The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-09-07
WISCONSIN ITEMS

The Board and State University re-
gents held their quarterly meeting at
Madison on the Sd. The session was
entirely consumed in revising the bv-
laws OF the Board and routine business.
Hereafter the regular meetings will be
held on the third Tuesday in Septem-
Der, January and April, instead of the
first Tuesday III September, January and
March as heretofore.
ii, V. EGBERT, assistant astronomer at
the Nashburn observatory, has resigned
10 accept The prolessorship of mathe-
matics at Buchtel College, Akron, O. No
successor will be chosen at present.
Gov. HOARD has appointed Mrs. ID. Ii.
Johnson, OF Milwaukee, "A delegate TO
represent Wisconsin at the National
Conference of Charities and Reforms 10
be held at San Francisco. Mrs. John
son, Mrs. Fairbanks, of Milwaukee, and
Andrew f. Gilmore and A. Q. Wright,
members of the State Board, have left
for California.
PETER WEHRER, q resident of La
Crosse since 1852, is dead
THE Bayfield, County Bank is a newly
organized Northern Wisconsin instltu-
ton.
A JUVENILE Temple has been organ
lied at Washburn with seventy mem
bers.
Books are furnished tree to pupils in
the primary grades of the Madison
schools.
FREDDY Polly, a La Crosse lad, stole
S30 from his father, and goes to the In
dustrial School for boys.
JOHN {. DAVIES, a son of j. j. Davies,
Of Mazomanie, was killed by the cars on
the st. Paul road in Chicago.
THE total assets of d. d. Bryant & Co.,
of Madison, who recently made an as
signment, have been listed by the ap-
praisers appointed by the sheriff, at
S6,6I3.27. The liabilities are about S3,-
900.
TIE WashbuTn post-office changed
hands September !. III. j. Finstad sue
ceeding John Froseth as postmaster.
The strike of the laborers on the
Washburn water WORKS, for an increase
in pay OF % cents per day, was failure.
a 2YEAR-oLD child of Edward Olson,
of Madison, died from the effects OF
two drachms of creosote taken by acci-
dent.
ESTIMATES from the different railway
and steamboat lines make the attend
ance at the G. A. Il. Encampment at
Milwaukee i'll the neighborhood OF 49,,
600.
ROBERT DEUsTER, WI fell from tree
while adjusting telegraph wire Mt Mil
waukee on the 2Gth nit, died on the I'd
inst. from his injuries.
PICKPoCKErS and thieves had quite a
successful week during the Encam pment,
in spite of the numerous arrests by the
police.
PAT MANNING, the pugilist, WAS held
to trial at Ashland on the charge OF
manelaughter, in the killing OF young
Murray two years ago.
MARTIN G. WALD was killed by the
Caving in Of sewer trench at .he Kirk
land Company's krlckyard, six miles
from MenomOuee.
WHEN Prof. Hammer, of Cir :innati,
made his balloon asCensinn on 1e fair
grounds, at Dodgeville, the bsllo, took
fire when up about 5000 ieeI -" i he was
obliged to cat loose the parachute and
descend. lie came down amid a jam of
carriages and horses which came near
creating a panic. The balloon de-
scended with hole foot in diameter
burned in it.
MARTIN REINERTsEN, a sailor AZ years
old, living in Chicago, fell from the scow
Laura Miller, on the night of the lst at
Milwaukee. and WAS drowned. The
hCbN was ~ iuS III the ijNtl uOit4 VI
! Cherry Street bridge. Capt. Andrew
Peterson had left the boat for a short
time and the sailor remained on
| board. When the captain re-
turned nothing was TO be seen
of the sailor. A line hanging over the
side of the boat was pulled up and the
sailor was found tangled in it. 1t is
supposed that he was trying to tie up
the boat more firmly and fell overheard.
He pulled on the line, but the rope ran
out and lie was drowned before the
slack in the line w8s taken up.
A SUPPOSED rose cancer on the haud
of Joel Eastman, of Sherman, Dunn
County, turned out to be a potato bug
that had crawled into cut and lived
and thriyed there for over year and
half. When it was removed cancer
actually developed, and to such an ex-
tent that the hand had to be amputated.
IN is learned that counterfeits of tick
cts for seats .or the naval battle were is
sued, and but for Capt. Pabst's gener-
osity in making the seats free, the En-
campment Council would have suffered
a l8rpe loss