
if Scott was notified to be on the watch
| for her.
! BURGLARS raided four hotels and
boarding houses at Altoona City early
on the morning of the 18th, securing
| about $3.50 in cash and some valuables.
The robberies were very skillfully exc
| cuted. There is no clue to the identity
of the thieves, though they were seen
sueaking out of one of the hotels about
daylight.
! l.. 4. SLOAN, of La Crosse, a conductor
| on the Milwaukee x St. Paul Railway is
| dangerously sick in consequence of the
! amputation of leg that was crushed on
| the Minnesota Division several months
! ago.
| Mas. SEEKow, of Menomonee. while
| temporarily insane, attacked Aid. Bush
1 with a razor, but the gentleman grap-
| rled Wlth her and escaped harm. AS
! she has the care Of two small children,
/ she was not taken into custody.
II. WILLIAMS and Miss Martha Crit