The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-01-18
WISCONSIN ITEMS

PRELIMINARY steps have been taken
Tor the orgsnlzatlon OF WISCONSIN
branch of the Sons of the Revolution.
w. A. P. MoKRIs, oe Madison, wss
elected president of the Chicago, LAX
Geneva d Pacifc Railway Company.
Mrs. MARY H. WEBER. for more than
fifty years resident OF Milwaukee, Is
dead.
THE directors of the Milwaukee
Chamber of Commerce passed IA resolu-
ton asking Congress 10 consolidate the
revenue marine with the Navy Depart
ment.
A DEAL has been consummated by
which there Is change 1t ownership III
the extensive plant of the Madison tas
Light and Coke Company. The Brown
estate, which controls most OF the stock
IN the company, dlspOses Of Iis entire
stock, but to whom the officers Will
net say. They are exceedingly Ieticent
on this point, but when asked If tue
purchaser as an agent of some English
syndicate one of the officers stated he
was not, but that the purchasers were
Madison parties. Further taan this
they will say nothing.
MATTHIAS MUENING met a horrible
shaving bin of the John Schroeder Lu0-
Der Company, on Canal Street, Milwau-
kee.
THE new budget of the city of Milwau-
kee calls for funds to the amount OF over
a million and a quarter.
THERE ale aS6 inmates Of the insane
asylunls of the state.
THE Superior Lumber Company at
ASllopI Vic cold SO n00 NM toaf of
lumber to Omaha parties.
SUPREME court decisions show that the
election of Henry +. Legler as secretary
of the Milwaukee School Board is valid.
SENATOR SPooSER has interested him
self for Indians in Northern Wisconsin
who are reported to be in danger of
starving unless relieved.
DR.. William Leavitt Candee died at
his residence, $40 Cass Street, Milwau-
kee, on the 18th, at the advanced age of
9S years. His death had been expected
for several days, as of late he had be-
come quite feeble, although having no
particular ailment. He passed away
quietly, the physician pfonouncing
death to be due 10 nothing but general
failure.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN has granted George
?. Clark S2,C00 bonus on condition of
his erecting founJry and machine
shop at cost OF 500, and to employ
ten workmen ior q period of five years.
IT is doubtful If the amourt of sick
ress in Madison at the present time has
a parallel in the history Of the city. Be-
tween go and 100 are on the sick list,
most of them being victims OF the pre-
vailtng Russian aliment. Three Q. the
leading physicians oil the city, DTs. Fox,
Favill and Gil are laid up with la grippe
and overwork attendant upon the great
amount of sickness that has demanded
their services.
Mas. MARY CHoPPELL. a pensioner of
the war of 1872, died at Eau Claire.
THE destitute La Pointe Indians have
applied to the Indian office for $l22,
0oJ to buy blankets and food.
JACK REINER, well-known local char
acter OF Madison, died OF pneumonia
on the 10th, aged A. He came to Mad
ison at an early day, and for several
years had been city bill poster.
NEGOTIATIONS are now pending and
have nearly been completed whereby
the immense plant of the Milwaukee
Cement Company ls to be transferred
to syndicate composed OF Engllsn cap
ita,ists. The capital OF the com pany is
$500, 90, and the price agreed upon for
the transfer is said to be about $500, ,000
or on basis of $l.69 for the stock.
The syndicate which is negotiating
with the company has been
quietly buving up other cement prop
critics throughout the United States dur
ing the past six months, its object being
to obtain control of the cement product
of the entire country.
IL tho y,up1cinal court of Madison
Peter Draper was sentenced to three
years in state prison for stealing a box
of shoes from q Chicago x North-W est
eru freight car.
THE supposed attempt at suicide by
Nebon Gard at Ashland is about to be
investigated by the courts. The man
was shot through the head, and, al
though the wound at first was thought
to he fatal, his recovery Is now prob
able. The circumstances OF the
affair we're rather mvsterions.
but Emil Lampe made complaint
against the mans wife, charging
her with the shooting. l.amIe. who
lived on the floor below the oms ocUU-
pied by Gard, on hearing the shooting
ran up stairs and asked who had the
revolver and VI q had done the shooting.
The wounded man replied, She did
it, ;" meaning his wife. Attne prellmin-
arv examination Mrs. Gaard was held
for assault with intent to murder.
A MAN named Biorke, aged about 81
and employed as cabinet maker by
Frederickson < Sons, of Madison, com.
mitted suicide on the night o: the Sth,
on the old mill road near the northern
limits OF the city. by shooting himself
through the mouth with 32-caliber re-
volver. He was discovered lying by the
road side by young man no was re-
turning home about midnight. The
suicide had lately been drinking heavi-
ly. snj is thought to have become des.
pendent.
The Milwaukee Advancement Associ.
alton elected t. l.. Kelly president, and
c. {. Rogers secretary.
ARCHBISHOP HESS is reported to be in
improved health. The talk about the
appointment of coadjutor is pro-
nounced premature.
IT is doubtful if Thomas Adams, who
skipped with funds of the Milwaukee d
Wyoming Investment Company, can be
extradlted from Canada.
MICHAEL LYNCH, a pio.eer of Ii
! Crosse. is the first victim OF the pre-
/ yailing influenza, the disease having
| eliminated in pneumonia. He leave:
I family of wife and FIVE grown children
| The Catholic knights will conduct the
obsequies.
| john +. CHUps, veteran of The
| Union army, was buried with military
| honors al Ashland on the sth
| He spent fourteen months in Ander
| sonville prison, and. though he hac
! never since enjoyed good teslth, hat
never applied Tor pension.