The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-08-16
BADGER NOTES.

Mrs W. SMITH tried 10 kill herself at
4 Eau Claire because she thought her hus.
/ band had deserted her.
! By the explosion of a bottle of beer
/ in the BlatZ brewery, Milwaukee, X.
/ Amschle had his left hand terribly lac
/ Grated. He was taken to the Emergen-
cy Hospital.
| JOIN W. HARTLEY, of Milwaukee, n
/ travelling salesman for the firm OF
Schultz & Hirsh, Of Chicago. was found
! dead in his room at the Capital House,
! Madison. He WAS apparently about o6
years of age. He was found in a chair
in a cramped-up position, having prob
| ably arisen from his bed during the
! night, and there been struck with
! death
| The Fuller 4 Johnson Manufacturing
/ Company. the largest establishment in
! Madison, and one of the best known IN
| the West, are seriously considering the
| question of removing their extensive
/ plant to Milwaukee.
A DEED has been filed with the regis
| ter of deeds at Shell Lake conveying 6,-
$50 acres of pine lands, located in Bay
| field. Washburn, Burnett and Douglas
Counties, to Frederick Weycrhauser.
! The Chippewa q st. CroiX Land Assocl-
alton made the sale.
THE total population of Wisconsin,
| from the appro INNATE estimates of the
supervisors of the census, Is l,6S2, So, a
| gain since the census of 1850 of 361 BIS,
or nearly 2S per cent.
THE golden wedding Of Mr. and Mrs.
Job Gooder, who came To Wisconsin IN
| 1872. was celebrated on the evening of
! the 9th al their home. in the village of
cine County.
TIE report of the state Labor Bureau
! lust finished, shows that a total Of SO,
| l69, ,io3 was paid to factory employees IN
! Wisconsin during the year 1889, an in
crease of 81, 1859, ,299 over the year lSsS.
! The grand total of wages divided bv ST.
| $50. the number of persons. allOts 10
| every man, woman or child employee
in the factories of Wisconsin, annual
earn gs 5000.
THE commissioners of public lands
will offer at public sale in December.
about % 900 acres of unotfercd lands, O
which the state has recently received
patents from the government. They
will be sold al the minimum price nt
| So per acre. The lands are situated IN
the counties of Douglas, Washhurn,
| Bayfield,, Burnett, SAWYER and few
! III ii't ' ouHNN
THE Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis X
Omaha has offered the Sault Ste. Marie
| x Southwestern, of which y. {. Foster,
the lumberman, is president, 5000, ,ooO
for its road from Fairchlld TO MondoVi.
Moses STRONG, reformed gambler, is
preac hing in the streets in towns
through the southern portion of the
| state.
TIE Eau Claire Leader is defendant
! in 500, 900 damage suit brought by w.
X. Freeman, formerly of Eau Claire, 1t
grew out of an article printed last April
accusing the plaintiff of being gam
| bier.
FRANK I'll. COLLIER, an eccentric CHI
cago lawyer, several weeks ago had a
"scrap" in the Plankinton House, Mil
waukee, in which he ''swiped' a tele-
phone boy. Next day he was fined 81
and costs in the municipal court. lie
confdentiallv informed the judge that
he was short" just then, but would
put up the amount, something over $40
later in the day. This he failed to do,
and now commitment awaits him on
his next appearance in the Cream City.
JoHS GoELz, aged Is years, drowned
on the 9TH while bathing in pool OF
water in the town Of Wauwatosa. A
|
was not recovered up to last night
MILWAUKEE College endowment fund
| has reached nearly 100000.
IN February Absalom Smith, the log
ger, brought suit against the city of Eau
Claire for damages sustained by change
of grade on principal street. Judge
Bundy has now decided against the city,
affirming plaintiffs claim that the city
| was liable for damages to abuttlng prop
| erty by change of grade. This was Il
! large public improvement, and several
! heavy suits held in abeyance will now
be pushed.
The earnings of the Wisconsin Cen
| tral road for the fourth week in July
amounted to Sl56, ,603.43, against $780,
5lS.l5 for the corresponding period last
year, an increase of S2o,0s5.2S. The
total earnings for the -four weeks ending
July 81 amounted to Si66, ,207, against
S371 ,660. "a for the same period in 1889
REPRESENTATIVE of the fire depart
| ments of Bessemer, Ironwood, Hurley,
Bayfield,, Washburn and Ashland have
succeeded in organizing the Lake SUI
peror Firemen's Association, with
officers chosen AS follows: President,
| A. A. Hammond, of lronwood; sccre-
| tary \. {. Cavanaugh, BeSsemer; treas
urer, J.. +. Matthews, Ashland. On
September the association Will meet
to take action on constitution and by
! laws framed by a committee selected to
draft them. The first annual conycn-
ton and tournament will be held in
Ashland on October , and i.
CARL WEIDENREcK, n Madison saloon
| keeper, mortgagcd his fixtures for : 20,
| borrowed 800, and is now conspicuous
about town bv his absence.
| IOuNG THOMPSON. who was shot acci-
dentally at Mt. IIorch, will die.
| DANE County's farm products for the
year are assessed al - 800, 800.
| MADISON will try and secure the ioCa-
ton of a condensed milk factory.
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