The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-09-06
BADGER NOTES.

THE Acme FIGURING Mill, at Eau
Claire, owhed by NJ. f. Britton and Ira
Wescott, was burned on the I'd, also
part of Britton's residence. Loss about
So 600; insured.
MILWAUKEE Methodists in conference
passed resolutions endorsing compul-
sorry education.
FIVE members of the Fourth Battalion
were selected for the Wisconsin rifle
team.
THE Hon. @. H. Barron, once mem
ber of the Wisconsin Legislature. died
at Nunda, N. Y.
FRED J. LAMP, of Madison, has sold
Winnequah for S., ,000to A. H. Chamber
lain, in trust for a syndicate not yet
named. The transfer includes steam
boats, grounds, buildings, and in fact
everything purchased from Capt. Frank
Barnes. Chamberlain, it is understood,
is agent for A. c. Mayer, William and
Stephen Bass, and other mem bers of the
Madison Gun Club. Lamp purchased
made 5000 by the sale, besides the
profits Of the Lakeside business.
THE August term of the supreme
court opened on September ,.
EMMA F. SCHULIsT. aged II, committed
suicide in the Milwaukee water works
reservoir.
The work of casting Milwaukee's new
intake pipe has been begun at Cincin-
natl.
The Milwaukee Musical Society is con-
templating trip to Europe in the sum-
mer of 1892, with the idea of making
Europeans familiar with some of the
best popular songs. They will probably
frlv rarta in Rar Ri
and Vienna. Leno Wachsner, of the
Stadt Theater, will probably manage the
tour.
w. II. OSBORNE, of the Wisconsin
Malleable Iron Company, Milwaukee,
has bought the First Battery armory on
Farwen Avenue, for $4,000 as an in
vestment The old building, it is un-
derstood. will be torn down and build
ing containing stores and flats will be
put up in its place.
THE sentence of John Waupoose, the
Indian who has been condemned to be
hanged, has been commuted to impris-
onment for life by President Harrison.
A PRISONER in the La Crosse County
jail, named Henderson, fell from the
upper corridor to the stone pavement
below. A portion of his side was par
alyZed.
THIRTY million feet of lumber were
shipped from Ashland during August.
''JUDGE' SEMPLE, of Ashland, lays
claim to being the champion chess
player.
A SHAFT 5000 feet deep is to be sunk
north of the Colby mine, and will have
cars that will hoist 30 tons at each lift.
AT Phillips, Wis, Geo. W. GriHdle,
ex-clerk of the School Board, has been
jailed by order of the county Judge for
refusing to give up the books and papers
of the office from which he was recent
ly removed by the board for alleged
misconduct. Nobody knows where he
has hidden the archives. The town is
divided into two factions, and there is
considerable excitement there.
WILLIAM WHITE was brutally dubbed
by thugs and robbed of SIS at La
Crosse.
JOHN FLYNN, a farmer living near
man, and badly cut and bruised about
the head and face. The object of the
attack was to obtain money the victim
was supposed to have on his person.
Mr.. Flynn was struck on the back of
his head with stone and a deep cash
cut. He was also badly cut about the
face, both eyes being blackened. The
assailant was unsuccessful in his at
tempt, but escaped. Officers are now
on his track.
JOSIAH NUTTING, who had resided in
Sun Prairie for twenty-five years, died
from the effects of being thrown from
his wagon, one of the wheels having
passed over him and injured him in
ternally.
A ROW among a number Of inmates of
the Soldiers Home at Wauwatosa yes
terday terminated in Albert Ohde be-
ing stabbed with a knife by Fred Mitch
ell. The latter was arrested and taken
TO jail.
WHILE Wisconsin Central engine No.
~, with train of ten cars loaded with
coal, and eight empties, in charge of
Engineer Orrick and Fireman Taylor,
was engaged in switching on the docks
of the Ohio Coal Company, at Ashland,
about noon on the 9th, it ran off an
open switch upon the ties. The dock
extends out into Chequamegon Bay for
a considerable distance, and the ties are
on piles. The engine ran off the ties
and dumped into the bay, being COM
pletely submerged. The engineer and
fireman jumped and were not hurt, ex-
cept that the former sustained slight
sprain of the ankle. Owing to a break
in the dock wrecking cars cannot get at
the wreck, and the engine will probably
have to be taken to pieces to be recov-
cred. The engine weighed thirty-tive
tons, and was valued at SD 900.
MARK HALEY has begun suit at Madi-
son against the Jump River Lumber
Company for $4,000 damages, for the
loss of his legs in an accident on a
logging railroad owned by the defend
ants. The accident occurred in October
of last year. and the plaintiff alleges
that the accident was due to the care.
lessness of the company.
CHARLES STEIN, of Chicago, has bought
the stock of w. A. Tanner Il Co., Of
Marlnette, at receivers S sale.
OFFICERS at La Crosse found a whole
KIT of burglars tools near the county
jail, and later on the owner, James Do
Ian, hard-shell burglar, was landed in
side that institution
JAMES KELLY, an ingenious swindler,
WAS jailed at Eau Claire on the 2Sth.
He had come 10 Eau Claire and Chip
pewa Falls few DAYS in advance of
circus company which he falsely
claimed TO represent, and bargained
with each of a number of butchers for
400 pounds of meat, which, he said. was
for the circus lions. Kelly got cash
commission from the butchers in ad-
vance, and also borrowed sundrv sums.
He likewise ordered meals for fifty
men at several hotels and got com
mission He has worked several towns
in that section of the state