The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-10-04
BADGER NOTES.

AN agent for pillow sharpener is
| working an antedeluvian swindle in the
southwestern part Of the state. The
| sharpener is put upon the pillow on trial,
the agent taking receipt for 1t. In
| due time the receipt turns up as note,
which the farmer is compelled to pay.
WILTsE and Carr, arrested at La
| Crosse for completely with swindler Pal
| mer, were held for trial in bail of 81 eco.
| NEARLY $1,000 was cleared by the
| Catholic fair at Washburn.
THE Ashland County potato crop is
several thousand bushels short.
ARTICLES of association have been filed
with the secretary of state by the Amer
| lean Onyx Company, of Milwaukee,
capital stock 100000: incorporators,
| Charles A. Berthelet, George Sylvester
| ard George w. Wilson.
Mr.. PETER, of Washburn, found Har-
ry Marshall in his wife's room, and sew
eral shots were fired by both men with
little effect.
MILWAUKEE Republicans nominated
| Robert c. Spencer for congressman, and
named their county ticket,
AT Ashland, on the 30th. VIM. Gray
was found guilty of robbing the United
States Express Company of a $1,000
money package on the Rhinelander
branch about three months ago.
DIEDRICH kovEMIER, carsmlth, was
killed at the stock Yards, Milwaukee,
on the Both. He went under an engine
which had run off the track to jack it
up, when the jack-screws gave way,
and the engine fell upon him and cut
him in two. The deceased was 80 years
old
EDWARD JEsKY climbed up in tree at
Madison, slipped moose around his
neck, tied the other end to a tree and
jumped. He was sixty years of age.
OCTOBER l Maj. A. Belanger assumes
charge of the Colby House at Ashland,
having subleased it from George II.
Harper, the present manager.
CnAs. DAGoN, of Madison, has a
"double." The two bear such close re-
semblance that both are getting into hot
water all the time.
ARTHUR a. MEGGETT, son of the Eau
Claire millionaire, and Miss Ella
Thrane, were quietly welded at Eau
Claire.
AT Milwaukee, on the Goth, Frank
Birkneder, aged 70, of SOS Somers
Street, was struck by an electric car,
and died few hours afterward.
jected in Madison has Just become pub
lie. 1t is a plan to boom the town as a
summer resort and residence place, and
it is to be done by the building of motor
lines around the two lakes and to the
surrounding country. Capitalists out
side the state are the principal parties
interested.
PINE land operators in Wisconsin are
growing anxious as to the disposition of
the Indian timber. The contractors
would like to get back to the reservation
and clean up the best timber. The
Court d'Oreilles reservation is pretty
well cleaned, but the others. which
compose the La Pointe agency, are we'll
timbered, and offer a tempting plum to
the anxious contractors. Quite num-
Der who have logged there have consid-
cradle money at stake, which they
would like to get out.
EDWARD JEsKY, German, aged about
90 years, committed suicide at Madison
by hanging He was found dangling
from the limb of a tree in an orchard,
having climbed into the tree and
dropped after making all the necessary
arrangements.
HENRY MILLER, Of Altoona, late of
Yokohama, has two Japanese swords of
wonderful steel and rare workmanship,
which are thought to be fully 200 years
old. One was used in the empcror's
palace, and in the hands of powerful
man could cut mans head off at a
blow.
W. NJ. PALMER, agency swindler, was
sentenced at La Crosse to eighteen
months impr' sOnment and a fine OF
500. Linn, his brotherin-law and part
ner, who managed a soap and perfume
agency, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to sixty DAYS and fine of $500.
Whsle, of Council Bluffs, arrested for
the same class of swindling, had an eN-
animation before the court commission
or and was held underS 900 bail. Carr,
of Winona, on the same charge, waived
examination and was put under the
same bail.
CROWLEY, burglar, and Brown, a
horse thief, sawed through the bars of
the La Crosse County jail, and but for
the vigilance of Sheriff Scott, would
have escaped.
THE circuit court docket at Eau Claire
is the largest known for years. There
are $50 civil and 9 criminal cases.
WALTER X. FREEMAN is at Eau Claire.
and says he will never let up on Edison
till lie cts his rights.
RECEIPTS of the Lake Monona Assem-
bly, for 1890 were S1,1OS.O4; dlsburse-
ments, s. ,640.32; balance, S61.72.
GnAY, the express robber in Jail at
Ashland, wants trial now. He had
promised TO plead guilty.
EVERY two weeks A. BigclOw x Co., the
Washburn lumbermen, pay $1,000 TO
their employees.
PosT-OFFICE INSPECTOR PULCIFER has
been to La Crescent in search of postal
relics, and was more than successful.
He secured quarterly report dated
December 81, 1887. one dated December
81, 1867. another December 81, 1877, ana
a fourth December 81, 1857, all made
ont by the same man, who had been
postmaster through all these years.
The postmaster is Thomas Minshali,
who is now serving his thlrty-tourth
year of continual service i'll the la
Crescent pOst-otiice.
MARTIN PIEcHN, the young Eau Claire
man who was accidentally shot at Me
nomonee Falls, is slowly recovering.
The history of Wisconsin, by Reuben
c. Thwaites. corresponding secretary OF
the State Historical Society, will be out
in few weeks.
THE Rev. w. \. Sloan was installed as
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Eau Claire.
r. II. CHUTE was elected president of
the Eau Claire y. N. {. \.
ArGusT RocHAT, a icweler of Ashland
drowned while hunting at the mouth OF
Fish Creek, by the capsizing Of his
boat.
+. w. PHILLIPS, late editor Of the Eau
Claire Daily Leader, and more recently
connected with the Detroit Evening
News. died at his home in Westtieid, or
the 26th, of lingering illness, aged
about 80 years.
THE bond indemnifying the govern
ment against loss on the Milwaukee,
post office site has been sent to Milwau
kee. reduced to $4,000.
W. H. CHAxDiER, assistant state SUI
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