The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-01-05
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surapce small. 1t also DESTROYED the
Novelty Company's plant. Loss, s. ,090;
insurance, 81 ,591.
AT Washburn, on the afternoon Of the
3lst, Perry Chattieid, the lJ-year- old
son of +. p. Chatheld, one OF the most
prominent merchants in that city,
drowned while skating near the eIeya-
tor. He fought msniully for his life,
but the Ice was so thin that It broke aS
fast as be got en- it. The body was re-
covered.
REy. J. II. FLEMING, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Florence, has
resigned The pastorate.
THE sum of $262, ,6S4 was spent in
Washburn the past year for public and
private Improvements.
WARDEN CHAPMAN, of the Bavfield
fish district, has reported the following
totals Of the fish business there during
1883: Number OF pounds caught, 1866
Co., value, S45, ,2Sl.52; number OF men
employed, III; value Of boats, nets,
etc, $25, ,SS1.
DURING quarrel near the grounds of
the National Soldiers Home, Milwau-
kee, on the afternoon Of New Years
Day, Lewis Schmidt fatally stabbed
Nm. +. Ruder, Both were veteran
Z.
Whisky.
IGNATz HABERYIEwIcz, whose nation
ality is betrayed by his name, who in a
quarrel over a trivial matter in Chicago
Killed Carl PATRON with a knife, was ar
rested in Milwaukee on tue lst inst.
TIE losses by fire in Milwaukee dur
ing the year 1888 aggregated $500, eco,
and the insurance involved reached $},-
7S6, 500.
J. II. NoREUS, who sent labOrers from
Eau Claire TO Canada, four years ago,
under false pretenses OF good wages on
the Canadian Pacific Railway, drowned
in Puget Sound by the explosion on the
steamer Lief Erickson. On leaving
Eau Claire to escape the wrath Of his
victims, he went 10 Winnipeg, and
from there to Seattle, w. T., where he
opened a gorgeously titted-up saloon.
IT is reported from Silverton, Ore,
that g. j. 1isdale, who sWindled the
Sturgeon Bay Canal Company, while
acting as its agent, ten years ago, is
practicing there as DIR. Gilbert"
THE public and private improvements
in Washburn during the past year cost
$3S2, ,GS4.
GEORGE WHITBEcK, formerly Of Mari
he was interested in his fathers silver
mine.
A CHICAGO dispatch Of the 29,h says:
Marcus Pollasky, of this city, left here
this afternoon for Michigan, where in
connection with Coy. Mcdonald, Mr..
Royce and others, he proposes TO in
corporate new company for the pur-
pose of constructing a railroad from
Minneapolis and st. Paul TO Escanaba.
The new road will be known as the Es
canada, Twin City < Western road, and
will be an opposition line to the $500"
road. twill be $50 miles long.
THE annual account Of the executors
of the estate of the late c. c. Washburn,
covering the period from July ), 1887,
10 August IS, 1883, has been filed with
the probate Judge at La Crosse. The
balance of the last annual statement
was S459.03S.S2: receipts during
the year from profits, inter
est, and the sale of certain
logs, SIG, 2G9.4l; total, S455, ,309.33. Add
to this the bonds of the Minneapolis <
St. Louis Railroad, returned by the
Fidelity and Trust Company, of Phila-
deiphia, as not being stable securi-
ties, $4,000, and the grand total
amounts to $412 ,009.33. The disburse-
Inents have been Si06, ,74S.4S, leaving
on hand $l65, ,260.S5. The chief item
in the list of disbursements Is s27S, $50
paid TO the Fidelity Trust Company tG
make up the amount necessary to yield
a permanent annual income of 81, ,0C0 TO
each of the two daughters. The cost of
administration was S22, 1881 A fund
Of 90 .12O was set apart the interest of
which will be devoted to the care of
Gen. Washburn's grave.
4 BLOCK of brown sandstone recently
shipped from quarry near Ashland
measured SKIS, by 6xS by ks, and
weighed fifteen tons. As it was the
largest block of stone ever quarried on
Lake Superior, it has been called the
Jumbo stone"
WILLIAM MEYERS, OF Prairie du Chen,
was killed at Akron, Ia, 10y worthless
character named Swan. The latter met
Movers and drawing 81 revolver shot
him before he raised a hand.
IuE record OF proceedings at the sixth
annual meeting of the Society of the
Twenty eighth Wisconsin Volunteer In
fantry has been printed and bound in
neat pamphlet form. ;. Il. Bell, secre-
tary of the society, has charge OF the
distributiOn Of the pamphlets.
mems Association Will be held at Angus
tn. February % to -, inclusive. \ large
number Of prominent dairymen will at
tend the meeting, and liberal premiums
for butter and other dairy products viii
be offered.
IN response to a telegram from Con-
gresham La Toilette and Sheriff Estes,
at Washington, to Tic executive Office at
Madison, the chiefs of police at Queens
town, Liverpool and Scotland Yards,
London, were again asked to arrest
kuhni, the murderer Of William
Christen, in Primrose. The United
States legation at London has been in
structed in regard to the matter, and
now it Is scarcely probable the muir
derer can get away. A description Of
Kuhni was sent with each dispatch.
FIRE broke out at 9 O'Clock on the
morning OF the 2Sth in the village of
West Salem, twelve miles east of La
Crosse. 1t is understood to have start
ed in Murphy's Hotel, not far from the
depot. and burned everything along the
street until the loss has amounted to
from $4,000 10 $4,000. There are no
means whatever IN the village OF check
ing the fire except buckets and the
water supply Is sCanty. There IS about
GO,tiFU Insurance. on Jllc property Nt-
.troyed. No details of tine fire can be
obtained as the telephone office was
burned out and the FIRE was SO near the
depot as to interfere with telegraphing.
The depot, however, was not destroyed.
Gus SMITH, aged 10, Is supposed to
have fallen through the ice at Eau Claire
and drowned.
RICHARD EGGEBRECHT an emplOye in
the Wilkin Manufacturing Company s
shops at Milwaukee, was caught IN the
machinery, on the 9th, while setting
up a milestone. and almost instantly
killed, his body being terribly mangled.
TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, aged IS years, an
old citizen of Milwaukee, was asphyNi-
ated by coal gas which escaped from a
stove in his room on the night Of the
25th.
The Wisconsin commercial travellers
| held their annual reunion and banque,
at the Park Hotel, Madison, on the
| evening of the 25th.
| FRANK ]. ToELLER, city attorney of La
/ Crosse, died ON the 26th. He had beer
/ in precarious health for some time