The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-10-12
WISCONSIN ITEMS

Chicago.
JUDGE JENKINS has appointed Samuel
Marshall, G. t. Bradley and Tax Com
missioner Bodden as a board OF apprais-
ers of block % for the Milwaukee post
office site.
A NUMBER of Adventist converts were
baptized in Wisconsin River at Bosco-
bel on Sunday.
HURD's Opera House at Boscobel mar
rowly escaped destruction bv fire. The
flames were discovered in season to ex-
tinguish them.
LIEUT.. HOWARD gibson was elected
captain of the Milwaukee First Light
Battery.
A WATCH is being kept on the grave of
the late Col. Scribner, of Madison.
The evangelical ministers of Milwau-
kee have started movement for the
closing of Sunday saloons
The state Baptist convention opened
at Eau Claire on the 9TH.
The Milwaukee tax commissioner re-
celyed notification from Madison that
the state board OF assessment has fixed
the assessed valuation of Milwaukee
County at 500, GOO. 900 for state purposes,
or G3 900, 600 less than the assessment
for local purposes.
la CROSSE Chronicle: Will Drake,
who met with injuries and whose wife
was killed on the Mill Street crossing of
the 81. Paul road at La Crosse some time
last March, had made settlement with
the company. He received moderate
sum In cash, an annual pass over the
company's lines, and the understanding
is he Is to have life job with the COM
pany.
INDIANS are said to be killing deer in
violation of the law on Armstrong Creek,
Florence County.
ALEXANDER lie CLAIRE, an old settler
of Florence County, was killed by
falling tree on his homestead near
Fisher Lake. He was II years old.
Mrs. OLE BULL, of Cambridge, Mass,
is at Eau Claire with her father, ]. G.
Thorp. They are on their way home
from their journey to the Pacific slope.
CONDUCTOR MCQUEENEY, of the st.
Paul road. who lives in Milwaukee, is
looking for his runaway wife. It's an
other case of gone with a handsomer
man"
The regular examination for state
teachers certificates will be held at
Madison the last week in December.
The limited state certificate requires, in
addition to the regular branches, ped
agogy, elementary psychology and his
torical English literature. This holds
for five years, and is good in any pub
lie school in the state.
FREE medical dispensary is to be
established by physicians in Milwau-
kee.
THE Mississippi River Logging Com
pany has purchased the old Pioneer
Lumber Company's mill at Eau Claire.
JOHN L. MITCHELL has been elected
president of the Juneau Club of Milwau-
kee.
THE state convention of the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor
will be held at La Crosse, commencing
October 25 and lasting until the 9th.
THE Rev. F. l.. Wharton is to take
charge of a non-denominational church
in Milwaukee.
A NUMBER of guests at Milwaukee
party were made violently sick by some
unknown poison in the refreshments.
A RUSSIAN engineer has been in Mil
waukee several days looking into the
system OF grain elevators.
A BRANCH of the Catholic Knights of
Wisconsin is about to be established at
Rice Lake.
THERE are twelve or fifteen cases of
typhoid fever at Sturgeon Bay.
The lumber shipments from Marinette
for the week ending October 2, aggre
gated $500, 900 feet, of which about g.
100000 feet WAS consigned to Tonawan-
ia.
WHILE walking on Eleventh Avenue,
near Pierce Street, Milwaukee, Mrs.
Ferdinand A. Konmchlies tipped over
loose board in the sidewalk and fell
heavily to the ground. Her whole
weight rested on her right arm, which
to her residence, where the painful in
Jury was dressed. The husband of the
lady has expressed his intention to sue
the city for damages
The Milwaukee Exposition season
closed on the 9Th inst. 1t is thought a
financial success has been scored.
FIRE at Madison on the 4th inst COM
pletely destroyed the drug and grocery
store of Andrew A. Mayors, on King
and Main Streets. 1t was caused by the
explosion of gasoline, which one of the
clerks WAS drawing from can, he hav-
ing accidentally ignited parlor match
with his foot, which communicated with
the oil.
THE state convention of the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor
will be held at La Crosse, commencing
October % and lasting until the 9th.
CAPT. HUNTINGTON has resigned his
position in the Milwaukee Light Horse
| Squadron.
THE death of Herman Schoenberg,
who was killed south of st. Francis, was
| investigated by Coroner Leidel, OF Mil
waukee County. The jury found that
death was due to his own carelessness.
FOREMAN SCoTT was held on a charge
of manslaughter as responsible for the
fatal sewer trench accident at Eau
Claire.
MILWAUKEE will endeavor to secure
the next triennial conclave Of the
Knights Templar.
Two young men, of Ashland, John r.
Rice and Percy M. Beaser, are building
small boat on which they will start
from St. Paul the first week in Novem-
Der to make trip down the Mississippi
to New Orleans.
THE large barn of c. L. Colman, locat
ed near his large lumber mills, La
Crosse, burned at 10 O'Clock on the
night of the Sd. Twelve horses were
got out of the stables, but about fifty
perished. A number of adjacent lum-
ber piles took fire, but by hard work
the fire was confined to only small
portion. The loss is estimated at $15,-
600. At 1880 o'clock, when the fire.
men had Just returned from the blaze
at Colman's stable, another alarm
was sounded ard a great stream of
flame shot up from the rear
of Lackman's livery stable, adjoining
which is Meister's stable, each contain
ing forty to fifty horses anu dozens of
vehicles. Men set to work with intelli-
gence and got out all the borses, and
the firemen succeeded IN stopping the
fro when the rear half of Lackman's s
building was destroyed. For while
nearly 100 frightened horses were gal
Looping about the streets. The stable
men say they heard some one at the
rear of the building, and, after think
ing about it a moment or two, went for
a revolver. When they got out there,
the fire was blazing through the WIN
dows.
THE Northwestern Mutual Relief As
sociation of Madison has paid DR.. Bruil's
cbildrop 40 QO0 in settlement OF their