The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
WISCONSIN ITEMS

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| acre, which was less than expected, and
| probably below the county's aver ge.
| Thirty and even forty bushels were
| looked for by good many. Corn Is
coming on wonderfully, and, with ordi-
nary weather, viii make crop.
A FIRE on the dock of A, S. Piper & Co.,
! at Little Sturgeon, early on the morning
| OF the 30th, destroyed three large ice-
bouses, 1900 railway ties, 1900 cedar
| pests and 500 cords of wood. The ee-
Yator WAS saved by the tug Goldsmith,
| which was sent on from this port. 1t is
| thought the loss will be about $4,000.
As the steamer Welcome was at the
landing during the night, it is supposed
that spark from her stack fired the
premises.
ASHLAND proposes to issue bonds to
raise money with which to induce man
utacturng companies TO locate there.
Tue sawmills at Ashland are all busy
turning out 625,0t0 feet of lumber q
day This is not only great lumber
center of the West, but is the market
Tor the Fast. Larle lots have been
shipped TO Albany, n. " Tonawanda,
n. y; Buffalo and Chicago, down the
great waterway of the lakes and by rail
TO Iowa, Kansas and many points in
the Southwest The yards are well
stocked with all sorts. Prices vary but
little, holders not seeking buyers, but
storing the new-cut stock in the yards.
About forty cars of dressed lumber are
shipped per week by rail. The rail-
roads are making rates for Ashland
lum to New York and Boston,
which is an advantage to the city and
the lumbermen generally. Trade is
improving.
THE trustees of the German Catholic
Hospital societies, of Springfield, ILL.,,
and of Eau Claire, have purchased Put
nam Park, on the North Side, Eau
Claire, several acres of beautiful tract
long intended by Mr.. Putnam for some
such purpose. The purpose of the hos
pital society is to build hospital where
ali the afflicted can go regardless OF re-
hglous belief, where trained nurses will
be in attendance on the sick, or be
ready to go TO any private family IN the
city where their services are needed.
DR.. WM. STUBBs, director of the
three experimental stations In LOulsl-
ana and one of the editors of the
Planters Journal, the organ of the
Louisiana sugar planters, is IN Madison,
and in company with Gov. Hoard,
visited the University farm and experi-
mental station on the 29th. DR.. StuDbs
has recently been visiting the expert
mental stations Of Minnesota and other
North western states and examining the
methods of Northwestern farming.
The experimental stations at Madison
made very favorable impression.
SINCE the Minnesota cattle bill be-
came law, shipments of fresh meat
have increased from Ashland to the
West. Helena, Butte City, Miles City
and other points on the Northern Paci-
q IL l. bo,, Il lT,,r,
all the Western trade that formerly be-
longed to st. Paul. The business is con-
trolled by the Superior Beef Company
and the Armour Packing Company.
The meat is forwarded in ice-boXes es-
pecially provided for long-dlstance
shipments.
FRANK KELLY, an Eau Claire bar
tender, while attempting to board
freight train or the Milwaukee Road,
on the 26th, fell under the wheels. His
legs were crushed and his recovery is
doubtful.
AUGUsT PETERSON, employed in the
Northwestern Lumber Company's saw
mill, at Eau Claire, was trying to push
log into position with his foot on the
Goth, when his foot was caught by the
saw and cut OF.
HOMER WELLS, of Shawtown, young
man recently married, went out to his
barn, ostensibly to feed his horse. lie
had not returned at the expiration of
an hour, and his wife found him lying
unconscious on the hay. He had swal-
lowed half an ounce of aconlte mixed
With half pint of whisky. lie was re-
stored TO consciousness, but may die.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
The ST. Paul Railway Company has
promised the Darlington people new
depot.
THE mail route from Penokee Railroad
to Montreal, Ashland County, has been
discontinued
A PosT-oFFIcE has been established at
KimbalI, Ashland County, Wis, and
Chas. X. Clark appointed postmaster.
Post routes have been established from
Baron to Dallas, and from Eldernon to
Norrie, Wis.
CHARLES 4 DEUTsCHBERG died recently
near La Crosse. He weighed $50 pounds,
and coffin large enough to contain his
body could not be found.
WIN. butcher, an Eau Claire restaU-
rant man, disappeared on the night of
the 25th. He had been married three
weeks. His young wife Is hrm IN the
belief that certain enemies she claims
he had have made away with him. The
case is wholly mysterious to the police.
THE Mrs. Biggs who was recently
murdered while en- route from Helena
to White Sulphur Springs, Mon, was
formerly Miss Crowell, of Bristol, Dane
County. Mr.. Biggs, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kurtz and an adopted daughter, were
also killed. Cowboys started out alter
the tramp who had SO deeply dyed his
hands in blood, but he escaped punish
ment at their hands by hanging him.
self.
GUSTAV BoDE, analytical chemist, of
Milwaukee, one of the best known SCI
entists in the state, died at his home in
that city on the 25th, after brief i'll
ness. He was so years old.
MAYOR BEAsER, of Ashland, has sur
prised everybody by ordering gambling
houses TO close. The order was obeyed
with alacrity, and the sports are having
@ holiday. How long this will last, or
whether gambling has ceased altogether
in the city, is a matter the future must
determine. Evidently the mayor has
become convinced that these places are
an injury to the city and must be
abated.
THE Rev.T. De Witt Talmage lectured
at Eau Claire on the 18th, to the largest
audience ever assembled in the Grand
Opera House, many people coming from
towns l00 miles away. Ills subject was
'Big Blunders," and the audience was
for an hour aud a half entertained by
his eloquence, or moved to laughter by
his humorous sallles.
A GUIDING belonging to Louis Ken
nedv, at Ashland, was destroyed by fire
on the 2ith. The heat was so intense
that ii seorched buildings q block away.
| The FIRE is said to have been caused by
children playing with matches. Loss,
| 81 500; partially insured.
JosEPH BRUNNER, an uncle of the wife
murderer Feuchs, is in custody at Ash
| land on a charge that he was accessory
| to the crime.
AT Milwaukee, on the oath, while
| Elizabeth McCabe, an aged woman re-
moved from l54 Detroit Street, was be-
ing cleaned preparatory to being placed
| in a ward at the county hospital, 1t "ss
noticed that she hung tenaclously to an
| old skirt. The attendants took IL away
from her after quite a struggle ana
found S34S sewed up in one corner OF II.
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