The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-02-09
WISCONSIN ITEMS

Ar Prairie du Chen. on the 5th, Al
bert hozdohCrier, Bohemian about 2S
wears OF age. having failed in his suit
ler the hand of widow, shot himself
iour times and died in two hours.
The common council of Mineral
Point has ordered the saloonkeepers to
Keep their window curtains up on Sum
days This regulation was established
on petition Of the w. {. T. Z.
An Ashland saloon-keeper was fined
70 and sentenced to one Lay in the
county Jail on the 5th, for Keeping open
after II O'Clock. This is the first con-
Nletlon under an ordinance recently
passed
IliE earnings of the ST. Paul road for
the last week IN January were S545, 600
against s49l ,0O0 for the same week last
year. The total earnings for the month
of January this year Nere over 81 .6ql.
OEn, or an increase over January. 1855.
of over $4,000.
\ NESHKoRt young man, who took =
young lady sleigh-riding and made her
walk home from the country because
she displeased him, was fined $50 and
sentenced TO spend twenty DAYS in Jail.
FREDERICK WEYERH EUsER. who has
been negotiating for the purchase of the
sawmlll plant and large pine-land tracts
OF the Valley Lumber Company, of Fan
Claire, is said 10 have secured an option
thereon, the consideration named be-
ing $500, ,on0.
JACK MCHUGH, notorious Northern
Wisconsin character, has been arrested
at Florence for a burglary committed
at Crystal Falls
THE Eau Claire police are searching
for VIM. White, a lumberman of that
city, who Is wanted to answer To several
charges of forgery.
TnE den near Mellen, Ashland Conn
ty, kept by man named Macintosh,
was raded by the sheriff recently.
The proprietor has been warned TO
close his place.
AN Eau CLAIRE druggist has sold S2S,-
QUO worth of drugs known as camp
remedies, 10 loggers in that vicinity.
A WOLF killed near Florence WAS the
largest ever seen IN that vicinity The
pelt measured seven feet from tip to tip.
OTro WAGNER, an athlete of national
reputation, died at his home in Mil
waukee on the 2d inst. The cause of
death was pneumonia.
THE Ashland Iron and Steel Com
pany's furnace on the "a made 100 tons
OF pig iron, beating the worlds record
of charcoal furnace for Il single days
work by twenty-five tons.
AT Eau Claire, on the ID, Judge Mar
shall sentenced Andrew Hamilton and
Clara Hamilton, the convicted denkeep-
crs, giving Hamilton fifteen months in
the penltentiary and the woman six
months in the county jail. This is the
first Wisconsin case in which man and
wife have been convicted together for
this otense and sent up.
AMONG the Wisconsin lumbermen who
have made investments at Puget Sound
are Jerome Garland, of Eau Claire. and
Frank Rotch, of Bloomer. Their pur-
Chases amounted to Sl25 900. MIR. j. 4.
Humblrd and Mr.. Phipps, of Hudson,
and Mr.. John Palmer, of Ashland, kave
gone further north and bought tract
OF timber land on Vancouver island, in
the British possessions
INDIAN AGENT GREGORY is treating with
the Indians for the right-of-wav for the
Lake Shore road across the Flambeau
reservation.
TuE state Board of Health reports
case of leprOsy in an interior village.
Steps are being taken to prevent the
spread of the disease. The patient is
Norwegian woman.
LATE on the night of the 3lst the Jury
IN the case OF tIlt State against Andrew
Hamilton and Clara Hamilton, his al
legged wife, AT Eau Claire. agreed on a
verdict after being ont five hours and
hail. and found the defendants guilty.
IT is said of the late judge Braley, of
Madison, that during his fifteen years
on the bench of the municipal court not
one OF his decisions was reversed by the
supreme court.
losEPH HaRRIs, SR., of Sturgeeh Bay,
whose death occurred in Chicago a few
days ago, was one of the promoters of
the Sturgeon Bay Canal scheme He
was at that time Senator Sawyer's pri-
Vate seer tary.
\ SUIT has been commenced by Fred
erick Prentice and a. G.. Brown to re-
cover 100 acres OF land located in the
heart of the city of Ashland. Many
Il ousand dollars are inv olved. Mr..
Prentice, one OF the plaintiffs, is New
YORK millionaire.