The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-10-26
WISCONSIN ITEMS

The Common Council of Ashland sus-
pended the chief OF police and revoked
the licenses of variety theaters.
THE Sturgeon Bav Advocate COM
plains that the farmers of Door County
have dangerous competitor in what is
known as Chicago beef. This meat, it
says, is laid down IL the markets of that
city at cents pound by the quarter.
10 compete with these interlopers the
farmers Will have to get up and hustle
or else retire from the field altogether.
Dressed beef is raising the deuce with
the small farmers all over the country,
ana various schemes are suggested TO
| keep 1t out
The suit of the colored people against
Manager Lit, of the Biiou Theater, has
been begun.
THE Milwaukee Telegraph Company
was granted a franchise similar to
those of the Badger and Edison Illumi
mating Companies.
DIsT.-ATTY. TooHEY, of Milwaukee,
will ask for the appointment OF an AS
sistant in his Office to help work up evil
dence IN criminal cases.
A HUMAN fend in Eau Claire County
cut the tails off eight oxen and broke
the horn off one, beside burying num-
ber Of chains used in working the oxen,
and all, no doubt, TO avenge some
grudge against the owner of the cattle.
THE Marinette Eagle reports that the
Menominee River Lumber Company
has raised upon their farm near Stur-
! geon River, the present season. 220 tons
| OF hay, 1900 bushels of potatoes, so, .
| bushels of oats and 400 bushels of on
| ions.
The new dairy school at the State
University will be provided with the
wonderful Swedish butter extractor,
which takes the butter directly from
| the milk. With this machine it is pos
| sible to have the butter ready for the
| table within five minutes ter it is
| taken from the COW.
RUBLEE A. COLE has been retained in
| the suit Steel vs. Doherty. Doherty is
wealthy lumberman at Ashland, and
| had Steel arrested and imprisoned for
| fourteen days on the charge of stealing
| broomsticks from his mill. Steel was
| aftel ward acquitted, and now brings
| suit against Doherty fot $4,000.
A CONTRACT has been closed with a
! Chicago firm to furnish full electrical
| equipment for the West Side Street
| Railway, Milwaukee, to be ready for op-
Grafton by February ], next.
EAU CLAIRE people enjoyed military
| drill by Company l. at their fair at that
| place. III the contest as to the best
| drilled man in the company, Sergt. L.
| G. Kehr Won the medal.
| Miss ISABEL, daughter Of D. s. Durrie,
librarian Of the State Historical Society,
| died suddenly.
Or three cases of diphtheria in the
/ family of Mrs. A. +. Braley. at Madison,
! two terminated fatally.
! SECRETARY NOBLE has affirmed the
proposition made by Special Agent
| Dana G.. Lamb, in charge OF the Oneida
allotment, and the surveys of these
| lands will be changed according 10 the
! plan proposed by Agent Lamb, which
| is calculated to preserve to each Indian,
| in giving him an allotment, the i'm
| provements which his industry has pro-
| duced.
| ELLSWORTH B. NELLIs, who was shot
| at Milwaukee by Leo Larner the other
| day, is considered to be In fair way to
! recovery. Larner, who shot him and
| who himself lies at the Emergency Hos
| pital, will in all probability also pull
| through.
CT. w. HAzELToN has beenretaiaed by
| the colored people to prosecute their
| case against Manager Lit of the Bijou
! Opera House, Milwaukee.
The number of deaths in Milwaukee
| during the month of September was 303,
against 3l0 for the corresponding month
| OF last year. The death rate Tor the
month was 17.3.
TIE Jury in the Moss-Stein slander
suit in Milwaukee, was unable 10 agree
| on verdict.
A RE-suRvEY will be made of the Onei-
da Indian lands.
Two workmen lost their lives by the
fall of a brick wall at the old Sixth Ward
school house, Milwaukee, on the 18th.
THE body of Rudolph Pfster was
found on the 18th in the Menomonee
| Canal, Milwaukee, near where ne and a
| companion were thrown into the water
by mistaking the position OF a bridge.
THE long drawn case against the Mil
waukee gamblers whose places were
ralded by the police has been finally
decided against the prisoners.
INJURIES caused by falling down the
| elevator shaft at the store of the David
| Adler & Sons Clothing Company, 324
East Water Street, Milwaukee, resulted
in the death of Bruno BENIN, aged 65
years.
f. s. LINDSAY, of Milwaukee, was
| chosen president of the state \. NJ. c.
a.
The Rev. J. II. Croker was elected
president of the state Unitarian confer
ence.
MRs. RAsNus B. ANDERSON, of Madi-
son, has been sent to the state hospital
| for the insane.
THE Schlitz Brewing Compauy's suit
| for damages against the Iowa Temper
ance Alliance was thrown cut OF court.
The dwelling house Of Charles Owen,
about ten miles from Boscobel, was
totally consumed by FIRE. Nothing Was
saved. The family was absent at the
time. Insurance light.
a. c. RECRSTROM was sent up ct Eau
Claire for one year on pleading guilty TO
having obtained money on fraudulent
check.
The people OF Eau Claire have com
PEELED the water company, of that city,
to supply them with water from springs
instead of from the Chippewa River.
| The water is to he furnished hereafter
from what Is known as the Wheaton
| Springs. The present rate of consump-
ton of water in that city is estimated at
LOCO, coo gallons per day.
THE Abbotsford 4 Northwestern Rail-
| road has been equipped with a new
engine and cars. The rails are nearly
all laid.
| GRO. \. Holmes, the telegraph oper-
ator AZ Bridge Switch, La Crosse, has
curiosity. Ii Is the she'll of Lower
MISSISSIPPI turtle ta2t weighed 275
| pounds and measured feet 33 inches
long, and about feet vide.
ALBERT MGNICH, formerly of Cologne
Germany, IN jail at Eau Claire seven
months on a charge OF blgamy, was dis
charged on the 10th by Circuit Judge
| Bundy on motion of the district-attor-
nev for lack Of evidence. Munich mar
ried in this country q sister of Prof.
kriesel, of the West Side public school
Il was claimed that he had a wife in
Cologne, but he was doubtless innocent.
The robbery at the house OF W. H. Os-
| borne, l25 Prospect Ayenne, Ni!wau-
| kee, promises interesting develop