The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-02-08

The assignee's schedule of assets and
liabilities has been fled in the assign
ment of Joseph NJ. Beaker, of La Crosse.
Total liabilities, $1S, ,2255.3371, of which ST.
0l5.9i Is secured by note. Total assets,
al 81 y. Among the creditors ere
David Adler, Of Milwaukee, for $l,ml.
and cloak company for 81 ,4i2.l II. The
!sllnre Is 8. fiat one, and will hardly
Yield general creditors p cents.
TIE biil Tor public building at Eau
Claire has been favorably passed upon
by the committee On p0st.0ftces and
post-roals.
TIE Progressive Mining Company has
been organized at Ashland with the fol
lowing officers: J. l. Levy, president;
Louis j. holman, treasurer; G. u.
Smith, secretary. The company has op-
tions on lands adjolning the Tyler Forks
mine.
MIID weather at Ashland interferes
with logging operations, and will reduce
the winter S cut.
GEORGE PERKINS and James Williams
lost their team and sleigh while crossing
the Wisconsin River near Lone Rock.
They barely escaped going under the
Ice with the rig.
A, S. SULLIVAN Was arrested at Ashland,
on a warrant charging him with having
Obtained money under false pretcnses.
He had sold an order, said to have been
issued by an Indian woman, tor pine
she had sold. The case may prove to
he one OF forgery. The woman claims
that she did not sign an order on the
parties to whom she had sold the prop
erty. Sullivan was held for trial in the
sum of 5000.
b., Il c1rG
fering from contagious disease. 1t af-
fects the animals spine, and has in sew
eral cases proved fatal. Want of proper
exercise is thought 10 he tie cause.
JONI ANDREWS, of Minersvilie, SAYS
be WAS held up and relieved OF 1870 by
party OF roughs while he was walking
through Ellis Park. John Whalen. one
OF the parties i'm pIicated, has given the
police the slip tor parts unknown.
w. SCo1r SMIrH, Il prominent real
estate and insurance agent, died st La
Crosse on the sd, of peritonltls, alter an
illness OF but six hours. His father, a
venerable deacon. s. T. Smith, died
three days before at the age OF 50. The
son was already past hope when the
fathers body was borne 10 the grave.
The deceased WAS for a rumber ot
wears employed as a travelling man and
out the Northwest. He leaves q wife
and two small children.
MIS- MAMIE XII lY and N'm. ?. Lyons,
Of Milwaukee, we've married last Au-
gust, and kept their secret until day
or two ago.
The total factory population Of Mil
waukee is 2S,o53, ali increase, in two
years, Of 3,4l2.
or - G..l hot
erick WeyerLicuser and the Knapp,
Stout & 20. Company may result over
the proposed dam at Beet Slough.
FIRE in Voigt < Rlt,er's carriage
chops, La Crosse, CauEed loss OF 5000.
WILLIAM GRAZ was found dead in his
house, l24S EutlcIn Avenue. Milwaukee
WIsCoNsIN's congressman, with Sena-
tor Spooner and Henry c. Payne, took
dinner with Senator Sawyer on the ID
FIVE thousand people on Half Moon
Lake, Eaa Claire, CT the I'd, saw McC0r-
mick, of New Brunswick, take the title
OF champion skater OF the world from
Axel Paulsen, who had held it eight
wears It was the third and final ten
mile race.
The ice chipping business at Madison,
which has amounted to little for several
years raat, is now y. its height. Gangs
of 200 men are en-. aged day and night
with the aid of improved steam
| machinery for harvesting the crop
and loading for shipment for points
South. ON the 2d l25 cars were loaded
and shipped over the North Western
and Illinois Central Railroads, and work
had 10 be stopped owing 10 the lack Of
| q sufficient number of cars in which to
| pack the ice.
&c t>va in, La
| internal revenue collector s department
| for the Ashland district. 1t is intima
| ted that W hisky dealer there has been
! doing irregular work. The evidence
! was collected and forwarded TO Nadi-
| son. and il is now hIDted that the eVl-
| dence WAS purl0ined after reaching that
| city. Detectives are working TO unravei
| the 10 ystery, and are preparing TO make
| important arrests. The officials are un-
! communicative Documentary evidence
| is thought to have been destroyed.
| ABOUT a wear ago Mrs. Albert Cheney,
| of Madison, IVES thrown from her car
riage while crossing the track OF the
| Illinois Central Railroad Company, her
| horse being frightened by an approach
! ing train, and sustained injuries which
| will make her II cripple tor iife. he
! Central Company was sued tor s2o,oo0
/ damages, alIu ING s'attt lac Ai'" ~
tied BY paying her IS ,Do.
BIsHor FLAscH, of La Crosse, declares
| himself in opposition to the Bennett
school law.
THE Milwaukee school comm issioners
| fear that the school funds will not be
| sufficient TO maintain the night schools.
| The bill for a public building at Eau
| Claire has been approved by Secretary
] 70 ha -
mitee.
DR.. SoLoN MARKS. OF Milwaukee, was
reelected president, and DR.. }. /.
| Reeve, Of Appleton, secretary OF the
State Board Of Health.
STATE TREASURER HARsHAw ssys that
Insurance Commissioner Cheek, Supt.
| 1hayer and himself will not be Candl-
| dates for reelection.
| COMMISSIONER STARK, of the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics. makes q report of build
| ing improvements and new machinery
put In by Wisconsin manufacturers.
The Chippewa Indians continue hold
ing councils At Odanah to determine
| whether tney Will require IN attorney
| to adjust their claim against the govern
| ment. The general sentiment seems to
| be that they have no need OF any at
tornev until they have presented their
! their case before the Indian departman mt
at Washington. The hand is unani-
nous in opinion regarding tie sound
ness OF their claim, and think the
government will grant them their
rights without having to resort
to lawful measures to convince the
authorities Of the business of their claim
Many older Indians declare tat their
lands were not so!d-that only the
mineral they contained was disposed o.
to the government. The head chlet
had only signed away their right to any
mineral found. and the commissioner
from Washington lad no power TO tres
for anything except the mineral fran
chise. They VIII send delegation te
Washington TO present their grievances
TIE Ashland Common Council has re
licensed the Olympic Variety IheateE
which Was closed at the time OF th'