The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-03-01
WISCONSIN ITEMS


effects of a headache wash that she had
mistaken for medicine.
THE House committee has reduced
the appropriation for an an Eau Claire
public building to S75 coo.
BURGLARS cut into the safe at the
Darlington railway station and secured
Sl25.
WRIGHT 4 kE-CHAM. of Ashland, have
sold 100000 feet of piece stuff all their
dimension lumber, to Eastern buyers at
Is thousand, on the dock IN that city.
The lumber will be shipped by the lake
route as soon as boats can make harbor.
PRoF. CHARLES FRUDEL. of the Eau
Claire High school, threatens to resign
unless two of his subordinate teachers
are discharged.
ENPosTMsSTER PAUL and DIR. Shidy,
of Milwau zee, viii testify before the
congressional committee appointed to
investigate allie Ged violation of law by
the civil service commission.
The case against Chris Christianso0,
charged with forgery at Madison, has
Deen dropped.
Two sons OF Il. Olmstead, of Vienna,
Dane County, were pouring melted lead
into a mould. The lead set fire to the
table, and water was thrown on. The
lead, coming in contact with the water,
exploded, and both children were bad
II burned.
THE Superior Ice Company's house at
Bayfield, collapsed on the oath, fatally
crushing Seth Ellis and injuring others
as follows: Daniel Stahl, leg and in
ternal; William Packard, hips and
ankles; Charles Coultis, leg and shoul-
ders, Joe Sexton, head and back; Eli
berton, face and shoulders. Several In
dams were also more or less injured.
The braces had been taken from the
building, and the men were placing the
second course of ice when the crash
came.
THE case OF Chris Christianson, at
Madison, for forging a check, has been
dlsmlssed, owing TO a lack of evidence
to convict. Chrstianson was recently
released from Jail on a writ OF habeas
corpus, where he was serving three
months term for a second offense III the
matter of selling liquor without IL
cense.
j. II. WAGGoNER has sold the Eau
Claire Free Press to ii. {. Asbaugh, of
Rock Island, Ill.
PRESIDENT CHAMBERLAIN, of the State
University, is arranging tor 6 series OF
technical institutes.
THE Milwaukee Whist Club beat the
Aurora Club by POP points.
AsHLAND's Business Mems Association
is figuring with James +. York, who
built the big charcoa! furnace there. for
the location of a structural steel plant,
and the gentleman has been IN MlIwau-
kee number of times lately to interest
capital in the matter.
ASHLAND is bidding for an Eastern
steel ear wheel works which contem-
plates locating in the Lake Superior re-
gion- II employs | $50 men.
SENATORS SAWYER and Spooner deny
that they have even a prospective inter
est III Mr.. Taylor purchase 0. the Mad
lson journal.
The Ashland Press saws: The num-
ber and scope of development of the
range properties are more than twice as
great as they have been in any year
since leS6. There are more men en-
pl0yed, more capital and better profits.
Options that have been abandoned for
three or tour Years are being worked
wherever there appears to be any
chance 10 get fair returns. The era OF
immense returns has not yet passed. but
the men who cannot get the cream on
the range are c0ntentlng themselves
with fair percentage, and everything
Is being worked up clean IN conse-
quenCe. 1t is fact easy of demonstra
ton, that at the close of 1890 there will
be twice as many shipping mines, tribu
tary TO Ashland, as there was at the
close Of 1889"
THE sixth annual report of the Wis
COnsln Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton, bound volume of 200 pages, deals
with many practical subjects o. interest
to agriculturists, and should be in the
hands OF every farmer. The book may
be obtained free by all residents OF Wis
consln.
WooD COUNTY has taken up eleven
railway bonds for s 900 each, that A. l..
Smith, of Appleton, had been author
lied to negotiate. The county paid
Smith 5000, which is a saving of sew
eral thousand dollars; -, 600 is to be paid
on the 18th of March, and the balance
on the 18th OF May.
THE National Guard convention at
Milwaukee closed with a banquet
ten. c. Z. Chapman was elected presi
dent.
IHE rumOr Is again current al st Paul
that the general offices OF the Northern
Pacific and Wisconsin Central lines are
to be removed to Chicago.
ALL benevolent insurance societies
must file a statement OF their work
with the Insurance com missioner before
March or shut up shop.
TIE l3-year-old son of farmer near
Glidden WAS kicked to death by a
young horse. which he was attempting
TO curry. The bows skull was crushed,
and Ills death was not discovered until
his parents returned from town in the
evening.
". Il. FREEMAN, late secretary of the
Hekla Insurance Company, of Madi-
son, has been appointed general agent
OF the Delaware Mutual Safety Insur-
ance Company. of Philadelphia
NEGOTIATIONS are pending for opening
the Cheuuamegon Hotel, at Ashland,
which has been closed all winter. 1t
will probably be opened as soon
as repairs are made. l, is ru-
mored that George NJ. Hopper,
of the Colby House, will assume the
contract, his bid having been submitted
10 the Central Railway Company, which
Owls the property.
FREDERICK WILKINS, in paper before
the State Conference of Charities. advo-
Gated a training school for attendants
for chronic insane.
4 JURY wss secured, and the taking o.:
testimony begun, in the trial Of Phelps
Perrin, at Ashland.
JAMES ". SCOTT. of the Chicago Her
aid, delivered the annual address be-
fore the state Press Association.
The 6-vear-old son Of City Marshal
L'tner, of Prairie du Chen, fractured
his skul by falling into the basement
ruins Of be Oh NondeIl House.
RICHARD :. RAHTE, Milwaukee liquor
dealer, has sued Julia Wehnger, of
Black River halls. 70 compel the pay
ment Of note Of $500. alleged to have
been executed by the De Eend ant with