The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-12-06
BADGER NOTES.

AT Madison on the I'd inst, Miss
Grace Sterling, oldest daughter of Prof.
Sterling, was married to George l..
Lindsey, of Ridgefeld, Wash. The
ceremony was performed Ivy the Rev.
W. 4. McAtee, at the Presbyterian
Church, aud was very largely attended.
After the ceremony reception was
held at the Sterling homestead, on State
Street.
ONLY two murder cases are on the
Ashland County calendar for the pres
cnt term-Joseph Nenora ana Richard
Tracey.
TIE report that Or. Graft, of Eau
Claire, who is visiting in Norway, had
been killed. is denied by a cablesram
from the Doctor himself
THE recount III La Crosse and Vernon
counties is completed, and proves Con-
nor Dem elected to the state Senate
FIRE in Il charcoal pile at the Ashland
blast furnace destroyed 700 worth Of
fuel
J. +. LIZ, kinE, formerly yardmaster
of the Chicago. Milwaukee x st. Paul
Railway in Eau Claire. and Hugh Cam
eron, also formerly of that city, were in
freight wreck at llaystack, Ore, Leck.
Ter being killed and Cameron seriously
hurt
Gov.-ELE, 7 GEORGE ". PICK has trans
fefred his entire interest in Peck s sun
TO his son. SEQ. Peek. ir., who becomes
sole proprietor and editor. The paper
was established as The sun at Ia
Crosse in 1874, removing To Milwaukee
III 1873.
An effort is to he made to establish
beet sugar factory ut Menomoneo Falls.
An increase III tie appropriation for
the Milwaukee federal building is eX-
pected.
=. j. SoNERs was elected MAYOR OF
Milwaukee by plurality of 6,s4H The
total vote cast was u 1G2.
GOV. HoARp has gone 10 New York to
attend tie Pan Republic Congress.
ecu7-.e char during the Governor alb
seDce.
A MINIATURES man named Schmit was
robbed 10y n lone highwaymau on a
Texas railroad train.
THE keystone Lumber Company asks
Judgment against 4 Weed and Paul
Weed of s2713, sol, said to be due To the
plaintiffs for hauling logs from Fish
Greek 10 Ashland.
LEWIS OLSEN wants the sum of 5000
from Drs. Harrison and Ellis, of Ash
land, for alleged serious and lasting dis
ability which he claims To have sus-
tanned as a result of carclessne-s by
the doctors III setting his broken limb
lT is estimated that the shinglc cut Of
the Eau Claire Badger mills and Por-
terNIlle mills Will reach 10000 600
about 30,N00,0O0 more than the usual
cut.
TIE syndicate Of Maine capitalists,
which recently consolidated the street
railway, the nells Water Power Com
pany and the Brush Electric Company
in one corporation. known as the Street
Railway, Light x Power Company, has
had hard blow at the start. On the
18th inst, hot box set fire to the com
panv's power house at the Dells dam
and all the machinery was destroyed.
The damage is about 5000, insured.
The Pul p and Paper Companys S big mill
was only saved by its system of perio-
rated pipes.
CHARLES THOMPSON snatched a roll OF
bills amounting To about SO from Il
farmer named Webber at Madison on
the list, and made off with it. lie was
afterwards captured. Thompson is the
a checkered career. At one time he
was an engineer on the Milwaukee q
St. Paul road
A TEARruL calamity happened at Mil
Ter, Signorr Il Co.'S logging camp. on
Long Lake, twenty miles north OF Rice
Lake. on the 29th The men who were
on the opposite side of the lake from
the camp were returning To supper.
The first load came over safely III the
boat, but the second load was caught In
shht hhsaYT u5gst GgSt Ct she Mind aG hGe!YseR tie
drowned.
Joux SpERwoop, an old resident OF
Racine, died at St luke's Hospital on
the 9th, aged -.
\ TELEGRAM was received i'll Racine
on the 18th announcing that James
White, an old Racine boy, now at But
fala Y had been killed.
THE mystery surrounding the sudden
disappearance of Robert Armstrong,
veteran Milwaukee painter, was cleared
up on the 21th hy tn" finding of his dead
body I'D vault in the rear of his es-
tablishmcnt on Michigan Street.
The Wisconsin ientr.l's new bridge
across the Eau Claire River at that
town is finished.
DISPATCHES from La Crosse state that
the lumber trade is good, with an in
creasing demand. The .Iohn Paul Lum-
Der Company has purchased the Dew
herst pine on the Black River, sup
posed to be about 10000, 600 feet.
THE state is likely to he sued fora see
ton Of Indian land sold by mistake to
lumber company.
A SOCIETY for the promotion of tech
nical science has been formed in Mil
waukee.
Ed. HERBERT of bayfield,, and four
Swedes drowned in Lake Superior.
Thomas SAWYER. a homesteader, Was
found dead in the woods near Ashland.
where he had been caught by q falling
tree.
INDIAN AGENT LEAuy has received
positive orders from the secretary OF
the interior to allow no logging done
this winter on the Indian Reservation
under his Jurisdiction. The order ls
great surprise, a. logging has been Gus
tomary. The reason for the issuance of
the order is not given. lie has been
further notified that no allotmcnts will
be made Flambeaus pending the settle
ment of the difficulty over ailotments.