The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-04-13
WISCONSIN ITEMS

THE Milwaukee school board has ap-
| proprlated 81 500 for the maintenance
| OF cooking auxiliary to the public
schools.
The long looked for report of the ex-
| pert engineers engaged Dy Milwau-
kee 10 recommend a system of city
sewerage, Is announced TO be in sight,
! and will be made public in a week or
| two.
MILWAUKEE is to have a new German
theater next year. The old Stadt Thea
| ter Is to be torn down and larger
house erected on the site.
| A, FOREMAN, superintendent of the
Brush Electric Company at Eau Claire,
ieil from a door In the electric light
building to the ground, a distance OF
| MY feet. His skull was fractured, and
he was otherwise badly hurt. A plank
dlsiodged by Mr.. Foreman as he fel
! struck workman named James John
| son, lntilcting quite bad hurts.
The case OF the administrator of the
estate of DR.. Charles Bruil, late of
Avoca, against the Northwestern Mutual
Relief Association, has been continued
TO the October term of the Iowa County
circuit court.
NINA NUDGE, the keeper of disrep-
| utable house near Florence, has been
arrested and placed under 81 900 bonds
| for all assault on an inmate Of her
house. The girl, May Johnson, was Sc
riously hurt.
MAJ. /. II. WING has offered as a gift
a tive-acre tract of land at Bav field for
public park, provided the city will
| fence it and keep the land in good or
der as park.
BoNY LOMBARD, charged with murder,
was tried at Bayfield, and acquitted.
The evidence showed that the shooting
was accidental.
THE home of the Sisters of Charity,
at Pine Bluff, Dane County, was de-
stIoyed by fire. The school building
Was saved with great difficulty.
EIGHT men crossed Chequamegon
Bay from Bayfield, to La Pointe, and got
across safely just as the ice broke up.
They narrowly escaped drowning.
The Rev. A. Hoyme, of Eau Claire,
performed five marriage ceremonies i'll
one evening.
The authors of the numerous incen-
diary fires in Eau Claire were caught by
the police and prove to be two boys 10
years of age, Frank Parrish, of that city
and George Fbbett, whose home is
near Fall Creek. Their mutual accus-
ations in court brought out the whole
story. They had no motive except pure
mischief; but Ebbelt, VINO had run
away from home, said he intended to
burn the whole town because he
couldn't find place to sleep.
Il. 6. GARDNER, JR., has been appoint
ed chief clerk at the La Pointe Indian
Agency, in place of Harry II. Beaser,
elected mayor of Ashland.
CHARLES SEELY, brakeman living at
La Crosse, was killed at Hastings,
Mimi, by falling from a box car while
assisting IN doing some switching.
IL the recent Graf malpractice case at
Eau Claire, the plaintiff was awarded
s., 800.
c. G.. CHENEY, OF Pasadena, Cal, at
one time grand master of the Wiscon-
sin Odd Fellows, and in lS54-55 repre-
sentative to the grand lodge of the
United States, recently enjoyed a cele-
bration of his SD birthday bv the odd
Fellows of Pasadena.
THE two bills which contemplated Sc
curing to the city of Milwaukee the land
formed by the action of the waves in
Milwaukee bay will not be heard from
again in the present legislature. They
were talked over in the Milwaukee del;
egation, and as these members thought
they were not sufficiently informed
as to their merits TO pass a sound ludg-
ment on them, they were referred to
committee of one, and will not be re-
ported back at all. According to the
author of the two bills their passage
would, in the course of years, have CIV
en- the city of Milwaukee park of over
1000 acres at almost no expense.
The resignation is announced of Gen
Jacob Sharpe as commandant of the Ma
tional Soldiers Home at Milwaukee.
Gen. kilburn Knox, secretary, has been
appointed to the position.
News has been received from Wash
ington of the re4ignation of Chief Clerk
Linton, of the supervising architects
office, with the intimation that a re-
opening of the Milwaukee public build
ing site contest may resnlt
Gov. HOARD has appointed /. A. Caul-
kins judge of the municipal court of
Ashland County.
HENRY w. PAGFNKoPF, for twenty
years an attache of the Milwaukee Sem
tlnel, died suddenly on the Sd. The
immediate cause of death was the rup-
ture of blood vessel.
AN old man named Peter Machiowak
hanged himself at his home in Milwau-
kee on the Sd inst. Dependency
caused by disease resulted in his sui
eide.
The Southwest Lumber Company,
through a member of the firm, Edward
Browne, recently purchased the entire
stock of Boyington & AtwelI, of Cool
idge, on the Wisconsin Central Road,
compris ne l0, coo ,0C0 feet Of lumber, s.
OgO 900 shln0Ies and . 600 O0O lath