The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15
WISCONSIN ITEMS

a large raft OF logs from La Crosse to ST.
LOUIS. 1t consisted OF sixteen strings,
the courses being sixteen and eighteen
leet long, and twenty-sjN to twenty
eight inches deep, making the measure
over al 2SJ fl ct wide and 600 feet long.
The shipment was valued at 5000. 1t
was the largest rat ever taken through
10 II. Louis unbrCken.
IL the United States court at Eau
Claire, Mack c. Townsend, OF Yiroaua,
convicted of psssing counterfeit money,
was sentenced TO two wears in the peni-
tentiary.
CAMPBELL's slough, at La Crosse, has
been bridged at an expense of nearly
5000. The crossing is about 400 ieet
long and connects the city with French
Island.
La CROSSE business men subscribed
S2,S;2 IN one day for the relief Of the
Johnstown flood sufferers.
THE archives of the local United
States land office at Eau Claire have be-
come seriously burdened with patents
since the consolidation OF the La Crosse
and st. Croix Falls Offices with that of
ice. The accumulation of old patents
now amounts 10 over q, 0, which are
subject TO destruction by fire or accident
al loss IN other ways. Hence the land
offices are advising all parties holding
receipts to forward them at once and
help clear mp the accumulated mass.
The Dane County supervisors have
delayed the payment of the claims Of
eXSheritf Estes for fees in his cele-
brated chase after and final capture in
London OF kuehni, the alleged Prim-
rose murderer. Great difficulty was
experienced in extraditing kuehni.
and it was finally necessary to send to
Wisconsin for person to 90 10 London
to identify him. The sherifi7s expense
account was, of course, large, as he WAS
compelled to remain abroad several
weeks, and at the recent meeting
OF the County Board he presented his
bill for 81 ,34536, and also tie bin of
Peter Sangesand, who went over to
identify kuehni, for S4O7 SIS. The Board
refused to allow the claims a. present,
and put OFT consideration OF them until
the November session, hoping that the
state would settle the bill, while, in the
meantime, Messrs Estes and Sangesand
are practically ont what If cost them for
their trip, and the expenses incident to
extraditing their prisoner. Friends
have advised the ex-sheriff to bring suit
TO recover the amount of the bill, but 1t
is not likely that this course will be pur-
sued.
In a row in the saloon on the grounds
of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home on
the 9TH, John P. McCreary stabbed
and probably fatally wounded another
inmate named !. ID. Smith.
News has been received at Milwaukee
that the first visitor to ascend to the top
of the great Eiffel tower at the Paris
Exposition was Herman kerler, of the
Cream City.
NELLIE GANsrEAD died at La Crosse,
on an inbound train while en- route to
her home at Harvard, Mimi. She was
in the last stages of consumption when
she was brought to the train at Fargo.
The La Crosse Valley Baptist Associa-
ton, which has just closed its session at
Warren's Mills, resolved to hold its
next meeting at Trempealeau. About
eighty delegates and visitors were in at
tendance.
MANAGER WHITE, of the Plankinton
House, Milwaukee, has retired from the
hotel business. His place has been
filed by the appointment of A. l..
Chase, formerly steward of the hotel.
GEORGE HANSEN, a boy employed in
Yewdales printing establishment, on
West Water Street, Milwaukee, was
killed in the fly wheel of the engine on
the 9th. His body was terribly man
gled.
AT Prairie du Chen, on the evening" of
the 5th, Damos Lehmieux, an old resi-
dent there, was instantly killed, and
Geo. Wachter seriously injured by a
runaway. LehmieuX wss thrown
against shade tree.
A PROMISING season of standard opera
has been inaugurated at the summer
theater at Schiitz Park, Milwaukee. The
season vii continue through the week
of the q. a. X. Encampment.
THE La Crosse County Veterans As
soclation will hold its annual meeting at
Onalaska, July 20.
TIE Summer School for Teachers will
open at the State University, July 9,
and continue to August 2. The follow
ing is the corps OF instructors and course
of study: J. w. Stearns. professor of
philosophy and pedagogy, State Uni
versity and president of the school
Psychology and Pedagogy" {. X
Barnes, professor of botany, State Uni
versity-'B Botany" +. a. Birge, pro-
fessor OF zoology, State University
"Physiology and Zoology" w. w. Dan
iels. professor of chemistry, State Uni
assistant professor of physical geog-
rapbv, Harvard Uniyersity-"Geog-
raphy;" J. c. Freeman, professor of En-
glish literature, State University-"En
glish Literature;" 4. l.. kimball, asso-
ciate pro olessor of physics, Johns Hop
kins' University-"Ph Physics"
AT Ashland on the 5th, fire destroyed
the residence of Thomas Edwards, on
the cemetery road. at the west end of
the city. Loss on building and contents,
81 200; no insurance.
An effort is being made to locate the
Luther College, recently destroyed by
FIRE at Decorah, Iowa, at Lacrosse.