The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-03-23
WISCONSIN ITEMS


The GOV rpor, on the 10th, signed the
following Milwaukee bills: To provide
lor de Ptty coroner in counties having
a popubtou exceeding 10000 inhabit-
ants; to ratifv aud legalize sewer plans
IN the city of Milwaukee; to authorize
the Common Council to appropriate
TO the assessors of the Fourth,
Fifteenth and Seventeenth Wards
the balance of their salary for the
year 1887; to appropriate $500 to the
Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls
Amending the law passed relating to IA
sewer tax In the south sewerage district
IN Milwaukee, so as TO make the years
lo9O and 1891, instead OF 1889 and 1890;
to provide for the appointment of in
spectors OF election and the registra-
tIon OF electors when necessary by the
mayor.
MAN known as Harry Won Sternau,
anG supposed to be connected with a
baltimore newspaper. committed sui
eide at Milwaukee on the 10Th by shoot
ing.
ALMA NIEMEGER, an inmate of the Mil
waukee County insane asylum, commit
ted suicide on the 10Th by strangling.
She WAS only 20 years old.
The Methady & Meyer failure at st.
Louis touches some lumbermen at Ia
Crosse, but all believe the firm will pull
through under some arrangement. II -
likely the firm was crowded by the Eau
Claire Lumber Company, from which
organization purchase of 6,000,000 feet
was made last fall.
Mrs. CHARLES JOHNSTON, of Sturgeon
Bay, who was placed on trial to deta-
mine her mental condition, was declared
sane by jury.
FORTY thousand brook trout have
been planted IN the streams in the vi
cinity of La Crosse.
The Mississippi is now open at La
Crosse and the ferry boats are running.
The river was closed eighty-one days.
! \ PETITION Is being circulated request
Judge Dyson to be candidate for re-
election to the La Crosse County Judge
ship.
! a REWARD of $500 has been offered for
the recapture of Dan Ritchie the mur-
derer, who escaped from Jail in Ash
land. lie is the only one at large of the
prisoners who escaped, the others hay-
ing been recaptured.
! ALBERT MENNIG, middle-aged man,
( formerly subaltern in the German
army, was arrested at Chippewa Falls
charged with bigamy and jailed at
Eau Claire. 1t appears that Mennig
has wife and child in Munich,
Germany, whence he fled to Amer
lea. He recently went through the
marriage ceremony with a young girl
living at Fall Creek. sister of a promi-
nent citizen of Eau Claire, who has just
! discovered the previous marriage. Her
suspicious were aroused by things he
said In his sleep. Her brothe- has
secured documentary evidence from the
old country which shows q clear case
against Mennig.
! STURGEON BAY is alarmed over several
white Cap" warnings. Among those
VINO received letters embellished with
skull and cross-bones are DR.. 4. II.
+ Chandler and c. l.. Nelson. the latter
president of the banking house of Nell
son & Spear.
THB property of the Wolf River Man
/ uiscturlng Company, which assigned
( last December, was sold under an at
+ tachment for $l5,475, subject to con-
/ tirmation of the sale bv the circuit
judge. If the sale is confirmed it will
} leave but little for the creditors, who
are not secured.
| On the morning of the l4th the BODY
of Mrs. Albertine Thoma was discovered
I hanging in the cellar of her home on
/ Thirty-flth, near State Street, Milwau
kee. She had been dead for some
/ hours. She lived with her son, her
, husband having died last October.
Since the death of her husband she had
been very much depressed, which, with
} her poor health, is supposed to have
affected her brain. She was As years OF
( age.
| WILLIAM DoRRIs, a young tough
/ Madison, struck girl because she re
/ fused to permit him to accompany her
/ home from a party. Doris serves one
month in Jail.
TIE gaslight and Brush electric light
plants at La Crosse, valued at nearly a
| quarter of million dollars, have been
sold to local and Eastern capitalists. 1t
| IS said that stockholders In the Edison
! Electric Light Company are now inter-
ested IN the properly.
OSCAR OsTRANDER, of Sun Prairie, is
/ dead from the effects of disease con-
tracted III the army during the late war.
! THE senior class at the State Univcr-
slty will place an oil portrait of the late
| Prof. K. ID. Irving in the art gallery of
| the University library.
| THE Eau Claire Woolen Mill Company
| has been organized, with $4,000 capital
! stock, s. 800 of which is paid up. The
incorporates are A. ID. Chappell, c. fl.
| Dunn and Arthur Smith. The plant will
/ be be located on Otter Creek and the
| production of goods by the new corpor-
alton Will be begun as soon as necessary
repairs to the mill can be made.