The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-10-19
WISCONSIN ITEMS

fult In the United States court against
Bernard Dohertv, a prominent lumber.
man, for $4,000 damages for the al
!eged removal of certain pile-tlmbel
from defendants mill, and false impris-
onment.
HE forty-third conference of the
Unitarian and Independent societies oil
Wisconsin opened at Madison on the
10Th with sermon by the Rev. Grindall
Reynolds, of Concord. About sixty
delegates were in attendance.
BURGLARS stole 800 worth of iewelry,
etc, from the residence of w. III. Os-
borne, Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee.
SAMUEL Brown, superintendent of the
Wisconsin Central dining car service,
has accepted similar position on the
Santa Fe road.
IHE annual convention of Wisconsin 6
Woman Suffrage Association opened IN
Milwaukee on the 10Th, addresses being
made by Susan b. Anthony, Miss Kate
Pier, Miss Waugh and others.
The Rev. Mr.. Chester has accepted
the pastorate of Emmanuel Church, Mil
waukee.
The Milwaukee Cream City Company
has Withdrawn its proposed cut of wages
and the employees feel correspondingly
jubilant.
MowArr & THoMPsoN's mill, at Ash.
land, has shut down for the season with
It's supply of logs cleaned up. w. K.
Durtee's and the Superior mills are pre-
pairing to close their doors for the win
ter, having sawed all the logs on hand
The stock of logs al each mill is wiped
out, and they close the season
with no over production of lum-
Der. There are indications OF
large operations in the woods during
the winter to give the mills full supplies
OF logs another season. Shores new
mill has arrived and will be erected
Immediately and made ready for opera
OF lumber was shipped during the past
week. Five boats are in port loading
for Detroit, and one for Chicago.
THE remains of Albert Parnam, q
young civil engineer who died in Spo-
kane Falls, Wash, were buried at Ma
zomanie, the funeral being attended by
a large number of people. The obse-
1uies were held in the German Evan
gelical Church.
CLEMENT A. LAwLER, youngest son of
John Lawler, the well-known Prairie du
CHEN millionaire, has gone to Stella
Mauting, Feldkirch, Austria, where he
will pursue his studies. He will there
complete a philosophical course and at
tain the highest possible degree of clas-
sical instruction.
ARTICLES ofassociation have been fled
with the secretary of state by the Wood
vile & Southern K lilwav Company. the
object being to build a road from the vii
lage of Woodville, in st. Croix County,
to Wildwood, IN the same county, a dis
tance of ten miles. The capital stock is
500, 900, and the incorporators are +. :.
Austin, Robert Clouston, A. J. Mum
ford, Charles H. Adams and William II.
Turner.
CHARLES Mock, a butcher, died in a
tit at the Milwaukee Emergency Hos
pital on the 18th. He was 80 years old.
A GANG Of thieves that had been pur-
loining goods displayed during the day
time, from Ashland merchants, has
been broken up. The police arrested
three and recovered the stolen articles,
which were found where they had been
secreted. The amount taken will reach
several hundred dollars. Two rolls OF
valuable dress goods were among the
plunder discovered and identified.
THE news has been received of the
marriage at Cheyenne, Wyo., of Lyman
e. Draper, for many years secretary OF
the State Historical Society, to Mrs.
Catharine Hoyt, formerly of Madison.
HENRY MANYPENNY, the Indian
charged with killing his brother, WAS
bound over at Ashland for manslaugh-
ter in the second degree. The prisoner
was able to give bail.
THE new Breen block at Ashland mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire, owing
to spontaneous combustion of rags and
waste material used in finishing the
wood work.
CARLOADS of Wisconsin potatoes are
being shipped to New York, Massachu-
setts and Connecticut. 1t costs more a
bushel to transport them than their
purchase price, which is from 20 to %
cents bushel.
The state Unitarian conference began
at Madison on the 5th.
Four sophomores have been sus-
pended from the State University for
hazing.
THERE were 1000 acres in tobacco this
year in this state. Estimating the value
at $500 per acre, the yield will be worth
$6, 100000.
DR.. J. B. WHITING, of Janesville, of
the Chippewa Indian Commission, left
on the 14th for st. Paul. He goes to
the Rainy Lake and other reservations
in Northern Minnesota to conclude
treaties with the different tribes.
THE report that Frederick Weyer-
hauser intends to purchase the West
Side mill at Eau Claire, is denied.
The Phi Psis, of the State University,
have received a present of six cared
shell. Some sport may be looked for.
". c. REKsTRoM, a Chicago ex-travel-
ing man, got $50 on bogus check
at the Commercial Bank, Eau Claire.
Suspicion was aroused and inquiry by
wire brought the answer ffom chicago
that Reckstrom was no longer working
tor the house he claimed to represent.
Rekstrom WAS jailed the same night. He
had only spent S. of the money.
THERE are forty Y. NJ. c. associations
in Wisconsin with a membership of
nearly 5000.
JUDGE MORTIMER NJ. JACKSON, ex-ius-
tice of the state supreme court and ex-
consul of the United States at Halifax,
died at Madison on the 18th.
ARMoUR's refrigerator at Ashland cost
$, 500.
Judge JENKINS, of Milwaukee, in
structed the appraisers OF block % IN
regard TO their duties.
THE Florence News says the Florence
County woods are literally swarming
with Ohio hunters.
THE name of the Working Peoples
Reading Club, of Milwaukee. has been
changed to the Peoples Institute.
MAN named John Schmidt, OF Wa.
secs. Mimi, boarded the transfer al
Mc(iregor, Ia, on the 18th, for Prairie
du Chen. When about half way over
he told a passenger that he was going tc
kin himself, and started for the door
The passenger tried to stop him, but he
succeeded in reaching the door anc
iumped from the train. His arm wa:
crushed to the shoulder, and be wa;
otherwise injured and cannot 1--we. lie
is no doubt crazy, as he cut his thros
two weeks ago in Minnesota and WAS IL
a very bad condition from 1t. lie Il
about S5 years OF age and has sister II
Dane County.
ABBIE DUSBAM, of Eau Claire, aged l.
eloped with G. B. Brown, of Flsndreau
OAK, to Chippewa Falls, where they
were married.